Miles Kenobbie Tenor I&E 2017 // 1st Place [Quality Audio]

Representing the Blue Devils

[@Cybernoid200]

*watches solo* "Nice" *looks at length of video* "Perfection"

[@TDDrummer2]

@@mygtagisfoohey9000 886, Am I missing something?

[@Inversiondude]

@@TDDrummer2 I would assume that a comment from a year ago regarding the first comment's amount of likes no longer applies... lol

[@ReturnofBojangles-zt4vo]

Great yes perfection no. There are plenty of mistakes he is still a kid has a lot of growth left to do - and probably has.

[@Inversiondude]

@@ReturnofBojangles-zt4vo guy was talking about video length being 4:20 because 420 is a funny haha number, not his performance, miles aged out with the blue devils in like 2018.

[@ReturnofBojangles-zt4vo]

@@Inversiondude lol my bad

[@stevenstakeda]

Not sure if anyone is going to get around to reading this, but for what it's worth... The cut out rims are intended more as a learning tool than a practical "scrape crutch". When you play scrapes you naturally rebound off the head enough to get over the rim. You hit the rim when you come down on it vertically, and there is still metal where the cut outs are. Therefore, it is still very possible to hit rim. People keep dissing the user for either hitting rim even when "there are none", or they diss the user for not hitting rim because "there are none". I'm sure many people are hating for the sake of hating, but it's simply not true. Take it from the guy who has used these drums more than anyone in the world. They're not perfect, but give it a break please. Miles is the best quad player I have ever marched with. When you hear him play scrapes and not hit rim, it's because his accuracy is way better than any Call of Duty MLG (not sure if that's saying much). Trust me, if I played my I&E on these drums, I'd still start as many fires as I did on the Pearls

[@Mark_Aaron]

The way i see it, i feel like if it was used as a learning tool then why should it be used by a top tier drum corp that knows what they're doing. Just something to think about. Also might I ask, what corps did you march and what did you play? Not trying to jab at you or anything, just curious.

[@stevenstakeda]

Mark, I should have also included that despite what I said, there are slight benefits to using it. For the music that we play at the Blue Devils, we do benefit slightly from using the cut outs due to the nature of how we play and the music we perform. At some point, we may miss the rim due to the cut out because we play low scrapes and play with a lot of motion. But those moments are seldom. If those moments were more frequent we would definitely hit less rim but as the videos show, we definitely catch metal here and there. Like I said previously, the nature of playing scrapes and scrape-like arounds still make it very possible to hit rim despite the cut outs. So yes we use them because we do benefit from them to a small extent. But we are also still learning, and using the cut outs as a learning tool is not above us by any means. We are far from perfect outselves. I see your point though thank you for that.

[@stevenstakeda]

And to answer your other questions I play quads. I marched with the Blue Knights 12-13, Blue Devils 15-17. Thanks for not being aggresive with your comment :)

[@Mark_Aaron]

Steven Takeda awesome. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[@nicholaslemoff1159]

Aquamelon! U have some good points, but it's not really the decision of the people in the drumline for what drums they use.

[@DrooBazooka]

"Do not fear mistakes, there are none." ~ A Miles quote

[@hudsont.105]

His chops are... MILES ABOVE THE HIGH GROUND

[@baconbitz7937]

You underestimate my power

[@DinoDays703]

I can confirm that they are at least 10 miles high

[@infinityspike8876]

Hold up. Did you just make not only one pun, but another pun inside of the first??? It’s pun-caption everybody

[@JS-tr2xi]

Ha I get it, because his last name is Kenobbie!

[@christo6360]

YES! A CULTURED HUMAN

[@primalconcretesledge3137]

3:44 - 3:52 is the only part of this solo I can play.

