surftenor

i aged out a long time ago. i don't appreciate you telling me how to represent the organization i helped form for your child to have the opportunity to experience. other than the lack of woodwinds, there is no discernible difference to the average civilian between marching band and drum corps. as far as they are concerned, they are the same thing. it's like going to a tango competition and calling it ballroom dancing. they are dancing in a ballroom, aren't they? i know it means a lot to all of us, but when you break it down, drum corps is just summer band.

get over yourself. it's band. it's just a more specialized, highly intensive form of band. ya bunch of myrons.

drum corps is band. get over it.

lol

sleep by eric whitacre.

when tenors are in proper playing position, it's almost impossible to NOT have them in the way of your marching. every season i marched, i had bruises on my quads (the muscles, not the drums) from my j-bars hitting every time i took a step.

vanguard also won in 98 with the tilt. way to do your homework, lsu grad.... also, how can it be a "gimmick" if it puts your hands in a more natural playing position? i don't get all of this hate for the tilt. that's how some people do it. get over it. if anything, it's MORE "correct" than playing on a flat surface with traditional grip.

to me the main difference in sound is in the tenors. maybe that's because i'm a tenor player, but put a set of pearls and a set of dynasties in front of me with the same heads, same tuning pitches, and i can pick out which is which every single time. people always say dynasty snares sound like tabletops, but that's because that's the way bd tunes their snares, and bd is dynsasy's posterchild. the reading buccaneers have been using dynasty percussion since 05, and they get a really nice snare sound. very different than bd. their quads, however, still sound the same.

actually, i react exactly that way. i'm very particular about drum tuning, and every brand sounds different. dynasty as a general rule lacks tone and body in the sound of their drums. the tenor design is awesome with the cradle connecting all the drums to one central piece, but the drums sound like boxes. and bd was dirty this year. shouldn't have won drums.

there was a thread about this on the drumhard forums. mike macintosh (bluecoats, carmel hs) chimed in on it. the reason you see some BOA high schools do this is because BOA finals are in a dome, so their shows are tailored for that venue. in a dome, the midvoice is the first one to be washed out. tenors=midvoice. he hasn't marched tenors in their outdoor program for a few years now, because their sound just gets lost in a dome.

to say that dutting is a crutch and that if drumlines were "real" musicians, they wouldn't need to do it is totally ridiculous. as someone else has pointed out, the difference between 2 trumpets attacking a 32nd note off and 2 snares attacking a 32nd note off is huge. battery instruments produce purely stacatto rhythmic sounds, so by nature there is more rhythmic precision needed to execute at a box 5 level for battery than the horns. yeah i'm opening up a can of worms here. get over it, ya freaking myrons. that being said, lots of lines do dut too loudly.

no. he was snare tech at bd while he was marching there. he tought one or two years at scv after ralph hardimon left, and then returned to bd as caption head.

no it's a different vent system. it's actually in the bearing edge ring. the ones in 03 were in the shell down by the bottom head.

yeah, word is their new drums are coming out sometime this summer. no official date yet. i think the drums sound great, but the design holds them back. the new designs are supposed to be top notch. and yes the quads are heavier than any others on the market. trust me.