[telecaster90]

Originally Posted by ShawnFjellstad

almost all of my friends have played in the blue devils at some point. some of my friends have even been drum captainan at bd. one of my favorite things to do with them is just sit and watch them throw down some old exercises and shit that they used to play. those guys are fucking mindblowing. i once asked jared how he and those guys can pick up new things so quickley, and he replied, "once you pass the initial learning stages, you just fucking get it. there's something about fundamental drumming that allows people to do just that." it takes me months, if not years to learn and get comfortable with a new technique on guitar. it takes them forty-five minutes to pick up something new on the drums.

and as far as you trying out for some dci groups before you age out, the age limit is going to be increased again pretty soon (will be 23), so you'll have quite some time to practice your quad skillz.

i'm a huge fan of indoor drumline as well. the one i'm in actually won gold in the wgi independent world division last year. that's the highest place, in the highest division, of wgi. i feel quite privelaged to be able to work with such a talented group of musicians.

now i just need dci to start accepting electronics and guitar so i can join bd.

i'm glad there's someone else on ss.org who's into this shit.

Damn, that's pretty sweet

The line I'm on now started doing indoor about two years ago. Our first year out, we won all the competitions we went to and we ended up winning state for both of the circuits we were in. We ended up getting second last year in both circuits, but we have a good groups this year. I'm the only senior, besides two plate players, so it's just going to get better and better.

We ordered another set of tenors between marching band and indoor this year and we're marching 4 snares, 4 tenors, 4 basses, and 4 plates. Our shows going well so far and we have our first competition/premeir show in about a week and a half. I'm pretty excited about this season.

If the age limit for DCI increased though, I'll have to look into that, thanks for the info

Here, add us on myspace: MySpace.com - Clover High School Drumline - Clover, US - Drum & Bass / Crunk / Breakbeat - www.myspace.com/cloverhighschooldrumline

[ShawnFjellstad]

the age limit hasn't increased yet.
as of right now its just a proposed rule that will likely get passed.

i added you guys. good to hear you guys are doing so well, especially in your first few years of the program.

[telecaster90]

The mp3 that's up there now is from a practice last year. We did a Pat Metheny show that year, it was alot of fun.