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It will probably be TCNJ. Good field with slightly high box.

You are definitely new around here. It's a joke.

Seconded?

The Philadelphia area is due for 12 inches of snow as well as half of New Jersey.

Then count out Cavaliers. Though they don't fully operate on form, during the last few weeks of the season, they talk about form. Dot still has precedence.

Asphalt Cocktail is a great piece. I'd love to see it on the field. It does feel like a piece that Cadets or Coats could pull off (though I err on the side of Cadets).

Couldn't find enough quality players/marchers to fill the spots so they cut back down to 72.

Very true. Would you say seeing an orchestra and seeing a rock band is a concert? There are different styles of music being played and the audience expects such and such music. Would you tell an orchestra to play something with bop? It was merely an example. I assumed you read the rest of this thread. To play such hits from artists like the ones you mentioned, the rights to perform would have to be bought at a much higher price than say something from Ticheli simply because of the music industry. There are also pay-per-performance fees which would require you, the audience, to pay considerably more because one corps at the show is playing an arrangement of, for example, Superstition. You would have to pay more than you pay to see a drum corps show of today. No one's arguing that really. Just the logistics of using said bop music.

Concerts? You mean like in an indoor venue like a hall? This is completely different from that. Even if you said rock concert, this is different from that. On another note, I'd be fine if drum corps were entertaining with what you say is "bop." However, would you be willing to pay a lot higher prices just to hear Superstition on the field at just one show? There are multitudes of reasons why drum corps don't go for "boppy" songs. They generally have a high price to pay or there might not be enough substance to be competitive on a decent level. Whatever the reason, it is not so that you are dissatisfied. Drum corps will still try to entertain with whatever music they want.

Sparknoted

Today's popular music, in my opinion, seems much too simple to create a substantial product not only to appease the current drum corps fans, but also mainstream listeners. Designers could only do so much, in regards to arranging, in adapting a song of a beat, drone sounds, and a singer.

Not be a Negative Nancy, but you should be able to use correct punctuation any time of the day. It is the English language after all and you use it every day.

Many people advocate learning the baritone. They say it's the "easiest to learn." Personally, I enjoyed learning mellophone. It took work to build up the chops, though not as much as a trumpet, but it was still quite doable. Also, playing mellophone makes you listen more as a musician IMO. Baritone seems to be the choice of woodwinds everywhere because of the embouchure set up. My friend managed to play baritone for only one season and made Cadets the next.

I'd choose C.

The second one seems self-explanatory.

Not necessarily. The Breathing Gym is a compilation of exercises. Sure, every hornline has its own regimen of breathing, but this is a specific program.

Smack!

I believe that's why BD has such great marching. Have you seen Mars? It's quite rough.

Ouch.

I thought Chris had aged out. I guess not.

If I recall, one of them was an age-out.

At Phantom, you can be a conductor, just not head conductor.

Correct.

Tradition. Our drumline did that one day for rehearsal. The tan....errr...burn lines were interesting.

Percussion or brass?