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.

I played bass for two years and before my junior year my instrutor came to me and commanded me to play tenors. You just don't say no to that woman.

I just loved the rhythmic and melodic possibilities.

The idea of playing the harmonic and medlodic set of the drumlines. The Ritualistic Idea that the bass holds it all together, and the Snares add the accents is what got me into it all... but it was the melodic groove that the Multi-Tenors created.. It is what made the chart musical... It is what makes a Cadence flavorful. The snare was fun until it got too boring.. There was only one sound.. two max if wanted.(Unless you have Dynasty. Then it's three.) With Multi-tenors there are endless possibilities.. a hit, center-hit, rim shot, gawk, ping shot. All are different sounds on all differents drums and could all be used in different ways to make one peice of music change into a completely different sound... That is why I chose Tenors...

Nicely said 4drum.

Thank you.

What made me want to play tenor drum, tom-toms, trios, quads, quints, sextets was the sound for one. At the first DCI show I went to, I saw the SCVanguard warm up and they played Double Beat 2004 (for this was in 2004), and the quad parts just moved me. Also I like they way they look when they're on a stand. (?)

Well...what 4drum said It's more challenging for me. I'm still learning big time. I started playing tenors in 2005. I played toms before that, but it was a totaly different style, very not drumcorps stylish. Our band switched to drumcorps style, and they wanted to have tenors too. I saw a lot of drumcorps stuff, and tenors have always been my favorite. It's a great instrument to play, without it...drumlines are just not fun :P

My reasons were mostly the same as others. Endless possibillities with scraps (err scrapes as posted below lol), and pretty much watching other great tenor players/DCI lines play with such composure.

I never wanted endless scraps. I got enough junk at my house as it is. I did like the idea of scrapes though.

idk, i saw some kid start to play them in middle school, and i was like, "can i play those?" and they said sure, so i played the tenors, and i loved it, and they replaced the other guy with me, lol

Hahaha. They replaced him with you? Wow. That's almost...sad. Haha. Good job, man.

Because I freakin love 'em! Can't get enough. Unlike snare, the possiblilities are just endless. ANYTHING you can do on snare, you can do on quads. BUT you can do it on 5 more drums!

I really didn't choose tenors. My line was all messed up cause we had someone not in band join and someone quit. I sorta got stuck with quads, but I was fine with it. I really like the tenors. I might have to play snare next year but I'd rather play tenors.

the reason i started playing was when i was in middle school, the high school quad player SUCKED. he couldn't do a crossover to save his life. so during the summer between middle school and freshman year i practiced my butt off. when tryouts came around i knew all the music by heart and was confident that i would get the spot. i made it for quads. since than we have had two guad players. ive taught two out of the three other quad players to play. now im the dumline sectron leader and lead quad player.

When I was in 6th grade we had 2 snare drummers and 2 tenor players that marched corps, and I used to sit around the music dept and watch those dudes play. one of the tenor players was the tenor section leader at Troopers back in the 90's. being so young and watching someone play like that just made me want to hop on the drums. Then I saw BD at a local show in '99.............after seeing those dudes drum.........it was on.

I couldn't play traditional.

I like being able to play some kind of melody. I also like the challenge of having 5 or 6 drums vs one.

when i was in 8th grade our band had marching competition and so i thought they would be fun to play ever since i have been addicticted to playing them i have developed my skills enough that as a freshman in high school i have played in college drumlines and i the first freshman to play the quints at my school!

there difficulty, there fun to play and the verity of sound they give off

watching our highschool line play. plus my friend was the first girl to ever make our high school quad line. (hopefully I will be number two )

what made me wanna play quads eh? i always thought snare was kick butt but i saw blue devils's tenor line on a DCI tape my friend had. i was blown away. therefore, i now play quads.

I sat down one day and figured that snare is only one drum, but quads is 5/6....more drums=more fun. plus i stank at traditional grip, so it all worked out.

I've wanted to play the tenors ever since the first time i saw a drumline. The more complex rythems, the fact that there is more than one pitch, and the difficulty is something i always strived to be on top of. after a couple years of playing them, I now enjoy every minute i spend with the tenors when I'm with my drumline.

my instructor put me there, and now i live by the Quad.

My band director pretty much told me straight up in 8th grade that I would be on tenors my freshmen year. Loved it, so I played them all through high school.

In 8th grade we had a marching competition and noboby wanted to play the quints so i decided to play them...Later that month/year i became addictted to them and now i play them in high school as a freshman which is like a broken law at my school.

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I started out playing drumset, and as i became more and more fascinated with drums i had a hunger to learn them all! So with the help of my private teacher i dove into the marching world. When i first saw a drumline (Blue Devils of course), i loved the mere look of a 4 man tenor line presenting themselves like champions and moving so fast and playing so steady. That day, a quad drummer was born in me.

I honestly really don't know what made me want to pay quads. (Technically quints, but no one calls them that at our school.) It was a very gradual change. I was always one of the snare guys, striving for that. But tenors just looked... better. I could only find one thing that I hated. They looked heavy. I guess I'll get to find out in May, if all goes well.

lets see..... in 7th grade, my band director pulled them off of a shelf and said, "This is the note that goes to this drum..... (etc.) Play it!" when i went home that day i tried my hardest to learn all of the stands music while learning how to play them. after that i fell in love with the instrument and had no interest in anything else. +++ i hate traditional grip.

In 8th grade in my middle school my band director bought a set of marching percussion cause we did many local parades. Everyone in the band wanted to play snare and bass, but there was this one drum that consisted of 5 drums and from that point on after I chose that drum...I've been addicted!

*Tenor Love*

I've wanted to play those since I was a little kid. They were always the coolest instrument at the football games! It's pretty cool to be playing the same cadence that I've been listening to for over a decade.

when i first joined field band i saw the two kids playing tenors and watching the scrapes and all the cool things you can do with more than one drum i think is what made me want to play

I just remember hearing some great licks at a DCI show in Baton Rouge when I was in 6th grade and just decided that's what I want to do.

yeah i grew up listening to tenors from my older bro so it just clicked

take it from some one who plays both snare and tenors snare takes a lot more muscle and chops to pull off but tenors take much more accuracy i love them both for different reasons, but i do play snare for my corps

i chose them cause everything just flows and the combinations of different rudiments, grooves, or whatever are just endless to me..

I like teh way they sound.

Basically I was put on the tenors because the drumline i'm on runs by who has been marching longest.

I wanted to play tenors when I saw DCI for the first time last year. I was enthralled by the musicality of tenors and started trying to learn some of our cadences on them. I currently play tenors in our drumline and I am entirely gratified to be playing them.

Although I'm a snare player now I began my Drum Corps Career on tenors. As to what inspired me? The first show I ever saw was Cavaliers 2000. Enough said.

When I was a Freshman in HS, I played bass. Bass has its tough spots but I wanted more of a challenge. I was interested with tenor since I thought of it as more of a logical challenge rather a rudimentary one. I tried it and I was hooked and ever since then, thats what I've been playing.

On a tag day to raise money, before the season and drumline auditions, I was pretty muched volunteered to play tenors due to the lack there of. I was in pit the previous season and had no idea what I was getting into. I had originally wanted to march 4th Bass but from then on I was in love with the quads.

Ha, I was inspired the first time I ever saw my school's band. I had no interest in band, but I saw the guy marching them, and I thought, "I don't know what the hell those are, but I really freaking wanna play them!".

So, here I am playing them now. Life is good.