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When all the notes are being played at the same time, there are certain harmonics that match up and it doesn't sound as dissonant as it could. The best thing to do is to take a simple chord, like the one ending West Coast Warm-up and have everyone go either up a half step, down a half step, or stay on the same pitch. This kind of space chord will hurt you internally.

Have you ever you a space chord in your show or even to warm up with? Which group were you with that used them?

You know you have to go with The Lord's Prayer from PR'S 2003 show.

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Virginia is packed with college students that have experinces in drum corps, BOA, and others. Most likely, you can contact a university and have them post a flier. Hope I helped. Good luck.

Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio is oftenly looked at as a less popular school. Tuition is very low, our jazz program performs in conventions, clinics, and concerts (with Dave Holland and many others). Our website is www.ysu.edu. Check it out!

One of the first questions I ever asked my professor after entering college was about circular breathing. "Name one point where you would need to use it and I bet you really don't need it, he said. I play tuba, and there are pieces where it would be nice to have, but when you circular breath, you sacrifice tone quality. So my advice is to do what we all learn to do and that is 'stagger breath'." I would say that I have to agree with him on that, although, it is a really cool trick.

IMO, we have to look oat the kind of groups that both the Cavaliers and Phantom Regiment have. First off, PR performs classical music which just implies dark and the Cavies perform a more innovative show, performing newer and original compositions. Drum corps lacks the timbre of string basses and cellos, to compinsate for this, they bulk up on low brass. Newer music lacks alot of a bass voicing, but more of a tenor/mezzo-soprano. With different music, comes different instrumentation and different timbres.

Being a euphonium major in college, I have found, on my own, that the most effective excercises were my breathing and long-tone excercises. The breathing would go as follows: ex. in for two, out for four.....; in for two, out for eight......; in for two out for twelve......; and so on. For long tones, I generally like to play an F on the horn, and then take the mouthpiece out......and continue through the open series of the horn. I have found that 90BPM works the best for me, but everyone is different. I generally like to warm up every morning with this excersise. Hope I helped.

I also thought that the long F excersises were painful and yet not as beneficial.

I also thought that the long F excersises were painful and yet not as beneficial.

I use my Denis WIck 4AL for concert euphonium and marching baritone, you have got to take a look at this mouthpiece.

In the years that I have marched baritone, I have used a Denis Wick 4AL mouthpiece, which had the shank of a 3G, when playing on the Yamaha horns and when I played on the small bore Dynastys with the Glassmen, they made us play on a Bach Megatone5GS(some of us cheated and used Schilke 52DD's for a while, I personally liked the Megatone 6 1/2AL). I'd like to know what works best for you baritone players out there.

My two favorite warm ups are the Frank Williams octave study(to those of you who have studied under him). And of course, F Tuning(the one that starts on F, not C).

Thanks to Madison's 1986 Starlight Express show, I can't even hear the first note of their show without knowing what's to come. I get chills just thinking about it, its awesome.