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Posted by: Tanimal Posted on: Jan 4, 2009 8:12 PM Hey everybody! I'm just wondering how many of you guys play or have played marching bass drum at some time. Tell your size and any good stories you have to go with it. I play a 28". And it's actually where i got my nickname. My drum got a whole punched in it on the bus and the leader of my drum line didn't see it until after, and he thought i beat a hole in a brand new bass drum head. My name is Tanner, so they started calling me Tanimal after that because I am an animal. 
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Posted by: delmar Posted on: Jan 4, 2009 9:36 PM bass player for 8 years out of 17 playing. | |
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Posted by: pataflafla Posted on: Jan 7, 2009 8:31 AM I briefly played rudimental bass in corps at various times. | |
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Posted by: Crusher Posted on: Jan 7, 2009 3:04 PM Smallest bass was a 20" largest was a 42" | |
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Posted by: Tanimal Posted on: Jan 7, 2009 6:39 PM 42"!!? That is huge! | |
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Posted by: The_Cavalier Posted on: Jan 30, 2009 10:42 AM biggest and only bass I played was a 32" Dynasty ISO. played it for 3 years and then moved to snare, and drumline captain all in one! lol the best story I could tell you is when the drumline had a rivaly school drumline come over for a football game, and we had a little trick up our sleeve for half time. we stacked the basses up into a pyramid and had the captain with the solo at the time, climb up on them and play his snare solo in our window. he jumped down and then it was the basses turn, we were playing and then kneeled down and rolled over our basses so our heads were touching the ground and did our lick! the crowed went ape! they loved it! and the rivalry school didn't know which end was up! so I got the nickname ACE cause I always had the winning card up my sleeve in time of need! lol | |
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Posted by: Xfreak87 Posted on: Aug 7, 2009 8:24 PM Hey everyone, so I played on the UCF Drumline I played 5th out of 6, it was a 38 pretty good size, although at the time I would have liked to have played a smaller one. | |
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Posted by: Alexpor31 Posted on: Aug 29, 2009 6:19 PM I played Bass back in high School. 22 inch Yamaha. I got the Nickname Big Al, cause i'm 6'5" playing the biggest drum i could get my hands on. I played Bass for a Year At Central Michigan University Before i transferred. Next year i Plan on auditioning for Bass at the DCI Glassmen. | |
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Posted by: LinchDrumPin Posted on: Aug 29, 2009 8:38 PM I started out on bass in a DCI Div III corps back in 1993. I played 2nd, which was a 20" at the time. I stayed on that in 1994 and 1995. In 1996, I moved up to snare. When I joined a DCA corps in 1997, I played in the front pit ensemble, because the bass line was already set. In 1998, I jumped from the pit to 3rd bass, which was a Pearl Championship 24". That year we used Coated Emperors for our batters for a warmer less plastic sound. AWESOME sounding drums. After that I moved to tenors and played them from 1999-2005. | |
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Posted by: Boojum Posted on: Sep 7, 2009 12:25 PM I marched bass in highschool for 3 years, at the college level for two, and was the last guy cut off of Regiment's bassline in 2009. I've also played timpani in the pit and the last two years I've played quads here at my university. | |
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Posted by: ilovekelly Posted on: Apr 9, 2010 11:00 PM i play a snare but ones in awhile i go to bass to help them out i play the 24'' | |
