CH Marching Band at Lord's Cricket and Beating Retreat 2010
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:57 pm
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Because we were doing moves where there was a time delay between the two halves of the band, one of the bass drummers used one stick in the air above the drum to mark the beat as well as playing. When we went to Lord's, just one bass drummer had two sticks (the blond one), who marked the beat, while the other just played what the he played. Nowadays it's only the tenor drummers who have to be from a certain house (Maine), and the drum majors (Middleton A).jhopgood wrote:Both Bass drummers seem to be using only one drum stick, yet I seem to remember them using both, and using one hand, with drum stick, to dampen down after use.
Is the use of one now common practice?
(As a trombonist, I was always directly behind the bass drummers, who in my time, were always from Barnes B)
Thanks, all clear now.Chay_z11 wrote:Because we were doing moves where there was a time delay between the two halves of the band, one of the bass drummers used one stick in the air above the drum to mark the beat as well as playing. When we went to Lord's, just one bass drummer had two sticks (the blond one), who marked the beat, while the other just played what the he played. Nowadays it's only the tenor drummers who have to be from a certain house (Maine), and the drum majors (Middleton A).jhopgood wrote:Both Bass drummers seem to be using only one drum stick, yet I seem to remember them using both, and using one hand, with drum stick, to dampen down after use.
Is the use of one now common practice?
(As a trombonist, I was always directly behind the bass drummers, who in my time, were always from Barnes B)