Well I said the Cavies Drumline was #1 before San Antonio so they just proved it from then on through Atlanta through Allentown and all three nights from Prelims to Semi-Finals to Finals. As Mike Fantini of Aged out Podcast says: CLEAN WINS EVERYTIME!!! Congrats to the Cavies!
And this is why the Cavies won the Sanford! The musicianship, player-to-player interpretation, technique, sound quality, and flavor of “old cavies” writing that I remember from my days marching in the 1990s, to the “new cavies”, is extraordinary. Congrats on a very well-deserved Sanford Award in 2023 Cavaliers !!
Definitely cool to see the Cavs win drums but without seeing the show itself and the battery's ensemble cohesion with brass and the front, its hard for me to see how this won percussion.
@@mmmbetter55cleanliness, also it's both drumline and front. Since the judge is primarily on the side line it's really mostly the front unless the drumline is near.
Cavaliers Drum Corps is one of the legends of drum corps. Am pleased the corps continues to perform at a high level. Congrats to the percussion section for taking 1st Place in the DCI 2023 National Championship.
What were you thinking panning away from the snares @5:15, cutting away from what is arguably the most bada$$ sticking of the entire book??? That said, it was epic watching the entire drum staff and line congregate in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn across the street from Lucas Oil, paying homage to that bitchin Sanford trophy. In your face, ScoJo. 😅
The big difference between them and Boston was the stick and body movement that the Cavies did. It made what they did look even more difficult. Clean and difficult is a winner!
I knew from their first performance that they were gonna win percussion and they should’ve placed 1st in my opinion and that’s super hard for me to say bc I’m super biased towards bluecoats
@@thenerfnerd6659 Top Secret Drum Corps is a huge line that only sounds good in an aircraft hangar. Cavaliers can play the hardest possible hybrid rudiment books with ease while actually marching pretty difficult visual books and they do it completely clean. There is no comparison man.
Still dark in tone quality, but somethings come up. Snares wet. They prioritize somethings over other things. The mallet choice seems not to be to a more projection side. Bass drums despite of heads still sound darker and less articulated specially on low dynamics or less convoluted moments. Snares are just at it not over the top and not too much left to expect on. Tenors has a really good selection of drum heads, the drums sound fantastic in itself, not too bright, not distorted, I think the word is warm. So they had their sound for this season. I wish I could have been there live to see with my own eyes. Congrats Cavaliers!
Wow..great job. I guess snare stick height has changed over the years. My high school days back in the latter 80s, kept stick height down. The bass drums heads are sooo different, they really can't be heard as..Bass Drums, the low, mid and high booms. O well.
not always about the notes. yes there were harder.. i take that back, more notey books. but there are nuances, self awareness, and confidence to this book that made this line and the writing stand out. i actually laughed listening to this drumline and absolutely loved every second of it haha a breath of fresh air compared to other over written books. everything about cavies book this year had intention and payed homage to the past with some modern updates. that claw too.
