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Yeah, the design team and caption heads aren't always there. Some are (like this past season, Lee Beddis was with us for quite a bit), but in general, they sometimes drop in randomly and it's not always at the same time. There are a couple times in the season when everybody comes in together at the same time though, like the end of spring training, a week into tour, finals week.

Wait. I don't understand how people are making these predictions. We don't even know what our show is yet.

Dude, I kinda have this personal dream to have an organ part in a show. I'm kinda jealous of Nick because he had an organ part in Crown's 2010 show, haha. The sound and presence of the organ is so powerful, in my opinion.

Oh. Something else I thought of. One of our pit techs this past season was talking to us about changes in DCI. I remember him mentioning Vanguard (but I forget which year). He was talking about the first show where the drill was not symmetrical the entire time. He said they placed low that year because it was new and nobody "liked it", but the next year more corps used asymmetry. Now, if a corp had a completely symmetrical show, both the judges and the audience would hate it. I think the same is with electronics. Synths are still relatively new. In a decade, a show without a synth will be "weird". Just my thoughts.

Oh. Something else I thought of. One of our pit techs this past season was talking to us about changes in DCI. I remember him mentioning Vanguard (but I forget which year). He was talking about the first show where the drill was not symmetrical the entire time. He said they placed low that year because it was new and nobody "liked it", but the next year more corps used asymmetry. Now, if a corp had a completely symmetrical show, both the judges and the audience would hate it. I think the same is with electronics. Synths are still relatively new. In a decade, a show without a synth will be "weird". Just my thoughts.

Yeah! It's funny because a percussion drum major would probably be great. They'd probably have a fantastic sense of time.

Yeah. I agree with the staff and the money. I had a band with a historical track record of being crazy. My sophomore year we got a new director, and the band dipped in both skill and size - my junior year the band was almost half its size my freshman year. The new director was good and the band was still good, but he wasn't the 50 year old man my old director was. But being at my school is going to be so good for my new director. Very many people as young as him (I think he was 24 when he started) get the opportunity to direct a band like us (we were one of the best bands in the state of North Carolina). The result will be this: when he becomes that 50 year old man, he'll be one of those great directors.

Also, back to the original question, I agree. More talented pianists are going to start participating. Piano based synth writing will become more prominent. I don't know if that will happen as soon as this coming season, but definitely in the near future.

Okay. So. I don't think woodwinds should (or are ever going to) be on the field. Somebody said earlier that woodwinds in the pit would be okay. I think that's good. A mic'ed oboe solo would sound awesome from the pit. Someone else also said that after we include woodwinds in DCI, the next step is to add other instruments to string quartets, and they made a good point. Drum corps are ensembles that in their nature don't have woodwind instruments. Adding a woodwind section to the corps would be like adding a brass section to a string quartet. It might sound good, but then it isn't a string quartet. Now, adding the electronics would still be okay. A string quartet with an electronic violin would still be considered a string quartet.