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Any hints and tips for a begginer to marching snare?
Drumline_Wannab


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Im from the uk and ive been drumming kit since i was 14, im now 18. ive recently in the past couple of months got into rudiments and drumline/drum corps drumming. Im realy sad coz the uk has no high school or college bands for marching or drum corps or anything so drum corps dont exsist at all. thats why ive only just got into it. I realy realy wanna learn, is there any tips or scores anyone could send me that help in any way. ive been learning basic rudiments of Vicfirth.com so i (think i might) have the basics.

the rudiments i can do succesfully are:

single stroke roll
double stroke roll
five stroke roll
seven stroke roll
nine stroke roll
thirteen stroke roll
fifteen stroke roll
seventeen stroke roll
drag
flam
flam tap
paradidle
double "
Triple"
Paradiddle-diddle

i just wanna learn properly from someone whos learnt from the begining. can anyone help?

thanx
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SBL1




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Are you still living in the UK? It's very hard to teach more advanced rudiments in a forum, but if you do a google search, you may find some good websites that have some things you're looking for.

I'd try (for starters) going to the DCI (Drum Corps International) website.
External Link From there you can follow links to individual corps sites where you may find videos and stuff.

There are some great method books available you may be able to order as well that teach some more difficult and esoteric techniques and rudiments used for drum corps.
Lee

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Drumline_Wannab


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I'm still living in the uk yeah, Could you post a list of some good books or tutorial dvd's?

thanx
Lildrummer


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how long have you been playing snare? ive been playing for about 10 years, but i cant really help you to play, all i can say is practice a lot, atleast every night, and stick to what you know, until youve perfected your technique, then go on....its alot easier to learn that way.

good luck with your shit.
pc3

and as Lee said...definitly check out google.ca, there will be tons of sights for you to choose from.
Drumline_Wannab


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im 18 now, ive been playing drumkit since i was 14 and ive only just got into snare. all the stuff i can do is listed in the first post on this thread. i practice for like an hour a night and usualy whenever i can through the day. i've been composing some little arrangements on http://webmayhem.net/drum/upload.php. its a pretty kool website for a begginer like me. but i need to practice stuff that people like you have used in the past and that will help me learn but at the same time challenge me. anything else you know would be extremely helpful.

thanx
drummer_girl


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Hi,
I've been playing the drumkit for two years now (grade 2, working on three) and im also in the UK (west london area) and interested in playing marching snare. Im probably not as skilled as you but im really interested to learn so maybe we could learn together.
KHSdrumline08


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I played marching snare last year, all I have to say is focus on the technical aspects and worry about the flashy stuff after you have the basics and technique down.

Don't play with arm, the biggest problem most set players that want to learn marching snare have is playing with arm, for everything from piano to some fortissimo, there should be NO movement in the arm, it should all be in the wrist and fingers (fingers if it's 16th notes or rolls at fast speeds)when you get anywhere above fortissimo, then there can be movement in the arms but, with my drumline, the only time we use arm is for visuals.

I don't have alot of the rudiments down, I'm 15 and have only been playing drums altogether for 5 years and I just got over myself, so I'm starting to work on it, get all the basics out of the way and marching snare will not only be alot easier and more fun, but it won't be as frustrating.... good luck.
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deltadrummer




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now those are all good things to say....

Steve





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SBL1




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I'd like to see you play a forte double stroke roll at 130 bpm, and not move your arms.

Yes, arm movement is minimized, wrist movement is maximized, but to totally "lock out" the arms ain't natural.

I played in a good snare line for 3 years in college. We USED arm movement, and had NO problems keeping uniform stick heights. It wasn't BIG arm movement unless we were playing very loudly.

I do understand that a rock n roller learning to play marching snare sometimes will go to the other extreme and lock out his wrists, using all arm. That's wrong.

My view is playing is MOSTLY in the wrists while allowing the forearms to move slightly, or "float"
Lee

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drummer_girl


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Hey drumline_wannab

go to www.marchingbands.org.uk and click on links. At the bottom you can find your county and there will be a list of youth marching bands in the area.
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