Popular Post drilltech1 Posted August 27, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2013 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Cartwright Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 This is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Look at that left hand! Amazing! And so many music teachers today say matched grip is more "natural" than traditional. Ha! BS. Great pic! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKT90 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Look at that left hand! Amazing! And so many music teachers today say matched grip is more "natural" than traditional. Ha! BS. Great pic! Couldn't agree more. For me, traditional grip is much more comfortable than playing match. Don't know why, but I have played both tenors and snare and playing trad just feels better, to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywhopper Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 And so many music teachers today say matched grip is more "natural" than traditional. Ha! BS. Ha, and I assumed someone helped the kid grip it "correctly". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perc2100 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 That's a great picture!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 having the hands look like that is good parenting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayfallon Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 and so it begins... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayfallon Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Ya know, this single picture says more about our activity than all the forums, threads, articles, and general steaming heaps of BS we normally cram onto DCP and elsewhere. I just got done reading, digesting, and responding to Lee's "State of Drum Corps" and I get depressed. We take it all so seriously. We debate evolution and shows and staffs and judges and venues and notes and keys and instruments and ultimately it comes down to this: a kid of some age or another, inspired by a dad or mom or friend or someone he or she saw on YouTube is drawn to an instrument and the result is Love, pure and simple. When I was a kid drum corps was the affordable instrument to be drawn to, but for my brother it ended up guitar (although he first played bass drum in a corps). Ultimately as long as kids fall in love with music and playing, the activity serves its purpose and all the rest of our wringing our hands and brooding over whether it was better in 1982 or 1954 is just so much noise. I love this picture. It gives me more hope than I've gotten from 5 years of DCP and or RAMD (from which I got nothing but a rash). Thanks for sharing. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranintothedoor Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 rayfallon, I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. I think drum corps is full of amazing kids, much better than the "role models" presented to us in government and the media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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