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As many Corps are releasing teaser trailers to their themes this year, it’s easy to get caught up in the Bluecoats, the Cavaliers, or even the Blue Devils. But take a second, open that YouTube app and look at some different Corps.

The lesser known ones.

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Unity in your Marching Arts Ensemble is a very important aspect of any marching arts ensemble. After all, since you must function as a cohesive group, then you need to build the kind of chemistry that is necessary to have a good team.

So how do you build cohesion in any marching arts group? How do you build unity?

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Sometimes you have to do a little bit of “politicking” and a little bit of butt kissing to make sure you are biased favorably, rather than being ignored by those in power.

I wish I could say it’s not how the world is…but that is how the world works.

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So in teaching Students for over 20 years, I’ve definitely learned a thing or two about how Students learn and why learning new actions can be so difficult.

Part of it is just their bodies (or specifically their hands for example) inability to execute an action we want it to do.

To deal with this, I have found a few techniques that seem to be pretty effective.

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In a Drumline or group teaching situation, highlighting your weakness shouldn’t be meant to shame, embarrass or make fun of you.

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Actually, I might’ve meant to say, get rid of tradition.

Technically, my original POST on Instagram that caused so much controversy said “f*ck tradition.”

So why did I create that post in the first place?

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What a great indoor season we had this year!

Broken City set a new high scoring record with a first place finish of 98.850 and the previous record was set by RCC in 2015 with a score of 98.563.

But now that indoor season is over for your Ensemble, what’s next?

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First of all, congratulations to Broken City Percussion for their first place finish this year and congratulations on achieving the highest score ever!

Clearly, the group is very skilled, but in term so show design, it’s good to know that this type of show was rewarded.

So what type of show is it?

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Inexperienced drummers may lack the control and dexterity necessary to execute good height definition.

in fact, the default height might just end up being all high and loud.

When that happens, the inexperienced drummer might think that everything is just fine and won’t think twice about their heights.

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I figure I would ask someone with some recent experience marching at a high level, to give his/her top 3 tips for auditioning specifically for Tenor Drums!

Enter Cole Governo!

Cole marched Pacific Crest, Academy and recently aged out with RCC and winning a Gold Medal with them during the 2018 season. I would say that’s pretty recent and hopefully he can give all of us some insight on what Instructors look for when they audition tenor drummers these days.

So here are his top 3 tips:

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