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Hrothgar15

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  1. Really couldn't care less about hearing about some old white guy's acid trip. Get over yourself man, you're not special or profound because you took drugs. Corps sounds great, but if I wouldn't want the guy behind me yammering about this while I’m trying to listen to the performance, why would I want to hear it over a loudspeaker?
  2. This seems like a failure on DCI judging’s part, no? There should be a diversity of show styles and material that are equally competitive at equal levels of demand.
  3. I…loved that Scouts performance? I can see on the current sheets why judges would want more in “GE” but they are taking this thing and running with it.
  4. Colts show isn’t trying to be something it’s not. Just some really nice music and drill with a light theme.
  5. Yep. This is drum corps’ inconvenient truth if you will. There are a few books each year that come close, but they end up being the exception, not the rule.
  6. This post may have gone over your head. The point was to compare the obvious yes answers of the first two with the obvious no answer of the third.
  7. Not anymore, no. But yes, you can absolutely applaud the building of a musical phrase, the development of a show theme using music and drill, or virtually any visual move—because they are all performed by the performing members. Obviously some are more impressive or impactful than others, and those tend to be applauded more. But everything a corps actually performs is a potential applause point.
  8. Columbians hornline sounds great. Bringing back fond memories of the Boston Crusaders 2008 show (criminally underrated).
  9. Is it me or have the removed the choral synth patches in the ballad?
  10. I don’t think I implied anything like this…? I just think “drum corps had to evolve with the times” is a cop out, mostly because there’s really shaky evidence that that’s what happened. It’s an excuse used to justify and all but mandate recent design trends, for fear of the activity surviving or something. Just be honest and say “some designers have decided to consolidate the approach to sound in shows with WGI’s and some audiences applaud that.” I would never want to disallow that approach but corps shouldn’t be made to feel from the judges or otherwise that it’s the only one, or that a design that could have worked 20 or 30 years ago has no competitive potential for that reason.
  11. I’d be the first person to tell you the judges would place a show like that dead last, as has happened before with corps like Pioneer. The point is that the sheets should be changed so that something like that could be competitive, so we could actually see some diversity of instrumentation and design on the field. Or at the very least have a separate all-acoustic “Live Class” or something with different sheets and an incentive for corps to perform in that. I fell in love with drum corps from an audio recording of the Cadets in 2000, on Bb/F. I only then later started listening to older shows and decided G bugles sounded better. 🙃
  12. I love Twitter and TikTok as much as the next person but when I go to see a drum corps perform a few pieces of music in 11 minutes I expect each one to last longer than 12 seconds. Thankfully there are a few corps doing that this year (Crown and Phantom come to mind). Do you honestly think that is alienating modern audiences? I really don’t think that type of design has anything to do with attention spans, I think it has to do with designers having the same idea of the role sound should play in both DCI and WGI: effects that support the visuals.
  13. I don’t get it. Was drum corps not “with the times” in 1980 (when a top corps played a pop chart from the year before as their opener, on G bugles)? It’s not like marching bands didn’t start using trombones until 2014. It’s not a “current trend,” it’s just a thing marching bands have always done. What would you say is different about “the times” now that drum corps is finally catching up to?
  14. The audio of every discernible moment of every show should be able to be applauded for its performance. Obviously it’s not realistic to clap at everything, but you theoretically should be able to. There’s nothing to clap for upon hearing a recorded sentence.
  15. Yep. As far as I can tell only the Crossmen have the hornline play during the first sound of the show in one of the four orders, so a grand total of .25 corps. Happy to be proven wrong.
  16. Do you honestly think there’s diversity on the field today? The first minute of practically every show is the same.
  17. Has there ever been a narration-driven show theme in drum corps that wasn’t trite and insipid like this?
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