old skool drmmr

https://regiment.org/percussion-design-and-leadership-team

It sure is! Let the rumors fly.

Crown's website announcement still lists Hannum on the creative team. I assume in an advisory capacity? This will be an interesting recipe.

Bold, unlikely to happen prediction: Crown hires Aungst, Aungst rehires Peterman et al

According to my sources, the impetus here was that Hannum decided to retire. And rather than promote Travis and his guys, they apparently decided to move on entirely. Probably to get someone with more of a big name.

I thought SCV's show was about as straight-forward as it gets. The seasons.

But they also have (that I know of) the highest tour fees out there, and in a lot of cases by a huge margin. It seems like both of those things shouldn't be true.

So can we ignore this Brasso myron and his uninformed conceptions of the evaluation of drumlines and get back to the discussion? Phenomenal year for percussion. My favorites were Crown, and the Blues (Knights, coats, & Devils).

Boston's look cool. Didn't realize they switched to Yamaha. This pic was posted in the uniform thread. I love these! The chrome Pearl logo on the snares is a nice touch.

Interesting - chrome on top with black tubes and bottom rims. Cool look. It really accentuates the sparkle fade.

If you could hear them at all, then yes, they were miced. Wirelessly, obviously.

I don't disagree with what you're saying, but the irony is in 2013 when they won gold with a 6th place percussion section, they still won Music Analysis and swept GE Music.

This is a weird hire to me. From what I understand, the vast majority of his design background has been either writing for battery or doing sound design. Not front ensemble writing. He has done it, but his highest profile gigs have been either battery (Mandarins, Arcadia HS) or sound design (MCM, PR). Perhaps he's actually primarily doing sound design, but the website lists him as the front ensemble arranger, which, since all the electronics are in the front ensemble, I guess is technically true.

I'd honestly say pretty close to 100% of the people auditioning for the Carolina Crown percussion section know exactly what high school WGI program Tom Aungst teaches. Almost anyone else in the WGI world, you'd probably be correct. But there's like 3 or 4 dudes where almost everyone would know.

This will mean good things for recruiting and retaining top-level players, as well. That has been a known issue in the last few years. Add to that the fact that Tom has a PROVEN record of cleaning the heck out of drumlines, and I'd say that the likelihood of them getting a LOT better in one year is high. That all being said, the battery executed at a much higher level in 2014 than they did in 2013, but they still didn't make much (if any) headway in numbers because the field was saturated with incredible drumming this past summer.