CrownBariDad Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MikeN Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Good Lord, those drumline videos this weekend. <swoon> Mike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsundercover Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Sounding great! posted from the DrumScorps app 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KVG_DC Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Winner...guy at 0:28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Flat Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 2 hours ago, dsundercover said: Sounding great! posted from the DrumScorps app I'm not a percussionist, thus someone that is please provide your thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flguardman Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 1 hour ago, KVG_DC said: Winner...guy at 0:28 That’s 3rd yr member Reggie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrownBariDad Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 6 hours ago, B-Flat said: I'm not a percussionist, thus someone that is please provide your thoughts. I ask this almost every year and while nice folks explain it to me, I rarely can hear the difference between videos that are awesome and those that are ragged/rough. I THINK drumlines are striving to sound like a single drummer -- a hit from all the snares should sound as one and not like a flam (a secondary hit preceding the main one). Which is why I gave up snare when I discovered trombone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftwdrummer Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 2 hours ago, CrownBariDad said: I ask this almost every year and while nice folks explain it to me, I rarely can hear the difference between videos that are awesome and those that are ragged/rough. I THINK drumlines are striving to sound like a single drummer -- a hit from all the snares should sound as one and not like a flam (a secondary hit preceding the main one). Which is why I gave up snare when I discovered trombone. In general, this is correct. Lower stick heights (softer individually) and unison playing is generally >>>> higher stick heights and slightly out of unison. Then you get more intricate things, your splits across the snare line (e.g. have this roll be half-speed, but half the line is offset from each other such that it sounds like a full-speed roll), stick tricks/visuals. Then there's the crazy #### BK does. BK's battery writing is different from basically anyone else--much more legato drumming than you usually hear (more roughs [two or three grace notes into the main note, in contrast to the single grace note of a flam], etc.). If you listen to percussion enough, you can start to tell whose writing is whose. Legatos/roughs/etc. is going to be Mike Jackson's BK writing. Rennick's writing has a bit more "classic" feel to it, for lack of a better term. ScoJo writes like they're trying to ram as many notes down their gullet as possible. McNutt really likes flams. Etc. I was a pit guy when I did corps-style things; others will probably be able to make clearer writing-style distinctions than I can (garfield?). 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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