all of the bass runs sound incredible.
Especially the quadruplet runs; sound mighty fine.

PHS Bass 4

I love playing bass drum because the basses are always the tightest section of the line because they HAVE to work together so much. It's different than playing snare and tenor. You all have to be on the same page all the time. And it's all about "the cool vibe" and once you have that, there's nothing better. It's like your own family. When everybody can just feel it and be able to play all the splits perfect. It's priceless.

Gotta love bass! I'm just in 9th grade, but our bass line is great. It's a good deal the drums, and a good deal the people. We have about 40 stories just from this one season of band, and almost all of us are marching bass for our first year (only one of us has marched a single season on bass before). And the runs, can't forget them. It's already been said a million times, but it's one of the best feelings drummers can have.

bassline is like an elite fraternity that only five people get into every year in the band. i like it because not only do you learn your part, but i have been learning everyone else's part as well. it is far more fun than snare or tenors. they get all the glory, but the basses are the ones who drive the band

I love the Bass drum becuz its really the only drum u can feel what your playing and the of course Runs

The sound when you get a good bass part with clean runs can send goosebumps to anyone. Also, its knowing you're part of a team, a team that needs you. If you take someone out of a clean snare line, it still sounds like a clean snare line. Not much difference at all. Take a bass out and it instantly sounds all choppy, even if everyone else is playing the right part.

I like bass splits :]

I think it's the coolest thing when you're the ONLY one in the whole band AND drumline playing your part. Playing bass has also taught me that counting is CRUCIAL, especially scince I play 4th, which means I hardly ever play on the downbeat

My favorite part is that it's the hardest instrument in the battery. We can play the same thing as the snares or tenors but only lower. I like it when we groove, like on of our cadances "Sector G". Plus it sounds cooler when you can do a crazy fast run on a bass line against doing a solo on a snare drum.

the splits... when you're in sync with the rest of your bass line.... you're awesome and its just so tight.. its awesome.

I've always thought that the idea of taking a melodic drum part and splitting it up between several people is really cool to me. The comraderie formed between people in the bassline, and the amazing groove a bassline can form - there's nothing else like it.

-Zach