This was ECSU's first year under new instruction. I admit they didn't do as we'll as I would have liked, but they have come a long way from what they were last year. As one of their instructors, I am very proud of what they have accomplished in such a short period of time. Props to Mr. Powell and the VSU drumline or giving ECSU the opportunity to show everyone who we are and the new direction in which we are headed.
I love it when show style lines incorporate a more core-style approach to their playing. I enjoyed VSU's music the most. I give show style lines a lot of respect when their basses have difficult splits as well. If it was a bit cleaner, it would have been perfect.
i love how vsu's basses are tuned to a dci level. They sound so good!!! but they have dirty spots...but ecsu's basses were a little cleaner to me..i love the mixture of styles in both bands, but ya'll gotta clean it up. vsu's quad line killed it because they were clean and it their material was a little more technical..ecsu's quad line material was on a high school level to me...ecsu's snare line was a little more cleaner than vsu's snare line
I loved every second of this video you guys are awesome. Looks great sounds great and Is a lot of fun to watch.... {Thanks for sharing this video with us.}
This what makes VSU stand out. They have a mixture of DCI and groovin collaborating at the same time which I call a balance drumline. The only thing their missing in my personal opinion is tenor drums not QUINTS/SEXTET but tenor drums. Then they really be off the hook but you have to know how to use the tenor drum in the drumline and how to incorporate it.
At PlushChronicles. I marched DCI. This is a different thing. It's about putting on an exciting show, not necessarily perfection. It certainly isn't points competition like DCI. Appreciated it for what it is. Geeze man. I never understand why people have to be so harsh and closed minded.
I really like the uniformity of both of these schools. Usually when you watch drumline battles like this, the schools have various different drum harnesses, heads, and brand drums. Both of these schools have good matching equipment. And they all played pretty clean. But I liked VSU a little better. Both were pretty great though. I give this video a like.
Red team killed the blue team...end of story. They were cleaner by far. They brought that "A" game had more poly-rhythmic cadences and were funkier because of that. In my opinion it wadn' even close. Killed them with the first cadence. Seriously, I've been teaching percussion for over 24 year. That was a tight line man.
VSU is great drum corps styled drumline, but I think they'd lose severely to a DCI top 12 drum corps as far as drumming goes; even though I think that VSU would probably be more exciting than those top 12 drumlines. VSU's beats would simply be more entertaining and accessible to the audience.
Im not sure if this was before or after a game or ECSU didn't get a chance to tune the tenors/quads/etc.. The 10" drum had the weirdest overtones in it. And Vsu's snares sounded like the top head was wayy tighter than the bottom, which gives alot of "pop" but zero "wetness".. Id loosen the strainers a little, bring the bottom head to a higher pitch, and bring the top head down half a turn on each lug. The snare will be the same pitch but sound a million times better!
what do you mean niether was together there wer plenty of clean moments and cadences all through this battle , not everyone adjusts their basses the same either , and vsu practices control i dont know what video you were watching
I JUST MOVED TO ELIZABETH CITY 2 MONTHS AGO FROM NORFOLK AND DIDNT EVEN KNOW ELIZABETH CITY HAD A COLLEGE SHIT FOR THAT MATTER A BAND. AFTER WATCHING THESE VIDEOS, I GIVE YALL PROPS, THE DRUMLINE DID ALRIGHT. AS FOR THE BAND AS A WHOLE, FOR A SMALL BAND, YALL SOUND GOOD. I HAVNT BEEN IN-TOWN YET DUE TO MY CRAZY WORK SCHEDULE, HOPEFULLY I'LL GET THE CHANCE TO SEE YALL PERFORM IN PERSON BEFORE THE SEASON IS OUT
ECSC snares ate up VSU, Granted VSU tenors is probably the only thing that gave VSU a shot. but food for thought, if your snares are getting called and you can´t respond with your WHOLE snare line...then you lost. these guy put in the same hours during bandcamp so there is no excuse why your whole snareline doesnt know the music. just saying.
Both of these lines are beyond fantastic. However, the person filming has a lot to be desired. Lots of shots for the cymbal and the combo drums but not of the snare line. Go figure
Maybe just maybe you should leave out the stick tricks until you can play clean and make them mean more. Anyone can flip a stick but not anyone can flip a stick and be clean. A lot of dirt coming off those two lines for sure.
thanks for noticing captain obvious . we can hear the dirt , just because they are doing stiick tricks does not mean that is where the dirt is comming from .
Well i'll say this much... I personally think both are boring and a 21 minute long battle is even more annoying.... 4 minute long cadences of mostly a repetition of the same beat over and over..... nothing impressive to be honest....
***** - Well I use to be in a drumline and have taught percussion to highschool students... so with that being said YES I could do it and so much better.... Everyone these days takes negative criticism as hating which is why society is full of untalented people.... Too many people saying "Great Job" to those who didn't do a great job...
Option Media then u dont know the reason for a drum battle...showmanship skill and quality is shown... personally id like to see a tight drum line like either one of these lines battle Top Secret...military style vs grove style...all take skill all take talent... #drummersunite
