skevinp Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 55 minutes ago, HockeyDad said: When we work together, as a team, we can do something like this: Ironically, that show may have been smaller than the sum of its parts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUARDLING Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Its just alll about the BUZZ words of the day. All you have to do is watch cable news on either side and you can tell the buzz word sometimes of the week...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple Forte Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 3 hours ago, glory said: In a recent update on its February "production" camp, Boston Crusaders told us their focus included "creating musical synergy when all the performers assemble." Here's my question. Is "creating musical synergy" different from making music? Isn't it just a fancy-pants way of saying the corps is putting the pieces together? Is it yet another examples of corps over-complicating this marching band thing we love? (Some of us.) You're not creating musical synergy. Synergy isn't the objective. It's music. It's simple. I know I'm totally splitting hairs. Don't hate me for it. The bar has to be lower in February. And what's a "production" camp? Do they have non-production camps? What are they called? People add more words to things to make them sound more important... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUARDLING Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 2 minutes ago, Triple Forte said: People add more words to things to make them sound more important... now this is so true..lol funny when those who use them have no idea just repeat...now thats even funnier..lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 1 hour ago, craiga said: and we have "Visual Performance" judges While on the subject of 10-dollar words that really are worth about a quarter...LOL... Don't you mean "adjudicators"? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 37 minutes ago, Triple Forte said: People add more words to things to make them sound more important... That is perceptively, academically, and intuitively true. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 1 hour ago, craiga said: Yet. A little tease about the show theme? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 i don't want no synergy, i just want jetpacks and fancy lasers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glory Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 1 hour ago, craiga said: I think there's pretty much nothing to see here. "Synergy" is simply as described above...putting the pieces together... Agree there is nothing to see here. In fact, I started this discussion only because there is nothing to see on DCP these days. But seriously, isn't "synergy" a precondition for good music from any band? I mean precondition versus objective (as in "creating synergy"). Can you have good music if you don't have synergy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glory Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 Reminded myself of a long time ago when I played in the pit band of a second-rate Miss Virginia pageant (I say "second rate" because if I was in the band it couldn't have been first rate.) Anyway, we were supposed to play "Impossible Dream" when the winner was crowned (it was the 70s). The emcee, who'd sung a solo earlier, was NOT supposed to sing Impossible Dream. But he did, or he tried, coming in several counts off our otherwise seamless rendition. Everyone of us recognized immediately the problem and the solution. And without a word being spoken, we all shifted automatically to his (mistaken) count. That was synergy - and one of the greatest musical moments of my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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