JSU Tuba Players

[JAG89]

The big fundamental mistake HBCU bands make while marching in straight lines is that most individuals don't realize that everything they do should be in a straight line. Geometrically speaking, there is no such thing as a true circle, curve, or arc, those items are made up of a bunch of tangent lines. The PI Buckingham theory proves this, because there's no true number for PI. Here's an example, when a squad of 4 people make a spin move, everyone should march in a straight line, whereas the person on the pivot end should take the smallest steps, the two in the middle take slightly larger steps, and the person on the outer end take the largest steps, but they all should be marching in a straight line. My high school use to make this mistake all the time when individuals tried to create the spin by curving into it. Mr. Chester White (RIP) at Southern made sure these things were done to perfection.

 

[mustardmanSU_04]

Here's an example, when a squad of 4 people make a spin move, everyone should march in a straight line, whereas the person on the pivot end should take the smallest steps, the two in the middle take slightly larger steps, and the person on the outer end take the largest steps, but they all should be marching in a straight line. My high school use to make this mistake all the time when individuals tried to create the spin by curving into it.

You know, in high school, our pinwheels and gate-turns were ALWAYS jacked up, because we tried to arc them. Once I got to SU and Mr. J dropped some marching pedagogy on me, explaining the "straight line at an angle", I was like **In my OJ da Juiceman voice.....** "DAYUM!"

 

[dacontinent]

You know, in high school, our pinwheels and gate-turns were ALWAYS jacked up, because we tried to arc them...

Were you TAUGHT that or was that how you INTERPRETED it in HS?

 

[mustardmanSU_04]

Were you TAUGHT that or was that how you INTERPRETED it in HS?

That is how we was TAUGHT. He gave us a PVC pipe for us to hold (To keep the lines straight) and told us to swing it around like a gate. He even chalked the curved lines for us.

 

[SUtrp96]

That is how we was TAUGHT. He gave us a PVC pipe for us to hold (To keep the lines straight) and told us to swing it around like a gate. He even chalked the curved lines for us.

Many high schools were taught like this.. Chances are dacon was taught the same way...


I'm like you.. when I got to SU and Doc went to showing us the basics.. I was like ..."DAYUM".. this shcit make so much dayum sense... and it was FAR EASIER to keep everything straight....

 

[O'Bladerunner]

I'm like you.. when I got to SU and Doc went to showing us the basics.. I was like ..."DAYUM".. this shcit make so much dayum sense... and it was FAR EASIER to keep everything straight....

That sounds like my reaction.

Back in HS...4th man on the pinwheel used to have to run wind sprints to get there on 8....:lol:

 

[dacontinent]

Many high schools were taught like this.. Chances are dacon was taught the same way...


I'm like you.. when I got to SU and Doc went to showing us the basics.. I was like ..."DAYUM".. this shcit make so much dayum sense... and it was FAR EASIER to keep everything straight....

Nah...we were taught the right way in Jr. High back in 1974...and we marched corps-style.

We just had a discussion about this over the weekend at our old director's 80th birthday party. The discussion was hilarious. Straight lines were NEVER a problem for us as 13 & 14 year-olds nor since.

 

[SUtrp96]

Nah...we were taught the right way in Jr. High back in 1974...and we marched corps-style.

We just had a discussion about this over the weekend at our old director's 80th birthday party. The discussion was hilarious. Straight lines were NEVER a problem for us as 13 & 14 year-olds nor since.

How were you taught to do pin wheels?

I just find it hard to believe jsu lost touch of the "correct" way if they had help from SU directors over the years...

I know jsu folk who had no earthly idea what I was talking about when I showed them how we were taught to do pin wheels at SU...

Everyone else I know "swing".. some swing more than other but most all I talked to swing... Which is a recipe for disaster, if your band don't practice that certain type of "SWING" over and over and over and over......and it still won't look better than the way we were taught... And we don't have to go over it as much...

Some of this may equate to why SU don't have to practice as much as other bands and still come out executing a hellavu a lot better than many..

 

[dacontinent]

How were you taught to do pin wheels?

The same way that you were at SU...except I was taught that in Jr. High.

Some of this may equate to why SU don't have to practice as much as other bands and still come out executing a hellavu a lot better than many..

That is a simple matter of efficiency...and exactly right.

 

[JAG89]

It would be nice if HBCU's football teams had coaches that could teach the basic fundamentals of math and science to help their players win games or at least ask math and science professors the right questions to get effective results.