Anyone in Drumline

[allchopin]

Just curious as to how many drummers are pianists as well- especially drumline.  If you were/are in a drumline, what did you play?
(snare here)

[ThEmUsIcMaNBJ]

I played 2nd bass freshmen year, and snare sophmore and junior year.  I was drum captain junior year...  Now I'm a senior and should be drum captain again obviously but gave it up for practice time on piano  

So fun though when you have a good line...  You learn an amazing amount too.  I had a problem with rhythms before, now I don't have any problems whatsoever.  I can always keep a steady pulse perfectly and the absolute weirdest rhythms are just a joke to me on sight.  Amazing stuff that drumline....  My show freshmen year was like an Arabian thing, then sophmore year was "The Gold Rush" and last year was some crap on Bjork, we got new instructors  

My freshmen and sophmore years were sooooo funny...  The funny shows are the best.  We were good too division 1 getting 1st and second mid 90's...  I dunno if the divisions and stuff are the same where you are...  WGI is what we were in and ADLA but ADLA really really sucked...  Horrible judges...  They didn't have a clue what they were talking about...  

I would still be in it even with piano...  But all the good people left two years ago leaving my junior year with crap.  I was the ONLY person left... And our band is small as heck...  No one wanted to join...  I had to pretty much force 4 basses 2 tenors and a snare to join not to mention the pit.  Most of them didn't even know how to read music before.  And plus we had new instructors that didn't know what they were doing.  It was embaressing and a waste of time especially since I knew what I was doing and was pretty good and I had to play 8 on a hand for the first two months...

Then we go to first competition!  Guess what our score was?  The year before I think are best was 94.somethin....  And then we go to out first comp the next year and get a what?  A 14.2!  WHAT THE FREAK!  I didn't even know people got scores like that!  I didn't know they existed!  You would think we would at least improve over the year!  Our last comp we got like a 23.7...  

So yeah guess what!  EVEN WITH THOSE CRAPPY PEOPLE!  THEY WERE ALL SENIORS TOO!  So I would have had the same crap to deal with this year...  Plus it would take away something like 15 hours a week from my already restricted piano practice time, so I just said forget it.  They got all freshmen this year and the instructors have a really good idea on what the heck to do this year too...  So in 3 or 4 years my schools goona be crazy good.  Too bad I'll be long gone...  Oh well I had a couple of good years....

Wow that was a very long self-pity post, my bad I just have issues.  I could go on longer on not just how my line sucked but how freakin stupid they were...  But I think I rambled long enough.  

Weren't expecting such a post were you!?    

[allchopin]

HAHAHAHAHAHA
Geez, sorry man thats one sad dumb-line... We didnt go to WGI last year (were in biggest division, dont know the symantecs).  All our good guys left last year as well, and Im stuck, as a senior (Im age-wise a junior but Im graduating early, so...) with a freshman and lousy juniors.  We went to a contest on Oct 5 and got High Drums (1st), but i dont know how... we had huge fazing between the line, pit, and band...  Our show is Armenian Dances, pretty stupid, but there are worse.  Im quitting band second semester partly because I need other credits, and partly because I hate it (the snare is just killing my back- it hurts to sit at the piano bench actualy).  So what was you guys' cadence and stand tunes and stuff? (we play spider)  
(btw, you are talking about HS right?)

[ThEmUsIcMaNBJ]

You guys don't do the indoor drumline shows?  Where it's just the battery and the pit?  Sounds like you guys only do field shows?  

Anyways yeah it's highschool and we pretty much don't play anything worth talking about because I'm the only person that knows what they're doing...  I'm in first semester marching band because we get PE credit for it and I need one more semester worths of PE, plus it's band I'll always be a "bando".  I really play the sax and clarinet but just switched for marching band to drums cause they needed it.

Our school rehearses first and second semesters for the second semester indoor drumline comps.  Our band doesn't really do comps anymore just football games...  So we can use first semester for rehearsals for drumline.  We used to be good   instructors left... good people left... it's depressing...  I really wish I had time for a marching band in college but piano's going to take any time I've got  

I should be a junior too...    I think I just started school early...  Not even 17 yet and everyone in my grade is turning 18 or 18 already...  Oh well life goes on...  

[allchopin]

No, we do do indoor drumline- in fact, I did it one year (the novice-type division) and I didnt like it - it took too much of my time.  I dont remember how we did, but thats it for me.  Our independent line may have done WGI, Im not really sure. Whats your school?  Ill have to look for it in the WGI videos...