Electronic marching percussion?

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I'm a drum corps guy.. I marched brass in 99 with a junior corps, and this coming year i'm looking at marching with a senior corps. My chops might be a bit rusty for marching percussion.. so I figured I need to practice.

I was looking through ebay to see if I could get a cheap set of marching tenors, but only sets affordable are really old. So I thought....

Electronic marching tenors!

Of course, you couldn't actually march with them. But an intesting rehersal concept.

Get some rack parts from Gibraltar to stand on the floor, and get 2 double mount small triggers from DauZ, and one single for the spock drum. Then try to mount them on a small custom Gibraltar rack and go to town.

I see it in my head, should be doable. Maybe get one 3 trigger mount, and one two... wonder if the distance would be right.

Anyone else here into marching percussion with any ideas?

I found a marching percussion soundfont that I could use in vsampler or livesynth to add to the whole effect as well.
Maybe if this works I'll mount a PD-120 on a Yamaha carrier and have a marching snare drum

Gabe

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Re: Re: Electronic marching percussion?

Originally posted by Ranman
Well, with a wireless transmitter you could... but the sound would be coming from "way over there" rather than from just under your belly button.

haha yeah, I thought of that. Those guitar "bug" transmitters. But then I think you'd need a seperate reciever for each drum to plug into your brain. But what a cool thought

Could have a wireless speaker mounted on the drums, with the signal being sent from the brain! haha

[Ranman]

Originally posted by Harlock
... & RanMan ...love your new avatar...
Hope we'll get a new one everyday from now on

Well, you got me looking for a new avatar. I like this one... but I think it gets kind of annoying quickly. The search is still on.

[isosceles]

I got a set of the 3 Dauz pads specifically for doing sweeps. The distance is very close and they have no rims. I think they may be a little to easy to play on(compared to real tenors). I've seen practice tenors, I think they were in the interstate music drum catalog. I know they were in the Modern Drummer the month before Neil Pert was on the cover.

Hope this helped,
Isosceles

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I matched up the size of drums on a set of Yamaha fieldcorps tenors to what I could get in dauz pads so i'm trying this:

1 double mount set of 6" (spock and tom1)
1 8" single for tom 2
2 11" for tom 3 and 4

Mounted on a 40" Gibraltar curved bar (this is the part i'm wondering it it will lay out in a way that will be correct.. we'll see

Right now instead of getting a full floor assembly, i'm going to mount it off the rack system I have already up for my edrums to save a few bucks. If it works out as well as I hope, then i'll get some floor bars and feet assembly to keep it seperate.

This should be comparable to a 6", 8" 10", 12", 13" type marching configuration.

Gabe

[zendrums]

It sounds like you are doing great about the chops preperation, but what about your back? Don't forget about hours of march w/ those babies strapped on, and good luck! Reminds me of the good old days.

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Corps has gotten wimpy... they all use stadium hardware when doing stand-still rehersals to save on back abuse... bah
So I figured I wouldn't be doing any less of a rehersal than if I was with the corps and an actual set of toms.

Where did you march? I see you're from Chicagoland so that could be anywhere. How about that Royalairs reunion corps this summer!

This post made me sound old... I only aged out of junior corps elegability this year!

[zendrums]

Actually, I only marched in high school, Riversude-Brookfield. I never marched with a group outside of school.