[@blaineburns4325]

4:00 hits every drum at least 7 times per second

[@seanoreilly9950]

4:14 the most important note of the whole solo, imagine if he didn’t nail this rimshot right here

[@imaginerp]

Others : Avengers Infinity War is the greatest crossover event in history! Me (an intellectual) : 3:40

[@keenman0403]

@Simon Walrod boi pay attention to the video

[@jacobhanekamp2534]

Wait I don-OHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@samglover4923]

@Simon Walrod *scrapes with crossovers

[@fausto8686]

General Kenobbie... you are a bold one!

[@hazda5791]

Lmao 🤣 🤣

[@jkid9d99]

I hear everyone talking about how he always hit the rims but I don’t think any of you could play that solo 🤔

[@hazda5791]

Most of the times it's his sticks not even his rims like these people stupid

[@nathangabbard766]

I literally said to myself "he's hitting a few rims but whatever" and then realized i'm NOWHERE close to being as good as him 😭😭

[@0Aquamelon]

I’m so disappointed! He didn’t end the same way he did in his RCC homework! It’s his signature move!

[@RADZADproductions]

Aquamelon! That would have been literally the best thing known to man

[@Pantsthaniel]

That would have made this the best I&E known to man

[@trevorlaporte5951]

*An arbitrary comment about rims*

[@yungtwiz]

I love you

[@caelan506]

Miles Keaton gay

[@yungtwiz]

Caelan oh yes

[@Ghost-wz6zl]

Okay all you guys throwin shade, I wanna see you guys play this shit. Regardless with rims or no rims he's still playing really really difficult material. He's expressing himself through an art form that 99% of earth's population doesn't even know about. No matter what, he has real courage to even go up there and play just one note. All you guys just talkin shit just run your mouth. How about you fuckin play what he's playing and actually have the chops to join a world class drum corps then maybe you can say something. But you dont see anyone in this thread from BD Coats SVC etc. talkin shit. You know why? Because they understand how difficult it is to be in drum corps alone and then to add an I&E solo you have to write and learn while you're on tour, I don't even know what that's like. I most you don't even know what it's like to do this. So what if he hits rims. EVERY I&E someone hits rim atleast a couple times. Get the fuck over it. How about instead of talking shit, go fuckin practice and be like them if you think it's so fuckin easy. Cuz when you aren't allowed to march anymore it's going to fucking suck. You're gonna miss it so bad that all you can do is watch videos and just remember the feeling you get when you're with a line.

[@kaleffpuente]

Ghost 17 mercezir

[@gimmegamma4849]

Ghost 17 cool

[@egdfilms5636]

Ghost 17 preach!

[@Ghost-wz6zl]

lmao define "play it"

[@ekodevil7593]

Ghost 17 the only time where I really said anything like that was i&e from last year where this guy got totally robbed of 1st place

[@kuntt6966]

Glad to see Miles in 1st this year !

[@abrahamnaula]

Kuntt 69 last year's champion went to Crown soooo... nah just pulling ur leg dude lol

[@kuntt6966]

LUL

[@peeairborne3740]

RebuffedAsh I still don't understand how miles lost last year. No disrespect to the winner last year but in my opinion miles just blew him out of the water.

[@sup3414]

Clorox Bleach U SAID IT!!!

[@giulzpugs5443]

Miles got 3 gold medals for his age out ( dci champion, i&e, and rcc )

[@maxbehymer8535]

Christ compel his beats!

[@mehashi]

2:50 I love this beat he brings in.

[@auslander2]

Some of those “rim clicks” were actually his sticks and that happens to snare players too

[@jaydavidson4592]

Love the tuning, sound quality, the acoustics of the room, and video quality. AND his solo is 🔥

[@liveuntouchable9239]

Favorite tenor player right here

[@peeairborne3740]

I would do fucking anything for a set of system blue tenors.

[@tlkshowhst]

Clorox Bleach Try practicing and getting into Blue Devils.

