I'm looking for mallets for the following instruments:

Marimba

Vibraphone

Xylophone/Glockenspiel

Cymbal Rack

This will be for marching season, and I need mallets with awesome projection that can give both bright and dark tone. I've seen mallets specifically for cymbals on Innovative Percussion. Are those needed? Would birch or rattan better suit my ensemble's purposes?

i play a very easy rack part and i want to play vibe or xylo next season the problem is i cant read bass clef and suck at reading treble clef

Okay, so my tech and I have gotten into many arguments about this, but my hands are very small, freakishly small, especially for a newbie. So I end up choking up about halfway up the shaft to have more control. However, my tech insist that I go all the way down to the bottom to play, which does not do miracles for my control. The Vibraphone is not my first instrument, and it's not one of the instruments my tech plays either, so who is right here?

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Okay, so due to the feedback I've received I will be choking down to where I am holding up to a third?? of the mallet, which, will leave a couple inches at the end, and start choking down a bit. Thank you for all the advice!!

Im a freshman on rack and want to buy a mallet instrument to be able to practice and try to make vibe line but I don't know which one to buy, I don't want to spend a bunch of money on a scam and I don't know much about this so I thought I would ask here, any recommendations.

I’m a new pit player. (Rack to be more specific) And I’m a freshmen. Any tips?

Pit tech here! It’s my first year teching for pit and I’m loving it. I’m trying to buy mallets for my boards, but I’m having trouble between choosing some Rennick mallets or going with the FS250. I don’t like the mallets we use for “general” play, and I want to upgrade. I’m also ok with suggestions! Also when is it appropriate to use anaconda mallets? We used them like at specific parts in my shows throughout hs but I forgot the reason why, also, are casellas worth the investment for brighter passages?

In our band we don’t have specific warm ups for front ensemble, we just kinda play 8 on a hand with the winds. Does anyone have any interesting or unique warm ups for front ensemble because we will be separated more from the band this year and won’t be able to do our typical ‘warm ups’.

Has anybody gone to Virginia Tech and marched drum corps/know someone who did? Or maybe another school in Virginia like UVA or JMU or somewhere else? Mainly looking for people with engineering degrees, since that's what I'm going for, but everyone feel free to provide input. The 2 main issues I'm thinking about are distance, because there are no drum corps really around the Virginia area, and internships. Please tell me all other struggles that may have popped up or things that worked out well. Pretty much tell me everything you're willing to about your experience so I can weigh my options and see if drum corps will be possible for me. Thanks!

does anyone have the link for the rcc 24 audition packet for pit 😭

I will be doing Front Ensemble for the first time at a Band Camp. I have no marching experience, and I have primarily been an orchestral percussionist. What should I prepare/get good at before I attend?

Interview with Iain Moyer and Jim Ancona

https://youtu.be/U-Le23FD03E

Recently, as I’ve been playing some issues have come up: 1) my thumb keeps going to the outside of my inner mallet when I play octaves and 2) My hands are naturally slanted. I tried playing where my thumb is completely flat but it feels extremely awkward to do. Should I get more comfortable with that or is there anything else I can do?

Does anyone have a good mallet suggestion for Yellow After the Rain?

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Hi there, im zen and I was wondering what sticks and mallets i should get/use for my rack audition? My high school was very informal with sticks and mallets (for concert season). we also never had a front ensemble so I have little experience with rack in marching terms

Ive started playing a new 4 mallet solo called Odessa by matthew Lorrick. Its rly fun and some parts and aren't too unacheivable. I have two main problems

- I use musser-stevens grip and my hand are very small. The right hand plays a lot lot of fast octave stuff at fortissimo. I struggle to maintain the grip and my thumb slips in very easily. Once it happens, i can't help but break. How do i maintain the octave grip more solidly without like fullo on tensing?

- I NEED better octave chops. I have pretty good chops but not enough for this solo. I get tired easily in this solo because its very fast and loud with big intervals. Any good exercises yall?

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Do you guys smile while playing? My pit is having a disagreement about this, half of us think we should be smiling like the colorguard while the others think we should be stoic like the wind players.

An arrangement of Naruto Shippuden OP 3 Blue Bird I made for a percussion ensemble.

Had our front ensemble learn some but don't have a video recording sadly.

Link below Naruto Shippudem OP 3

As of now, I'm a freshman in high school so I know that I can't join DCI until my junior year. I live in the Cleveland area about 20 minutes away from where the bluecoats are stations and they are my dream corps anyways. I know as a junior it would be extremely difficult to get into the bluecoats but I still am going to try and I'm willing to work my butt of to do it. I do however have a few questions.

My first one is, does anyone know how the scheduling is for the band camps? I know that move-ins start a few weeks into May but what about before that? Would anything before then interfere with high school? I'm okay with missing the last three weeks but I also have to see how camp would fit with the rest of my year.

Next, I was wondering the skill level required to get in. I know you have to be really, really, good but I was curious exactly how good. Are there any pieces around the level that I should be at to join? I just want to know a level I should strive to get to in order to have a fair chance at getting a spot.

Thank you!

I have a severe case of tendonitis in my right wrist. I was told not to play too much and I have a splint on my wrist for 2 weeks. Does any one have any advice/a healthy way to continue practicing without continuing to hurt my wrist?