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wayne bergereon did a drum corps one year. i cant remember what it was. i actually played a gid with him. by gig i mean he guest starreed at my high school jazz fextival. if you dont know him well..hes kinda good. and he plays trumpet :D

when after the 3rd movement of the show the announcer gets on and says "THE SANTA CLARA VANGUARD!!!!" that happened at least 3 times at the beggining of this year lol :D

you know you have drum corps in your blood when youre in youre symphonic winds class and after a up tempo release you snap your horn down... that was my first week in class after drum corps lol. god was i embarassed you know you have drum corps in your blood when during jazz combo your instructor tells you to play a lick less marching bandish. you know you have drum corps in your blood when you see a jacket with patches on it and automatically think its a corps jacket when you realize its a motorcycle gang jacket you know you have drum corps in your blood when youve had to come up with endless ways to tell people what youre doing at the airport... my favorite...family reunion. and it is true... :D

were not attacing flutes. i love flutes. they can sound great in their own enviornment. but just because you know smart people that play flute doesnt mean a flute doing a horn move looks awkward. END OF RANT PART DOS!! :D

its not a stereotype. flutes doing horn moves just doesnt really look good when compared to other instruments doing them

lol you would definitly know the best :D

modesto is definitly mid cal. its actually south of san jose

do it somewhere else then

well then dont end drum corps by making a new circuit. just because some people want a higher level of of execution with high school instrumentation doesnt mean that they need to change drum corps itself. drum corps is what it is. drum and BUGLE corps.

you know arron both you and mike are saying the same thing when it comes to having the choice between drum corps and band. you both say that youre giving people MORE of a choice by being able to see both at once. no lets think about that... forcibly making the two groups together thus giving them no choice=more choice? how does that work? almost all of the people you are argueing with want to be able to go "i like the sound a drum corps makes and not a band" or "i like the sound a band makes and not a drum corps" and then based on their decision go see those shows. those people dont want to see both of those activities made into one because then they couldnt hear their preference. IMO, you two should just go watch your bands and be happy with that. dont try and force your views upon a group that doesnt want them

i disagree... lol

oh you werent harsh it was fine. ive just never really heard any of the rap music you speak of. all i hear is the crap that comes from my sisters radio. lol. id really like to hear some of it. is there some artist you would recommend?

i see your point in that all rap music isnt bad and how some of it is involved than i thought. i can see how some rap would be good to use on the field. but does anyone know who the rapper was that was with the band? i would just like to know, hopefully it wasnt one that ive talked about. thanks for the insight

am i the only one that honestly thinks that rap is not music? having someone press a button to play a drum machine then having someone talk really fast about killing #####es and smoking #### everyday is NOT music. you talk about being innovative and creative but you dont see that rap/hip hop/r & b is some of the least innovative(musicaly speaking) dribble out there?! what good has rap done for our musical society? its corrupted it so that most people glorify these horrid people and they wont even stand to listen to real music. do we want the future band directors and musicians to think that rap is good music because their high school played it as a field show? i didnt atually know that a band used a rapper in a field show until i read this post. once i heard it i was disgusted. and you think that its innovative genius? ...sigh...

im not going to march senior corps just cuz, and i say this with all respect to senior corps and to mean no offense to them, its not the same. one of the main reasons i do drum corps is to play for thousands of screamin fans. most of the time you wont get that response and that size of a crowd with a senior corps. just my reasoning... :D

i think when if you say"best" hornlines, then all of the above is true. you need a good staff, good players, good book and all that. but i think when it comes to a "great" hornline, it needs taht extra something. it needs all of those things and that one thing...EMOTION!!! if the players arent feeling the emotion of the show, then the audience wont feel anything. im talking about bd 94, scv 2000 and 2005 (i know im biased to that last one...) cadets 87. the feeling when you hear a hornline play their ballad and you want to cry. the feeling you get when you think youre gonna be deaf because of the sheer volume and great intonation. its when a hornline finishes their show and you just feel every last bit of energy going into the whole audience. when you hear one of those hornlines...youll know that what makes a "great" hornline :D

thanks guys!

when are the dvds supposed to come in? can anyone help me cuz i really cant wait for them!

thats one instance that cavies got 2nd. doesnt make them consistently having a great drumline.

SCV 89 BD 86 SCV 87

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upstream is when you blow the air up into the mouthpiece, thus downstream is blowing down into the mouthpiece. pretty much upstream looks like when a trumpet is aimed up from the lips and down is aimed down from the lips. i like uppstream a lot more because if you do it right your range is increased extremely. it is right taht i get a edgier sound, but i kinda like it.

i just wanted to ask for a bunch of opinions on the subject. i for one, like upstream much better. i jsut switched to it and my range has increased a lot with it. post away