Garrett, I noticed her and the two guys she's with sitting in the first 5 rows of LOS during a drum major shot at finals. Can't recall which corps was on at the time.
God. I can't imagine the feeling of actually getting to play that hammer drop at the end. Gives me chills and also could give me nightmares. Friggin excellent!!!
I don’t pretend to know much about Carolina Crown. I’ve followed DCI (not truly dedicated, but as much as I could) since my senior year of HS in 93. This is the first time I have been moved to tears by anyone... ANYONE, from DCI. 4:33 pulled my heart from my chest. Learning more of CC, I can see that their recipe for success is in fact their Director. I challenge anyone reading this to aspire to his level of passion for his craft, his fervor for his work, but above all, his love for music. Carolina Crown, amazing.
Both him and his brother are amazing. I can tell you from personal experience that his brother Ben is the exact same way, they both move people in ways like nobody else can. Seriously amazing directors.
I'm unfamiliar with any brass instrument, as I play the piano. But that last little piece, or from what I hear people calling the "tuning sequence" was absolutly amazing. I got chills. I've watched the ending 10 times haha! Wonderful video!
Crown has the best brass in DCI, absolutely no contest. And if you get the chance you should see drum corps live, it's a completely different experience to watching videos.
The last loud hit was actually part of the show. The sequence was the chromatic dissonance into a concert Bb, when Matt would crank them up on the dissonant note. My high school actually kind of copied this from them this year lol
Awesome! Check out 2013 Carolina Crown's production of e=mc2. The brass section was spellbindingly good... the only brass section in DCI history to earn a perfect score. You'll enjoy this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KjNTs6BR-9c.html
The brass hit here overwhelms me so much (in a positive way) that I'm literally crying. The emotion, the sound quality, and the layers of chords being played is just all so good and beautiful. If I'm ever having a bad day, or just in need of hearing some DCI, I always come to Crown. And I specifically come to this show. It may not be their best, but god damn was it so beautifully written for the brass and perc.
I first watched this in 2017 during my freshman year of HS at a competitive parade only CA High School. This video popped up on my feed again. Watching this now as a member of the Carolina Crown baritone section hits a whole lot more. So excited for this summer!!! 👑
I’ve seen them do the hammer in person, these videos do not even come close to what it truly feels like to just have that raw power. It’s louder than I ever thought it would be and just so crisp at the same time
1. The doubles and triples are amazing. 2. From 4:00 to the end is gorgeous. 3. The climax chord at 4:32 is appropriately nicknamed. 4. Nothing beats a choral "amen" ending. Nothing. Except a Scooby Doo ending. 5. I finally have a visualization of the director 17yr old me wanted to be.....and after 43 years, is that the feeling of regret I feel? Quick. To the pub! I need to drown feelings! Thanks for posting.
My favorite thing to do is watch the facial expressions of people sitting in the circle, especially at the end. It's always fun to see the reaction of people that have never experienced this type of music.
Ive heard Crown warm up so many times, but something about 3:24 till the end brings me tears and goosebumps every single time I hear them. No other video, no other band. This brings me so much happiness.
Definitely. But it will take probably a generation to match that 2013 section. Just like it took until 2012 for 1991 Star to be matched, by Crown, then exceeded by Crown in 2013.
I know Matt is looking back at the corps director after some of these run throughs, but there are times when he’s looking at us lucky folks to be in Military Park watching/listening to warmups with that “Did you hear that? Did you hear how freaking clean that was? I love my job” look on his face.
We were there and I promise you even as amazing as this video is, it does not do any justice to what really happened out there. I think one of the other corps stopped what they were doing because it was so loud you couldn't hear instructions.
Every single time I watch the end it gives me chills down my spine. I play marching baritone and I’m in the 9th grade and my dream is to march with an amazing drum corps in the future
It's truly none of my business to be commenting on this video; i have no ties to CC or DCI at all. But my grandfather was a trumpet player for his entire life. He was the musical heart of our family. I keep coming back to this video because 1. It's incredible, and 2. He would've *loved* this. He passed away recently, leaving me with one of his (many) trumpets, and this video makes me want to learn and play that last snippet so badly so that he can hear it.
TheAbfromNJ from what I’ve heard and seen usually what happens Is their drill writing is sometimes crazy, because of that they usually have trouble making it clean like super clean while their tone and articulation is beyond amazingly clean other times it’s visevera and they have a hard time finding in the middle, a good example of finding a middle in between the two would be e=mc2. The drill wasn’t beyond crazy and the articulation wasn’t super impossible, examples of times where they couldn’t find a healthy medium between the two would be ootw they had amazing drill but the articulation was just too much with the type of drill they had and they sounded a little dirty, you can actually tell if you slow down the videos, not saying they have to be god level perfect and I’m not a judge but if you slow it down to .75 you can tell that they definitely had a challenge with ootw when it came to articulation I mean besides that nobody would notice but it’s just because the judges have amazing ears and eyes they are some how able to tell a difference.
Totally agree... Some of the licks their putting in newer shows are almost intentionally hard.. effect is lost at showtime if its not right on the money and when its 20 sops playing soft sixlet / 32nd runs at a decent clip trying to jazz step.. Getting that cleaned up to finals perfection is very difficult
I saw you at dci finals i walked like 2 inches away from you i wish i could've said hi but you were talking to someone. But I'm still glad i can say I've seen one of my favorite RU-vidrs in person.
Does anyone truly understand the genius it takes to make a horn line sound like an organ in the church?., not only that but also have it performed to absolute perfection granted that this is being played by instruments never designed for it
The standard! Oh by the way, never believed in reincarnation until a few years ago. Star of Indiana reincarnated into Crown. Star is to Optimus Prime, as Crown is to Rodimus Prime.