[@yuhere4429]

TalkShowHost nah bruh 😂😂

[@c7anders]

Clorox Bleach you're into a lot of shit huh

[@Mark_Aaron]

Dude system blue in general is garbage

[@ekodevil7593]

System blue is good, but their tenors aren’t very good sounding. The rim cutouts are a cool idea, but you can audibly hear the difference in sound quality from regular rims. I would personally get Yamaha with the corps clear. They sound amazing with really good clarity and not much overtone. Every other drum of theirs is really good though

[@zdesjarlais]

Awesome solo man! I dig it. Much improved from last year

[@zevorus]

The solo was so dank the video is 4:20 😂😂

[@eriklindquist6820]

Damn that took me too long to realize 😂

[@dorian2112]

amazing!! thanks for this!

[@KM-px8cs]

He appears to be really gifted, amazing solo.

[@alienetalero]

Holy molly, that was sick!

[@jupitermedina4651]

HOLY CRAP YOURE AMAZING DUDE

[@carlreynolds1111]

I think kenobbie here used the force to place so well. Unreal

[@maartengroenendijk8997]

This is just insane

[@2468DDT]

AMAZING!!!!

[@MrJDLEGG]

Whoa....when did quads start getting rim cutouts!? Man, the new generation gets all the coolest stuff.

[@diegoaviles13]

Hell of a solo Miles I loved it. Glad you got first and no matter with rims or not I think it was a great solo. Seriously both of his BD solos videos are full of hate comments about "Oh shit that's so easy cuz there's no rims" and "that's cheating" but I read @Ghost 17's comment a little further down and I can agree with him. If it's so easy to play with out rims stop giving shit and go make a solo yourself, and at least try to under stand how difficult DCI can be

[@0Aquamelon]

Diego Aviles 1243 i think it’s cheating but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Scrapes, and certain cross overs are pretty hard, and even without the rims, can sound really bad if you don’t have proper technique. The reason I say it’s cheating however is that it’s a pretty unfair advantage; I don’t see any other drum corps without rims, and I’d say either all of them have to have no rims, or none of them have to have no rims.

[@wendysfriesready296]

It isnt cheating. There is no rule agenst cut out rims

[@emperorofgaming8146]

@@0Aquamelon This is two years late, but as someone who marched DCI (admittedly on the hornline, but I was very close with the tenor players), I HAVE seen some corps that I interacted with who had cut out rims. Plus, as you yourself state, it's very possible to hit rim. I am a halfway decent snare player, as I have taken lessons. I decided to play on a Vic Firth quad pad one one of the members brought, and as soon as I tried to do scrapes it went awful. That's with ZERO rim. Like Scojo said in the video from 2016, the cutouts are there to show where to cross over, and again, if you would have hit rim on a set of tenors with no cutouts, you will on the System Blue drums.

[@0Aquamelon]

EmperorOfGaming yeah, two years later, I don’t necessarily think it’s “cheating” but I myself wouldn’t enjoy playing on system blues. But yea, after marching DCI in pit, I think talking about this sorta thing is trivial, and I wish ppl would stop talking about rims or no rims and just enjoy music.

[@emperorofgaming8146]

Aquamelon! To be honest, I’m glad to see your opinion has changed haha. Thanks for voicing your opinion respectfully all those years ago. Where did you march, and what specific instrument? #MarchOn

[@GingerKing243]

Watching this at 2x is the only way to watch

[@popeyesailor9571]

One thing I have noticed on the cut rims is the presence of more overtones and sounding more "live" to my ears. I like the open sound from these drums.

[@jodywhitedrums]

Great Playing! Awesome technique.

[@aidantait6529]

Everyone should stop giving him crap. This dude was on the winning corps quad line. So he knows his shit. These are the drums BD gave him, not like he had a choice. Yes he didn’t have rims but he was doing so much that he was bound to hit the edge of whatever. He did an awesome job

[@skeratix11]

Who could hate the beginning of this? 2:10

[@milesweckerle]

The Miles council graciously accepts you as our new leader.

[@RADZADproductions]

This man is a legend. Imagine if he marched vanguard.

