Einstein On The Beach

No man, kids like him need to march the most :P

I actually think the polar opposite. If you're pursuing music, stay home and practice, whatever craft you may be studying. Of course that's just my radical view. But yeah, you have to actually march to get the full scope of why people go back again and again. They're usually pretty special people. You should march...

I apologize to drum corps fans if I think trumpets sound better like this.. http://youtube.com/watch?v=-6u22A_Xy2E Than like this.. http://youtube.com/watch?v=uKfSNnDIsZk Like, can you seriously not realize how disgusting that sounds? That's a middle school tone at best. By the way, this guy is really #### good! If he doesn't get gigs, well then...####. Good idiomatic sound, great approach it seems. Granted he's just playing loud and high, he could be terrible, but I can just tell by his tone that he's better than all these other jokers I've seen on youtube, or people I've beaten in auditions.... PS: I just want to make it completely clear that I'm not trying to make some kind of "classical playing VS jazz playing" argument when it comes to approach to playing. No way am I of that school of thought, before someone accuses me of being a classical snob or something nutty like that.

I just came back from a marching band competition where the groups played nothing but Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi and Earth Wind and Fire. I think that's where that stuff should stay.

Huh?

Jazz is a bit more musically and psychologically demanding than playing some scales really fast. That's why some corps have played jazz phenomenally and others have been, for lack of a better word/phrase "L7"

That sounds more like Beef O'Bradys than drum corps

Well that's unnecessary. There are so many benefits in drum corps from on a non-musical standpoint that if the circumstances are right, I definitely encourage people to do it if they have an interest. Drum corps doesn't need to change for the others, they just go to other things and go on with their lives. It's no big deal, not everyone was meant to march, nor should drum corps people feel that they're somehow superior because of it. "Non-characteristic" would be the phrase to use. However, disgusting sounds are just disgusting sounds, no matter what the idiom. "But it's jazz, it's not supposed to sound good" -Ubiquitous high schooler remark

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when many corps were boy scout troupes, or factions of Catholic churches and whatnot, weren't the corps "staff" a hodge-podge cracker jack group of people from around the city. The local fireman could be your brass instructor, etc etc some may have not have even had musical training. Also, is it not true that many people also did not know how to read music, and the general brass pedagogy was "blow your brains out"? I mean, this is just what I've been told by numerous instructors who marched in the 60s up through the 90s (granted, things obviously started getting A LOT better in the 80s). I would certainly regard mashing the horn into your face and blowing as much air as possible as bad fundamental brass playing technique. By the way, are you a brass player? I just want to be sure, cause I'm a tad confused by your name, and I don't want to accidently say something that might insult you. I'm all for fairness. I meant if the kid expresses interest in, say, pursuing a performance career, and wants to pursue a performance degree in college. If someone who wants to do french horn performance and asks me if I think they should do drum corps, I'd probably suggest not doing it. They'd be a lot better off doing something else with their summers. Life is all about setting goals and then prioritizing. Besides, "Marching chops" means jack squat if your high school's ensembles can't even make state, but this isn't a discussion on that. And one other thing, avant garde chops?

There's going to be a Wine and Cheese Party at the next Allentown

That's unfortunate. However, this hardly represents every situation. College marching bands of all things come nowhere close to drum corps or a lot of things really, nor should they, it's not their purpose/mission statement.

But you can get even better by going through other means... It depends on the context and what the future may hold for the student, because I wouldn't hesitate to tell someone not to march.

Same here

Touche, sir I was pretty surprised by Glassmen and the Blue Stars. They're great. Everyone's great.

No thanks

He was under severe conditions and restrictions. Didn't exactly make him happy, actually tormented him his entire life.

Oh don't worry about Cowtown, he's just a marytr

I didn't know Mistoffilies was a professional musician

What, like accounting?

How could I of all people be wrong, I'm always right about everything :'(

Hmm, really? My b

A thread about uniform tops has more posts than this. Pretty disheartening.

Uh oh, cowtown's gonna release a bomb in this thread tick tick boom

Yeah, tell that to Shostakovich

1) Bb trombones don't exist, they're in C. If they DO exist they aren't in wide scale use, if it all 2) Studio is not a pretentious word for a studio of musicians in a college, this is pretty standard vocabulary. Next you're going to say that the term "University" is pretentious because it implies that the school encompasses the universe, or whatever rationale you or someone else may decide to use. 3) There's a reason why so many different key bases developed for various wind instruments, mostly because they aren't as malleable as string instruments, but I'm not even going to get into that now. I'll just put out there that there's a reason there are Bb, C, Eb, E, and F trumpets. There's a reason a french horn is actually an F and a Bb horn, there's a reason the trombone is in C, that an alto sax is in Eb, reasons for all of them. Google it. Oboe and piccolo players make more money than any snare player I know.