Fun fact, I'm actually a DCI World Champion! I marched with Carolina Crown in 2013 and I highly recommend watching the victory run! The show was absolutely fantastic!
Yes it was. Still probably my favorite DCI show. Edit: that show is available via drum corps archive. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-78zvaifLUM0.html
Thanks for this video. I was a part of this show. I try hard to not live in the past and move my life forward rather than always looking back, but it’s nice every once and a while to see what we worked so hard for was appreciated. Still 6 years later
The thing with DCI is that it's full of high school kids, college kids, plus some. And oddly enough, this is the type of style most high school marching bands use, while most college marching bands go with the military style that you saw before.
Yes this is mostly high school kids. I was in my school marching band back in the 1980's. We were one of the top rated high schools in the State of Utah. We were as popular and just as supported as the athletic teams. DCI was big back then too.
a main difference from high school to drum corps is: *drum corp -* mostly loud, long chords, fast music *marching band (hs) -* not as loud, moving notes, chords, yes, and some fast music. not a lot of unison parts, but some here and there. sure, a lot of high school bands march drum corps style, and I think it's awesome. all bands are different, this is just a comparison between my band and dci
We used to attend many DCI competitions. Great fun. Loads of talent. DCI has really evolved. The older shows were more drills built around a musical theme, now the competitions are more showmanship. DCI is awesome.
The people in drum corps groups PAY to go do this kind of stuff! It's INSANE! The fact that the Blue Devils played Flight of the Bumblebee is a testament to how GREAT these musicians are!
8:26; its a whole team you have the visual designers, who write the drill (where people move and such) people who write the visuals the instrumentalists do people who write the dances the gaurd does(the people with the rifles and flags and sabers) people who write the part for the brass instrument players people who write for the marching percussionists people who write for the front ensemble (the people in the front) as well as the creative designers who decide the show concept and how all those previously listed aspects should work together to portray what they want to portray.
Not true. Get your assumption outta here. Have you seen the impact of American music on your modern culture? We know quite a bit. Nuff said. Stop w the disrespect
@@getinthevan9958 what on God's green earth are you talking about, he is simply pointing out that DCI doesn't have a massive audience compared to many other activities is a true statement lol
There’s a lot of rules and regulations on the creation and consistency of the music. What can and cannot be prerecorded, but all instruments here are live! Other great shows that I’d recommend (if available and if you’re interested) are: Carolina Crown 2013 Carolina Crown 2014 Bluecoats 2016 Bluecoats 2022 Santa Clara Vanguard 2017
My family and I go to DCI every year, there are amazing corps and powerful brass lines. If you want just pure sound and also an amazing core to watch, I suggest Carolina Crown.
This show was the Blue Devils 60th anniversary show, so some stuff from this show are hints towards some of their past shows. For example you mentioned the mirrors on the stairs, those are a reference to their 2010 show where they had literal giant mirrors on the field as props. There's also a couple musical references. If you enjoyed this show I think you would love their 2014 show, which is also the highest scoring show in DCI history. There's so many amazing corps, and the Blue Devils are one of them!
Love this! The competitive season begins in June and lasts two months as the different corps tour the country and compete against each other culminating where this video was shot in Indianapolis in August. Different corps are known for different styles. You'll find the one you enjoy most but they're all excellent. There are world class corps and open class. World class is the higher level.
With drills like this, look wherever your eyes are drawn to, a good drill and a well put together show will keep you engaged where they intend on their own.
In response to your question, Blue Devils' design team has probably 10 or so main people with different individuals in charge of different things (formations/drill, flag/rifle people/colorguard, marching drums/battery, standstill percussion/front ensemble). Beyond those 10 people, there are around 30 or so that switch off and teach/refine the entire show. Some are purely in charge of dance or marching or trumpets etc. Besides the design and educational staff, they have an entire team of administrative staff of drivers and coodinators and a health and support team that includes dieticians, chefs, doctors. The Drum Corps I was apart of last summer had a total staff of nearly 60 people. Of course not all 60 are typically there all at once but for certain huge events like DCI Finals or a home show, a majority of the support staff may be in attendance. This just goes to prove how drastic of an undertaking an 8000 Mile tour across the United States is. If you have any questions, let me know! I'll do my best to elaborate! Keep up the wonderful content!
