Bluecoats Front Ensemble 2016 Full Run

[@UnknownSpooky]

For a second there I was scared I might see the whole pit

[@patrickv.3979]

4:30 The guy doesn't even seem phased by the music and isn't struggling. Just like "Oh yeah, let me just do these runs real quick."

[@nathanreno-winters8732]

That groove at 8:33 is WILD.

[@davidkippy101]

At 5:56 the background battery music lines up with the beat.

[@saxophoner19]

Haha yeah! Assuming the battery was playing triplets

[@hyoukafuwa7907]

the drumer is awesome. He Is so reconizible im every video he is in lmao

[@CoenWilson1]

Over at Cedar Park, we got Michael as our front ensemble director, and he genuinely like one of my best friends. Love that guy. This was his first DCI show he was ever in.

[@reinyess]

no he marched mandarins before this

[@jadrums174]

I love the drum set part

[@ameliecantin6074]

6:57 sounds so much like Pink Floyd remasterisé!!!!!! Soooo great you guys are genious. BLOOO

[@larsthescout]

Amélie Cantin part of the show had Pink Floyd "the great Gig in the sky" so you are right!

[@crunchypb1]

Amélie Cantin that's because it is pink floyd

[@nicholasfinley5332]

Oh my lord, is that Udacrep Akubrad I hear?

[@andrewprawat8199]

yup

[@Youngy]

7:34 WINK

[@neilyvanneily]

So just to be clear...those ear things are monitors to hear the other players and NOT click tracks, right?

[@greenwood7006]

yup

[@calebbenton367]

Even if it were click tracks they would be kind of worthless because fluctuations in tempo

[@danputaski6368]

They are used in order to communicate with the audio engineer on order to fluxuate sounds in the speajers

[@bro748]

I'm pretty sure the drummer has some sort of pedal that sends a metronome click to the earpieces, because almost any time the drummer isn't playing a consistent groove his foot is still moving to the beat. The most obvious spot of this is right at the beginning, where his foot moves perfectly to the beat through the accel, despite how sparse everything else is, implying that he is deciding the tempo.

[@neilyvanneily]

@@bro748 Yeah, that's gotta be right.

[@txdap786]

AMAZING!!!

[@littlejj6228]

I feel like I should know this, but is there a difference between the ability to play and the ability to keep time, sub-divide and etc.?

[@blueregiment]

Jeffrey Noriega I feel like they go hand in hand. Being able to keep time and subdivision is crucial to being a good musician. Anyone is technically able to play, but if you put the right notes at random times it will sound jumbled and all over the place.

[@jacobhanekamp2534]

Jeffrey Noriega yes there is a difference, but musicians should be able to do all of those things

[@AlChemicalLife]

anyone know the warmup at the end of the video with the 4mallets , I saw a group at WGI playing this and wanted to know what it was called so I could learn it .

[@xarion96]

it is also known as Lockjaw, it's not too hard to figure out or find the music for. The other is a mix of Blocks and Broccoli, those are also pretty common

[@evedonatelli]

We play it as a warmup too! We call it 'grid'. We do a little different beat but the same permutations. (different order though) We do... 1234-2341-3412-4123 You can learn what they play with these permutations.

[@calebbenton367]

Eve that’s the order for the second half of broccoli

[@michael47882]

12:15 and on is groovy

[@brianmalexander]

Is the dirt coming from the phasing due to spacing or are they just dirty?

[@foofoomonster137]

i think phasing they have monitors in their ears to hear each other

[@ericpujari]

This video was taken from within the pit between the keyboards and speakers.

[@ij3057]

alexanderpujari do you know Eric pujari?

[@christianhaile5588]

The guy to the right of the drummer has smooth rotations

[@kj-xd5925]

we recreated the be beginning part

[@epicreader123]

How would they transport all this on the field?

[@michael47882]

epicreader123 Colorguard helps them plus the staff of the bluecoats, that’s why they went on last at every show in 2016, they had so much stuff they needed time to get it off the field

[@jordantyler148]

@@michael47882 they went on last cause they were winning

[@fionnfalk2681]

4:03 is nut

[@ludgatecircus15]

DCI sunburn baby

[@NamHamful]

Does anyone know what kind of mallets they're using?

[@werephantomsin15]

casellas

[@tortillasarenotbiceps7622]

Very cool.

[@JewSoRandom]

Why is everyone plugged?

[@cas3961]

Do you know why, though? Are they listening to their sound as it's being output so they can better listen and adjust, or is it something else?

[@dandremiskel2199]

***** since they are spread so far apart, the way they hear across will totally throw them off.. the in-car system allows them to play together while being apart.. me personally being a musician who has played with an in ear system, I find it better to hear what's happening from the audience standpoint. If that makes sense

[@cas3961]

dandre miskel Thanks, that made a lot of sense, especially because this year they decided to have a really spread FE.

[@dandremiskel2199]

***** if you are on Facebook, follow the marching audio arts page.. some if not all of the sound guys for dci are on that page.. I know one personally

[@JewSoRandom]

dandre miskel Can you post a link for the page?

[@danieladamczyk08]

MARC HEY!

[@jacksonweinberg3544]

What are those white mallets

[@colinmiller5282]

hitting_things_with _broken_trees IP 1006 James Ancona series

[@GH_percussion]

Innovative Percussion Jim Casella Series

[@luisgarcia-th3nv]

what mallet series are they using

[@aaaqui__9761]

luis garcia yes.

[@calebbenton367]

Jim Cassella mostly

[@zaevi6855]

do you have one of the actual show?

[@ericpujari]

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[@thomasnguyen5639]

lol 9:00

[@NettlezTV]

I will forever hate how they set up the pit this year!!! ugh why couldn't they just get vibe players.. and what's with the all male pit.

[@JamesThomas01]

2 reasons I can think of off the top of my head, no girls came to audition or didn't make the cut, and more players is harder to clean. Less numbers = Cleaner section. Always.

[@RoyaltonDrummer922]

Because this is cooler and gives each player more responsibility and playing clean with more responsibility=high score

[@JewSoRandom]

Actually, the design team wanted more on Color Guard, so they made the Front Ensemble smaller.

[@NettlezTV]

+RoyaltonDrummer922 that makes no sense. if you get all good players which clearly bloo can do then cleaning shouldn't be an issue. plus if you have more people and they all play together you will get a lot more credit than less players. also having them so far apart makes it harder to clean and play together anyway so saying have less people makes it easier is false just because of the set up.

[@noahgormanmusic1843]

+Annette 4 President that's why they are wearing in-ear packs (they are linked to a small mic resting on the front sideline), that way they can still hear each other in sync. Plus from the stands it look pretty damn cool.