HECK YEA...WE'RE BRINGING OUT THE 3 STICKS AND A RUBBER BALL! get ready for visual city baby. i think we should throw our sticks to eachother

If it were a latin peice . . . Pull out the Timbales and the Cowbell! Oooh man, sick Samba licks. Love it.

We really don't have a real percussion feature where we line up on the side line, play something totally sick, and scare the crap out of the other drumline. No, we have to do a feature to a song, like this year is Great Balls Of Fire. Makes me sick.

We are doing a western theme this year, and it doesn't look like there is going to be a drum solo, it looks more like random licks measures where teh band rest.
Last year we did a whole drum solo feature.

Drum breaks are cool if you know what you are doing. I have seen lines just go out there and play on eachothers drums and do all sorts of backstickings but nothing else. I like to see a technical piece, (i.e. Cadets snare break) those are impressive.

I was watching some old video last night of high school drum breaks and the thing noticed was that during drum breaks, the drummers focus so much on nailing everything that they are playing and don't add too many visuals.

When I watched North Texas' drum break, they focused hard on the licks, but then they added some hand, leg, or stick movement, etc., in rest measures.

So focus on keeping it clean and technically difficult, but also make it appealing to the non-drummer who might not notice the tick coming from snare 4.

Our break last year was...
The band would get into this giant dimond and we would be marching around off to the side
they rolled tis big rack system with our drumset on top with a cover over

we would marching around the rack system , and then we would turn around and everything would get quite..
then we turn around, the cover on the set gets ripped off and the drum set player kicks it all off, boom...booom CHAAT CHAAT
we would alll break down and play our... break, then drum set solo, snare sole, and tenor solo

while the were doing the break the band took our umbreallas out of these pouchs and did a whole bunch of things with em(dance, did and giant wave..etc.)

It was pretty cool

Every year we have a drum break. Sometimes its on the move and sometimes its park and blow. I know this years drum break is long and much better than last years 4 measures of pure crap. This year our break is about 40 seconds long and the Snares get the most out of it.

My line has done both the stop and break it down, and the march crazy drill while playing some cool intricate parts, and I prefer the marching crazy drill. We have always kept our section breaks to 1 measure each in the past.

This year we are playing "Big Noise" as our percussion feature, and we are having 2 drum breaks. For the first one, my assistant section leader (he plays tenors) and I are going to have solos in the form of a drum battle. For the second one, we are setting up a bass drum rack so that everyone in the battery (excluding cymbals) will be playing a bass. We will have 7-9 basses in all.

2 years ago my line did one where we had most of the line playing a cadence and we set one of the bases down and had 2 snares and tenor take of there drums run jump of the bass and hit a snare as 2 other guys threw it in the air over the persons head it was the poop!