Percussionists pound with a purpose
5:22 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, 2008
"Every summer, it's kind of my favorite thing to do, is to go to drum camp," snare drummer David Wingerson said. "A camp full of like 50 drummers is amazing to be apart of...We study all aspects of percussion...Percussion literally encompasses thousands of instruments."
"A percussionist is expected to play a whole family of percussion instruments," camp director Tom Morgan said. "Unlike say a woodwind player who just plays clarinet or a flute or whatever. We have to play everything. And so a camp like this helps people get started in that direction."
"I've attended a lot of camps in the past summers and when I looked at this camp it had everything. It had like marimba, snare, all the concert percussion stuff."
"A camp like this allows the student to get with percussionists that are fluent with these skills so not only do they get the instruction from their band director back home, but then they get some reinforcement and demonstration from camps like this," guest clinician Jeff Moore said.
"I used to play violin. I just chose to play drums instead just because it's more of a beat instrument and you just, it's like the heart of any music that you listen to," snare drummer Tess Wilson said.
"Because it's such a, literally a hands-on instrument you've got, you can just feel when you're playing," snare drummer Sean Witt said. "Feel the beat, feel the rhythm and it's cool to know that you're backing up a whole band of people."
"It's just such a part of everything that you listen to and you just are the backbone of like, the underlying sound that's in every kind of music. And it's just kind of a good feeling."
The camp runs through Thursday.
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