I live just under an hour away from Lucas Oil Stadium, and being a drum corps fan while being in marching band in high school where its really competitive here in Indiana, and the energy of drum corps being in the state during July-August is just short of incredible.
Hello! I marched two years with Boston Crusaders in two years with Carolina Crown 14-17 (Crown 15-16) and I highly recommend watching Carolina Crown 2011! Rach Star is arguably the best show to show someone for the first time watching this activity in my opinion.
This is my first time seeing the non-multicam view of this show and I am just blown away by the visual design. ... And that ballad performance is just absolutely SPECIAL!
DCI is the main international organization....the members are High School and College students and it's just BRASS and PERCUSSION instruments....you have to audition to get into the groups, and the Blue Devils are one of the great DCI bands of all time.....others I remember were the Spirit of Atlanta, and I believe there was a drum corps out of Sacremento CA I believe.
DCI, Is amazing and frankly I think you'd enjoy the story aspect shows the most. You should react to Phantom Regiment 2008 "spartacus". It's my favorite of all time, and is incredibly easy to follow. Great starting point before Carolina Crown and Bluecoats
The whole show is designed by 10+ people and is split. The singer is just a recording but some corps will actually have a singer live. There are speakers where they put a track of background sounds and things like that over the whole show. My favorite corps are the Bluecoats
Great reaction. Some college bands use this same Drum & Bugle Corp style. West Chester University (Pennsylvania) and the University of Delaware for example. However, their routines are shorter (half time restrictions) and not usually quite so over the top in terms of creativity, dance, props, etc. You can find hundreds of Drum Corp and marching band videos. Well done.
DUUUUDE Nice I absolutely love DCI!! It is like the NFL of marching band. I'd highly recommend checking out Carolina Crown they have by far the best brass section in DCI. If you look up God's Hornline you will find some great videos of them in the lot playing. It will absolutely melt your face off
And the difference in high school soloists and this is HUGE. This is like a music major performance going on here. And his range into the trumpet stratosphere is very inspiring.
Huge fan of DCI and a previous participant. Although this is one of the most beloved shows in the DCI community I would not reccomend it as an entry point into the activity. BD is known for having very artsy and out there shows, even doing one on the avante garde movement. This was their anniversary show and was representative of how they have grown as a corps over their 50 years. The part you mentioned as the music swapping feels really fast was actually them doing callbacks to their shows from previous years, so part of the enjoyment comes from already being aware of where that music comes from. Drum corps has its roots in military tradition. That is why at the beginning of the show you see the straight line marching, but they bend and artistically move out of them to show the metamorphasis of the activity over time. The people spinning things are the color guard. They often spin and dance with flags, rifles, and sabres; things a traditional military color guard would have. They also reflect that in the beginng with the rifle spinning. They spin it in one hand in place like you would see at a millitary parade, but as the show progresses they are tossing them in the air and doing insane catches. The people up front are called the front ensemble. It consits of things like xlyophones and marimbas. The front ensemble is great for giving the smooth transitions and setting the mood. Most of the singing is pre-recorded, but there are some corps that do use a singer, and not a traditional part of the activity. All that said there are plenty of shows that are much more straight forward in their approach to show design and I already see them all over your comments sections and think they would be worth checking out if you found this video even a little bit intresting. BD takes a lot of knowledge about the activity to truely appreciate. Even alot of Drum Corps fans don't understand why they win every year even when there are shows that are more popular.
Honestly if you keep posting DCI videos you could probably corner the market and get a TON of views. There are definitely some resourceful people in the comments here that could supply you with the videos. Some recommendations that will be instant hits are: Carolina crown 2013, 2015 (really all years 2010+) Bluecoats 2014, 2016 (also all pretty good) Santa Clara Vanguard 2018
The main difference between DCI and College Marching Bands is that College Bands prepare a new show for every home football game, meaning they have 6 or more shows per year (plus all of the random pop songs that they play throughout the game), with the primary goal of entertaining fans. DCI bands practice one show per year, with the sole goal of impressing judges and winning competitions.
Fun Fact: This incredible ballad is based off the song "Everything Must Change" by Bernard Ighner, who died the same year on August 14th and this is something I hope he feels proud of, though huge credits to the blue devils
Even high schools here have drill designers (for the band). Flag and dance coaches. Drum coaches. People who design and write the musical arrangements for that band's particular maturity level (say all trumpers are 9th graders) or that there is a shortage compared to the woodwinds, etc.
