The Drumline Rudimental Evidence Locker
Differentiate similar sounds and patterns with your drumline or at home!
This booklet can be enhanced with the 326-page Pre-Built Percussion Warmup & Exercise Packet!
This guide is your drumline rudiment case file, designed to help clean up the small nuances in marching and rudimental percussion music. Each exhibit breaks down two patterns with similar properties, even some that sound the same but are played differently, so you can investigate every detail with your drumline or study on your own. These comparisons sharpen your ear and fine-tune your chops.
For teachers, the book also serves as proof that students are practicing at home. With blank exhibit pages at the back, you can even document your own comparisons for your students. Assign it to your drumline or to yourself, and finish each rehearsal with a stronger mind and a cleaner sound.
This book includes all of the exclusive content!
Rudimental drumming lives and dies by clarity and consistency, and this book goes straight for the pressure points. If you want cleaner rolls, tighter diddles, and a drumline that sounds like they actually practiced at home, this guide delivers the goods. Marching percussion thrives on pattern awareness, and the quickest way to level up is to see how similar patterns twist your hands and ears in different ways. This book turns that skill into a repeatable process you can use every season.
If you teach rudimental percussion or you’re grinding through the reps on your own, this is the tool that keeps your hands honest and your progress obvious. Search all you want online, but you will not find a more direct, no-nonsense method for sharpening your rudimental vocabulary and raising your performance level.
If you teach a drumline or pit you can use all of the pit and drumline music at no additional cost with your group!
This work, and all my other work, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
For instructors, this packet pairs perfectly with The Field Percussion User Manual!
(*Pit warmups, exercises, and songs may be used freely for practice and warmups, but not as part of a show or paid performance.
For performance permission, contact the composer using the URL listed at the bottom of each PDF, or contact Patrick Blakley above.)
Do you know what goes great with playing great drumline patterns?
Bragging about it!
Check out the drumline apparel and drumline clothes section for tons of great drumline shirts and accessories to wear to your next rehearsal. From things that the whole band will understand, to things that only the drumline will understand, and even things that nobody might understand!
