we needed a lot of different sounds from the battery percussion for that show.

the rep. that year was:
Cajun Folk Songs (3rd mvmt) -- Ticheli
Canzona -- Menin
Finale from "Firebird Suite" -- Stravinsky

The Ticheli piece had a lot of constant ostinato / counterpoint type writing, the Menin was more sporadic, with a very heavy feel from the drums, while the Stravinsky was the standard "big majestic" ending.

The snares had the spock drums, 12" splash cymbals (set on the drum head and struck with sticks, bundle sticks, and dreadlocks), two sets of sticks (piccolo tip and regular), dreadlocks, and bundles.

Basses had gock blocks, puffys, hard felts, dreadlocks, jingle sticks, and maracas.

Quads had a 12" china boy (set on drum 4 + hit with sticks), sticks, mallets, puffys, timp-maraca mallets, and vibe mallets (used the rattan end).

The "floater" line (usually cymbals) had 2 people on 16" double headed toms with hard felt bass mallets, and 1 person on a set of "double tenors" -- 12" and 13" drums from a set of quads, played with hard felt tenor mallets. For the closer, they went back to regular hand cymbals.


So, that show involved a LOT of color, and the spocks weren't used for one particular effect or section -- used them to double/replace accents and rimshots, used them to play some figures strictly on the gocks, and used a lot of interplay between the snare and the gock. There was one section I particularly liked that used RH on the spock + edge of the main head with a piccolo stick, while left hand played cross stick + center of the main head with a regular stick.


Yay for color with a small drumline! ;-)

This year, the snares have an 8" roto tom "Spoxe" mounted vertically in front of the drum to their right (they hit the edge), and a 10" roto tom "Spoxe" with an 8" splash mounted vertically in front of the drum to their left (they hit the edge on that, too). Basses have jam blocks, ice bells, and ribbon crashers.

Fun fun fun.
http://www.dlband.org/pics/2004/youngstown/snares.jpg
http://www.dlband.org/pics/2004/youngstown/basses.jpg
http://www.dlband.org/pics/2004/youngstown/lollapatooba.jpg

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working fine for me...

http://www.drumlines.org/upload/113646-TENORSNARES.GIF

This was exactly what Beaver Creek had. In fact, that is Beaver Creek. Thanks for posting that picture. Now I can finally get a good look at what they had.

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Our guy described them as 12" snares mounted instead of gocks and played that way with, I suppose, Hardimon tenor sticks. There were no seperate snares there. Just squads and bass. .
You've now proven to me that he wasn't, in fact, full of *pit*.
I never would've imagined a snare instead of tenor #4. Thanks there.

Hey guys, I am a senior at Beavercreek High School, in Beavercreek Ohio.
I march the "quads" as we call them for short, when in reality they are your "squads" with a extra "gock or spock" drum in the middle.
I saw the post, and I was very impressed that our school was reconized. Our director, a percussionist, has always chosen to march a line without snares and use the squads instead. Our shows are always music by a famous rock band, (this year its the beatles) so he thought a sound more like a drum set snare would be more appropriate.
We are sponsored by Dynasty Drums and are the only drum line to be marching our squads.
www.beavercreekband.org
that is a link to our site which has some pictures of them i believe, if not, i will post some sometime.
If you have any questions, feel free to PM me or write about it.

great minds think alike.
I'm a Junior at Beavercreek and I march bass drum (much to my dismay) and was just about to reply with some pictures when my fellow Creekian did. but anyway...

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yeah, ditto.

i am also a senior at beavercreek, and have marched our "quads" (or quints, whatever) for 3 years.

but basically, my fellow companions have already said all that needs to be said above.

I spy HOTTIES! Where's that picture thread when you need it?

Those look like fun, but after 4 years of marching normal tenors, I think I'd have a hard time playing that.

That's pretty insane.
I saw a guy who had a mini-snare mounted onto his sexes once, but nothing like those.
Beavercreek people-you have the 1 and 2 drums switched too? I hope none of you try to adjust into college, it'd be a hard switch. That's a pretty novel idea, though. I'd march them.