HornlineDiva

Semantics: When you just want to ##### about something.... I'm willing to play this game. School: 1: an organization that provides instruction: as a: an institution for the teaching of children from m-w.com So, since children do participate in drum corps, and if you want to include young adults as children....... faculty, staff, and tuition it is. GASP.

I have a DCI Class of '05 pin that I got at age-out.

I marched with Amy, too! Watch their video, it's really great. It even has a brief rehearsal clip in it.

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That was pretty irresponsible, and the original poster's response was certainly understandable, but I kinda feel like some people here are overreacting. I highly doubt they'll do it again, as they probably feel really terrible. I did that once when I was in high school. Our house was wide open all day. My parents just calmly said to try to remember to make sure it shut - and I did. No harm, no foul. No yelling, no reminding, no childish attempts to "teach me a lesson". Doors sometimes bounce open when you think you've shut them. Like I said, I'm sure they feel guilty enough as it is. If I was them, and I had to hear about one mistake over and over from someone hosting me after a long day of corps, it wouldn't exactly make me want to change my behavior. They're DCI kids, so they probably wouldn't make the same mistake twice.

No, I agree.... maybe melody is the new black. I hope so. I didn't even recognize the Biebl this year in PR's show until it was over. :( That's kind of interesting. I hadn't thought of it that way, but that's a pretty valid argument. Or.... did the increasing number of drill sets and impressive, high-speed moves cause the choppy arranging? Or did the birth of hip-hop influence the general public's taste in (and attention span for) music? The world may never know. :)

The face of the guard girl at the end of the show. This is the show that made me march, btw. It has sentimental value. Even if they are "letting loose" with tone quality at the end, and kind of a visual mess. I think most people just like the horn book. Maybe that's just the hornline people, but it's a very musical show, and if they're good at anything, it's being musical.

Breathe-dah improved my sex life and helped me lose 100 lbs. It also cures cancer and fights terrorism.

I'm pretty sure I didn't see a flashing "sarcasm" sign. I'm also pretty sure I'm aware that gush-and-gos are ridiculous.

A gush-and-go is when the corps puts down their equipment, runs to their water jugs, drinks as much water as they can in about a minute or two, and then runs back out to the set they last stood in, picks up their instruments and gets at attention to start cleaning again. They try to give less of those in the south, where 5 minute water breaks are needed more.

Sunscreen in drum corps is a bunch of crap. You apply it in the morning, and even the sweatproof stuff is gone in a few hours. There's never enough time to reapply, even during meals. There's barely enough time to even eat during a meal. We can't reapply during gush-and-gos because you basicly have to choose between water and sunscreen. You can't even do it during water breaks. Why? Because you're supposed to apply most sunblock 15 minutes before exposure onto DRY, clean skin. When is anyone's skin dry and clean for those entire 10 weeks? I used to try to cover myself with that stuff more than most, more out of fear of wrinkles and aging than cancer. But I don't think anyone's skin stands a chance against this activity. I wear SPF 50 every day now to try and make up for it.

No. It would be like it never happened after the show was over.

... and have it not count towards the score, what would you do? Drag your horn around on a string? Take a nap on the 50? Play only during rests? Run behind a guard member and mock their dance skillz? Drink tequila out of your shako? Trade instruments? Oh, wait, that's what retreat was for. Seriously, though, I would probably wear a BD uniform during a Cadets show. That would be pretty funny.

I rank two of my former DC instructors as two of the most important teachers I have ever had. I learned a lot about music and pedagogy from them. Most, though, I wouldn't consider teachers, just because I didn't personally learn anything of value from them. Music block feels so much like an indoor ensemble rehearsal sometimes, so what's the difference? The caption heads tell you one thing, then they go back to their own bands for a week in July and tell them the exact same things. So, why is one teaching, and the other just 'instructing"? Semantics: The #1 Hobby of DCP

No, like, assignments that had to be written out and turned in. They were corrected and returned to us. We joked that we were going to fail drum corps and have to go back to real school. I'm certainly not complaining... I'll never forget placements again.