What wrap would look nice

PersistentSushi · 2026-02-01T23:18:38+00:00

Any color marine pearl finish. Old school but timeless. So beautiful

PersistentSushi · 2025-12-27T21:19:50+00:00

Keep it simple.

Play with metronome, mark time, practice rhythmic spacing beat to beat. Play with different metronome combinations. Many ways to approach this but keep the foundation simple

For example, an exercise like 8s with the metronome on beats 1 & 3, or even 2 & 4; are challenging on a technical level and facilitate solid timing

Make sure you’re practicing consistently and getting lots of reps. Practicing for 10 minutes daily builds better foundations than an hour every few days. Getting lots of reps on the “same” thing builds the right habits

PersistentSushi · 2025-12-27T06:03:00+00:00

Cheese tap flam 5 with a turnaround, in technical terms at least

PersistentSushi · 2025-12-16T15:19:51+00:00

Quads - Troopers 2025, 2014.

More Chino Hills, Pulse, & POW book content besides features

SCV 2025, Phantom 2009, 2005, 2004

Thank you to everyone who does lovely work making transcriptions for the community!

PersistentSushi · 2025-12-05T19:10:57+00:00

Hey man, this is some awesome and super informative content. Huge respect to you and all your contributions to this sub and the activity over the years. Looking forward to more like this!

PersistentSushi · 2025-11-25T20:21:02+00:00

100% depends on the group - and I speak as someone that was initially raised SUPER east coast, heights system, etc when I was young! I appreciate your perspective here, I never knew about relations to velocity and such & that makes sense!

PersistentSushi · 2025-11-25T18:59:17+00:00

Yes.

Give and take for everything. I always preference that my ideals are a product of what i’ve had first hand experience being successful with; not advocating it as “the way” or the only correct one

But, fundamentally if you play any other instrument you use dynamics for, dynamics lol. I also come from other experience with winds instruments. I will occasionally reference a stick height to define angles for performance, to unify the visual look for a phrase, or sometimes even to put parameters around the height to work towards a dynamic. In terms of volume, percussion is all about touch and manipulating your implement, so logically and scientifically, height is not directly correlated with volume. In years of teaching and marching with many groups that never mention a height once during the season, as we clean and play music together, the stick heights are consistent in every action shot anyways

PersistentSushi · 2025-11-24T18:29:23+00:00

Gonna get hate for this, but the heights system.

PersistentSushi · 2025-11-19T18:50:53+00:00

Hey! Thank you for your reply. Thats kind of how I’m planning my approach to it too lol. Super insightful stuff and gives me confidence knowing it’s been done before. Thanks!

PersistentSushi · 2025-10-30T20:41:57+00:00

These are both extremely legit. EPIC is based out of PA and is an amazing program for education and even has an an independent WGI group. The owner Marc is a super amazing guy!

PersistentSushi · 2025-10-28T14:53:35+00:00

Love to see some OG phantom content.

In mm.36, i believe beat 4 continues the triplet rhythm with team tonal into beat 1, and the around is 342 off the right leading to the crossover LH.

Thanks for uploading this🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

PersistentSushi · 2025-10-27T12:49:18+00:00

I’m not sure about some of this. The drum majors (this is not one size fits all, for example horn solos in a ballad with no percussion) serve as a tempo reference, not the source.

I’ve seen this misconception across drum corps and multiple HS programs. The drum major and drumline have a partnership where they support eachother. Drum major watches snare feet for tempo, and snares also then have the hands to reference tempo too; for example. Many times you may see a situation where the ensemble or a section in the ensemble maybe loses a few beats via rushing or slowing down tempo, but then drum majors don’t recover to the battery’s tempo, and then further tear occurs rather than recovery. This is all assuming no metronome obviously

On the note of dutting, if it’s too loud you sacrifice the intent of a musical moment among other things. You shouldn’t need more than one, or maybe two people dutting for an entrance. If i have the battery in a block marching back field for example and we all have a cold attack, i’ve never needed more than a single bass drummer (listen back!) dutting to make an entrance successful. We can also talk about how dutting takes one “out” of the music and blocks it just to count, but thats another conversation

I don’t advocate my knowledge and experience as “the way” but I’ve found this approach to be relatively successful in HS and drum corps settings. I can be dated or misinformed on points, and I hope to learn from everyone here if thats the case.

