Drumline Essentials: Snare

This course is designed to give you the start you need playing snare drum in a marching band, drum corps, or even indoor drumline environment. If you have never played any marching percussion before, this will introduce you to the standard techniques and exercises you will typically be expected to perform and master over the course of your time in the activity. By completing this course you will have a strong understanding of the demands required, as well as the techniques and primers used to master them to play in a drumline.

What You Will Learn:

Marching Traditional Grip
Drumline Techniques
Basic Warm-ups
Proper Roll Technique
Drumline Vocabulary

Adam Kuns

Adam Kuns has been a professional educator and performer for 20 years. He holds a Jazz Studies degree from California State University, Northridge and has studied with Gregg Bissonette, Alex Acuña, Chad Wackerman, Dick Weller, and Dave Elitch. In addition to his drum set experience, he has taught and arranged with many DCI, WGI and high school marching programs such as Dark Sky Percussion, Watchmen, Catalyst Percussion, Velvet Knights, and Royal High School. He has been a staff instructor for Drum Channel since 2013.

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