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HHaaaa. Well thanks for the commendation. I think our identity thieves and lush gift acceptors have all been accounted for... but as far as I'm concerned we still don't have a quarterback. probably another rebuilding year. :-\. whatev, as long as we beat iowa state i could care less In any case, I'll be gettin drunk tailgating!! Good info, thanks. What year was that swtich?

was 1983 the only time its happened..? 15 straight years someone sweeps finals weekend..? I got excited to see regiment knock bd out of 2nd in 06, haha, but a gold medal change would surely cause a ruckus :) (could you... describe the ruckus..? $1 breakfast club).

Seems most publicity during finals weekend surrounds saturday night, so I cant remember many of the friday night winners-- just curious when was the last time or last few times(?) a corps won semi's andthen lost finals. ?? With the top 4 all within a point its entirely possible the final placings are shaken up, just wasn't sure how often it is to see a 1st place slip on saturday.

ok, maybe I overreacted - but ridiculous nonetheless.

Just my opinion here... but I think this may be the most ridiculous thing I've read in awhile, maybe next to the 38458th thread about the cadets. Let me get this straight..? You're suggesting kids who want to march at (lets face it...) cavs, devs, regiment, cadets, scv, bloo, crown to pay dci to let them march there..? All this in the interest of mixing up the perenial powers year to year. right? What happens if someone else DOES win? How do you determine the "tax rate" per corps? How does the tax vary if you bump or drop a rank or two in a given year? how bout for continued growth or decline over x years? This defeats the entire purpose of an audition. "Well, johnny is a phenomenal player... buuut freddy can pay the luxury tax. hmm freddy it is." wow. This is ridiculous. I can't believe I'm wasting time even responding. I'm angry now.

I've been thinking bout this for awhile. and whenever i make an arguement to myself, and think of putting it on here it would be shot down faster than [enter punchline here]. I WANT to say bd doesnt SEEM to play with dynamics, but thats a rookie statement if I've ever heard one. I don't think its unfair, however, to say phantom plays much more dynamically then the devs. I think phantoms writing mixes much better between the battery voices and the brass voices, and seems to flow musically a little better. This is NOT to cut down bd's drumlne, good god if i could have those chops, I'd probably play the same way. I'm finding it a little hard to articulate a really "true" and robust definition of "musical", all I know is when I think BD drumline my brain automatically thinks harsher sounds, like taking a chainsaw to a steak, vs phantoms nice fillet knife. I'd be really curious to hear a scott johnson book played by a paul rennick line, or vice versa.

That's terrific and neat and all... but is it really that impressive? I don't think so. Especially if your the goddang Vanguard. Listening in is listening in. I can only give em credit for drill/marching creativity, I can't rationalize giving them credit for staying clean just b/c theyre out of order. If their notes went to hell in mixed order and you were a judge, would you say "ah, understandable, they aren't in order." ?? I don't think its that uncommon to do either when marching. I've done it a couple times, even my h.s. kids have. Didn't mean to cut down your post, just not a wow moment for me.

1) my guess would be similar to baseball diamond? Just drag a big fence rake across the field or something to uniformly sweep the turf..? I don't really know, but makes sense to me. Feel free to call me out. 2) Personall I think the grasstroturf is a clearly easier to march on, and I wouldn't think it makes it as slippery as real grass. Its just cushion-y enough you can really initiate step offs and plant for direction changes. If anything I'd think you'd fall from your feet getting "stuck" a little, instead of being slippery, but I've never marched on wet grasstroturf ($1 '06 Cornhusker stadium rainout). Worse part about it is getting a million of the little rubber pieces in your shoes!! gahh drives me nuts.

truth hurts... but i suppose respective loyalists to each corps will prefer theirs vs. the others' style. whatever floats your boat.

Mike Hodges: 2nd place tenor solo Providence 05. Didnt make the trek to f'ing pasadena last year... so don't know anything bout 07 i&e.

