SCV 2011 Full Ensemble

SCV 2011 Full Ensemble

This is the first show of the season...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 2011
• santa
• clara
• vanguard
• scv
• dci
• paul
• rennick
• unt
• drumline

[erob116]

Perhaps a forum would've been a better place to enlighten us. You're kind of blowing up my inbox :/ ...but there are other places where criticism is accepted. Here though, we just want to hear awesome beats. I don't want to start debating anything, because YouTube is a comical place for that.

[ikshields]

Incredible precision for early season, yes.

But musically, it's awfully vanilla, isn't it?

I mean, is this all we're going to get, sideline-percussion-wise? No crotales for sparkle, no interesting textures or instrument colors? All I'm getting is an endless diet of marimba/vibraphone runs and cymbal whooshes -- why?

It's not just this group either. It seems most of DCI has abandoned its sense of musical color and creativity, even as the shows have grown more complex.

[erob116]

@ikshields I don't know, I think Rennick writes an incredibly colorful pit chart. I hear chimes, crotales, and bells beyond the keyboard voices. And the effect at 2:25 is unlike any I've probably ever heard! I love the voices at the end of that phrase, 2:39ish.

[erob116]

That's correct. A lot of the kids also march at UNT. This line was on a completely different level!

[ssnaredude10]

I always thought it was funny when people say that most of this or any Rennick line has a majority of his past students. Three of the snares marched Phantom, and of those three, one goes to UNT. Theres another snare from UNT who is a former Cadet. Two quads are from UNT, one of which marched Phantom. The pit however has a lot of UNT students. 3 vibes, 1 marimba, 1 on Xylo/bells, 1 on rack, and one synth. So, out of the 40 in the percussion section, 13 have previously been taught by Rennick. :)

[MegaSmokahontas]

FUCK U

[VerySnowy]

They look so like phantom regiment this year. Just not the old tilted-snare scv anymore. How sad.

Clean though, as always.

[chezjanou]

Fuck yea! I love me some SCV!!!

[kurryseymour]

Sounds GREAT Paul and Sandi.... and SCV percussion staff.

[break05]

Basses at 1:40 ... that is just great writing! The whole ensemble sounds killer.

[jackhammer10101]

@chodesickle

ikshields is still right...it is plain and vanilla...all square fast sixteenth note check patterns...just a few triplet rolls....but they ARE clean !!! Phantom sounded square when Rennick was there !

now Phantoms writing is better...more orchestral

[jackhammer10101]

@erob116

True ... True... but sometimes temptation sets in, and you start debating against a fool and the fools who follows him...Who is more foolish?

[jackhammer10101]

@soccerdrummer13

beyond great execution.....after you play perfect...great instructors eventually say , "Welcome!"finally after doing what they told you ...exceeding everything and going beyond the zone, they finally say, "You are now ready....Welcome!"

in that moment you realize that there is MORE to music than the notes...the sounds, the rudiments of rhythm....there is a life force equal to your own that exists beyond ...there is SUBTEXT...there is SWAGGER without the players attitude...

[jackhammer10101]

@soccerdrummer13

do you understand what i mean? when one is trained by old farts in jazz and orchestra, the idea is to increase your proficiency...you increase your sound and rhythm quality with great execution...then after that, your instructors and professors start requiring MORE from you....they require, passion and feeling beyond your level...they require the grease and grit and and eventual wackiness that demented greats only do... Mozart, Beethovein Coltrane etc...there is a system

[soccerdrummer13]

@jackhammer10101 Are you asking for a crescendo? seriously? These guys sound young? A top 3 drumline sounds young?