what made you want to play quads

I don't think snare just does it for me. Plus, I like how they sound, the challenge, the endless possibilities in cross-overs, scrapes, etc.. They're great. I think they fit me the best anyways. I guess after a season on them, they kind of shaped my "marching percussion image." If that makes any sense.

I haven't officially started but it has to do a lot with the sound and the image of the way they play, it's a lot more free than snares, and i like motion.

What made me want to play quads is, on 8th grade night I was in percussion so I was set to hang around with the drumline and there was this hispanic guy playing 4 drums (my knowledge of percussion wasn't much then). He was cute but they way his hands moved and sounds that he made were something that stuck with me forever. I knew I would play them someday, when I was on the drumline my freshmen year I played bass but when season ended I declared that I would play tenors since the seniors left, no one wanted to anyway. So thats how and why I wanted to play tenors

well. 9th grade when we all start marching, traditionally at my school, 1st chair plays tenors, others play snare, then the rest play bass. (9th grade is still jr high... not big focus on a clean line or anything) well... i was first chair. we had a big enough line to run tenors, so there i was. fell in love with it

at the end of my 8th grade year my band director straped a set of quads on me and said march. I have a picture of me marching tenors in a parade only days after i found out what they are...it wasnt pretty.

nearly 5 years later i am a senior, i still play tenors and i am the Captain of the Drumline.

Alyn, where are you? Get your story in, haha.

Another one for me was watching the HS tenorline. Of course in 8th grade, they're gods.

I first started playing tenors because our high school needed another person to play them in a parade. After learning out parade routine I realized they are more fun then snare or bass. I love the look and sound of them.

My freshmen yea of H.S. i tried out for snare and i made it, to bad i didnt like it lol. so sophmore year, which was about 4 years ago, i tried tenors and wow was it fun. I just practiced and practiced and till this day i love playing tenors. Too bad i don't have my own but only a tenor pad lol. I hae the XYMOX pad, i think thats how u spell it, by Murray gusseck. Preety cool.