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#83299 - 06/04/05 03:59 PM
Drum breaks in shows
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I've been on drumline for a few years now, and each year the drumline has a break i the show. i was wondering what people liked to do for feature, such as really complicated drill or just something like a park and blow. also how long (if any) would you do individual section solos for.
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#83301 - 06/04/05 04:49 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
[Re: Bridgeman83]
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Registered: 07/02/04
Loc: North Carolina
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we did a break during bohemian rhapsody, last year our theme was Queen. it was really good. we had to bounce while we played!! haha, it was a lot of fun... then the year before that, we did this American theme, and we turned our drums over( the bass drums) the snares and quads leaned back, and played like that. it was a really cool visual. i like doing drum breaks. because at that point and time, the attention is all on US!
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#83304 - 06/05/05 10:27 AM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 09/12/04
Loc: North NJ
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We typically have a minute to two minute long percussion/pit feature in addition to little to longer breaks in the songs.
During these features, the band has some crazy drill - but the drummers have it even harder. The BD knows we'll do some crazy stuff so he lets us come up with our own drill.
For example, we took 4 of us in a diamond and we ran around the diamond while playing. The best visual was when we came up and played a quick riff and then swung outta hte way fofr the bass line - of course, in doing this move, one tenor swung in and the other out, so we would have our drums go over each other. I kid you not, there was about 4 inches of space (if that) - and only one quad collision all year.
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#83311 - 06/09/05 03:29 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Our Show last year was La Nouba and we Had a drum Solo in the middle of "Urban" it was about 2 measures per section. we crabbed sideways during the solo and the last beat would be the last step. On the other side of the field the horns were doing they're little spinning and such. All in all, It was pretty cool.
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#83313 - 07/02/05 08:38 AM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Last year we have 2 percussion breaks in our show. The were both awesome. We had a rack with toms and cymbals for the snares and tenors. We played a huge feature in the opener, we started off on our drums and than took them off and moved to the rack and played tons of splits and cool stuff on the rack. We also had a short one in the ballad in which we played on the rack with our drums on, that was really cool. while we do the features the rest of the band and guard are usually doing soe crazy visuals or drill.
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#83315 - 07/02/05 09:29 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 12/26/04
Loc: Cleburne, TX
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our 05 show this year is a tribute to Star Wars. We're playing The Star Wars main Title, Princess Leia's Theme. Cantina Band (the percussion piece), and the Star Wars Finale... the Cantina band music is pretty cool..I like it atleast.
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#83321 - 07/19/05 10:26 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 01/20/05
Loc: Wesson, Mississippi
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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.
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#83324 - 07/23/05 02:00 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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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.
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#83325 - 07/24/05 12:32 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 08/24/03
Loc: Cobb County, Georgia
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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
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#83326 - 07/26/05 03:24 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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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. 
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#83327 - 07/30/05 06:20 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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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.
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#83329 - 07/30/05 11:10 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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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!
Man, that is some crazy poop... seriously awesome!!!!
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#83330 - 07/31/05 01:11 AM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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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.
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#83331 - 08/07/05 04:19 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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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
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#83333 - 12/26/05 07:01 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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 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.
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#83334 - 12/27/05 01:40 AM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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since I've been in band, most of our drum features have been park 'n blow. the hornline does some crazy drill while drumline is pretty much still. as far as music goes, it's usually a very percussive piece, with band highlights. last year we did 1,2,3 by Gloria Estefan and that was bout a min and a half to 2 mins and we had 4 measures of solos for each section.
I agree....we did the exact same thing. horns do all the drills and the drumline juss stands still through the WHOLE drill. If lucky we may move up,down left or right every blue moon. Hell....its not even that...we don't even MARK TIME!
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#83335 - 12/27/05 01:39 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 09/13/05
Loc: Leonardtown, Maryland
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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
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#83337 - 01/02/06 07:38 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 11/15/05
Loc: Corona, California
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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
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#83339 - 01/03/06 03:37 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
[Re: little_wonder]
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Registered: 11/15/05
Loc: Corona, California
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im in High school too (btw)
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#83341 - 07/16/06 08:41 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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This year supposevly our drum break was going to be really crazy. My band director mentioned there being Mounted bass drums involved. He wanted to have The whole band end up in the back of the field(farthest from the box) and then have the drumline weeve through thr band. Then all i heard was that the snares were going to take off there drums at one point and play on the big mounted bass drums. But knowing our drum tech i doubt it will turn out like that. But it does sound pretty cool
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#83345 - 09/01/06 04:54 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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We do either one or two drumbreaks in our shows, usually 30 sec. to a minute a piece. Here's the fun part. Our band will put down their instruments and dance. The drumline is out front, and this is probly the most anticipated part of our shows. This year in our first show we have drumbreaks for "Hips Dont Lie" by Shakira and "Lets Get it Started" - Black Eyed Peas.
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#83346 - 09/02/06 01:50 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 08/17/05
Loc: Mandan, ND
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this year....our drumbreak is entitled "The Gauntlet" i think its something done by rowloff. it is very fun tho....its about 2 minutes long.....we do some movement, but its mostly park and blow.
Edited by MHS_Bass2 (09/02/06 01:51 PM)
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#83347 - 09/02/06 04:44 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 08/02/05
Loc: irvine, ca
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Our Show last year was La Nouba and we Had a drum Solo in the middle of "Urban" it was about 2 measures per section. we crabbed sideways during the solo and the last beat would be the last step. On the other side of the field the horns were doing they're little spinning and such. All in all, It was pretty cool.
yea, we're doing la nouba this year and our drum break is urban this year...so cool
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#83348 - 09/12/06 10:33 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 08/17/05
Loc: Mandan, ND
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I did the la nouba show last year.....i was we did "Urban" as well....but to tell you the truth, i wasnt huge fan of the drum feature in that song....the only good part was probably the snare solo..and there wasnt ever a bass drum solo, but the la nouba show as a whole, is snugglebunny of fun. we played the song "distorted" as our opener. it was awesome. i loved that song.
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#83349 - 09/13/06 10:12 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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This year, the line is doing a drum feature that has a question and answer sequence with a piccolo. Yes a piccolo. It sounds different but it really is awesome. I haven't seen or heard anything else like it. Its gonna rock.
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#83350 - 10/01/06 10:17 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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we have a whole drum solo part in our show its like 2-3 minutes long, drill all the way threw it, it sounds amazing, and the snare have this 2 measure break, then tenors then basses, it sounds great. ill have to record it sometime so yall can hear it
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#83351 - 10/02/06 12:42 AM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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This year is my school's first year to have a percussion feature, or even a fully themed show. In the show opener, the snares and tenors each get 8 measures of feature, then in the percussion feature we start at measure 40 and pretty much chill and jam. We dont have any movement yet, but we hope to make some soon.
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#83352 - 10/23/06 04:31 PM
Re: Drum breaks in shows
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Registered: 10/17/05
Loc: out there man......out there.....
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In our show this year we came up to the front, stopped and had two snare solos. After each solo they would ding an office bell. Then the whole snare line joined in and played a long roll. After that we all dinged our bells, through them, and started marching again | | | |
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