Do Black College Bands need to step up their performances!?
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Posted By: Will Moss on January 05, 2011 This was done by a non-hbcu band and well, we should have come up with this by now right? I was on the drumline at Hampton University and while our drumline cadences sounded better, we failed to come up with an idea as "hot" as this... Check it out and let me know what you think!? -Will If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Will Moss
Founder & CEO, HBCU CONNECT, LLC Hampton University class of 1995 Member Since June 1999 |
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Fredrick Lee
I agree that the idea was "hot" (pun not intended), however, they were stationery and did not put any real energy into the performance. Now, if they were performing with fire like groups do in the pacific island regions (Guam and Hawaii), then you are talking. I have noticed that non-HBCU schools such as USC and even NFL drumlines like the Niner Noise are adding more flavor their routine. But, if HBCU bands were to mix it and given their shows unique experiences, that would be a real game changer. As a HU alumni, I have seen the performances and I cannot complain about them. However, HU and others need to modernize and really throw it down as other schools are soon to catch up. Heck, you even have white, Latin and Asian sororities and frats stepping up (pun not intended again) the game. So, as HBCUs (and Blacks), we need to constantly evolve and step to present the greatest show on turf.
Asst. Regional Inspector General for Audit (ARIGA) at U.S. HUD Office of Inspector General (U.S. HUD OIG) Monday, January 10th 2011 at 8:07PM |
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University band directors, I am sure, would appreciate new ideas from their alum. Their plate is full with many duties & can not devote as much time as they would like on developing new routines. As alum travel & see routines they feel would be new & cool for their former school to use, maybe with a few additional touches email them to your old band director. With the extra swagger an HBCU could add to this routine + maybe battery lighted drum sticks instead of fire. Alumni acting as a resource to their former band director could assist in stepping up the performance of HBCU bands . A Fellow Hamptonian of yesteryear. Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 1:06AM |
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This is good, but they didn't do anything spectacular except the fire. As a black trapset/drumset player, I was lighting my sticks on fire back in the seventies, but you're right, I've never seen swac, or meac do this and I played snare at Alcorn State. Nate Monday, January 17th 2011 at 4:21PM |
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Cute but nothing spectacular...just some fire!!!
Monday, January 24th 2011 at 3:02PM |
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Uh, HBCUs did come up with this...like 40 years ago.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 3:34PM |
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