Hello, does anyone have any Michigan Drumline sheet music? I don't mind what it is, I am interesting in University of Michigan Drumline sheet music weather it be cadences or warmups or all of it I will take it. Feel free to PM me as well.

I’m a high school senior that just swapped to percussion for my last year (I was playing sousaphone.) I’ve only really played mallet percussion and bass drum, with a small amount of quads and snare just so I could get the basics.

I’m still debating whether or not I want to keep doing percussion for college marching band or go back to lowbrass, because there are auditions (though I heard they’re not hard) and I also don’t want to play bass drum for all of college due to not being as good on snare or quads. I can play our high schools cadence and show music on snare and quads, and but im not sure how much harder college music is. Any tips are also appreciated!

Parents cleaning out garage, and gave me a snare drum my sibling got from high school marching band days. No one wants it, and if i'm honest with myself, I'm not going to learn/use it any time soon. Instruments in my day were always worth something, so i figure i might as well sell it if it's worth it.

How can i figure out what 'model' it is, and for those that would know, what would be the most you figured anyone would actually pay for this?

Any help is appreciated.

For tenor drums I use mallets for it and i want to know if there is any reason that I should not I think they just feel good with the ability to make fast parts easier.so?

Hey all! I’m looking into getting my own marching snare drum aside from the one I currently have. I was wondering if anyone has one for sale of the following two for reasonable prices. I’m a high school teen looking to expand my playing past it. I’ve attached photos of the two I’m mainly looking at. Hopefully 14x12!

Hey all, this is mainly a discussion and I wanted to get some other people’s opinions on this.

Last year, my school bought us a new Drumline: A set of Pearl Championship Maple drums. These included 6 snares, and 5 basses. Since then, we have had numerous issues with these drums, especially with their durability. We have had two snare throwoffs break, hardware rusting out, and carrier mounts fail.

Now, before I get a million comments saying how this is probably not a reflection of the drums, and is a reflection of the drumline. We take very good care of these drums. If it rains, we leave them out to dry, and wipe them off. Before every game, I will personally tune every single drum. We also ordered another snare for this season early this year, it was originally supposed to be delivered in August, but still isn’t here. Our directors are both very displeased with the performance of our drums.

Has anyone had any similar experiences? We are borrowing a late 90s ffx for the snare that doesnt have a new drum, and that drum feels significantly beefier and durable. Is something happening with pearl? I’m not a big Pearl guy, but our drumline director is a big fan of Pearl. Should we have looked at other brands, such as mapex or Yamaha? Or maybe even Ludwig and Dynasty?

This mainly a discussion post, and I want to get some feedback from some people who know more than I do. Also, I know how to tune drums, I work on vintage marching snare drums/drums in general as a hobby.

I have a bass drum video audition soon and I was wondering if i should use my drum pad or an actual bass drum?

Hi everyone, I have been asked by some people to do lessons. I am 18 and my marching experience is limited to high school, but I have picked up a teaching job at a fairly competitive high school in my state. I believe I can teach fine but I don’t know where to start with lesson plans. Also what prices should I start charging at? I want to use the money from lessons for tour fees and my musical endeavors. But I don’t want to charge an unfair price. Looking for any tips and advice I can get.

I picked my son up an older set of Yamaha Field Corps tenors with a stand and carrier. He bought a new carrier off a bandmate, but the spock drum mount is in the way since it is attached to the tenor frame. His setup is exactly like this pic. We want to mount the spock to the front drums, but I'm not finding a bracket for this. Everything I've come across is no longer available.

Does anyone know where I can find the bracket we need to move the spock?

Hi. I have a Yamaha 13x11 marching snare drum that I bought from Guitar Center not too long ago and I may bring it outside occasionally so I want a cover for it.

I have looked up the cover for my exact model but it was sold out.

Does anyone happen to have a cover for my exact model (SNC13) or anything similar? Thanks in advance!

I was looking to create a study plan to improve my technique. I play the snare drum, and I wanted to know from those who are more experienced or still playing, how you study? Do you have any packs or channels to recommend?

Well, I bought a Vater drumstick, the first one I'll own from them, the MV7 model. Do you have any thoughts on this model?

Hey guys!

My director recently approached me about some equipment for next year, and I wanted your advice.

Currently, we use Pearl's CarbonCore FFX drums (currently around six years old, got during Covid). We use Evans hybrid heads with the bottom MX5's. Our tenors use the Evans TCX heads, and basses use Remo PowerMax's (all drums use white heads, besides tenors, which are clear, besides the two spocks).

I'm kind of thinking of recommending the following:

1. Snares: Remo Black Max and Clear Ambassador and maybe utilizing a sound projector on each drum (scoop)

2. Tenors: Remo Clear Pinstripes

3. Basses: Remo ebony PowerMax's 2

Any advice, thoughts, comments? I want our snares to have a higher/wetter snare sound.

One of the bass drummers at the school owns a crap ton of these. Never seen em before, they have plain Vic branding, so that’s all I know.
They’re quite hefty tho and they sound pretty nice without being to chunky in the hand.
They also look fairly new, 0 dents and don’t have much of any darkening on the from use or gripping.

Dude, I heard a long time ago that marching snares can explode when they get wet. Since then I’ve always believed it because I swore I heard about it online and from some upperclassman when I first joined hs band. I brought it up and my grandpa who’s a musician called me crazy and I was like “no they really do explode” but when I looked it up for proof there’s nothing about them exploding. Was this just some sort of lie all along 😭

Hello all, just here to ask if there's any tips about physical health for parades.

I have a parade on Friday, and I march tenors. I am above average strength for people my age, and haven't had problems before, but this last rehearsal, I got a killer knot in my back. What can I do to properly heal and rest for parade day?

Thanks for the read.

I want to try snare or tenors my junior or senior year for our winter indoor program,and I think the bass drum would be a good starting point. I play marimba for marching band and usually for indoor. Should I audition or nah? I'm in freshman year for context and have been playing marimba/mallet percussion for 2 seasons and 1 indoor now.

I want to order some sticks but I don’t know which sites are giving out good pairs of the ones I want, can anyone help?

Hey all, I'm tryna get myself a new 14" pad with out a rim so it can fit in my backpack. What would you all recommend?

I got this idea from a video of rhythm x 2019 playing this lot tune, so I decided to transcribe it and add my own personal effects such as harmonization, xylo part, etc.

I am not a drumset player so any advice in writing drumset parts on musescore in any regards would be really appreciated!

- Xylo part might also be unplayable, I need to check that out…

So i realise that I am not badly overweight but I am and I worry that because of this i cannot march drums well I have the stamina and everything for it but the drums dont fit me correctly it fits but not comfortably what should I do