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Post by philodemus on Jun 20, 2024 15:47:08 GMT -6
Let me guess... you guys also don't like: - clean snare breaks
- getting your face ripped off
- Vanguard raising a toast
- Phantom Regiment '96... worse, I bet you thought BD should have won...
- Z Pulls
- pizza
- puppies
(I kid, I kid... mostly)
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Post by hewhowaits on Jun 21, 2024 5:54:03 GMT -6
Let me guess... you guys also don't like: - clean snare breaks
- getting your face ripped off
- Vanguard raising a toast
- Phantom Regiment '96... worse, I bet you thought BD should have won...
- Z Pulls
- pizza
- puppies
(I kid, I kid... mostly)As a non-percussion expert, I LOVE well-executed snare breaks. The fascination with "getting one's face ripped off" is an aesthetic I have never understood. Loud for the sake of being loud just doesn't do it for me. Vanguard's toast is a group-specific tradition - such traditions are a great thing. I have no specific feelings one way or the other about Phantom '96, but any year that BD doesn't win is a good thing and Shostakovich as source music is always a positive. Z pulls - see Vanguard raising a toast comment - and add in that The Cadets were my favorite corps from my earliest recollection of the activity (early 1970s) until recent years. Pizza - now you're getting into argument territory - What toppings? What style(s)? Within a style, which specific purveyor? Whole pie or slice? I tend to refer to all dogs as "Pup" until I know the dog's name - and even when they're old and frail, they're still "puppies" to me.
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Post by marimba11 on Jun 21, 2024 7:58:08 GMT -6
One thing I really like is company fronts, wish they would trend again!
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Post by marimba11 on Jun 21, 2024 8:00:30 GMT -6
I also consider myself in marimba11's camp. When done well, love it love it love it - but to my ears those done well are such a tiny proportion of screamer attempts, and I'm not talking "oh it isn't musical, etc.", I flat out mean it just doesn't pan out most of the time. The Academy had a screamer this past season for a few spots in their closer and it just never worked - and not only never worked, but was always a mess in a big way as the performer attempted to reach the note but often released awful sounds or pure silence at what were supposed to be crucial musical moments. They finally got it together for Prelims & Semis (after adding in some solo voices beneath to support the screamer's attempts), but it was truly a mess all season, in a way that was impossible to overlook, and I've seen way way wayyyyyyy too many screamer attempts in a competition setting that go like that (vs. nailing it) to care for the attempt any more. When the performer(s) nail it, great, but I don't find that to be the norm, even among screamers who do nail it at the end of the season for the big shows. And even when they nail it, it's gotta be orchestrated correctly, and not a screamer for screamer's sake, to my mind, which DOES get into the musicality debate of it. There's a time and a place, sure, and when it hits, boy does it hit, but most times - meh. Castle with the Menlo Park show, BD throughout the years, Bloo in 2019 & 2016, SCV in 2018. There are times where it's magnificent! But when it's not nailed, it's ugly in a giant way, and after too many years around drum corps & high school band, I'm tired of pretending the attempt was admirable. Yeah! It really has to fit with the score! That’s good point beyond just the talent itself of the player. I also thought Crown’s trumpet screamer in their closer last year felt so forced.
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Post by yayband914 on Jun 26, 2024 19:08:31 GMT -6
Neither Blue Stars nor Colts were able to flawlessly pull off their screamers tonight.
When even world class ensembles can’t even maintain consistency, regardless if it’s early season, it’s hard for me to understand their appeal.
Addendum: add Cavies to that list.
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