What do you guys play?

[V]

I was wondering, what does everyone play in marching band?

I played snare my first year, and have played bass for 3 years now.

[Redeye]

snare in outdoor every year from freshman-junior... snare in indoor from freshman-sophmore... had to march tenors in indoor for my junior year. Back to snare now :)

[Jetpoweredface]

Marched snare and bottom bass freshman. I'm full time tenor now. As you can see from my sig. We have two batteries. One for parade, and one for competition. The parade includes all percussion, and the competition (comp) includes a pit.

[Tommyboy79]

Snare all the way!

[Talon]

Tenors all four years. And a blessed four years it was.

[gregthe1000]

I play Sousaphone (marching tuba). lol, does my instrument apply to this thread?

[V]

I play Sousaphone (marching tuba). lol, does my instrument apply to this thread?
No. :D

[fhdrumline]

snare freshman year,
tenors sophomore year,
and now for junior year, tenors and DRUM CAPITAN!
helllll yeahhhh

[devildrums555]

Check the siggy!


I can't do marching band my senior year though. :( I've got some half credits to make up... Stupid switch from a block schedule to a standard schedule has caused me some grief. But I'm still gonna watchover, and help out where I can at rehearsals and stuff. And hopefully I'm gonna go to Yamaha Sounds of Summer with my school as well. But my BD said I would easily be marching snare if I would be in it.

[AJH123]

I played cymbals last year (freshman), and this year im on bass.

[xfyre]

Stupid switch from a block schedule to a standard schedule has caused me some grief.

i love block scheduling: it gives me less classes in one day. lol

well, in Marching band/Symphonic Band/Wind Ensemble/Jazz band/Pep band i play alto sax.

for Indoor i played cymbals my freshman year and this year (sophomore) i played snare. but we also made the switch from moving to standstill, which sucked. nobody really liked standstill this year, but it was better than nothing.

[Fuzzy Rocker]

Snare all the way.

[RHS Drumline]

Bass(8) Snare(9-11) I'm currently Captain as a junior. O, and 1st 8th grader to make high school Drum line!

[timdrums08]

Bass drum for life

[JimiThing]

bottom bass freshman year, tenor captain this year!
hells yeah.

[emmyemmyjojo]

tenors, used to play bass back in middle school then found this contraption of 5 drums and fell in love, haha.

[vicfirthrules10]

i was asked to play in 8th grade but i didn't want to since it was the first year of our high school in competition. i now wish i did. it would have been fun. well anyway.

i played top bass freshman year. would have been on snare but the kid playing top bass quit so i moved to bass. sophomore year played snare for both outdoor and indoor. junior year playing snare for both outdoor and indoor hopefully. we march 3 tenors, possibly 5 snare but we only have 4 drums right now so don't know, and will march 5 basses hopefully forever now. in my freshman year we marched 2 tenors, 3 snares and 4 basses.

[GDrums]

I was invited to play in indoor 8th grade, so I was in pit then. I jumped to the snare line when I went into my freshman year of high school, and am now looking at another 3 years of snare.

[CharacterZer0]

Freshman Year-2nd Bass.....Sophomore Year-Snare.....Junior Year-Center Snare/Drum Captain

[candy_man72370]

Our school is tiny so we start marching in the 7th grade. I was in the pit for 7-8 but have been playing tenors since 9th and I'm going into my junior year now. New band director and new hopes.

[DrummerRobbie22]

I played snare my freshman year, cymbals my sophomore year ( joys of a my director that had no clue what he was doing with the drumline), 1st bass my junior year and snare/drumline captain my senior year. Graduated last year and I already miss it.

[LudwigSabianVater]

First year in Marching.

Third bass, Can't wait till next year, Open snare spot.

[bmandrummer25]

2nd bass as a freshman

snare this year

[drummerboy93]

Marimba Lol.

[GhostXNote]

Im on snare this year.... i want to be on bassdrum but all the noobies took it =/

[vaterflip]

Trumpet. They no want me for drums because i never play before.

As my good friend gregthe1000 said, do i apply to this thread :p .

