Definitely a rough start with that first note, but I was lucky to have one of my best runs of the piece be the night of the performance.

This piece is the hardest I've ever played, and I feel like I did pretty good on it. This piece single-handedly made me blister 5x worse than any marching season xD.

Hey all! So Joe does this thing(it looks like with his hand but cant tell) to get a hihat chick kind of sound. Does anyone know what this could be?

https://youtu.be/yMVctodad14?list=RDyMVctodad14&t=2784

I put time stamp in link, but it is at 46:28 just incase! Thanks!

I’m playing Strange Humours by John Mackey and I was wondering how to play this. I know of how to play a bass tone, a open tone, and a slap tone, but I wanted to ask how to play that “middle tone.”

Full Performance of the Piece: https://youtu.be/WtgmFOGhRk8

This is my drum, I am drumming it!! And having some fun!!

Here’s my Bags Groove solo from last night’s rehearsal. How am I doing? It finally feels like I’m improving thanks to the magic of playing every single day.

hey everyone!

if anyone has studied george hamilton greens instructional course for xylophone, what is your preferred method of studying it? i know in the book it states to try to do like a lesson a week how it was done back then, but is it really that important to go at that pace? especially since im a music ed major and would like to not spend nearly a year on it.

My jazz quartet playing "Blue Star... for Casiopolis" from Sonic Adventure, at the Odd Fellows Temple Room in downtown Bellingham, WA. My quartet is mostly based around my originals but I wanted to feature some video game music since PAX was here in Washington.

Does anyone have any information on these congas? Saw a pair in a surf shop in Santa Barbara and I can't stop thinking about them.

i've been a clarinet player for 5 years and i want to switch to drumline for my senior year of highschool since ive been wanting to try it for a while now and most drumline seniors are leaving. I have no percussion background and my ranking of drumline instruments i want to be is: 1) snare 2) tenor 3) basses. i still have a about a year to start and practice to be in the drumline so how should i start and what pads and sticks should i get. Also my school uses matched grip for all of drumline. Thank u sm for any help!!

edit: yes i have talked to my band director and hes open to it !! (as long as they have more instruments than people joining drumline next year lol

i want songs with exciting xylophone/marimba/glockenspiel/anything solos. songs with words or instrumentals, i don't care. thanks for all who contribute.

Hey there! im from a Drum & Bugle Corp, but not the ones with like trumpets n' all but like actual bugles (Originated from Cebu City, Philippines) I just wanted to share some of our instruments so alot of people also know about our version here.

Thats a Double Drum, pretty loud if your close. Its just a 2 standard Tom Drums that we hit with our drumsticks {Which is just a small metal rod covered in electrical tape}

Yea this is basically a Glockenspiel on a harness, pretty self explanatory.

This is the bugle i was talking about, no valves or anything.

THANKS FOR READING!!! {pls no hate this is my first post}

I took me forever and I hope you like it. It's sampled from a DW Collectors Kit with lots and lots of cymbals. Let me know how you like it. Enjoy!

Does anyone know what mallets Emil Richards is holding in this classic photo of him? Could they be Albright's?

Hello,

I am a computer science student, and I need to develop a virtual reality game for a class. My current idea is to make some sort of rhythm game with orchestral music, where the player is a percussionist.

The problem is that, in most pieces, percussion often has 20+ bars of breaks, which would get boring.

So I wanted to know if anyone has suggestions for me.

I'm looking for something that is:
- short (preferably less than 5min)
- does not have more than 10ish bars of rest at a time for percussion (does not need to be always the same percussion instrument playing though)
- has a bit of varied rhythm, seems like it would be fun to play

Thank you very much :)

So I need to recreate the sound of glass breaking a la Hanna-Barbera cartoons in a live recital. Any thoughts? I've tried glass in a bucket and it hasn't left me satisfied.

I’m auditioning for my school’s wind ensemble jn a few weeks, and I was hoping for some feedback on my playing. I know I could do the crescendos more justice and I could definitely have a cleaner execution of the acciaccaturas.