Hey,
Ok, I'm gettin a eight or sixteen measure solo in our show this year an di need some tips on some visuals that dont hinder my playin. I've got the traditional backstickin wit the double stroke incorporated pretty easy but i need some more stuff that will look good as well as sounds awsome. Plus I also wanna show the caption head of the cavies what I got. If ya'll got some tips holla at me.

The Ghetto Drummer
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Damn I wish I could show you what I have come up with on a video or some [censored] but I don't have one oh well, I can't explain it anyway but a good one is when you finish the thing go back to set and bring the closer stick up so you have an "L" like shape and then turn your wrist up and then turn it like your knocking on a door and catch the butt end in traditional, sounds weird, I know.

i know exactly what ur sayin

You could throw in some switches (go from match to trad, or vice versa). On;y do it if you can play both grips really well, though - you don't want to look like a fool.

see, i can do all that stuff, stick flips, switches, backstickin, three-way backstickin. By my section is just so inexperienced that i just need some simple stuff for them. Everything i can do, they just look at me like i'm crazy.

Maybe, umm....playing on each other's drum?

One visual that was done during the drumbreak the year before I joined was pretty cool. I never learned it, so I don't know the actual rhythm. I'll try and explain it -

Hit the drum with both sticks. Then, raise the left stick perpendicular to the ground. With your right hand, hit the person's stick who is standing on your right side. Make sense? I'll see if maybe we can get a video, eventually.

sounds intrestin, i'll show it to the rest of my line.

way backsticking is so awesome

oh yeah it is, i wrote a solo and wrote 3-way backstickin as the intro followed by a bunch of stick flips, kinda like jeff queen. the crowd went wild.

BHS, you mean the thing in Drumline? That is wicked cool. I incorporated it into one of our cadences like 5 min after seeing it on Drumline.

did anybody see rhythm X percussion at WGI this year. i'm tryin to figure out how the snares passed those notes like that. it was pretty tight.

yeah three way is awsome.
do you know the kingsman cross?
thats always good.

Has anyone seen like a picture frame type of thing in shows? My show this year has a picture frame in the field and there's an artist which draws whatever the marching band is positioning themselves. Sorry if you guys dont understand but its hard to explain.

i saw a band out here get disqualified for spellin "nice [b]breasts[/b]".

yeah that was pretty funny cause it was pretty quick. I'm not too good at the stick tricks and you have yet to teach me, but from what I've seen you can pull it off. It's prob. going to be the last thing you think of but it's gonna be simple yet blow some minds at the same time. Just think about it. (You've done it to me several times so I know you can do it)

well one that I just learned is simple, like I said, and nice. The walk the dog. It's nice and if you explain how easy it is to everyone else they won't feel stupid or outplayed. So if it works do it.

Ghetto, why would the BD let them do that?

My fav snare vis. is this:

right tap, left backstick, right tap, left tap (right stick flip with the tap), left tap and catch right stick (should be a backstick now) left tap, repeat.

Not as hard as it sounds, it works really well as a crescendo. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!

i have no clue why. it coulda been somethin they came up wit that day or sumthin and put it in the show. our BD doesnt really watch our visuals and stuff, so it would be real easy to come up wit sumthin last minute.

A visual that <s>i</s>[color:"red"]I[/color] think looks cool is:

1) S<s>t</s>[color:"red"]t[/color]icks in.
2) <s>Kinda</s>[color:"red"]Kind of[/color] <s>pivet</s>[color:"red"]pivot[/color] the stick closest to <s>u</s>[color:"red"]you[/color] with <s>ur</s>[color:"red"]your[/color] thumb so it goes up then down (hard to explain)
3) Then pull out <s>ur</s>[color:"red"]your[/color] right stick, at the same pancake it.
4) Then take both sticks hold them paralell in front of <s>u</s>[color:"red"]you[/color] a face level and give <s>em</s>[color:"red"]them[/color] both <s>kinda</s>[color:"red"]Kind of[/color] like a <s>wind shield</s>[color:"red"]windshield[/color] wiper movement to the right. Looks cool together.