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Cadets98

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Cadets98 last won the day on November 21 2014

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    member Expressions 89-90...Southwind 92-93....The Cadets 94-96, 98.....instructor....Carolina Crown 99......The Cadets 02-04, 07....Capital Regiment......05-06......Santa Clara Vanguard......08......Blue Knights 2011.....Bluecoats 2012
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Bluecoats
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    performing finals night with the Cadets in 98
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    89
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  1. Yes it is side to side. Lots of that in this show. Mellophones do it. Low brass pan across the back behind the mellophones.
  2. Um. These are assistant band directors or adjunct college faculty. Real jobs to me. Full time. Other than the college gig, with benefits. And this is just google. As I said, band director friend looking for a gig couldn't apply to one where drum corps experience was REQUIRED. The good corps style bands want corps experienced teachers. Unless you consider a full time band director not a "real job."
  3. Well, after sifting through a lot of high school "tech" positions I found these 3 somewhat quickly. The initial flood that I got of mostly tech positions did mislead me at first. I typed in band directing jobs drum corps experience required and band jobs drum corps experience. One also from Milton high school in Atlanta came up but the link itself just didn't come up on my phone. The head guy there is a drum corps guy so I guess he feels comfortable having an assistant that also has drum corps experience. His band is pretty darn good too. To me, drum corps can do nothing but help the music educator and his or her career. I wouldn't teach drum corps myself if I thought otherwise. http://bandjobs.org/job/8132/assistant-marching-band-director-at-matthew-berntsen/ http://www.tmea.org/programs/jobs/fmpro?-db=TMEA_Job_Vacancy&-sortfield=Posting_Date&-sortorder=descending&-op=eq&Academic_Level=*&-op=eq&Position=&-op=eq&ISD_School=&-op=eq&City=&-op=eq&Zip=&-op=eq&Region=&-lop=and&-recid=26186&-format=%2FTMEA_Job_Vacancy%2Fdetail.htm&-lay=Layout1&-find https://www.higheredjobs.com/m/details.cfm?JobCode=176019987
  4. Drum corps experience is already becoming a requirement or preference on many band openings. Band director friend on the hunt told me he has seen it (and did not apply since he never marched) and a quick Google search confirms this. And it will only become more prevalent as drum corps becomes more accepted by traditional music education. If you hope to become a band director, marching drum corps is a good idea.
  5. Loud is good. Poor acoustics is not. KC is one of the loudest if not the loudest stadium in the NFL and it is also the best stadium in my opinion to hear drum corps. I'm sure folks that were there in 88 and 89 would concur. To the general topic, I really hope that DCI values acoustics again over the ease of the color guard to perform and perfect conditions for the audience. It's very frustrating to teach a brass section every year and be let down by the final result. Although I did finally find a half way decent spot in Lucas Oil to watch a show. Only took 4 years.
  6. That would be fabulous. Feel free to contact me. Info can be found on the corp's website. Thanks!
  7. Sorry for the double post there. As the previous post said, the biggest reason for the Bluecoats is because I work there. I'm selfish and I want the talent to come to my drum corps. You make some good points especially around doing a localized clinic. Around the issues that you brought up about dci being attractive. We have already recruited and partially funded through this scholarship a HBCU member. He's the soloist from the top of the show with the tilt and one of our screamers. It's already worked. And this guy both bleeds blue and loves his show band as well. And one of the members of the Bluecoats brass staff is a band director at a HBCU school. He brought his entire band to the Houston show last year and the report is that they loved the show especially Bluecoats and the Blue Devils. And he has other students interested but may not be able to afford it. In short, I'm not concerned about the recruiting side of this endeavor. I need more help on the funding side of the scholarship. This is why I have come here asking for support and drawing attention to the scholarship. My audience is adults that may want to spread the drum corps love. This is why I've framed it that way. The kids no matter what background, once they are exposed to drum corps, generally do like it. You are right that there are some arrogant judgments regarding what is "better"--show or corps style--on YouTube threads and other places The negative comments are unfortunate. But these are usually rooted in ignorance. My view is that both styles are different and great. It sounds like you agree. This is one reason why I would love to see more understanding and appreciation from both sides. I definitely didn't want to give the impression that I thought one was better than the other. Thanks again for your points.
  8. http://bluecoats.com/shop/scholarship-funds/hbcu-scholarship/ I hope that we can get some support for this on here. I had the idea to reach out to the HBCU community after seeing a lot of screaming trumpets and similar raw talent on HBCU YouTube videos. To me, this could be a win-win-win situation. 1. Drum corps is getting more and more expensive and therefore less diverse. This (as well as other scholarship fund opportunities on the link) helps combat this. 2. There are many talented musicians at these schools that I would like to encourage to audition for the Bluecoats by partially offsetting the costs. I think of it as "widening the net" to attract the most talent. 3. I think there needs to be more cooperation, outreach, and appreciation between show style marching arts and corps style marching arts. So if you, are anyone you know, feel passionate about exposing and encouraging drum corps participation to a culture of band students who may not be familiar with our style, please contribute to the fund. Thanks. Derek Gipson Bluecoats brass caption head
  9. Bluecoats have all caption heads and all designers returning for 2015.
  10. Exactly!!! Nothing wrong with judges calling it as they see it. They aren't machines.
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