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Not necessarily... Lee Beddis is a signature artist for Vic but he's the Caption Supervisor for an Innovative Sponsored corps. Too many people forget that drum corps is a business, and sometimes decisions have to be made in the best interest of that business. They wouldn't have switched if there wasn't a good reason. That is all...

1. Fruit breaks (Especially when used as a meal replacement) 2. Waking up as the bus was pulling into the housing site just as the sun was coming up. 3. Taco Salad....right before ensemble. 4. Running on a concrete track. 5. Circle Drill 6. Visual Runthroughs 7. Freezing Rain in July 8. Banging your shins on the footrest of the bus seat in front of you. 9. Wet shoes 10. Leaky Trash Bags on the Bus 11. "The Game" after midnight I'll think of more later.

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I have not, but I do have a pretty interesting story about listening to drum corps in my car. In my town we have pretty strict noise pollution laws and one day I just happened to be driving to work with my windows down effectively blasting Vanguard 99. Well...my luck with police officers finally ran out (I had never had any sort of traffic violation ever at this point...never even been pulled over), so I freak out as the police officer approaches my car. I expect to hear the "Licence and Registration" spiel, when something happens that completely catches me off guard....the police officer leans in and asks "Is that 99 Vanguard?" Thoroughly scared crapless at this point I do a doubletake and he proceeds to repeat himself. Finally I answer his question to which he responds "What else you got on you?" Turns out, this officer had an uncle who marched 27th Lancers and had grown up totally immersed in the drum corps culture. To me, this totally confirmed the theory of how small this world really is, and we spent the next 20 minutes chillin' on the side of the road talking drum corps. We actually meet up for drinks every now and then as well, and we co-hosted a psuedo party for this past years ESPN2 broadcast. And I didn't even get a ticket! I very rarely have the oppurtunity to share that story, good thing I read this thread.

Breathe-Dah relates more to the development of taking a proper breath, setting the embouchure, creating proper shape and size in the aperture, correctly forming the "ah" syllable, and proper use of the tongue to produce a clean, distinct start to notes. It doesn't really apply to where within the phrase you breathe, but rather how you do it, as the "where" is always relative. Not sure where you where trying to go with this, but if you were trying to discredit the Breathe-Dah method, you failed... And by the way, yes, it is Pixie Dust. Also, I vote it should be added as the 12th commandment. That is all.

Exactly...well said, Mr. Boo. There are always posts that center around the same fact but it's something that too many people just don't want to get through their heads... Kids will go march where they want to march, no matter what the show is, who the instructors are or how much (or how little, in the case posed by the original poster) it costs. jwillis35, I dig what you're saying, but the original poster did not imply: 1. that these were the only two corps in DCI offering free tuition. 2. that the fictional member was changing midseason. Many people have touched on the rule that members can't change corps after a certain date. If this is in a contract signed by the member, there is no dillemma here. However, what I took from the post was "is it fair for a member to march one season with a corps offering free tuition, and then the next season a 'better' corps offers free tuition, it's not fair for him to go march the better corps; he should stay where he's at." This ultimately goes back to, once again, if Johnny Marcher works hard to make the "better" corps, regardless of costs, and makes it, who are you to say that he shouldn't march there because he made a commitment to a different corps the PREVIOUS season. Now, I'm all about corps loyalty, but if a kid's dream is to march Vanguard, why would you try to stifle that? I mean, be honest. When you first got into drum corps, where you really thinking about who the mello tech at corps a was, or were you thinking about how awesome Phantom's (or any corps that you really like) hornline was? It's easy to evaluate things after the fact when we're not marching anymore, but think about it from the member's point of view. So yeah, it's my birthday, and I'm on DCP. Time fix that. Off to Hooters!

Umm...people change corps all the time season to season. If all corps offered free tuition (which is what I'm assuming you're implying), then it would be expected that more people would audition and therefore, the harder someone would have to work to be accepted into the corps. If Johnny Marcher was a tenor player at Corps A, then decided he wanted to go march Corps B for his age out, who are you to say that's wrong? So, I guess what I'm saying is, what's your point?

**The use of Phantom Regiment in this post was purely demonstrational and in no way is a reflection of any of their actual policies or inner workings** I am not aware of any groups that get paid to use equipment. Many in the position of being the top of the activity are given better deals on prices and access to newer equipment, but I'm almost positive that there are no groups that are directly paid by sponsoring companies. There could be some under the table stuff going on somewhere, but I'm speaking in terms of legit support. While this is true in terms of potential members saving money, basically what I understand you as saying is "If Johnny sucks, don't make him pay the audition fee just in case he doesn't make it, even though he's recieving a facility to use (including water, showers, lights, etc.), instruction, and possibly food. That way, he can take he can just use that money somewhere else." Sort of a Robin Hood way of taking from Phantom and giving the money to corps X....not very fair to Regiment is it? The fact of the matter is, kids will go where they want to go. If a kid is dead set on marching Phantom and he's willing to pay the fee for camps or auditions or whatever you want to call it, that's his own business. And the truth is, you WILL walk away having learned something from an audition camp, so the experience, even if you don't make it, is still worth it from an educational point of view. Who are you or anyone else to tell someone where they can or can't audition? Also, many staff members look not only for raw talent right out of the gate, but the ability to develop and get better over time. It is at the discretion of the educational staff in charge or auditioning these kids who stays and who goes. Yes there have been stories of people getting "strung along", and that's inevitable. However, it's the member's decision if he/she sticks it out through the process. Many people go through the entire winter (and sometimes the entire summer) as alternates, and that's just the name of the game. I do understand what you're saying, but unfortunately as many previous posters have said, things are NOT free these days. Things cost money, and financial responsibility within the membership is a substantial part of whether or not a corps goes on tour every summer. I know that post was somewhat random and jumped a tad bit, but I think I summed up my opinion nicely.

It was really good. It was a real clinic on the part of the Co-Caption Heads taking time to explain the use and reasoning behind their respective warmup programs. SCV was great as always. However, I could tell that they hadn't played the book together in 4 months (which is to be expected). Still, it was a great clinic and a great performance. Bravo to the Vanguard.

The DCI rep at PASIC this past weekend was saying that they finished the product last month but where unhappy with some of the editing and mastering and it should be fixed and shipped before December.

As with any corps, the audition camp visual process serves more or less as a period for the visual staff to "size you up" and see if you have what it takes physically to make it through the season. I would expect a pretty thorough overview of fundamental basics. I would advise you to start practicing holding your horn up and getting your endurance going. Other than that just keep a good attitude and get ready to get your butt kicked. I always remember being extremely tired coming home from camps.

Or where the weather can permit getting outside earlier in the season. Florida = much higher average temps than Boston = getting outdoors for physical training purposes = starting drill earlier All around benefits (excluding financial setbacks due to transporting equipment and staff down there every month), although I will agree that it's kind of "odd".

Other than manuevering around copyright issues, I don't see why it has taken this long to get the 2004 APD's up. There's really no reason the others shouldn't be up already. My best guess would be some sort of "clever" marketing strategy.

Eh they can get over it. After all, if you haven't gotten your roommate addicted to drum corps by this late in the semester, they deserve to get their face rocked every morning.

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