I think this is by far the coolest way to end a solo... It's gonna be hard to explain but I think I can put it in words. Also this is more inclined to Tenors because of the sticks being held in a matched position, but you can pull this off being a snare though as well...

STEP 1 - Hold sticks in matched position, throw the right stick over to your left hand, making it spin clock-wise (horizontally) 1 time.

STEP 2 - While the other stick is in the air spinning, grab the other stick by the tip and pull it over to where the stick is being held matched, (except it's backwards). ((While grabbing the stick by the tip, you should look like a butler holding a towel...))

STEP 3 - Catch the stick that you threw in your now empty left hand, Your hand should look like your holding the left side of an x-box controller before you catch it.

STEP 4 - While you catch the thrown stick, flip the stick in your right hand half way around. Your sticks are now back in a matched position and you can now give that final quadruple forte quarter note...

This trick is VERY fun and can be tweaked slightly to be able to play eigth notes while doing it... Please post all comments...

hmm..

thats kinda hard to follow... but it sounds like the common stick juggling. i could be wrong though.

Do you have a video you could post. Because am not really getting it. Maybe am just stupid or something.

Its just a stick toss its pretty easy once youve done it a couple oof times......

Good Ideas for ending solos other than that

PELVICK THRUST

DOUBLE SHOT -STICKS DOWN TO SIDE

sTICK DROP AND CATCH- BEHIDE BACK OR TO SIDE IF PLAYING TRADITIONAL]

THROW YOUR STICKS TO THE GROUND
.............HMMMMM.
WAT ELSE
STICK SLAP ON RIM THEN POPED UP WITH OTHER STICK
THATS ALL I CDAN THINK OF RIGHT NOE\W

I couldn't really follow the first visual, but pelvic thrusts are always fun.

I figured it would be hard to follow, Jeff Queen does an instructional over it at VicFirths Site.....

http://www.vicfirth.com/podcasts/marching.html

17th from the top... SOrry for the really hard to follow post... tee hee

The light bulb finally comes on in my head.

screaming at the top of your lungs while running in circles is always a good way to end! or maybe thats just me...

I'm a fan of a long roll with backsticking and ending with two 16th rimshots

this visual is already covered verry well on video on the thread '' An Expert video of stick tricks and visuals''

considering the poster of this thread created those videos.. yes.

im a fan of some big fake sticking into a long fast roll with a nice quick ping.

I might Have to try this... sounds fun

A video would be helpful to explain that lol

The only reason i know what you mean is that our drumline instructor at a summer camp taught us that same visual.

I played something once on a marching snare, I can't remember what. But I had to figure out and ending for it fast. These people had never seen me play, so I had to show them what I had. At the very end of the last measure, I do a rimshot with my right hand, and do a behind the back stick catch with it right after that. While I'm doing that, I'm leaning forward, with my left stick point directly at the group watching.

They think I rock now. I'm just glad they have no idea that there are SO many people out there that could school me.

Some of the ways I end a solo:
1)Pop the leg and jump back slightly with a double shot.
2)Jumping into a double shot. (Refer to Blast)
3)An unexpected ping and the very end.
4)Some fancy visuals that make everyone think I'm "AMAZING!"
5)Staredown.....nuff said.

It should be really weird and agressive. Like that snaresolo video where the guy gets the stick stuck in the ceiling. Unless you can do the stick juggle in like 1 second, i think it might be too passive

Actually it sounds really cool coming from 16th/32nd note run into an quarter note triplet feel with the stick toss.

Personally, my favorite ending consists of laying the left stick down in a cross shot position and then smacking it away (in an uppercut motion) with the right stick.

Or, end it like the Cadets, with a kick out towards the crowd....

Just a thought.

our bass line ends our one solo by doing a sideways punch with our left hand towards the audience and then flipping our mallet up side down (backwards) and then dropping it and then catching it with that same hand , its sorta like a sucicide but not completely behind the back its just out to the side when we drop the mallet

matrix double-shot's anyone?

hmmm isn't this one of the tosses taught on one of snarescience's vids?

Basically you just throw the stick in your right hand such that it spins one revolution, after which take, and I do mean just take, the stick from your left hand (you would have the butt facing out at this point), then have your left hand catch the airborne stick, and you should end up with bead facing out on left hand, and butt facing out on right hand.

then you just play something on your left hand to buy time to flip the stick in your right hand back where the bead is facing out.

I wrote a pretty visual-oriented snare feature for a James Bond song we might do for our show, and it ends with a triple-backstick sort of visual that I made up, then a right hand rim shot with the left in traditional doing a gun visual.

i saw an I&E solo a little while ago where the guy finished where he smashed his left stick into the drum and took his right, hit it way off into the audience or the ceiling or something (hahaha)
here it is, http://youtube.com/watch?v=GnYJBYeQ_6Q
and one of the most common, double shot, arms to the side, loud vocal grunt. lets people know that you are done

Sounds like Blue Devils last year. Its on Vic In the Lot 06

this year in winterline there were individual solo sections in this one song and the quads and basses ended their solos with visuals.

the quads blew kisses to the audience and the basses did a little running man thing

thats a pretty cool thing, hitting the stick across the room. but you might loose points if you it someone....especially a judge.

i personally don't like pelvic thrust i'd just stick to some kind of stick visuals and monkey arms

I loved the DCI show where they did I scatter drill and every so often stopped to turn and blast one note then keep scattering. I don't know why that reminded me of it, but it was cool.

haha I know a better way!

break the head! At the end of your solo.
Like the center of BD, saw it on DCI I&E 2007. I thought it was cool!

YEA that was really cool....haha i remember my mom seeing that and was upset for like 15 min. after because she didnt know why "someone would want to destroy there equipment " haha LMAO

It don't matter, they're sponsored. Replacing a head is no problem! haha..

I know a guy who did that after his snare I&E in high school, in 2001 I think. He finished playing and just speared the sticks through the head. One of the judges, I believe it was Mark Thurston, actually gave him a penalty for it. I can't remember the exact reasoning, something along the lines of "unsportsmanlike conduct."

Haha!
I would be pissed for that!
Just me, personally, I think its like super intense! The last note, straight in your face. That's just me. Just sucks having to change the head after, ugh!

Be like the Who drummer and kick the drum over at the end =)

HAHA!!! I'd like to see peoples faces after that. Or hearing the judge tape, "Um.. why did you just kick your drum??"

haha that'd be hilarious

that would be hilarios, I'd would love to see that. The visual mention by the poster, I do sometimes just for fun, a little different though.