In tenor drumming, as well in all drumming, we must not think too lightly about how to beat the drum. The beating must be well pronounced, without becoming dominant. A short and pointy hit. Especially when using different tones of voicing in the tenor corps the so called projection is very important. An adjudicator may […]

The flourishing from the tenor drummers is invented to catch the eyes of the pipe band spectators. Even behind a full piper corps tenor drummers are visible when they stick up their arms high in the air. For an even better visibility the tenor sticks nowadays come with heads and shafts in striking colors. Tenor […]

Before you can start with tenor drumming you have to prepare your sticks. In this tutorial we will explain how to make your own set of strings. Also we discuss the different materials you can use to make your strings. For this example we use shoelaces. This is a commonly used material for tenor drummers […]

How tenor drummers can make the difference. We must not forget that pipe bands originated from the Scottish military tradition and out of respect for this tradition we are bound to follow some rules. Our outfits must be clean and in perfect condition. Uniform means that we must wear our outfits in the same fashion. […]

To read music and to learn a score you first must be taught to count. How to count this standard setting for a 4/4 March for instance. Or this 3/4 March. We start with counting the quarter notes in a 4/4 Time Signature: one two three four one two three four one two three four […]

The basics of tenor drumming is and will be hitting the drum. The musical piece for the tenor drummer nowadays  is equally important as the snare piece, with the only difference that the tenor drummer gets less notes. The tenor drummer often plays on the accents of the snare piece, but also can play on […]