Mikey408
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Back when I played and did some arranging, we mostly played in g,f,or a major, or e,a d minor. I missed the change to 3 valves, so in my time, we were limited by practicality. Any note requiring the 3rd valve was not playable. As well, there were many more corps around, so the average ability didn,t come any where near the talent in brass lines today, so that played a part in the difficulty of music arranged and performed. As for the saddest key question, it could be due to conditioning. Minor keys are associated with sadness and darkness. The key of D minor is used alot in soundtrack music as it takes advantage of the lowest clear notes on the double bass, and allows for more span of orchestra for the string section, the most versatile and emotive of the orchestra. I would think that since we all have heard these sad themes in movies, and their associated music, we hear it as the saddest key? Hows that for armchair psychobabble. Anyways, it's true about D minor being one of the most poular sound track keys, That info is from a Mr Hans Zimmer.
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agreed, I was merely saying that, with a good sample library, you would get a better idea of colour changes commensurate with key changes in general, using a good brass sample set, but most sample sets do not include G bugle in their libraries so your point about accuracy is correct.
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changing keys definitely will change the tone colour of a live performing line, but doing it digitally will not give you a valid ear picture of what the real sound would be, so to speak. live, changing keys means changing valveing, or keying for different notes, making them generate a different set of overtones so the overall colour will be different. you would get a much better representation of this if you could play the original score in, say sibelius or finale, then transpose the whole score and play it again. aI do that when I want to explore different colours for a chart I am writing or arranging.
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Cardinals of pb 77. Great Year, won US open and butler, if I remember correctly We kicked ### for a class . corps folded in 79 many of us went to oakland crusaders to age out
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How about 2 piston and a rotary third valve. :. There is absolutely no practical reason for this, but it would be a unique configuration. It makes no sense at all to go back to a simple 2 valve configuration. too much lost musically. the 3 valve Bb sop and contrabass is the way to go.
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How about a show based on the epic Team America World Police?
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How about a whole show based on 50years of Godzilla soundtracks with a kazoo choir and a percussion feature of Hannah Montana music played backwards.....
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Ok you win, but it's hardly recognizable, mercifully short, and hopefully forgotten
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Bd, or SCV doing anything by Justin Beiber
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Boston crusaders 83 l Think
26 Horns and They Played and marched like 66.Tough bunch too if l remember correctly They took on q local Miami gang Just before Prelims and leaned them a thing or2 about New England Hospitality
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I see a bottle dance finale later in the season....
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Cadets played it in 13, and they came 3rd
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1977 seneca optimists and Cardinals of Preciuos blood. 2 Canadian corps won the US open that year
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I've been waiting to here that piece done well forever (finlandia) some stuff from his first symphony could domwell toFrom humming the melody to myself, I can confirm that the Sibelius piece that is being used is "Finlandia."
Not sure about the Shostakovich piece(s).
Bring on the bass horns!!!!!!!
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Toronto optimists, greece cadets, watkins glen squires, and the General Butler Vagabonds.
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How about Mambo by Anaheim, Russian sailors dance, or Chicaga lll suite, or pretty much anything done by Phantom, ever
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I remember thar year, 1975. Art was the hook guy. He had played in Delasalle the year before, played the solo in MeadowlandsLinda, always loved going to The Golden Triangle Invitational in Kitchener-Waterloo and seeing all the corps, especially the "C" and "D" corps. Ventures were one of those little corps as were Dutchboy. There were a ton of them! I think at one show my corps and Bluecoats were the only 2 American corps there.We spent a lot of summers in Canada going up against Krescendos, Princemen, Etobicoke Crusaders, Flying Dutchmen, Precious Blood Cardinals, etc.Also remember having to borrow a soprano from a Seneca Princemen for a show as mine broke....it belonged to a young man who had a hook. Very nice young man from what I remember.
