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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.

Ever since Phantom Regiment has gone from the all black uniform to this tan s**t, i fear that if they change something else, I may not be able to watch them anymore.

Between the Flugel solo in 2001 done by the Glassmen, and the 1990 Cadets solo, its really hard to say. How about the Conta solo in Blue Devils 2002 show? It's one note, but it's there.

I am a euphonium major at Youngstown State University, so my instrument collection is very small. Yamaha-Marching Baritone Besson Soveriegn-Compensating Euphonium Besson-NonCompensating Euphonium Yamaha-Alto Saxophone Bach-Trumpet King-Alto Saxophone BundyII-Tenor Saxophone

I will say, that I am stuck between SCV and Glassmen on this one. My reason why is this: these two low brass lines can achieve a sound that is both darker and warmer than most other lines. I love to hear those dar sounds, it builds a great bottom for everyone else in the ensemble.

All of you can thank Frank Williams for the incredible mello lines that the Cadets put out every year. Frank made Suncoast Sound make finals in the 80's and in the late 80's and into 90's Frank Williams beat the s**t out of those mello lines to build them up to what they are today. Frank is working with the Glassmen now, and the reason the Glassmen have been doing runs in the last few years, is because of Frank.

I started saxophone in HS, already knowing about drum corps. In the summer of 2000, i switched to baritone and marched with a local junior organization. I found that brass was sooo much more fun to play than saxophone. As it turns out, I marched in 2001 with the Glassmen, and now, my major in college is Music Ed.-Euphonium and taking minor level lessons on saxophone. Bravo to those woodwind players who have found their real calling in the brass section. Its about freakin' time.

Blue Devils take this year, with SCV right there.

84 Blue Devils 88 Blue Devils 89 Blue Devils(not the ballad) 90 Star of Indiana 91 Star of Indiana 92 Santa Clara Vanguard/Blue Devils 93 Phantom Regiment 94 Madison Scouts 95 Madison Scouts 96 Phantom Regiment(yeah Shosti!) 97 Blue Devils 98 Glassmen/Cadets 99 Glassmen 00 Cavaliers(green machine)------(jolly ranchers) 01 Glassmen/Cadets(biased opinion, i marched Glassmen) 02 Blue Devils