Jacko’s Smooth Criminal played only with snare and bass drums: it’s the beginnin of a Top Secret Drum Corps show.

The University of Texas Longhorn Band Drumline.
Texas drumline marching percussion handbook 2009-2010: warm up, hands studies, breakdown, exercises, guidelines on how to play, dynamics. Great book for drummers too.
eights, 16 on a hand, doubl stop variations, fill-ins variations, turnaround, time check, duple timing, triple timing, legato add-ons, bucks variations, duple grid, turnaround grid, triple grid, doubles, triples, 12/8 doubles, pressure studies, duple roll subdivision, ones, twos, fours, triple roll subdivision, roll attacks, hand speed shift, modulation

2008 UC Drumline Technique Exercises and Drum Break Book

Troopers 2010 audition: Troopers percussion auditions
Audition Materials
complete Percussion Audition Information Packet
Paradiddle Variations for Battery
Battery Audition Exercises Packet
Pit Audition Exercise Packet

Check the Illini drumline snare drum packet for auditions with the fundamentals for audition:
-8 on a Hand
-Taps & Accents ‘09
-Double Beat/Triple Beat
-Styk Kuntrohl
-Triplet Rolls
Good for practice and good for understanding drumline attitude
Illini drumline snare packet

Updated april 24 2010
A Cadenza (italian for cadence) is “an extended, improvisatory style section inserted near the end of movement. The purpose of a cadenza is to give singers or players a chance to exhibit their technical skill and – not last – their ability to improvise. Since the middle of the 19th century, however, mostcadences have been written down by the composer”. (from Lilypond music glossary)
A drum cadence: “a drumline piece played in a parading marching band between or in place of full-band pieces”. Cadences, are also: …