There were also the Ambassadors, the Markham Villiagares, st johns girls. In the 70s it was busy. By 1980 they had all pretty much folded
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Howdy Linda
Good question about the Day by Day thing. If I remember correctly, the Impossible Dream was at the en dof Concert, as Ma of La mancha was the first half of the show. I only marched in the preseason, as my leg break occurred on the 17th of June, ( gotbrun over by a tv repair van on the way to Dave Mortons place for supper pre practice, #### horn case landed on my femur, and busted it good)but I distinctly remember playing day by day and marching to it, so it must have already been in place.I also remember that Al Morrison did our writing that year, and that his script was absolutely flawless as far as ascetics go. Great arrangements too. I remember Lambert and his busted arm too, 1972 it was. Sherry, I believe, was in the Sparkies, and graduated to Princemen when the firefighter org ceased to be. Sparkies became the Kinsmen.
Great memories, I gotta say.
Have great[
What I meant to say was Happy Holidays lol
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Howdy LindaHi Mike. Good to see you here. Yes, we played Amazing Grace in 1973. There aren't a lot of Princemen photos from 1973 but I vaguely remember a lot of sops limping. Good golly! I remember a year or 2 before when Lambert broke his arm but carried his contra with a cast. To stay on topic, a few years later his sister Sherry joined the guard and became a fine rifle spinner for us and Seneca Optimists. How did she get involved in drum corps? I figure she watched her brother and joined too. We had a lot of sister, brothers, cousins join drum corps.
Joel mentioned a few weeks ago that we had at least 7 Jr. A and Jr. B in Toronto and who knows how many other Jr. C or D corps there were? Also, there were lots of corps within an hour's drive from Toronto. I have a question for you. After Amazing Grace, we played Pomp and Circumstance and then our closer. Was our closer Impossible Dream or Day by Day? Did we change our closer midway through the summer? Good to have you here. My memory comes and goes 'cause I have too much on my mind or not thinking at all. Oh the joys of aging lol
Good question about the Day by Day thing. If I remember correctly, the Impossible Dream was at the en dof Concert, as Ma of La mancha was the first half of the show. I only marched in the preseason, as my leg break occurred on the 17th of June, ( gotbrun over by a tv repair van on the way to Dave Mortons place for supper pre practice, #### horn case landed on my femur, and busted it good)but I distinctly remember playing day by day and marching to it, so it must have already been in place.I also remember that Al Morrison did our writing that year, and that his script was absolutely flawless as far as ascetics go. Great arrangements too. I remember Lambert and his busted arm too, 1972 it was. Sherry, I believe, was in the Sparkies, and graduated to Princemen when the firefighter org ceased to be. Sparkies became the Kinsmen.
Great memories, I gotta say.
Have great
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Parents took our family to a Toronto Optimist recruiting event in the Fall of 1970, signed up for the Optmimist cadets. Wanted to play Snare drum, but so did everyone else in the corps, so settled with starting to llearn how to play the straight G bugle. Joe Gianna was tge instructors name. Anyways, never looked back, spent the next 9 years in drum corps, unfortunately was there from the time there were 11, i believe, drum corps in Toronto until the number had dwindled to I believe 3. Sadly, the movement has pretty much passed on here in Canada.
Anyways, phenomenal youth spent in the movement, I remember Cardinals 77 and 78 having a quite friendly rivalry with an obscure corps called, lemme think now, O yeah, the Canton Bluecoats. We took turns kicking each others butts that year, but I remember getting together for a joint picnic at the Canton show one of those summers.
Hey Lindap, if you read this, I marched with you a couple of years. I was one of the Broken leg amazing gracesolo dudes from 1973. Myself, Jimmy and some other guy named John Phillips lol
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Key signature more important than instrument?
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Posted · Edited by Mikey408
there is a good thread about the differences between a b flat trumpet and a g soprano bugle, as well as the differences between a b flat tuba and a g contra bass somewhere on this site. Andalucia instruments is in the process of pushing b flat soprano bugles, and b flat contras back into the drum corps world.. I would think that going to these horns would purify the brass sound to more like the old days. Bigger bores, and different bell designs. Check it out. As well, we had not just mellos, but flugles and marching bell front french horns, all built based on the same characteristics as the soprano bugle, rather than their concert counterparts