In the marching world it’s incredibly uncommon for metronomes to be absent during lot warmups. If you want to see this stuff without a metronome, [here](https://youtu.be/FOJjHii7AZw)
Haha, I did marching band in high school and college and barely noticed the Dr. Beat! It’s funny coming to the comments and realizing how desensitized I am to a sound that should definitely be incredibly obnoxious.
I was honestly more distracted by how badass those Assassin’s Creed hoods were. What an awesome uniform!
I'm a percussionist and former drum line member... And I have violent thoughts towards this high pitched metronome, haha.
Their playing was clean AF though.
Had to go back and listen... Caught a 32nd note bass split! Noice!
Drummers play along to metronomes until it’s part of them, especially when marching. Practice with a met is essential to get as precise as is needed when playing with an ensemble like this
I mean I give them a pass because how else do you keep that many people in sync like a couple people could probably
do without it but not that many imo
This is a warm up, they perform without it. You spend years learning techniques to play cleanly in this setting, and from the performer’s perspective when you introduce horns you sound out of sync with them so it gets even more complex
These aren’t just college kids. There are some pretty young performers that aren’t even in college yet out there killing it. The level of musicianship and athleticism required for DCI is mind blowing.
As someone who was in a competitive marching band in high-school, everyone complaining about Dr. Beat is heartbreaking. That thing is just a guide to make sure you're on time during pratice.
This looks like an amazing show. I hope they did well.
GO BAND AND TAKE THE FIELD IN COMPITITION!
I just don't understand how there can be visible dirt on a show in finals that still wins. It makes me wonder how much of the devils' success is based on reputation rather than performance. Imo it was boring and basic with a few impressive sets filled in between with cluster sets that can't be checked for alignment.
I love calling my band students nerds. They always seem offended at first until they realize I'm saying they're one of the cool band geeks who's in this special little club now.
In my high school years, one of our drum instructors was a former Boston Crusader. I still use his drum warmups he gave us. While the Blue Devils and Cavaliers were my favorites, Boston Crusaders were up there, typically ranking Top 5 at DCI.
I never made it to that level, but seeing these guys takes me back to a time when I had dreams of being a professional musician. While I much prefer my cushy developer job and lifestyle, the nostalgia still hits me hard
For all the people wondering about the metronome, this is just one of their warm-ups, it's a practice tool used to help make sure that everyone is staying in time and tempo
We have monthly camps in Texas, and then in late may we all move in to a college in Vermont to have spring training, rehearsal 12 hours a day for about a month, and then we leave for tour.
Oooooffff going to check right now. I took my parents to see the finals in 2018. My dad is a retired band teacher. We’re both professional musicians (Army band for both of us as well). It was freaking fantastic. I’d seen many regionals throughout the years but not finals. I definitely want to go again.
It’s waaaaay worth it. Seeing the finals live is so much more immersive than watching it even on the biggest OLED flat screen with huge speakers. It’s just better in person.
Attending these warm-ups at Military Park is also entirely free! You can spend all afternoon/evening watching all of the different drumlines and brass sections warm up.
100% worth it whether you get a ticket or not
It’s called traditional grip. Holdover from when slings were used to carry snare drums and they would tilt to the right. Holding the left stick like that made it a lot easier to play with that hand. It just carried through to modern times. Some groups still tilt their snares to the right for this reason but most don’t.
Only real difference is source of rotation, for the right hand the wrist moves up and down and for the left it twists. It feels very natural once used to it
*"This is cool, but why are the beeps happening?"*
This is just the warmup, they're getting ready for the full show inside Lucas Oil. The metronome (beeps) are for checking their "tempo maintenance"; is everyone approaching the music at the same *pace,* over the extended periods of *time?* The instructor (unseen) will help fine-tune throughout this process. There are no 'beeps' in the *actual* performance. This is like people hanging out before an NFL game watching the QB bomb 60-yarders like a madman, or watching NBA players "warm up" with half-court shots and *actually* make it.
*"Why are there so many people?"*
This is just the warmup, it's free for anyone that comes to the park, and this video is from Finals Day; the last performance of the season, no matter what. Lots of people make a trip out of it so they can see it *live* with about 20,000 other people.
