America is Different | Brit Reacts to Blue Devils @ Drum Corps International World Championships '23

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My reaction to The Blue Devils @ 2023 Drum Corps International World Championships



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[PTXPentaholic]

You have not lived until you have heard them live. It will melt your skin off. There is honestly no other sound like it in the world.

[aud.sherrill]

hey! i was one of the snare drummers in this video. thank you so much for watching and im super glad you enjoyed our show :) it was sooo much fun to perform and watching this brought back a bunch of good memories so thank you haha

[JAlexandrian]

The snare drum heads are made in part out of Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests. That is how they are able to crank them with so much tension. Excellent reaction!

[bonesccl]

The best part about this show is that this is actually their second performance of the night. They played the full show maybe two hours earlier as part of the competition, won the show, got their gold medals and now this is their encore performance. Playing their hearts out one last time just for fun.

[danrvt]

I’m from the UK and marched with the ‘Bluecoats’ in 2022! We were the runners up that year. My favourite experience of my life!

[richbrass]

I love this. We need more non drum corps people to react to drum corps

Hi! I’m a 15 year drum corps mom. All 4 of my kids participated in drum corps, including 1 in this video. Finals are in Indianapolis August8-10. It is a once in a lifetime experience that will blow your mind. If there is anyway you could go, you will not regret it!!
My son is 21 this year, so it is his “age-out” year.

[trevonhay]

Hey I’m on staff for the blue devils (I’m actually in this video lol). I’d love to talk about drum corps and show you more of our stuff if you want. So glad you enjoyed our show

[dreverettc]

Charlie, as a parent of one of the members of the Blue Devils (the Drum Major - conducting here in this performance at the World Championships), I can tell you that every member of this Corp are highly talented and unique in their desire to be the best at what they are doing. These are unique young people who have exceptional talents, intelligence, and are genuinely outstanding human beings. It is organizations like Drum Corp (and the Blue Devils) that provide young people a vehicle for their talents to create art, as a group, to push excellence in the marching arts. As you mentioned in your video, I am extremely proud of my son’s dedication and accomplishments by being a member of the Blue Devils for the last 6 years.

[davidstoleson]

Dude gets it. It’s about the performance quality, but so much more. The teamwork, the coordination of the music and the visual, and ultimately the emotional effect.

[drumandbrassvideos]

Some clarification, Blue Devils aren’t a US Marine drum and bugle corps. They are an Independent World Class drum and bugle corps. They don’t have any affiliation with the military. Also, the age out is 21 years old, but depending on when your birthday is, you can still march when you are 22. That is if you turn 22 after June 1st.

In any case, the DCI shows are fantastic to watch and I get to be on the sidelines taking photos. Last year I was able to get photos of Blue Devils three times. Being that close to the show is quite amazing. Love your reaction to watching the video!

[ButteryAftertaste]

When people are being critical of American culture, I've often heard some version of the phrase "America is too big to know itself". I think the reality is that America is so big and varied that people who have never lived in America cannot be bothered to explore the sheer number of unique and idiosyncratic quirks to its culture. Drum corps and the marching arts are just one of them, and the more you look past the clickbait headlines and talking points, the more of them you discover.

[paulb]

I marched drum corps for five years. Changed my life and I believe was a major contributor to my successful Navy career.

[hollyryalsgrubb]

I like when they show the overall field so we can gain a sense of the massive scope of the performance.

Band kids never have spare time and the peer group is like an extended family. It's one of the best group activities to join in my opinion. I wish that in the US we weren't cutting funding for arts programs in schools and that every child had the opportunity to participate in even a low level band.

[stredgbmxr]

all of this is happening while they RUN around the field, memorizing over 300 "dots", or points where they land to make the visual flow of the show. Some of the drum equipment, like the multi toms, or "quads" as they are called and the instruments weight as much as 40lbs. At this level, it is extremely physical. I am a percussion instructor who has had many students march in these groups over the years. It is definitely a life changing experience

[LJ-wowf]

It’s great to see reactions from people like you who are new to the activity. Among those of us who have done it a long time, it’s easy to forget how impossible it’s supposed to be.

The accumulated knowledge of the designers and instructional staff, passed on to the kids on the field, is what makes it all possible. There are little tweaks and pedagogical tools that are both fundamental to all musicians and unique to drum corps that we’ve honed over decades, making this level of excellence feel almost casual.

[kaleighconard]

I calculated out how much practice we had in a week for my high school marching band and it came out to 50ish hours during peak season. There is so much heart in marching bands that someone who hasnt been in them cant possibly know. When you get everything perfect the high is incredible. Hearts on fire, minds on ice!

[howarda]

watching you smile at something I put my whole life into made me cry

thank you, drum corps has no equal in the fine arts

[snackboy]

I met a family from England at one of the East Coast shows who flew in just for the competition. From what they were telling me, DCI is working on starting up a DCI Europe and their daughter wanted to see what it was all about. So hopefully it's coming soon to England and the rest of Europe very soon.

[calebward]

Hey! I was a performer in the Phantom Regiment, we also were in finals, same night as these guys. BD are pretty well known as the current record holder for the most amount of championships won and by quite a lot. DCI technically is international, there is a corps from Canada. And if there was an audience for it, there could be some across the pond, but unfortunately modern drum corps is incredibly niche and even marching arts from the EU (like Swiss drum and fife corps) are a completely different beast.

Modern marching snare heads (like the ones drum corps use) are made out of Kevlar, and are tuned pretty ludicrously tight, which is why they sound so high-pitched. The reason for the “snap” or “rattle” sound is a mechanism on the bottom head called the snare (hence the name snare drum). It’s a set of shaped wires. When you hit the top head, the vibrations from hitting it travel through the bottom head (sometimes called the resonant head for this reason). This in turn causes the snare mechanism to vibrate very fast, making the snap sound you’re referring to.

The Ludwig branded shapes on the bottom of the snares are what we call projectors (or scoops) and they do exactly what you said, project the sound forward. They’re usually needed in environments like a football field, where your sound needs to cover quite a bit of distance to reach the audience, the trade off is now the audience (and the judges) can hear you a whole lot better. Yes this includes all the good, but could include the bad as well.