Drumming has changed in recent years. There were 2 or 3 styles of marching band. There was the typical high stepping college band that kinda sucked IMO. Then there were the marching bands that converted over more to the Drum and Bugle Corps style, more military type marching.
It was not unusual for a 15 year old drum corps drummer being much better than the best drummer in a college marching band. There were old remarks from college drummers hearing a drum corps drum line for the first time. Shock and awe
That has changed some as more marching bands adopted to drum corps styles and the internet showed people how to drum. The Vikings Skol Line is pretty good.
Many drummers mocked the movie Drum Line as an inaccurate POS. Turns out that historically black colleges and universities have their own styles and practices that are different. I hated the movie for several reasons. One was that the camera could never show the whole actor drummer up close when drumming because they could not drum. Either the heads of the actors or the hands of the real drummers or the real drummers from far away. The camera jerked all over the place as a result.
I heard Karen Carpenter once. She was a
very good drummer. There is a rising TV reporter/host Kim Iversen. She majored in philosophy and music performance as a jazz drummer and before that a snare drummer. I have no idea how good she was.
I cannot get this 2 min song out of head. Drum Corps snare in the center with a HS student she tutored on either side.
https://youtu.be/JS4rCX-Mi3II realize drum corps is kinda closed off from the world. They used to be affordable youth groups that kept kids off the streets. E.g. St. Paul Scouts. Now only maybe 1% remain and they are regional and expensive to join. I surfed the web lately.
I remember seeing a super snare drummer from Boston Charlie Poole when he was young. Then he aged out and taught the 27th Lancers. Turns out there was a drummer Paul Rennick. He went on to teach several drum lines later Santa Clara Vanguard. Drum Corps added marimbas and vibes etc. His wife taught those.
At Santa Clara he taught a freak of nature Bryce Larsen (actually he just practiced a lot) and also
Eliana Yamouni who is in the center of the video above and the short drummer in one video below. Rennick went on to teach at the University of North Texas and Bryce went there and is center snare in both videos below. Weird and scary how much I know and I have been far removed for decades. The skill level now is insane.
Paul Rennick is teaching below. Small world.
https://youtu.be/FeaZlXrECKchttps://youtu.be/c8FERFS5jPA
