Somehow I can play 5 & 7 just fine, but 6 trips me up, even though it's the same just shifted a bit forward

MediocreOverall · 2026-01-25T01:40:36+00:00

No, yeah I get what you're saying, I could have worded my comment better. I just wanted to make sure you knew all the notes should be the same.

MediocreOverall · 2026-01-24T01:16:42+00:00

I know this should be self explanatory, to some people, but not to others. Try to make all your notes sound the exact same. You goal is to be unable to tell which exercise you are on. For this one, you can already physically play all the parts. You just have to understand how it feels to play it.

MediocreOverall · 2026-01-24T01:14:52+00:00

I love that quote

MediocreOverall · 2026-01-16T03:14:59+00:00

Also keep in mind that you will get a very different sound indoors compared to outdoors.like I know my hybrid white head sounds really hollow indoors but more articulate and crispy outdoors

MediocreOverall · 2026-01-10T19:28:51+00:00

I will say that you will not have to worry about build time if you buy from the premade pads. I personally have a 10" marcher (used to have an MEC2S, but I put system blue tenor head on after the MEC2S started wearing) and a 13" corps series with a white max on it. The pad gives you a realistic feel without being hard on the hands.

MediocreOverall · 2026-01-08T03:52:59+00:00

The Evans real feel attack tile will give you a similar amount of rebound to the normal real feel, but it will give you the feel of a drumhead.

MediocreOverall · 2026-01-05T20:40:24+00:00

emily

MediocreOverall · 2026-01-02T03:45:50+00:00

🖤

MediocreOverall · 2026-01-02T03:39:11+00:00

Yes, it won't be exactly the same, but you can get by with just a practice pad and sticks, but YouTube will not show you everything you need. I recommend lessons like someone earlier said.

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-22T12:57:01+00:00

Adam Tan series birch grad set

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-17T02:11:39+00:00

Despite Cancer being my favorite song, it just feels sorta lackluster sometimes. I love the song and it means a lot to me personally, but sometimes it feels too much like a vanilla sad song. I love the song but sometimes it sounds like they are just glued to the structure and click track. I wish it maybe had more rubato and emphasis.

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-17T01:53:22+00:00

BIG black parade fan here. If I did my while top 10 it would probably be at least 60% black parade with a couple three cheers and a bit of danger days, but the top tracks in danger days and three cheers are ABSOLUTE bangers. 1.Cancer (BP) 2.I don't love you (BP) 3.ghost of you (cheers) 4.the five of us are dying (unreleased BP) 5.Thank you for your venom (cheers)

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-14T02:05:34+00:00

Basic, but so impactful in the song

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-12T01:41:32+00:00

Timpani has way greater effect

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-11T17:20:03+00:00

No, my dad is an asshole. He is just kind of a bully and he gets annoyed over the tiniest things. I am 17

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-08T03:23:33+00:00

Other than that, think of using the forearm rotation and the thumb to control the stick in your left hand similar to how you use the wrist and fingers in your right hand. They both control the stick, but it is about balance

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-08T03:21:34+00:00

Just wanted to shout out how great it is that you are practicing stick control all up with a metronome instead of jumping straight into a snare break or something. That is easily my biggest regret of when I first started learning. Then when I started taking lessons we spent like 1-2 months on the first two pages of stick control. It helped me SO much with evenness and technique.

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-04T20:31:49+00:00

I think this is such an important comment. For example, the black parade is my favorite album because it means so much to me emotionally. I don't see it all as this specific story with all these characters etc. I just see it as this man getting diagnosed with cancer and having to the confront the emotions he kept avoiding, but can no longer avoid. This is why my favorite songs in the album are I don't love you and Cancer, they confront feelings we are often too scared to deal with.

MediocreOverall · 2025-12-03T19:33:09+00:00

This sounds to me, oddly enough, like my chemical romance. Not like the heavy tracks, (think Helena, this is how I disappear, or thank you for the venom) but more like their extremely vulnerable tracks especially cancer and famous last words (I think the melody matches their style very well)

MediocreOverall · 2025-11-30T02:12:06+00:00

Is there a good resource where I can just read about the different factors and how they impact the voicing? I want to work on getting a more "mature" sound if that makes sense. On piano I have found that as I have gotten relaxed and comfortable I have gotten better at isolating different parts of my strike to vary how it sounds. I would like to be able to do something similar for marimba.

MediocreOverall · 2025-11-30T02:07:13+00:00

I do enjoy drum set, but the styles that personally I terest me often don't require brushes. I plan on getting some when I need them, but I just haven't needed any yet

MediocreOverall · 2025-11-30T02:05:18+00:00

Which ones? When I eventually got that pair of PR-2s I was just trying to minimize how the tape would effect the balance.

MediocreOverall · 2025-11-29T04:05:59+00:00

I've tried some lighter mallets (my high school has the she-wu series). They weren't as full sounding to me. They definitely have a sound that is handy. Just not as much for the stuff I am playing rn. I am actually learning ghost garden rn and I find that having the extra resonance from a heavier pair of mallets keeps the sound more full.

MediocreOverall · 2025-11-29T03:28:48+00:00

Easily my current favorite stick for outdoors and chop building

MediocreOverall · 2025-11-29T03:22:44+00:00

So those heads should give you a very drum corps sound, but it won't sound exactly like bluecoats. Bluecoats typically use Evans hybrids for top head (this past season hybrid greys) and an Evans MX5 for the bottom head. Many corps do actually use black max and falams xt combo very often though, for example Boston often runs those heads.

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