DCI Fans!

Just got back from my first Drum Corps International summer show in Lisle, IL with corps including: Racine Kilities, Madison Capital Sound, Lexington Southwind, Rockford Phantom Regiment, Canton Bluecoats and Madison Scouts with the Phantom winning in spectacular fashion. This was my first drum corps event, since two years ago. And it was greaaaat. Anybody else a DCI fan?

My favorite corps, the Rosemont Cavaliers!

I used to be roommmates with a corps guy. He had fast hands! He taught me alot about technique. [/ghey-sounding post] srsly

My dad and uncle played when they were growing up in New York.
I played trumpet as a kid but not actively since high school---but I still love drum and bugle.
The trumpet, the voice of the angels!

coughbandfagscough

You wish you knew music like me. Sure you appreciate it but you don't understand the theory I bet.
And you were on my case for saying the word fag?

i am also a musician, young man.
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not a very good one...but i do a passable elvis

I was never in band, I can't read music, I learned by ear. I just bought a metronome and started practicing rudiments very recently, after playing by the seat of my pants for more than a decade. I frequently wish I had a more formal education (and never picked up some bad mechanical habits that have been hard to break), but who knows how I would've turned out. So, I'm happy to be where I'm at now.

Plenty of musicians don't know theory, mister.
Let's start with the basics: Can you tell me who Beadgcf is?
Bonus~~ Tonic is to ______ as up is to down.

seven-string bass?

beadgbe would be guitar, but I think for basses you don't downtune the top two strings a half-step like you do for guitars.
(four strings is plenty of bass for me, thanks.)

The order of the sharps and flats, the circle of fifths.

Friday night I watched some guys I know cut a CD. Buzz Saylor, the drummer/percussionist for Simon Apple, is amazingly talented.
Oh yeah, Stefon Pizzuto plays a mean 6 string base, also.

I love DCI ... used to be a bigger event for me, I try to catch it when it runs on PBS. Came within a hairsbreadth of joining The Crossmen, but I wanted my summers off.

Wolf what would you have played? Or considering the colorguard? Anyway that's awesome.

freshnesschronic wrote:

Let's start with the basics: Can you tell me who Beadgcf is?
Bonus~~ Tonic is to ______ as up is to down.

That's all wind instrument nonsense, for the record. Strings don't organize that way. Orch dorks unite!

I've managed to get to a couple of shows in Madison, WI, and if I didn't, I watched the show on PBS. Now, the La Crosse Blue Stars are competing again this year and will host the 39th annual River City Rhapsody on Saturday, June 30th, in La Crosse.! Woo hoo!

freshnesschronic;358554 wrote:

Bonus~~ Tonic is to ______ as up is to down.

I'm guessing you're looking for dominant? If so I consider it a flawed analogy... the dominant is not really the opposite of the tonic.

Anyway I'm not a big fan of the DCI stuff. But that's probably typical of a woodwind player who's never even played in a marching band!

Clodfobble;358833 wrote:

That's all wind instrument nonsense, for the record. Strings don't organize that way. Orch dorks unite!

Yeah, that's why there were 100 kids in band and 25 in orchestra in middle school, right? :D
And tonic dominant rule still applies! Tonic dominant IS Western music.

SteveDallas;358859 wrote:

I'm guessing you're looking for dominant? If so I consider it a flawed analogy... the dominant is not really the opposite of the tonic.

Anyway I'm not a big fan of the DCI stuff. But that's probably typical of a woodwind player who's never even played in a marching band!

Well you get my gist, don't you. Or do you prefer gest.

Picky.
Brass rules woodwinds. You are teh sux0rs! There's no room for you in drum and bugle, hence it is drum and bugle minus woodies! :p

I was a drummer in band in JHS and HS and I loved every minute of it. When I was in boot camp I was in the band there too. You never heard Semper Paratus played 'till your herd it from the middle of the drum line.
Keep your cuntry, keep your disco, I'll take John Philip Sousa any day.
Only the best get to play in a marching band.:band:

freshnesschronic wrote:

Yeah, that's why there were 100 kids in band and 25 in orchestra in middle school, right?

Not in my school; we were about even in numbers. Guess I went to a classier high school than you did. :)

freshnesschronic;358677 wrote:

Wolf what would you have played? Or considering the colorguard? Anyway that's awesome.

Melodic percussion ... I played xylophone in my high school marching band.

I wasn't really big on brasses, but could play trumpet, a bit, so I could have picked up bugle fairly easy. I was actually a Clarinet player for the most part.