soccerguy315 Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Ok... when I say clean, I mean breaking 85's. I meant a month of during school rehersals. We would have about a week full of drum corpesque rehersals during the summer. So it was more like 30 during school rehersals which IMO is enough to clean a marching band show well. the numbers are not really relevant as a stand alone, only useful for comparing at a certain competition against the other groups that are at that competition... some drum corps go all season without breaking 85. not sure what you mean by drum corpsesque, if you just mean 10+ hour days (likely), or actually intensity of rehearsal (which i doubt). Lots of bands do multiple weeks of 10 hour rehearsal days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
contrajedi8 Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Drum corps= 12 minutes of difficult arranging of actual music combined with 200+ pages of high velocity drill, dancing, spinning, movement. etc. Marching Band= 6 minutes of poorly arranged Journey tunes and 25 pages of easy drill. Drum corps= action. Marching Band= clarinet players bumping into each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4T Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Hey I have an idea...let's compare a skateboard with a Ferrari. But a skateboard is fully assembled and meets quality specifications in much less time than a Ferrari, surely it must be better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatoradeftw Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 But a skateboard is fully assembled and meets quality specifications in much less time than a Ferrari, surely it must be better. Well played, sir! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ULMusicMan Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Drum corps= 12 minutes of difficult arranging of actual music combined with 200+ pages of high velocity drill, dancing, spinning, movement. etc.Marching Band= 6 minutes of poorly arranged Journey tunes and 25 pages of easy drill. Drum corps= action. Marching Band= clarinet players bumping into each other. when did you see my band perform?? Your pretty spot on man. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvs me sum mello! Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Hey here's an idea! Instead of all you guys being condescending ###holes to a KID, why don't you rep the activity you profess to love and try and encourage OP to march; or at least just explain things in less harsh terms. Or did you start out knowing everything about drum corps ever? No? Didn't think so. Another pathetic moment for DCP "fans". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. D. from da 313 Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 With 3 full weeks of pre tour, and several weekend long camps I would think that corps would be pretty clean... I look at the marching band I marched with, we would be relatively clean about a month into rehearsals, and we would only practice 4 times a week for 3 hours. Are corps just pretty dirty because their programs are so intense, or what? I just think that if my band was given 3 full weeks of rehearsal we would be ridiculously clean to the point of almost perfection. I know our programs arent as difficult, but we had harder programs than anyone else in my state did, so what do you think??? DCI corps are just not as good as your band? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihatechewis08 Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 With 3 full weeks of pre tour, and several weekend long camps I would think that corps would be pretty clean... I look at the marching band I marched with, we would be relatively clean about a month into rehearsals, and we would only practice 4 times a week for 3 hours. Are corps just pretty dirty because their programs are so intense, or what? I just think that if my band was given 3 full weeks of rehearsal we would be ridiculously clean to the point of almost perfection. I know our programs arent as difficult, but we had harder programs than anyone else in my state did, so what do you think??? your ignorance is painful.. i think you underestimate the difficulty of some drum corps shows 1) your band probably isnt as clean as you think. After drum corps your eyes are a lot more developed. 2) in 2008 my opener was 96 charts. the entire show was 276 charts. how many does your band have? i could go on and on.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 i don't teach a great band. they try very hard, though. and it takes us quite a lot more time to get anything resembling clean than the OP says about his band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumno5 Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 I just think that if my band was given 3 full weeks of rehearsal we would be ridiculously clean to the point of almost perfection. Yikes. Fred O. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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