Cavaliers Drumline- Drum Break 2008

Cavaliers Playing Their Drum Break in the Lot at Denton TX.

[@youtubebanddirector]

13 years later this shit is still so hype!

[@AYYYiTzMaC]

For our center tenor's audition, he played the tenor break blindfolded on one leg

[@Hockey19Guy]

AYYYiTzMaC That's crazy!

[@tiziscassXD]

sometimes I listen to this until I fall asleep because it's so beautiful

[@darwinwinter1502]

Zehra Horan Vanwyngarden igual

[@himynameisatticus]

Tenors must have been starving.. eating the rims like crazy through that lick. :( My favorite feature too.

[@PedroMartinez-mk2yr]

I hear that!

[@that5oh19]

Hard books

[@xstevenmaox]

My favorite break of all time

[@JasonLF2AD]

Jim Casella's and his team do an amazing job at writing. It is SO under appreciated in my opinion. It is great to listen to and a BLAST to play one of his books!!

[@HalloGais]

Still my favorite video of all time

[@AKzosorocker]

The transition in the snares from the roll to the singles at 1:38 is amazingly clean and badass...

[@cshendude]

The fact that the snares play their rolls during the snare break insanely clean and at 2 inches blows my mind.

[@tsadrummer]

probably one of the most awesome n sickest drumbreaks of all time!

[@HE360]

This was one of my absolute favorite Cavalier shows. Too bad it didn't really get the publicity and credit that it deserved. This show was WELL put together and I was AT finals night, and many of us thought that the Cavaliers WON that year. Watching this was like watching a movie at the movie theater. It had plenty of suspense and action. The Cavaliers DID take us deep into ancient Japan where we could experience the ancient culture of back then!!! It was a history lesson with Asian aethetics. Phantom Regiment Spatans show was great and unforgetable too (with classic Drum Corps) and Phantom was simply super clean, but this Samari show literally had a impact. But, I guess Phantom hadn't won a DCI championship by themselves at the time, so I think that the judges gave it to Phantom. Well, that's still good for Phantom and the kids in that Corps. So, it's all good!. Phantom was still great!

[@CaesarSuriano]

Factual information. I'm no Percussion guru, but I come a family of musicians. One year we watched the movie Drumline and I was beyond impressed. Then my uncle, my dad and his buddies pretty much said, "You thought that was good? Watch this." And they pulled up this clip. Now I've watched a lot of drum breaks in between 2008 and now (2020), none felt as legendary as this PRACTICE...

[@juliooooooo95]

I almost forgot to watch this today...

[@Wowzrrrs]

im so lucky, the tenor captain is the instructor of our drumline

[@votvdrum]

Finally...I was at this lot and I was so relieved when I heard them. These videos don't do much justice...the book this year is freaking nice. So musical.

[@smleitch]

Took me bloody forever to figure out what they were playing, but I finally learned the snare part for this whole drum break, just from watching this video... and it's AWESOME.

[@uvangoey]

This is one of the most disciplined set of drumers i have ever seen, i have been in a few competitions, but no one has come close to the amount of discipline i see here.

[@bradyj1994]

Love this, i watch almost everyday never gets old

[@houstonmikale]

every time i see this style of drumming i love it

[@blooberflat22]

they stayed at my high school when i was in high school, got to see em warm up and play, pretty much a good day

[@AznAfroMan513]

are those snares ever so slightly tilted...?

[@MrTallformyheight]

Looks like it

[@MySwag1993]

This will forever be my favorite drumline video EVER!!! *Cavies Rule*

[@ClockWorktick]

Random but good rudiments here after the drum break.. snares sound amazing. tenors and basses very solid. but man this doesn't look easy.. gotta love them cavs.

[@milescingolani]

Wow why do i always come back to watching this video every time i watch Drum Corp videos...

[@Speckled_Trout]

i luv this drumbreak! the tenor skank part and snare visuals r soo tasty!!

