Drumline breaks a sweat

With the start of the new semester, the Winter Drumline starts a new season. This year the drumline has been working on the piece, “Beneath,” a grade 4 piece of music. The show has three groups that work to make it all come together. The battery and guard are on the floor, moving around like a marching band and the pit consist of auxiliary instruments that make up the melody.

“I was like running constantly. We play one part then reset and play it again,” senior Samantha Alberts said.

The drum line practices twice a week to work on their show for the competitions they and sometimes only work on a certain section of the piece for most practice. When the competitions roll around the drum line show up early to run through the show a couple of times, load the buses up with their instruments and head off for their competition.

Once they arrive, they unload the bus and wait until they can go to the practice rooms. Once they finish practicing they go to the gym and wait until they perform. When they finish performing, they then load the buses and head back to wait for the results.

Last year the drum line played “Spanish Fantasy,” but the piece this year has proven to be more successful. On Saturday, Feb. 27 they competed in the Greenfield competition and finished with a third place trophy. They received their highest score going into preliminaries with a 76.35.

“It is awesome. I really like it even though it can be hard at times,” sophomore Kegan Anderson said.

The drum line will compete in preliminaries at Avon High School March 13.