I am Matthew "Fat Matt" Lemieux, a 23-year old PhD graduate student and research assistant at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. Originally from Cary, NC, I began my marching career in 2002, playing baritone for the Cary High School Marching Band as an eighth grader and continuing until after my sophomore year of high school—when I decided that drums might be cooler. I played snare drum for two years of high school marching band and winter drumline, four years of university marching band, and for one season with the independent world class WGI ensemble Constitution, from Raleigh, NC.

In May, 2011, I graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. While at university, I served as drumline captain for two years, writing numerous cadences, warmups, and exercises to enhance the line's repertoire and musical vocabulary. From January 2009 until August 2011, I worked as a marching and battery instructor for the Athens Drive High School Marching Band and winter drumlines in Raleigh, NC, under band director Jerry Markoch and head percussion instructor John Antonelli.

What is this place?

This is a web location for me to share my drumline compositions and drum-related ideas with the world. I have written way more material than I will ever be able to make useful, and I still enjoy writing, so it makes sense to have a homepage like this. I started Fat Matt Drums in 2007 with the warm-ups I had written as a high-school student, just for the fun of it, but as I became more busy with university, I sort of gave up on the site.

Having had so many opportunities to write, arrange, and teach music since then, I emerged from university with some compositions I could be especially proud of, finally feeling motivated enough to rebuild this site.

What's the deal with using your stuff?

The material on each page is prefaced with the conditions for using it. In general, I would love for people to make my stuff useful, and I wouldn't love for people to claim my work as their own. And those few things that I am not giving away freely, I just want you to ask me for; since I may want to get some of that stuff published, I don't want *.pdfs just floating about cyberspace. That's really about it... and, of course, tell your friends if you think they might find this web site useful. If there's a question about anything, shoot me an e-mail. Just put "FMD" somewhere in the subject line: