re: LSU Band...How difficult is it to make the drum line?

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No chance at playing drums freshman year. Best hope is to hold cymbals on the off chance you make it.

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This is why I chose to say frick marching and just played kit after high school. I did all state marching band on snare and quads and that was enough of a taste to turn me off to college band. The only reason I'm happy I marched was using the rudiments to make fills and grooves. Otherwise being a drummer in a marching band sucks a-hole even before they make you hold cymbals like a puss.

ETA: I had an ex Drum Corps instructor who tried to get me to go to corps or a a major university. I learned quick that marching and the people within it are not the type of people I wanted to associate with.


My advice would be to get a drum kit and start doing something you can do forever instead of something you'll be stressed about for 4 years and then never use again forever. No one is ever looking for a quad player to sit in on a wednesday night.

You and I both know it’s harder to make piccolo, or was when we were there. There were only 8-12 of us for a few years and 40+ that got invited to preseason (after auditions) and even seniors got cut.

Now there’s like a jillion of them.