We are responsible for the 5 D’s: Drums - maintenance, tuning, practice, drum scores and liaising with the Pipe Major to chose complimentary scores. Discipline - we ensure the band behaves, is in the right place at the right time and sort out any issues within the band. We also sit on the Band Committee. Drill - we ensure the band members can perform drill to a very high standard and understand the mace commands Deportment - difficult to explain, but we ensure that a band member carrys themselves with distinction and decorum. And Dress - ensuring band members are correctly attired, are smart and well turned out. Some add a 6th D, Drams! In response to a comment below, I have never heard anything other then Mace and it was Mace Drill I was taught at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming in Edinburgh. There is also a Section on mace drill in the Army Manual of Drill and Ceremony.
@@Backs4more I thought so too, i was just think it might the band of a particular battalion within the regiment, I've also found the tune which is the Scottish Emblem
@@donaldyeung9658 the band is pulled from across the battalions, no one particular battalion, hence the red over white hackle. Technically there are three RRoS bands, as there are two territorial bands as well, the Highland band and the Lowland band.
Hi Jim not having a go, but most people do not read/look at the description. I along with most of the people who will have watched this vid expected the description in the video not the comments. I did enjoy the video as the Scottish regimental bands are great, even more so when on the mile.
Nice! In the Swedish military the term for "Drum Major" is, literary translated, "Regimental Drummer" (regementstrumslagare). In the Navy it is "Flag Drummer" (flaggtrumslagare) and in the air force "Wing Drummer" (flottiljtrumslagare). The Swedish cavalry band, however, do not have a drum major, but are instead lead by a trumpeter major a "Regimental Trumpeter" (regementstrumpetare). Sweden is one of the few countries that still have a mounted military band.
I am of Scottish decent my great grandfather William moffett was born in duns Scotland and I must say there is nothing better then the bag pipes I love watching the pipe bands
Those businesses along that route must be bangin'. I mean, I've seen them in many, many similar videos. Also, I could figure out the Mace commands. No, I don't know what any of the positions mean, but it's obvious they follow standard military doctrine of a predatory command to alert the troops to a change and what to expect, then a timing sequence, and execution command.
All well and good. The guy pounding the bass drum controls the speed and pace of the march. The drum major don't do much without the drummer pounding relentlessly; boom, boom, boom.
I seem to be missing something... Specifically, the explanation! Don't know if I'm missing an audio channel, if I need to turn on Closed Captioning, or what. But all I see & hear are (GLORIOUS) pipes and drums...
It's a beautiful sight, great musicians playing on the march. Just one question. Why does the public on the sidewalk not feel them in any way, neither by waving their hands in greeting, nor by applause?
Scots aren't by and large very demonstrative people; it's a difference in how they express themselves, not in their depth of feeling. There are probably tears running down some cheeks.
In any case, a piper is taking around 92dB right there at the instrument. He might not hear you clapping! I know I can't hear dogs barking at me for playing if they are a little way off.
There are several different ways of marching with a mace. Sadly, only one (the easiest - and most boring) was depicted throughout this reel, which doesn't make for comprehensive coverage.
Here's something I've always been curious of what do pipe majors do? My dad used to be one in his younger years in our local pipe band but he never actually told me what they do.
Some of the tunes are songs; many are not. Sometimes a tune has rhe fortune of having words set to it later. Sometimes it's a pipe version of a popular song. Scotland The Brave ran about a century and a half before somebody came up with some lyrics. Highland Cathedral only took about thirty-five, and has both patriotic and hymnody lyrics. Some tunes come from fiddle repertoire.
@@WootTootZoot I found it helpful to look up lyrics of some sort when I was new at piping. Bonnie Dundee simply never came together for me until I found 'The Looking-Glass Creatures' cited in _The Annotated Alice In Wonderland (&c)_ and was, like, "Oh, THAT'S how it goes!" Even something with the sober respectability of Scots Wha Ha'e, comes easier to the tyro with the words added.
@@JimRamsayJWR Mace is the American and European term, the British Army has always used the term drum majors staff. I just surmised the description was an American write up because of many of the terms used, ie sash, we wear a baldric unless it’s the SnrNCO’s red sash being referred to.
We are taught Mace Drill at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming. There is a Mace Drill manual. English regiments may call it a staff, but I have not heard that.
Click bait title. The video has NO explanation of Drum Majors. I enjoy wr=atching pipe bands march as much as anybody. But to claim a video EXPLAINS Deum Majors when al it does is SHOW them and their bands.... it's aggravatingclick bait. I waited for some explanation for the entire video.
@@JimRamsayJWR But this is a VIDEO, not a text book. A VIDEO entitled Te Drum Major Explained should contain what the title claims. Otherwise the description is simply a textbook to read. The title of the video should be "A Nice Video of Pipe Bands with Description Notes on Drum Major Duties." It is NOT a video that explains what a Drum Major is or does.