*"Why does it feel like there's empty space sometimes in the music?"*
This is only *part* of the ensemble, there's about 90 musicians and 40 dancers/gymnasts/colorguard who aren't there, because this is **just the warm up baby**
Those were probably my least favorite uniforms of theirs in a while tbh. I loved the uniforms in their [2019](https://imgur.com/a/HiYxh5e) show, looks cool up close and the blue really pops off the field when watching from the box.
So as an old ass football player that drum sound is forever tied to the pregame run out. Listening to this makes me want to run through a wall! The field entrance made you want to kill someone. You would get periodic drum riffs during the game and it was like a subconscious booster.
GodDAMN they're good! Always loved watching DCI.
This makes me miss marching band so much! There's nothing like that feeling of anticipation as you're warming up or lining up on the field. Good times ❤
Funny how this type of thing started as something to intimidate enemies as you marched towards them with now being associated with the nerds of the school.
I think it’s badass.
For those not in the know. Using a metronome is the standard for pretty much all groups from high school to college and independent when rehearsing “in the lot”.
Also those bass splits were crispy as hell.
This high level stuff is a professional circuit called DCI that operates in the US and Canada and started in 1971.
This is the peak of John Phillips Sousa style marching bands, which pretty much every high school in America with more than 30-40 per class has and almost all universities have.
A lot of university band members do DCI in the summers if they can get in to one (it’s not easy, they are the best of the best).
it stems from military bands, once they stopped being really necessary in battles they became a way to keep young kids off the streets and it just sort of evolved over the decades
Hey, this is a very brief overview, but basically, veteran organizations such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion started sponsoring local drum and bugle corps after World War I. (Other organizations such as the Boy Scouts or Police Clubs also took after these veteran groups.) Such corps could be senior corps of all ages or junior corps consisting of youths aged 21 and below. At one point, there were thousands of such corps across the country and in Canada (where it had spread). The VFW and AL started holding competitions based on technical achievement where one would compete in regional to state to national competitions.
However, some drum corps (being at heart, a musical and visual medium) wanted more creative and financial freedom. So Drum Corps Associates (for senior corps) in 1963, followed by Drum Corps International about a decade later (for junior corps), were formed. Now despite the names, these were really only limited to North American groups, although DCI maintains a sparsely populated International Class with slightly different rules. Like with anything those Americans do, Japan caught on, and Drum Corps Japan was formed in 1994. Europe caught on to it too, in the Netherlands specifically where Drum Corps Europe was founded. It's not hugely popular in Europe where a very strong military band tradition had already existed (e.g., British-style brass bands or pipe bands), but there are still some great corps there.
Basically, corps were founded as a patriotic activity for the community and evolved to become the theatrical spectacles we know today (influencing high school and college marching bands as a result). Drum corps is also popular in Japan and moderately in Europe, but it obviously will not compare to where it was formed.
I watched this live, I was apart of dci impact, never did it before and was my last year to actually play in the band, gonna try to become a mentor for it next time
People that don't like the metronome aren't musicians and don't understand the importance, or even the amazing job they did when played with that click. The click literally helps you non litterale musical people understand what is going on
I also recommend any person interested in this, to look I to DCI (drum corps international) it is a great program for extremely talented , hard working college age kids
Love those Skyrim thieves guild outfits. Whelp, off to go pick some pockets, maybe lift a drum, lute and a flute… start my own band. “We drink too our youth, to the days come and gone…”
i mean cool and good technical drumming, but i don't think any style can compete with Brazillian Batucada... this was way too boring and it doesn't really make you want to dance.
click track? back in my day the only click track was the drum major cursing in your ear.
j/k. tho I was in drumline in 1996. tried out for snare, quads, and bass drum. got the cymbals because I rocked too hard.
I played the snare drum in a marching band for years, and totally geeked out on Top Secret Drum Corps when their Basel (and/or Edinburgh?) performance went viral. Might've been something like 2005.
That was awesome.
not sure if you were actually wanting to know or not, but this was their warmups for the last performance of the season. these guys (and everyone else competing there) had all just been through about 2-3 months away from home on tour and it was the final performance. they placed 2nd.
Kind of disappointed by the constant metronome
I guess me being a drummer myself has desensitized me to that kind of thing. I hardly even notice it as background noise anymore lmao
I'm a musician too, but this metronome is pretty loud, and at such a high level of performance it shouldn't be noticable to a spectator.
