boru
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drum sticksHi. I am a member of my local marching band and we are trying to improve our marching discipline. Does anyone know the rudiments of lifting sticks. On the left foot should my right or left stick be raised etc.
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will-i-am
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as you place your left foot down your right stick should be down and when your right foot goes down your left stick comes down,
watch some videos of the royal marines marching
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boru
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drum sticksmany thanks will. i had watched some video clips of bands but there seemed to be no consistency.
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admin
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Re: drum sticks | boru wrote: | | i had watched some video clips of bands but there seemed to be no consistency. |
If you watch Royal Marines Bands there is consistency, we all do it the same (the correct way  ) and the others are the ones who get it wrong 
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RAB
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Re: drum sticks | boru wrote: | | i had watched some video clips of bands but there seemed to be no consistency. |
Ooooooooooooh... Dangerous words in this thread matey.... Glad Deli managed to remove the ambiguity before the thin red liners took you to task.. 
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Wee Mac
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Re: drum sticks | admin wrote: | | boru wrote: | | i had watched some video clips of bands but there seemed to be no consistency. |
If you watch Royal Marines Bands there is consistency, we all do it the same (the correct way ) and the others are the ones who get it wrong |
He must have been watching the 'Devon and Doughnuts', or that lot from the Royal Anglican Windows outfit!
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riknoc310
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ALAS, no more Devon and Doughnuts, they have merged with the Gloucesters, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment to become the 1st Battalion. The Rifles. with the Light Infantry and Royal Green Jackets also part of the super Regiment.
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bootybandy
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| will-i-am wrote: | as you place your left foot down your right stick should be down and when your right foot goes down your left stick comes down,
watch some videos of the royal marines marching |
I am by no means a stickistician, but that sounds a bit kack-handed to me 
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Errol
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Re: drum sticks | boru wrote: | | many thanks will. i had watched some video clips of bands but there seemed to be no consistency. |
Perhaps you have been watching poor quality video's where the music seems to be out of sync to the visual actions.
All the R.M. drummers are trained to perform marches in exactly the same way.The sticks pass each other so that the right stick comes down to be over the drum as the left leg hits the ground.at that same moment the left stick has come up to be horizontal with the tip touching the upper lip. This applies whether you are playing 'on' or 'off' beat rhythms.
If it is not on the march and the buglers are performing some modern drum parts then various tempo's may be used in the stickwork.
Get it !
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admin
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As Uncle Errol says... videos are often out of synchronisation with the actual footage.
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