Cavalier2123

1992, when Brandt Crocker announced who was in 2nd. Chills.

Iowa, yep. It's a 4-beat triplet accent pattern that is repeated. Each drum enters at a different beat, and top bass solos. It is apparently extremely hard to clap to.

Ok I'll chime in again. I agree with this. That stuff is fine. People just simply not trying and slacking off is not what I was really talking about anyway. My problem was with instructors whose method of teaching was to basically call ticks and then assign push-ups/laps without ever really giving any info on how to actually fix the musical problem. That's just not teaching, and it always seemed to me that it only served to amplify the problem and just get everyone ###### off in the process.

Not trying to be insulting at all. The results speak for themselves, and it obviously different things work just fine for different people. I was speaking from personal experience. I spent a summer in '99 enduring that type of motivation and hated every minute of it because it seemed pointless for us, so perhaps I tend to look back on that style of teaching differently than others.

I had completely forgotten about that. That was nearly 10 years ago. We are old.

I don't think I ever ran a lap or did a pushup in my last 2 years marching. We rehearsed like adults and were treated likewise. Human beings tend to make errors, and our instructors identified them and instructed us on how to correct them. What a novel concept.

fixed.

Are you making the assumption that those with the competitive spirit who want to be champions are not giving every drop of effort that their body has to do so? I tend to think that those who are just there to make friends are the ones not giving their full effort.

You beat me to it.

I have never understood why the idea of enjoying an activity for the competitive aspect is frowned upon. It certainly isn't that way with mainstream sports, so why is it with drumcorps?

I heard they got a crazy bald guy to head up the percussion caption. Should be good stuff.

I may be wrong, but I don't think that much, if any of the percussion section was there pre-Cassella, so there isn't anything to get used to - not that it would even be an issue at that level anyway. Pearl drums...?

Couples bus.

Now THIS is a uniform.

Next time you see him, ask him about the sticks in at the end of the drum feature in '97. :P

The guard girl in Cadets 2000 who thumps her chest twice and the kisses her peace sign before the last segment of the show gives me deuce chills.

I cancelled my 2 subs for the same reason. It took hours of sitting on hold over several days because of the false cancellations and trickery from customer service that I'm sure you've read about on wackbag.

I think that a few flying jolly ranchers at retreat is pretty harmless. You make it sound like people are smashing unwrapped and melted candy all over people's backs.

/grabs popcorn

Since this place is so grossly overmoderated with ridiculous locks, IBTL posts actually make sense...

Ayala High School 04-ish...

I remember a thread like this a while ago where someone was complaining about how in these newfangled pits they let the cymbals sustain past a release. That thread delivered.

"thread closed"

/agree Being yelled at or issued punishment for mistakes never really worked for me. It seemed to really only serve the purpose of pissing everyone off, creating an environment where nothing gets done anyway. To me that just seems like the easy way out of actually teaching. I really appreciated the teaching styles of McIntosh and Kuhn. They identified errors and gave us the information to correct them. They were extremely professional, as were we.

I always hyped on watching the green team in the lot. The sound that the full line made as their hard bottom dress shoes hit the pavement in unison definatly gave off a vibe...