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So, I marched from 2000-2003 with Southwind. The drum corps that is out there now is so far beyond my time in the activity that it has become quite the phenomena. These shows are every summer. Most corps will have between 20-30 performances per year including parades and standstill concerts. These guys typically range in age from 15-21 years of age and are incredibly talented. There is a lot of work that goes into building a show like this. For an 11-12 minute show there are hundreds of hours of rehearsals, show rewrites, and personal practice time that are contributed throughout the season. Not only do you get a master class in performance, but you are taught accountability and leadership skills along the way. Some of the most successful people I know were a part of the drum corps community. Even though a lot has changed in the activity, the personal growth and education is still second to none. It was truly a privilege to be a part of Drum Corps International in my younger years.
So glad for people like you to bring our art form into view! Drum corps is an incredibly niche activity, and it’s so important for it to be recognized. As time as gone on, drum corps as an activity has becoming increasingly less sustainable and more expensive for all involved.. Members pay thousands and thousands of dollars to participate, and the shows themselves cost an unbelievable amount of money. To run a drum corps takes hundreds of thousands of dollars due to the increasingly complex nature of what it takes to tour the entire United States with nearly 200 people. Because of this, many have the opinion that the activity may die out due to lack of resources. Many corps that exist lack the financial resources to provide the performers with adequate facilities, food, and rest time. There exists a culture in many groups to “tough it out,” and many systemic issues still exist. I participated in the activity with the Boston Crusaders, another corps, from 2020 through 2022. Thanks again for the exposure! In my opinion, the activity will cease to exist without exposure from those not within the marching band niche.
If you’re curious more about drum corps itself, there are upwards of 26 (world class) corps with (anyone correct me if I’m wrong) a maximum of 140 members per corps. Brass sections are made of trumpets, mellophones, baritones, and tubas (sometimes trombones and other instruments are featured as well). There’s also the front ensemble, the drum line, and the color guard. The activity lasts the entire summer, starting usually with one full month of “spring training” where the members move into a single location (usually a high school, or a university campus if lucky) and learn the show together with their staff of music and visual educators. This is the hardest time of the summer, as the members will rehearse upwards of ten hours a day. After their spring training, the corps will pack their things and move to their tour buses, where they tour the country and perform usually around 18-22 shows in different cities. During this portion of the summer, referred to as “tour,” corps will still rehearse every day (with a couple free days for the members to rest and have fun), even on days where they will perform. Not all corps go to every show, but nearly every show is scored. These scores matter more at the end of the season, where most corps will gather in Indianapolis, Indiana for the championship weekend. During this weekend, corps compete in quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. The corps that wins will do an encore performance (e.i. This video of the Blue Devils). It’s an incredibly experience and I wouldn’t have traded it for anything in the world.
@@ianaigner-varoz7327 He reacts super positively to college marching band videos and then says the stupidest things imaginable about DCI. That's not good exposure for DCI, and it's really gross that weirdos keep paying him to react to something he clearly doesn't like. It's no problem that he knows what he likes and doesn't like, but it's really stupid and ignorant to encourage him.
@@facts2741 Tbh all publicity is good publicity for an art form that needs it. There’s so many intricacies in each show and I can understand why someone who may not be the most familiar with those details to only see a ‘mess’ from the big picture perspective. I think it’s more of an issue of “hm, what should I focus my attention on.” I won’t hate on him for being new to listening and watching what we do. Just my opinion tho!
@@facts2741 I just thought of another comparison. It’s kinda like how it’s extremely difficult to listen to Arnold Schoenberg when first introduced to it.. it’s modern art and there’s so much going on in it that it’s really hard to hear a cohesive, big picture. Things like Vivaldi or Mozart or pretty much any other composer pre-modern era is easy to listen to because the dissonance is so much less apparent than Schoenberg. Drum Corps has more ‘visual dissonance’ than college marching band, and is probably more difficult to understand the details of when being first introduced.
