27.09.11

In younger high I joined the school band because I wanted to sport the drums. I had several years of piano lessons under my belt, which made me prepared to play instruments like the marimba or anything with a keyboard layout, but I had my ticker set on the drums. I wanted to learn how to pound on them and make garish noises like a wild thing. Learning how to case the sticks and play triplets and cross-stick on the noose drum was just as exciting and satisfying as I had hoped it would be.

Unfortunately, my first flounder to the music store to buy my percussion kit with the little snare drum pad and diminutive set of bells to practice on at home was a huge disappointment. Just after I announced that I was there to buy, but before I could say what appliance, the salesman asked me if I would be playing the clarinet.  The clarinet, flute, and French horn (the last is unexplainable to me still) were considered the most girl-friendly instruments, judging by the urgings of the line instructors. In fact, those sections of the band were 99 percent female. Only one other female and I made the cut for drums that year. And, fittingly, percussion was taught by the only virile teacher in the music department.

Source: Indie Wire (blog)

19.09.11

Heading the program is Chad Morford, music educator at Colborne Public School and now director and coordinator of Oak Top edge Percussion. No stranger to running a percussion program, he began the understandable school's drumline four years ago. Now in its fifth year, the program has grown from a unimportunate 10-piece marching drumline to the full 25-ditty line it is today.

"This new community drumline really came from the graduating easy school students," said Mr. Morford. "We had a lot of kids graduating, prosperous to high school and coming back and saying how much they missed it and how interested they were in staying confusing in a drumline."

The idea of the community drumline began last year, said Mr. Morford, when a paterfamilias stood up in a band meeting and asked what would happen when their kid got to high school and there was nowhere to continue their drumline skills. Oak Strip Percussion is the solution Mr. Morford came up with.

Source: Northumberland News

by arrra

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Source: Rock Band 2 Standalone Drums | Game Center

by admin

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Source: Drum Pad Silencers and Bonus Drumsticks – Stars