Goodness me but this Band is Spectacular!! Most certainly gives the Royal Marine Bands some serious competition as the Paramount Musical Band of the British Armed Forces!! From the opening bars of Army of the Nile I had Goose Pimples & hair standing on end. The 2nd March I've never heard before, but it sounds very Continental Europe to me, Prussian or German. Thanks Delvin-Pedia, it's called "Belphegar" absolutely Magic!! The Tubas were Really going well, 1x Eb, 1x Bb & still only 1 Euphonium, but you could really hear them beautifully. This is one of the best Videos I've ever seen of the Windsor Guard Change, Excellent Filming & Sound, with very little crowd interference. Brilliant Job Sir Peter, this one's gone straight to the Favourites Play List. Thank you heaps!
@@clivehughes2179 Yeah I do agree, the grenadier guards have been playing some unsual ones lately, like Mein regiment, back to camp, fighting strength and territorial! I think belphagor here is still a pretty rare one though!
@@clivehughes2179 are there any particular lesser-known marches you'd like to hear, or is it just a general comment? As stated, Belphegor is not very well known (I last heard it played when playing it in our school brass band in about the early 1970s!), and some of the marches recently played by the bands of the Coldstream Guards and the Grenadier guards at Windsor have been rarer ones.
Many thanks for another excellent video, Military Events. Sorry if my comment appears twice - I thought I had submitted the first time but it didn't appear so maybe I pressed the wrong button or something. Good catch at 04:44 - I always really love this player's enthusiasm. Also nice to hear the trombones playing the melody in Belphegor from about 07:06.
AWESOME BAND. This band has its own sound. The dynamic levels are brilliant. The Bb tuba is excellent. Sometimes he takes the music down the octave which gives the band depth of sound. Top notch band which is equal to any of the guards band
This is really one of the best if not the best band in terms of music, I just wonder why half of them are in black and the other half in red, Ed Scheepmaker from the Netherlands.
Known Collectively as The Band of the Household Cavalry.The Household Cavalry, make the 6th Regiment of The Household Division, together with the 5 Infantry Regiments & the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery being the 7th.
I've just noticed, none of the Band are wearing Spurs! that's unusual, but it improves their Marching greatly. I know they are the Cavalry, but when they wear their Spurs when Marching, some of them have a rather strange Gait & 1 or 3 look like they've been in the saddle for weeks & then have sat on a Carrot. It looks & sounds much better without the Spurs.
Hi again Vicky, they *are* wearing spurs - the metal shiny, pointy things on the back of their boots/shoes. Did you mean they're not wearing "jodhpurs", which are a kind of leg garment worn by horse-riders? I don't know much about them - I've never ridden a horse in my life, and I don't think I'd want to!
@@MikeM14-40 Yes Mike I know what spurs are. I've been riding Horses since I was about 12 (prior to that I was on Ponies), that gives me 50+ years experience/knowledge. However, that also means my eyes are also over 60 (not saying how much though). I still can't see the Spurs! I even went & watched it on the 65" big screen Telly, nose pressed close on the screen & eyes locked on the Feet of The Officer Leading the Band, then any shot of their feet, could still not see them. However, too many of you are saying they are wearing them, so I feel like an Egg!! (Sheepishly leaves the room.) Mental Note to Self: Ring the Optician 1st thing on Monday & make Appointment. Sorry Guys, but at least I've proven 1 thing, people actually read all these comments! so never feel you're wasting your time making 1!!
@@MikeM14-40 Jodhpurs are great! never any hassle tucking them in your boots & they don't get tight or pull when you're rising to the Trot & never threaten to split when you're Cantering, Jumping or Galloping in the Jockey Position.😛😜😝
So different to the guards, someone should properly tighten that bass drum skin up, deaden it and the drummer should give it some, so those marching 50m away can hear it.
I actually prefer the muted style of the Bass Drum in the Household Cavalry Band. Especially when they play Marches that have Softer Parts played by specific Instruments, "Belphegar" is a case in point & even in "Army of the Nile" there are a couple of quite soft passages. You don't get that overpowering Boom, Boom, Boom of the Bass Drum, but get to hear the soft Instruments playing. An added Bonus is the Bass Drum can actually accentuate the Music & you hear that as another thing. Take for Example the First March, talk about get your attention!, the Brass & Wind sections smashed the Opening Bars & Intro out of the Park, You heard them First & then the Drums, particularly the Bass had a wee Cameo just before the Cymbals & you heard every second as if the Drums were something new. Throughout the whole March to & from the Castle, the Drums played, you could hear them clearly, just as you could hear Trombones, trumpets, Saxophones, French Horns, Tubas, Cornets, Clarinets & Flutes, every Instrument, but put together in such a way that no Instrument over powered the other & the overall result was like a perfect Meal or Wine. Sadly, now I'm paying more attention to all the Bands, it pains me to say, because I love all the Guards Bands, I notice the Bass Drums playing at 500 decibels, to everybody else's 250 decibels & those softer arrangements get drowned by that Boom Boom Boom. It just makes the whole Musical Experience jerky & disjointed & you can't use the Drums to make a little statement, like the HC Band did in the Intro of Army of the Nile, because they're already boom booming away. I know the Bass Drum is there to keep the time for the Detachment Marching behind them, but those Guardsmen are Professionals, 1 of the first things they learn is how to March & at what Pace. They should be able to March to the Music the whole Band is playing, not just the Drum. They often March about with no Music, sometimes just a Drum. They can do it, even if sometimes they have a SM bellowing, left, left, left, right, left. Having waffled on with all this, I suppose it's a matter of taste & what the Army expects from their Regimental Bands. I just find it difficult to appreciate great Music overpowered by the Boom, Boom of a Bass Drum, uncomfortably close to the Boom, Boom, Boom that accompanied the Morning Hangover Throb of my Younger days.