@@ianaigner-varoz7327 "All publicity is good publicity" is a vapid and idiotic comment no matter what morons choose to apply it to. This reactor gave no inkling they were even trying to get what was going on. Instead of "what's going on with such and such", this reactor just called everything he didn't understand "random" or a "mess".
I’ve been in marching bands as well as concert bands and I’ve played flight of the Bumblebee in concert band but I absolutely can’t imagine playing something like it in a marching performance
Blue Devils have always been my favorite DCI group to watch. To answer one of your questions, you use 4 mallets with a glockenspiel to enable the musician to play chords.
I'd recommend some older DCI shows like 2002 Cavaliers " Frameworks" Just great music( original composition)and drill( cool designs and shapes) no props. th-cam.com/video/F3Jxe_oLV1s/w-d-xo.html
All of these suggestions, while good, are not for the drum corps novice. These shows 2016 and after are what I refer to as "The artistic era". Frankly it's my least favorite era as, like you have mentioned, it's just a complete mess everywhere on the field with music that may or may not make sense or have a melody other than the ballad. I HIGHLY recommend reacting to the older shows that made DCI so popular to everyone in band, but even used to be on ESPN. My Favorite being, The Phantom Regiment's 2008 show, "Spartacus". I think you'd love this more as you actually have a story to follow, it's not this random artistic crap you have to trust a show designer to know, and the music makes sense at all times. Again, that's Phantom Regiment 2008 "Spartacus" th-cam.com/video/bmH2O1JFPfM/w-d-xo.html
Congrats for falling in love with DCI in the 2000s. I fell in love with 90s era DCI, and it will always hold a special place in my heart, but it's very childish to refer to future eras with such vitriol. Not liking something doesn't make it "crap". Grow up.
I agree about the total lack of any continuity in today’s shows - it’s like the ADD generation and their addled video game brains have taken over what used to be a musically mature activity. On the other hand, your attempt to use the word “artistic” as though it were an insult just makes you sound like an uncultured dolt. Why would you do that? WTF is wrong with things that are artistic?
You don't understand how to watch modern DCI. That's clear, and it won't matter how many more people pay you to watch it. It's just not for you. That doesn't mean it's "random" or whatever negative words you keep using to describe what you choose not to take the time to understand and get into. There's nothing wrong with knowing what you like and don't like. Own it. The college marching band videos you react so positively to aren't for everybody either, but adults don't need to trash it to explain why it isn't for them. Grow up.
Horrible comment dude. Some people react differently as we see. I assume expected the same as the college bands. If we'd suggest an HBCU or BOA band he'd be clueless as well. America has alot of style being it a melting and a experimental country. Anyway it's up to us educate those that aren't familiar American Music Education. Alot of the student do become successful musicians . Anyway you guy for the reaction video.
You're shitting on someone from a completely different culture who is watching DCI shows for the first time. chill out, if you aren't gonna comment something helpful to his understanding of the content in this video, then just don't say anything.. There's your English.
As someone currently involved in the activity, I don't think you realize how beneficial channels like these are to drum corps. He's bringing more attention to the art form internationally, which is something the activity DESPERATELY needs in this economy and with the increase in tour fees. Not everyone will fully understand an art form upon their first viewing. In fact, I used to dismiss DCI until I worked towards becoming a member of my corps.
Thank you all for your support!🙏 Comment down below what you want to see next, and if you want to have a guaranteed reaction along with supporting the channel a little extra, post your link with a small tip at tinyurl.com/itsmatthewreacts
So, I marched from 2000-2003 with Southwind. The drum corps that is out there now is so far beyond my time in the activity that it has become quite the phenomena. These shows are every summer. Most corps will have between 20-30 performances per year including parades and standstill concerts. These guys typically range in age from 15-21 years of age and are incredibly talented. There is a lot of work that goes into building a show like this. For an 11-12 minute show there are hundreds of hours of rehearsals, show rewrites, and personal practice time that are contributed throughout the season. Not only do you get a master class in performance, but you are taught accountability and leadership skills along the way. Some of the most successful people I know were a part of the drum corps community. Even though a lot has changed in the activity, the personal growth and education is still second to none. It was truly a privilege to be a part of Drum Corps International in my younger years.
