old skool drmmr
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59 minutes ago, SJugster said:
word around town that Rob wont be returning... not sure if its true but that's the word
also heard who will be replacing but, again its just rumor
This is the place for rumors correct?
It sure is! Let the rumors fly.
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13 minutes ago, MGCpimpOtimp said:
Kevin Shah and Mike Jackson officially percussion/sound designers at Crown. Wow!!
Crown's website announcement still lists Hannum on the creative team. I assume in an advisory capacity? This will be an interesting recipe.
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Bold, unlikely to happen prediction: Crown hires Aungst, Aungst rehires Peterman et al
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According to my sources, the impetus here was that Hannum decided to retire. And rather than promote Travis and his guys, they apparently decided to move on entirely. Probably to get someone with more of a big name.
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I thought SCV's show was about as straight-forward as it gets. The seasons.
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The Cadets do indeed require a large subsidy from the rest of YEA. It's right there in their 990s. I don't think it's much different anywhere else.
If you're expecting your WC drum corps to be a money maker, you're doing it wrong. The Bill Cook post upthread explains very well that you need other lines of business that can provide the funds required. For some corps, it's bingo. For YEA, it's US Bands.
But they also have (that I know of) the highest tour fees out there, and in a lot of cases by a huge margin. It seems like both of those things shouldn't be true.
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So can we ignore this Brasso myron and his uninformed conceptions of the evaluation of drumlines and get back to the discussion?
Phenomenal year for percussion. My favorites were Crown, and the Blues (Knights, coats, & Devils).
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Boston's look cool. Didn't realize they switched to Yamaha.
This pic was posted in the uniform thread. I love these! The chrome Pearl logo on the snares is a nice touch.
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for the fb impaired...
Interesting - chrome on top with black tubes and bottom rims. Cool look. It really accentuates the sparkle fade.
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If you could hear them at all, then yes, they were miced. Wirelessly, obviously.
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If the goal is to stay somewhere within the top twelve, no problem. But with how integrated the GE and Music captions are now, it will be difficult to maintain champion level consistently. 7th place is not good if you want to have a shot at top 3 consistently. It great, though, if top 12 is where a corps wishes to stay.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but the irony is in 2013 when they won gold with a 6th place percussion section, they still won Music Analysis and swept GE Music.
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Tony Nunez announced as Crowns pit arranger
This is a weird hire to me. From what I understand, the vast majority of his design background has been either writing for battery or doing sound design. Not front ensemble writing. He has done it, but his highest profile gigs have been either battery (Mandarins, Arcadia HS) or sound design (MCM, PR).
Perhaps he's actually primarily doing sound design, but the website lists him as the front ensemble arranger, which, since all the electronics are in the front ensemble, I guess is technically true.
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If you polled the people auditioning, I doubt most of them would know what WGI group their instructors teach... but I might be wrong.
I'd honestly say pretty close to 100% of the people auditioning for the Carolina Crown percussion section know exactly what high school WGI program Tom Aungst teaches.
Almost anyone else in the WGI world, you'd probably be correct. But there's like 3 or 4 dudes where almost everyone would know.
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This will mean good things for recruiting and retaining top-level players, as well. That has been a known issue in the last few years. Add to that the fact that Tom has a PROVEN record of cleaning the heck out of drumlines, and I'd say that the likelihood of them getting a LOT better in one year is high.
That all being said, the battery executed at a much higher level in 2014 than they did in 2013, but they still didn't make much (if any) headway in numbers because the field was saturated with incredible drumming this past summer.
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This can't possibly be a bad thing. Tom will obviously bring great things to that program.
The question now is: how long before he is writing the battery book?
And: does Neil Larrivee write Crown's pit book this coming year?
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Then why point out the fact that he only has "6 posts to his name"?
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No more classic than somebody with 6 posts to their name claiming they were "attacked" because people on DCP were less than sympathetic to what they were saying. You can sympathize with the guy all you want but most people on here are going to laugh at any story about a tech who cried because politics made his corps score too low.
To paraphrase a quote from a movie about the Rockford Peaches (who played on glorious Beyer field), "There's no crying in drum corps."
Yes, because a higher post count means a more valid point of view! High five, bro!
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Nah the Blue Stars' percussion situation is taken care of. I could see PR, since he marched under Kuhn at Cavies and lots of people aren't sold on PR's front ensemble writing.
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Crown could use some help, but probably at the tech level more than the book level. The book was serviceable this year (they've never been percussion-centric), but the glaring execution problems from the battery were what killed them in the caption.
Hoping for their sake that Madison had a next generation set of leaders ready for this type of major change, since there don't appear to be that many name-brand designers or caption heads in play this off-season (MacIntosh has already stated he's back at Cavaliers 2015 with his staff, so he's not in play).
I'm sure James Sparling will be taking over. He's been writing part of the drum book for the last two years. He will do a fantastic job and the percussion section won't miss a beat.
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It also depends a lot on the part of the country you're in. For example, I know of people who have percussion director positions in high schools in Texas, no college degree, making about $45,000. Same with color guard folks. Granted, they have percussion/guard class during the school day and are involved with multiple ensembles at that school.
Up here on the #eastcoast, I get paid $5200 for my position of percussion director at a very affluent high school. Marching band arranging and instruction only, no classes or lessons unfortunately.
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I read this earlier. "Sexualized culture" aka college kids doing what they do.
Most of the things described in the article are pretty tame. Good thing these people have never been around on rookie talent night!
Overreaction, blown out of proportion, overly PC, etc.
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Cadets appeared with a French horn. Do you think you heard a French horn? No, you did not hear a French horn. What did you hear? Answer: a loudspeaker.
I didn't think it was that loud.
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Brass, Artistry, 'n' Drums.
B.A.n.D.
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Attention to detail in continuity of concept and design elements.
Staff Merry-go-round
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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https://regiment.org/percussion-design-and-leadership-team