Luke+Allred

Hi. My name is Luke and I like to party. I used to have really long hair so I'm sorry if that picture confuses you. I've been a drummer since I was 4 years old. My favorite drum to play is the snare drum, or in a drumline setting but I also play in pretty much anything else like drumset or keyboards or hand drums. My biggest achievement as a percussionist is marching with Revolution Drum and Bugle Corps, which is an open class drum corps in San Antonio that competes in Drum Corps International. I actually cut my hair so that I could do drum corps. What is a drum corps you might ask? It's kind of like a marching band, but it only consists of Percussion (drumline and front ensemble), Color Guard, and Brass. So it doesn't have any woodwinds (who needs woodwinds anyway? You can't even hear them!). Anyway, drum corps is also much more hardcore than marching band, or any sport or anything else you might think is hardcore. To audition for a drum corps you have to go to travel to wherever the drum corps is and rehearse with the drum corps one weekend out of every month and make it through all of the cuts. Once you get a contract and sign it and pay all of your dues (that's right, you have to pay for this, you don't get paid.), you are an official member of the drum corps. It's a very very rigorous process. Once the drum corps is set, everyone in the drum corps moves in together and sleeps on air mattress on the gym floor of whatever housing site (most often a high school) the corps happens to be at at the time. From that point on you will live with the drum corps for an entire summer. You will go through a certain amount of all day rehearsals, from 6am to 11pm where you do nothing but do very very tough rehearsal just to learn and clean your 12 minute show. My drum corps had 6 weeks of all days. Once you finish all days, the drum corps goes on you go on tour with your corps and you compete against other drum corps who have been doing the same thing. Revolution finished 11th overall. Next year I hope to make the Crossmen, which is a world class drum corps.

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In drum corps, 2 things happen. You get very skinny and you get very tan. when you are wearing a drum all day long in the sun. Funny tan lines tend to pop up.

Assignments: media type="youtube" key="kI7gSK-NORE?rel=0" height="315" width="560" This video is attached to my final Profile Essay.