Hey, my bassline is trying to get more ideas for visuals, because we don't have a whole lot going on right now. I was just looking for some feedback about what your bassline does for visual-crowdage stimulation. Thanks much!!!

well one year the bassline was marching on the field and came up to the sideline. They then set down thier drums and leaned them using the harnesses as a kind of stand. they were in a mini arc on the sideline and it looked pretty sweet.

heres a pic.



also there is a visual thats crazy awesome and pretty hard tho.
Its for one person on the bassline. I saw it on a video. I don't remember which one or what drum corps but the bass drummer somehow swung his right arm over the top of the drum and hit the left side drum head wih his right stick.
it was crazy.

heres a link to a video with a pretty sick bass visual doing the stick over the drum and hitting the other side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRB51hgd_6w
also rhythm X did something similar in 04 for their audio visual show.
oh and how about a suicide stick drop after a solo. thats what my drumline did last year. of course it was for winter drumline so if your doing visuals for marching band it might be hard to see the suicide stick drop

Try doing the thing (word is escaping me) where the first person does something and then the next person does it like an eighth note later and on and on...One you could do is the first person crouches down (not all the way) holds for a beat and comes up, then the next person starts that sequence an eighth note after the first person, and it goes down the line. Do stuff like that, if u do it fast enough its always cool

btw...in that video none of the players are hitting the head on the other side. i would think it would be very impossible to actually hit the other head over the top of the drum

Sweet, thanks for your help guys.

not impossible just amazing. ; ]

I think the video I was talking about was the Cadets bassline. But im not sure.

try some stick tosses to spice up a bass feature or something. Im sure the crowd would love that.

there have been many bass lines to play a behind the back note. cadets in 06, maybe 05, RX03.

Something my bassline did this year that I thought was pretty rad was, during a percussion feature, they did this kind of 360 pivot while playing, starting from the middle bass and fanning out, then from first bass down to third and back. They got dizzy the first few times, but the crowd ate it up.

;D

Hmmm, that sounds pretty good.