spanksregular

Maybe people tired of arguing about the same old ######## after 4 years

Huh? Cadets got a 99.15 that year...

100 strings? What orchestra were you in ? You are right though, orchestral brass players do have to play loud.......BECAUSE IT'S ONE ON A PART. And christ, listen to some Bernstein recordings, especially him with the NYP I believe playing Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, some of the brass sounds on that recording are pretty awful.

Bluecoats are going to get jumped, I'm calling it

You mean the Dallas Wind Symphony?

They can play however the hell they want, buddy

The Cavaliers play just fine, there's more to music than being yelled at

AMIRITE GUYS!? LAWL! Is what I said that off base? Really, American parents are way too obsessed with their children, it's really annoying.

I really hope the OP isn't a joke, I NEED this kind of bando around here to feel the brunt of my ＃＃＃holedom

Yeah, some college marching bands have half the people out of step, and others only have 30% out of step, come on people, get with the facts!

Wayne is pretty laid back though, definitely not like other Cadets staff. Maybe he was different at Cap Reg, but it can't be that much of a difference.

"If you don't want to work, pack your ####en ####, and GET ON A PLANE......You mean you paid over 2000 dollars to come here and do this HALF ***ED"

Eh, neither are the most constructive teaching devices

True that, holmes

It depends, we never worried about scores, so that wasn't even in the equation. In fact, it was rare that the staff even mentioned anything about scores to us, and even then those were normally in positive situations. As far as bad shows, if a section hacked on a soli, or something else went wrong like a timing tear, it really depended on the context. The separate captions always had different views, director might be mad, vis staff might be happy, brass staff could be happy, it really did depend. Granted, I can't remember the corps having such a terrible show that the staff was actually angry. Rehearsals and run-throughs, definitely.....oh definitely. Either way, it's not like we weren't a competitive top 12 corps, so there is no right or wrong answer to the question of how to run a group... I have friends that are marching at the Cadets as we speak, and I've known people that marched in the past. I haven't heard anything that's completely out there. Five hour blocks day to day during move-ins isn't out there, but it's still pretty #### hard.

By the way, I'm an adult, and I've had plenty of musical experience and study, I think I'm allowed to discuss certain aspects of things. I'm certainly not just pulling things out of my ###.

Actually, I wasn't surprised at all going in to it. I actually figured all drum corps were like mine when I was going through the winter season and move-in of my rookie season, THEN I got on tour and saw and interacted with other corps. I was more surprised by some of the other corps (not that what they do is wrong in any way). It depends. Sometimes staff members can take things too far, but those are isolated incidents. But the overarching idea of getting your ### kicked in drum corps, I think, is what the activity is about. Every corps has different perspectives in how they rehearse and how they want to corps to represent themselves, some want to have the more "relaxed" approach, others want to be badasses, that's just the nature of having all these different groups.

My corps was a mix of both. We would be pushed pretty hard, especially by the visual staff, in an almost boot camp sort of way I guess you could put it. Part of that was also to harden us and keep with the "tough" image the corps was to portray in uniform, it works and still has to this day. I guess it's also important to note that we didn't have long water breaks (gush and go), but I'm pretty sure everyone is like that except a couple of your top corps. But as far as rehearsal goes, we were never put through near the stuff the Cadets people do. The Cadets really know what hard work and a good ### kicking is. From what I know, Phantom and others have very tough staff members and approach to rehearsal to.

Sorry I don't gamble

I know it is War is hell

Here's my prediction for slotting 1. Blue Devils 2. Cavaliers 3. Phantom 4. Cadets 5. Santa Clara 6. Bluecoats 7. Crown 8. Blue Knights 9. Boston 10. Glassmen 11. Colts 12. PC Spirit won't be in the top 12, and Boston will most likely slip down. Regionals will tell what's most likely going to happen. Most of these corps haven't competed with each other, so some of these things aren't going to last for long.

No, you guys just don't hear about them

Drum corps parents are like band parents except more gung-ho. I personally don't like any parent that has the time to go on message boards (I'm lookin' at you College Confidential Forums)

What about all the years SCV had angular drill and marched straight leg? Sorry but I'm not buying this, in fact it barely makes sense. I marched the straight leg technique, and the drill I marched (especially last year) was very angular. I'm not speaking of myself as a marcher, but I haven't seen anyone with problems of feet in sound as far as straight leg and any sort of drill. Feet in the sound is just bad technique in general.