Hey, which is the hardest: quints or snare?

quints the reasn being that snare u dont move but quins move and usuallly play the same thing just moving

i play the tenors myself and i would say that they are harder because there are more heads, but really, the snares have the sharpest sound and they`re mistakes are REALLY audible wheras the tenors have a more dull, thick sound.

excellent question. in most lines (especially at the high school level) the snares play more intricate (sp?) parts, using more flams, drags, diddles, rolls etc, which is why the better players are put on snare. personally i think tenors are harder because of the movement involved. when u get to the level of drum corps it becomes 2 different art forms. drum corps tenor parts are every bit as hard as the snare parts and you have to play on 4,5,6 drums. i went to tenors in drum corps mostly because my traditional technique just wasnt good enough and I fell in love with.

Tenors are definatley harder than snare in my opinion, I am a tenor player my self. But i started on snare. In my line, the tenors have the hardest book out of everyone, I mean we have all kinds of hybrid rudiments which are crossed, swept across multiple drums and so on and so forth. The tenors can be hard or difficult depending on who writes your book, There easy if your book is 16th notes down the drums, but hard if its book reports crossed and sweeped across 4 drums. I think it all depends on the notes written.