Drumline Exercises/Sideline Cadences

Does anyone have any warm-ups or sideline cadences that are pretty cool? I'm looking towards building a killer line for next year and I want to start ASAP.

Thanks.

If you have five basses (or can make work with four), try Boogie Down for a cadence. The Cavaliers used this for a street beat, along with Iowa (the song not the state) back in the day. Another good one is Imagination, Cavies did this one also, must of had a thing for Al Jarreau back in the 80's. If your looking for sheets on these tunes, you may want to get in touch with the Cavaliers.

When do you start practising for the season?

I'm going to start running sectionals at my house with pads without my director knowing about since he wants to wait until the end of the concert season. So to answer your question, as soon as I have some good exercises. Last years are just too easy, and won't build up anything.

C'mon, someone's got to have been a section leader at some time? Any cadences?

give this site a shot, dig a little and you can find some warm-ups and beat stuff that is not too bad

http://bands.okstate.edu/percussion/

lemme know what you think:)

Eh, its alright, I found one thing we can use. Thanks for the help.

What are you going to use?

I tried this thing martian mambo, maybe we can work on it and figure it out. The Cavies are hard to get in contact with, they don't really appreciate people trying to get music out of them, it's almost like I'm a spy or something for the Blue Devils. I'll keep searching, if you have any that your line used, let me know. Thanks.

Martian Mambo, It's cool you want to tackle that one. Santa Clara used to kick that one pretty well. Get that one down and your line will have a good grip on 13/8.

http://tapspace.com/sounds/mmambo.mp3

Cool excersize or "Parking Lot Etude" as they call it.

Martian is pretty cool, most of the other stuff is just building on what you probably already know, after all, they are just exercises. Let me know if you come up with anything else that trips your trigger, I'd like to check it out.

-- Liverneck -- one of our old section leaders played with SCV

hence the mambo tie-in

I wrote a whole lot of warm ups and cadences my junior and senior years in High school when I was drum corps captain. My old high school still uses them today!!

If you want, I will score a few of them and mail them to you. Just send me an email to jeffery_simms@bootbox.net with your address if you want them. Also, give me some idea of what instrumentation you are working with, and I will score for it, i.e 3, 4, or 5 bass drums, quads or quints, etc. Also, tell me what your strengths are, and I will send some that cater to your strengths. I mean for instance if you have a great bass line, I have a killer bass drum cadence, but the line has to be very good.

We used to do that one at North Texas.

By the way, is this your school?

Can you actually download charts on this site? If so, where are they? If not, where are the mp3s?

JSimms, yes that is our school.

88fingers, click on audition 2003, thats where there is a little stuff. Otherwise, go down on the left bar under marching percussion and click on past music. That should help you out.

Cool, I was curious.