Corps Clips

Most sound clips are in Windows .wav format with a few in RealAudio format, BUT I am gradually converting all larger files to MPEG 3 format so I can put up a lot more clips.

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Drumcorps Etc. Trivia:

1) If you can name the exact show this Mystery Clip is from ,

2) Name the Corps that did this tune (Real Audio) in the '97 Epcot parade or,

3) Name the corps that had it's '97 finals performance marred by blaring police sirens during the ballad or,

4) Name one of the two non-drumcorps related images that appeared on the home.html page when it first started and I'll send you something that won't be appearing on the page.

Odds & Ends

The "DCI Street time"- A MIDI concoction of mine. Not a serious composition! See if you can find the Crown, BD, CBC, X-Men, Cavalier, SCV, Surf, Glassmen, and Tarheel quotes. Keep in mind that they're not exact and that I wrote this using a SoundBlaster 32awe soundcard. Results may vary. (12/10/98 version)

Geordi... A short drum machine bass beat I wrote (9sec)

Rhythm Song - a midi sampling of Paul Smadbeck's marimba piece

Mexican Dances- sample of 1st mvt. by Gordon Stoudt (new)

Hillsborough High School (my gig)

Feste Romane last strand of Hillsborough's opener (remember Star '91?)

Different Doubles keyboard exercise based on the Cadets' one of the same name (except it's about 3:00 shorter!)

"...Wintertime" doublestop exercise based off of Ancona's "Summertime...", among others new

Coming Sometime: A whole s**tload of '97 Allentown footage

Blue Devils:
Tribute to the '96 BD tenor line

#1 Around the back' lick at the beginning of the closer (58k)

#2) Transitional lick from opener

#3) Short one from "Club Blue"

'96 Drumline:

Triplet Rolls The standard but w/ a quick duple roll at the end (152k)

Mean Streets section leading into tempo change in opener

Trade Off section of "Club Blue"

Cresc/Decresc section following trade off

Lead in to sparse roll section of "Club..."

The End Fortissimo roll section at the end of the show (10.4sec,112k)

Pit Feature from Night Streets (1k midi file) taken from transcription on Jeff Lee's BD pit page

'97 Drumline:

Ditty- midi file of the final version of the infamous 'little ditty' Thanks Brian

Hornline: (I know, this is a drum page, but it is the Devils)

Greetings to my girl Amy Poulsen in the champion '98 BD mellophone line

Night Streets- "U" to the end (BD '94) Thanks for the '94 stuff Ken

Tuning sequence- this is the one that's on the '94 highlight broadcast

Horn warmup Taped before their performance at Epcot in '96 now working (Real Audio) (24sec, 44k)

Soprano Feature from "La Fiesta" from the 1st place BD mixed ensemble performance, taped at the Showcase of Talent in '96 (14sec) (Real Audio format)

Baritone Feature from S.O.T. (42sec, 83k) (Real Audio)

'98 Battery:

The Thirteenth Hour BD's new on-field warm-up. This one is a little bottom heavy, but if you tweak the bass down, it sounds fine.

Thanks a million, Patrick

Blue Knights:

'96 Battery:

Accent to tap exercise w/ a cool bass lick at the end (33sec, 355k) now working

Triple/Duple exercise (10sec, 107k)

Flam exercise roll variation w/ a cool bass groove at the end (14sec, 150k) now working

Cadets of Bergen County:

Greetings to my friends in the World Champion '98 CBC:

-Kyle Poulsen (Mello & Contra) and family (the people that bought me the recorder to make a lot of these clips), John 'Axl' Whitworth, tapping off on #2 in '98 (a guy responsable for about 25% of this stuff), Nick Kline on #3, and Josh Rosenstock and Chris Previc on bari

Coming this century- more '97 Battery footage!!

93 Bassline: (In my opinion, the best ever)
cbc93bs1 Flam/roll exercise (118K, 11.0sec)
cbc93bs2 flam/roll exercise (102K, 9.5sec)
cbc93bs3 roll exercise (102K, 9.5sec)

'93 Battery: Since this solo can be found in various forms on about 17 different web pages, I decide to offer something a little different. This is a full length DAT recording of the legendary '93 drum solo, performed by the ENTIRE percussion section, FROM START TO FINISH. (860k)

I give you,

In The Spring...

