adam12343210

cavaliers

Your arguing back about you arguing back about her arguing the whole thread which she defended by saying that your just as guilty. So you're starting the arguing chain again... I'll just stop. I'm confusing myself

Marimba 16 Xylophone 15 - Vibraphone 14 Chimes 12 Bells 10 Concert Snare 8 Marching Snare 7 Marching Tenors 14 + Concert Bass Drum 11 Marching Bass Drum 12 Tom-Toms 8 Crash Cymbals 10 Suspended Cymbal 10 Triangle 4 Timpani 13 Gong 9 Finger Cymbals 7

awesome intro!

Make it happen .

So true. Sax owns jazz and rightfully so.

*sigh* Let me break this down -I support woodwinds for small features/solos. They can make beautiful small features/solos that sound more pleasing than any brass solo/feature (though I doubt that dci would even allow this to happen, I certainly wouldn't mind it). I agree with you that woodwinds... though I don't see how this matters outside of a solo/small feature (feel free to prove me wrong, I'm actually expecting you too). -I think that the addition of woodwinds for anything other than that would have many unintended consequences. Like how a huge amount of current marchers and age outs (which I'd say make up at least 1/4 of all of dci's fan base) are very anti-woodwind in dci, so they'd probably stop being involved in the activity. That would cause more money loss that dci might not be able to handle. In conclusion, woodwinds aren't worth it to me in the long run for anything besides small features or solos. And besides, the way that your arguing your point makes me think that you could easily be determined enough to learn a brass instrument .

I didn't mean that loosely... My big thing about woodwinds in dci for anything besides solos or small features is just that I don't think they would really add anything like they do in band without many more consequences that out weigh the good things that it would cause. If they got accepted they'd probably have to make the member limit higher, which would cause money problems (even though they could be solved, it could get really complicated and a lot of people wouldn't want to deal with that). Not to mention that they can barely be heard out of anything other than a feature/solo (sound familiar?).You also have to remember about old school fans that would just forget about dci entirely due to woodwinds being added (heck, there are almost as many old school fans as current fans, maybe more), and that would drastically hurt the amount of money that dci gets (which makes it even more complicated to increase the member limit). Dci is already having a bit of trouble with money as is (no espn show this year).

What I mean is interpreted loosely. As in bugle is a subset of brass and not woodwinds, so I take that to mean brass. And alot of people (including my bd and percussion instructor) count pit as a part of drums because drums are a subset of percussion.

I'm sure this has been stated before in this thread, but I can't be bothered to read all 4 pages. It's Drum and Bugle Corps, not drum, bugle, and woodwind corps. The only way I can see woodwinds in dci is maybe for a mic'd solo, but dci won't allow mic's on horns anyways so I don't think that that would happen within 10 years, though dci has proved my initial instincts wrong before.

I have a feeling we might have to go back to 4a in a few years. With Rouse opening up, we only have one solid middle school to recruit from.

Well in that case that makes a lot of sense. I thought you meant that you saw/heard about a few isolated incidents, not EVERY time you have seen that corps. Sorry if I came off as offensive.

Marimba 15 (-) Xylophone 16 Vibraphone 14 Chimes 10 Bells 11 Concert Snare 8 Marching Snare 7 Marching Tenors 13 (+) Concert Bass Drum 11 Marching Bass Drum 12 Tom-Toms 9 Crash Cymbals 10 Suspended Cymbal 10 Triangle 7 Timpani 10 Gong 9 Finger Cymbals 8

Make excersizes perfect. Our percussion instructor this year spent a very long time on them and even though we hated to do them so much, we still became a much, MUCH better section because of this.

I'm digging band. And now that marching season is over, I feel relieved. I don't have the pressure of being the only fish on the battery and the only tenor (we're going to march 2 next year ).

I still think that every corps can show class because of the nature of the activity. I don't think they do it all the time, or for some corps 1/4 of the time, but I do think they do at least sometimes.

lol, Kirby told me that story today... it's amazing how many people have marched troopers.

Thanks for being nice about how "wrong" I was. I guess people are not entitled to have a personal opinion anymore, and don't say I was talking like I "know how things roll" when I said... and I also didn't say why I believe this because... It's amazing how hard people try to make others feel wrong and just plain bad. So guess what, it worked. Happy?

I know who you're talking about, and troopers is the one she's going for. They have a Belton camp on the 13th of Dec.

Nice! Good job on getting back into finals, though I wish ya'll still had the old uni's

My bad. Lets change (so to speak...) topics .

I believe EVERY corps can and does show class just because of the nature of the activity. I'm not sure how to type why I believe this (I'd probably sound like an idiot if I did) but this is my personal opinion. I can, however, see where you're coming from, so I'm sorry if I came off as harsh.

No please continue... I can disagree with how they acted at retreat... but it's understandable. Blue devils lost to phantom/cavvies once in the entire season! They were clearly the favorites. Not to mention the fact that phantom had to go get their guard equipment before the encore, which is the reason that the encore ran behind schedule. To top it off, both bd a and b got 2nd place with a combined total of .075(in both corps) while they were both heavy favorites (bdb beat vanguard cadets by 2+ points in quarters). So while I do not like how blue devils acted, I can see the reason behind it. And trust me, bd can show class, so don't say they can't.

Darn! I wanted to see ya'll so badly this year. It's too bad you guys have a football team that wins... ='[

Can you pm me the details then, Id like to know this too.