PDFs for Scramble and Nefarious will be uploaded tonight and you can find them on the Music PDFs page.
Music
Note: If music is not on this update, refer to earlier posts for pieces and tempos.
Make sure to have Fight the Team ready for next Tuesday. Have a great weekend and Go Bucks!
Here are updates on music from tonight’s summer session.
Look at the following:
We’ll see bass drums tomorrow and everyone else on Thursday at 5!
We have a few updates for the upcoming weeks of summer sessions. In addition to our normal sectionals before summer sessions, Mark plans to have more personalized sectionals on Wednesday nights. This week, he plans to meet with bass drums from 6-8:30. Next week, he plans to meet with snare drums at the same time. Sections not involved are still welcome to attend and have separate sectionals. This will be discussed further on Tuesday.
Bass Drums
June 13th: 6 – 8:30
Snare Drums
June 20th: 6 – 8:30
Dates for Tenors and Cymbals will be decided soon.
If you are considering trying out on one of these instruments, even though it’s not your current instrument, you are still welcome to come and learn!
Great second day of summer sessions, now time to go home and practice for next week. Here is the music we covered today with some associated tempo goals.
Music
Buckeye Technique 1: 216 bpm
Buckeye Technique 5: 156 bpm (with the ghost note)
No Joke Strokes: 168 bpm
Building Blocks: 124 bpm
Mellifluous
Marching
Fundamentals we covered this week can be found on the Summer Sessions page.
Thanks for your hard work this week and we’ll see you next Tuesday at 5!
As summer sessions approach, we have a few announcements concerning sectionals.
We hope to see you on June 5th for the first session!
Due to Ohio State’s final exams, our originally planned sectional has been cancelled.
Thanks for a great spring full of drumming and we are excited to pick it back up this summer! Keep playing!
The sectional for April 11th has been cancelled. Our next sectional will be April 18th.
Keep working on the music that has been discussed. Be sure to check out the new pieces, Mellifluous, Lie, and Blitz. Also, we will likely work on Building Blocks at the next sectional.
See you then!
Into our second week of sectionals, we now have an updated schedule for the remaining sectionals of this season. Sectionals will be hosted on the following dates.
March 21st, 28th
April 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
All sectionals will be 7 – 9 p.m. For more information, check out the initial post about Sectionals or contact us.
If you plan on attending, please bring a copy of our new piece, Blitz, found on the Music PDFs page. If possible, try to have this under your hands before sectionals.
Hope to see you at sectionals tonight!
We would like to congratulate our five new drumline Squad Leaders selected for the 2018 season:
Jackson Archer – Snare Drum Squad Leader
Ryan Dunson – Snare Drum Assistant Squad Leader
Zach Wurzelbacher – Tenor Squad Leader
Sarah Wood – Bass Drum Squad Leader
David Cole – Cymbal Squad Leader
We are looking forward to a great 2018 season under the leadership of these talented drummers!
It’s time to start preparing for the upcoming season with spring sectionals! These sectionals are a great chance for current and potential members to get a head start on the playing aspect of the marching band. We welcome players of all abilities, high school through college considering trying out for The Ohio State Marching Band. Here is the schedule and location for the month of March.
Dates: March 7th, 21st, 28th: 7 – 9 p.m.
Location: Joan Zieg Steinbrenner Band Center – 1961 Tuttle Park Pl, Columbus, OH 43210
If you plan on attending, please bring sticks/mallets as well as a copy of the “Buckeye Technique” packet for your instrument. Music pdfs can be found here Music. Snare, Tenor, and Bass drums as well as cymbals will be available.
Look for updates to be posted here or on our social media pages.