'94 Battery:

Bass feature into culmination of "Cool" battery feature (131k)

Snare feature from "Cool" (44k)

Tenor feature from "Cool" (51k)

'95 Battery:

Early Season section of "Blowing off Steam" (poor sound quality, awesome parts) 220k

Early Season 4:3 section of "The Reivers" (45k)
The '95 Bass ram This is the s**t. (552k, 50.0sec)
Section of "The Reivers" (bass only) 291k

End of "B.O.S." (bass only) (270k)

Himalayas (snares only) 61k

'96 Snares:
cbc96sn1 original backsticking feature (60K, 5.5sec)

'96 Tenors:
cbc96tr2 Early season tenor feature (75K, 7sec)
cbc96tr1 A clip of the end of 'Tulsa' (156K, 14.5sec)

'96 Bassline:
cbc96bs2 Gunfight Feature (60K, 5.5sec)
'96 Battery
cbc96trl Triplet Rolls (183K, 17sec)
cbc96tul Tempo transition at the end of 'Tulsa' (32K, 3.00 sec)
cbc96hdn Opening statement of 'Hoedown' (113K, 10.5sec)

Gunfight 1 end of part 1 (after the bass feature) (180k, 17sec)

Street Time written by Mike Stevens, recorded at Epcot center (60sec)

'97 Battery:

#1) selection from show (56k)

'98 Battery:

clip of show (new)

Carolina Crown

Watch for Surf vets Jim Gick ('96 Captain, '98 Snare tech) and Matt Lusky (President & Instructor of the Penn State Indoor Drumline) on end snares in '97

Last Phrase of '96 street time

'97 Street time (630k) check out that bass tap! (full transcription on the music page) written by Larry Cauley

Cavaliers:

'93 Battery: written by James Campbell

Thanks for the info, Dave

12-13 w/ tag Cool stuff. (22sec, 234k)

Cavalier Singles Legato exercise (7.7sec, 83k)

Book1: Selection from the opener; Symphonic Contata by David Holsinger (7.8 sec, 83k)

Book2: Another selection. This is one of the best parts of the book that year but it got buried on the recordings. (12.8sec, 137k)

Book 3: 467k

Book 4 : 155k

'97 Battery

Sperm of the Moment- '97 street time Thanks James

Crossmen:

All pre-'97 selections written by Mark Thurston. All '97 selections written by Thom Hannum, Jim Ancona, and/or Colin Mcnutt.

'93 Battery: This goes out to Chet T. and Adam B.

Floor tom thing classic Thurston triplet based lick (If you listen, you can hear Chet, then Crossmen snare tech, on this one)

'95 Battery: these go out to Jeremy 'Junior' Schilling (Snare '94-5, CBC '96)

(these clips are a little distorted because of the original recording, not the .ra format)

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

"I was here when we did classical music"

-Jack Mansager, 3/98

'96 Battery: These go out to Kenny Riehman (Snare '96)

Opening statement from the opener.

End of Birdland

'97 Battery: These go out to my boys Mikey Rabinowitz and Chris Perna

The Beat originally written by Colin McNutt for Star of Indiana, now played by the Crossmen taped in Epcot on 8/13/97 (760k)

Opening phrase of drum solo from Niner-two

2nd trade-off phrase ultra-f**king clean

Birdland '97 groove section in the beginning Taped from the warm-up before their June 28 show

Birdland- more bird stuff

Last Minute of Niner Two

segment of Reds Rhumba - also originally written by Colin McNutt for Star of Indiana, now played by the Crossmen

'98 Crossmen: BEFORE- The following clips are taken from our ensemble rehearsal on 5/10, before move-in at Allentown College. Thanks to Steve and Gary for helping me out with the recordings.

Third Wind - A clip from towards the beginning of the opener. The room pretty much obscures the mallet and tenor features, but trust me, they are there and they are bad ass!

Letter From Home - The pit introduction to our second tune

First Circle - Pit Feature and adjoining horn entrance. I can see it now: Cesario's 'favorite musical moment'

"You need to use broader strokes."

- Jim Ancona, 5/98

'98 Crossmen: AFTER

These first four clips are taken from our warm-up before our performance at Allentown, on 8/8. If you were there, you'll remember the car alarm.

Clip 1- Third Wind opening statement from battery

Clip 2 - (56 to 89) Note the song is in 4/4, while the Marimba ostinato is in patterns of 9/16. In other words, the pattern resolves once every 9 bars. (new)

Clip 3 - (93-109) 12/8 percussion featured section.

Clip 4 - (116-end) (new)

The Teradactyls - Earlier version of the 4 bar horn break before the percussion feature

"When you play like that, I just want to throw this tennis ball right at your face!"

-Anonomous

Future Corps

First Circle opening strands of the great Metheny tune done by my favorite cover band. (This is the same section in the song from the Crossmen clip above) (RA 1:34)

Glassmen

greetings to Jason ('97 pit)

Farandole (Bizet) (entire ensemble) I took this clip from the '97 opener directly from a performance (RA 0:30)

Jersey Surf:

'96 Battery: All selections arranged by Chet Tietsworth

Drags in 7/8 Tap roll exercise (12sec, 130k)

6/8 Rolls Roll exercise of X-men fame (12sec, 130k)

Mr. Toad Opening phrase of the drum solo (Written by Chris 'CJ' Johnson) (7.4sec, 79k)

The End Last strain of the '96 closer, "Fantasy" (21sec, 224k)

'97 Pit

Rock That Marimba feature. I put the drum set part in there for the hell of it, but the rest was arranged by Wes Morton

Madison Scouts