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In modern times, marching band for people too stupid to spell properly - or care enough to use a spellchecker. Such people are usually woefully ignorant about a lot of other things too. Sometimes this is due to the presence and influence of mediocre teachers, purported leaders and even predators who use children for reasons of sexual or financial exploitation. All of these are very bad signs of something no one decent should want to be involved with. Amusingly for "drumcorp" critics, "corp" is also the abbreviation (without the period) for corporation - and corporate exploitation is often one of the reasons for the ignorance and lack of care such mispellings reflect.
The use of the terms "drumcorps", "drumcorp", "drum corp" and "corp" are all signs of ignorance and a lack of respect for drum corps, drum and bugle corps and other genuine marching musical history.
drumcorp by songspirit November 19, 2006
Words you can keep
1. One of the best unrecognized sports in the world. Including mostly brass instruments, colorguard and a pit.
2. A 'professional' marching band so to speak that tours the USA for weeks at a time. Sleeping on gym floors, riding on busses, and being fed after spending long strenuous hours in the sun for marching rehersals.
Hey Otto, did you catch that kick ass marching drum corp show during the DCI finals?
drum corp by ringerbrat September 16, 2004

River city drum corp 

A program where you got 1 bald guy and 2 fat asses over it and a shark trying to control everyone thing you do
River city drum corp

Mr. Albert: give me the phones

Mr. jr: We do this everyday bra
Ms. Jamila: y’all are not good I’m fat
Band on Steroids

Major Differences:

1) Not owned by schools (Except for Spirit of JSU)

2) All Brass, Battery, Pit, and Guard. (I can thank god for no woodwinds)

3) Max of 135 people

4) Done all summer with competitions almost every day with a World Championship competition at the end

5) Shows can get to 13 minutes long and never go less than 10

6) We (Those who march it) actually care about it and are not as nerdy as band geeks

7) The fee for the whole summer can go $1000+ Pluse paying for the monthly camps before move-in

8) Constantly traveling across U.S. (Also exists in Europe and some Asian countries including Japan)

9) Music is harder (you have to try out to get into most of them)

10) Very few corps go less than 100 sets and one has gone nearly 300

11) Max age is 21 (22 under a certain condition)

12) The World Championship competitions can have up to or more than 40,000 people watching.

13) Music is never highschool style marching music; They never march "Ghetto" Style

14) Don't support anybody (Unlike bands who love their football teams and the teams hate them back)

15) Cooler to be in than marching band (more honor)
Person 1: So, you getting a job this summer?

Person 2: Nope, marchin' drumcorps
Drumcorps by anonymous May 4, 2004
In modern times, marching band for people too stupid to spell properly - or care enough to use a spellchecker. Such people are usually woefully ignorant about a lot of other things too. Sometimes this is due to the presence and influence of mediocre teachers, purported leaders and even predators who use children for reasons of sexual or financial exploitation. All of these are very bad signs of something no one decent should want to be involved with. Unfortunately, these misspellings and contractions are also being intentionally used in order to further disguise fraud.
The use of the terms "drumcorps", "drumcorp", "drum corp" and "corp" are all signs of ignorance and a lack of respect for drum corps, drum and bugle corps and other genuine marching musical history.
drumcorps by songspirit November 19, 2006
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