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For tenor drums, use only those five spaces, no matter what type of sound you want. Generally you'll have full noteheads for normal strokes, x's for rimshots, and for rims you could use x's and specify above that they are on the rim, and then say 'on drums' when you want to stop using those. If you are mixing a lot of hitting on the rim with hitting on the drums and/or rimshots, then maybe just use a different notehead, and specify at the beginning that they are rim hits.
For bass drums, remember that you put each bass drum on a space, so essentially it looks like tenor music. However, when you want them all to play at once, you put it on the middle line (treble clef b.) This indicates that they all play. You would use this for rims too, with an x. You probably won't have individual drums playing rims because the sound wouldn't carry.
I'm always down for scoring percussion parts to marching shows. I think it's incredibly fun.
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