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Hrothgar15

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  1. I unironically think that GPG sample marching band music would make an amazing drum corp chart
  2. In December 2006 they announced Eureka!, 3hree, and Clue (the whodunit show) for 2007, 2008, 2009. Who knows how much of that last one was already planned out before getting canned.
  3. I never saw drum corps during the G bugle era but I like to imagine that’s what every ff moment sounded like. That moment was quite something from row 15 last night.
  4. He asked about marching while playing specifically. He didn’t say anything about “simultaneous responsibility.” What a strange concept to reward. You should march and play because that’s what happens in a drum corps show, not just as one of a dozen “simultaneous responsibility” options that judges can use to jack up your score.
  5. They rocked that in 2011. Same arrangement as Bridgemen 1980 I believe.
  6. “Now let's do something with no voice!” *crowd erupts in applause* (I remember that being semifinals?)
  7. Can’t tell if the trumpet’s mic is broken or if they completely took him out of the rest of the ballad.
  8. Still think my greatest drum corps achievement is getting DCI the @DCI username on Twitter when I worked there in 2012 😛
  9. Yep, this. I walked into my high school band room one day in 2004 and someone had put the finals recording of that show on the sound system. I had never so much as heard the words “drum corps” before that day. I knew it couldn’t have been a marching band, because I’d never heard a marching band play a piece of music like that opener the way they did (never mind the arranger being the same as my high school band’s). The mystique of hearing something like that is probably one of the last examples of pure wonder I can remember from my childhood. How it was so mature and otherworldly and so far removed from anything I knew. I spent the next few days obsessing over a recording I found on Limewire, which unbeknownst to me was from the San Antonio regional where the crowd doesn’t actually drown out the ending. I don’t even think I watched a video of the show until a few months later. I’ve thought about those four descending baritone eighth notes in the closer probably once a week in the 18 years since. Doesn’t get much more timeless than that.
  10. It's not hard. Show designers should be expected to choose four or five pieces of music that have been (or could be) played outside of the drum corps idiom, then adapt them for the drum corps idiom. 90% of them are overcomplicating things.
  11. See, this is what a drum corps show is supposed to be. You're supposed to be able to close your eyes during a relentless wall of sound as the ballad climaxes and let it wash over you. It's a shame this isn't scoring well, they sound fantastic.
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