could you do a winter drumline with just 9 people im not talking about going out and competing just like preforming at basket ball games

You could do a winter drumline with only 9 people. Last year we had a line with 12 people in it, 4 bass, 2 snare, and 6 pit. You could do something similar like; 3 bass, 1 snare, 5 pit. It could still be fun and cool with only 9.

Well for basketball games and such you can have a winter line. You could have three snares, 3 basses, 1 tenor, and 2 pit. One playing in a marimba and one playing vibes.

We just started a winter line this year, and we only have three snares, four basses, three mallet players, and 4 pit. We still plan on competing and playing at games and stuff. So sad though, no tenors.

well my school had an indoor drumline last year and we could have filled our entire marching area and have 3 snares, 1 quad, and 5 bass but we lost 2 people and we then decided to use only pit and we did fine we had our Timbales, a vibe, a Xylophone, A Drum Kit, an accessory Section and Bells and we won our Competing division, though it's all even when finals come around.

You could go all pit and do something like that. Also, you could check out with other band members and see if they would like to help you guys out. For our percussion ensemble last year, there were tons of parts. We found about 15 people in our band that could play the piano, and they helped us out on the keys. There are always some trumpets and tubas that want to play with the coolest section in the band... the percussion. Just check around with the rest of the band or ask you director to ask the sections for you. He or she could probably rustle up some players.

My senior year, we had a winterline of 2 snares, 1 tenor, 1 bass, 5 pit = 9 ppl We played a Gladiator show written by the instructor.

thats cool 9 people would be adding from the band Im going to try to talk our BD into it thanks yall

to give you an idea of an independent line:

project this year is 7 snares, 4 quads, 5 basses, 5 cymbals, 8 mallets, 1 keyboard, and 3 auxiliary

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EDIT: whoops, i'm dumb. =) didn't see the original question..

even with competition, you could do it with 9 people, but i wouldn't try having a battery. i'd go out with more of a concert percussion ensemble group, and compete in the standstill class.


if you're not competing, 9 people is more than enough to make a "pump up the crowd" battery to play for games. 4 basses, 3 snares, 2 tenors would be a fine size.



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The Battleline as of now has 5 snares, 3 tenors, and 4 basses. so we aren't that big. You can have line with 4 people. Just make sure you kick. You might not win, but play your little patooties off.