To everyone who has or will leave a negative comment on this video: There’s literally no point. This drumline played incredibly hard music extremely clean. Sure, they don’t always march at particularly big step sizes while playing, but the body/visuals they have while playing is much harder than moving in one direction per phrase. To anybody that’s said something about how this music is easy and that you played harder stuff in high school, please post a video in the comments of you playing along to the video. We’d all love to see it. Please understand the years and years of dedication, late nights of practicing, anger, tears, and rejection that each one of these performers endured in order to end up marching this line. Then think again about posting something negative. Thank you.
Bro ppl really being saying that they played harder stuff in high school, I have yet to see one high school snare line that can start a rep clean lol. They're young musicians, they shouldn't even be compared, it's insulting to the performers (you're calling them trash), and to the high schoolers
It’s not done by one person. A Bass Line is usually split up between multiple people. The Blue Devils Bass Line consists of 5 people. But, yes. The accuracy of the bass splits is just insane.
MichalH you spin the stick around your left thumb and end in a match grip position with the butt facing the drum and the right hand just has a circular clockwise motion with the stick in the palm
I see where you’re coming from, I’ve always wished their line played more through out the show, they’re so talented I want to see more but I’ve come to appreciate the parts they do play in more. This was especially true in 2019 when they only had about 3 chunks of playing. I just wanna hear more
Obviously no offense to the drummers and performers who put their hearts into this performance. I just can't get down with this writing. It's a lot of tap rolls and metric changes with some flams, that's it. I know that this music is hard to perform with the rest of the band, and it is pretty hard on it's own, but it's fairly boring to me. In my opinion, every dci finalist corps had a more interesting and likable book than the blue devils. Look at Rennick's book; it's innovative, interesting, and extremely difficult. While this book may be challenging, it's neither new nor interesting (to me anyway) and that bums me out. Again, this is no offense to any performers and/or people involved in this video, it's just my own opinions about this book. If you want to, please tell me what you think.
ImThatRandomDude I've always thought the same thing. The only time they write in cool licks are the snare features. Compare the writing to SCV or BCs - where they're ramming notes the entire time. And BDs made the book easier for the finals - they changed the opening measure of the snare lick, they changed the "wave" effect of the opening 16 snares. That's all I've found yet, there may be more. Not sure why they practice licks all year, then for finals make them easier. The parts they changed were clean.
Imagine running that stair part set by set and your instructor says take it back and then you do it again and the trombones mess it up (darn trombones) and then you have to do it over and over again
They are rubber tipped sticks. The whole point of the sticks were to mute the snares a lil bit. (the reason being that there were so many snares during the opener) But yeah, they are just rubber tipped sticks.
Infinity I mean, no. Look at SCV. During their snare break 2016, probably some of the hardest snare music ever played in a line, they were flying across the field. THAT was fucking impressive. It would still have been cool with easier drill, but it was so much cooler with them taking huge steps at 180 than it would have been at a standstill.
hitting_things_with _broken_trees if he still hasn’t sent it, a few months ago I wrote out a transcript of about 2/3rds of the movement I never finished(oops. I’m a busy guy lol) I can send a link to what I have if you want, it includes the groove.
Yoi guys must be around some pretty awesome highschools cause i can assure you that at least all the high schools i visited on the east coats are like baby steps compared to this
Look up Chino Hills or Ayala High school drumlines. Their music is way more intense than this! My high school book was also harder than this show. Yes, they're clean, but compared to previous years and other drum corps this is pretty simple music!
Brandon Ah Yes, some high schools have a book at the skill level of this or harder, but I would rate this show at the level of your average college or high end high school. My book for this season was slightly easier than this, but was still a challenge
Why is that person with bass 1 sprinting across the field and not being in line or tempo at all with the duts or the other bases the others were in line and in tempo but not that person Edit: i know i am pretty late Dont judge me
Seems to me DCI is becoming less about actually playing drums and more about theater and running around a lot. We did more playing in my high school line.
Ditto! DCI shows are more about music educators showing off their years of music study by rearranging symphonies that the audience do not recognize nor appreciate. What's wrong with Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" versus some obscure composer's symphony #7 in D Minor?
Conflux yes. They marched that music with 16 snare drums and it was the cleanest show of the night... hence the reason the judges whom actually know what they’re talking about voted them #1
Why did you guys change the first measure of the snare lick? I thought the old way built up nicely into the fast singles. The triplet flams don't seem to flow as well into the singles. Any reason why it was changed?
sullimd they probably changed it because they were having trouble staying clean when playing it so the change in the beginning helped them stay together
How do you guys play in time with everyone when you’re way in the back. And how do u make it sound together to the judges. There has to be some kind of delay in sound right?
There is indeed a delay in sound. Normally the drumline is the section that sets the tempo, and the drum majors watch their feet for time, since light travels faster than sound.
Depends on how long you played before leaving the percussion world and joining color guard. Also by play with charts do you mean sight read? If so, no shot. It would take you hundreds of attempts to play this perfectly I guarantee.
