Practice “Engine Room” by playing with and listening to this recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o68WVknJbOM

Practice mainly letter B and letter C.  Remember whether your sticks are supposed to be going vertical or horizontal for those communal stick clicks.  Make sure to count carefully through odd metered measures, remembering to just keep track of the number of eighth notes and/or sixteenth notes.  You guys are doing great!  (P.S. Next Friday there will be an MSU Percussion Ensemble Concert happening 7:30 pm at Wehr Band Hall.  It’s free, it’ll be really cool, and you should talk to your parents about it!)

And, last but not least, this is a cool video of a famous drum corps brass line warming up in an awesome way.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EDIDCdy5Es