The Band of the Grenadier Guards - Grenadier Guards Black Sunday 2024

[@ArmedForcesVideos7]

Excellent video MBE! What an amazing sound. Glad you could make it.

[@Haideprinzesschen]

yes, i like it also ;) greetings from berlin

[@mervwhitney7229]

Thank you. I can never get too much of this.

[@QuicknStraight]

Always great to hear Alte Kameraden (Josef Wagner), one of the great German marches.

[@nicolayordanov9799]

Hello, MBE! Recently I have been learning more about British military bands and their traditions. Everywhere online I have read that most bands march at 116 BPM at the Quick March tempo. What I see, though is that on live performances like this one, they march somewhat slower. I would like to know why that is. Keep up the good work! Love your content!

[@MilitaryBandsEverywhere]

Hi Nicola, thanks for your kind comments. Great to hear you are learning about everything! 116 is the official marching tempo for duties in the British Army when conducting heavy drill. Light drill is faster and used by the light infantry (Rifles and Gurkhas at around 140bpm). The Grenadier Guards Band are marching around 104 - 108 here. This is because veterans are part of the parade therefore the pace is usually slower to allow them to keep in step for the duration of the parade.

[@nicolayordanov9799]

Thank you very much!

[@AlbaAlba-fg2io]

Good afternoon from Italy! Really lovely, Band Grenadiers and music!! But, sorry, why "Black Sunday"? Strange! Very very good❤

[@QuicknStraight]

It's a ceremony commemorating members of the British Army that gave their lives in service.

[@AlbaAlba-fg2io]

@@QuicknStraight Thank you very much for explaination! Interesting to know, as I love british ceremonies, events, traditions... Grazie, nice day!

[@anthonyhyatt-td9ps]

Wow

[@Reggie_91]

Great video as always! Good to see a larger than normal brass section out (no bias) and also Drum Major Beasley on parade one again. One question would be did the Corp Of Drums intensionally play that intro into Old Comrades? It seemed to work anyway

[@stephenking6125]

It was actually the intro to Hazlemere. Misunderstanding the order of marches to be played perhaps.

[@daveleadbeater7652]

What's with the bowlers & umbrellas?

[@e.chambers2973]

They denote officers, past and serving. Dates from the 1920s when the army prescribed the walking out attire of its soldiers from barracks and a bowler hat, suit, tie and a furled umbrella were standard gentlemen's attire. The Grenadiers' Black Sunday, a regimental event, is organized through its regimental association (made up of the regiment's former and all serving members) which prescribes dress for participants - dark suits, medals, regimental tie and for officers the added traditional bowler/coke hat and brolly that by tradition is never to be unfurled, except to protect a lady from the elements. (The Scots Guards is the only regiment among the foot guards that prescribes no headdress for all attendees at its annual Black Sunday event on the principle that there should be no differentiation of rank at a remembrance event.)

[@daveleadbeater7652]

@@e.chambers2973 LOL!

[@e.chambers2973]

@@daveleadbeater7652 😀. But delightfully and quintessentially British!

[@obvious-troll]

ruperts

[@hazel1605]

@@e.chambers2973thank you for the info,interesting 😊

[@anthonybrooker2702]

Have they been poaching from the BOYS BRIGADE BAND or Dwarfs are us ?