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Chris i have you know... im having my fam watching this for din tn

This will be insightful! I’ve considered music in the army as a part of my future!

sick intro

well... this notification was shocking but good for you, man! I wish you luck during your service!

Holy moleeee😂

The way he was giggles shows just how much fun he was having. He should be. He’s judging DCI

what year?

Very cool cj's music

Nice

LMAOOOOOO

I still believe 1989 BD finals performance was the best ever. Certainly to me it was the most enjoyable ever.

Very fortunate to have marched a DCA corps in 2019 that used G bugles, ended up purchasing a 3 valve soprano when they retired them, has an engraving of which original corps used it, but I'd have to dig it out of the closet to find it.

@TravisCyprien Yes there are controversies in how uniforms converted to costumes for the main brass & percussion. th-cam.com/video/_hS5cjhdgbQ/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/nUGSGOmP3Dk/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/D8wsXvHvLx4/w-d-xo.html I think I'm not disagreeing. However, I think I'm a lot older. What wrote isn't quite accurate. It stems from a certain time on. Unsure aware of the infancy of DCI & before. Many established before had distinctive uniforms & traditions. Cadets are the oldest & Blue Devils were the most winniest. Used to have for long time Madison Scouts & Cavaliers all male drum corps. I don't think remember the Bridgemen or the Velvet Knights? They were the comedians of DCI. They didn't wear "military" uniforms. Blue Devils (darker to lighter including their foot ware?), Phantom Regiment (all white to black?) & Crossmen changed their uniform colors & slight design looks. Bridgemen? They too were irreverent, taking stabs at being "NY/NJ'ers" Yellow raincoats & hats that well were definitely NY. th-cam.com/video/D8wsXvHvLx4/w-d-xo.html Velvet Knights were irreverent wearing sneakers, baseball caps & suits as if going to a prom, the color guard & cymbals had unique outfit but had a very good bugle line. th-cam.com/video/Rd9n4oepFwg/w-d-xo.html Outlanding moments of uniform almost costume: Cavaliers 'Machine' Intricate marching & speed, percussion, colorguard & overall strong sound (no blasting & out of pitch) th-cam.com/video/faD1MI4mTjk/w-d-xo.html Memories? Just like sports (football, baseball & basketball) everyone has their favorites. So do those that follow drum corps/band shows. For me: Santa Clara 'Phantom of the Opera, Star of Indiana 'Roman Images', Blue Devils 'Gangster Chronicles' & Cavalier 'Machine'. Fast marching & intricate, unique guard work & overall strong sound (no blasting & very articulate many still can't do now) th-cam.com/video/4greIjgmbAk/w-d-xo.html Blue Devils 'Gangster Chronicles' (Most winniest drum corps in DCI) th-cam.com/video/oy306qSVPhw/w-d-xo.html Key notes: There are varied styles of corps & bands. Differences involve playing, music arranging, marching drills & percussion style. One can't directly compare due to size of the group, defined marching, music articulation & percussion format. Can't compare Star of Indiana's 'Roman Images' to A&M as don't play the style. If compare to Blue Devils jazz it's not anything of arrangements & march differently especially drums. It's standard ballet vs. Rockettes or breakdancing; each have their own merits & skill. Corps: (No woodwinds sax, flute & clarinets) Fife & drum Baton & drum DCI Drum Corps DCA Drum Corps Marine Drum Corps WGI (Winter guard & Percussion) Examples of non blatting & finesse of a low bass & upper instruments th-cam.com/users/shortsbDGTEhNK6X8 th-cam.com/users/shortsOexA665wXVU th-cam.com/video/Zi-bqb_Qv_8/w-d-xo.html Playing contemporary th-cam.com/video/r0b5-H7ETXk/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/_KtLXFGnYEs/w-d-xo.html Marching bands: Mummers (sax, accordions, basses, banjos & bazuka different themes each year) th-cam.com/video/PWdBI4u3sXg/w-d-xo.html High School Bands Many not all, are similar in style to DCI. Recent years, DCI has taken some of most competitive innovations. Non-competitive HS bands nationwide don't compete only do parades, football games & indoor assemblies. May stay in pattern of over decades. Some have limited marching, out-of-tune & blatting tubas & trombone instruments along with poor articulation. Competitive: Bands of America, USBands, Rainbow Invitational & Metallica Marching Band Competitions. Universities/colleges Some are competitive DCI like style. Others have a tendency not to be as interested performing reading the music & trying to march. Like texting while driving. Or so large can't easily move around, phasing. No clarity in playing melody & lack of harmonies. Very simply percussion simply rudiments & no changes in volume. Marching techniques aren't always smooth so sounds when playing garbled or jumpy. Instruments tend to be concert type (Sousaphone, trumpets, trombone & french horns). They may have majorettes and/or colorguards. Majorettes might be very skilled in baton work with a featured majorette. I've seen "firsthand" don't often tune within sections are so out of tune it's sad. A big problem from high school into college many directors fail teach how to read music & instill good technique of playing, good sound production, when don't do creates a 'thick tongue' causing 'blasting' which ruins articulation & go out of pitch. HSCUs Have a particular style of marching that differs from corps. Multiple drum majors are very distinct & unique. Typically the director conducts the band at 1/2 time. Majorettes rarely use batons or other apparatus & do distinctive form of dancing. Some may have color guards but not many. Percussion in their own competition may be distinctive, but marching don't have intricate forms or defined instrumentation ensemble. Typically bass drums on field have same rhythm difference between DCI/DCA/WGI have individual pieces. th-cam.com/video/LGtEupT8jSE/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/s68UHR9LHkM/w-d-xo.html

