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spike, i also read the book. blew me away. i loved it. hunter mcrae was my band director in high school, so it was kinda cool to read about the 98 year. 98 is one of my top 3 SCV shows. thanks again for your willingness to let us in to your world as a drum corps member. it's not very often someone lets us in like this, especially when someone has experiences like yours, whether they're ones we wanna talk about or relive or not.

3 words...drunken putt-putt

that's scott stewarD, not scott stewarT

i marched with a guy that was told his toes were too high...true story

i've heard that the guy that developed the blue knights technique is also a physical rehab specialist, and this is how he teaches his broken leg patients to help rehab their leg...or something like that

i agree, michael. sounds like someone's a little bitter...

im about 95% sure about this, but i'm pretty sure that BD don't plie when they jazz run

my take on this, coming from someone that was a visual instructor and marching member in div. 1, is simple. i've marched both the straight leg technique and the "bicycle" technique, and it's referred to in the community. yes, the bicycle technique might be easier on your legs, but straight leg technique is more effective. i find that it is also to clean. it's a lot easier to tell a student to not bend their knees, as opposed to how much they're supposed to bend their knee. another thing to keep in mind when teaching/cleaning that marching style is how far to tell the student to pick their foot up off the ground going both forwards abnd backwards. it's just really hard to clean a bent knee. i noticed that our visual performance numbers were better once we got away from the bicycle style cuz it's easier to clean and much easier to teach and easier to pick up if you've never marched SERIOUSLY before. i really admire how the blue devils move, in terms of both the regular forward and backward movement, and how they jazz run. that is how we modeled our straight leg technique my age-out year, with the exception of the jazz run technique. we used just your regular jazz run technique. so, i guess what i'm trying to say, if i were to teach a group of young kids at a high school how to march, i would show them a video of a blue devils show and show them the intricacies of the marching technique and tell them that this is how you're supposed to look when you move.

lol good for you steve. you gonna be able to make it up to j'ville this winter?

http://media.cla.auburn.edu/music/bio/bio_...m?contact_id=15 here is his bio. and he wasn't the caption head...just the trumpet tech. and i wasn't speaking as a homer or a fan of spirit...i am speaking from the perspective of an educated set of ears.

i second that. i mean, attacks and releases are gonna be missed and people are gonna stick out, but come on! they were moving walls with the volume!

lol i hope so mr. jordan

ok... 1.) kevin isn't writing the drill. 2.) you're CRAZY!! how can you say that kevin didn't do a great job with madison last summer? he got their visual program looking pretty #### good towards the end of the season. IMHO, if it weren't for him, they WOULDN'T have made semis. 3.) no one said spirit is gonna win. it was only said that this was a great move for them to help improve a caption that has clearly been the weaker of the captions over the last 5-6 years. 4.) you're an idiot.

another great announcement from the folks at Spirit. http://www.spiritdrumcorps.org/index.php?o...3&Itemid=48

the best one is yet to come...

to go along with that...i have a few friends that marched back in the early 2000's and they all said that YEA!, to them, stood for You Eat After the cadets...

i think it's human nature, and ultimately, a comfort zone, for people to go back to things that they know and love. i enjoy seeing PR's new take on old favorites. some of the stuff they play makes it seem like (to me, anyways) that it's totally new to the field. my $0.02.

doing away with duts...that's like telling the drum major not to conduct. dutting is CRUCIAL for timing in the drumline.

i think this is one of those "to each his own" things...

this will definitely be one to remember...

this is going nowhere fast. check please...

yes it is patrick...

ohiobando...it's at the end of the show at the 10:08-09 mark. it's a hold over, obviously haha, and although it's pretty faint it's there.

the stock screamer note for trumpet nowadays is a double concert F (the F above the F that sits on the top line of the staff). in 03-05, scott dean played a lot of Bbs above the F mentioned above, and on finals night in 05, you can hear him playing a concert D above the Bb mentioned above. some sick stuff, if you ask me.

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