I just got back from the biggest marching percussion clinic in the U.S. and we had 7 girls out of 140 people total there, and I have one thing to say, 5 out of the 7 girls there could kick my butt in drumming. They were awesome.

A lot of the time girl drummers are really freakin' hot! So, I say if they can cut it (or if they are really freakin' hot) let them march. Just kidding. If a girl can outplay anybody on the battery, let them march. They don't HAVE to be really freakin' hot... but if they are, that's ok too!

this year we have 3 girls on the line. thats the most our school has ever had, before that all of the guys marched and all of the girls were in pit.

Girl or guy, if you can play, you should play. That's common sense, but I have a question. Let's say you have a girl that can play the part, but she doesn't have the control, stick heights, or sound that a guy has (or the rest of the line). They both can play the try-out parts. Which one do you let play? Just curious on what y'all think.

Whoever plays it best should get it.

The battery at my current school has 2 girls on snare. One is in 8th, one in 9th. I have no problems with girls being on drumline. We had a female section leader last year, and she was a damn good 3rd bass. But both of these girls are terrible. Our director is only letting them play on 2 of our 4 songs and for good reason. It's ridiculous that we have 4 snares anyway, as they overpower the 4 basses, the cymbals, and me on tenors. Neither of them can stay in step. So what I'm trying to say is, yes girls should be allowed to tryout, however, they shouldn't be let on just because they're girls, as in to prove a point.

This sounds to me like sort of a civil rights thing going on. I agree 1000 percent that girls should be allowed on the line (maybe with the exception of tenors because generally girls have weaker backs than guys, but there are exceptions. I'm talking about long-term issues which will not be very fun, like surgery and stuff like that. It's happened at our school) . Our top three basses are girls, and they all have insane chops. But, on the other hand, like LTownRaiders said, this should not be over-done, like what is happening in America today. Yes, it's happening in the media and at school. But, girls should not automatically make the line because they are girls. Even if they are hot. Anyway, tell someone if someone else is treating you sexistly. Is sexistly is a word?????

i was the first girl now we have 3 total. we're a interesting bunch

I don't see why it would matter very much what sex they were, I just care how well they play, but usually, guys have more mussle(I dont know how to spell it), though that really doesn't matter if they don't control it, and girls have mad flexibility issues. This one chick I saw who was a center snare in one of the lines we played against tapped off with her left hand, and her wrist bent the stick back like...wow! It was like at this angle: \, and she barely moved her elbow. I consider that an major advantage for girls, along with the hotness thing.The only problem is that, in my experience, all the chicks in our lines downplay themself too much, and tell themselves that they are worse than everyone else because of issues like not playing though the head, and insted of working their musles so they could, they went home and worked on memorizing music that they had already memorized perfectly. Exept for the one chick on the tenor line. We tenors know we're good .