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vferrera

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  1. I was just responding to some other posts that were concerned with terminology. Personally, I don't need to know the names of notes I'll never be playing :) I think if you focus on producing a good sound, you'll have all the range you need. But if you focus too much on range, you'll probably never have a good sound, and, ironically, you might psych yourself out of having good range as well.
  2. the fundamental pitch on any horn is low C, one step up is low D, then low E and so on. one octave up is middle C, then middle D, etc 2 octaves above the fundamental is high C, next note is high D, and so on. 3 octaves above the fundamental is double C, next note is double D...
  3. I don't think the new ending is in yet.
  4. If Cavies get 1st, that would be cool. If Madison gets 10th, that would be awesome. But if Blue Stars get 6th?
  5. depends on what everyone else (cavies, coats, crown, cadets,...) gets.
  6. the odds of BD being caught and/or passed just went up significantly: BD 92.7 Cavies 91.85 different shows, but even so...
  7. Somebody needs to mail this to the G7 directors. along with "p.s. half your alumni marched with non-G7 corps."
  8. I think volume has to come naturally. In the years I marched, I don't remember the brass staff every telling us to play loud. If anything, they tried to get us to back off. But we did a lot of running, breathing exercises, and long tones. So when we got in front of an audience, the sound was just there.
  9. that's foreign for "one less reason to go to India-no-place in August."
  10. maybe they should offer a senior citizen discount j/k actually, I was thinking pretty much what you said.
  11. This is the time of the season when the scores tend to flatten out generally. In the first few weeks, scores can go up almost one point per day. Then July comes around and there is an audible gasp as the judging community yet again realizes 1) finals are farther off than they realized and 2) the max score is still 100.
  12. it's called spreading the score, aka numbers management, aka leaving room. any time you have more than 4-5 World Class corps in one show, the "corps that perform earlier" tend to get dropped down a bit so the judges have more wiggle room to put in the appropriate spreads.
  13. next they'll be saying beer pong and air hockey aren't sports. where does it end?
  14. I don't disagree with any of this. Blue Stars have a show that was designed to get them into the top-6. Madison has a show that was designed to get back into finals. A good staff can make adjustments, but the basic product is what it is. Different goals for corps at different levels of re-building. On a side note, I think the discussion on this board would be more civil and productive if we all just agreed to stop using inflammatory language. "Homer," "fan-boy," "kool-aid drinker," etc are just juvenile insults. If you can't make your point in any other way, then maybe you don't have a point worth making.
  15. They are heading for about a 91 at semis.
  16. um, so BD could just rent their space and avoid competition that way?
  17. Yeah, that bingo crowd can get pretty unruly. fights with sharpened knitting needles and what-not.
  18. Looks like the Scouts are set to receive 20K from Chase Community Giving. Can anyone confirm?
  19. I think clean is just part of the equation. There's also the energy, confidence, and overall professionalism. Like someone else said, they're so smooth you hardly notice the mistakes. Also, I don't think it's a matter of designing to the sheets. The sheets are pretty vague, at least the ones I've seen. I think it's a matter of getting the judges to respond on a visceral level to the quality of what you're doing. It's just that judges respond differently than audiences. As I stated originally, this is just my opinion. If people think it's boring or obvious, that's fine. If people want to call into question my knowledge of BD's inner workings - sorry I'm just not interested.
  20. 2008 the weather was fine for the July show. It was only the august show when the alumni corps performance caused a "meteorological disturbance."
  21. Well, since you guys are looking for an argument... Are you going to deny that BD cut 2 sops at the beginning of second tour in 83? Are you going to deny that BD sent other members to recruit lead sops from Madison to fill those holes? Just try. That's what I mean by hardball.
  22. 78-83. No I don't care to argue. I know what I know and you won't convince me otherwise. I have some fairly indelible memories from those days. But don't take it the wrong way, all I'm really saying is that I think they have higher performance standards than most corps. Would you dispute that?
  23. Our corps did a lot of touring together bitd. They play hardball. And that's not a bad thing, imo.
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