Dynasty: The Cadets Percussion (2000-2005)

The Cadets drumline owned the early 2000s. Other than 2004, the Tom Aungst led drumlines never placed lower than 2nd, and won the high drum award 4 out of 5 years.
2000 - 2nd place
2001 - 1st place
2002 - 1st place
2003 - 1st place
2004 - 4th place
2005 - 1st place

[@TheRailwayDrone]

I marched in Cadets in 2000 as a trumpet player. I was in love with our drumline.

[@KingNeptune05]

No clue how they didn’t win that caption.

[@TheRailwayDrone]

@@KingNeptune05I thought the same thing.

[@moordarkness2131]

Tim Greene?

[@TheRailwayDrone]

@@moordarkness2131 I'm not Tim Greene. But we're close friends.

[@moordarkness2131]

@@TheRailwayDrone lol I meant to ask if u knew him

[@sharonridings7418]

Breaks my heart that a few men could tear down the legacy

[@Ridebmx34521]

8:45 was probably my favorite lick as a kid

[@lopezmotorsports]

2005 was AMAZING!!! Crispy snares, tasty tenors, and abundant bass!!! Hell YEAH!!! I miss the day when the snare were played high. I hated playing so low. I'm a taller than normal Mexican. lol.

[@jayseven6089]

I love how they just haul ass at 4:00 and still have amazing approach to the drum.

[@dwartenb89]

Who knew fast paradiddles and hertas could be so musical.

[@cormaccallan1478]

Love watchin the bois absolutely truck it at 4:01. Badass

[@KevinJohnson-kn6xy]

@5:51...Eric Ward (Snare line instructor) - marched with that dude at Morehead State University when we beat UNT's drumline @ PASIC in 1995. Great memories!! Sad to hear about their future :(

[@dwaterson21]

Bruh this line was COOKING that GOOD

[@DennisJohnsonDrummer]

Such clarity and mastery of technique not to mention musicality. And the writing isn't bad either. Ha! Thanks for posting this example of what can be done with the right instructors, the right performers and the right music at the right time.

[@jeffe_77]

So overdue for the Cadets at the time after a run of 2nd place for the drum title for years in the 90’s (93,94,95,96,98). Cadets 2002 the only corps to win the drum title with more than 5 tenors? Fantastic production BTW. Fantastic production by the way.

[@Jomacx-24]

Cavies got 2nd in 98.

[@jeffe_77]

@@Jomacx-24 that’s right, they did, it was SCV, Cavies, Cadets and Glassmen

[@Benr1020]

Also Cadets would have won '93 if they had averaged the caption score from all nights for the trophy. They took drums prelims and semis. In '94 Cadets took finals but they averaged the nights for caption awards that year, giving BD the title by a tenth of a point over two nights (latter half of quarterfinals rained out). But yeah, '95 and '96 were uncontested 2nd place lines. The '96 line lost the trophy to the oft-hyped Blue Devils line by only a tenth of a point over three nights and actually beat them in semis. 1998 went to SCV because that year awarded the caption to the finals night winner. Average scores would have given the trophy to Cavies; 2nd would have gone to the Cadets--who had a tenth-point advantage over SCV for three nights--and they also topped semis that year.

[@Jomacx-24]

@@Benr1020 Good stuff. Are there caption breakdowns of old DCI schools anywhere?

[@maxwellr2533]

Your channel is such a blessing. You are doing a great service to the marching arts

[@DouglasESmith-fu7di]

I love that nod to Santa Clara there. So sophisticated.

[@trentbildstein5610]

The 50 yard final move at the end of the 2001 show is one of my favorite show endings of all time. Not necessarily musically the bet the drill plus intensity plus hammering notes is just awesome.

[@Iliketordles]

I've jammed out so many times to the sections at 0:02 and 0:15. I love those bass drum impacts.

[@mattklinghamer370]

These were some beastly lines. I miss this version of Cadets.

[@rxgaming1065]

They were so clean wth

[@CaviesPWN]

this was my favorite DCI era

[@cartoonpower0]

0:56, dude marches into the perc judge

[@veot.2869]

A lot of judges got ran over back in the day. They either forget the drill or didn't observe enough of it when they were assigned. It was always a treat to catch 'em slippin'!!!!!!

[@highstimulation2497]

holycrap, wow. never noticed till now.

[@itwasbetterwithhats820]

Tim1 Tim2, Chris V, Hedi, Stan, Hornet, Mark R., Ahmad, Brad

[@billthorn1604]

4:00 this kinda shit is why I’m a cadets guy

[@im4142]

Not gonna lie. I was starting to hate paradiddle-diddles for a while😂

[@EanGoreham]

goated video.

[@mcgrud]

For the algorithm. ✊

[@CaviesPWN]

im really sad that the cadets folded :(

[@erikcolliander9087]

make a carolina crown brass dynasty video

[@BDizDaBest]

They may have won all those percussion captions, but their books were very unmemorable. Just lots of fast rolls and paradiddle variations arranged in different ways year after year after year. Not very imaginative or exciting! As repetitive as those books were, though, they did play the absolute hell out of them and they deserve credit for that.

[@ThePMcDonald]

Cadets - the weapon used to destroy Eastern drum corps by the Allentown Predator … remember: ye shall reap what has been sown … watch them continue to sink under the weight of what Hopkins wrought …

[@MCITigerRegiment]

The Cadets are not one man. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

[@RevanPorkins]

Hes gone new staff. Saw them 2021 best they have been since 2015

[@grimdarksandwich66]

Awesome performers and incredible work. Playing busy, unmusical, cliche ridden tripe.