[@danthemanpatrick]

that echo after the last note is so beastly

[@2012MCTV]

This feature, 2008 blue coats, and 2011 cadets were the greatest features.

[@NumberNile]

That snare solo made me shiver. I quit... forever...

[@Reginaldspld505]

The basses was sick and the tenors was awesome hands down one of the best Drumlines I heard

[@Porpan1967]

Cavaliers are just the best. They just rock!!!

[@benjaminmoss4378]

good lord the basses

[@bloodvein3]

im a tuba, but, man i give such respect to drum lines all over america. drum line kids don't fuck around. playing any of those drums takes skill. and in all honesty, if i was in drumline, i would try bass.

[@zeroforlife321]

this was an amazing show

[@Dmdrums7]

oh hell yeah dude i got to watch them warm up finals night!! basses one and two had some RIDICULOUS splits that made me whoop out loud. good times. those cats were on point.

[@phobass]

yeah, their drumline is really gonna kick ass this year.

[@MillCreekDrumline]

I love how clearly the quad sound comes through. Gotta love cavies tuning

[@undefinedromance89]

If I could favorite this thing a thousand times I would.

[@unusuallynormal231]

nightbeat was such a friggen awesome show.

[@IsThereOnlyOneOfMe]

the center tenor was my indoor instructor and my main drum teacher marched cavies in 2006 and my other instructor was on the 2008 SCV snareline. WE GOT GOOD 0_0

[@unusuallynormal231]

Words can't express how freaking crazy this is. Those basses are ballin'

[@AlexHuneycutt]

Just wen to DCI yesterday! Cavaliers beasted it, as always. Can't wait to see the finals.

[@LilBdancer]

Holy Drumline! Love it... amazing togetherness on stick heights

[@wilberchavez7596]

Best video i ever watch on youtube

[@drumsguy11]

the center tenor is also the section leader, for the same reason as the snare, so everyone can listen in to him (or her, him in the cavaliers case). And in case you were wondering, the bass drum 2, the second smallest, is always the bass section leader, and cymbals are kind of random i think.

[@shaanfliesplanes]

Tastiest book ever written

[@pdahl615]

I really like the roll into the singles near 1:38 I've listened to it maybe 25 times today and can't find the transition if I don't watch. The camera not being able to follow the sticks during the singles adds a pretty cool effect.

[@JailhouseRN]

Nice work. The Snare and Tenor parts are badass. Cavies FTW!

[@MATTxMAN032]

Catchy 1:12-1:27 Bass Solo at 0:45-0:55 is amazing Love the Tenor splits at 1:03-1:10 Snares Sextuplets at 1:27-1:30 is insane Sweet (Clean!) Singles at 1:40-1:43 Cool Visual/Snare Solo at 0:28-0:35

[@janeidle5405]

ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS!!!

[@BrandonGH5]

those were the good old days.

[@alexpham095]

i fricken love their snares tunings

[@supercellcoaster]

It's not sped up....they're just AMAZING.

[@irrot100]

i love the bass prt its so clean

[@Werdisbond]

Your right, I completely forgot about the drum major having to listen to the battery. I remember our instructors would always tell our drum major to listen in on us because battery are time keeping masters. =P Good times.

[@mikeisgnar]

my brother used to play the snare drum he got to do Frameworks witch has to be my favorite they were bad ass

[@henrysodey843]

One of those snares is now the assistant for the drum line at our school now. It’s crazy to see how good he is, since he’s not much of a show off, which I respect ngl.

[@dyl48]

amazingly awesome!

[@wcboy94]

dude same here. they are really sik when it comes to this!

[@123bayley123]

Simply Amazing!

[@MrMdr96]

i dont care who you are or what drumcore your in but if u can play bass...snare or tenors on this level your AMAZING

[@c00ki3nikki]

i like this, sounds very good.

[@Music_Chiz]

I was that guy in the white shirt

[@ConnerMello2]

the singles at the end are insane.

