ok..so my high school is a straight corps style band and we only have a few cadences all which are all straight repeated patterns over and over again. we have one that has different "secitons". whenever we are at football games with the traditional bands we always get beat by their drumlines because they have long cadences with a show style to them.

Does anyone else experience that in their schools and if so what can we, my line, do to improve and work on more cadences that are cool but simle enough to learn while still perfecting a show?

Dang dude, Florida? Are you sure your not from Dixie Hollins?
My drumline is exactly like this.

Take things into your own hands and write your drumline's cadences. Or check out the cadences on here. I know that's the most obvious answer out there, but there you go.

So you're wanting cadences so you can beat show style lines in a drumoff after football games? Seriously, what's the point of that? I have never understood post game drumoffs. Let each line do things their way and be happy with that.

the audience, and frankly the football players like stuff like that. the point of marching band is to entertain. a cadence like that just doesn't do it (reapeating patterns). My school has 1 cadence, just about 2 reapeating patterns that fit together. By" getting beat by other drumlines" usually means that they have more cadences with a better groove/beat, while Sportam's school has a few with just repeating patterns, and just very little "good" groove and beat. I doubt he is talking about post game, just people in the stands, and the band, just likeing the other drumline better.

This is also a way to encourage elementary and ,iddle school students to join the band. I have serveral freinds that quit band because of what the band plays, and how , bad i guess you say, the cadences were.

Isnt that backwards?

Ive always known show bands to have repeating cadences, as corps usually have hte long cadences

We do have one cadence at my school, about 2 minutes long, not relly repeating, but everything else is repeating (show band)

But dont even worry about the drumline battle stuff, its pointless, and if your going up against a show band, im sure its top-class disrespect, but if you want a new cadence or two, the best way, just to sit down, and start making stuff up with the line, the best cadences seem to be written when your not planning on it

Just sit down, play around, and get the creative juices going, itll work

I'm not reffering to post game i am refering to durring the game in the stands. my school has many stands tunes but our drumline only has a few repeating cadences. i have tried to take things into my own hands but me being only a freshman this year no one will listen to me. should i just leave it alone and wait till im a junior or so.

***MY BAD, I DIDN'T MEAN TO ASK FOR MUSIC! I READ THE RULES AND I AGREED TO THEM WHEN I REGISTERED. CLEARLY I KNOW BETTER!!!

Dude. You are like the ultimate clone of me. And you just happen to live in Florida too.

Our cadences are boring and repetitive. Yeah, they're groovy and fun, but were not technical at all and we get beat by drumlines everywhere.

Also I was a freshman this year, and I wanted to step up so bad, but no one would listen to me. Once your a sophmore and a veteran, people will listen to you.

I dont know where you are from but here in Texas show drumlines dont play repeating parts it actually pretty technical for the most part and VERY ENTERTAINING. And I need you to help me understand what you meant by saying it was a show band top-class disrespect. What does that mean, help me with that before I make my next point??

Ok, one, Im going to say this now, My band is northern show style, to get that out of the way, but speaking by what I know as show style, and from every other band around here that is show style, ive found that most of hte bands usually run a good few measures of repeating lines, usually nothing hard, nothing harder then a complex 16th note accent pattern

In between the little sets of measures, there seems to be solos, well, not really solos, but more like, a fill on a drumset?


What I mean by the disrespect bit, I havnt found a "drum off/drum battle" whatever to be respectful yet, for example, last year, My drumline used to battle all the time (im a freshman) their "battle" cadences involved having a ton of things, such as the snares holding their sticks like guns, and shooting the other team, or having a vocal break where they call the other drumline "b**ches" and random other stuff like that, I wouldnt mind a drum battle, if they would play through a serious cadence, no stupid visuals like your "doggin" the other line, and then get a reply

In fact, around here, and where weve gone throughout ohio, the show bands seem to be the bands, that do nothing but talk amongst themselfs and talk about how bad your band is, as you march in on clicks, random things like that, the same bands that get in fights at halftime, or the same bands that sit there and yell insults from across the feild, thats what I mean by top-class disrespect