I recommend 2013 Carolina Crown! It is just perfect.
That years Hornline was as perfect as can be.
So glad for people like you to bring our art form into view! Drum corps is an incredibly niche activity, and it’s so important for it to be recognized.
As time as gone on, drum corps as an activity has becoming increasingly less sustainable and more expensive for all involved.. Members pay thousands and thousands of dollars to participate, and the shows themselves cost an unbelievable amount of money. To run a drum corps takes hundreds of thousands of dollars due to the increasingly complex nature of what it takes to tour the entire United States with nearly 200 people.
Because of this, many have the opinion that the activity may die out due to lack of resources. Many corps that exist lack the financial resources to provide the performers with adequate facilities, food, and rest time. There exists a culture in many groups to “tough it out,” and many systemic issues still exist.
I participated in the activity with the Boston Crusaders, another corps, from 2020 through 2022. Thanks again for the exposure! In my opinion, the activity will cease to exist without exposure from those not within the marching band niche.
If you’re curious more about drum corps itself, there are upwards of 26 (world class) corps with (anyone correct me if I’m wrong) a maximum of 140 members per corps. Brass sections are made of trumpets, mellophones, baritones, and tubas (sometimes trombones and other instruments are featured as well). There’s also the front ensemble, the drum line, and the color guard.
The activity lasts the entire summer, starting usually with one full month of “spring training” where the members move into a single location (usually a high school, or a university campus if lucky) and learn the show together with their staff of music and visual educators. This is the hardest time of the summer, as the members will rehearse upwards of ten hours a day.
After their spring training, the corps will pack their things and move to their tour buses, where they tour the country and perform usually around 18-22 shows in different cities. During this portion of the summer, referred to as “tour,” corps will still rehearse every day (with a couple free days for the members to rest and have fun), even on days where they will perform. Not all corps go to every show, but nearly every show is scored. These scores matter more at the end of the season, where most corps will gather in Indianapolis, Indiana for the championship weekend.
During this weekend, corps compete in quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. The corps that wins will do an encore performance (e.i. This video of the Blue Devils).
It’s an incredibly experience and I wouldn’t have traded it for anything in the world.
@@ianaigner-varoz7327 He reacts super positively to college marching band videos and then says the stupidest things imaginable about DCI. That's not good exposure for DCI, and it's really gross that weirdos keep paying him to react to something he clearly doesn't like. It's no problem that he knows what he likes and doesn't like, but it's really stupid and ignorant to encourage him.
@@facts2741 Tbh all publicity is good publicity for an art form that needs it. There’s so many intricacies in each show and I can understand why someone who may not be the most familiar with those details to only see a ‘mess’ from the big picture perspective. I think it’s more of an issue of “hm, what should I focus my attention on.” I won’t hate on him for being new to listening and watching what we do. Just my opinion tho!
@@facts2741 I just thought of another comparison. It’s kinda like how it’s extremely difficult to listen to Arnold Schoenberg when first introduced to it.. it’s modern art and there’s so much going on in it that it’s really hard to hear a cohesive, big picture. Things like Vivaldi or Mozart or pretty much any other composer pre-modern era is easy to listen to because the dissonance is so much less apparent than Schoenberg. Drum Corps has more ‘visual dissonance’ than college marching band, and is probably more difficult to understand the details of when being first introduced.
@@ianaigner-varoz7327 "All publicity is good publicity" is a vapid and idiotic comment no matter what morons choose to apply it to. This reactor gave no inkling they were even trying to get what was going on. Instead of "what's going on with such and such", this reactor just called everything he didn't understand "random" or a "mess".
I’ve been in marching bands as well as concert bands and I’ve played flight of the Bumblebee in concert band but I absolutely can’t imagine playing something like it in a marching performance
As a bonus you should listen to the earthsong opener from the crossmen, albeit its not a whole show the solo is awesome.
The drumset pov for this show is the cleanest I have even seen from anywhere.
