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goldmello15

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Gold mellophone 2013
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Santa Clara Vanguard, The Cadets, Phantom Regiment
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    SCV '89, '12, or '13
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    Impossible....'08, '11, '12, '13...
  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Orange County, California
  • Interests
    Mellophone and Guitar.

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  1. Dude, it won't be so different from 2014 or 2013. I marched my first season in 2013 with a smaller corps with a smaller tour with not so great equipment, etc. etc. and I still had the time of my life. An occasional horn or trombone solo here and there wouldn't have changed that and it definitely won't in the next few years. By the time you and I age out, the new instruments might be more prevalent, they might not, but the experience will still be very similar, if not the same. Go for it, you won't regret it.
  2. So, from what I've heard, the official DCI ruling that occured for the 2000 season was made to allow for the use of 3 or 4 valved brass instruments in any key, right? Please correct me if this isn't totally accurate... If this is true, does that mean that bugles (keyed in G, one valve, two valve, piston, rotor, whatever) are still technically allowed to be used today? I'm really interested in this because it seems to me that some corps could (or should) still use these instruments that it seems like many people miss a lot...Being a younger member who's only marched one season so far, I'd be thrilled to hear a currently active World Class corps stand out from the pack because they're using a hornline filled with bugles. That may seem odd to some people, seeing as the major debate concerning bugles seems to be between the older fans who marched with them and the younger fans who have been doing just fine with Bb horns. If the reason why every corps switched away from bugles since 2000 is for financial reasons, there are definitely a number of corps out there that could afford to replace their hornline with bugles for one or more seasons. I don't doubt that most of the top 12 corps could do that fairly easily (maybe they don't NEED to get new uniforms one year?) Heck, I think it would be way cool just to see a soloist in a corps using a bugle. I'm 99% certain ANY corps out there could get their hands on just one bugle if they wanted to do this. I'm pretty jealous of all you guys out there that got to sit in front of dudes screaming away on real sops! haha.. But if I'm wrong about the ruling and it was actually a matter of outlawing the use of the older instruments, then it would be obvious why we don't see/hear them anymore. Thanks to anyone who can contribute some information about this!
  3. Going out for the SCV mello line! I wonder if they'll see a lot more auditioners this year because of how popular Les Mis turned out to be...not to mention they're closer to being in the top 3 than they have been for years now.
  4. Ahh I see. I would've been all over that if I lived closer! Oh well, just gotta keep being patient I guess. I know I'll feel a lot better once I'm all RSVP'd for the NorCal camp and I have that audition packet in my hand! :)
  5. So SCV is finally meeting today...anybody know what's going on in there right now? Haven't really heard anything about Santa Clara since Finals...are we finally getting audition dates?????
  6. Hey there, I'm currently auditioning to be part of Gold this year, and from what I've heard so far, it does sound like we're still going to Indy. However, I also have found it a little weird that the current schedule on dci.org doesn't seem to indicate that we're traveling out of state at all. I think maybe dates will be added to the schedule as summer gets closer, but I wouldn't really know for sure as this will be my first summer marching with a drum corps. All I know is that, from what I've heard from staff members and vets at the auditions I've been to so far, Gold should be returning to Indy in 2013. Hopefully this applies to the other open class corps as well!
  7. Hey there everyone! So this is my very post post on anything in dcp. So go easy on me;) I hope this is the right place to ask this, and I hope my question isn't too small or specific....but I need some help. I'm absolutely terrible at lip slurs. There's no other way to put it. I've been playing mellophone for a few years now and this will be my first year of marching drum corps. I've been great with show music in my old high school marching band and everything, and we were quite good, but it's just embarrassing doing slur exercises in the arc with my future corps and getting stuck on one note almost the whole time :P Basically, my problem occurs when I need to slur from a tuning C up to the next partial, and the next. The exercise also calls for a little 16th note exchange back and forth between the C and the higher E. I'm completely hopeless once the exercise gets here. Slurring down has never been a problem for me, but slurring up higher than a tuning C is just killing me. The note won't move nearly fast enough to the next one and I end up stuck on the C all the way through the 16th note section. To say the least, it sucks. Again, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question or how directly this is related to drum corps but any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks a lot everybody
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