cymbal_steve
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You were right about ussba ! Cool !! I might just join that circuit !!!
BOA includes percussion with music as part of the 'Field Music' sheet...but one of the considerations for judging the sheet (you're gonna hate this one) is :
RHYTHMIC ACCURACY !!...........DOH !
Why would anyone hate the term rhythmic accuracy?
I also posted a question a little further back about WGI. When was the last time you were at WGI? Do you feel that WGI is a positive or negative experience on the activity as a whole?
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When/where is this proposal being presented?
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You're right...the WGI terminology has done just wonders for our acrtivity !
When was the last time you were at WGI?
Do think that WGI has been a positve or negative influence on the activity as a whole?
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I agree the Cabs and Bucs were close and are fine lines. Either one of them could have taken it.
Ahhhhh.........I finally feel like we are getting to the heart of the matter..............
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So...........when are you guys with your master plan going to submit this to rules congress?
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I don't even want to think about how cymbal lines would be treated in this plan.......
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Boy, I was hoping this would turn into a G vs. Bb thread.......maybe we could debate amps as well........
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Congrats Bucs!
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Anybody have a link to the judges for tonights show?
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####, I always miss the good stuff........
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Do you walk to school or pack your lunch?
Just remember, you can lead a horse to water, but he's worth two in the bush.
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Maybe the guy running the scores to the coffee house for uploading got sidetracked by the funnel cake stand backfield...
Score guys are at Yocco's.
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I was on tour from July 16-29...also worked at the Cincy show.....two full weeks by myself is enough! My son has a soccer game at 7:30 am tomorrow and as strange as this sounds....my dog is flying in from Iowa at 9:30 am....I'm not kidding.
DW
I was checking out the drums at the Bensalem show in the lot. Tom was busting my balls, I told him I'd bring the cymbal line over in 10 minutes........
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Anyone know if the show got started on time (6:30pm)? If so, we should be getting some scores very soon. I have to go to bed early tonight though!!!!!!
DW
You mean your not working the truck?
I thought I'd get a chance to see you tomorrow night.
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Quit crushing your diddles?
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Good thing there is a shower there, that could get ugly. I'll bring my ball.
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Just wanted to point out that I am enjoying this thread. I'd say that visual is the area in the activity right now with the most room to grow. Let's not forget the relevance of using form to feature different groups musically and visually (guard moment).
To the original poster, do you write drill now? Do you aspire to?
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I read about 20 pages and didn't see the Bluecoats "contra pig pile" on the 50 yard line from the 2001 Indy Afternoon show. It was a follow the leader snake formation and I was near the tail end. I was looking at the DM and I could see the line of contras marching backward in front of me. Then, one by one, I saw large silver objects fall to the ground. b**bs The funny part is that night, we watched the tape of the incident from the high cam and you couldn't tell it happened. Our uniforms blended in the the Colts (football) helmet logo on the 50 so it just looked like the line disappeared.
As the staff felt like they were going to vomit in the stands.........
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Now, this isn't a goof-up or thing of that sort. This took place on the track, AFTER a performance:
Again, my memory is fuzzy at best, so anyone else who remembers this, please feel free to chime-in...
I think it was 2000 in Burlington, IA. Either way, it was that stadium that has a VERY STEEP ramp that corps' enter through. So, I remember another time at the same venue that it was simply a refusal to unlock the back gates, but hey, who am I to complain... Now for a setting, the stadium was one of those weird, old venues where the front track gives access to the seats and the concessions are down by the field house. Needless to say, fans and members are all milling about while the next corps prepares.
So I believe it was Glassmen that was following us or Boston. Either way, we were finished until retreat (which was probably DM only, but I forget) and I'm standing midway up the HUGE HILL and speaking with our drill writer, Rich Templin.
Now, I know we all remember a day when many groups had mere lawn tractors to haul their pit trains. I think we had JUST gotten our ATV only weeks before - until then it was always that good ol' mower (or manpower). EVEN with our ATV our carts were taken down one at a time - the hill was just too steep.
SO I look up and nudge Rich for him to see Glassmen bringing their train down all at once - and on a fairly ghetto-looking tractor at that. No sooner does the train all enter the gate that this poor guy driving realizes what a terrible mistake he has made. The brakes failed almost immediately and this guy is yelling for all the people going for snow cones to MOVE, FAST. Luckily, no one was injured although I think the driver was thrown when he T-boned his John Deere.
So where is all this going, you may ask?
All I gotta ask is: Anyone else ever seen a few Tympanis go shooting down a hill at about 20 mph, occassionally bouncing, say, 3? 4? feet in the air?
We were so thankful that no one was injured, but man, watching those drums bounce was frickin' SWEET! B)
I was backfield listening to tapes with Larry, we almost got out of the back stands because we thought a tymp was coming at us. I think Crossmen were on the field, they had some looks on there faces.
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From a design point of view, the transition from the opener to drum solo and the drum solo to the ballad are some of the best deigned moments I've seen.
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If that was so, then DCA wouldn't have a "best showmanship" award at Finals retreat. The style of individual performers in DCA is more accepted than in DCI, let's say - and in DCA, it's not only more accepted, it's rewarded.
The fact is, most of them are probably trying to get that award.
I'm not condoning it, but it's a possibility.
Except none of the hanging over sops got the showmanship award last year...... ^0^
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Thanks for the props guys.
Rich has written the cymbal book for Bucs the past 3 years. Dan Delong wrote the book for the Bluecoats in 2001.
This will be my first summer not teaching in a long while, I'm looking forward to catching as many plate lines as I can.
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I knew something made me want to read this thread today..........
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perc:
Dan Delong, Kevin Murphy, Jim Weaver, Steve Regner
Brass:
Mike Longdo, Donny Allen, Dave Hawthorne, Bill Perbetsky
Drill:
Rich Templin, Terry Martin, Eric Kitchenmann
guard:
Greg King, Tim Newlin and whoever was in charge of Sun 96
Thanks for the props bro. Who on this list is in charge of bringing the brew? NOT IT.
Am I the youngest on the list?
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I believe my original question was clear as day, but that's beside the point.
When was the last time you were at WGI championships?