Bluecoats Drumline 2014 - Finals Lot

August 9 - The drumline warms up for Finals in Indianapolis, IN.
0:20 - Opener
4:24 - Feature
5:37 - Closer
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[@saxoman37]

Is it just me or are the bluecoat basses really, really, really good?

[@seanbowers1076]

No. They're REALLY REALLY good

[@alexgaeckle1540]

Sean Bowers no. They are REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY GOOD.

[@frankielozano73]

Here I am 5 years later to tell you they are great as hell👌🏽

[@sasquatchlil4173]

@@alexgaeckle1540 Really?

[@alexgaeckle1540]

@@sasquatchlil4173 REALLY!

[@seanbowers1076]

"HE WAS NUMBER ONE" lol that jam block solo always got so much hype

[@alexgaeckle1540]

lol he was number one from spongebob... probably inside joke.

[@adamz0037]

Hazel Strong shut up

[@pl8112]

@@adamz0037 You got issues brother?

[@adamz0037]

P L yes

[@BrianHaag]

With respect to the bass drums, specifically the upper two: I believe the term is "playing through the drum". I think this is the first line that I've heard truly hit splits with equal confidence as the rest of the book. Sweet.

[@dmr3e]

Snares split 8s, crowd goes wild. Tenors destroy a solo, two people golf-clap.

[@pilot9958]

+Colin and it's not difficult to destroy a crazy quad solo?

[@magoosalazar7840]

i dont know if it was just me, but i thought the quad solo was a teenie weenie bit off tempo

[@KyleHutBB]

Tenors are generally easier to have clean than snares (especially when there are 9 snares) which is usually why after a clean snare solo or feature people get really excited. BlueQ is definitely great though and get plenty of love.

[@dmr3e]

@kyle I would disagree that tenors are "easier" to clean. Yes snare line has more people but tenors have more drums if you want to go that route. Back to the original post though, I was referring to the parts where the tenors should have gotten more love on their wicked solo versus split eights between 9 players. But anywho, people will like what they want I guess.

[@KyleHutBB]

dmr3e I was saying that because of the articulation of the drums, snares are harder to clean. Anyone can see that. Also the snares split 16ths, not 8s.

[@ianfowler7442]

"Dante's here" they predicted crown 2015

[@wei-anhsieh2853]

Ian Fowler I don't get it help

[@ornaterope8319]

Crown's 2015 show was called Inferno. So, Dante's Inferno.

[@shanethompson2734]

OrnateRope who’s dante

[@Xayr]

@@ornaterope8319 the guy's name is Dante 4head

[@ridoriyadi2855]

more precisely donte

[@Malburg36]

Whoever write the bluecoats and crown's drumline music is a genius. You can always hear parts from the hornline in the drum part and I love that

[@CityBoyDubstep]

A few things I noticed while watching this: 1. This book fucking slaps and would sound amazing with a drum set as a met, 2 the quads are way underrated especially in this lot, and 3. The basses are gods. Best baseline I’ve ever heard

[@s3blastois3]

1:50 HE WAS NUMBER ONE!

[@kittenassassin]

Sebass The glance the wood block guy gave him though.

[@blueturtleteo65]

kittenassassin you can see how hard he's trying not to laugh

[@erenslostarm3189]

+Sebass XD He's trying to hold it together hahahahaha

[@daymad20001]

+Sebass OH MY GOD. In band this year I was in front of the bass's and they would always chant "He was number one." to the beat during rehearsal and I now know why.

[@Boxcarclasssoldier572]

+Mana Heartfilia Hey likes what?

[@RoyaltonDrummer922]

Would hate to have to give the top 3 drumlines scores. They're all on fire

[@ianfowler124]

so many of these guys are 2015 ageouts and it makes me sad

[@sstokess3250]

Well Rue marched 2015👌🏾, as did Mando, who also marched 16 and 17. Charlie marched 17 and now 18 along with Alex(I think, don't quote me on that). So I guess the spirit of Rue still lives on🤘🏾😂

[@stephenchildress7275]

Gotta love the split at 4:34, immaculate timing.

[@ianfowler124]

to think... no one from this line is still marching bloo

[@michaelmccullagh4525]

😭

[@josiahbelfiore4204]

That must be why nobody this year looks familiar. I was wondering about that.

[@karmew32]

A veteran line. One of the iconic lines, in the same vein as BD 2012.

[@musicmen7561]

One of the snares from this line is 15 so he might come back

[@saltwestlo5023]

Music Men no the one your talking about went to Devils

[@taylordeguzman7324]

Arjun goes to my rival high school... We always lose to them dang it

[@PlushChronicles]

well i mean no shit you lose to them then lol

[@1DMapler18]

Lol, i go to school with him. Where do you go to?

[@taylordeguzman7324]

dnhs. freshman on quads. I know, freshman make you upper classmen sick. what are you and what do you play?

[@1DMapler18]

Ooh that sounds nice. I'm a sophomore tuba player

[@taylordeguzman7324]

its nice to know that non-drummers are into drum corps =)

[@BRZbash]

Am I the only one that thinks the Bluecoats tuning is by far the best tuning in drum corps 😅😍

[@chaser22081]

Sebastian_ Morando *corps

[@TopDrumCorps]

Nah, SCV or Troopers.

[@BRZbash]

Mikethedude22 ur welcome

[@drumhead89]

It's 2015, why haven't we invented a way to keep the tenor rubbers from falling off? Get on it, Yamaha science!

[@jayDB5]

Dante's here .... commence head bopping... and totally jamming.... 3:09

[@serratizer]

Why don't the tenors get any love?

[@DrumCorpsTube]

Because it was a very crowded lot, and I had trouble getting good angles of the tenors and basses without people being in the way. Believe me, I wish I got more of them!

[@DarkDoors1998]

DrumCorpsTube And the cymbals?

[@NicturnalBeats]

DarkDoors1998 Lol

[@shxnejozitis5197]

Bluecoats have the best tenor line

[@animationnation9755]

+DarkDoors1998 There are no cymbals in the Bluecoats

[@TAMAdrumr103]

Bass 1 & 2 splits are just money, so incredibly clean

[@tijlvandermeulen3930]

Can we all just apreciate the fact that the 2nd snare from the left is 15 years old? Respect little dude.

[@1DMapler18]

i go to school with him. He's amazing :)

[@dratoriasgaming9935]

1DMapler18 I've gotta take a guess that you're snare line is pretty solid. That guy gets tons of props for managing to do this at 15.

[@1DMapler18]

matt funkhouser yeah our snare line is pretty great :) He's a beast.

[@ARZiehm]

I wouldn't say "little" cause he's like 6'3 hahaha

[@Convections]

Yayayee! Arjun!

[@jessedubuque3897]

Wow, nice job kids. Now that's drummin' the way it should. (from an #OldAssMadScoutBass)

[@mariag2000]

You know, whenever somebody shows me that stupid Top Secret drum line video, labelled the "Best Drumline Ever," I just nod and then show them this, the Blue Devils, the Cadets, and half a dozen others. Oh, they say, now I understand what you're talking about. Top Secret < Decent high school drum line.

[@Yqz76p]

@ 5:30: "Next year... will be my year."

[@NextGenBallerz]

That tenor lick at 7:42 is comparable to sex

[@vitalmincie]

I didn't know Yamaha made a CarbonPly equivalent. What are they called? I want a set of those tenors.

[@IanMarshalldrums]

justice christopher @20 MQ-8300 Field-Corps™ Series

[@ianfowler124]

i like the bottom bass part at 3:45

[@RADZADproductions]

Ian Fowler lmao

[@bonkersmcgee4356]

8:25 chief on the end overplaying those shots by about 2 feet. Got that bluecoats slice too.

[@jideee44]

0:51 snare two to the right of the center snare. The way he moved his neck bothers me😂

[@Roman199617]

Someone please tell me what their vocals are! lol I can bearly hear them

[@Techco1]

remember when bluecoats warmed up and only used a met or a click for the first few bars and didnt need it after that?.... pepperidge farm remembers...

[@Queeze101]

They appear to be placing higher in percussion

[@warrior995]

And now they have drumset.

[@sumbooodeeee]

Arjun's still 15

[@scoot9516]

1:50 It was his hat Mr. Krabs!

[@Boxcarclasssoldier572]

+jake andersen He likes dogs! (?)

[@randymarsh6477]

Sticks in at 5:57 was so CRISPY!!!!👌🙌

[@AznTuber2000]

Theres a 15 year old on this snareline.

[@sumbooodeeee]

***** isnt it crazy? and he doesnt even get as much credit as brandon. Arjun marched BDB 2013 when he was 14 years old, and Brandon marched academy at 15 and BD at 16

[@toxika2184]

+sumbooodeeee ok I know I'm late, but which one is Arjun?

[@starwarslegoboy777]

really dark tall dude on snare

[@toxika2184]

+bajlim thanks man

[@CityBoyDubstep]

wait you mean the one that marches with BD now?????

[@kyleu4215]

Who is the snare with the gock block

[@johndonnell5162]

Ollie Delotto. He was my tech for a year!

[@chesterstone4647]

If you listen very closely at around 7:15 or 7:20 you can hear Carolina crown dropping the hammer 😂

[@gm_construct_13_betaexplor38]

that’s bloo’s hornline warming up

[@drewper73]

Can anyone tell me about the different sticks used by the snare line? (brand, model, etc.) Also, that was some amazing drumming by the whole section. My high school drumline instructor, Neal Flum, marched snare with Spirit of Atlanta in '82 and marched tenor with the Blue Devils in '83. He talked me into auditioning for Spirit in the spring of '89 when I was 15. I auditioned just for the heck of it and whoever it was that auditioned me said I could probably march in the tenor section but I wussed out. Looking back I wish I had taken it more seriously.

[@drewper73]

***** Do you know the different sizes of the sticks?

[@drewper73]

***** Okay. Cool. Man, I've been out of the marching game way too long I guess because I've never heard of either one of those sticks. I only marched in high school but I was an instructor for my high school drumline and other high school drumlines for about 3 years after graduating high school in 1991. Back then, you might have 8 snares using 5 different types of sticks. I used the Dennis Delucia sticks before he had his Vic Firth signature stick. Some guys used Pro Mark DC-3's I think. It wasn't long after I graduated that my instructor made everyone switch to the same stick. Thanks for the info.

[@drewper73]

Okay. When they started playing with the smaller sticks I noticed a difference in sound and in the look of the stick. So you're in high school? Have you ever auditioned for All-State Band? The material that's used for the audition can be challenging but that's what makes it fun. There's usually a snare solo or two, plus a few handpicked rudiments and of course you're supposed to play each rudiment in the style of open-closed-open, or slow-fast-slow, making the transitions as smooth as possible. If you've never auditioned, you should look into it. If you do well enough you get to miss a few days of school as you prepare for a concert with lots of the best high school musicians in your state. I auditioned all 4 years but I didn't make it my freshman year. Let me know how it goes, if it goes.

[@wyattbranham6673]

The black sticks are called blast sticks if i'm correct. They're essentially brushes for a marching snare.

[@willieburke1334]

TheBionicWaffle Dreadlocks are the Vic Firth version and the ones Bloo uses are IP.

[@Lt_Ligma]

Coats are the best & have the best fans ever! Period!

[@ShaquanTalbert]

Don't count SCV out.

[@TheAnthonyCable]

***** hey dont be disrespectin Bret's writing, that guy's a genius

[@warrior995]

My favorite is when Arjun went to BD and got amazing hair.

[@AnthonyMariano2112]

As amazing as it is, I've never felt the urge to cheer and "whoop it up" at corps stuff or any drumline thing spare an occasional hype cadence. But I seem to be one of the few among my friends who share that view. Is that weird? I have just always seen it as inappropriate. Maybe its just because of my concert background, as its kind of out of line to cat-call a marimba player who just played a thick run. Guess its just me...

[@DanThibodeau1]

The bassline is so on point it's not even funny, it's scary

[@agee23]

I love how they're always in the same lot at finals!

[@julianbanks9568]

That bass line gave me chills.

[@musicmen7561]

I can't be the only one who noticed the sick ass stick trick the black dude on quads did, instant respect

[@Imthatrandomkid]

idc, 2:03 is probably one of the cleanest quad parts ive ever heard.

[@fittyfittychangchan]

1:51 HE WAS NUMBER ONE

[@ajm_1211]

3:09 we found him

[@lyndonwilson6344]

Watch this a few years later and realize that there are 3 future blue devils on this snare line

[@asdf753]

6:17 yeeee ho 😂

[@mattrichardson8885]

good god they are amazing! my heart is beating and i'm sweating, that bass line is silly

[@jedigeekbiker]

loved it apart from stick clickin in background for timing. simply annoying

[@jtacaptures]

Did the lead snare perform with Pulse Percussion this year too?

[@TysonMerzy]

yes

[@CityBoyDubstep]

2:24 did that to 2:29 remind anyone else of ritual from 2012?????

[@corydaniell4654]

Best writing in DCI. So tasteful.

[@marisagarcia6971]

whos the snare all the way to the left?

[@chrisgraben2396]

Still watching this in 2021

[@dill1602]

2:44 bass 2 is just rotating

[@chaser22081]

3 of these snares went on to win 2 DCI championships! Imagine being a 2nd place feeder corps!

[@cl0ckw0rk78]

That bass feature at 3:46 though...

[@Groovejourney]

So much energy in that closing statement.

[@RatPackish]

Who is guarding their transformer collection? Wristbands....Lmmfbo!!!

[@RussellAutosport]

Has anyone transcribed the closer yet?

[@NoName-yq2jn]

All of the tenor music for Tilt is on snarescience, not sure about the snares. It might be, doesn't hurt to check, the list changes all the time so someone probably has made it

[@cjone138]

1:56 "He likes dogs!'

[@SomethingLotBeatsDrum]

*gocks. As in the thing he's playing.

[@ericwesterhold3498]

tennispro246 no it's dogs

[@nicholasthames14]

Can anyone answer this for me? What was the reasoning behind the quarter note gok block?

[@kennethsperanza89]

Anyone know what those quieter sticks they are using at 5:42 are? I know the main ones are IP-JCs

[@steveone6735]

Rhythmic gymnastics. Can anyone tell me what piece they are playing or doesn't it matter?

[@JewSoRandom]

When is that pit video coming up??

[@stuckinasock]

Very random, but that grass looks like it would be very nice to sit on

[@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein]

the full performance was just taken down. Dang

[@randymarsh6477]

3 years today since this was posted !!

[@1whoDoesSimply]

Are they using concert sticks...? Are my eyes deceiving me?

[@lenabruening5942]

Everytime I come back to this video I swear to god the bass runs get even better 👌 honestly god damnnnn

[@ShaquanTalbert]

It's so smooth and effortless.

[@ceetee110]

GOD watching this almost brings me to tears. I miss this shit so much 😭

[@MartyPodvoll]

This is beautiful.

[@Isntthisalreadytaken]

Can someone please fucking explain how people do these sextuplet splits, I'm seriously at a loss

[@machollister2949]

Everyone plays 8th note triplets. Half of the line slightly delays them (by a sextuplet).

[@Isntthisalreadytaken]

***** I just can't imagine how the second guy can keep it together. I had to do like straight sixteenth splits once and I had the offbeats and couldn't do it without just very softly tapping the other part as well. It was a college line, so nobody really cared, but I'm sure you couldn't do something like that in DCI

[@kzoxxx112]

Arjun's hands look like it's trembling...

[@ssbkid7047]

Who's the 15 year old dude?

[@greenreaper4412]

2nd from left in opener and 2nd from right in the feature and closer

[@ssbkid7047]

Ah okay thanks! That's pretty awesome to see younger people in these groups when he ages out he's gonna be ice cold!

[@greenreaper4412]

No problem

[@sumbooodeeee]

Oscar Rodriguez his name is Arjun Durbhakula hes really good

[@natecosta8888]

*pulls out gock block* "HE WAS NUMBAH ONE"

[@saladking2370]

3:11 Dante

[@fresh_corn4501]

Does anyone know stick tricks for tenors, like there is hi mom and spida for snare but what about tenors.

[@yutsi_e]

Quads don't have to do stick tricks to be visually interesting because of horizontal movement of the sticks and such.

[@rnproductions5306]

@ pranav i know there the coolest

[@matthewjreynolds1048]

What's the thing on the rim that they switch on and off through the runs? Does it have anything to do with the snare guts being turned on and off?

[@milbryj.5724]

Matthew J Reynolds youre right that’s exactly what they’re doing

[@milbryj.5724]

NPC 1984 oof my mistake, I’m not too familiar with Yamaha drums lol

[@benkessler4439]

Who else only came here for wood block snare dude?

[@Mr_Curtis_Kelley]

Does anyone find it weird that the winds were in time with these guys. Does this happen often?

[@CityBoyDubstep]

I had a dream last night that blue devils got 2nd this year (2014) and coats took first with a score of 100. hands down best dream ever, too bad I woke up :/

[@chadthaemert9923]

I think you're onto something with that comment

[@TheMauf]

The Yamaha sFz always sound better

[@phil_forthefuture]

Sticks in. #Fundamentals

[@bobsaget7592]

One of them went to Blue Devils right?

[@ssbkid7047]

2 of them actually if I'm not mistaken.

[@sumbooodeeee]

Luke Hansard Ryan Ellis and Evan Espanto

[@cuz7397]

Ohh Bob Saget

[@victorkindermann8559]

+Bob Saget The indian kid Arjun is marching bd and rcc this year too hes only 17 years old

[@CityBoyDubstep]

1:57 same @ dude in the back

[@braydendrums309]

Ryan ellis and arjun?

[@drumlord8772]

1:44 That bass lick though... TASTY.

[@よう-u8q]

8:21 cool trick

[@thejbo777]

Holy fuck....

[@_jooth_]

Is there warm up exercises too??

[@chadthaemert9923]

I love Roger Carter's ideas

[@TheRyry97]

This closer is so much fun to listen to.

[@kentosalazar]

did metronomes not exist back then?

[@alexa4328]

"HE WAS NUMBER ONE"

[@graysonorr9318]

Someone get me a napkin cuz that book was very tasty 😋