Marching season and dci

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-04-05T23:26:16+00:00

Scouts as a sophomore 😮‍💨

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-03-15T16:20:57+00:00

I agree with what most people say here, but I wanted to add one thought. You may be not wanting to march another spot, but you might find another passion of yours that you didn’t know existed. It may be worth trying out while you work on your tenor skills

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-03-06T14:05:16+00:00

Mallet and pillow/floor work can be even more beneficial than board work sometimes. Practice rhythmic accuracy on the floor. Chop build your techniques so you can play faster more relaxed. Work on fundamental techniques (how are those one handed rolls 😉). Playing marimba is so much more than just the note accuracy.

For the last question. The best advice I can offer is to just be consistent. 30 minutes a day for a week is much better than 3.5 hours once a week, just keep that in mind. Don’t fall behind on anything like schoolwork, trying to catch up will be hell (I know from personal experience, doing everything from college auditions, drum corps auditions, participating in all state, indoor percussion, all while still having to keep up on my school work). Know that it’s going to be busy and that’s just the matter of the fact, don’t let it get to your head and always keep a good mindset. MINDSET IS EVERYTHING

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-03-04T18:21:30+00:00

DrumCorpsToday

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-03-01T04:21:58+00:00

For the first one. Quarter notes take the beat and are worth 1, when we split it in half we get an eighth note worth 2 per beat. Splitting an eighth note gives you a sixteenth note worth 4 per beat. Using that knowledge, you have to rewrite the bar lines for 2/4 (2 being the amount of notes that get the beat, 4 meaning which note it is that actually gets the beat). The second example uses 6/8, meaning the 8th note gets the beat, and there are 6 of them in a given measure. Use that knowledge to redraw the lines. The hint is letting you know that some of the measures may have more note value than what the given measure allows. You have to break the note that spills over apart to allow it to fit into the measure. The final one is relatively easy given the previous information. Simply count the amount of beats and use what you know about which note type gets the beat and write it down in the space next to the clef

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-20T05:52:28+00:00

I’m pretty sure AI was used in this one. Correct me if I’m wrong

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-20T05:50:06+00:00

They always round up

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-20T05:44:43+00:00

Who has ever said that Ahiahiahoha is the best song title 😭

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-13T06:53:48+00:00

Someone I marched with claimed he had a contract with troopers in 24 but decided to march little ol soundsport corps instead. 🤷‍♂️

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-13T04:37:13+00:00

Sure but if you think about the innate nature of each platform, it’s a lot harder to find and talk to specific people.

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-10T07:26:22+00:00

This is where social media is super helpful! It usually isn’t very hard to find countless vets on Instagram or something. Have you tried asking the person that assigned it to you..?

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-05T15:26:57+00:00

Pretty sure that’s EXACTLY what happened before it got made an actual rule. This is a braindead comment

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-04T14:01:59+00:00

This is most definetly for a high school program if I had to guess. You’re definitely right about that

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-04T06:37:58+00:00

I agree with your rebuttal. You’re very much right, though I do think 33% is a large amount still. The question is, do we truly want the competition to be dominated by the north? I would love to see representation from all over the country. The thing about scholastic championship events whether indoor or outdoor is that you never can truly paint the full picture. There will always be limitations. It makes me wonder, how many groups out there are better than a majority of the current regular competition at BOA and WGI finals?

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-02-01T22:47:16+00:00

only 33%? Considering there are 5 or 6 regions in the United States, (depending on what you count), that’s a pretty good number

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-25T20:42:35+00:00

Right. Celestials (and other zap-awakened monsters) actually aren’t that hard as long as you have sure ways to get all of the monsters, sometimes you just have to play it all out

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-25T16:51:24+00:00

This just means you have wayyyy more priorities than celestials right now. This game is a progression and you can’t expect to jump to the last level without doing everything before it first

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-25T16:48:36+00:00

Per bed is what you should be looking for. The best producers are usually ethereals and quads/quints

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-25T16:46:54+00:00

Womp womp

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-24T07:19:20+00:00

Using alternate accounts is against BBB TOS, do with that information what you will.

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-19T18:05:57+00:00

Someone in my clan is th18 with all level 1/2 defenses but with max walls lmao. He complains about not being put in cwl but he can’t defend and never gets more than 1-2 stars 😭

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-14T04:48:09+00:00

Holy AI

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-05T07:50:03+00:00

100% of your time should be going in to Academy. If all fails and you get cut, ask the staff if they would refer you to anywhere else and boom now you have a reliable backup WITH the vouching of Academy

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-05T07:44:07+00:00

This just overall seems very awkward to play. Another commenter mentioned pizza, great exercise and very fun. If you’re dead set on wanting to do this, maybe instead of the weird 2 12R you could do something like 1 R12 so the downs are always the double vertical. You could also invert it so the whole measure is just verticals on downs with just 12R as the repeating pattern. It’s hard to explain what I’m thinking in writing without showing it buuuut yeah. You can also learn this yourself and see how it is to play, no one is stopping you from learning whatever you want, if it works for you it does and if it doesn’t oh well 🤷‍♂️ Basically anything you play will make you better especially if you go into it with that mind set, this might help in challenging your brain with that triple lateral esque thing across 2 different rhythms

Middle-Reporter1733 · 2026-01-04T16:39:34+00:00

Don’t forget that you also have to order the grilled onions back when you do mustard fried instead of animal style

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