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And I loved every second of being in the color guard for this show 😌

2008: The hardest thing in 2008 was having John have us all together(horns) and tell us in the morning before leaving for finals that Phantom bought 45 to the 45 seats. Went on to tell us the fact they all had been instructed when in the show to stand and cheer and was warned we were most likely going to need to step it up. I can tell you I did play something I fully regret at the end of the all corps and John ran up asking, " is that how you're going to end your season". I don't want to bring up what happened next but was not good. There isn't a single recording of what I played to this day as the videos all cut right before I play the line. Drama you might want to find is 2008 regional of I think it was Alamo.....only half the corps started. 2007: The field was fine and honestly hearing George ask for the field painting based on what he saw with the weather app.

thank u for uploading even tho i saw this just now i hope to go to finals next year so bad :/

I marched Sky Ryders ‘86 & ‘87. We had two valve, silver plated, King instruments designed by the great John Simpson. When I was in high school in Kansas, the state was a hotbed of high school drum and bugle corps. I believe there were 8-10 in the mid 70’s. There I marched a single piston, single rotor DEG. LOVED the sound of G bugles. I still remember sitting in front of the Blue Devils in ‘86 and just feeling the power of that horn line!

0:50 crazy drill here

At my HS, for rehearsals, if it was a form with edges, we had to be on dot, but if it was malleable, we got to the dot, then adjusted to form

I didn’t know any of this; I thought a trumpet was a trumpet! But I came across a Kanstul G-Bugle with horizontal valve. It doesn’t play, it’s missing a valve and it’s best to hell with crinkled bell and all. But just dropped off at the UNT instrument repair shop to see what magic they can do (if they want to undertake my challenge). I had no idea that DCI and bugle corps used anything different than standard trumpets. Very educational video, great job n

These are not Drum Corps they are bands with a ton of twinks.

My main takeaway from this was just that my band has little defined technique for marching lol. Pretty much all the instruction we get is to roll our feet and not let our heels touch the ground when backwards marching. Probably not a coincidence that visual is usually our worst category

Bro is talking raw facts straight up on the first 2min 🙏🏻

I find it funny that ik some of the rly rly deep ones but not some of the higher ones

The Battalion 2024 reference RAH

I saw Garfield Cadets two weeks before finals in North Carolina 1983. We were seated on the 35 yard line stage left and the corps was so loud on the Z pull the hairs on the back of my neck were standing straight back. My first live show of many to come through the years.

You should do a 2024 dci uniform tierlist, there were really interesting designs this year.

watching this instead of doing hw

I’m late to this video. I won’t rehash others comments - money, post-covid, is complicated. But the Cadets are in a different situation that was caused solely by their now disgraced former director that I won’t name. The legal issue they are/will face are complicated and costly. It’s sad for this otherwise fine organization that has educated thousands.

thank you for posting this CJ!! Brings back great memories.

To expensive to stressful, I’m skipping my age out.

Honestly great video, I’ve been trying to find current videos on dotbooks and glad you made one. I’ll be sending this to my students

Why?!?! Why were those two ladies waiting and immediately, obviously stopping the man choosing the slot 11 - it’s so clearly setup?! WHAT IS THIER EXCUSE OR REASON. Sus!

The uniforms have evolved from real uniforms to awful Russian ice skating costumes designed by drugged out frustrated drag queens. People who shouldn't wear lycra, really shouldn't.

After the inception of DCI, it went from Drum and Bugle Corps to Drum and Orchestra/Concert Band Corps. Some like the change, of course, but the loss of hundreds of Corps across the country, leaving out thousands of participants, all for money, is never going to be justified. In the 1970s, when DCI came into being, there were well over 750 Drum and Bugle Corps across the country. Today, there are how many? Fifty, if you include all-age Corps? Putting a show on the field can cost more than one million dollars per year, in this day and age, when spectacular shows were produced by many Corps which had local members and you paid less than $20 per month to be a member. 1968 Chicago Royal Airs and Cavaliers, 1972 Kingsmen, 1973 SCV and 1980 27th Lancers come to mind, as being filled with "local to the home city" members. All for money but at the cost of how many talented participants. History will tell the final story, of course.

We played something almost exactly what jersey surf played

As a member of '80 PR. if someone brought a 3 valve trumpet to practice, the entire hornline would HISSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

Those are some good packets you should make one for battery auditions

Freelancers alum here ❤️🖤thanks for the shout out and great video!

That’s a lot of euphemism. Cancelling the season provides a lot worse of an experience than a short tour

No school should be charging people to use facilities that aren’t being used over the summer

I just came across your video, this is an education for many Drum Corp fans, myself included. A huge THANK YOU! wouldn't a great follow up program be "Where is he now?" GH saga

Nothing beats Blue Coats 2014 for the "Tilt" show.

They don't wear uniforms anymore. They are costumes and stupid looking.

And now that the 2024 season has ended, and the Blue Devils had stairs in their prop design but lost, the theory no longer holds up. (Personally, I thought they were going to win solely because of the inclusion of a piece from Oppenheimer)

16:25 is so true. my HS used coordinate sheets but I would write these things in my music & for my section,. but when staff asked for the counts/definitions and members disagreed on it, even though i had it written down, staff would redefine n often change from original definitions which did not help being a 5a band. did this digitally for indoor season when we had to record our own drill too and shared it with other members. Staff found it helpful, but was frustrating during both seasons how dysfunctional our group felt from debating counts & definitions

The Scouts clearly had an inspired and magnificent performance; however, I've always felt that SCV had the better show and performance.

I'm so pissed that the digital dot book shit exists nowadays. Doing them by hand SUCKED. One rain and all your hard work completely skunked.

this show is one of the most Boston things I have heard of (from a masshole)

I remember when I marched SCV a staff member had mentioned that your dot book should be so detailed, that if for whatever reason you couldn't finish and someone had to learn your dot, that the entire show would be in your book: Dots, mid/quarter sets, body definitions, music etc. You should be able to hand someone your book and they can learn your show more or less with just that. I hated doing dot books, and it was a huge relief for me that we didn't use them at BD. However, as a teacher I love them as a teaching tool for externalizing your show and understanding some of the more mathematical concepts that are hard to understand just looking at the field in person as a young performer. Awesome resource here Chris, great job.

Seeing this just as my group gets UDB! Very exciting stuff

This just reminded me I have to do my dot book

duspucaple me 8:25