Blue Devils 2017 - Brass Warmup - Shoreline, WA {Quality Audio} [4K] 

You. Are. So. Lucky to have a band director that was in this show.

I wish mine is like fifty

Add me on xbox GT: Talun i read this comment as that drop happened and I'm really pleased with that

I wonder how long they practiced getting into a circle.

@@Illiterate243 yeah I wonder. Circles are actually very difficult 😂😂

Well considering it is the Blue Devils this is a normal formation. Drum Corps is not marching band.

Owen Shapley This comment made my day 😂😂😂😂😂

Dude 😂😂😂 funny shit.

From what I've heard from BD guys I know (including a staff member in this video), the leads at BD are just so good they don't have to take it down. Seriously, Wayne Bergeron-esque chops. The staff asks if they need to take it down but they never do. Absolutely incredible.

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It's the show before the show!

Chris Fleming that sentence makes no sense

Braddy Wakler he missed a “know”

What school and what level

WOAH!

Yeah my band director had directed Blue devils but is now teaching our Westlake

These are all effective warmups and practice tools for any level. I've used similar warmups with middle schoolers and seen professional symphonic musicians humming, buzzing, and running Remington exercises before a performance. It's all 'variations on a long tone.'

Oakxy Westlake Marching Festival

Well take what you hear in the video, turn it to 11, and imagine in full surround sound. That's what it is like my friend.

It's awesome. I marched Columbians this year and I got to sit in the middle of this exact circle. It sounds amazing. I'm the dark-haired dude near the baritone section.

At the DCI Southeastern Championship in Powder Springs Georgia this year, I was lucky enough to sit in the middle of their circle. I was on a band trip to DCI and a friend of me and I saw BD's hornline walk far from their trailers. We followed them and they ended up in a tennis court. We sat there and watched them do a visual practice (which was pretty cool). Then they all went and formed a circle, so my friend and I walked to the outside fencing of the tennis court to hear them better. Then they started letting people in the court, but outside of the circle. My friend and I were super stoked just to be that close. Then they started letting people inside the circle, so of course I went. The sound was indescribable, and truly amazing. My friend and I were the only people in my school there that went into the circle, or even heard their warm-up, up close. It was awesome that I got to see and hear them up-close and in the circle!

Astrobrant2 depends if you high

Idk but I’d imagine it sounds like heaven

At that level they go hand in hand, having good control of your air stream, like they do, makes singing easier.

Watch blue coats singing their 2011 show or 2016 show

My trumpet professor (and really all our music faculty) had the rule of "if you can't hear it you can't play it," and audiation is one of the cornerstones of musical practice and is easiest to apply without your instrument - just use the vocal folds you have. That's why any school of music has ALL their musicians sing on some level. So... if you want to play at a high level it might be time to start singing a bit.

They have to be able too. There air control (as stated) and to learn by ear easier

@@seandevlin3948 Exactly. Let's see... dependent on your range, holding 1-3 down, you can play 3-4 different notes with ease. If you have no concept of where note center is; what the note is supposed to sound like... how would you ever hit the note you're after? Oh, and this is carried to an even greater extreme for f-horn players.

+Gentry Walker Thank you. I try. (:

You need to see Carolina crown drops the hammer in Houston

Computer Crash Gaming it was part of the show

The Ark It's not a warm up dumbass

@@juancacatzun948 why u being a dick

@@wisp2482 you know the saying u are what u eat💀💀

I LOVE MARCHING BAND!! What are you talking about

NiceRazer high as f

ngl I'd wear earplugs 😂

Thank you very much DragonSlayer!

Crown can be consistently number one in brass. As long as BD is consistently DCI World Champs.

gunner 3477 damn you got him there😂😂

Banks Nussman Thanks for the comment! I'll be here next year to capture all of the Northwest Tour!

I know this is late but did you just call them a band?

Griffin Roberts how’s your progress coming?

mad disrespect to them

calm down guys, he’s probably like 12 or something

DatSav_Kendall 😂

It’s supposed to be a ripple, so it has to look good, that’s how most drum corps are, also it’s the blue devils, we’re supposed to look hella good no matter where we are or who we’re around

A lot of people in the crowd were staff who already heard this a million times

I have the sheet music to that. It's called Shotgun

In concert pitch: D major, F major, G major, A major then resolving onto Bb major

sorry if this is late but it goes like Bb6/9, F6/9, F#, Ab, then Bb

tacoface pr did you get a piano yet

Roush shotgun chord

Ultimatu | i play trumpet contra but i’d assume playing high is just as hard as playing really low pedals on contra

The high 5th at 6:26..

They like to burn incense to help relax and focus the members.

Kess5994 they all smokin man! I told y'all!

xXCKB54Xx I took my good microphones over to the Blue Knights warmup. So halfway it changes to a $75 condensor mic...

watch the blue devils 2017 show

everything must change

It's also the ballad

Prob just a little more than most brass players. They are just so got at stagger breathing you can’t tell. They prob have like numbers and they can only breath on counts 1-4 depending on their number. And I think they ease in to play after a breath and breaths are really short and fast. They keep everything not accented and smooth.

Look up Blue Devils Metamorph performance. It's a part of that extremely sexy piece

Its the ballad from the show they cut it off cause it's early season and i enioy it early cause the last chord they hold and i enjoy it when it's fully done too cause ya know i love drums and brass

I could have gone to the center but I didn't want to block anyone's view.

Speaking honestly it's just kind of how the North West crowds are... Once you start moving East they pickup more and more. Ohio is known for having some of the most animated crowds.

Sean With Life I've been to Massillon OH for 2 shows, both last year. Great crowds. But nothing compares to the crowds at Allentown, PA. They're not afraid to cheer in the lots like some of the other shows I've been to.

You know, I forgot about the Allentown lots - most likely to the memories of the great audience in Birney Crum. But do the Allentown lots even count as lots when they are so big that they count as their own show? The show before the show.

I know, at about 4:25 all you would’ve heard is me like...”AaaaAaaAAAAHHHH LET’s GO!!! Not to mention 4:49 ugh😷

I was in that crowd in the center. Most of us were just blown out of our minds and couldn’t respond with anything but just awe stricken faces

That specific part is a cover of "Everything Must Change," which they used as their 2017 ballad

Hmm... depends on which sound or role you like the best. Trumpets have the high stuff and (usually the melody). Mellophones have the most technical passages. Baritones/Euphoniums have the filling roles and sometimes the melody. Tubas provide the bass voice and can on occasion have the melody. So it just depends on what you feel like doing. I personally know a clarinet player who switched to euphonium in a year and is now at Blue Knights on his way to Bluecoats. So there you go.

Baritone/Euphonium are often considered the easiest and most natural embouchure for beginning brass players to achieve. While a little more challenging many woodwind players have great success and find enjoyment with the Mellophone as Corps arrangers will often take the woodwind parts from the source music and write it for the Mellophone. But honestly just choose the one you enjoy the sound of the most. You have to enjoy the sound you are making.

Their System Blue horns sound pretty sweet though, you have to admit.

Moises Marroquin Este maravilloso groupo son de Concord, California. En este vídeo se están preparando para su espectáculo en Shoreline, Washington