Apart from the musicianship, the biggest thing to watch for is one word: Precision. The precision in the movements across everyone is absolutely insane. It’s easiest to see with the color guard / twirlers, but the musicians themselves are highly precise in their movements and their spacing.
My husband and his friend were huge DCI and DCA fans. My husband was in a DCA drum corp in New Jersey before I met him. I went to a few shows and enjoyed them.
I really appreciate your perspective as a Brit, whose marching band perspective might be HM Royal Marines, some of the finest musicians in the world. As fun as it was to see your honest reactions, I would love to sit beside you in the stands as you view this live. It's hard to describe the feeling of the horns pinning you back in your seat. If you ever get a chance to see this summer competition, this is America's Best Kept Secret. DCI, Drum and bugle corps!
They are spinning guns. Just thought you might find that interesting. Big white rifles. They are called the Color guard. In US high school you can spin guns for the color guard, spin flags in the Flag Corp, spin wands and be a Majorette, or spin yourself and be a cheerleader. We also have a Dance Corps, which is more sexy, and has less tumbling and flipping and athletic than cheerleading. All of this is for the spectacle at football games.
It's not the audio it's the top level musicians playing much more difficult music with perfect precision, one thing to watch it the lags of the members, you'll notice that in corp no single step is even a single inch out of time
Fundraisers fund the trips and coaches etc. The school covers the building, music, salary for the band director, and uniforms and a few trips with the buses.
This is a bit of of weird video/recording to view as a first experience of drum corps. While nothing compares to seeing it live, the higher quality and multi-cam videos do a slightly better job of replicating it. While there, you also get the sound coming from different places, so it helps for knowing where to look. Still, cool to see more people checking out the activity. :)
Ooooohhhhh wait til you see a Carolina Crown show. My God. 😩🙌🏾. OoOoOoOooO You should react to the God’s Hornline video with the Crown Warm Up Compilation. Ear-gasms😂
If you want more fun with musical competition, check out winter indoor percussion. Drumlines... on a gym floor, doing shows. The main circuit would be Winter Guard International (WGI) with the top level being Scholastic World (high school) and Independent World (up to college age).
I've always liked The Academy Corpse's Bride. Didn't win the competition but still loved it. Drum corp also has a certain music style, not so much playing songs as producing highly technical music segments while marching. Judging is based on music, marching and general effect.
As someone who was in marching band in high school and saw their performance live. Their sound is amazing, like warm rich chocolate melting. So for one of those question they do use sound tracks for certain sound effects or even vocals but majority to all of their sound it made by them. Really depends on the music sheet. They are very trained and super skilled, you really have to practice ALOT to get at their level. My band mates and I were so shocked by their sound and till this day it still astonishing that the human body is capable of.
So, imagine taking 50 Ohio State marching bands, auditioning to find the best 160 members and then rehearsing them for 12 hours a day for 3 months... that's what you're watching.
If you're looking for another great DCI show to watch there are plenty! Most have more professional camera angles that get down closer to the field as well. I'd recommend watching Carolina Crown 2010 performance.
There is a complete design team that creates the show. Visual designer, brass arranger, field percussion arranger, sideline percussion arranger, color guard designers (the flags and rifles). No backing track.
Here In Texas , high school football there are several battles going on at the same time . The battle in the football field and then there was in the bleachers ( stands ) cheerleaders , pepsquads , dance teams and marching bands battle each across the fields . Lots going on in a football game ! Lol
Basically the kids fundraise to pay for their own experience, because it usually involves a band truck holding the percussion equipement , large instruments, signage, flags, etc. Bands are an expensive thing to produce shows. It is also the biggest HIGH for kids working so hard to produce something so fine. Competing is an adrenal rush too. And watching other bands do such spectacular shows is such a rush. The best and the finest and hardest working students are in band.