[@xtaiix]

yeah i would have to agree cavs have one of my favorite books this year. Bluecoats are owning it too.

[@Speckled_Trout]

sick bass splits and tenor/snare visuals

[@nardrummer]

High school tenor player here. We watered down the split measure into a tenor solo in Sing Sing Sing, and it's pretty insane. I would've liked to just do this, but it's too freaking hard, even for our tenor line, which is actually pretty good.

[@avenged7xguitar]

God I love this. The last note cracks like a gun shot :D

[@subbot8077]

the little snare chunk from 1:23 to 1:32 is SO TASTY

[@HieronymousLex]

The ninelet at 1:20 is my favorite part

[@thatseanyboy13]

badass. the bass run is sick.

[@penox363]

Dope! Love it.

[@mmmmbert]

You're actually correct albeit unintentially. The drumline is not taking their tempo from the drum major. The drum major is taking his tempo from the drumline so he can in turn give direction to the rest of the corps.

[@siguraith]

goddamn. i hope to play tenors like that someday man

[@tartanmusician]

I'll be a Junior in high school next year. Our snare and bass 1 will be Seniors and our bass 2 & 3 will be Juniors.

[@Kr3wOfGa]

Man the cavies are soo clean.. I like their sticking at 1:21. Very nice.

[@Aaaronicus]

i love those singles on the snares at the end.

[@kaikaichen]

Writing-wise, to me this was the best drum feature that year, hands down... especially when combined with the front ensemble's taiko drums and other Asian percussion instruments.

[@danielisawsomeyeah]

if my schools bassline could be this good i'd be soooooooooooo happy

[@Heidialmighty711]

I can hear MR. Hamilton saying it in my head now "Ta ta ta ta ta..." lol

[@culisinw810]

ouu yeahh cavaliers you are the best

[@ChrisRedfield65]

why are they so cool

[@MillCreekDrumline]

ALSO, I love the echo at the end. They play with So much sound

[@FatGocks]

Well, Crown played a lot of notes this season and they were really clean. Vanguard also played a pretty aggressive book.

[@crowjr2]

holy hell. Amazing.

[@davidooo95]

cant wait til my schools drumline adds 2 more snares. 9 baby ;)

[@ziggyrig]

From 0:18 to 0:28...OH MY GOD SO CLEAN!!!!!!!

[@Ricochet924]

i love the snare visual around 1:23 each section was for the most part one sound :)

[@HIghBlutdruck]

Wow!! Mad Props!!!

[@Creolelite]

Cavs are the best hands down

[@livjonesy76]

I am 13 and a beginning percussionist,and when i see this i cant help but think how the hell am I supposed 2 do that when i get older....lol....but seriously i am very excited to be chosen as a "drummer" : )!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Go Skiatook Bulldogs

[@koldren101]

It was Phantom, Cavies were in second, with Bluecoats in third

[@tartanmusician]

This stuff is awesome... I hope I get the chance to play in a big line like this someday, at our school we've got three Basses, one Snare, and one set of Tenors (me)

[@FlamHighFive]

anybody else notice how only cavies mark time perfectly? My God.

[@spstarks]

best. drum. break. ever.

[@kiah520]

that's a clean line!!!

[@YarrThePirateDrummer]

that snare feature's sick... good lord...

[@blackghostkl4n]

I totally want to be the guy in the middle sitting in the grass. Best seat in the house.

[@Tripp.tambores]

God, look at the change from 2008 to 2013...

[@masterdrummer19]

holy bass, tenor, and snare..

[@reefedbeats]

those sir, are some fun bass runs =)

[@maverickleonhart]

Very true. Often Bass 1 has the best hands in the bass line and will mimic snare parts. It's also potentially the bottom since he can see the whole line.

[@JamezDrumz]

I honestly think that cavies and bluecoats' basslines were pretty evenly matched this past season. Just my opinion.