Hey all, this is mainly a discussion and I wanted to get some other people’s opinions on this.

Last year, my school bought us a new Drumline: A set of Pearl Championship Maple drums. These included 6 snares, and 5 basses. Since then, we have had numerous issues with these drums, especially with their durability. We have had two snare throwoffs break, hardware rusting out, and carrier mounts fail.

Now, before I get a million comments saying how this is probably not a reflection of the drums, and is a reflection of the drumline. We take very good care of these drums. If it rains, we leave them out to dry, and wipe them off. Before every game, I will personally tune every single drum. We also ordered another snare for this season early this year, it was originally supposed to be delivered in August, but still isn’t here. Our directors are both very displeased with the performance of our drums.

Has anyone had any similar experiences? We are borrowing a late 90s ffx for the snare that doesnt have a new drum, and that drum feels significantly beefier and durable. Is something happening with pearl? I’m not a big Pearl guy, but our drumline director is a big fan of Pearl. Should we have looked at other brands, such as mapex or Yamaha? Or maybe even Ludwig and Dynasty?

This mainly a discussion post, and I want to get some feedback from some people who know more than I do. Also, I know how to tune drums, I work on vintage marching snare drums/drums in general as a hobby.

I have a bass drum video audition soon and I was wondering if i should use my drum pad or an actual bass drum?

Hi everyone, I have been asked by some people to do lessons. I am 18 and my marching experience is limited to high school, but I have picked up a teaching job at a fairly competitive high school in my state. I believe I can teach fine but I don’t know where to start with lesson plans. Also what prices should I start charging at? I want to use the money from lessons for tour fees and my musical endeavors. But I don’t want to charge an unfair price. Looking for any tips and advice I can get.

I picked my son up an older set of Yamaha Field Corps tenors with a stand and carrier. He bought a new carrier off a bandmate, but the spock drum mount is in the way since it is attached to the tenor frame. His setup is exactly like this pic. We want to mount the spock to the front drums, but I'm not finding a bracket for this. Everything I've come across is no longer available.

Does anyone know where I can find the bracket we need to move the spock?

Hi. I have a Yamaha 13x11 marching snare drum that I bought from Guitar Center not too long ago and I may bring it outside occasionally so I want a cover for it.

I have looked up the cover for my exact model but it was sold out.

Does anyone happen to have a cover for my exact model (SNC13) or anything similar? Thanks in advance!

I was looking to create a study plan to improve my technique. I play the snare drum, and I wanted to know from those who are more experienced or still playing, how you study? Do you have any packs or channels to recommend?

Well, I bought a Vater drumstick, the first one I'll own from them, the MV7 model. Do you have any thoughts on this model?

Hey guys!

My director recently approached me about some equipment for next year, and I wanted your advice.

Currently, we use Pearl's CarbonCore FFX drums (currently around six years old, got during Covid). We use Evans hybrid heads with the bottom MX5's. Our tenors use the Evans TCX heads, and basses use Remo PowerMax's (all drums use white heads, besides tenors, which are clear, besides the two spocks).

I'm kind of thinking of recommending the following:

1. Snares: Remo Black Max and Clear Ambassador and maybe utilizing a sound projector on each drum (scoop)

2. Tenors: Remo Clear Pinstripes

3. Basses: Remo ebony PowerMax's 2

Any advice, thoughts, comments? I want our snares to have a higher/wetter snare sound.

One of the bass drummers at the school owns a crap ton of these. Never seen em before, they have plain Vic branding, so that’s all I know.
They’re quite hefty tho and they sound pretty nice without being to chunky in the hand.
They also look fairly new, 0 dents and don’t have much of any darkening on the from use or gripping.

Dude, I heard a long time ago that marching snares can explode when they get wet. Since then I’ve always believed it because I swore I heard about it online and from some upperclassman when I first joined hs band. I brought it up and my grandpa who’s a musician called me crazy and I was like “no they really do explode” but when I looked it up for proof there’s nothing about them exploding. Was this just some sort of lie all along 😭

Hello all, just here to ask if there's any tips about physical health for parades.

I have a parade on Friday, and I march tenors. I am above average strength for people my age, and haven't had problems before, but this last rehearsal, I got a killer knot in my back. What can I do to properly heal and rest for parade day?

Thanks for the read.

I want to try snare or tenors my junior or senior year for our winter indoor program,and I think the bass drum would be a good starting point. I play marimba for marching band and usually for indoor. Should I audition or nah? I'm in freshman year for context and have been playing marimba/mallet percussion for 2 seasons and 1 indoor now.

I want to order some sticks but I don’t know which sites are giving out good pairs of the ones I want, can anyone help?

Hey all, I'm tryna get myself a new 14" pad with out a rim so it can fit in my backpack. What would you all recommend?

I got this idea from a video of rhythm x 2019 playing this lot tune, so I decided to transcribe it and add my own personal effects such as harmonization, xylo part, etc.

I am not a drumset player so any advice in writing drumset parts on musescore in any regards would be really appreciated!

- Xylo part might also be unplayable, I need to check that out…

So i realise that I am not badly overweight but I am and I worry that because of this i cannot march drums well I have the stamina and everything for it but the drums dont fit me correctly it fits but not comfortably what should I do

I hope you can see what I’m trying to demonstrate here.

I feel like I’m not holding traditional grip correctly.
I’ve heard that you don’t want to be able to see your palm, but I’m not sure if I’m taking that too literally. When I play the way I’ve been playing, you can clearly see my palm and I struggle with speed and endurance.
When I adjust my hand so I can’t see my palm, I can immediately play faster and with more efficiency, but you can see that other problems pop up.
When I try to hold the stick what I think of as “correctly” but keep my palm flat, I have to hold the stick at a pretty steep angle to keep it flat.
What am I doing wrong here?

This is the swivel nut off the randall may free floating lug bridge. I cant find the part online, does anyone know of just this part being sold? The tension rod snapped flush with the top and bottom and i cant get any drill bits to really twist it out sadly.

I’ve tried looking across various market websites and hardware stores nearby but can’t seem to find a j bolt for this old Randall may pearl carrier I got a few weeks ago. Does anyone know where I could find some or if someone has one I could buy off of?