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Discount Marching Percussion (discountmp.com) owned by John Lind (if you're from the northwest you probably know who he is) is planning on releasing two books for online sale as well as sales at shows and in the store. One book consists of personally written warmups/ensemble exercises & the other is a book of cadences and parking lot pieces. If you've got any of that laying around just waiting for people to play it then please submit it as a pdf file to percussionbook@discountmp.com Authors will receive full credit in the book as well as a free copy and a free discountmp tshirt. Peace,

I totally agree but with the caveat that Jim's style is really his own however a lot of the phrasing styles are very similar to Star 93. I think in both situations the book is written to underscore the melody more than to "add voicing" or beef percussion scores. The 98 show is one of my favorites that SCV has played. The musicality that Casella brought to the corps is something amazing.

Where's converse on this list for all the VK fans ;) I'm all about mtx although dinkles are good once you hack off a bit of the heel to round it more.

Since I'm the only one submitting, here's another page out of my personal collection (written for my all freshman/sophomore bassline back in 1997). It's a nice little parking lot piece that requires basses to differentiate feet from playing and also makes each bassist play on nearly every count.

For shame! Hey I don't suppose either of you has ever tried the trick of using swappable image maps? I finally managed to get it working in all browsers except IE on macs. (useless trick but fun to do)

If I might critique the bands new site: It's great except for the cursor. A regular cursor would look better with the site. (my two cents)

I'm more interested in helping out to revamp existing corps sites who don't have a polished site for free or incredibly cheaply than doing any real work for the moment now that I think about it. So either of the above choices of Cascade Mama or damnrahkuhns is quite excellent :) Hmm perhaps we should make a joint site? lol

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Here's something from my own personal collection: I use it to teach my fairly advanced students to play cheese inverts loosely with more focus on bounce than on 'sticking' them through. Typically I have them learn it without the didle portion of the exercise with a metronome up to 160 before starting them back at a slower speed to learn the diddles and cheeses.

Was wondering if anyone was interested in trading stuff from their drumbibles? I just recently updated mine by scanning in and/or transcribing all of the stuff that's been gathering dust (usually written quickly in a parking lot by me on notebook paper) and would love to update it a bit more. I'm not interested in any of the published stuff (anything tapspace, BD, wooten's book) but more interested in exercises that either don't get as much play anymore or else is something that everyline plays some form of.

Don't ask me why but SCV 1993's mahogany and yellow looked spiffy. Also VK 1992, BD 1994, SCV 1991

If you get some of that krylon binding spraypaint you ought to be able to paint the material as needed, although if it is treated well (used for performances only) clear might end up being less distracting.

I think VF typically crushes IP's sticks in paired tonality. As for Tenor mallets, VF has been better than everyone else lately (I still prefer either the Gambal non cartwheel mallets I still have or else a nice pair of Ralh Hardimon woodtips). Bass mallets have always been (since I started in 1990) the best way to go. Very sturdy malletheads and very very sturdy malletshafts.

The laminate method works quite well for cost and durability. The avatar is Brittany Murphy by the way.

In order of quality and tone: 1. Pearl (especially the bass drums, omg the sound of well tuned pearl basses is what make me love drumming the most, the tenors have a very sweet sound as well). 2. Yamaha (especially sound coming off the snares) 3. Dynasty (they sound like garbage and look bad too, even the old all plastic remo freefloaters look good by comparison.) 4. Premiere (the only manufacturer that managed to design drums that have bolts break when you loosen them. Also has severe issues with balsawood rims for basses, they chip and shatter with barely any usage. I'd love to be in an unsponsored line that marched 8 yamaha snares 6 Pearl tenors and 5 Pearl Basses. Throw in some Zildjian cymbals and I'd be happy for a long long time. When Winter showed it's face the idea of having some backup Dynasty and Premiere drums to help start the drumline bonfire'd be great too ;D

I think mylar is better for me personally to play on since I do more playing on a practice pad than on a drum anymore. As far as it goes I think in certain instruments tone has gotten better through the usage of kevlar since the extra set of snares to help the sound project is more commonplace. As far as nonsnare stuff, does anyone know when two ply tenor heads became commonplace? I think that the articulation coming out tenors is better lately than it has been. My only two gripes about corps drumming is: Blue Devils overcrank those dynasty snares to the point of formica having more tone. Boston Crusaders Tenor and bass head choices have all of the tonality and clarity as drumming on a wet paper bag. Both lines have had amazing books throughout the last few years but the tuning and tonality of the instrumentation is holding back the true musicality coming out of them.

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Dci hasn't made any rules regarding a requirement for esoteric music that I know of. Although I guess in that regard GE makes more/less sense to me than ever. As for retreats, as I'm sure you recall small shows won't have retreats but large shows (regionals, finals) will STILL HAVE RETREATS. As for the tick system it was a horribly flawed system much like today's scoring system is. To fix scoring they need field judges doing ticks and the rest of the judges doing subjective score. As for drum and trumpet. With inflation, gas prices, insurance prices and instrument prices the idea that a corps can buy new brass without worrying about not having a large source of customers to sell their old brass to is a good thing. As for good changes: front ensemble (pit), shows are allowed to be a production rather than the old "opener, present colors, honor guard, drum solo, symmetrical" shows. Now before I get lumped in with the "yay amps" crowd: I think that for the most part DCI is very perilously close to the point here they run out of changes to the activity.

1984 Blue Devils 1989 Phantom 1990 Blue Devils 1991 SCV (the show that got me into corps) 1992 SCV yay fiddler 1993 Cadets 1994 Blue Devils

I'm trying to rebuild my chops up to where they used to be (i.e. not suckage). Anyone in tricities, walla walla areas up for some grid/invert/paradiddle hackfests?

Don't forget: Holy Name Cadets Garfield Cadets Cadets of Bergen County or The Cadets

While I usually react to music playing on a website (with no way to turn it off) I immediately mute my speakers, I actually took the time to listen to all of that piece. [CENSORED] he can play!!

I don't think they did one specifically for the flavor but actually did appear in the background of a commercial as "The Phantom Regiment". My bad.

My fuzzy memory may be mistaken but I also swear I recall my old "Drum Corps there and then, here and now" book mentioning Phantom. Now that I think about it though it may have been Phantom's Ice cream commercial and Guardsmen's KFC..

I'm looking for a copy of the Phantom Regiment KFC commercial from 78-79? (and some of you clicked this thread preparing to tell me that copying videos is evil). I saw a still picture of the commercial once in 92 or 93 and have been searching for it ever since. If anyone has it or knows where I can find it I'd greatly appreciate it.