Geeze, I guess Tom Float didn't teach some of the best drumlines DCI has ever met. The kid is askin how to bring his 3s up to speed, not how to win a percussion title. Hey, I wanna get better at basketball. Oh, just go to the Laker's training camp? k great thanks.

ehh... I'd ..reverse.. your entire logic there. mmm yeah, everything you said --opposite. 3s are not flam taps.. flam taps are 3s. and dont say "but i said 'with the notes compacted a bit more' ". Thats like saying a tree is just paper, but a bit more woody. Theyre totally different. dont practice flam taps to get 3s up to speed... how can you measure sound quality? you break the flam taps apart and practice THREES.. - try some short short long passage.. rlrlrl rrrlll rlrlrl rrrlll | rlrlrl rlrlrl rrrlll rrrlll. once you have good quality then try some flamtaps, inverts, pataflaflas, whatev- there are tons of three stoke based rudiments. have fun. I second that - so many flam passages are ruined b/c the taps after the flam are lost or not stroked. Its like "Hey, alright.. OOhhhh dangit.."

mmmm I'm gonna go ahead and say it depends - on whatre youre playing and how you/your instructor wants to approach it stylistically. Arm motion isn't always bad, particularly in terms of volume and any visual addition. But of course it depends what youre playing. I take "arm pumping" and "arm motion" as two very different terms. The only context I can foreseeably allow arm "pumping" is when playing a fast roll, when its impractical to think your wrist can stroke it out. Where on something like 8s (below 130 bpm?) some arm "motion" is acceptable, and I'd even say encouraged, but thats just me. I'm gonna stop here b/c I'm getting lots of ideas on how this easily pertains to accent/tap control, etc etc. It's all relative: to the notes youre playing, and how youre playing them.

BD: Ram PR: Musical

practice its not gonna happen over night. just practice em everyday, max out your tempo til its dirty, back it up 15 clicks and practice there. i'd bet you'll see your max increases in just a couple weeks. lil different approach, (anyone with me on this..?) practice singlehand 4s and 5s. Its like running 10 miles. after you do that for awhile, 7 miles is easy. Or maybe that analogy was completely moronic.

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Impossible. A Giant Hula Hoop would not fit in the college back pack sized leather pouch prop bag you described. SHENNANIGANS.

Thank you.

I was serious, until I got misinterepreted by dcp's apparent psychologist. I'm not bashing. end of my contribution.

Way to take my line comepletely out of rationale. I'm glad you can take the time on such a serious thread to spend a little time on your soap box. What does your reply possibly have to do with showing your support for the devs and joe's family. My comments were sincere and I think most people would realize that. They were supportive and nature, and not just about making A corps. One might hope a person wouldn't be so short-sighted in analyzing everyones frickin response and realize we ALL want the best in this sort of event. God's speed to Joe and all his closest.

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Yikes!! scary stuff. Must be devastating after moving up from B corps after 4 years. Hope he makes a full recovery!

Here's a couple I like Someone already mention just playing invert taps on a pillow... once those are decent try playing inverted rolls: r l l r r l l r r l l r r l l r l - should make you concentrate on keeping the second partial as strong as the first, instead of that R r L l R r L l sound (ha.. like you could hear it) a lot of younger kids default to. remember consistency of sound Another fun one is to set your met to 8th notes (even better, have someone (in fact, i check my students' rhythmic accuracy by doing this) play 8th notes on your pad/drum with you) and play a triplet roll over top. 8 and 25 works well with this. Every other 8th note lines up with a second diddle. Really makes sure you're playing in time.

Writers dont design drill to off their members (*knock on wood*...), and I hope the kids listen to their bodies but understand that the activity requires more than the 11 week's worth of work. I'd be lying if I said I was ready for the season, but if I got hurt I might've thought "well, I probably could have prepared a little better. maybe that little bit would have made the difference." Thats not to say accidents don't happen - I had a drum pad fall out of the overhead on my foot, people get hit w/ rifles.. whatever. Stupid stuff the like that could ruin a season, but in terms of cardio and making sure your muscles are primed for stress is equally -if not more- important. Back to the original point, it would have to be a heck of a chancy drill set to consider "re-evaluating." I for one was always excited about a bail move. Fortune favors the bold. - Virgil

Is that to say you'd rather see waterdown performance level, demand, or general superiority of craft? I mean, if little johnny might get hurt in a notoriously strenuous activity that he signed a disclaimer for, then I guess its not worth entertaining the fans.