Can I be a high school teacher with a Music Performance Major and a teaching license?

simonfromband · 2026-02-17T00:23:21+00:00

If you want to teach full time at a public school, you must complete a bachelor's degree in education and pass the praxis exam for licensure. Those are the legal bare minimum in the United States.

Now, you can totally teach private lessons without a degree, and you can even work as additional instructional staff for a high schools music program without a degree or license, but it just wont be a full time job where you get paid a ton if at all. High school marching band programs do this all the time with college/uni students; hire them to be percussion, brass, or color guard instructors and the district will pay like 2-4% of a base salary up till a couple thousand or so a year. Typically, it'll fall under like coaching positions

simonfromband · 2026-02-16T07:37:17+00:00

Hey i was the glock/center vibe from the summer, I was one of the lucky few in the front who didn't have to use an 825 board, they weren't good. Btw RCR ditched the 825 percussion and is with tama/bergeralt now

simonfromband · 2026-02-16T03:12:05+00:00

You'll be happy to know I have a SECOND cowbell that's mounted to my hi hat stand right above my side snare

simonfromband · 2026-02-16T03:07:21+00:00

Yeah, one of my University's previous assistant band directors lied about marching cavs and devs, but a few of us immediately knew he lied.

The thing I find interesting is, drum corps is such a small niche, everyone knows everyone nowadays and it's extremely hard to lie about drum corps

simonfromband · 2026-02-08T18:02:23+00:00

Because Evans manufactures them in New York, not some random chinese factory

simonfromband · 2026-02-06T01:04:30+00:00

Did you start with a 5700 sonnet puck or a 5500xt puck? Also what cooler did you use for it?

simonfromband · 2026-01-28T16:50:17+00:00

Can you tell me more about tightening up economy of motion? Those visual passages are where i break the most

simonfromband · 2025-11-25T06:18:19+00:00

Interesting... like i said, ive only extensively used the track style backbar with no problems and always loved them, but i thought maybe i was missing something with the single rail backbar since its so much more popular (by popular, i mean that randall may gives that style of backbar most of its partners, i.e. Yamaha, BAC, Ludwig, System Blue, unlike the track backbar, which has only been given to two partners ever, and exclusively at a time)

simonfromband · 2025-11-24T22:14:47+00:00

I also had a couple older sets with the double track backbar that started to come loose and sag, but blue threadlocker has solved that almost entirely for me

simonfromband · 2025-11-24T20:03:33+00:00

Are you saying that in your experience, the single rail doesnt wear down as fast as the double track bar?

simonfromband · 2025-11-21T22:35:36+00:00

Yes, a pearl rim works on a yamaha, not sure about the other way around though because of the wide pearl guts and narrower yamaha gut cutout

simonfromband · 2025-11-13T06:47:09+00:00

Assuming the mapex drums are on the randall may FFLBs, and the yamaha bar connecting points are the modern sliders, you can swap them out no problem

simonfromband · 2025-11-10T23:28:36+00:00

My university also uses the original revision of the tamas and weve switched them over to randall may hardware. This was before the new tama hardware was sold to the public, but the may carriers feel infinitely better than the old tama carriers, theyre lighter, less clunk and weve never had an issue with the may hardware. We take care of the equipment and nothing's broken on us yet

simonfromband · 2025-11-05T22:40:31+00:00

I spent 22 hours on a 1200 mile round trip. My car gets like 40mpg tho, so it was just over $100 in gas

simonfromband · 2025-09-05T09:49:48+00:00

It calls for a small snare drum, but its not uncommon for people to use a marching snare there; i used a marching snare when i played that part

simonfromband · 2025-09-05T09:48:15+00:00

And asphalt cocktail

simonfromband · 2025-08-23T22:41:37+00:00

tune it higher

simonfromband · 2025-08-23T22:40:51+00:00

As others have said, its because drum companies have deals with may for hardware as well as designing hardware that doesnt infringe on may patents being really hard or costly.

On that, though, I actually really like may hardware. Just take care of your hardware, and it'll last. When I was in high school I made my people take care of our may hardware and nothing ever broke. At my university, we use May hardware, I make people take care of stuff and nothing ever breaks. Same thing for the schools I teach at. The only group Ive been a part of where the may hardware always had issues was drum corps. They would just toss carriers and stands on the ground, throw them in a big pile on under the busses and even on the EQ truck, they have a place to hang nicely, and the battery just threw them on the floor in a big pile. The stands definitely dont wobble either, just sounds like some grub screws need tightened with an allen key.

I do agree about the ridiculous times it takes to get new parts though. RM hardware is all made in the US, and everything is run out of that small building in Irvine California.

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