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TommySopranoContra

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    2004 - 2011 DCI
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Star of Indiana The Cadets, Phantom Regiment, Santa Clara Vanguard,
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    1989 SCV, 1990 Star, 1991 Star, 1996 Phantom, 2000 Cadets
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    2000
  • Location
    Northeast
  • Interests
    Well... I'm in HS and I play soprano, contra, mello, and quints. <br />Favorite shows<br />-2005 The Cadets - "The Zone: Dreamscapes in four parts with a door"<br />-2005 Phantom Regiment - "Rhapsody"<br />-2004 Santa Clara Vanguard - "The Music of Scheherazade"<br />-2003 Blue Devils - "The Phenomenon of Cool"<br />-2003 The Cadets - "Our Favorite Things"<br />-2003 Phantom Regiment - "A Harmonic Journey"<br />-2000 The Cadets - "We Are the Future"<br />-2000 Santa Clara Vanguard - "The Age of Reverence"<br />-1999 Santa Clara Vanguard - "Inventions for a New Millennium"<br />-1998 Madison Scouts - "Power Pizzaz and all that Jazz"<br />-1997 The Cadets - "Celebration"<br />-1996 Phantom Regiment - "A Defiant Heart"<br />-1993 The Cadets - "In the Spring at the time when kings go off to war"<br />-1993 Star of Indiana - "Medea"<br />-1992 The Cadets - "To Tame the Perilous Skies"<br />-1991 Star of Indiana - "Roman Images"<br />-1991 The Cavaliers - "The Cavalier Anthems - Advent Collection"<br />-1990 Star of Indiana - "Belshazzar's Feast"<br />-1990 The Cadets - "Undiscovered Bernstein"<br />-1989 Santa Clara Vanguard - "Phantom of the Opera"<br />-1989 Phantom Regiment - "New World Symphony"<br />-1987 The Cadets - "Appalachian Spring"

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  1. TommySopranoContra
    I was forced to go to Drum major academy, where I missed a few days of drum corps (took a lot of string pulling). Let me tell you, you would have shot yourself coming straight from tour to the "detail atten hut" band geek mass with George N. Parks. His conducting sessions meant very little to the marching band, because we are a Drum Corps style marching band, Parks conducts as he were conducting 144 bpms for a concert band. Marching band these days need precise stuff, as you would learn much more from Drum Corps than Marching Band. My director marched from 1990-1993 and my assistant director marched 1998-2000. They both support the activity, actually my school has about 6 other kids besides me in Drum Corps. Every year they give a speech to the Drum Corps kids, of how it is very different to come back to marching band from a summer of corps.
  2. TommySopranoContra
    Some places stress more performance, education develops individually and naturally from there. Some places stress more education, the performance develops naturally from there in ensemble. They both work.
  3. TommySopranoContra
    I started when I was 15 in a division 2 corps. Boy was it different from marching band. I got used to drum corps but when I came back... I hated marching band, it completely made me hate the activity that I intially loved. It's very odd to come straight from finals to band camp with your tour stuff entact. I didn't understand why my peers let the heat affect their day so much. It wasn't even hot by DCI standards either :P There were more than a bunch of times that I contemplated quitting marching band. It the difference in the level of effort is probably what upset me the most. In the end I had to ask myself why I was comparing Marching Band to Drum Corps... :P So I just went along with it to have fun. Managing Drum Corps with an academically intensive Junior year is one of the hardest things I've ever encountered.
  4. TommySopranoContra
    I think they're slightly better than they were in 2000, to me I think the design has upped every year so the demand is upping too :P
  5. TommySopranoContra
    Well DUH you :P
  6. TommySopranoContra
    2006 Phantom Regiment is possibly my favorite phanotm show ever. It is absolutely amazing. What an amazing finals performance, they were on fire.
  7. TommySopranoContra
    I liked the Cavaliers show :)
  8. TommySopranoContra
    God ###### all of you keeps screaming about differing opinions Steve Irwin died! Who cares! ..... Go Phantom 2006
  9. TommySopranoContra
    what'ever their show is, the cadets' colorguard will always be one of the best.
  10. TommySopranoContra
    You know me for too long
  11. TommySopranoContra
    A lot of times they care a lot about marching. Because if you can't march, everyone will be able to hear your feet through the horns. In that case, mind as well throw out tone, intonation, articulation, precision out the window
  12. TommySopranoContra
    hello much?
  13. TommySopranoContra
    Tossup Phantom or Cadets
  14. TommySopranoContra
    You sound quite surprised all of a sudden that this is happening like right now. I dunno maybe something like Crown 04 and BD 05 might ring a bell. Let me point out that 2006 Cadets... is not doing anything ground breaking. Singing, Amping, Narration? Crown, SCV, BD are all culprits of these new things. Sure it's an opinion but saying it like that makes you look intolerable to thngs. Like I told you before, it's better to force yourself to enjoy something rather to cut off all possibility of toleration. For crying out loud, they're the Cadets. They create some of the most over designed shows. Try to just ignore the amping, narration and singing. Besides those things, I'm sure you can enjoy the percussion, the hornline, the drill, the guard. And if you can't ignore simple AMPing, that automatically means you're not giving the show chances.
  15. TommySopranoContra
    Isn't most of music score comes from the uniformity of technique? Everything else like intonation, tone quality, and other things are added in the high number boxes once you get the foundational stuff down. I could eb wrong.
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