So, ACP 633 provides information on how each musician in a band needs to stand to attention e.g. how snare drummers go from ease to attention.
Despite tenor drums being common on cadet bands, it completely misses them out entirely.
So, due to this, does anyone have an official way they should stand?
Should they also do certain movement with their sticks when “ready” is called? As my sqn band just makes them have their sticks levitate above the drum skin and I personally thinks it makes us look dull and boring.
Pragmatic advice would be to follow similar movements for side drummers, with the exception of “Rest” and “Attention”.
Instead, my advice would be to simply use the “Carry” and “Ready” positions for tenor drummers.
The likely reason tenor drummers are not included is because tenor drummers normally feature in pipe bands, not traditional brass bands and corps of drums (RAFAC wise anyway).
The ready position for side drummers is the sticks held above the skin of the drum immediately before playing, not under the nose as that is the rest position.
This would be for Side Drummer - Corps of Drums.
The ready position being held under noses is a hangover from accepted practise prior to ACP 633 release (which came out in 2017 by the way!).
Well, a corps of drums of is a group of snare drums accompanied with a bass drum and tenor drums, and maybe bugles (bit rare to see a bugle in a band these days).
I was meant to put RAFAC band, but my point remains that 99% RAFAC bands have corps of drums.
although it’s quite sad that not many sqns have as many bands as they used to back in the old days.