Blue Devils have always been my favorite DCI group to watch. To answer one of your questions, you use 4 mallets with a glockenspiel to enable the musician to play chords.
This is one of my favorite shows!
The people in the front are call front ensemble and they have two sticks(mallets) so they can play multiple notes at a time kinda like piano
I'd recommend some older DCI shows like 2002 Cavaliers " Frameworks" Just great music( original composition)and drill( cool designs and shapes) no props.
th-cam.com/video/F3Jxe_oLV1s/w-d-xo.html
Those are rifles (fake) they are tossing. It's one of the various color guard props.
My favorite show I saw in person was always Cadets 2009 West side story, but my favorite group is the bluecoats.
It’s a musical production but competition form
Counts. There is a LOT of counting sequences from one phrase of music to the next.
What is the instrument the soloist/duetist is playing during the ballad portion of the show??
If you're talking about the one at 06:38
That is a Flugelhorn
The bluecoats have always sounded jazzy to me. I'm not a fan of jazz, probably why I'm not a fan of the Blue devils. The judges seem to like jazz too.
Bluecoats 2022
All of these suggestions, while good, are not for the drum corps novice. These shows 2016 and after are what I refer to as "The artistic era". Frankly it's my least favorite era as, like you have mentioned, it's just a complete mess everywhere on the field with music that may or may not make sense or have a melody other than the ballad. I HIGHLY recommend reacting to the older shows that made DCI so popular to everyone in band, but even used to be on ESPN. My Favorite being, The Phantom Regiment's 2008 show, "Spartacus". I think you'd love this more as you actually have a story to follow, it's not this random artistic crap you have to trust a show designer to know, and the music makes sense at all times. Again, that's Phantom Regiment 2008 "Spartacus"
th-cam.com/video/bmH2O1JFPfM/w-d-xo.html
Congrats for falling in love with DCI in the 2000s. I fell in love with 90s era DCI, and it will always hold a special place in my heart, but it's very childish to refer to future eras with such vitriol. Not liking something doesn't make it "crap". Grow up.
except its not a “mess”. everything in the show has a purpose and make perfect sense.
I agree about the total lack of any continuity in today’s shows - it’s like the ADD generation and their addled video game brains have taken over what used to be a musically mature activity.
On the other hand, your attempt to use the word “artistic” as though it were an insult just makes you sound like an uncultured dolt.
Why would you do that? WTF is wrong with things that are artistic?
Only thing I would recommend is watching the show and not the POV version of it. You can miss a lot of what's going on in the POV video. :)
You don't understand how to watch modern DCI. That's clear, and it won't matter how many more people pay you to watch it. It's just not for you. That doesn't mean it's "random" or whatever negative words you keep using to describe what you choose not to take the time to understand and get into. There's nothing wrong with knowing what you like and don't like. Own it. The college marching band videos you react so positively to aren't for everybody either, but adults don't need to trash it to explain why it isn't for them. Grow up.
Horrible comment dude. Some people react differently as we see. I assume expected the same as the college bands. If we'd suggest an HBCU or BOA band he'd be clueless as well. America has alot of style being it a melting and a experimental country. Anyway it's up to us educate those that aren't familiar American Music Education. Alot of the student do become successful musicians . Anyway you guy for the reaction video.
@@burdrchitect1680 English, please.
You're shitting on someone from a completely different culture who is watching DCI shows for the first time. chill out, if you aren't gonna comment something helpful to his understanding of the content in this video, then just don't say anything.. There's your English.
@Squillz No. It's adorable seeing babies try to gatekeep, though. Please continue.
As someone currently involved in the activity, I don't think you realize how beneficial channels like these are to drum corps. He's bringing more attention to the art form internationally, which is something the activity DESPERATELY needs in this economy and with the increase in tour fees. Not everyone will fully understand an art form upon their first viewing. In fact, I used to dismiss DCI until I worked towards becoming a member of my corps.
Being there live seeing it up on the balcony is such a vivid memory for me, the emotion was in the air.
YOUR SO LUCKY