This was by far the most exhausting show that I’ve ever marched. I don’t think I put my horn down very much, or stop moving for that matter. The average tempo was so high for the show.
The M&M is absolutely amazing. The evolution of drum corp since the 1960s, when I was first exposed, is unbelievable. I believe it began with the Bridgemen, who broke the mold and changed what we see on the field. Back in the day, the Senior Corps were the creme de la creme. Today, DCI marches circles around them. However, I must say I love em all.
I marched mellophone on the 1994 Cadet show, also west side story. I appreciate seeing & hearing this. I heard some arrangements we had gone over in camp that didn’t make our show then. And the mellophone soli in “cool” was spot on with ours; great flashback. It was all very cool. Thanks for posting!
Yes, 84 was better. So nice to meet someone who likes old traditional drum corps. The 09 west side show had some predictability and squareness at times whereas 84 was groundbreaking in my opinion.@Micah the Drum Corps Pseudoboomer and Nerd
OMG, it does NOT get any better than this. It is really nice to see just people on the field instead of the flimsy platforms, etc. which take away from the performance. Every group is spot on and Leonard Bernstein would be proud of the way his music was executed. Great job, Cadets and hats off to the fantastic leaders, teachers, choreographers, arrangers and anyone else involved with this outstanding corp. Great job, all!!
I am totally impressed with all of the show but especially the drill and the flag work. All of the instructors are to be commended and praised for all of the work they did and to all of the marching members I say Bravo. What a show!!!
I so wish DCI would return to these days when it was about the actual drum corp marching, playing and executing difficult manuevers instead of all the props and costumes they expect now. It totally takes the corp away from being the main focal point.
@Micah the Drum Corps Pseudoboomer and Nerd No. I am saying that Drum Corp used to be about marching and manuevering while playing difficult music and performing intricate drill. Somewhere along the way, the rise of Winterguard and Indoor percussion was integrated with and has largely overtaken Drum Corp even to the point of having the World Championships indoors at the same location every single year instead of moving to different parts of the country at outdoor venues. Corps change uniforms every year now like Winterguard and Indoor percussion to match a theme or story. The colorguard has become more of the focus and the wind players have had to become more like members of the colorguard learning to dance and act. While it is entertaining and provides wide latitude for creativity, it also brings with it a TON more subjectivity to an already subjective judging method. I say let the colorguard be the visually expressive, story-tellers and let the brass and percussion do the difficult manuevers and playing. When you go to see a broadway play, do you expect the pit orchestra to dress in costume and come on stage and play? No. They have a role that is as vital as the actors on stage, but you don't cross train everyone to all participate in the same roles. One more observation which I have seen personally is that BOA, Winterguard and Indoor percussion teaches parents is that crowd reaction helps with scoring. A rifle toss, or a loud percussion riff. So I have seen parents in the crowd ONLY show expression and appreciation for their own child's performing group and then sit on their hands when other groups do even more amazing feats than the group they are supporting. There is far less general appreciation for Drum Corps and what they do during the performance. I know this might be anectdotal, but if you listen to the old DCI performances from the 80-90s compared to recent shows, the general crowd enthusiasm corp to corp is night and day. So that is what I am mainly missing in the sport.
I think the difficulty in this show lies in the transitions between the various West Side songs(there's like 14 songs on the West Side soundtrack) ...the Cadets always incorporate great musical and rhythmical intricacy in their pianissimo playing which sometimes gets lost in the stands and in video.
Having marched this show. The difficulty was that we didn’t stop moving and playing. It was rare for us to park and play. It is odd to say this but the 2009 cadets came out very strong but just got very tired towards the end of the year. The show is very difficult because it just demanded too much stamina, both physically and musically.
Wow!!! Another super great Cadets show that deserved to win the championship…thanks for sharing! I thought marching to west side story in ‘84, was a beast, but this made WSS in ‘84, seem like a stand still…✌️🎤🔥😉🥁
I spoke to one of the snare players after we got back to the housing site, and I asked him how we ended up 9th in percussion. He couldn't tell me a good reason since their musical run was just fine, and the fall (I never saw it myself) was just minor with a fast recovery. I was still proud of how much they had improved over that season, so yeah, I wish we got the gold, but it really doesn't matter.
You really marched for my favorite corps of all time and a great show too. Cadets were my fav in 2009 and I thought y’all deserved the gold. I’m actually auditioning for Cadets this year on mello, hope I make it and get to wear the greatest uniform of all time!!!
@The_legend27 Drill like this is the reason I auditioned for the Cadets and was lucky enough to march this show! Jeff Sacktig is a drill writing genius.
@@cleverchickenable It wasn't a penalty, just that the percussion score from semis to finals dropped 1 point (out of 20, which is then divided by 2 when added to the total score) from 3rd place down to 7th, and it's speculated the drumline kind of fell apart after the snare player fell. Crown's score dropped from 97.55 to 97.50 semis to finals and we had a 97.20 on both nights. If our percussion score stayed the same, or only dropped by .3 or less, then we would've gotten the silver.
@@ajwebber Imagine if the durmb or the turmpet though? Honestly it was turmpet after everything’s said and done the penalty wouldn’t have been on any of the shit show durmbs. These judges can be pretty biased. That’s just how I feel.
do you even know west side story? every single note I've heard so far in the first minute 20 is from it. they're from the very first track, some of them are also in 83. they're playing "something's coming" after that. it's totally recognizable. I recommend listening to the original again. it's all there.
The drill is far better and more sophisticated than in the 1984 show, but the music is seriously less demanding and disappointingly less satisfying than 1984's.
@@mikesecor6074 LOL we couldn't we were too busy running a marathon. 😆I was concentrating on not dying. My nose was bloodied 2 or 3 times that year because we were running into each other! Sadly the horn book was hosed down week after week. But this is really a high-cam show anyway. 😋
84 Cadet Contrabase here! This show is a schitshow. We killed it in ´84 to win World Championship. Far better hornline and drumline. We were all teenage professionals. And our show was far more complex than this.
This show is a great example of how badly DCI has devolved into gibberish. Watch 84, then 94, and then end with this, and tell me you can find any discernible melodies in this show 90% of the time. DCI has become far too abstract musically, and as a result- dreadfully boring. I can hum 84 or 94 from start to finish in my head. I would never, in a million years, be able to do that as so much of the 12 min show consists of music without melody, little that you can discern as coherent- all, I presume, in an attempt to be more highbrow, but along the way, you gotta be losing a ton of the audience. I cannot be alone in hating the form that DCI has mostly transitioned into.
