Important Announcement: Please be aware that Front Ensemble practices have been MOVED to Thursdays at 6pm!!

NEW!! Tracking 172 Snare Tenors Bass Cyms

Please start learning and memorizing this exercise. It will be an essential component to developing our ability to play and march with the show music.

A big "THANKS!" to the 2011-2012 Drumline for my engraved brick. I saw it this past week. Very cool!

You guys rock!

Bass Drums: Your new mallets are here! If you haven't paid for them yet, please do!

Please bring check (payable to me) or cash for $22 to practice on Wednesday.

Bass Drums: now that the drum assignments are complete, it is crucial that you begin working on cadence and warm-up material with extreme diligence!!

The order of attack will be:
BD-Eyed Cadet
Mirage
Shaka2
Funky
Kickin It

In addition:
Rainbows & Unicorns
Flam Accent Breakdown
White Mambo
I'm re-arranging a few things, so more to come...

The Battery Ensemble assignments are finally complete! Here they are:

Snare Drums:
Hannah Lewallen, Sarah Lagemann, James Schuster, Ryan Newsom, Teryn Post

Cymbals:
Ashley Kittner, Melissa Conwell, Havovi Desai, Catie Schott, Breanna Dunn

Bass Drums:
Eric Weiss, Kelsey Bray, Antonio Phipps, Ben Devoy, Travis Gray

Tenor Drums:
Nathan Neumann, Alex Dungan, Gabe Chester

We will announce the Front Ensemble members soon!

Wednesday, 3/14: I want the Snares and Tenors to work on Flam-Accent Breakdown (Sn / Tn) and Mixed Rolls (Sn / Tn), in addition to continued work on the BD-Eyed Cadet cadence.

Battery Exercises:
12/8 Double-Beat (rev.2)
Hand 2 Foot Timing
Triplet Hand 2 Foot
Speed Rolls
Singles Gone Wild

Keyboard Exercises:
SummerTime
Single Double Triple
Accent Patterns
Target Practice
Triplet Hand Timing
Stick Control

The details for Fairfield's 2012 Drum Corps International
Summer Music Games in Cincinnati: Check out this line-up!!

visit www.summermusicgamesincincinnati.org

Order your Drumline Decals now!

Easy attaches to any glass surface and only $10. All proceeds benefit the drumline!
click here for the order form

2011 Music Download Page

Front Ensemble Exercises:
Keyboard Check Patterns
DVC
Krauss Scales
Jesu
Target Practice

Training Packet for Front Ensemble

Jon Corson has put this packet together for anyone interested in participating in the front ensemble. Please take a moment to download this packet and print it for your binder.

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