Just for kicks, what are the exercises you guys rehearse in drumline?

Some of ours are:

1) 8 on a hand
2) Accent Tap
3) WD-Waltz (combo of WD-40 and our triplet exercise)
4) Cadets double-beat
5) Digga Digga Burr

Anybody?

Alright the main 5 exercises my drumline plays are:
1)8's(5 different patterns
2)double beat
3)boston(triplet accent exercise)
4)15/16(sixteenth accent exercise)
5)sixteenth timing
We play a bunch of different exercises besides those such as triplet diddle, funky chims, and 4-2-1 grid but just not as frequently. Like we start with 8's every single day and almost always follow it with double beat and boston.

all we play is:

1) eight on a hand
2) double beat

we need some new ones...

Dude, if you need some new ones just make some up or steal some stuff from other people or make some corps exercises easier. If that is seriously all that you play then you definitely need some more. Your practices must be boring as heck.

Legattos
Accent Tap
Hurtas
Cadets Triple Beat (Alan)
Cadets Double Beat (Swinging Double Triple)
Triplet Rolls

ok when i teach i try to touch a little of everything they are gonna play, so...

8's, or legattos
accent tap (with parradiddles, kinda like mcm's)
Double beat
Triplet Diddle
Para-diddle-diddles

and sometimes, when i have better lines we do a flam ex to

All of our exercises were pretty long, since our instructor believes that exercises should be like music (the Murray Gusseck approach). Trying to play the exercises made us a lot better at the music, even if we'd sound terrible warming up at times.

SCV Stick Control
Triplet Accents (quick singles, accent&tap)
Zeppelin Diddles (Paradiddles, based on "When the Levee Breaks")
Flamteen (Sounds like SCV's "Thirteen" except with a flam pattern for the upper battery)
Space and Time (a trippy single-strokes exercise that's very demanding mentally... a lot of rests and dynamics... in 3/4)
Trips and Dids (very long triplet rolls exercise that breaks down the triplet partials for each hand with a one height segment and an accent-tap segment)

8-8-16
eights fill it in/ cres. and other stuff
Bucky diddles
Bucky diddles var. 1
triplet rolls

then for marching hah

8's and 4's
Death eights
muffins because all of our other excersices were to violent
and Death we havent got to this one yet it has obliqueing and stuff

scv 16th note pyramid
scv double beat
scv stick control
triplet roll
16th note roll
and some other

we NEVER play 8 on a hand. cuz... thats bad

We play
8 on a hand
Accent Variation
Double Beats
and basically anything else out instructor feels like making us do. It's almost never the same routine.

* Eight on a hand
* Double beat variation
* "Bridgemen" - 16th note accent/tap exercise
* Triplet Rolls
* Accent Tap

Three one handers:
Eights
Bucks (tap-accents)
Double Beat

and three two handers:
Hup Dup (single exercise)
Float Taps (old Tom Float tap accent exercise)
Rolls (good ole' "hugidaga-burrr"

You might not win the "High Parking-Lot Award" with them but if you want to win, they do the job.

"It's just like novocaine... Give it time and it ALWAYS works"

We got:
8's (split bass)
rolls (split 16th basses)
Tap-Accents
doubles.

last year we had a triplet exercise that i like to play on tenors, but we dont have it anymore. idk why.

that's pretty much it.

Hmm.

We play
8 on a hand (8888666655441)
Triplet Roll (WD-40 + plus a check pattern)
Digga burr
2 variations of accent tap
and accent tap with diddles on the taps.

8's
accent tap
check patterns
double/triple
triplet roll
duple rolls
stick control
16's with accents
paradiddles
flams

8's
Montigo Bay(The Flintstones)
Double beat
Triplet Roll
Triplet Roll+Tag
Cramps
Puggadas
Chicken and a Roll
There might be more lol just can't recall everything right now...XD

tap accent
triplet diddle
8's

I always try to include the following:

1) Legatos (8s, 12s or 16s depending on the skill level of the line)
2) Legatos at various dynamics (p, mp, mf, f, ff) for stick heights
3)Tap-Accent
4) Double beat
5)Chicken and a Roll/Diga-Diga-Bur or some diddle/roll building

I think 1,3,4 and 5 are essential.

we have a cavaliers triplet warmup, and a bluecoat's warmup. The bluecoats is kinda a remix of hand on a hand.

last year for winter drumline ours included:

1)Eights (but with crazy stickings like 8-6-7-9-9-7-6-8 or something like that) this also included 2 versions of accent taps.
2)Ping Pong Chop suey ( A flam exercise with a nice groove)
3)Drunken Double Step ( a very complex double beat that was quite difficult)
4)16th note diddle ( basic 16th notes with diddles that worked double 32nds on a hand.)

And I think that was it. We didn't really play any triplets in our show last year so we didn't use a triplet diddle.

we have an excercise at my school and its initially the first part of the USC cadence sequence. for snare and tenor its primarily single strokes and doubles but its a really good chop builder when taken at faster tempi. its also really easy to learn, i arranged the first part merely by listening to it and watching the vids