Brass Roots
M & M
Color Guard
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Say What?
100
This brass instrument has up to three valves, represents the soprano voice, and is most often keyed in Bb.
What is a Trumpet?
100
This basic step of corps-style marching requires the performers to hit the ground with the heel of the foot first, rather than the toes.
What is the "Roll Step?"
100
This peice of color guard equipment consists of a Poll, and a Silk.
What is a Flag?
100
These metallic percussion instruments can be worn on the hands, suspended by a leather strap, or suspended on top of a stand.
What is a Cymbal?
100
This instrument is the shortest in the band.
What is the Piccolo?
200
This instrument made to sound like Tuba, wraps around the torso and was invented by prolific march composer John Phillip Sousa
What is a Sousaphone?
200
This term refers to the common practice of keeping your shoulders facing the audience at all times, while moving in multiple directions. It is also the name of a peice of equipment often found at playgrounds.
What is a Slide?
200
In addition to spinning rifles, sabres and flags, modern color guard also borrows from this parallel art form.
What is Dance?
200
There are generally two accepted grips used for playing the snare drum. "Matched," and this one.
What is Traditional?
200
In the 1930's and 40's this instrument was featured by big band leaders such as Artie Shaw, and Benny Goodman. It was often referred to by the nickname "Licorice Stick."
What is a Clarinet?
300
This instrument usually keyed in F, was intended to serve as a marching version of the French Horn. It has also been used by Jazz Bands.
What is a Mellophone?
300
This term refers to a technique of forward motion that originated in dance. Color guards first brought this form of movement to the activity. In mordern corps-style marching, playing members of the ensemble may also utilize this method.
What is a Jazz Run?
300
This basic move on a flag invloves both hands. And despite its name, you are not supposed to drop the equipment.
What is a Drop Spin?
300
Modern Marching Bands and Drum and Bugle Corps often utilize 4 to 5 of this type of drum. Each drum is usually tuned to a specific pitch, and it represents the lowest voice in the drum choir.
What is a Bass Drum?
300
This instrument was invented in 1840 by Belgian Instrument-Maker Adolphe Sax.
What is the Saxophone?
400
It was originally keyed in "G" and was voiced as Soprano, Alto, Baritone, and Contra Bass.
What is a Bugle?
400
In marching band and drum corps, this drill move usually involves an entire section of the group lining up facing the audience. This line usually marches towards the home stands.
What is a Company Front?
400
The three effect options; (emotional, aesthetic and intellectual) and the three design elements of color guard; (equipment, dancing, and moving through space,) are referred to by the same term. In music, this term also means a chord that contains a root, third and a fifth.
What is the Triad?
400
This basic drum rudiment is often notated in sticking patterns of "r l r r" or "l r l l." It is also often the first rudiment a beginning drummer is taught.
What is a paradiddle?
400
In a 1946 animated collaboration between Walt Disnery and Sergei Prokofiov entitled "Peter and the Wolf", the character of "Sonia" the duck was portrayed by this instrument.
What is the Oboe?
500
This keyed brass instrument invented in 1817, was similar to the Tuba, and it was a cornerstone of the "Romantic" brass ensemble.
What is an Ophicleide?
500
This famous drill writer who passed away in 1992, served many of the world's most famous drum and bugle corps including "The Cadets," and "Star of Indiana," as well as "Quasar" and "Erte" winter guards. His most famous drill move may be the "Z" pull.
Who was George Zingali?
500
This luminary of the color guard activity was once a marching member, and then caption head of the color guard for the Cadets of Bergen County. She produced some of the cleanest and most athletic color guards of the 1990's. At present she is a mother, and serves as an adjudicator and consultant for many DCI and WGI color guards.
Who is April Gilligan?
500
This teacher and innovator of the marching percussion activity once served as the percussion caption head of the Santa Clara Vanguard. He was a member of the Percussive Arts Society, and was inducted into the Drum Corps International Hall of fame prior to his death in 2000. He also shares the name of a fictional 1970's TV character who owned a junk yard with his son Lamont.
Who is Fred Sanford?
500
The modern flute utlizes this fingering system that also became the model for other modern woodwind instruments including the Saxophone.
What is the Boehm System?
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