Dropping by to say I'm a drummer.
Anyone know an active community of Marching drummers who aren't in high school anymore?

aah thanks, now I have something to kill my time with.
But like the article there said, community bands. I'm interested in looking for one, or at least a school band that's looking for a volunteer assistant with drumlines.

^I read an ad for rockschool malaysia somewhere, but that was quite awhile back. If i can find it i'll post some details.
But just my 2 cents on drumming, you don't really need the classes more than basics unless you plan to read music scores. It's useful playing in a concert band, but that's about it. Not many drummers ever need to read music.
For me, I spent 1 month learning the basics then i quit classes. Since then I just spent alot of time playing along to famous songs, etc etc, until I reached the point when I had a certain unique style and feel for the drums. It develops over time.
Lately I've been learning more technique than anything else. When you have technique right, everything seems easier to play.

Just my two cents

I've always been a firm supporter of creativity instead of reading music. like led_zep said, playing as a score tells you makes it seem very much mechanical. I prefer having the freedom to ad little licks and tricks her and there without getting yelled at for it for it.

But then again, the ability to read music comes in equally as important when playing an actual written score, as in concert band music/jazz music.

@Chuck==> I didn't mean to underrate it, man. I was just trying to say that it is a useful ability to have, but if you're playing in a live band (usually rock), there is no space and time to read music onstage. No hard feelings tho

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Added on November 3, 2007, 1:42 amokay, so i found the ad for the "rockschool malaysia" thing, but it turns out it's called Rock CITY School, Malaysia. Potong stim abit la, but the names are close, which is why i thought they were the same.

Anyways, here's the link to their website/blogspot, so you an the details off it if you're interested.

http://rockcityschool.blogspot.com/

This post has been edited by liew90kw: Nov 3 2007, 01:42 AM

^drumming has its ups and downs in progressing. I got stuck at the same level for say.... 15 months before i actually started getting better. It happens every now and then when you run out of new things to learn. Widen your music selection, it usually helps some.

lol now that, i didn't notice.
But if they have another 50 hours of drumming, I'm thinking of joining.

try playing with BIG sticks people. It's a lot of fun
Especially on the cowbell and cymbals.

This post has been edited by liew90kw: Nov 7 2007, 09:44 PM

oh btw, i heard the 50 hours drumming thing was actually open to the public to join in. If they have another who wants to go?

marching snare/concert snare FTW!

@p2dm: it's probably personal preference, again? Some prefer to try play the song as close to the original recording as possible. Some prefer to wing it and just personalize the song it it has that "flavor" of them in it, if you get what i mean.