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Discount Marching Percussion (discountmp.com) owned by John Lind (if you're from the northwest you probably know who he is) is planning on releasing two books for online sale as well as sales at shows and in the store. One book consists of personally written warmups/ensemble exercises & the other is a book of cadences and parking lot pieces. If you've got any of that laying around just waiting for people to play it then please submit it as a pdf file to percussionbook@discountmp.com Authors will receive full credit in the book as well as a free copy and a free discountmp tshirt. Peace,

I totally agree but with the caveat that Jim's style is really his own however a lot of the phrasing styles are very similar to Star 93. I think in both situations the book is written to underscore the melody more than to "add voicing" or beef percussion scores. The 98 show is one of my favorites that SCV has played. The musicality that Casella brought to the corps is something amazing.

Where's converse on this list for all the VK fans ;) I'm all about mtx although dinkles are good once you hack off a bit of the heel to round it more.

Since I'm the only one submitting, here's another page out of my personal collection (written for my all freshman/sophomore bassline back in 1997). It's a nice little parking lot piece that requires basses to differentiate feet from playing and also makes each bassist play on nearly every count.

For shame! Hey I don't suppose either of you has ever tried the trick of using swappable image maps? I finally managed to get it working in all browsers except IE on macs. (useless trick but fun to do)

If I might critique the bands new site: It's great except for the cursor. A regular cursor would look better with the site. (my two cents)

I'm more interested in helping out to revamp existing corps sites who don't have a polished site for free or incredibly cheaply than doing any real work for the moment now that I think about it. So either of the above choices of Cascade Mama or damnrahkuhns is quite excellent :) Hmm perhaps we should make a joint site? lol

I've got a bit of extra freetime and would like to earn some extra money for a few unforseen bills. I've got over 6 years design experience in html, php and javascripting and specialize in gorgeous sites with a minimum amount of load times. I ran a webhosting and design firm for 3 years up until June when I decided returning to my teaching roots was more important. I also am at or near expert level in the entire suite of Adobe graphics applications and can furnish numerous examples via email or via this handy link: My design portfolio (or most of it If you just need an avatar or forum sig graphic let me know. I'll be updating the wallpaper portion of the portfolio site shortly (I've got a backlog of 9-10 different wallpapers to put up. If your corps needs a site overhaul, I'm your guy. First year corps most likely will get free design work done.

Here's something from my own personal collection: I use it to teach my fairly advanced students to play cheese inverts loosely with more focus on bounce than on 'sticking' them through. Typically I have them learn it without the didle portion of the exercise with a metronome up to 160 before starting them back at a slower speed to learn the diddles and cheeses.

Was wondering if anyone was interested in trading stuff from their drumbibles? I just recently updated mine by scanning in and/or transcribing all of the stuff that's been gathering dust (usually written quickly in a parking lot by me on notebook paper) and would love to update it a bit more. I'm not interested in any of the published stuff (anything tapspace, BD, wooten's book) but more interested in exercises that either don't get as much play anymore or else is something that everyline plays some form of.

Don't ask me why but SCV 1993's mahogany and yellow looked spiffy. Also VK 1992, BD 1994, SCV 1991

If you get some of that krylon binding spraypaint you ought to be able to paint the material as needed, although if it is treated well (used for performances only) clear might end up being less distracting.

I think VF typically crushes IP's sticks in paired tonality. As for Tenor mallets, VF has been better than everyone else lately (I still prefer either the Gambal non cartwheel mallets I still have or else a nice pair of Ralh Hardimon woodtips). Bass mallets have always been (since I started in 1990) the best way to go. Very sturdy malletheads and very very sturdy malletshafts.

The laminate method works quite well for cost and durability. The avatar is Brittany Murphy by the way.

In order of quality and tone: 1. Pearl (especially the bass drums, omg the sound of well tuned pearl basses is what make me love drumming the most, the tenors have a very sweet sound as well). 2. Yamaha (especially sound coming off the snares) 3. Dynasty (they sound like garbage and look bad too, even the old all plastic remo freefloaters look good by comparison.) 4. Premiere (the only manufacturer that managed to design drums that have bolts break when you loosen them. Also has severe issues with balsawood rims for basses, they chip and shatter with barely any usage. I'd love to be in an unsponsored line that marched 8 yamaha snares 6 Pearl tenors and 5 Pearl Basses. Throw in some Zildjian cymbals and I'd be happy for a long long time. When Winter showed it's face the idea of having some backup Dynasty and Premiere drums to help start the drumline bonfire'd be great too ;D