The X Factor!!

So you all know what marching band is, a whole bunch of kids on the field playing instruments. Now take out all the boring stuff, make it a smaller floor and put it indoors. You have a winter percussion show. Winter percussion is a marching show that consists of only percussion instruments like the snare drums, bass drums, tenor drums and cymbals. As well as all of the non marching percussion instruments like xylophone and other keyboard instruments. We compete locally and on the national circuit and put a lot of time into our show. 

Here is one of my favorite shows. "Gone" by Rythme X. Click on the link and click watch in high quality if you want to watch it in better quality.

"gone" by Rythme X

This year, our show is "The ex Factor" Its a show based on words with the root "ex" excite, expand, exhale and a few others. For those of you who think its not that hard, I've seen the movie drumline and i can do that. Your wrong. We spend about 15 hours a week practicing and perfecting our show. It is the most demanding thing in the world to play music, carry the weight of the drum, remember where to move to, how many counts to move for and what the move is supposed to look like. 

The reason the blog is called Percussion from behind 5th is because this year in our winter percussion show I play 5th bass, the biggest and heaviest of the bass drums. I was on cymbals at the beggining of the season but due to another members complications I had to switch up to bass drum and relearn all the movements and all the music in a week for our first show. We have now gone through our first 2 competitions, this past saturday and the one before it. We are doing very well for this early in the season and we are all excited to see where we go with this show.