Hopefully this year, though, we'll be recognized a bit more, depending on how the music for our show works out. Sorry, had to go there.
You may not be too far off, there. Within the next couple months, I plan to take up the trumpet so that, after high school I can audition for a Drum and Bugle Corp.
You may very well be watching me with the Cadets! I doubt it, but stranger things have happened. And, whichever instrument I take up in the future, I will always play the Sax and continue to be a Sax at heart. Within the next few years, good old Hop will get woodwinds legalized; just you wait. The whole fiasco will make amps look like childsplay. You might not have to take up a brass instrument if the underlying DCI agenda is taken care of properly.
Let's face it. And you can replicate the sound, power, and impact of a G bugle hornline with instruments that can't play in the rain. I just hope you are wrong and woodwinds are never allowed as a primary instrument in DCI.
Sure I'm willing to entertain special circumstances where you have a player do something on a woodwind for a specialized moment or situation, but overall brass and percussion is the foundation of the drum corps activity. The second it becomes like a marching band, you have ended the tradition of a long standing activity. Sure changes happen, but this is a core of the drum corps.
It would be a sad day in DCI what Hopkins gets that change passed. Sorry, sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet. I couldn't agree with you more. I'm sure Mr. Hopkins will push very hard for the addition. But I don't think it will be embraced regardless of its legality in the activity.
Adding woodwinds means lowering the number of brass players or percussionists or guard members that a corps can field. I have been anti-woodwind for the last 25 or more years I say crap because IMO the purity of the artform is forever lost I still go to shows and buy souvies and enjoy drumcorps every summer I've just gotten to a point where I'm just tired of this artifical line I've drawn in the sand against them..
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Paste as plain text instead. Only 75 emoji are allowed. Display as a link instead. Clear editor. Upload or insert images from URL. Why aren't woodwinds allowed in DCI? Share More sharing options Followers 0. Reply to this topic Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Hrothgar15 Posted June 24, And to be honest, not to bash woodwinds too horribly, but adding woodwinds into drum corps would take away the warmth and power a DCI hornline can create.
It wouldn't add to it Dave. It is mostly tradition, and money costs. Heat is more damaging to woodwinds wood warps, cracks and reeds in the heat are a pain in the buttocks to deal with.
Also, why no trombones? Kever Lewis Sep ' DCI says that it has to be bell front thus why there is noftench horns and have valves thus no trombone. Also, for the intricate drill that the majority of drum corps march, trombones would be impractical and dangerous. For woodwinds, reeds would not be the problem. By treblemaker , May 27, in Drum Corps Forum.
Should woodwinds be allowed to march DCI? Why or Why not? Justify your cause that's all I ask. Xenon 19 posts. The sound of drum corps is too unique to spoil it with woodwinds Its called drum and bugle corps for a reason. Most corps originated from drums, guard, and 1 or 2 valve bugles. Granted the origin of these groups comes from military drum and fife corps Adding in woodwinds also isn't going to have a significant impact on the sound unless you greatly increase the member limit.
If you split the Brass in half and add woodwinds, the brass is going to overpower the woodwinds anyways, and its just going to decrease the overall volume.
The only case I could see for a woodwind to have a useful application in drum corps is as a soloist, and frankly I'd prefer for that never to happen. I think adding in woodwinds would be completely changing the foundation of a magnificant program. If you add in woodwinds, you would have to up the member limit or cut the brass in half. That would have an effect on overall volume, and sound. The brass would overpower the woodwinds anyway.
If anything is more memorbable of a Drum Corp, its the huge impact volume of that first hit. I know it is unfair for woodwind player, but I honestly have met only a select few of woodwind players who would ever seriously consider marching drum corp, anyway. Shouldn't we get the equal opportunity to experience what DCI has to offer without having to learn a totally different instrument putting us behind the curve with most others playing their instruments for 5 years or more?
The amount of woodwind players that have competed in drum corps are a lot higher than what people might think. Corps don't just look at raw talent as the only factor in choosing the to put on the uniform. It has a lot to do with attitude.
Some of the best players are sometimes cut because of their inflated ego or negative attitude. In turn, a motivated woodwind player who does not have much experience on a brass instrument can take that very spot based on their work ethic and attitude. Does it happen all the time?
Perhaps not, but it is not impossible. Drum Corps is a unique musical activity. It really wouldn't be Drum Corps anymore with woodwinds, just like a woodwind ensemble wouldn't be called as such if you added a bunch of brass instruments.
Adding woodwinds would change the entire visual complexion of the activity. Since the brass instruments have to be carried in more or less the same way, it makes for visually uniform and appealing forms, both in motion and at rest. The last image you see on that video is a baritone player from the Star of Indiana slamming his horn down at the end of his show.
Although you cannot hear what he is saying, you can see him scream out after the horns down. It's probably the most badass thing I've ever seen. Now, imagine if he had a clarinet in his hands. It wouldn't have the same affect. I would venture to guess that almost every Division 1 drum corps has at least 1 woodwind player in the hornline.
I marched with a saxophone and clarinet player last year. You can't complain and say its not fair that you dont get to march drum corps. Honestly, learning a brass instrument well enough to march a D1 corps is not as big of a commitment as you would think. If you were to start now, playing 30 minutes to an hour a day on a brass instrument would more than likely be enough to get you into a lower tier finalist corps.
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