GMU AIA at Mt Vernon HS 2020 02 15

[@m0nm0n525]

Gmu: FAT GOCK Judge: very strong

[@mackenzies4931]

It was such an amazing experience in person and I still get chills every time I watch it.

[@xravenfeederx]

*click* *BANG* "Ooooohhhhhhh"

[@thesnareboi3256]

I was there during their prelims and I remember instead of using “dut” they used “tick”, I don’t know if it was just for that moment but that does help show the pulling back on a revolver hammer

[@RayeX]

The rack player is my front instructor for my high school lets go ari

[@cadendale7708]

If they had the rest of the season they might've been competing for top four

[@Mutch820]

There's no doubt in my mind that this would have been a medal year for them.

[@zoomlensshow]

nah lol

[@THEnelsonbruhs]

@@Mutch820medal? Nah. Top 5 maybe

[@LearnTheBeats]

Hey David! Would you mind if we featured some on your footage on our channel?

[@davidstarkston7783]

Yes, you may use the footage. I have also sent you an email with contact information for the Director so that he can provide you with the sheet music.

[@emorygleason6138]

does anyone know if the vocals are live? if they’re recorded does that not count as rhythmic intent?

[@alexwaynemiller]

Yo, this is dope. GMU isn’t playing games.

[@thesnareboi3256]

My question is, was this supposed to be the final product of the show? I’m saying that because it seems cut short at the end

[@benjaminli188]

Does it? I think the ending makes sense.

[@jj_hertz]

This is the whole show. We adjusted some minor things throughout the season but the story arc and most of what you see remained the same

[@mikehunt4831]

Thank you GMU for doing something different year to year. Wasn’t a fan of last years show, but at least you aren’t doing the same lazy designing and writing every year...BC cough cough. Entertaining show for sure this year. Sick book too!

[@mikehunt4831]

Danny Hale yeah it’s easy to play clean when you play almost nothing for as many months are in a season. Visual demand is low, and when u take ur drum off more than once in a show you lose me...

[@mikehunt4831]

GMU plays a much harder book than BC by a mile and a half hahaha. There are groups that don’t even make finals that have a harder book. BCs snare break is about the only difficult thing they do.

[@c3cookups459]

​@@mikehunt4831 Both of you are right tbh. Mike, GMU definitely by far has always had some of the most difficult writing, especially for basses and tenors so in my opinion they should have somewhat of a higher score for not only playing harder stuff, but also playing it pretty damn clean. My outdoor marching band drum tech actually marched tenors for this show and I always forget THE Matt Penland writes the tenor rounds. Matt's rounds to my knowledge are by far the second to hardest, if not the hardest rounds in WGI, and also (although it's out of the subject) DCI (go SVC quads). However, you cant call Broken City's show boring or just in general bash groups. Sure BC's show wasn't the most visually aesthetic like Infinity 2019, Stryke 2019, Pulse Percussion 2017, and other groups. But they were by far the cleanest drumline on the floor, which is what ultimately matters other than having fun. When you play clean, technically you're almost never boring. Or at least the judges and the crowd at championships last year thought so.

[@c3cookups459]

@@mikehunt4831 and actually....BC's snare BREAKS (let's not forget there were plural, and they all were played super duper clean)were harder in a different way. GMU is harder when it comes to note composition. Especially with the way I've noticed the notes that come after a flam rudiment that's in the show (usually the inverted cheese and maybe flam fives for GMU). BC was definitely way harder when it came to metric shifts and also dynamics. Although I get pretty pissed off sometimes that Roger Carter sometimes just throws a bunch of 9lets in a weird time signature to be lazy, we all have to respect his take and writing on dynamics for this past show. They had straight flams starting at like pp, then went all the way to forte with an accelerando, with straight flam patterns playing at like a peak of 190 bmp's, then went back down to pp, with a ritardando, and a much lower bpm. WHILE PLAYING IT SUPER FREAKING CLEAN WITH LIKE 11 SNARES!!!. That was unreal to watch. Which shows that every group's show will have harder writing than another in a specific direction so they're different and not sounding like another group.

[@thesnareboi3256]

Also gmu had to cut out a cymbal feature, also 90% of the show was just a shoutout to j noah(the center snare of this year) and his album

[@deviljin_x]

Very noice

[@td4n]

I mean it was alright but James River had cooler pyramids

[@ezraboswell8643]

i mean i think the egyptian show was cooler

[@mantistoboggan2599]

Egyptian show?

[@yungtwiz]

@@mantistoboggan2599 You had to be there