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thefrontensemblenerd

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Carolina Gold
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Crown, Phantom, Bluecoats
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    Crown 08, 05, 09 Bloo 08, 10, 12, 13, 15 and Phantom 08, 10, 11, 12
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    '08, '15
  • Gender
    Male

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  1. Carolina Gold, a DCA corps has a necklace with a golden ring and a show bead. Some sections will have beads specific to them but the hornline does a black bead as theirs every year I think. Every member receives a "piece of Carolina Gold" after the first show.
  2. As of right now Carolina Gold has Yamaha drums and a mix of Adams and Dynasty for the front ensemble.
  3. Carolina Gold uses Dynasty trumpets and tubas and King mellos and baris, IIRC.
  4. Bushwackers Bluecoats 2006-2015 Sunrisers Fusion Core Phatom 2010 Crown 2008, 2005 Madison (other than that one year I forget which)
  5. As far as Psychology goes...the only shows I can think of are 1988 Suncoast, 2010 Cavies, 2014 Blue Knights or even 2013 Blue Devils. But some of those are a stretch even. If you want something that will stir up a discussion however, I highly recommend this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IUX0Qy-IDM
  6. To hopefully help clear this up, as a member of a drum corps front ensemble I as an individual and the front ensemble have more of a job today than say 10 years ago to contribute to the overall package of a drum corps show. We don't just stand there and play because... that would be pretty boring, in all honesty, but we definitely do not dance to the music we are working with. We "pulse" which is used as a timing mechanism as well as a way to show the crowd that we are actually enjoying what we are doing. Because light travels faster than sound, we use pulsing and prepping (the up and down motion of the mallets dictated by the center marimba to tell the members of the pit when to play their assigned parts) as tools to keep time in the crazy listening environment that is modern drum corps. In my teaching, the center marimba watches the drum major, dictates the tempo and the rest of the ensemble watches to keep time, while everyone is also listening back to the drum line. In addition to pulsing, some front ensembles (see Cavies or Bluecoats) also add visuals into the playing to add to the effect of the show and some even go as far as almost acting (Phantom 2014/13) however that is not how I was taught so I do not know much about how all that works. Long story short, we pulse in order to keep time as an ensemble as well as to not look bland in front of all the movement and color that is happening behind us. Just a comment from someone who fell in love with that section of a drum corps and eventually was a member of that section!
  7. Reading, PA show we got a standing O even though we had an off day, Home show crowd gave us a huge applause even though the show was delayed 2 hours, a torrential downpour, a tornado the county over and drizzle while we performed. That weekend was one of my fondest memories of this summer, right up there with Finals weekend. Surprisingly we didn't get as much applause at DCA Prelims/Finals, and because I am in the front ensemble I found myself performing for scowling faces and shaking heads..and some people even laughing as if they were making fun of my corps... The rest of that weekend was amazing, however.
  8. This year when Caballeros ripped my face off at the end of the show. The Latin section in Crown's 2010 show Crown 2005. Bucs faux company front this year (I got so frustrated I nearly threw a tantrum ) My finals run this year.
  9. It was truly an honor to perform underneath those lights on Sunday, being the last Drum Corps to perform in the 2015 season. No words could ever describe the feeling that I got after pouring my heart out on that field with my corpsmates.. I guess you could say I felt the ''Rush''
  10. Got home at around 1:30 Tuesday morning. Good thing I slept on the bus!
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