I like your ideas a lot. The text is cool on both of them. I also like the idea of the drum strainers being the "M" My critiques are: The strainers are little too "flat." If they could be tightened up, that would be cool. The mallets on the drum are a little bit too "field drum"ish. In other words, they remind me of the type of mallets you might see in a pipe band, and not really the type that I would write for. If you can make them into sticks with a more focused tip, it will appear more marching band-ish! Can I also see what it would look like to invert the colors and have the background be the light and the text and picture be the dark? I like what you've done, I'm just curious!
Thanks!