Game Day Grabbers: Grooves Good-to-Go showcases ten stadium grooves that were created by re-imagining existing cadences and lot jams with an eye toward brevity and ease of use. While these arrangements would serve any collegiate drumline and almost any high school drumline—at any time of year—they were conceived with particular regard for the month of October in football season: a time when it might be nice to throw something fresh into the rotation of beats, but when you don’t have all the time in the world to rehearse new music.

Here are some grooves that will hit hard in the stadium, in the lot, or on the street, allowing for as much or as little repetition as necessary, all while being straightforward to learn and memorize. Even within this framework, however, the pieces vary in complexity, style, and difficulty level. Different pieces will play to the different strengths of different ensembles, and I hope that there is enough here that you will find the perfect beats for your drumline. The compositions are presented in an order selected to create a compelling playlist (rather than by tempo or difficulty level), so don’t read much into the sequence of the beats in this collection; just listen, look, and imagine what will work with the hands that you know.

Edit 6 Jan 2022: Fixed typo in the last measure of bass part of Wet Air both in book and individual score.

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