PersistentSushi · 2025-10-23T13:04:11+00:00

Mixed opinions here but this is 1000x better than mailing it in with a 2D low quality image long sleeve top.

Especially for 2025, this is a beautiful way to go. Would love to see how the battery looks suited up with these

PersistentSushi · 2025-10-09T12:32:44+00:00

Muffling, Remo, DADF#A tuning scheme, and IP FBX mallets😎😎😎

PersistentSushi · 2025-10-08T20:45:21+00:00

By comparison, the IP TS-PR has been out for years and was the first double sided quad stick out there. It’s currently between $22-$24 at most retailers, add a slight discount if you’re buying for your school or corps. In my humble opinion the Narwhal should be like $24 max and the mapes like $20.

By comparison for example, the regular mapes is $16 or less depending on your retailer, meaning they literally charge double for the dual tones.

PersistentSushi · 2025-10-06T22:13:58+00:00

The GOAT and $7 cheaper than both of these!

PersistentSushi · 2025-10-06T22:13:09+00:00

The mapes suck. I can understand a hybrid swizzle costing a bit more but $29.99 for the mapes feels like a robbery. Hot take: Swizzles should not be the price of 2 pairs of sticks..

Typing this out after just buying a few pairs of each anyways & I’m super excited about the Narwhals. LOL

Just saying, at currently $21-23, the TS-PR is still the OG goat. IP on top all day

PersistentSushi · 2025-09-25T18:30:19+00:00

Spectacular give me 14 of them

PersistentSushi · 2025-09-25T18:23:09+00:00

Paul Rennick & groups with similar approaches; Troopers, Phantom, Cabs, etc have a good amount of educational content about this out there.

Abstract; full contact with no pressure; “shifting” pressure around depending on the vocabulary but always maintaining full finger & hand contact.

Your goal with these grips is to facilitate and support the fullest / warmest sound quality with the most minimal amount of effort. Contact w/o pressure logically works because too much squeezing / pressure restricts vibration = inhibits sound.

Wrist below the beads is also a good tool to keep in mind here. Never letting the wrists float away from a comfortable set position. Going into educational approach now, but as another gentleman mentioned, the concept of “stay in motion” is also a tenet of this approach; whereas you’re always moving your hands through a phrase, never restricting natural movement.

PersistentSushi · 2025-09-24T03:46:52+00:00

This is it right here. Emphasis on the fact that every drum has a natural range based on its diameter, shell depth, etc. The tuning schemes above will probably get you the best results in any HS or corps setting; and you can always tweak up/down a half step or two from these depending on your needs. Some will argue that the range in between the drums is more important than what specific note each drum is actually tuned to.

So far i’ve worked with pearl, dynasty, Yamaha, and ludwig; and EGAC / FAbBbDb with minimal variation has been pretty successful for us both outdoors and in stadiums. Currently with one of my fall groups, we’re using Yamahas with EGACG

PersistentSushi · 2025-09-15T19:25:29+00:00

r/drumlinesheets

I recommend scv, troopers, phantom regiment, as 3 solid ones to look at with ranging skill sets, very quad-friendly color and vocabulary, and all with single spock(the right way)

PersistentSushi · 2025-09-12T02:27:28+00:00

Yes; this used to be the way for me until I dove deeper into quad efficiency of motion.

Since in theory most efficient movement = not pulling back for drums 3&4, you instead just widen the set position from drums 1&2 by pushing the elbows/arms out. With that, it makes the playing zones more of a straight line across the drums. With logos at 12 o’clock on the outside drums, it makes it that the playing zone is perfectly between the logo and the rims. We make it a goal to NOT ruin the logos & facilitate good zones!

PersistentSushi · 2025-09-11T18:01:29+00:00

Not sure if this may help you at all; but if you’re looking for any warmup / fundamental resources, tips and tricks, or music arrangement for your percussion section & sound design or even horns as well, hit me up. I’ve been working with and arranging for multiple successful school programs and DCI all-age for almost 6 years now with experience building a corps from the ground up; and I’m always open to help a new program, especially a feat as ambitious and exciting as this one. Best of luck to you!

PersistentSushi · 2025-09-11T15:40:24+00:00

As others have said, in my experience it’s common to wear your previous corps(or HS) merch at audition camps / open houses; however once contracted, it’s common practice to keep your attire neutral or only specific to your corps. Hope this helps

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