2015 would give this a run for your money, but my all time favorite was the 2003 feature.. yall gave life to every percussion section out there with that one
Wow, this is awesome. I am a corps style snare drummer, and I must say, I have a lot of respect for the Bethune Cookman drumline. This drumline is one of the most skilled, clean, and entertaining drumlines I have ever seen!
i luv dis video BCC waz on point people can hate all dey want Sudden Impact iz tight!!! a i heard yal were a university dis year. welll cant wait 2 c yal do it up @ da Gotham City Invitational on Saturday i'll b on second tonal 4 northwest halifax
@jazzycat1 I march in an HBCU style band and I'm white. Drum Corps is great and all, but let's leave concert band to concert season. Marching band is entertainment. The fact that you're racist doesn't mean that this drum line is bad. In fact, "Sudden Impact" is good: very good, clean, and ear pleasing. DCI's "click click click click" human metronome gets kind of boring after a while. Admit it. Even though you won't. I still wouldn't mess with anybody in this "Jungle Drumline." Good performance
I understand what you are saying as well senteiwane. The BCU drumline is a great drumline. I have had the opportunity to listen to the entire band as a whole. I must say that FAMU could nolonger carry the title as the best HBCU band in Florida. But I cant reiterate enough that while BCU drumline is good. Their snares don't have the crisp sound as a drumline should. Some people on the snare line are not playing their rudiments correctly. That is why their rolls sound like popcorn popping.
what you said that is really a tough decision between mdfs (norfolk)and sudden impact cookman so I will watch both sections and decide who is better once and for all, but im from florida and all we see is the impact but i think if you see them in person you will fall in love with them to
seteiwane, about the side tenors, that is old. Drumlines were using that more than twenty years ago. That is old and outdated these days. The Quints (tenors) are currently used in it's place. Most drumlines today use the Five Tonal bases, Three to five Quints, a snare line from about five to ten snares, eight to ten cymbals players, xyllophones, bells, or marimbas. And yes they all wear a harness. The straps to contain your percussion instrument are old and out dated you must admit.
I was mad I had to be in the back while they were doing this... but I got the DVD so i'm good. All the hating, why is it necessary? Well when you hate, i see we're doing our job correctly!
norfolk? nah. They're style is too simple...but still good. Im not saying nothing about em, but Cookman got swagg. 2010 baby! Lookin foward to my crab year!
Well senteiwane, we could agree to disagree. You seem to be a very intelligent, well mannered, and knowledgeable person. I respect all of your comments. I can aggree with you that the HBCU bands play for their audiences. About the cadences, well I will say this. Maybe I spoke wrongfully about the aal sounding the same. I was trying to say that they repeat frames over and over again which kills the hook. BCC drumlines does not do that which I can identify and say that they are good.
personally...bcc drumline is raw as hell..like they are creative when it comes 2 shows..but norfolk will make bcc shit in their pants..bcuz norfolk parties and dey selection of rudiments is sick..and quint line will shit on dem...snare line is 2 clean 4 bcc..but both of em are raw
wat iz da name of ya skool n wat iz da name of ya line?? n do ya hav n e videos of dem??? imma put sum of ours up here like nex week wen we hav practice.
In addition too may of the old tenor drum that they are carry sideways. You go do with those. It takes away from the Tonal Bass Drums. The snares rolls are not clean and crisp and in some places the tenors are not clean as well when they play their triplets or 32nd notes.... For a High School it would went okay, but for a College Drumline, it's poor. But the visuals are good.
This cadence has great potential but the snare rudiments are very bad. The tenors 32nd notes could be inverted a little differently for a better sound quality.
uniquestouch05, I can tell by your youth that you clearly don't understand. Maybe you dont know your rudiments either. All you have to do is listen to the snare line. They definitely have to clean it up. BCC have a dynamic marching band. It is always good to accept constructive critisism. It makes you better. Only a fool refuses to take advice. Its is always better for people to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Are you a member of the BCC Sudden Impact Drumline?
The visuals are nice. The Basses was a little overwhelming. Too many. The drills are too basic. The tenors sound ok. But snares need to clean up thir rolls and their chops. Their open rolls are clean and crisp. It sounds more like popcorn popping. I played with DCI and Big Ten Style Drumming. The Cadence I played In DCI are a lot more challenging, and the cadence sounds better. Not taking anything away from BC, they did a nice job overall. Nice Showmanship. The cadence was nice too.
I'm not a fan of showstyle, but you guys did an excellent job. The drums are tuned quite well, and the line was clean until about 3:26. My only complaint is that there is just too many bass drums. It sounds overpowering and doesn't serve the line well.
I clearly understand what you are trying to say seteiwane. While both DCI and Big Ten Style Drumming are exciting, The DCI Lines and cadences are more clean and crisp. In addition, their cadences sound better. Don't get me wrong, HBCU Big Ten Style Bands as a whole are great. Their High Step Marching, their showmanship, their selection of Music Entertainment, and their sound really have my attention. It's just that the drumline are not that great. They are primitive with their equipment cadences
In addition setiwane, in my belief, if you were to place this drumline against a Division 1 School with a panel of unbiased judges, A Division 1 Drumline would win. We could talk about styles but there no different style when it comes to playing a cadence. They are all somewhat the same. BCU drumline is a very impressive drumline but as I said before, the side tenors should be replaced with something else. They are old and outdated from more than 20 years ago. HBCU tend to stick old tradition...
Listen to Cookmans Percussion sound down rights wouldn't fit.Listen to Famu Drumline sound,fits perfect.And Cookman's Tenor's are infront meaning they get alot of attention and you couldn't do none of the littler dance movers they do with down right,the drum would be moving all over the places lol
For an HBCU, Norfolk State is the better Drumline by a long shot... I'm sorry but those rudiments on the snares are not together. Their open rolls sound dirty. This nothing to so with Corp style but rather fundamentals.
cosign... and i HATE tenor drums!!!! But BCC absolutely needs 'em. Hopefully you'll go to a clip of their full band after saying such a blasphemous comment.
hell naw cookman would get in MDFS. Yeah they maybe a tad bit cleaner but Sudden Impact would dig in thier ass all day long. Cookman has better features anyway. Hell name one that can beat this one, and show me.
Norfolk and FSU percussionist,I think this is constructive critism but interpret as you may, sudden impact is better than both of you guys percussion sections because Norfolk you guys are very clean but yall cadences are not original, all yall cadences are repeats and add ons of previous cadences, and Fsu to be honest I never heard of you guys and I am standing around a group of 20 percussionist and they never heard of yall either so yall must not be as good as yall think yall are