Marched 91 murauders g bugles were wormer and projected better in my opinion the down side was the intonation had to do some tricks to get the right pitch I heard back in the 70s they cracking press box windows 😮luv the work

The Whitewater Wipeout happened - I saw it live. It was all we talked about for days - like how every Cadet on or off their feet did their best to power through the spill. Since Suncoast Sound loaned Garfield at least two contrabass instruments for every regional and world finals, we talked a lot and they mentioned that Z-Pull crashes happened in practice a few times. Marc Sylvester also mentioned it when he taught us at our UF Gainesville camp in 1986.

Boston was always innovative and rebellious and they are the Bad Ass Crusaders.

One of the best Drum Corps songs was Vehicle, by Ides of March. Can you access any video of that song being played and review ?

You should make a packing list video

DCT = Drum Corps Treatment. Great stuff forever.

Having marched a dot system and now a spectator, I think the pro’s out weight the cons. Drill wise, you can do harder drill. As a fan, I loved watching BD. I’m a massive BD fan but I’ve never seen them do intricate drill because of their system. I’m not bashing them, they’ve found what worked for them. I fell in love with DCI in 2003. Having watch BD, Cadets, Cavies, Boston, Phantom at Finals that year. Drum Corps is suppose to be hard. I want to see shit that says “damn that was dangerous” lol. Unfortunately with the evolution of Drum Corps and an excessive amount of theatrics, it’s ruined the drill aspect which to me is what I love to see. Just my opinion. -Cadets Alumni

1988 was such a special year for me. I graduated from high school, went to West Chester, made the snareline as a Freshman & just kept cooking from there....These shows are special because of them being that year.

7:57 good one

Regarding the young Cadet who was murdered- they very likely had a sexual relationship, and presumably the murderer wanted to cover it up…due to LGBT lifestyles obviously not being very accepted at the time. Source: I am a Caballero alumni and a Cadet alumni. Have spoken to several older alumni about this incident.

The reason for 2 not 3 valves as explained to us by our program coordinator, arranger, and sometimes composer (Robert W. Smith, Suncoast Sound): With two valves you're unable to play a full chromatic scale until you're in the upper register, so the bugles were not 'legitimate' instruments. That meant that arrangements of existing IP did not require payment of royalties to ASCAP, reducing drum corps cost. We played Dynasty 2 valve bugles; I marched 1981-1986, on 2nd baritone for a year and then 1st bari from 82 on. Around 1984, people consistently told me I was the loudest player they ever heard. Going by how the field judges started to recognize and run away from me, that sounds believable enough.

Love the content you have been making! You are right to capture and tell the history of DCI through this channel, and doing your best to give factual information however and wherever possible. Keep up the great work!

watching this before auditions this year, and I'm kinda nervous that both you and darrel will likely be there. Both of you taught me in hs.

Hi from Canada. Our dues in 1976 for a local corps were $45 (I paid it in full and then we folded in the spring). I remember being gobsmacked when I heard that Toronto Optimist charged $100. The big corps we thought would be around forever are now folding and struggling - we need affordable drum corps in local area circuits if this activity is going to survive. Expecting it to return to the days when there was at least one corps in pretty much every city, sometimes 3 or 4, is unfortunately unrealistic. We can dream, though...

