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  1. Just now, skevinp said:

    I’m not sure that would be “for the good of the group”.  It’s interesting psychological discussion fodder but probably not consequential score wise.  And I still want to hear the beautiful rest of it, which she has long experience in playing.  

    Also would require staging/drill rewrites and even small, those sorts of changes can cause a ripple effect in the show

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  2. I was wondering if anyone has some links/clips to shows or segments of a show with ONLY the hornline or with the hornline and drumline (no front ensemble). At Crown we used to practice some segments "on the move" by ourselves and I always thought it was a cool chance to hear pure brass.

    EDIT: I mean clips of the hornline actually doing drill, not standing still

  3. What influences the change and evolution of design in drum corps over the years? I ask because I assume most designers/judges marched or participated in the activity during 90's and early 2000's and drum corps is WAY different now than it was then.

    Do designers want to try and push the envelope for their concept by adding new layers never seen before? I'm just wholly ignorant on all of this and would love anyone's perspective.

     

     

    PS. As a side note, do you think we are in a "phase" and drum corps will do like fashion does and return to different phases from the past? As in eventually we will return to more emphasis on marching and playing? Thoughts?

  4. 15 minutes ago, lintjerk said:

    Does anyone else love the moment in the closer where the whole corps stops and goes silent, then the voices in unison say "MOVE!" - right before the bari feature? Almost seems like a nod to the fact that they're about to go nuts with that drill in the ending.

    When does that happen?

  5. 53 minutes ago, Glenn426 said:

    Crown - Almost the direct opposite of Bluecoats, they are purely getting their GE from what is happening on the field. They are putting up alot, Music, marching, spinning being performed at a high level. The music from the Opener to the ballad has alot of Effect written into the book. Old school cadets where they out marched and out played with sheer brute force and execution. My fear is that outside of the closer having some performance issues they are performing their show at a high level right now. What room do they have to grow? How much cleaner can a show get. Peaking early. How do they stop that? What can they add to the show that will keep getting fresh praise on the 5th read? Depending on what they have up their sleeve they either Medal or fall back.

     

    interesting points. In regards to Crown, they are already performing at a pretty high level yes, BUT there is so much to clean and so much to grow. The ballad and closer will be very different come the end of the season.

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  6. My problem is that it's fake. Like someone else said it covers weaknesses much more than any other percussive instrument may. Whereas timpani, bass drum etc add low end it's typically only through impacts and not through sustains. I do not enjoy hearing fake low end while trying to appreciate the sound of a hornline and an authentic tuba sound.

  7. This has been talked about many times before, but I feel like it needs to be addressed again since it has been around 4 years from the induction of synth to DCI.

    In my personal opinion if you use the synth to double brass whether it be only on impacts/chords, or even the whole book, it is an insult to the players.

    Whether it is a hornline of 20 or of 80, I feel that synth has no place playing along with the brass. For sound effects or solos/unique parts sure whatever but NEVER with the horns.

    What do you guys think?

    Am I the only that cares/feels it detracts from the sound when I hear the fake low end?

    Or that it's an easy excuse to make up for a weaker low brass/hornline?

    Should judges discredit corps that use to much as it hides weaknesses?

    If anyone can shed some light as to why this practice is so prevalent and allowed, that would be awesome. Thanks!

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  8. Something very strange I have noticed over the years is that shows I have watched over the summer and not liked at all, I will listen to them again, and the more I hear the show the more I like it...

    The reverse happens on shows I like a lot on the first viewing, then the more I listen to it later the more it becomes meh...

    Does this happen to anyone else? :crazy:

  9. I assume there are people that have "walked" away. So you say when a change occurred they just suddenly stopped going to shows or watching that year's content? Was it gradual or instant? I am also assuming that people dropped out during different periods. Some when pits were grounded up front, the change to Bb, the amplification, bla bla bla....these people really stopped caring about the "product," because of what was produced in an 11 minute show? That 1 change, or series of changes so drastically ruined the experience for them, that everything previously invested into it, was dropped? Or are we just talking about people attending "live" shows inside a football stadium? The "common" attendee?

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