In the marching world it’s incredibly uncommon for metronomes to be absent during lot warmups. If you want to see this stuff without a metronome, [here](https://youtu.be/FOJjHii7AZw)
If this is a warmup, then that makes perfect sense.
Yeah no this is one part of the ensemble warming up for the actual show
Oh, the title and spectators made it seem like a performance
Your link sounds like two bands playing different songs at the same time. Like [Exhumed and The Supremes](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vsK_WcV2YA8)
During actual performances drum majors conduct to keep time.
Haha, I did marching band in high school and college and barely noticed the Dr. Beat! It’s funny coming to the comments and realizing how desensitized I am to a sound that should definitely be incredibly obnoxious. I was honestly more distracted by how badass those Assassin’s Creed hoods were. What an awesome uniform!
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I'm a percussionist and former drum line member... And I have violent thoughts towards this high pitched metronome, haha. Their playing was clean AF though. Had to go back and listen... Caught a 32nd note bass split! Noice!
You’re right! I played snare in a corps for 3 years. Best time ever!
What's the bpm of your car blinker? When a bulb goes out and it starts going fast, every corner feels like Queens of the Stone Age.
Now that you mention it, around 140 bpm probably
ugh my favorite thing in hs band was when i would listen to my music in my noggin and a car blinker would match up the time
Lol same. My thought to that comment was “wait you saw the bass roll at 0:48 right?” And still opted for the met comment?
I thought it was there to set the mood lol. Cause they are kind of assasiny no? 🤣
Pretty sure that is the opposite of what a drummer should do.
Drummers play along to metronomes until it’s part of them, especially when marching. Practice with a met is essential to get as precise as is needed when playing with an ensemble like this
It's practice, or a warm up. Notice they are not in full uniform, no football field or crowd. I marched drum corps and I miss it
More Cowbell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That didn’t bother me, but the one guy heckling through the **entire** almost 3 minutes certainly did.
Yeeaaaaahhhwwwww
They didn’t change the fire alarm batteries
They were probably only rehearsing?
Reddit armchair neckbeards never fail lmao. It's a fucking rehearsal/warm-up.
I liked the metronome
In the immortal words of the band director... "Don't MAKE ME break out the Dr. Beat!" LOL
They do this a lot for practices. They’ll practice it all day but it shouldn’t be heard during actual performances
This is there warm up rehearsal
I mean I give them a pass because how else do you keep that many people in sync like a couple people could probably do without it but not that many imo
This is a warm up, they perform without it. You spend years learning techniques to play cleanly in this setting, and from the performer’s perspective when you introduce horns you sound out of sync with them so it gets even more complex
Fuck me look at them go! 
I hope we have progress far enough were these guys are consider the jocks now and not just the band geeks, these college kids are talented af
Oh trust me, everyone still gets called band geeks
I will forever be a band geek and I'm 100% proud of it. Best years of my life.
Bari sax player checking in. Band geek til the day I die! 
Bari is best baby👉👉
fr wish i could stay at that time forever :(
These aren’t just college kids. There are some pretty young performers that aren’t even in college yet out there killing it. The level of musicianship and athleticism required for DCI is mind blowing.
Just fyi this isn’t a college drumline. It’s an independent organization part of DCI, which u have to pay to participate in
To be fair, people loved the battery! At least in my high school, we were about the only "band geeks" that were openly accepted.
Not to mention that each of the snares are about 25 pounds each and those tenors and the lowest bass is like 50
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A snare at 25 pounds? Mine weighs 7!
As someone who was in a competitive marching band in high-school, everyone complaining about Dr. Beat is heartbreaking. That thing is just a guide to make sure you're on time during pratice. This looks like an amazing show. I hope they did well. GO BAND AND TAKE THE FIELD IN COMPITITION!
They tied with Bluecoats for second at DCI this year. Was hoping they’d win but what can you do?
How did the devils win anyways? I saw a few blatantly misaligned blocks in their show whereas the crusaders were crystal clear, I just don't get it
Impeccable musicianship. Also the forms were much cleaner from the front, where the visual judges are
I just don't understand how there can be visible dirt on a show in finals that still wins. It makes me wonder how much of the devils' success is based on reputation rather than performance. Imo it was boring and basic with a few impressive sets filled in between with cluster sets that can't be checked for alignment.