Thx for this great video. I never marched corps, but am an old high school marching band guy from back in the day. I go back and watch the Scouts '88 show a couple of times per year, at least -- and I don't know anyone who wouldn't put it in their top 5 or at least 10 fav dci shows of all time. Even watching it on video gives me the shivers; I can't imagine having been there to see it live. I mean, the Blue Devils' closer that year was crazy-good, too. It was just such a good year for corps, overall.

The first Corp to perform usually getting low scores sounds like a judging problem. Where judges ever looked at closely?

A few things... First - this was an excellent analysis, thank you, you just got yourself a new sub. Second, since I first marched in the late 1960's when there was no such thing as a dot book, form was the only method available, and I was taught drill with on field instructions like "OK snares, from here go straight down the 50 to, uh, around where that leaf is lying on the ground." I have to chuckle when you're comparing 2003 Cavies to "the modern era", but that's just me, I'm old - nearly 70, in fact but still teaching. Third, and why I came here, is that for the first time in my life I'm writing not just the music but the drill for an indoor high school drumline with limited experience. I just got Pyware Basic and am struggling with the intricacies, but have completed a drill. HOWEVER - we don't have our own tarp and the one the circuit supplies for competitions has nothing - just a plain old tarp. So I'm thinking we give the kids the coordinate sheets as a guide as needed, but after the initial first set, we teach to form. I'd love your thoughts on all this, please.

I recently did this on one of my old trumpets, and it came out great!

A year late, but this was a GREAT video! I was in high school when this show was out and I was in marching band at the time. I absolutely LOVED their show that year. At that time, it felt so raw and the music score was BEAUTIFUL. I tend to only enjoy openers and closers but when a show gets me with an opener, BALLAD and closer, it's a win in my book. Their drill WAS IMMACULATE. Of the 2014 season, Blue Coats, SCV and Boston got me good.

I marched dci in 2000 when the Bb horns were first used. There was a huge difference in sound. We used G horns. The G horns really played well at mf and up. Soft volume on them really drops off tonally. That's the sound old schoolers miss.

Bent leg just looks so goofy imo

You certainly gave me a lot of flashbacks! Most notably what we called "fratsnapping" or what you called African snapping. I forgot where I had learned it until you reminded me it was a dci thing, and I remembered the year I marched I put a lot of effort into learning how to do it.

I love drum corps but warming up in someone front yard is just wrong. They should have been issued a citation and the instructor reprimanded. That’s not an accident. That’s a drum instructor being an egotistical A-hole

Oh man… warming up a drumline in someone’s front yard??? That instructor should have been fired. That’s just pure insanity. He knew what he was doing.

Corps members: "Wait... you guys are getting paid?"

13:51 curious if any photos have been leaked

36:00, Six Flags ride operator here: we also use Squincher during the hot summer days, at least at my park. Not sure about the other theme parks. I had no idea Squincher was also popular amongst DCI kids haha

31:21 you fail to mention the aspect of color guard (which i dont blame u for). Color guard terminology and technique very from east coast to west coast. For example, the angle of a shoulder hip is steeper on the east coast, proper techinque for catching a sabre is different: one catches a standard sabre toss with the right hand much closer to the hilt on the west coast compared to the east coast, along with much more

Unfortunately DCI has gone downhill since since then. I don’t like all the props and dancing around the color guard is doing these days. Doesn’t dance teams have their own competitions. Bring back the military type precision rifle lines.

I should have read all the replies first. My best memory of 1988 was in Sevierville, TN. There was a thunderstorm that hit the show site during warmups. SCV and Madison took shelter in the schools gymnasium. I remember the corps played parts of their shows for each other. Then the horn lines combined and played Never walk alone.

My high school uses a is a combination of form and dot because we march so that we are in form but we still have dots for every set but we prioritize staying in form.

Well done, sir! I learned lots

Wow, the editing at 11:58 where the dot drill is superimposed upon the live formation and Zingalis statement is such a beautiful moment and tribute❤ Thank you Zingali🙏🤘🫡 🎶 ❤

8:32 2024 2nd place 🥈

Funny how 12 top European soccer teams recently tried to pull the same stunt by creating a European Super League. There was so much fan outrage, the teams all quickly backtracked.

Mr. Seneca is the goat

This was my era of drum corps. “A Zingali drill” was a common phrase.