[@drumcorps0junkie]

RADZADproductions 🥁🏆🥁

[@averybondeson3322]

He would be just as good

[@noahcole6622]

This is such a funny comment lol

[@popeyesailor9571]

His playing is very melodic.

[@hunterricard4529]

everyone is talking about rims when you should be talking about he did amazing w/o

[@emileloranger1039]

He is a god

[@anemchalupa2083]

hmmm... yes.. quite..

[@Mgmin7724]

MY EYES

[@sebmaster36]

Was hoping for chewbacca drop 2.0

[@briancantero6123]

Sebastian Gutierrez LMAO

[@partychicken1229]

Jesus that was good

[@soggybread5406]

crazy year for tenor i&e considering the person who got second was jake murillo a high schooler marching la stars

[@VCWstopmotion]

Damn poor drum 4 4:13

[@ricky.beats.]

Rims are honestly something you run into on every type of marching drum. You hit them on accident, it’s a thing. I just want every person who has gotten on Miles back about rim hitting to play the solo perfectly, and never hit the rim.

[@karanbhakta2665]

Damn that groove at 2:40

[@trimacoplays7686]

dont know why but it sound like my highschool's cadence for some reason just with a bunch cut out

[@popeyesailor9571]

Dangerous parts there! that is flamalicious,

[@GavinVillarrubia]

That groove 1:30 in

[@llamedica]

Wow!

[@kanekiken-wg1ff]

If I could get lessons from u everything would be perfect at school 😂

[@twentyfoursworld624]

Fucking loves how he does that last hit ending at 4:20

[@drumbergunnerer3162]

Well... I am just not that good with my set of tenors.. Haha.. Hell of a job man, tasty licks!

[@maxdeming1620]

God

[@theden_08]

hey to anybody that has seen an I and E tenor solo in person, are the tenors loud in that big room? I'm just curios because I haven't seen a drumline up close in a while

[@willblackburn2394]

He signed my sticks once!!!

[@JayRev_Music]

killer. period.

[@drumbergunnerer3162]

Well... I suck at tenors now haha.. One hell of a job man.. I think i am sweating..

[@xxramenxx6086]

God damn bd has always had the hottest drummers...

[@jjynja6084]

I see lots of roasting on how he shouldn’t have gotten first with all those rim ticks and stuff but the way I see it is that he’s definitely a great player. He’s brought something new and refreshing to the I&e table. A good display of chops while still being really interesting, interesting and groovy. I like it but that doesnt mean other people can’t. I get why people prefer the more classic chop outs of scv style players and stuff where it’s more about perfection. I think this solo is less about perfection and more about bringing a new difficulty to i&e that is theoretically possible. I like it

[@alexramirez2998]

Jjynja the difficulty/demand of the solo is really high and I agree with what you say. However, these solos should be heavily based on execution as opposed to trying to play 90000 beats in under 5 min. Idk Maybe I’m being harsh but I don’t think this shoulda taken 1st .: too many mistakes that take away from the solo itself

[@jjynja6084]

@@alexramirez2998 I think judging something like this will always be just a bit subjective. I see what you mean but I feel as though the judges sometimes have to make a decision between execution and demonstration of skill. To me, the fact that this solo pushed boundaries in solo tenor playing makes up for the few points of missed execution. He didn't get a perfect score he just happened to score better than anyone who competed. Thats what I think. I also just enjoy this solo and what it made me believe is possible on tenor drum. This and SCV solos are so coool in different ways and I love it

[@alexramirez2998]

Jjynja I watched the other two runner up videos and I take back what I said; he did beat the other two tenor i&e’s lol .. some years are just better than others I guess .. that’s what I revert my comment to. And yes absolutely agree with the SCV stuff 🔥

[@jjynja6084]

@@alexramirez2998 I gotta say I respect your openness to my view because alot of comments on blue devils videos are just ripping on them for one reason or another. I like the Blue Devils but I also Like SCV it's not like I have to only like one or the other ya feel? Its just art in the end