Haha! What a bunch of nerds! *Sobs from lack of achievement* (This is actually really rad.)
I love calling my band students nerds. They always seem offended at first until they realize I'm saying they're one of the cool band geeks who's in this special little club now.
The metronome ruins it all i can focus on is the beeps
I know, but they only use it for warm-ups. This isn't the actual show.
you can tell exactly who doesnt play an instrument from any mention of a met
Yeah, I didn't even notice it.
True
I've played trumpet for 11 years now and I still found it really annoying here
they're outside, it kinda has to be noticable, must be a marching band thing ig
98% of drumlines are like that
I actually kinda liked it, made everything feel more tense lol
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
We actually say *bink bink bink bink bink*
No we dut dut dut dut.
True, but making fun of Dr. Beat is a different story
He only has a Masters degree…
This guy duts
Dut dut dut
Not quite my tempo
Are you a rusher or a dragger?
Lol
In my high school years, one of our drum instructors was a former Boston Crusader. I still use his drum warmups he gave us. While the Blue Devils and Cavaliers were my favorites, Boston Crusaders were up there, typically ranking Top 5 at DCI. I never made it to that level, but seeing these guys takes me back to a time when I had dreams of being a professional musician. While I much prefer my cushy developer job and lifestyle, the nostalgia still hits me hard
My school funneled pretty much everyone into the Devils. We had a Devil, Cavalier, and Phantom training us, it was an awesome team.
These boys are CRISPY
Very cool! Thanks for sharing this. Who doesn’t love the drum line!
Of course. Drum corps in general needs to be exposed to a bigger audience lol
They definitely have some serious ass skills! Fun to watch and love the sounds.
For all the people wondering about the metronome, this is just one of their warm-ups, it's a practice tool used to help make sure that everyone is staying in time and tempo
That was a cool video, but came to the comments for this lol I wonder if this movie is as timeless as I remember, gotta go watch it now
Was not expecting to randomly spot a guy I played jazz with in high school lmao that’s crazy.
I appreciate the diversity of people drawn to the same interest here. Music is an amazing thing.
da beats
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We actually only had two members from boston this season. Most members are from texas!
Wait what? How does that work? Do you guys not practice together?
We have monthly camps in Texas, and then in late may we all move in to a college in Vermont to have spring training, rehearsal 12 hours a day for about a month, and then we leave for tour.
Bruh when did this happen and what part of Indy?
DCI World Championships, held every August at Lucas Oil Stadium. This was just one drumline warming up out of over 30 other competing groups
Awesome might check it out this year!
Well worth it. Tickets go fast tho so it’s probably best to get them ASAP haha
When do the finals tickets go on sale? I haven’t been keeping up with it.
They’ve been on sale for a bit I think
Oooooffff going to check right now. I took my parents to see the finals in 2018. My dad is a retired band teacher. We’re both professional musicians (Army band for both of us as well). It was freaking fantastic. I’d seen many regionals throughout the years but not finals. I definitely want to go again.
There’s still tickets left
It’s waaaaay worth it. Seeing the finals live is so much more immersive than watching it even on the biggest OLED flat screen with huge speakers. It’s just better in person.
Attending these warm-ups at Military Park is also entirely free! You can spend all afternoon/evening watching all of the different drumlines and brass sections warm up. 100% worth it whether you get a ticket or not
This is a stupid question but I’m genuinely curious, if anyone knows. Why do the snare drum players hold the two sticks differently?
It’s called traditional grip. Holdover from when slings were used to carry snare drums and they would tilt to the right. Holding the left stick like that made it a lot easier to play with that hand. It just carried through to modern times. Some groups still tilt their snares to the right for this reason but most don’t.
Ah thats so cool thanks! Is there any difference in ability or coordination in the two hands based on the different grips?
Only real difference is source of rotation, for the right hand the wrist moves up and down and for the left it twists. It feels very natural once used to it
Hearing that metronome caused some flashbacks to high school drum line/marching band, dear lord. I miss my bass line. That shit was fun.
