Last year, we had like a 2 minute long drumbreak called "The Battle Scene" in our show, "The Year of the Pirates" and it was totally awesome. We had this rack with cymbals and toms and a plaform on it.. and once the break started the tenors took off their drums and wheeled out the rack which had one of our drum majors and a color gaurd member dueling on the platform while the snares and basses were, well, preparing to fight. And as the snares were playing on the rack, the basses formed a v and they moved in on each other, and the break started gettin a lil more intense and then the snares came out from behind the rack and the basses incircled them and the entire line yells as the basses and snares bring their sticks down on one another as though about to be the crap out of each other... it was fun to play and we got quite a response from the crowd.

Our break last year was OK, not the best music and not good drill. (the drill was written like 3 days before state) It was funny though cuz i was on bass last year, and i had to take like these 45" steps....good times

This season,we finally get a real percussion break, which we haven't had in my band since I've been in the band. After the last measure of the written ballad, the tempo seamlessly gets cranked from 104 to 164 and we get about 30 measures. We haven't actually played it through yet, or got the drill for it, but it should be pretty sick.

My freshman year the snares and tenors played while hitting cymbals that were placed on both sides of their heads. Then the pit brought out the trash cand and put it in front of the snares and tenors and we played on the cans and cymbals. It was well cordinated and looked good. The bases also took off their drum after the snare and tenor feature and played a little drum to drum solo.
My sophomore year we played Stained Glass as our show and we had a 7 tenor feature. Us snare had to march to the edge of the field and play on the tenors with the other two tenors.
My junior year we had a whole movement that was the drum break while the band marched in back of us. The solos were awesome.
My senior year we had a solo that was cool we had snugglebunny of back stickings.

The sweetest break was definitely the Cadets break.

The guys have mics out on the field and they start singing their solos. (dee dee dut dooda digga doom cack cack etc.)

and then afterwards they play the exact solo they just sang.

The basses singing their solo was amazing.

And the tenors playing their solo was even better.

The best drum break i've ever seen

Plus the girl leading them around is super hot

down where im from, most drumbreaks are written into the shows, so its typically maybe about 4-5 lines of percussion, along with a few interludes of about a measure or two during songs, sometimes thier used as build-ups to a big brass hit or something like that

This past year... we had our Drill Written for us by the Guy who writes Drill for SCV... so if you know SCV then you know how much we were moving... and it was like a 24 bar Drum Solo... lol it was Crazy... Singles galore... we placed HIGh

I'm in high school, so our drumbreak is usually only 14-16 measures long. We also have about 1 or 2 measures of soloing for each section. We usually stop for our own sections solo, then keep on going when we are done