Man, my director is the biggest b***H in the world...to me anyways. She doesn't like it when I practice by myself afterschool, and everytime I do she says, "well, thats fine but if you break a head during this your paying for the new one." Man that pisses me off, but I know that I'm not paying for a new head for PRACTICING...something the rest of my line should think about doing.<P>------------------<BR>Jerek<BR>PCN Drumline<BR>OSU Drumline

That sucks about your director. I can see if you break a head horsing around or something, but practicing? That just really sucks. She should encourage people to practice, not threaten them when they do.<P>------------------<BR>Webmaster, Drumlines.org<BR>AIM: Drumlines

My director loves it when I practice! He thinks I'm a tenor god. But I'm not. I'm not really all that good. I've only been playing tenors for 3 years. Everybody else at my school hatets it when I practice after school though. They say it's really annoying. Anyways, I have the same problem as you tenors2004. My drumline doesn't practice by themselves either, except for 2 people. And one of them is not my tenor buddy (the other tenors player). My instructor finally told him, "If you don't know the music and marching by next week, you don't march in the last show." We are two competitions into the season and he still doesn't know it. I'm hoping this will encourage him to practice and have it by next week. I don't think he will though.<P>------------------<BR>TENORS RULE!!!

Hey, I was curious - here's a question for all of you Vic Firth MT1A mallet users: After playing the mallet for more than a month or so, do yours crack at the bottom of the handle molding, allowing the grip surface to slide up and down the mallet? If this is an intrinsic problem, why hasn't Vic Firth come out with a more durable gripping surface? Just wondering... [img]http://www.drumlines.org/ubb/smilies/cwm6.gif[/img] <P>Hehe, the blue guy is looking at the yellow guy like he is the town drunk...<p>[This message has been edited by DrummerBoy2001 (edited 10-25-2000).]

yep...MT1As have had that problem for as long as I have known anything about them. As far as why they dont fix it..who knows. Of course if you ask that you can also get into question like...why do Pro-mark sticks continue to suck?...and why doesnt Premier buy back all their tenors and start a second eternal flame?<P> any others to add?

My MT1A's do that too. And it pisses me off. The only way i can think to fix it without buying a new pair is just to put a little piece of tape all the way around under the handle. But then there's a little lump where the tape is that really bothers me too. But I've never tried any other tenors sticks but MT1A's. So that's why I'm sticking with 'em.<P>------------------<BR>TENORS RULE!!!

ok, about the practicing thing... i dont really practice, but i like to noodle around and play some things to build my chops, and even it were the show music my director would be pissed, its freakin annoying cuz hes like "this isnt the time and place to practice, rehearsal is the time" and like after a rehearsal, if he 'finishes early' and the pit wants to do a final run through to make sure we remember everything, he'll say "no, this is a rest for your brain as well as your ears" how freaking STUPID is that? grrr i get pissed off just thinking about my director. oh well, moving on...<P>i use mt1a's and i experience the same grip problem. but i dont see a big problem in it, sometime if they are broken in enough, hold the mallet by the head and flick the rubber part off, its fun to hit people with em, they hurt too. also, to fix it you can put tape underneath the rubber grip and the friction between the two usually keep each other in place until the grip stretches, or splits(ive played with 3 pairs of these mallets, only one of the 6 mallets actually split in the grip almost halfway up) <P> [img]http://www.drumlines.org/ubb/smilies/cwm35.gif[/img] <P><BR>oh yea, add remo drums to the pile of 'suckage' along with those plastic spoon and fork things, i call em "sporks" they suck as well.<P>------------------<BR>-Kevin<BR><B>NHS Percussion</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.drumlines.org/nhsdrums" TARGET=_blank>www.drumlines.org/nhsdrums</A> <BR> punk@drumlines.org <p>[This message has been edited by kevin_nhs (edited 10-25-2000).]

Add American Drum too. I think I am gonna make a suckage list of the things that suck the worst in order. Oh yea has anyone seen the pro-mark bumper stickers? U know the ones chevy makes with the little dude p!ssing on the ford logo, well I guess VF or someone made this one where a guy is p!ssing on the Pro-Mark logo - our section leader has one, it's cool

i want one of those..........thats pretty funny. drummer humor. no one else on the road would get it.<P>anyway, the grippy thing happens to my mallets too. you just gotta deal. maybe if they made the grippers a little more efficiently..........but whatever. like evryone has said (i just wanna say it to second their opinions) a little black tape will normally suffice. and you can always superglue the grip onto the mallet if it starts sliding up and down. Just pull it off, stick in the glue and re-insert. pull, stick, insert. haha. ill shut up now. anyway, about the glue. it works. and black electrical tape is the best fix for the torn grips.

Kevin. . .no way man. Sporks rule!!! Monkey man uses sporks all the time. He uses them to scoop out his bananas and eat them. But he calls them Foons, not Sporks.<P> <P>------------------<BR>Webmaster, Drumlines.org<BR>AIM: Drumlines<p>[This message has been edited by Webmaster (edited 10-26-2000).]