Well, no posts in this section for over a year, so let's change that. I marched drums in high school and college, even marched the saxophone one year. I started learning the bagpipes a few years ago.

My pipe band is a new unit where only the Pipe Major has more than 3 years experience. Our drummers are all beginners, so I've volunteered myself to be their coach even though I've been away from drumming for several years. I found several good resources for warm-ups and technique building on the web. I'm sure I can build up my chops fairly quickly (at least ahead of the learning curve of my line) and our next parade isn't until next March.

What I've been having trouble locating on the web are cadences for pipe bands. Every drum corps or college band has multiple bass and tenor instrumentation, so except for the basic beats those aren't very useful. Besides, those aren't exactly in the Scottish style.

Where can I go for good resources on Scottish drumming? We have a distinct sound when we're piping down the street. I want our drumline to have that in their cadences too.

Sorry I don't have any to share, yet. I'm in the same boat. My experience was marching then instructing high school back in the 90's. I went on to become a firefighter and a group of us formed a pipe band in 2005. The style is completely foreign to what we were used to, all drums had previous marching band experience. I have searched to the ends of the internet and have found few resources.

Anything I find I will be sure to come back here and share. Just wanted to let you know you're not alone.

Thanks for the reply. I've been looking through the threads in this section, but there isn't anything recent. The best resource seems to be a handbook by J. Reid Maxwell that was supposed to be published a few years ago, but I haven't found it yet.

hello, i am a newbie here. fist of all, please apologize me for my bad using of English language. Back to the topic, i have an experience in pipe band because i joined it during high school. i played snare drum in pipe band and i look its score is really different from the marching band snare score. to seek a resources on Scottish drumming, why not you try open Amerscot Highland Pipeband webpage because my band trained the score from this website started from a basic stroke into advance stroke. one of the band that played using this stroke is Kuala Lumpur Pipes and Drums Band (KLPD. you can search about it on youtube.

Thanks for the resources. The Amerscot PB has a lot of good information.

You're right, Scottish drum music is written differently. Instead of writing "L" and "R" to indicate sticking, the right hand is written above the line and the left hand below the line. I'm used to the American way, but it looks like I'm going to have to learn this to teach it to my line.

BTW, the KLPB looks pretty good.

from my experience, 1st time i looked at PB score, especially snare score, i shocked out because i do not met with this type of score written like that and its tempo is very different with the normal snare score. i took 3 month to perfect my score reading at PB snare score.