[Dylan_drummerforpuyp]

Read teh siggy :D

[XThumper32X]

When i started I was in middle school b/c i was good enough to be in marching band, a few of us were. anyway i played marimba. then the next year bass. then all through high school I played Tenors. I miss my tenors :(

[devildrums555]

Check the siggy!


I can't do marching band my senior year though. :( I've got some half credits to make up... Stupid switch from a block schedule to a standard schedule has caused me some grief. But I'm still gonna watchover, and help out where I can at rehearsals and stuff. And hopefully I'm gonna go to Yamaha Sounds of Summer with my school as well. But my BD said I would easily be marching snare if I would be in it.
Plot twist: BD wanted some help in pit cause it's all freshman who haven't much percussive experience. That's unfortunate in itself that all the talent goes into the line, but I'm gonna be the squad leader of the pit and play marimba. So I do get to do band. :D

[ebuzzcut]

I'm playing snare my first two years. Thing I will stick with it, and not move up to quints. This year, our drum instructor is going to write all the parts! Also, he rewrote the cadence this year.

[Doriguin]

Snare

[Crane]

Freshman-Bells in pit
Sophmore-Bass
Junior-Tenors

I love the tenors, but we were short on people, so my new bd put a freshman who normally plays bass clarinet on second tenors.
He plays really loud and pretty bad, it would have been better if he played something else.

[Jeffrey.]

fresh - snare
soph - snare
next year I'll be center/captain.
next comp in a few weeks i'm making some in lot vids for finals. I can't wait to show you guys my line!

[btd09]

^sweet

Freshman - Snare
Sophomore - Snare
Junior - Tenors (argh)
Senior - Snare
Drumline section leader for all 4 years.

[GMaiolo]

freshman year- snare
sophomore year- snare (drum captain)
junior year- snare (drum captain)
senior year- snare (drum captain)

[The Dorian]

Trombone.

[V]

Trombone.
lol

[OCHSdrummer12]

tenors Represent!!

[davidrums]

Marimba Lol.


Im not the only one :cool:

unless you were kidding.... 00**

[Drum Bum]

Freshman- Cymbals

Sophmore- Pit :( (but we went to grand nationals so it was worth while)

Junior - Tennors (hopefuly)

[Mr. Hadouken]

9th grade: Front ensemble
10th grade: 2nd bass, and 2nd bass for indoor
11th grade: 1st bass, also marched 2nd bass in DCA's Carolina Gold
12th grade:Snare, drumline captain.

went to a community college but got to march at University, I marched tenors there.

The next year I taught front ensemble.

And this year I'm teaching The Battery.

[timdrums08]

Freshman year pit
10-12 Bass and Bass captain
Marched for GMU for a bit, but had to drop off before their competitive season started :(
Dunno if I'll march again, too much time and I want to focus on drumset

[nofo955]

Freshman: Most likely snare :D

[zackbr2000]

Marched snare and tenors in high school...
Currently marching bass 2 at University of Nebraska; GO HUSKERS!!!
I am a sophomore.

[ryder1337]

Came late to the program, so I'm playing bass, I come up with all of the parts to all of our cadences though. Lawl.
We march 1 bass, 2 snares, 1 tenor.

[zackbr2000]

Im on snare this year.... i want to be on bassdrum but all the noobies took it =/

Yes!!! It is hard to find people who are aware and appreciate the fact that playing in a bass line is harder and more musically challenging than playing snare drum. :D ...I <3 Bass Drums

[devildrums555]

Yes!!! It is hard to find people who are aware and appreciate the fact that playing in a bass line is harder and more musically challenging than playing snare drum. :D ...I <3 Bass Drums

Sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I love bass and I very well be a life-long top-mid bass drummer, but it's not always as hard or harder than snare or tenors or pit or anything. All the aspects of the line have hard as well as less challenging writing.

[OCHSdrummer12]

Freshman & sophomore tenors.

[cubine]

Played snare since sophomore year, just finished up marching season of senior year. We're a 10-11-12 high school.

[j031]

bass middle school
3rd bass feshman
4th bass sophmore
snare junior
main snare senior

:D

i decided not to join the SDSU Drumline after i graduated :\