Keep the Amps Out of Drum Corps
Drum and Bugle Corps is a unique activity with long-established traditional roots. Historically, it has involved an acoustic musical idiom consisting of brass and percussion instruments, along with ma... continue reading »
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"Yowza the drum talk sucks."
"What I saw on Sat. night in Foxboro was an abomination! I marched Scouts from 1985 to 1988 and my father marched from 1956 to 1961, the point being I grew up in a Madison Scout household and I'm pretty sure I used to know what Drum & Bugle Corps sound"
"Accustic Drum corps! Place of Residence WNY"
"What has become of drum corps? Are we going to have Rap lines next? Place of Residence New Hampshire"
"I am a woodwind, and cannot play in DCI. However, I am not mad. DCI should not have woodwinds, or amps. It should purely be percussion and brass, as it always has been. I am going to learn a brass instrument solely because I want to be in DCI. I will spen"
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"Amplified voice distracts from the essence of drums corps Place of Residence Denver, Colorado"
"Amps are unneccessary, yeah definitely unnecessary, amps unneccessary, yeah. Place of Residence Hospital"
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"Amps need to just BEAT IT! EEEEEEeeee! Shamow!!!! Place of Residence Neverland"
"NO AMPS Place of Residence Mich"
"В Place of Residence Kempton, PA"
"Keep the tradition alive. Place of Residence В"
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"GET A LIFE! Place of Residence В"
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"If we have to keep them, can we keep them for acoustics ONLY Place of Residence Ohio"
"NO AMPS!"
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"The goal of amplification is to raise the volume of the amplified sound above the background sound to ensure that all the sound has an equal opportunity to be heard clearly. However, this is not the case in the use of amplification in the DCI shows I have"
"The ampses are not my preciioooous! Place of Residence Middle Earth"
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"I do not understand the strategery that DCI was using when they let amps into competition. I have a hard enough time keeping up with the music, and the narration confuses me deeply...as do most things. We need to privatize amps and narration. Why, because"
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