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The Vanguard ‘n’ me

  • August 26, 2015
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Looking through my archives I found some of my old drum corps music, from the Santa Clara Vanguard in 1986. Hastily copied from Ralph Hardimon’s score— I think this was basically my audition, now that […]

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How we used to learn the open roll

  • August 17, 2011
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I just got a very nice note from Jim Buckley about the following comment of mine from the Drummerworld.com. Jim is a major figure in corps- he marched snare with Ghost in one of the […]

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The Hawaii 5-O fill

  • August 8, 2011
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That’s the term I use for that universal 8th-grade-style fill down the toms effectively applied, ever since it was coined by Ralph Hardimon regarding a concert tom run of mine when I was in Santa […]

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