Hellcats Drum Battle | West Point Band

[@ObscureMachines]

Rope drums are where it's at...solo sound is already fat. A clean line on ropes is really amazing. You guys are dope.

[@WestPointBand]

Thanks!

[@betopailaspercussion]

simply the best teacher Jeff Prosperie 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@timopkokko]

I am an army base brat from Finland (55 years old already :-)), this is awesome. Thank you, guys!

[@TylerDunphy]

One thing I love about rope drums is that they can sound good as solo or as a line. For me, evans heads on modern drums only sound good with a whole line and when playing on it individually it sounds like a metal tabletop haha.

[@Denis-lp8jd]

Jolie joute et belle prestation Merci 👍

[@vitaliyvyntu4566]

Bravo

[@timcenter569]

I was in a school marching band,but this really inspires me thanks.

[@2listening1]

You guys are awesome!!

[@WestPointBand]

2listening1 thanks! You should check out our pianist, she’s awesome too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/roSkmWapiKl4ipY

[@2listening1]

Thanks! I hadn't seen that one yet!

[@oskarfield8696]

Love that rope tension drum

[@CalderwoodPercussion]

T Willis killin’ it! Reminds me of you choppin out with Tank at Hunter’s Ridge. Prolly a little cleaner now though... :)

[@grayson-bubbles-light5025]

Hey thats really cool. Love to see Jeff hammering out those singles

[@richardfayard1661]

Jeff's solos single handedly outperformed the rest of the video by far

[@deepbluntman___8650]

Amazing!

[@samsignorelli]

I had videos running in my headset as I did dishes just now and heard this....wondered who it was because I couldn't see my laptop. Then I heard a clip from "Oos, the Phantom Banana Cat" and thought "Ok...one of them is Jeff Prosperie.

[@americanspirit8932]

Great job, well played and executed. Thank you for the Post brings back great memories for me

[@danielsargent5695]

I like the accented open rolls

[@bobbarksofficial4335]

0:44 THE SPIDA TOSS!

[@NAR-z3pd]

Pray and play God bless ✌️🥁

[@timopkokko]

I notice a military brat when I see one. The reason is that I too am a military brat, my dad being in the Finnish army :-) I love you guys so much. And I do appreciate your service, Americans. Do you know that there is a really good chance that we Finns join NATO? Erdogan of Turkey dislikes us but for example, Germans have indicated that they would exchange the NATO alliance just to have an alliance with Finland :-) That is pretty awesome, but I personally would not go that far. But that is a nice thought though, would you agree? Anyway, uber drum music. I love it way too much. We Finnish military brats love the drums. It soothes us somehow. Then the war is easier for our brains. It is hard to describe. Well, anyway. Thank you, guys. You - and the same guy you :-) - play awesome drums.

[@robertstevens1287]

I was like, is that Jeff Queen? lol

[@fl4sh762]

does anyone know what they were playing with the bass drum? that piece sounded so cool i want to learn it

[@nedmac4451]

I believe the piece is based off of crazy army,

[@BenPenta]

sick

[@WestPointBand]

Ben Penta thanks!

[@onemoremisfit]

1:04 "Me Scalpum!"

[@BrendrumJones]

great

[@WestPointBand]

Thanks!

[@timopkokko]

Besides, you Sergeant play the two roles, you look like my dad :-)

[@kairo1774]

Is there a sheet music for the last part?

[@jamessholtz6016]

God bless Marty Hurley. Those tat know, Know!

[@oskarfield8696]

Are these ropedrums for sale?

[@drewpyperc]

Oskar Field These drums were custom made by Cooperman. Cooperman rope drums are now built by Dave Loyal of Loyal Drums.

[@LeotheTiger1234]

I'm not sure; I think it was a tie. And it is a fact that when the drummer was hit with the axe, I wanted the FCC to punish Fox News (because I am autistic and have no realistic views of the world). I know he sued the network, but I don't know if he won the lawsuit.

[@yodazero1693]

Nice flam

[@smoothknyte]

:) Gimme Tommy Igoe vs Prosperie on marching snare :)

[@ishansharma4112]

The beginning reminds me so much of BD 2017

[@IWantToBeInOVO]

Look up electric wheel chair its a SCV warmp / cadence

[@liammcmanus7502]

BD was actually quoting one of the “ancient” rudimental solos from 1934 called Crazy Army, which was played on the rope drum up until the first ending

[@timopkokko]

Your British opponent is you :-)

[@timopkokko]

Jumalauta mie rakastan näitä sotilaita

[@timopkokko]

Your drums are heard. Even the Turkish want Finland to NATO. Not Sweden though. I always wished we could join together with the Swedish Vikings. That probably is not going to happen, to be honest, soldiers. Well, you win some, you lose some. We are soldiers. We will suck it up. We Finns will not yield, we will not surrender to Russian aggression. On the contrary, we would retaliate.

[@jamessholtz6016]

(that)

[@timopkokko]

- Millenium, opinor, hoc festivum antiquum, non Christianum. Legendum censeo quasi MMM annorum, vel aliquid. - Novi Timotheum centurionem. At populo Romano placet. - Verum. Pergamus pro eo. - Ave, centurionis. Roman language, guys. I know some of you have to learn it. It is a rule. I love that too :-)

[@groovsmyth]

Why? The lack of resonant sound of an over-tightened kevlar head on an industrial cylindrical container held down by a die-cast hoop? Again I ask... why? There is no objective aesthetic comparison whatsoever!

[@liammcmanus7502]

For modern drum corps where the technical boundaries of lines are constantly being pushed, judges need to be able to clearly hear the complexities of the books each line plays. ESPECIALLY now that judges aren’t allowed to be on the field with the line. I love a good rope drum as much as the next guy, but if lines brought a bunch of those onto a football field today you wouldn’t be able to hear a damn thing they’re playing. Modern drums might not sound as good, but it’s a sacrifice that needs to be made for the sake of clarity and technical advancement.

[@fl4sh762]

@@liammcmanus7502 that was probably the most well written youtube comment i've ever read

[@liammcmanus7502]

@@fl4sh762 thanks lol I try 😂 I don’t want people not taking me seriously because of spelling/grammar errors so I’m a bit more careful than most when commenting on things.

[@psycho_isaucyy8887]

Electric wheelchair

[@drewpyperc]

Psycho_iSaucyy ツ Electric Wheelchair is based off a famous drum beat written by Ed Lemley in the 1930s, which is what we play in this. It’s called Crazy Army, and is a standard beat in the traditional fife and drum groups.

[@andthensome512]

One guy is playing a formica countertop and the other guy is playing a real snare drum.