I nearly was part of DCI in 2016. Was in high school and joined the Blue Saints Drum and Bugle Corps, didnt really make the cut but only because my drum was huge and i was not xD
ok the spinny guys as you called us ( i loved the name lamo) were the color guard theirs three sections flags we spin flags: you spin and do moves with flags riles the white spinny things in the spinny thigns aka the throwing and spinning wooden rifles sabre : sa ber were you spin and throw a metal fake sword
Parts of the music reminds me a little of the song "Dragonfly" by Clutch (an American Rock band, but they do tour Europe as well. Been around for ages now). Not entirely, but parts definitely just give me that vibe since they do a lot of random fusion with their music. So, it's sort of rock mixed with funk, mixed with blues, mixed with...yeah, one of my favorite bands basically due to how different each album ends up being from previous ones, but you can still tell it's Clutch when you hear it somehow.
Thanks for now choosing appropriate places to do your commentary. These kinds of drum and bugle corps are the standard ongoing competitors in the DCI (Drum Corps International). And it's pronounced CORE not corps. These are auditioned for spots from the cream of the crop of high school graduates and university music major type students. The junior high schools and high school give them the primary musical and marching training, and then they exponentiate it from there, rehearsing an ungodly amount. It's a very big commitment and it takes a lot of time and saved money and it's a summer month competitive season. The average high school band in the USA can take down most elsewhere and the ones in Texas and California, especially California (population dense, therefore fierce competition), can take down any band in the Macy's televised parade. I myself was in marching bands and performing bands since high school and in the CA state champions for years, and a top performing university band, that marched the Rose Parade based on merit. I've developed students who also were US champions and marched the Rose Parade and won tri state doing field shows like this. So, I do know what I'm looking at and the Blue Devils have been amazing for a long time and are beyond amazing. It takes a LOT to even get into this group!
i live about an hour away from this stadium and when i was in high school one of these crews stayed and practiced at my high school…. it sounds so much better on a small school football field lol
college are show bands not even same league yes dci is considered pro the step down is high school comp marching like what I use to do these guys are right out of high school
The marching members are not professional but the corps staff are. Some corps pay out over a million dollars in wages every year to their staff (20 plus staff). All marching members are 21 and under but the top corps generally have a higher average age. High School bands are high school aged.A big reason why Drum Corps are better performers/musicians. Watch the Multi cam version of the same show, you get to see their faces and close ups of the actual instruments that are being played.When I took my wife to DCI finals for the first time the most striking thing for her was just how young they looked/were. Backing track is not the correct term but Corps do have mixing desks and amps that will play samples during the show e.g. Rhianna. Occasionally Corps will have a live singer, Look up the Mandarins 2022 show, they had the most amazing singer, they used his voice like other Corps use solo trumpet players. PS. Deum Corps is also in the UK and has been for 40 odd years.....
you should watch either Bluecoats 2022 or Bluecoats 2016 also, that part at 10:30 where they were all huddling up, everyone was on the field was yelling "get down" it was really funny
Heh....I was the one who wrote David Gibbs with the idea of a 50th anniversary alum corps! Sorry for busting into the gym at DVC the night of P-West...it was BRUTALLY cold outside and all we and the SCV alums had were polo shirts!
Hey Joe, glad you like DCI, there are some great performances over the years. You might like this one from the Bluecoats 2022 show. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u3EhbNOiWwY.html Others to check out are the phantom regiment 2008, 2010 Cavaliers. I am sure you will see some other great suggestions too. All of these performers are between 16 and 21. The do these shows in the summer months, about 60 days total. And they are all competitions, so each performance is graded with the world championship in Indianapolis. These kids usually spend about 12 hours each day during practices. A sports doctor did some research and the results were amazing. Their heartbeats average those of a marathon runner, while the breathing is that of a sprinter. It is quite the workout.
So these are high school and college kids. They have to try out and pay to be there. Ur used to be called open bands. You age out at 21. If you come from a small school with a small band this helps your resume to get into the college band so that you get scholarships. Most DCI bands and college bands change their program weekly. Sometimes at festival and competitions, they may change stuff up each performance.
They also usually tell some sort of story. These kids are some of the best. They have done studies, and the heart rates of the band is usually higher because of the physical stress because you are running and playing to hit your spot. But this is stressful as well because it's a performance that you just learned.
Ohio State can only wish they could play even an ounce like any DCI corps. College bands (like Ohio State) are performing for the general public so their shows are pretty easy to follow. DCI is more abstract and much higher difficulty in both music, movement, and show concept.
Collage marching bands are more for entertainment so it is more one cohesive form and more recognizable songs, dci is a competition circuit. You have to be under 21 to do it so it is mostly older high school and younger village kids
