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Nizerifin

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    2003 Marion Glory Cadets
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Cavaliers
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    Cavaliers 2002
  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Lexington, Kentucky
  • Interests
    Soccer, Drum Corps, Video games.

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  1. I would like to know this too. Not as fun without scores.
  2. The Blue Devils will win again. Probably by at least a point.
  3. 5 year ban on repertoires. If you or someone else played that piece of music in the last 5 years, you can't use it. This rule would cut down on the derivative nature of drum corps and keep corps from playing it safe every #### year with sequelitis. Thank you.
  4. I would suggest being less dogmatic about synths. The issue for me is quality rather than pure usage. Corps really just need to co-produce with a decent DJ/producer and I think the product will be much higher quality than what we see now.
  5. 2002 Cavies was the pinnacle of visual design and musical design. Have you guys heard the Music GE judge tape on youtube? He basically says straight up that it's the best there's been (at that point in time).
  6. I'm tired of corps doing the same shows over and over again. People like sequels way too much. What's wrong with some originality? Everyone designs their shows for the score and forgets everything else. So anytime new music does enter the drum corps scene, it's so formulaic, it almost immediately sounds boring. It's MUSIC!!! Why the **** does drum corps always sound like drum corps?
  7. If half of DCI becomes woodwinds, the demand for spots in the corps goes up. More kids would want to march, simply because they are now able to. With the extra participants, more corps can be formed or the max number of people in the corps can be raised. Regardless, show attendance increases. With an increase in ticket demand, ticket prices rise, earning more income for the corps.
  8. We're getting woodwinds eventually, be it 5 years from now or 25. This process takes time but eventually the opinions that matter will slowly change and the rule will get passed. Now, I'm hoping for electronics reform definitely within the next five years to allow for loops and samples. Then.... things get wild.
  9. Stop talking about the numbers and memorize this: NO CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP. Just because X happened in Y year doesn't mean that it's any more likely to happen ever again.
  10. I like the numbered responses :) 1. What about the parents ready to shell out lots of dough to see their kid march? And the corps that would happily take that money if they were allowed to let WWs in the corps? Are you saying that upon the legalization of WWs in drum corps, no one would use them? 2. "Most"? First of all, you're a biased observer. Maybe the kids who really wanted the two to be more similar didn't speak out? Word of mouth doesn't count as statistics unless polls are done scientifically. My point is that you don't really "know", you're just basing your beliefs on anecdotal evidence. 3. Whether or not band kids think change is needed has nothing to do with their likelihood of marching if WWs were legalized.
  11. Simply because you can't think of any ways to innovate drum corps further, doesn't mean that it has reached its max. Progress and innovation should never stop. Everyone else caught up to the Cavaliers and now their brand of design is run of the mill. The Cavaliers need to bring in some people who aren't afraid to do something that will shock everyone and make it happen. That, or they can keep getting "out-arted" by BD.
  12. 1. As far as no one wanting that "expensive headache", I can almost guarantee you that is false. 2. Anecdotal evidence - if you go ask a WW player and he or she says "no, I don't want drum corps to be like marching band," that doesn't mean that anyone else agrees.
  13. It doesn't allow woodwinds. That's kind of what we're talking about here.
  14. See, you're going back to field logistics, which is not really a problem. Designers can figure how to implement anything into a show if they need to. Furthermore, you're comparing different forms of brass instruments. Woodwinds are a whole different class of instrument altogether and would drastically change the sound in the show. And you kind of hurt your argument when you admit that trombones (I'm guessing your preferred instrument) could be added, but the others cannot for arbitrary reasons.
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