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According to Hiro Songsblog a drum cadence is "'a drumline piece played in a parading marching band between or in place of full-band pieces'. Cadences are also: 'a chant that is sung by military personnel while parading or marching'." [1] Cadences employ the four basic drum strokes and often directly include drum rudiments.
The "drum line" term began to be used by other marching percussion ensembles in the 70's along with the instrumentation used in the drum & bugle corps activity. This includes multi-tenor drums and pitched bass drums with split parts, embellishments like back-sticking and stick tosses, and innovations like mylar drumheads.
The first marching band formation, the Purdue All-American Marching Band "P Block". Instruments have been frequently used on the battlefield (for example the Iron Age carnyx and the medieval Ottoman military band [1]) but the modern marching band developed from European military bands formed in the Baroque period, partly influenced by the Ottoman tradition.
On football gameday, it has become tradition for the drumline to warm-up (usually in or near The Pit, in the center of campus) before joining the rest of the band for the march to the stadium. The drumline goes through warm-ups, show music, and cadences. It has become a crowd favorite, attracting large crowds at Tar Heel Town. [3]
Doing cadence work indoors has the unique benefit of allowing you to focus fully on your pedaling, without the need to steer, watch for traffic, or adjust your cadence for a hill or descent. It ...
Along with the style switch, Thrailkill also removed all women and majorettes from the band, keeping one Drum Major. In 1967, the band became known as the "100 Marching Men of Ohio," and the following year the 110 members of the band were coined the "110 Marching Men of Ohio," cementing their name as the Marching 110 seen today.
Eighteen of the 20-member drumline for Adrian High School's marching band paraded into the high school’s cafeteria and kicked off Monday's school board meeting.
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