Kamarag Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 I totally agree with the OP, and have felt that way myself for many, many years. Mike The thing is, the word "variety" is all over the sheets, and has been for the last six or seven years. Judges *will* credit variety of tempo, but only a few corps are comfortable enough to program for it. Here's hoping tempo and stylistic variety becomes more widespread. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumcorpsfever Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Would have fit into my era, where everything HAD to be between something like 126 and 132, due to the Cadence caption. Exactly. My take as well. From my perspective, there exists a tremendous amount of tempo variation nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamarag Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Exactly. My take as well. From my perspective, there exists a tremendous amount of tempo variation nowadays. Sure, as long as it's north of 180 or south of 90. There is very little in between, especially in the 120-160 zome (the groove pocket). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 (edited) We did it first the year before in Miami to "White Rabbit", and Tony "hic" Schlecta was on record stating that we did not deserve to be competing at the show. He wouldn't even say our name when we were on the line. Happy to say, the crowd loved it. I never saw so many flashes go off as when we turned and pushed to the stands in the Peace sign form. I don't know if this is an urban legend or not... but didn't Bobby Hoffman try to sell the peace-sign visual to the veterans groups as actually being the Mercedes-Benz logo? Edited March 7, 2016 by Fran Haring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 (edited) OMG do you remember all that...lol..yikes remember prelim shows?...lol I remember those shortened prelims shows. Corps had to jump through all sorts of hoops to cut stuff from their shows for prelims... cut and paste was more like it. LOL. Made for some interesting transitions from tune to tune. Edited March 7, 2016 by Fran Haring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumcorpsfever Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Sure, as long as it's north of 180 or south of 90. There is very little in between, especially in the 120-160 zome (the groove pocket). You may be right. It would be interesting to see a tempo chart for each corps. Lows, highs, time played within each tempo range. I'm not sure what all this would mean, but it could be an interesting read. You know, since we don't have the recaps anymore...:> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamarag Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 You may be right. It would be interesting to see a tempo chart for each corps. Lows, highs, time played within each tempo range. I'm not sure what all this would mean, but it could be an interesting read. You know, since we don't have the recaps anymore...:> Devils have probably had the widest variety of tempi among the contenders over the years (no research there, just a guess). There are a few others that will venture into the middle ground, but not nearly enough and not for major portions of the show. And as others have stated, it severely limits the music corps are willing to program. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I don't know if this is an urban legend or not... but didn't Bobby Hoffman try to sell the peace-sign visual to the veterans groups as actually being the Mercedes-Benz logo? I have heard that, but only second hand, so I have no idea if it is true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I remember those shortened prelims shows. Corps had to jump through all sorts of hoops to cut stuff from their shows for prelims... cut and paste was more like it. LOL. Made for some interesting transitions from tune to tune. Esp as no halting was allowed...you had to stay in motion the entire 7 1/2 (I think) minutes. Took a lot of practice to NOT halt in spots you spent all winter learning to halt. Those short shows also caused a lot of flag violation "opportunities" that were not there in the full show. Cavies were 11th at 1970 VFW Nats prelims, yet 3rd at finals. I think it was due to prelim flag issues (could be wrong on that...a vague memory). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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