Link won't work.
But Cham, you seem to be the only telling me just everything I want to hear.

I'm not section leader, but your right I am the most dedicated one in my line and I'm guaranteed section leader my Junior year.
But the thing is, we have a drum instructor and he is pretty much in charge of the line. If only we could stand on our own two feet, we could write some cool drum parts.

Whats it like having two snares in a band that small? Because I may loose my snare next year if the band gets too ridiculous.

There are advantages and disadvantages to having an instructor, he could probably write better parts too, talk to him or the BD and see what you can do.

That joint concert stuff is exactly the kind of thing you want to do. Stuff that gets you around the kids in the middle schools. See if you could take some drums over there once a week and get a little drumline together, maybe for their talent show or something. If you can't do that go over their and coach their percussion section on their parts in band. If you can't get a drumline going, get a percussion ensemble together over there.

How're things going so far? Any progress?

Yeah, the attatchment links don't work on here anymore... (bug perhaps? I know Mods are working on it)

But having 2 snares, it is alright, but when one is absent, the other you can tell the mistakes REAL fast, and one doesn' get a real good sounds, but the two together is better than one. It is also easier to clean up snares. And with two, it doesn't take as long to switch those old BlackMax heads.

When one of the snares didn't show up for the game, I wanted to play it marching to pregame, and the cadence (yes THE 1 cadence)
but I never asked, because the BD wouldn't let me, even though my trombone was damaged at one time... but I can say a few other times that happened, but I'm not.

Apollo, I'm going to try your suggestion. I'll tell the other (dedicated) members of the line too and we can take em all over. No progress so far.

Jacket, what I meant was how does a band that small sound with two snares? Does it overpower it? Too loud?

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... you shoulda just said that

see for yourself... opener last year

we were more worried about bass drums [and trumpets] overpowering, since they had no sense of dynamic contrast

Wow! You're right. That did sound really powerful.
But..I didn't hear any tenors?

EDIT: How many members was that.
NOT counting colorguard.

well, we didn't get a tenor player until about midway during the season, so he didn't march the show.
There was 25-30 instrument players, 6 percussion at the time- 2 snare, 3 bass, 1 cymbals. In October, we got a tenor player, so he didn't get to march the show, but he got to do pregame, and stuff in the stands

edit- our other 2 songs should be on a related video.

I thought it was something like that.
Well played.

Darfin, my band has about 25 non-percussion/color guard members. In the drumline, we have 2 snares, 2 quads, and 4 basses. We had (this last year) a pretty good pit(as far as mallets/keyboard go), but not too big. Not much over 30 people in the entire band, I think. But after watching a video again, I think we put out a decent sound for our size. (Too bad nobody could f'n march)

I'm uploading the video to YouTube right now so you can view it if you'd like to. I'll edit this post when it's finished.
EDIT - Here is the link to the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CEitfcKNeI

P.S - when the video is up, check out our wimpy "colorguard"

nice, but low brass could be stronger, that was better than some of band's I've seen of the same size. year before last, ya'll woulda won for sound quality... not neccesarrily quantity