Bulldog Fever
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Does FAMU have a dance line this year?
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Eventually FAMU will give in and have a danceline.
Who in their right mind would flat out object to dancing girls? I'm just sayin.
Tradition. Can't be mad at FAMU for not wanting it.
FAMU's tradition has already changed since the sanctions against the band.Tradition. Can't be mad at FAMU for not wanting it.
Flag girls, twirlers and rifles are completely different from dancing girls.Which is similar to SU's tradition not wanting flags, rifles, twirlers, multiple drum majors, etc. Now before Doc, I do believe SU had some of those auxiliary pieces.
Flag girls, twirlers and rifles are completely different from dancing girls.
As far as the "tradition' of one drum major, southern "borrowed or stole" that from a Big Ten school any how.
So Southern had to borrow or steal the one drum major tradition from a Big Ten school when there are many school that do the same. TAMU has one of the largest Corp style bands in the country and they only have one drum major. A few SEC bands as well, such as LSU. Only HBCUs have 4 and 5 drum majors for a 50 member band, such as Morehouse College. IMHO,a band only needs one drum major. Anything more is just another distraction from the band or another side act.
Bands are for entertainment purposes. Drum majors serve that purpose as well. That is most drum majors.It's no distraction when those drum majors have duties to do during practice time and not just be a show piece to do a back bend and run off the field.
Based on your theory, perhaps instead of saying Big Ten, I should've said, white school.So Southern had to borrow or steal the one drum major tradition from a Big Ten school when there are many school that do the same. TAMU has one of the largest Corp style bands in the country and they only have one drum major. A few SEC bands as well, such as LSU. Only HBCUs have 4 and 5 drum majors for a 50 member band, such as Morehouse College. IMHO,a band only needs one drum major. Anything more is just another distraction from the band or another side act.
It's no distraction when those drum majors have duties to do during practice time and not just be a show piece to do a back bend and run off the field.
It's no distraction when those drum majors have duties to do during practice time and not just be a show piece to do a back bend and run off the field.
Based on your theory, perhaps instead of saying Big Ten, I should've said, white school.
Most HBCU's have their own drum major style.
Doc Greggs got his one drum major philosophy from white schools, so it wasn't something he actually started.Like myself, Doc Greggs didn't believe in multiple individuals as drum majors. One is enough. Dancing and prancing drum majors is not my thing. It looks as if they are competing against the band for attention.
Doc Greggs got his one drum major philosophy from white schools, so it wasn't something he actually started.
Black schools formed their own separate style utilizing multiple drum majors, yet you want to criticize them for doing something unique from white schools.
Drum majors that I know of at HBCU's don't prance, so I have no idea why you'd even use that word except to denigrate what they do.
It's interesting that the NCAA Hall of Fame committee didn't hold it against The BOOM for having it's five drum majors.
Exactly what do they do in practice??? The main purpose of drum majors is to start the show. I don't think a band needs multiple individuals to do that.
I can tell you don't know what Drum Majors do outside of the show, well what other schools Drum Majors do.
As I stated previously, the main purpose of a drum major is to start the show or start a song. HBCUs decided to add more than one drum major in order to add some attention to the drum majors aside from the band. When band announcers say, "drum major(s), take the field", a band only needs one drum major to blow his or her whistle, which should take no longer than a minute for the drum major to do his or her 'thang'. Now days, it takes about 4 or 5 minutes for multiple drum majors to start a show, which IMO is way too long for 4 or 5 individuals to blow their whistles to begin a show. Most shows are only like 8 minutes long, which means the drum majors have already consumed most of that time. I believe FAMU's football team had once gotten penalized for the band taking too long to end their show. The band is there to support the football team and not the other way around. Doc. Greggs was big on keeping the halftime show within a certain time frame. SU band would never go over its alloted time frame.
Sorry but that is not the main purpose for a Drum Major. It may be for su but it wasn't and is not for PVAMU's Drum Majors. We had/have additional duties to do for the band at practice inside and outside.
What others? It doesn't hurt to google the responsibilities of multiple drum majors.It would help me and others see our point if you elaborated on what those additional duties are.
Drum majors LEAD bands. They have no need to out perform the band. Again, you claim to not be demeaning DM's but your words speak otherwise.So you are saying those multiple drum majors don't do their own synchronized dancing apart from what the band is doing??? From what I can tell, while the band is marching, those multiple drum majors are performing some other routine, commonly some dance routine. I'm not trying to degrade them, but that's just not my style. Again, IMO, the main purpose of drum majors is to start the show and not to try to outperform the band.