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.

I got homework in drum corps. Seriously.

Yikes. No..... most of that is really amateur and wouldn't happen to a stable drum corps. That is not just "poo".... those things should never happen. I'm sorry you had that experience. Every single year it's gotten worse and worse. If this was JUST 2006, then people would have been willing to come back. I know of 3 kids so far that were willing to return. And all of the staff, as far as I know, refuses as well. Did you even read this whole thread? We used to have a running joke about the corps folding my rookie year. This was not just 2006. I loved my time with Capital Regiment, but I know that drum corps doesn't have to be the way it was for us. I know I didn't get the full experience I deserved, and neither did my friends. It does not have to be a summer of organizational nightmares. It shouldn't be. We shouldn't feel like we're being policed.

There is nothing that causes my soul to hurt more than doing tracking (especially on a hill) during afternoon block. There is just something about that block that's so depressing. How about tracking while the rest of the corps is rehearsing? That's just humiliating. Edit: Tracking uphill is just sick punishment. I watched our drumline do it for, I #### you not, an entire block. That's hours. That's right up there with 1 hour of circle drill. Isn't there something, I don't know, in the SHOW that we can be working on? I see the benefits of both, especially circle drill, but I don't think either deserve the time they're given.

I think jwscv87 hit the nail on the head. Anyone is going to fall in love with what theyre exposed to. I don't care whether you marched with the 165th Green Regiment of our Holy Name in Boise in 1950..... if you were in our shoes, and you grew up in HS marching band worshipping the Cavaliers and Phantom Regiment, you'd be all over modern drum corps. You'd still participate. You'd still love your summer. I think that our attachment to the past in this activity is the reason the fanbase is becoming so divided. As long as the activity stays the same, we can stil connect easily to one of the happiest times in our lives. That's why we get 100 threads a month about how cool it would be if DCI had a historic corps/historic league/DCA show, etc.... I don't blame anyone for fantasizing about it while they're at work or eating dinner. Our lives today are a far cry from our lives on tour. It's great that this activity can connect people to this part of their lives, and I don't think that it will stop providing that. But, I also think it's a little selfish to expect it to remain unchanged just for your own comfort. If anyone should get to have a say in the direction of DCI, it should be the current marching members. It's THEIR experience.... we're just there to watch and try to relive, IMO. This isn't directed to anyone at all in this thread, but the replies I've read made me think of this. I'm way OT, so I'll stop.

As an art history major, I am intrigued by this clue.

I think the combination of a traditional sound and an electronic sound is usually really cool. Take Eric Whitacre's new opera, for instance. Opera + full orchestra + chorus + electronic pulse = intense. http://www.paradiselosttheopera.com/intro.html If a corps could play over a beat like that, I'd be sold. Mahler + Prodigy? I'm there. I think it's a sound that a lot of people my age would respond to. Edit: Also, check out Whitacre's Myspace. The song "Sleep My Child" is from Paradise Lost, and I think it would make a good ballad, with just the electronic sounds in the background. Electronics could be just like any other effect in a show.... they don't have to me used the whole time.

No.... wait..... I just realized how my post sounds. I'm on your side! I meant funny, as in, it's funny how no one bothers to see how he's respected by his own drum corps. Not funny, as in "Oh, those silly Cadets!"

You know what's funny? ACTUAL Cadets..... you know, the people who know him better than most of us.... have a lot of good things to say about him. There are bad things too, but I hardly think he deserves a ridiculous facebook group. Or being punched in the face. :) Honestly, he probably just thinks it's funny. Why would he care what a bunch of non-Cadets thought? Just because you know his stances doesn't mean you know anything about his leadership skills, his management skills, or his personal skills. The man knows how to run a drum corps, and I don't think his stances on the future of the activity warrant this much sobbing and whining. It's such a small part of his contribution. If he was such an ########, the Cadets wouldn't have a successful corps. They'd be in the state that Capital Regiment is in.

I think judging by the music we've heard so far, combined with the promise of professional narration, as opposed to college kids who can't narrate, it could be really tight. I love Part I, and I managed to enjoy most of the Cadets show from this year, so I think it's safe to say that I'll enjoy most of - if not all of - 2007. If things have to change..... which they do..... maybe this show will be the *right* kind of change. Maybe the design team will find a balance between 2003 and 2006. Maybe I'm too optimistic...? Oh, and the announcer should be LaFontaine.

I marched with a few vets that felt they were entitled to a spot because they had been there for X number of years, and their attitudes weighed the corps down. JUST being there for 1, 2, 3, 4 years does not necessarily make you loyal. If a corps has a policy where vets are not required to audition, then those people could just be lazy and arrogant, not loyal. You have to weed those people out. Loyalty is stepping it up in the 3 months prior to the season, and the subsequent camps. If someone really cared that much, they wouldn't get cut. This is almost never a case of some veteran, starry-eyed 17-year-old martyr who is severed unceremoniously from the corps he loves to make way for some 21-year-old trumpet major. When the caption heads consider cutting a vet, they DO consider their status. They don't cackle, pull a lever, and watch the kid fall through a trap door. Sometimes their behavior and lack of ability trumps that status. If they have nothing to offer the corps, why should the get the privilege of being there? I'll say it again.... usually, no one misses those vets that got cut.