Virtual Drum Battle 2021

You can battle with percussionists from all over the world!

About VDB

You can share your performance for 30 seconds to one minute like a boxing match.

* The matches are judged with snare drum performance of 30-second videos for the beginners and elementary classes and of one-minute videos for the intermediate and advanced classes.

(* Two videos of set-piece and free program need to be submitted for the intermediate and advanced classes.)

Beginners of percussion can participate with sticks and practice pad, too. Why don't you battle with the percussion players of the world?

About the class, category, and set-piece

  There are five classes of beginner, elementary, intermediate, intermediate +, and advanced.

Beginner: For those who recently started to play

Elementary: BPM 144, Closed (buzz) stroke, etc.

Intermediate: BPM 158, quintuplet, sextuplet, paradiddle, etc.

Intermediate +: BPM 180, Hi-mon, variable octuplet, back stick, etc.

Advanced: BPM 192, Hi-mom, toss, flam drag, flam five, etc.

* There are four age categories of U-12, U-15, U-18, and open.

Note:  Our staff will view your technique on the video, and we may change your participating class as we consider it necessary.

* The set-piece is Turkish March for 30 seconds. You need to play it with the music playing in the background for the beginner and elementary classes.

For the intermediate and advanced classes, you need to play the set piece for 30 seconds without music in the background and a free program for 30 seconds. The performances need to be recorded and submitted on two separate videos.

You can see the technique videos by Mr. Kenji Okubo, as the general supervisor, from the below link for the standards of each class.

You can also check the rules and the set-piece for each class on the MarchingExpress21 YouTube channel.

MarchingExpress21 YouTube address: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh9CWEzlxqe6sQ8A81ZZa4Q

* You can see the profile of Mr. Kenji Okubo, general supervisor, on his I-Language-Drum channel. You can use his videos as teaching material for your daily practice and for improving your technique to participate in the VDB.

I-Language-Drum channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLANzvqEdZDnKaAoYGl4Mu0uiaKOigTOMW

We hope these videos can help your daily practice and your work for the VDB.

* The promoter has the copyright of the VDB.

Secondary use such as duplication, diversion, and sale of the provided information and videos is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder.