Bluecoats 2019 Drumline - "Zero-G" (Innovations in Brass: North Canton)

The Bluecoats play through "Zero-G" by Roger Carter before their performance at the Innovations in Brass: North Canton competition at Hoover High School in North Canton, Ohio on June 22nd, 2019.
I sprinted to get set up for this because I was running late from Cadet's lot.
#DCI2019 #Bluecoats
Produced and edited by Nicholas F. Langer

[@HE360]

This is my favorite corps this year. Drumline and show!

[@cleancomedy]

Those BASS DRUMS are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@prim7112]

They literally have the Boston Crusaders drums from last year

[@gabe_8997]

Jake Pitre and blue stars, but their brand new not ones from last year

[@nathanhavey1]

snares are on fire, way to go bloo

[@biggzoEazy]

Very nice groove

[@peanutbutterguy4786]

Get it Robert

[@shadowtenorD]

RIP....Cowbell 😣😣😣

[@garrettflowers2449]

Cmon quads. Ik it’s early but some of those longer roll passages got pretty fuzzy (2:30). This line has the potential to be pretty mean this year no doubt though.

[@malditobandito98]

easy there, bud. you're going to attract the bando sjw's with this seamlessly harmless, critical comment.

[@_ve0]

sJw BaNdOs

[@malditobandito98]

@@_ve0 yes

[@garrettflowers2449]

Shy Pupper true 😂

[@brayang907]

Yo these quads need to figure it out.

[@JacobHalfman]

While I think it makes for a good aesthetic, I feel like raising the gain floor on your mic for overall more loudness on your videos would make em a little more wow factor. You can hear the same sorta effect on other channels where you can hear the overtones on the snares. On this it's really difficult and makes really rich snares drums sound kinda flat.

[@NickLanger]

Thanks for your input, but I'm going to continue producing videos the way I do. I'm not looking to sacrifice quality with distorted peaks, such as those in certain other channel's videos. There's nothing aesthetic about clean audio that preserves the dynamic contrast within phrasing that these musicians work hard to create. It's the right approach to anything musical.

[@JacobHalfman]

@@NickLanger As a player and someone who mixes audio for a living currently myself I disagree. You can achieve that sort of sound while avoiding peaking. You can also get that dynamic contrast without peaking. For example listen the difference in bass drums and how flat they sound in this current setup, it's more akin to a kick drum than a marching bass drum, that could be a side of effect of what kind of mic you are using, however. As a general thought I appreciate what you do for the activity in recording and uploading these high quality videos, I just feel that if you are looking for ways to improve this would be the biggest area. If you want pointers feel free to direct message me about it.

[@NickLanger]

@@JacobHalfman Shoot me an email on the contact page and let's chat.

[@otterinbham9641]

Bada bing.

[@Negative_Positron]

A+ stuff

[@johnnydasuper]

At the beginning I thought that was a stick being thrown 😂

[@HalloGais]

Johnny DaSuper lmfao same

[@johnnydasuper]

@@HalloGais haha

[@danielcelnik9169]

PACK IT MEITRON

[@rich_2824]

Wait what the heck happened to Srini?

[@pablopena2822]

Am I dumb or does RC have a twin brother cause I swear I saw Roger at Western Corp Generation

[@jevl9369]

Is this the last year of Zero-G?

[@brandonnorris174]

Jev L maybe they tend to switch up exercises every few years

[@1whoDoesSimply]

@@brandonnorris174 true. I miss vortex D:

[@NobleZerman]

I miss Zero G

[@drumsbyjeffrey]

Was this after they got kicked out of that ladies yard?

[@dbnois3]

Jeffrey Dalton lol

[@buckledown1018]

I'm a 1960's corps member. What's with the "kit" being played by an instructor?

[@joshfisher2316]

It's a bluecoats thing, its meant to compliment their groovy style

[@malditobandito98]

Here's a better explanation. In some shows, they have rules against using a metronome in the lot. So they decided "since there's no rule against playing drums during the lot, why not use the drum set?" It also works because Roger Carter usually plays a similar groove from the show so the line can get a more realistic feel for the music.