On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, H James Harkins wrote:
quoted 14 lines On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, grant horne wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, grant horne wrote:
>
> > and geordan drummond and i have both thought
> > separately about sampling high school marching band drum lines. i attempted
> > it once and it sounded terrible.
>
> Is it because they were bad players, because you couldn't get a clean
> sample (free of audience noise), or because the timbres of the drums
> didn't work? The last 2 of these problems would be pretty much
> insurmountable, I think, but in the case of the first, have you thought
> of the Concord Blue Devils? Eight (or is it ten, can't remember) snare
> drummers playing a roll so precisely synchronized you can hear every
> individual stroke... there must be a use for that sound somewhere!
>
You can often find High School and College Drum and Bugle corps records
at the Goodwill in the 50 cent bin -- or I guarantee most college music
libraries have a few of these.
A little searching can turn up immaculately recorded marching brand
breaks on CD.
I heard from someone who was trying to write drum and bass breaks for
marching bands to play. The drummers can handle it, but I imagine
that the rest of the band's ludicrous lack of swing would get in the way
of a really convincing job.
Though I would so treasure the thought of Goldie directing a college
marching band in a stirring rendition of "Inner City Life"
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