[@rockstep7052]

Kids throwing some notes, dudes. Good hands, my dude

[@yuhere4429]

what's the sticking for the right hand on sprock 1:26

[@gabrielQ5]

I remember of cris in 2012

[@FollowJesus777-KING]

How does he still have arms? I was expecting them fall of at any moment

[@TrippyPlaysMC]

Everyone is talking about the rims, yet I haven't seen anyone at anything about how his drum closet to his knees than his waist😂 he has to bend over to play😂. I'm not sure if he just 7' tall or this is the new way to play but that's not how I was raised🤷‍♂️

[@xdude2011]

Mo lower tenors is better for hard rounds and moving around alot

[@hunterwhittaker9291]

Raised huh? So ur 9th grade year band raised you?

[@carlreynolds1111]

Were those double stroke scrapes from 3:48 on all over the place?

[@AustinKU123]

yall complain about the rims like he had a choice in the matter. The corps made his tenors like that.

[@antianti328]

😍

[@parisvitale2830]

👏🏾

[@megablaster3605]

4:20 i like it no wonder he won

[@loudandclearmedia]

Damn

[@kylegardner9240]

3:41 Those shots hit me in the head.

[@saintbarbosa9729]

juicy juice

[@theunknowndrummer1209]

Presenting the krabby patty!

[@Mgmin7724]

MY EYES

[@dogestep64]

Wow he should join dci

[@jakehd2908]

2:11 love it

[@jay-el9pg]

I’m not sure if he messed up at 2:25 but it still sounded awesome

[@harleyhoselton9457]

yeah he did

[@hunterwhittaker9291]

All y'all hating on the rims but it's more of a trademark to be different. They don't even have cutouts anymore and they showed y'all up by playing just the same good so go away head asses😂

[@mattmalato6186]

If you want to join our band, we welcome you

[@beanspeople4414]

Me: flushes toilet Toilet: 2:18

[@kitam1271]

終始、手が分身してんだよなぁ(震え声)

[@avjinderdool2180]

2:44 that's the rhythm for a cadence I play on quads in my school hah

[@showboat1556]

Funky

[@alexmattthes9987]

Can you name your first child Ben? Because of your last name

[@stevenjeffery8449]

Miles kennobie. Is there sheet music for this?

[@egdfilms5636]

Miles Kennobie I would love to learn it!

[@DinoDays703]

Pls tell me there is

[@chocolatebutter8445]

Anyone know if I can get a hold of sheet music for this or is there none?

[@Johan_Liebert___]

I don’t think there is any

[@GavinVillarrubia]

How are you humanly possible

[@isaiah_singh]

Is there anywhere I can buy this music?

[@tens8635]

It was most likely not written out

[@griffingarner2478]

People be bitching about him hitting rims with the cut outs, but can’t even do a snippet of his solo

[@tortillasarenotbiceps7622]

Him: Plays the impossible to near perfection. Me: Makes 41 mistakes watching.

[@baconbitz7937]

Hello there

[@carolinshining-warner2020]

How dat?

[@evanmnichproductions]

The 41 dislikes are people who hate the rim ticks

[@Nicky_T]

general kenobi

[@skeratix11]

Chris Drummer Versus Miles Kenobbie

[@jkhardeman]

I thought his solo sounded a lot like Chris'.

[@wttn9661]

Can we just take a second to soak in that shot at 4:14

[@RHG_Music]

Sheets?

[@OreoCinima]

buT WheRe arE tHE riMs ?

[@egdfilms5636]

Crunchy Oreo exactly

[@danieldavis2049]

Up my ass to the right.

[@ZmarRidez]

Daniel Davis left*

[@maxdeming1620]

Gor

[@Novus_-tq1ro]

3:58 boy I wish I could do that

[@Johan_Liebert___]

Practice makes perfect