Phantombass

i was speaking in terms of the judge's sheets from last night... i don't speak on anyone's behalf but my own. I know every corps' member's work their ##### off... just joking around... no need to take it overly seriously...

PR: 19.85, world champions... corps' saviors BD: 19.00, also rans... corps' demise (Said in jest, with 10% seriousness implied)

subdivision. practice measure after measure of playing just the second and third note of a set of sixteenth notes or just the third subdivision of a grouping of triplets. At the Div3 level you aren't going to need chops or technique coming in neccessarily. timing is going to be of the most importance to them.

New York State Field Band Association. NYSFBA; that's the New York group that oversees the marching band activity at the high school level.

Star Rochester Patriots Bridgemen Skyriders

looks like there won't be a repeat for the team from Rockford... :( Are devs really that sick this year?

Thanks for the review... I'm waiting to see anything till semi-finals in my local theater :( but was wondering if anyone knew why SCV got the one point penalty?? Thnks guys-

'97 Cadets released a casette tape, a fellow drummer in my H.S. band let me get ahold of it. Then I got my hands on a VHS copy of the 97 PBS broadcast. After viewing that I remembered (barely) watching the 95 PBS broadcast and wondering what (why) was it on tv? Listened to the Cadets tape like a ton, had a cadence, an early season run through of the 97 show (pre-crazy horn run at the show's beginning), and a copy of the 96 finals. Marched 98-2001.

Was bingo revenue dropping all sue to smoking? Or was the Foxwoods casino an issue as well? Being a former Rochester Patriots member, as well as East Coast Jazz member, it's annoying to see these eastern corps struggling with bingo issues. (Coming to think of it, being a former Syracuse Brigadiers member, it sucks to see them struggling due to bingo issues...) I hope ECJ comes back in '08...

with 6 kids you'd have to do 3 basses, 2 snares and 1 quad. Is it possible to bump an interested flute over to bassdrum to march 4? In my experiences many decent bass drummers come from a woodwind back ground, they'd probbably be good on a drum 2 (for most m.b.'s of that sizes writing difficulty) due to their good timing/rhythm, drum one should be a young player whose chops you want to build up for snare, bottom bass a larger kid, even if they are good, and if they say they think its the easy part, bulk their notes up for them, in closing I'd never stack basses, and btw, Blast and Corps "all-stars" are indeed both "all stars", so unless your kids are chop monster "all-stars" no way.

poole for sure... and goodhart?

Tar Heel Sun from the summer of 1998, first year out, loud, clean and until the final week of the season undefeated in DIV. 2, but by that Wednesday final, ECJ, Spartans and the Rochester Patriots had passed them, 4th in finals, a week prior undefeated. The moral of the story: Don't count your chickens.

28 could be done, but with a full dci hornline I'd avoid it at all costs... need that deep bottom bass boom. I actually think only a handfull of corps use 32's, 30 is usually the standard.

black max on the snares and evans on the basses is pretty generaly regarded as the way to go.... tenor head selection i don't know about so i won't comment on

how far back are you talking... I got into it in like '97 and don't remember a site named that... but maybe i'm wrong.