Differences between playing snare on a kit vs a marching snare drummer?
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Everything learned on a marching snare drum can be applies to the drum kit. Paradiddles are especially useful.
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Anthony Amodeo
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as far as speed and dexterity learning marching licks is a great idea and a nice way to clean up some of your strokes
those players are extremely strict as far as technique, stick height, and dynamics
everything is under a microscope and expected to be a certain way every single time
so it could be beneficial to any drummer to try to play with the discipline of a rudimental player but a set player should be quite a bit more loose in his technique and his feel
I was a bit obsessed with learning a lot of these pieces about a year ago and found it extremely difficult to match the rigid feel of guys like this ...this is one of the many pieces I learned and I took a lot from it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ZXvYLGS7M
i recommend checking out this site to see whats going on in the marching snare world ...its quite interesting and competitive
http://www.snarescience.com/index.php
but as far as what to learn on kit snare
learn to seamlessly combine rudiments and have them flow together nicely with tasteful dynamics
I recommend Pat Petrillos book Hands Grooves and Fills
Pat presents awesome solos built of rudiment combinations written in a very easy to understand short hand that will get your hands used to some really nice flowing combinations
those players are extremely strict as far as technique, stick height, and dynamics
everything is under a microscope and expected to be a certain way every single time
so it could be beneficial to any drummer to try to play with the discipline of a rudimental player but a set player should be quite a bit more loose in his technique and his feel
I was a bit obsessed with learning a lot of these pieces about a year ago and found it extremely difficult to match the rigid feel of guys like this ...this is one of the many pieces I learned and I took a lot from it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ZXvYLGS7M
i recommend checking out this site to see whats going on in the marching snare world ...its quite interesting and competitive
http://www.snarescience.com/index.php
but as far as what to learn on kit snare
learn to seamlessly combine rudiments and have them flow together nicely with tasteful dynamics
I recommend Pat Petrillos book Hands Grooves and Fills
Pat presents awesome solos built of rudiment combinations written in a very easy to understand short hand that will get your hands used to some really nice flowing combinations
topgun2021
Gold Member
Learning your rudiments is great. However, as already stated, there are little nuances of playing a drum set that marching technique can not translate to.
paistemage
Senior Member
!00 percent agree. I play in a PIPEBAND doing lots of 5/4 odd times, Scottish andIrish tunes. Very good stuff.
Why wouldn't you want to learn to play the snare drum? The better you are on the snare drum the better you can be on the drumset. Learning snare drum really helps with your control and learning to play and understand rhythms. I can tell you the better my son has gotten at playing Jacques Delecluse 12 Etudes the better he is getting on the drumset. The drumset and the snare are important to each other. They need each other.