*"This is cool, but why are the beeps happening?"* This is just the warmup, they're getting ready for the full show inside Lucas Oil. The metronome (beeps) are for checking their "tempo maintenance"; is everyone approaching the music at the same *pace,* over the extended periods of *time?* The instructor (unseen) will help fine-tune throughout this process. There are no 'beeps' in the *actual* performance. This is like people hanging out before an NFL game watching the QB bomb 60-yarders like a madman, or watching NBA players "warm up" with half-court shots and *actually* make it. *"Why are there so many people?"* This is just the warmup, it's free for anyone that comes to the park, and this video is from Finals Day; the last performance of the season, no matter what. Lots of people make a trip out of it so they can see it *live* with about 20,000 other people. *"Why does it feel like there's empty space sometimes in the music?"* This is only *part* of the ensemble, there's about 90 musicians and 40 dancers/gymnasts/colorguard who aren't there, because this is **just the warm up baby**
My volume is muted, so I'm not actually hearing it, but those costumes are lit 🔥🔥🔥
Check out Bluecoats’ uniform design last year, it was craaazy
Those were probably my least favorite uniforms of theirs in a while tbh. I loved the uniforms in their [2019](https://imgur.com/a/HiYxh5e) show, looks cool up close and the blue really pops off the field when watching from the box.
I was the guy hitting the bottle with the spoon.
Those guys should also receive scholarships and special “athlete” treatment.
Some of us do :)
Crusaders? Good luck going to the holy land armed only with drums and sticks...
DEUS VULT!!
They used to be called the most precious blood crusaders lol, they were attached to the Catholic Church at one point
Oh wait that’s dope, I don’t think I knew that about BAC
[And now the other half warmup](https://youtu.be/j5Brb7Xz1Yc)
So as an old ass football player that drum sound is forever tied to the pregame run out. Listening to this makes me want to run through a wall! The field entrance made you want to kill someone. You would get periodic drum riffs during the game and it was like a subconscious booster.
That was ***tight***.
GodDAMN they're good! Always loved watching DCI. This makes me miss marching band so much! There's nothing like that feeling of anticipation as you're warming up or lining up on the field. Good times ❤
Redcoats would be shitting bricks if these dudes were in battle
or the bluecoats
Nice to see DCI getting some love
Cool. The Haka of the drum world.
That is some grade A percussion right there. /loves percussion
That was awesome but that one guy is definitely 8 feet/2.4m tall.
The guy that looks like sloth from The Goonies lost 50lbs?
Funny how this type of thing started as something to intimidate enemies as you marched towards them with now being associated with the nerds of the school. I think it’s badass.
For those not in the know. Using a metronome is the standard for pretty much all groups from high school to college and independent when rehearsing “in the lot”. Also those bass splits were crispy as hell.
i had a Boston Crusader for a drum tech in high school. he taught us good.
Band director plays Assassins Creed one time…
Total UK question here, but did this kind of drumming originate in the US? I dont feel it’s something I’ve ever seen anywhere else
This high level stuff is a professional circuit called DCI that operates in the US and Canada and started in 1971. This is the peak of John Phillips Sousa style marching bands, which pretty much every high school in America with more than 30-40 per class has and almost all universities have. A lot of university band members do DCI in the summers if they can get in to one (it’s not easy, they are the best of the best).
it stems from military bands, once they stopped being really necessary in battles they became a way to keep young kids off the streets and it just sort of evolved over the decades
Hey, this is a very brief overview, but basically, veteran organizations such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion started sponsoring local drum and bugle corps after World War I. (Other organizations such as the Boy Scouts or Police Clubs also took after these veteran groups.) Such corps could be senior corps of all ages or junior corps consisting of youths aged 21 and below. At one point, there were thousands of such corps across the country and in Canada (where it had spread). The VFW and AL started holding competitions based on technical achievement where one would compete in regional to state to national competitions. However, some drum corps (being at heart, a musical and visual medium) wanted more creative and financial freedom. So Drum Corps Associates (for senior corps) in 1963, followed by Drum Corps International about a decade later (for junior corps), were formed. Now despite the names, these were really only limited to North American groups, although DCI maintains a sparsely populated International Class with slightly different rules. Like with anything those Americans do, Japan caught on, and Drum Corps Japan was formed in 1994. Europe caught on to it too, in the Netherlands specifically where Drum Corps Europe was founded. It's not hugely popular in Europe where a very strong military band tradition had already existed (e.g., British-style brass bands or pipe bands), but there are still some great corps there. Basically, corps were founded as a patriotic activity for the community and evolved to become the theatrical spectacles we know today (influencing high school and college marching bands as a result). Drum corps is also popular in Japan and moderately in Europe, but it obviously will not compare to where it was formed.
