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  1. Everyone has a LONG way to go in February. I'm not sure what you mean by it not being in their best interests to post that recording, but I'm pretty sure competitively speaking that the judges are not going to start deciding placements because of a February recording.
  2. As a member of the 2004 Cadets I can confirm that this survey did in fact take place. I can also confirm that most of the members said they wanted to go back to being the innovators.
  3. The issue isn't with people having opinions, it's with every single thread degenerating into a amps debate
  4. The fact remains that some people come to this, the DCI section of DCP, for the sole purpose of bashing junior corps. In fact, they are typically praised for giving their opinion all the time when in reality they are nothing more than glorified trolls.
  5. Countdown to this thread being closed... Oh, by the way, I agree with just about everything you said
  6. When are people going to realize that anyone who likes the direction drum corps is going is automatically a borg and that the only true drum corps fans are those that want to go back to the day of a single rotor valve. Also, to MikeM: You say that you heard Crown 04 and you will use it to judge every vocal performance on a drum corps field from now on? I know you already said you don't mind, but that's very close minded. The very first drum corps I ever saw live was a local startup div 3 corps that was honestly worse than my high school band. Had I acted like you are then I would have gotten up, left the show, and never watched another drum corps show again because I saw one that I didn't like.
  7. Yeah! and how about those pesky guys that just stand in the front waving their arms? They should be on the field marching!
  8. Inside drum corps or outside? Either way I imagine the answer is "not many" Maybe some music majors do this, and certainly professionals, but not your average brass player
  9. You don't seem to be taking into account the fact that members are running around on a football field during their shows. I once fell into the trap of "Oh, this music isn't THAT hard, I was expecting it to be much harder" in the winter. Then summer rolls around and it's like "You want me to get from the 20 to the 30 in 10 counts playing legato half notes at 198bpm?" It DOES take an entire summer of practice to be able to perform a modern drum corps show well. Ask any corps who has ever come in second place and they will probably tell you they would have loved to have even more time to get better.
  10. Well, if you can't hear an unbelievable difference between hornlines in the 80s and hornlines today like you said in a previous post, I don't believe you're going to be able to tell a difference anyway
  11. First of all, your comment that most drum corps members are music majors is complete b*******. Even in the top 4 my corps had MAYBE 50% music majors, and I know that as you go down the ranks there are less music majors than that (I marched in a lower corps as well). Second, if your staff is just using "tricks" to clean the show, maybe it's a problem with the staff and not the activity. Where I marched the staff gave individual comments every rep until we were ridiculously good. Sure, people were taken off parts sometimes, but VERY rarely (Maybe 5 or 6 parts in the entire 11 and a half minutes) and usually when someone just refused to fix something after being told a million times to do so. Personally, I didn't come to drum corps to become the best trumpet player in the world. I came to drum corps to be the best drum corps in the world. "One band one sound" and all that, hahaha
  12. Just because two things are similar doesn't mean that a brass guy should teach vocals or vice versa. That's like me saying "I play trumpet, therefore I am going to give clarinet lessons"
  13. That openmindedness and logical thinking won't get you anywhere around here missy!
  14. Cheating? If hiring a voice coach is cheating then having a brass staff must be too. As for the judging, I'm pretty sure that the Cadets drumspeak this year was considered by the GE judges (and percussion judges at times), so I have no reason to think that a vocalist won't be. I would even bet that if vocal solos become the norm that it'll be included on the brass sheets eventually.
  15. I have a copy of Cadillac of the Skies from the actual movie soundtrack and the beginning sounds exactly like what the Cadets play (along with the melody repeated for basically the entire piece). My copy matches up exactly with the sample here http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002LD...5Fencoding=UTF8 and that claims to be the original movie soundtrack. Unfortunately for my argument that sample is the only part of the entire version I have that is not based almost exactly on the melody the Cadets play, but even then you can tell it is based on the same melody. I've not gotten around to watching Empire of the Sun yet, but everything I can find points to the Cadets playing Cadillac of the Skies. If it's truly the case then can you point me in a direction that will show me that you are right?
  16. Umm... the melody is in both songs, and the version the Cadets play is taken directly from Cadillac of the Skies
  17. I'm pretty sure you are correct about the horns up
  18. Better ban mallet instruments and all the brass that has been used on the field for the past 30+ years
  19. Because people are going to naturally gravitate towards the top few corps. Believe it or not a LOT of people want to march because of the competition aspect. The Cavaliers are going to have more people audition than Pioneer, that's simply common sense. And the reason that the top corps have spots open sometimes? Drum corps is HARD. People don't like to do things that are hard. It's a lot easier to sit at home in the air conditioned living rooms watching reruns of Dawson's Creek than it is to get up early every day, go outside, and have the #### beaten out of you day after day after day all summer long. By the way, 7000 are not cut every year. Few corps have 400+ people auditioning
  20. That's pure bs, you can't just go throwing around random numbers and call it evidence. Of the 196,760 maybe half are brass or percussion players. That brings it down to 98,380. There are around 24 Div 1 corps right now, the average number of kids at the auditions is around 200-300. For the sake of argument lets say it's 300x24. That's only 7,200 out of the 98,380 who bother going to the auditions, and with 3,240 spots that's a 45% rate of "making it" although that's a very simpleminded way of looking at it considering the number of kids that "make it" and then decide not to march because of financial reasons, relationship reasons, or any number of reasons. Corps generally don't make very many "cuts" at least in my experience, because so many people quit halfway through the winter that just to stay relatively close to the 135 mark you need about 50 spare people. That's not people who aren't "good enough" it's people who don't want to do it. During the 2003 season at the audition I went to I went from 42nd, to 33, to 24, to having a spot over the course of the winter, and that's just for my section alone. Not because I got better than the people that were ahead of me, although I did work my ### off, but because they quit.
  21. You are making a lot of assumptions there jeff. In my years of drum corps I've marched with saxophone players, flute players, and vocal majors. None of them were very experienced at all in brass instruments, and they still made a top 12 division 1 corps. The corps I marched with in 2002 had more than 10% of the hornline who had learned their instruments just to march drum corps. This past summer I marched with a 16 year old guy that had never done marching band before in his life and now he is a world champion at it. Not everything is quite as black and white as you would like to make it.
  22. Step down from your high horse for a moment and enjoy it for what it is. It's FEBRUARY, that gives them 6 months to clean and fix the problems you mentioned. News flash, NOBODY sounds good in February.
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