*Submit your videos to watch:* www.adamtanpercussion.com/submit Ok I finally went and did it, no more chickening out of watching untuned percussion in marching performances haha. I have so much respect for quad, snare and bass players because the parts are insane and it's so clean sounding all the time. Let me know what you thought of the performances down below! Also we're close to 24K now, so if you haven't already hit that red *SUBSCRIBE* button above to keep up with my uploads every week! #TheStudioFamily
@@AdamTanPercussion sometimes they do, but usually they're only listening for areas they might be expecting things to be less "clean" which is far less often with higher level groups
3:48 They're saying "BLOOO" because they're the "Blue"coats. 5:20 Calling them overhands is not entirely incorrect. Crossover is the more popular term, though. 5:45 Feature is the general term for an instrument's "solo." Bass features in particular generally are showing off bass "splits," which is the term for the bomb-ass runs the basses play between the 5 of them, in this case. 8:35 The show's called "Tilt." Get it!? 10:20 I'm not sure about this show, but sometimes corps will have like 5 drum majors all around the field dependent upon what cues were necessary for the needs of the show. All those DMs stare at the main one(s) in front for tempo cues. 11:29 Having the tenors raised actually makes them sooo much easier to carry. It moves all the weight closer to you so you're not straining your back to keep your carriage(no bouncy, only glide). 11:45 While bass parts focus on splits, a large part of tenor playing is sweeps(scrapes), where a double stroke is evenly distributed between two drums. This controlled acceleration has lots of sweeps in it and is pretty darn cool. 22:05 That's a set of crotales. Sorry for vomiting words onto you! Here's just some terminology for ya!
YES, tenor cams are what got me obsessed about the crazy amount of work that goes into DCI/WGI. If I didn't discover corps at age 21, I would have put my degree on hold for the experience.
Reules tenor cams are the exact videos that really sold the need to march for me. I saw those and just went “there’s no way I’m not gonna do this” My bd showed us the 2014 cam during band camp my freshman year and that Christmas I started percussion lessons. I was like “I’m gonna march corps even if it kills me”
If you like classical music in marching shows, you should check out Carolina Crown 2015 Inferno. I got to see it in person and I was blown out of the water.
When I was in high school, one of our cheerleaders was a quad player. We were a competitive field show marching band so she was required to play during the football games even though she had to cheerlead. Right before halftime she changed out of her cheerleading outfit into her marching outfit, played the show with us, then went right back to cheerleading the football game.
@@AdamTanPercussion Yep....and in any other year, they probably would've won. Blue Devils were an absolute monster that year...ended up with the highest score ever. Here's the full finals show run for 2014 Bloo for you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QcVPX7xtKnE.html
I’m in percussion in hs and the quad players are definitely the players w the most grit for sure it takes a lot of commitment to carry those huge things around I carried my friends for like ten minutes and my back hurt for a week 😂😂
Imagine bashing someone with little to no musical experience actively making effort and trying to learn about an activity that's completely foreign to them lmao. Couldn't be me✌️
Just gonna add that this kind of elitism within the drum corps community is why so many people are put off by it and don't want to take the time to delve deep into the activity because they'll be torn to shreds by people who've spent a large portion of their life dedicated to it. Instead of being dick-ish about it, try to be more accepting and understanding of people who have shown that they want to be apart of the community. Especially with no musical knowledge, it's a lot to take in and doesn't happen overnight. It took me around 2-3 years before I really understood most of the in's and out's of drum corps.
You totally need to go watch a DCI performance. Listening to it in a video is nothing like being there in person. Tickets aren’t too crazy expensive either. It’s like being flooded with music all around you. Totally amazing. Blue Devils is my favorite.
Bluecoats have some of the best vocals in the drumline. I forgot the quad's name, but he is famous for his vocals in the Bluecoats Also, when you say that they are together, the common terminology is clean. "The snares are clean" "The quads are clean". Those are examples
You really should check out all of crown 2017 some time. It’s honestly a really cool show all around. It’s also not the full crown experience if you don’t hear the horn line as well.
The first piece in It Is was "'Little' Fugue in g minor" by J.S. Bach BMV 578 Also at the end I know he didn't just call "For Good" from Wicked a pop song
Just so you know, It's actually much easier to march and walk with the drums held up like at 11:28 Its much better because the weight is much closer to your body and has much less leverage overall.
If you're interested in checking out the original piece being sourced at 22:20, its called "No one to kNOW one" by Andy Akiho: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZgMXo7ShO_U.html
Percussion instructors fear nothing, I swear. Ours would follow drumline during run throughs and I’d constantly be telling him to watch out so I didn’t hit him with my flag.