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I was lucky. my college band director just gave me his pyware. said he didn't use it anymore, so why not?

This man has succeeded at life

hehe, the ever-elusive triple negative! Had to read that one a few times.

i can flutter-tongue, but i like the throat-growl thing better. the sound you make when you pronounce the 'ch' in bach, loch, or whetever. not just the 'k' sound, but the gutteral sound that sounds like you're haukin (sp?) a lugie (also sp?). you hear the sound in the german language a lot. i hope i explained it well enough. anyway, i just make that sound and hold it out while playing the trumpet to get the growl sound. it's kinda hard, but practice a bit and you can get it sounding pretty good

hehe, i remember ...stu? was that his name? i just remember all the guys wanting to name it boner

hm... i'm Jared and i also play mello and 08 is also my ageout year. good times

I don't think it's genetic, cause some of us can learn it at age 20 by Mr. Burge. As far as the whole orchestra tuned to A-443 thing goes... so it's tuned to A-443. So what? I've heard sooooo many people say things like "this is tuned a little sharp, doesn't that bother you?". No. I can tell if a pitch is an A, I can tell if one's an A#, and I can tell if it's in between. Its not like A and A# are any better than than the pitch between them, it's just a different pitch.

I know some people who use preparation H too. Not cause they're allergic I don't think, they just prefer it. So you're not the only one. But I think I'll stick with my DCT.

I got accepted to a high level university because of it. What makes it even better was the fact that my ACT scores weren't even high enough to get in, but the band director said "don't worry about that, I'll get you in". Also got me the highest amount of scholarship available. Course, it helped that the director, while he never marched anywhere, was a huge scouts fan. When I went to the open house my senior year, the school had booths set up for all the departments, so I went over to the music department booth, and the band director was standing there. I told him I was innterested in being a music major and, since it was marching season, he immediately starts talking about the marching band. Here's our conversation (btw, I had just finished a summer with the Madison Scouts): Me: Hi, Are you the band director? Director: Yes I am. are you interested in being in band here? Me: Yeah Director: Well, our marching band is a great ensemble. We play a lot of standard and latin tunes. We use the hip-ball-change type direction changes and wear aussies instead of shakos... [blah blah blah etc etc]. We are a lot like the Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps, are you familiar with them? Me:...... yeah, he liked me from the start

well, that's the thing. he didn't hang around all season. he hung around only the final week or two.

hehehe I remember Peter..... So he's taken over Palise's role as the hobbit, huh?

ok, how bout this: I know a guy who back in the 90's went on the last week of tour with BD cause the staff was afraid they were going to lose a member or something, and if that were to happen he was to fill the hole. He never did, but still considers himself a blue devil. I never do know how to respond

I don't think any have a problem with it. talent's talent, first choice or not. some corps even recommend the cut auditionees to another corps. as for myself, I'll be playing mellophone for men of madison.

cool, thanks everyone. I just hope my guys can pull it off.

I can't remember which corps did it first. I think it was the Cadets, but I'm not sure. The sops are playing a feature shoulder to shoulder, then reach over and play each others horns. I was trying to find a clip of it cause my trumpet section is attempting it in our show this fall and I wanted to show them how it should look, but I didn't know which show it was. Anyone recall the corps and year?

When I play gigs, sometimes I have to play my Bb trumpet. Other times my C. Other times my Eb. Other times my piccolo. Other times my flugel. Many times I have to switch back and forth for one gig. Switching between keys isn't hard at all.

I need to quit reading DCP, and especially these topics about Madison. They're depressing me cause I can't march this summer. stupid school.....

Gotcha covered, man. I still remember their first appearance. Grabbing some water, and suddenly hearing a bari behind me yell "WHAT THE **** IS THAT?!" Boy, that was a long rehearsal...

mellos just have cooler parts, I think. unless you're a lead sop in a corps like Madison or BD. then I could maaaaybe understand wanting to play trumpet.

ok, I'm not sure how to post pictures, so this might not work. These were flying around us in Virginia after the sun set. Standing there listening to comments from the box and feeling a thud on your back and just knowing that one of them landed on you.... uuungh.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonfly and they're about 3-4 in long, too

AMEN! I bought a dozen or so for everydays my 2nd year. soooooo much difference from the first.

There's a show in.... I wanna say... Virginia? that there are signs facing the crowd that say "please hold your applause till the corps is done perfoming." Luckily, they didn't, but it always made me wonder; who decided to put those signs there and do they know absolutely nothing about drum corps?

i've only had one random meeting (which isn't surprising, cause I think the total drum corps population in Tulsa is like... 2 people) and it wasn't even in person. I've got a Madison sticker on my back window that's usually barely readable through the dirt that gets built up on my truck (I live on a dirt road). I came out of a bookstore once and found a message drawn in the dirt on my back window. It had an arrow pointing to the sticker and said "#### straight! -27th alum"

it's like a paradox in this case, the universe would collapse

It's still the case