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  1. some battle...where is everyone?
  2. Being a fellow 'horn major' and also mello in DCI, I can say this with absolute truth (on MY part, anyway). Mello kicks your HORN chops' ###! You come back to the horn and find you're absolute crap at it. The mello is basically like a big trumpet (note the BASICALLY, I know its really not) and like a trumpet- everything is different. Its a different embouchure, a different mouthpiece placement, a different head angle, and different breathing as well. If you play on a trumpet mouthpiece, or a proper mello mouthpiece (ie- Benge Mello 6), it also affects your lips- it makes your 'ring' a lot fatter than it should be, and that affects tone quality. I am a HUGE believer in marching with an adapter and your horn mouthpiece, if you are a horn player. If you're a trumpet player, go for the right mouthpiece for you. Also- having to do with the harmonic series, the trumpet and mello's partials are much much closer than that of the Fhorn. Displaced by about an octave, I believe- that ocatave is a BIG BIG difference in the distance between partials. So when you play mello- you go back to your horn and are slippin and slidin all over the partials- you can't find them- you're too used to them being closer. That's why I think it is a hinderance to 'horn' playing. But as for the obligatory intonation problems- horns have 'em too. Look at all that friggin tubing we have to tune! blimey- I knew there was some reason for our hands in the bell... :P you can not escape out of tune-ness... :) The "i don't like the sound' bit- I love the mello sound. When played properly, it has a very lovely singing tone, which adds a lot to the marching ensemble. "its too bright"- depends on how you play it- all brass instruments can be bright, respectively. Besides- being brighter than a Fhorn was kind of the point- they didn't manuver the whole horn around back in the beginning of the mello getting the bell to point frontwards to make it quieter... B) "The concept of walking while playing....I just never got that." - Dr.Tritle, my horn prof (can you tell he's anti marching band/corps? Especially corps...THAT was an interesting conversation, when I first revealed my intent to march Colts... ) FIN
  3. practice! you love it! lol play it so much its impossible to get wrong. :P
  4. I am biased, of course- but I do think that Colts' uni's were the best. The yellow against the black made them really pop out on the field, and the way the skirts moved when they had underbody work was great- esp. during the dance segs. The way they were cut made everyone look good, too.
  5. I know that there is a "Drum Corps Story" in another forum- but there are TONS of times on tour where you go off in sectionals! So- here goes- have fun! One day on tour....
  6. My vote is for the Troopers- there was just a huge schpiel on DCI.org about how they want to stay a traditional "drum corps" - or something along those lines....
  7. Where do you find wood coloured rifles? Like the ones in Phantom's opener this year. I absolutely love them, but can't find them!
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