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With tilted drums, it makes traditional drumming more relaxed since you don't have to lower your left hand or raise your right hand up to your drum. Jim's idea is ultimate relaxation, which will help out the Cavies a lot considering the stuff he wrote for them. Ridiculous.

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Here's one. How do you get a baritone to sound like a french horn? Play real high nd crack a lot of notes. And one more... What's a tuba's range? 20 yards, if you have a good arm.

Yeah, you get lots of money, and you find a way to use it to get more money. It's wierd to think of it this way, but steroid use is like making an investment. You use money you have to put into something you hope will get you more money, so you get your money working for (or in this case, on) you.

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Internal politics? Oh, ok then, that makes it easy (or easier) It does really depend on the director. Some band directors probably do give people positions they don't deserve, but if a band director likes someone, it's usually because they earned the respect of them, via leadership quality or ability. Also, maybe there's something a band diretor sees in an individual that you may not. I personally don't agree with couple of decisions one of my bd's has made about placement of some people in certain spots, but now I see that sometimes it's not only about who's the best, but who could improve the most in that spot, be it a seat in the drumline, section leader, or even drum major. I'd hate to say it, but those guys are smarter than us, since, you know, THEY'RE running the band. Do they mke mistakes? Of course, but most have a decent reason for the choice they made.

OK, drummers are NOT always dumb...just psychotic. Percussionists, well, depemds, since some of them actually have lives outside the practice room.

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As far as UIL and BO go, I don't think politics relly play that large of a factor, if even one at all. As for DCI....defidently.

Yeah. Eric just seems to exemplify the emotional side of music better than many of the best composers of all time. Ticheli puts out good qulity music, but the true emotion lies with Whitacre.

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Besides, if they make it any bigger, it'll start eating gallons-per-mile!

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I like the low sound out of drums, so mostly Remo doesn't do that well. If you want the higher, table top sound, then Remo your way up there, but the thick, low drum sound is best exemplified on Evans-equipped Pearl (wood drums, don't go carbon-ply)

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The irony of those Hummers....do you know how little space is in those things?! You get hardly ANY leg room whatsoever! Whoever thought to design something THAT big to have THAT little breathing room was nuts.

No doubt Phantom will rank high, but winning...that remains to be seen. As for early predictions of a first place run, it's too early to decide. When the season plys out in the summer, then predictions mean something.

It also takes a balance of pushing and shoving In other words, a band director has to know how hard to push their band to get something done, and the band needs to shove the work back to the band directors. The best directors know to push their kids too far at times, to make their students rise up to the challenge. The best students, COLLECTIVELY, not only rise up to the challenge, but shove the music back into their director's face, forcing him to find something wrong with it, or new to look at. To me, even though some people just have "it," anyone can be a upper level performer. It just depends on how much of your butt you're willing to whoop.

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