gbass714
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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
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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...
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A flute is a horn just as much as a trumpet is. And I've seen some pretty impressive things. Heck, I've written some pretty sweet visuals that the flutes and clarinets can do better than any other section. personal preference I guess. I just hate how American Pie made flutes out to be so.....ya know. Now you have to battle that stereotype even more than before. Some of the smartest people I know played flute. I think flutes are cool. GO FLUTES! AHHHH!!!!
END OF RANT.
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!!
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WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH THIS?!?!?!
Everybody always says this and I just don't get it. SO WHAT!! If you've seen some of the top BOA groups out there, you know flutes can do just as many effective things as any other section. Can we PLEASE drop the stereotypes?!
its not a stereotype. flutes doing horn moves just doesnt really look good when compared to other instruments doing them
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Yep :mmm:
And modesto is "middle-east"-Cal! b**bs
lol you would definitly know the best
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Mid-cal
I've heard the terms Norcal and Socal used extensively, but Midcal is new to me.It is North of San Jose/Santa Clara and just a bit south of Concord.
modesto is definitly mid cal. its actually south of san jose
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Me too... I would love to see the best of both worlds... I just want to see it... period.
do it somewhere else then
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Ok, that's your opinion... Mine is that by having an entire new medium, you just have another option... I'm not trying to end drum corps, just innovate it and create something new... Not END drum corps as we know it... I'm not the grim reaper people!
Oh, and it's Aaron... :-)
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.
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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
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Ain't that the truth. I guess we all just like to argue. :sshh: b**bs
i disagree...
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I wonder what they did, as well. I would have to fall in the "skeptical" camp about how this music could be adapted to the field. It's inherently a verbal and not an instrumental music--and I am not a pro-amper, pro-microphoner by any stretch.
BTW, I hope I was not too harsh jumping on your rap comments. There is admittedly so much trash in that genre right now that the good stuff often gets brushed to the side. But when it's creative and good, it's as powerful as any music.
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?
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Apparently you don't know much about rap music. This is not AT ALL to flame you, but perhaps to help educate.
Go back to "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy and see how they use the "Funky Drummer" loop from James Brown. It's the same way jazz musicians like Parker "recycle" chord changes to make new tunes. Then sit down at a computer and try to duplicate the effect. It's a lot more involved than "hitting a button on a drum machine".
Also check out
this book to see how this tradition runs though all of African and African American culture.
This is not to say there is not a bunch of garbage rap. But there is outstanding and important music being made, too. :ramd:
Back to your regularly scheduled topic....
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
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Ever heard a corps play Aphex Twin, 50 Cent, Steve Reich, DJ Tiesto, Dave Matthews, etc? Those are some out there musicians, but it get's my point across... In the DCI world, it feels so limited... Classical or Jazz... That's really it... If you have itunes, look at your genre list... There are lots, huh? How many have you seen a corps do versus a band? Yup.
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?
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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...
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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
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thanks guys!
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when are the dvds supposed to come in? can anyone help me cuz i really cant wait for them!
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In 1989, Vanguard got 1st in drums, Cavaliers were 2nd, Cadets were 3rd. Phantom Regiment was 5th, and that's basically what cost them the championship.
thats one instance that cavies got 2nd. doesnt make them consistently having a great drumline.
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Well when i was tought to play a marching french horn, they told me to use a Tee toung. That didnt go so well. When i went to the Racine Scouts, they told me to use a Dee toung cause you arch your toung and you get a louder sound. I like loud and i use the same technic on my trumpet. So in other words i dont know witch way my air goes. Someone help out a converted drummer.
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.
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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.
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Famous people in Drum Corps
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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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
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