It’s Homecoming Week at Bethune-Cookman University, and Episode 61 of The Drum Lounge Podcast is loaded with drumline battles, HBCU band talk, reactions, and plenty of CHOPS! 🥁🔥 Jeremie and Bryon kick things off showing love to their alma mater, Bethune-Cookman University, as B-CU prepares for Homecoming. We check out Cookman’s first home game of the season, react to the Marching Wildcats and the drumline, and talk about some of the changes we’ve noticed in the percussion book over the years.
Jeremie also gets to hear one of the warm-ups he wrote back in 2016 still being played by the current B-CU drumline! Then it’s time for the battles.
We break down the massive Langston University vs. Lincoln University drumline battle and talk about the importance of dynamics, clarity, balance, cleanliness, uniformity, and knowing when every section DOESN’T need to play at full volume.
Langston brought the numbers and aggression, while Lincoln showed some strong moments of musical balance — but who actually won the battle? We also react to the wild North Carolina Central vs.
North Carolina A&T situation that turned into more than just a battle of the bands 👀 — along with the battle over who has the best version of “Raise Up.” On the high school side, Whitehaven and Forest Hill gave us one of the BEST drumline battles we’ve reacted to this season. Both lines came with serious material, but Forest Hill’s combination of clarity, dynamics, cadence structure, chops, and creativity had us locked in.
Then we bring it back home to Atlanta as Langston Hughes and Morrow battle it out while keeping the traditional ATL drumline sound alive. High-tension snares, leg tenors, gushes, chops and that classic Atlanta approach — we love to see it. 🥁 LOUNGE & CHOP Bryon teaches the Episode 61 Lounge & Chop featuring diddles, flams, flam drags, paradiddles, paradiddle-diddles and accent patterns designed to challenge your control as the tempo increases.
Learn it. Practice it.
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