Here is all the random stuff about percussion that is floating around in our heads right now!
When using a marimba/mallet instrument in your marching band pit, make sure to beware the weather. Don't leave your marimba outside overnight if it is going to freeze or even be kind of near that ungodly temperature. It is bad! I makes cracks in your wood and then ruins your instrument. DON'T DO IT!
There are two major cymbal companies owned by brothers who didn't get along. Zildjan and Sabien are located in New York and Canada respectively and have links back to the first cymbal makers in Persia. They use a special alloy that makes cymbals sound like cymbals.
We didn't mention it earlier... cause we think it is silly... cause we don't play the jazz... but there is another snare hold often used by marching and jazz players called matched hold... Basically you hold one stick the right way... and the other basically the same but with the stick going on top of the hand rather than under it. It is basically a pencil hold (if you hold a pencil the right way) and then flipping your palm up.
There is other stuff... but you will have to follow us to see when we post it in the Spring!
Also...
Bass drum goes boom.
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