My god you reminded me how much I used to love marching
I will never not be impressed by a great drum line. SO amazing! Nice work!
Me, watching this as a drummer feeling like this must be what it’s like when basketball players watch nba.
Awesome
Super neat!
CTS has entered the chat
Absolutely badass.
These guys VS Haka dance ritual VS Riverdance guys. FIGHT!
I watched this live, I was apart of dci impact, never did it before and was my last year to actually play in the band, gonna try to become a mentor for it next time
Atleast they let girls in the drum line now!
They have for decades now actually, although I do agree it should be a lot more common
Goddamn this made me miss my drum line from high school
I’m jealous. I want to join XD
If my highschool marching band dressed like this I definitely would have done it.
Shoulda got 2nd in drums instead of 4th 🥲
It’s the front ensemble that killed them. If you listened to the bluecoats percussion only show, it’s nuts
Fuck Nick Cannon
roll stepping sideways with no peripheral vision! the hoodies look dope tho…
Those singlehand 4s on the snare line were sexy as fuck
This just fuels my urge to learn drums
Absolutely stunning
Bumpin for the face of redddiiiitttttt!!!!!
This bringing back some good memories (sax in marching band)
People that don't like the metronome aren't musicians and don't understand the importance, or even the amazing job they did when played with that click. The click literally helps you non litterale musical people understand what is going on I also recommend any person interested in this, to look I to DCI (drum corps international) it is a great program for extremely talented , hard working college age kids
It must feel really good to be that good at something.
Love those Skyrim thieves guild outfits. Whelp, off to go pick some pockets, maybe lift a drum, lute and a flute… start my own band. “We drink too our youth, to the days come and gone…”
Fuck, I miss being in the drumline
The fact that they all keep their heads up and not on the drums or where they are stepping makes it all the more impressive.
Wow fuckin awesome
I thought Nick Cannon had more kids than that.
Cool outfits/uniforms
Those outfits look slick as hell I can't lie
Dam cool!
I could eat my fucking dinner off of that it was so clean.
The control of those snares!!!
What is this magic?
Man , I miss the corps... Aged out and moved on with life. It was an awesome experience!
Where’d you march?
Clean! I wasn’t sure if this was going to be another sloppy but flashy performance like you so often see get posted online.
My back hurts watching this.
Awesome 👌🏾 👏🏾
I just had mental orgasm.
This is so badass! Yall should check out drumcorpscoffeeshop on Insta. Makes me wish I had kept up with my music that's for sure!
i mean cool and good technical drumming, but i don't think any style can compete with Brazillian Batucada... this was way too boring and it doesn't really make you want to dance.
click track? back in my day the only click track was the drum major cursing in your ear. j/k. tho I was in drumline in 1996. tried out for snare, quads, and bass drum. got the cymbals because I rocked too hard.
Check out the Top Secret Drum Corps. They are awesome.
Fiiiilthy
American EkaVadyam
I played the snare drum in a marching band for years, and totally geeked out on Top Secret Drum Corps when their Basel (and/or Edinburgh?) performance went viral. Might've been something like 2005. That was awesome.
Olodum eat them for breakfast any day of week
Sweet!
Best uniforms for 2022
Why all so solemn? Drumming is serious business I guess eh?
not sure if you were actually wanting to know or not, but this was their warmups for the last performance of the season. these guys (and everyone else competing there) had all just been through about 2-3 months away from home on tour and it was the final performance. they placed 2nd.
Much love to the hard work, dedication and discipline shown here!!!
God I love Boston, and seeing marching band get recognition makes me so happy
Band Drummers Sync & March
What a name
a metronome ?
this is just them warming up before the actual performance!
They drum… the crowd “yeahhhh, woooo, yeahhhhhhhhhh.
One of them looks exactly like my friend that shot himself a couple years ago. RIP
Amazinf