#thatdrumcorpsguy

[cafepistolary]

Help me march!

Hey guys, I have been offered an opportunity to spend this summer with the Oregon Crusaders! I could really use some help with the whole money thing, so please donate and/or share! You can learn about it on the donation page: https://fundly.com/help-me-march-the-2017-season?ft_src=email_share_mobile

[rawrbin]

Hi guys! I haven’t really posted about myself or drum corps or really anything in a while, but auditions are coming up (sooner than we might think!) and I want to take some time to recommend @thatdrumcorpsguy to any and all brass players. I just finished my fourth season with Pacific Crest and I can honestly say that going into it was the most comfortable and confident I had ever felt as a brass player - largely in part because of the lessons I took with DJ. He helped build my brass technique which in turn helped with my confidence, and I really feel like I can say I gained a friend from it. He is an extremely kind, helpful, patient, and insightful mentor. So please, even if you don’t think you need lessons, message DJ and give it a try. They’re affordable, he’s really good about time (we worked it out even with busy school/work/life schedules and pacific time vs whatever time Tennessee is in lmao), and he’s an all around cool dude. Plus, what’s the worst that can happen? You’ll get better. 

 Honestly, last year while preparing for auditions, I was feeling particularly nervous, insecure, and was all around kinda dreading auditions. I shot DJ a message expressing my interest in the brass lesson offer he had posted about here on tumblr. He replied almost immediately, but I didn’t follow up right away because I wasn’t on tumblr a bunch and it was my first year of college.. I sorta made up excuses for myself like “oh I don’t have the time or the money for this.. I’ve made it through three years of drum corps so far, I can’t be doing toooo bad right?” blah blah blah, etc.  Luckily, DJ messaged me again and then I had my first lesson with him - which was actually my first individual actual brass lesson I had ever had (I had taken years and years of private piano and flute lessons as a kid, but pretty much just jumped onto the low brass boat in middle school with a three minute explanation of how to buzz and a fingering chart... so I just kinda figured it out as i went). I’m so so so glad I took lessons from DJ. For someone like me, his instruction was invaluable because he found and fixed some bad habits that I didn’t even know I had. In my previous three years of drum corps, I was good enough to just kinda fly under the radar - not bad enough to really get called out, but on the flipside of that coin, i never really got any huge specific individual corrections. And I got that from DJ. He helped me a lot with my flexibility and really got me to open up my sound and play louder. He guided me through more difficult excerpts and exercises and got me to think about them in different ways that allowed me to understand what i was/wasnt/needed to do in order to play them. I feel like he really explains things well and uses some super helpful analogies (not just the tried and true stock things that band directors and like everyone ever tells you). 

lol so this post ended up a lot longer than i thought it would be.. but yeah, 10/10 would recommend  just message DJ and give it a try. i really don’t think you’ll regret it 

[teald33r]

woah hi hello

oh hey haha

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thatdrumcorpsguy replied to your post “How many of those Catolina Crown shirts were sold? I didn't see anyone...”

Boo

yeah :\ I was kinda bummed about it, but oh well

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thatdrumcorpsguy replied to your post: anonymous asked:Biopsychology sounds really interesting...

I love that topic

ah dude it’s so interesting. Like our minds and processes are so central to our being yet so much of it and its connections to other things are mysterious and yet to be discovered.

[dsabs14]

Didn’t realize it until now, but DJ follows me

[nimbuslich]

Guys dj thinks I'm cute. What do I win???

[kaitlyncanfly]

Thanks to @thatdrumcorpsguy for this kickin senior quote.