Week 2 Entry (Current Interests)

Currently I am involved frequently with Marching Percussion or drumline. Marching Percussion is a musical activity that is associated with a marching band. A percussion section helps provide the tempo for the band and keeps everyone in the band with the tempo or beat. Outside of marching band, drumlines usually participate in an indoor drumline setting in which it’s just the drumline and no band. In indoor drumline there is usually a theme that makes up their performance. To portray a theme they incorporate music that represents something and use costumes and a painted mat or floor that helps describe the theme of the show.
The instrumentation consists of a battery and a front ensemble. The battery consists of snare drum, the highest voice and loudest in the battery. The tenors consist of four to six drums, which produce different tones and pitches, and are the middle voice. The Bass drum section has a number of different bass drums that also produce different pitches and each player carries a drum with a different pitch. The bass drums are also the lowest sounding instrument of the battery. Some battery’s may also include cymbals that people carry to produce loud effects. The front ensemble has many different types of concert setting instruments, like marimbas, bells, timpani, etc.