Colin McNutt

Colin McNutt has instructed and arranged for the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps and the popular stage production Blast! He has also written for and instructed the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps, the Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps, Magic of Orlando, and the Madison Scouts. Colin has served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is an alumnus and received degrees in Classics and Music Education. Currently, he is the Percussion Caption Supervisor for the nine-time DCI World Champion Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps.

He hasn't only instructed, as McNutt started marching drum corps his junior year in high school in 1988 with the Boston Crusaders of Boston, Mass., then aging out with the Santa Clara Vanguard of Santa Clara, California, in 1992.

McNutt has made a career out of his passion for music and percussion, while in between completing his double major of music education and classics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1998. When not instructing drum corps, McNutt conducts clinics for the percussion companies Avedis Zildjian Co., REMO, Inc., and Vic Firth. He also writes music for marching bands in the United States and Japan.


The infamous 1992 SCV tenor line carves out a spot in history with this priceless ensemble.
Duration: 3:50 | Level: Advanced | Personnel: 5 players
$20.00
The infamous 1992 SCV tenor line carves out a spot in history with this priceless ensemble.
Duration: 3:50 | Level: Advanced | Personnel: 5 players
$20.00
An aggressive, twisted, and complex battery feature, as heard performed by the 2021 Boston Crusaders drumline.
Duration: 1:10 | Level: Advanced
$25.00
An aggressive, twisted, and complex battery feature, as heard performed by the 2021 Boston Crusaders drumline.
Duration: 1:10 | Level: Advanced
$25.00
Colin McNutt's tenor solo from the "Violent Tenor Cream" compilation.
Duration: 4:00 | Level: Advanced
$11.00
Colin McNutt's tenor solo from the "Violent Tenor Cream" compilation.
Duration: 4:00 | Level: Advanced
$11.00
A compilation of "lot" music that was heard performed by members of the world champion drumline of the 1993 Star of Indiana. Colin McNutt's famous "Red's Rhumba" and "Star 93" drumline cadence is included.
Level: Advanced
$15.00
Violent Tenor Cream is a collection of some of the sickest tenor solos and ensembles ever known to the world of quad drumming.
Level: Advanced
$28.00
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