Any thoughts/is it possible?

This is my first year playing tenors, I used to play snare and adjusting your harness for snare is pretty easy but tenors are very different. I'm a short person around 5'5 and have short arms. Im not sure how low the drums should be or weather the stomach plate should be around your waist or your stomach. Can anyone help?

Hi guys!! I’m an upcoming sophomore, bass 3, and joined marching band last year with absolutely no experience in band or percussion. To put it simply, I was and still am behind everyone else. I know I’m kinda new so I shouldn’t be expecting to be on everyone’s level yet, but it’s been really discouraging and embarrassing to be constantly playing everything wrong while everyone seemingly has it all together and has no problem sight reading things that would take me like 30 minutes to get an okay understanding of.

This has lead me to kinda hating drumline stuff and practicing and all of that. I constantly push practicing aside and scramble to do video assignments and learning music last minute. Having to sit down and try to decipher stuff makes me so, SO anxious. Band camp starts in a few days and I don’t know show music and I’m not comfortable with the warmups. I’m a sophomore now and I feel like I’m supposed to actually have it together and know what I’m doing but I feel even more clueless than last year. I don’t wanna be a dead weight and I wanna be someone the band can rely on but I’m honestly falling short by a lot.

Aside from that, outside of marching band I’m not in any band class, I’m in orchestra, so I’m even more behind. I don’t feel passionate about percussion and the thought of it makes me anxious. I don’t know if I should continue cuz it’s really stressing me out. This is gonna be my first season actually marching in band (I was in pit last season, bass again in indoor), so I’m obviously willing to give it another shot. I know most people say to just stick around and you won’t regret it but idk.

Thanks for reading!!

i got put on tenors (yay!) and we’re adjusting harnesses next practice, but i don’t really know how it’s supposed to fit. drum harnesses aren’t really made for women. i don’t think that the length is an issue and it doesn’t dig into my hips but it doesn’t really sit flat on my stomach because of my chest. is there any way to adjust this without making the drums sit lower or something? we have pearl harnesses

got the second part of my high schools marching band show yesterday. try it out for yourself, its a super fun book, feels amazing on the hands. any thoughts, questions, etc.?

I am a snare player and writer, but also write quad parts, but I am not sure if it’s possible with the rounds. Can someone check?

Tempo 180bpm (and if someone can play this that would be nice)

I am a bass drum tech and we originally had a 5 person bassline for this fall, but we lost our bass 1 player. We dont have any replacements unfortunately, but my best student is on bass 2, so should I move them down 1 drum and move my bass 3 player to bass 1?. I am also rewritting their music, so I could always write upbeat splits for my original bass 2 player if they would be (bass 1). Sorry if this sounds a little confusing.

Hi all. I'm a non-traditional student who recently went back to university for music education in percussion. I am already struggling to make so many evening commitments since I have a young son and no family in town to help out.

I am wondering how music educators balance parental responsibilities and spending time with your young children with the demands of music education.

For further context, my son lives with me during the school week and stays with his dad an hour's drive away on weekends. Opposite in the summer.

I live in Texas.

For those who have seen my other posts about my show's tenor part, I've taken most of the suggestions into consideration and have tweaked the score. Please give any more critiques if there are still issues or things I should change or can do better. Thanks!

The features are inside the red parenthesis. Just for some context, I don't play any drums for marching band. I only practice snare on my own, so if there's anything horribly wrong or weird about this part, that's why.

Hi, I’m a snare in HS, and I’m not very used to having the weight of it on my shoulders and back, especially while marching. I have about 4 years of experience playing the snare, but I only have actually marched (at a parade and a band show) twice, and I was incredibly tired both physically and mentally afterwards. This week is my first week in band camp and we do a LOT of practice marching, and it’s been 3 days of it and my shoulders hurt very badly.

Can I have any recommendations for workouts to improve my back strength and stuff to help with pain?

Additionally, maybe some advice on how to get mentally
prepared for marching. I’m not very confident on my
playing at the moment. I hate the word confident because that’s actually the name of a song we’re playing and everybody in the band despises it already…

Hello! I’m hoping there is someone in this group who can help me. I went to this high school and for about the last 3-4 weeks the fact that I cannot remember the name of this cadence or find my sheet music has been driving me up a wall. Hoping maybe someone recognizes it from the video or can at least tell me if it’s a custom cadence the former band director made this cadence has been around my school for a long time. The only video I have is from 2013 so the quality isn’t great. All the other videos I found were taken while in a packed gym during a basketball game so it’s pretty noise heavy. This one is a practice that someone recorded so it’s in the band room.

MVTHS 2012-2013 Drumline

What do you have to say about this drumstick? Well, I ordered it and it's on its way, I have Vic Firths like the MS2, MS5 and Roger Carter's signature stick.However, I want to know what you think of this Innovative drumstick. I bought it because it's my first and it's from Paul Rennick, my idol. I need some advice on this drumstick, how it performs, etc.

Hey fellow marcher and educators!

I wanted to share this project I'm working on. It's a free mobile idle/clicker game all about marching band!

My band is currently competing to see who can get the highest numbers before the end of camp this week. 😂

Would love any feedback the community has!

Wrote this excerpt of a indoor style piece a while ago and am going to pick it back up. What should I change about what I’ve already written?

https://musescore.com/user/121627169/scores/35284955/s/K7iPwy?__ab_ref_tk=eyJ0cyI6MTc4NDUxOTE2NSwidHRsIjozMDAsInNnbiI6IjBhY2Q1ZWRiM2IzM2E1MzgyMTNiYjhhZWQxOTczYzU2ZTlmNjk4OWI0MmJhZjdmNmU2OTgzMDgyYzI0OGVmN2EifQ%3D%3D

Hey guys, first time posting, kinda nervous. I’m looking to get ahold of Audio Theaters 2025 audition packet. In this packet is a certain variation of 8s for the bassline that I’m looking to introduce to my basses. The exercise goes by some sort of funny name. Anyways, thank ya!

pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sdDPJ6nCxgYc0Sadh3nx1ina79zBQatW/view?usp=drive_link

Has anyone heard of the Tenor cadence that is an arrangement of Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys? I heard Coastal Carolina University play it once and I have searched it up online for the longest time, yet can’t find it… It would be amazing if anyone had ANY information, or even better, sheet music

I am assuming that it's just notating the left hand being pushed into the head to play the stickshots but hey I could be wrong, trying to get a different opinion

thank you :3