Thanx for the complement!!!
to answer your question we do use our more advanced players on snare and quints. But as time moves on the others do advance to the more difficult sections from hard to easy for us is
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oh sorry your other question...
being that show style beats doesn't take to much chops(playing skills) we do use a lot of corp style exrcises it builds our chops for the rudimental stuff and endurance for the show style
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I apologize i didn't that center snare thing till just now but since you explained it i guess we don't. Our section leader or captain i think you call it and the second in command stands on each end. this became natural to us because we use to do alot a lot of parades and we put them there to keep the lines straight

pv will hang with the blue devils......i know a couple of folks on line that can probably smoke some of the bds line.........people in showstyle have just as much chops as corp style bands....

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let me tell yall something about showstyle drumlines my boy kevin lee section leader at tsu(in Houston) got some mad crazy poop yall aint never seen well anyways show style is about getting crowd and battking see whoes the best our drumline in houston at raul yzagurrie are tied up with chavez high for best latino drumline on the southeast area yall corp style drumline aint poop yall walk boring.

I am in no way, shape, or form trying to barge in on this but I need to place my .02 on this. Do I think that Showstlye lines suck? No, just I'm not a fan of the stuff they try to pull off. Now, on the other hand. Do I think that some showstyle lines could smoke a DCI line? I seriously Doubt it, but it may happen. Now, as far as the whole marching approach, I'd like to see a showstyle band do half the stuff that the top 12 DCI corps pull off... most of the time I only see elevator drill or just boring stuff. The whole thing that attracts 3/4 of the percussionists into DCI is the chops. However, some of the drill is just as impressive as the music itself. People wish to think they are better than DCI/WGI/PASIC Snare winners? I'd actually like to see a drum off between a few of these guys on showstly snarelines and the most known rudimental Snare Drummers (Queen, Angelis, Scott Johnson, Roger Carter, Pat Fitzgibbon, heck even Scott McCoy (Hulka)) Most likely people will prefer the sweet beats and visuals of those guys than the stuff of a showstyle line. Also, I hate doing this but, learn to use correct spelling, please?

I don't think its fair to compare a school's line to a corps unless you are comparig DCI to WGI (i.e. Devs to RCC).
I only say this because of the amount of practice that is involved in one of these lines.I believe chops come from the individual, not the style they march,but you are likely to see some of the choppy stuff in corps style. I say this because it seems like corps style groups throw harder things into the actual show. Now because most showstyle groups don't do this, the chops they may actually possess are never seen/heard. But in my years of performing with showstyle groups I have never come across anyone as sick as Queen or any of the big names in drum corps.

drmmrboi6, what you're overlooking is that a lot of the better college players also march drum corps.

i am not trying to butt in but i have lived in north carolina and now in OK and i have seen my share of both styles. i think show bands are awesome and very fun to watch and some of the licks are pretty impressive. but persoally i like the core style i like the drill much better and i think the drumming ,though it may not be a "fun and bouncing" beat, is very impressive and awesome to watch.
and in no way am i trying to rag on show bands. half of the stuff they do is awesome also to watch and not all show bnds have bad drill it is just some of the show bands that i have seen in the past. i would not mind marching a show band just to see and lean what band is like from their point of view.
(this is just my opinion)

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im a drummer looking to go into srum corps next summer. i auditioned at a show style band and it was heavily rudimentary drumming. i was grilled. i still made a perfect score on my audition though. i dont know about other show style bands but mine is rudiments rudiments rudiments, and some hybrids!!! p.s. i came from a corps still band in h.s.