{"id":34076,"date":"2025-01-03T07:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dci.org\/?post_type=hall-of-fame&#038;p=34076"},"modified":"2025-01-03T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:27:04","slug":"ralph_hardimon","status":"publish","type":"hall-of-fame","link":"https:\/\/www.dci.org\/hall-of-fame\/ralph_hardimon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Hardimon"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"34076\" class=\"elementor elementor-34076\" data-elementor-post-type=\"hall-of-fame\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9c9f78 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e9c9f78\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0ec6e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d0ec6e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The list of people who have helped transform the drum corps world is a short and select one. Ralph Hardimon, without a doubt, is on this list. Ralph has participated, instructed and arranged some of the best percussion lines in drum corps history.<\/p><p>Starting in the 1960s with the Los Angeles Police Band, Velvet Knights and finally with the Anaheim Kingsmen in the early 1970s, Ralph began to learn what great drumming was all about. After completing his drum corps performing days, he began his teaching and writing career under another legend of the activity, Fred Sanford, at the Santa Clara Vanguard. There Ralph began to understand the greatness of the percussion ensemble and its ability to transform the musical score. 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