The Blue Devils 2024 Battery

[@DatGuyWithNoName]

These drums are finally sounding similar to those beautiful 2015 Pearls. Keep it up Devs!

[@SS2Balls]

@@DatGuyWithNoName on god

[@Inspadave]

You actually like this tuning?

[@vitorrodriguesgoncalves1971]

🧢

[@Mybackupphone-q6n]

Now go listen to SCV😊

[@TheLilmike248]

Maybe if they went away with SB snare heads they would. They are too low and dry to be anything close to the Pearls. You can only crank that head so much.

[@vinhle4414]

2:36 even though his stick got stuck he still came back in those rolls cleannn

[@PerfectlyNormalHumanBeing]

This quad line is nutty💀

[@PerfectlyNormalHumanBeing]

I really like this book, I hope it doesn’t get watered down and the staff actually give the performers a chance to achieve it

[@dlev12]

Best sounding ludwig snares I’ve seen

[@drumdilly]

What?

[@drewguysound1294]

It’s a little close up to really tell but yeah they’re definitely better.

[@markoates9057]

The basses sound incredible

[@jonnyeis]

You can see sound my dude?!? Loll jk but really the bd drum sound IMHO has come a long way since the switch to Ludwig

[@dlev12]

@@markoates9057 I liked them better last year and I saw them up close in person

[@Christianburk_e]

2:52 2022 opener reference 😮

[@mel-px7hl]

*2015 feature reference 😉

[@SS2Balls]

my king is back 👑, and so are those high singing tenors :)

[@EricPeelMusic]

Out of tune tenors.

[@PerfectlyNormalHumanBeing]

7:33 casual quad & snare hand to hand lmfao

[@garylagstrom3864]

Go Audrey! Rooting for you!

[@garrettchurchey]

Giving me mid-2000’s and mid-2010’s vibes with the aggression, demand, verticality, and tempos in the writing this year. Me gusta

[@EricPeelMusic]

Except the stupid swiping monkey strokes thing. That wasn’t so vertical.

[@the.alexkim]

Damn that battery feature is hard 6:45

[@leelah9950]

I WAS THERE!!!

[@KeerthanDiddige]

2:13 that’s a demanding tenor break fasho

[@ebifurai415]

so good!

[@ThatWasLoud]

Do you want to collab

[@mcgrud]

For the algorithm. ✊

[@LijyMarching]

My dream is to the on thier tenor line. Im trying out after I graduate this year.

[@derrickalaniz6244]

Ay man I believe in you Come back to update

[@GarthParris-d3i]

Good Drum Music!

[@xoespin]

more aggressive than the last two years im hyped for august fr

[@DanielBenson-Cassell]

What happen to Laurent Chang?

[@LORDKROOL]

He aged out in 2023 unfortunately🥲

[@garylagstrom3864]

Questions: To BD staff: your thoughts on BD’s book this year with Scojo and Rudy going for a Sanford? Second can they get the book: PISS CLEAN before Finals? Thanks!

[@bimasindim9021]

go blue devil

[@bibir_beni]

it's hard, but they're playing a really significant rhythm born melody. hmm, is it another gold for the devils?

[@DougGoble]

I could see these guys doing a show with Slipknot 🥁💵

[@jakemf1]

Scoops are back not sure what they ever went away they direct the sound upwards. Scojo still at the top of his game

[@EricPeelMusic]

They direct sound forward, not upward. They’re angled roughly 45deg. Think of what angle a mirror 45deg would do to a light source directed downward.

[@ti4m1u0]

BD 1995 8:26

[@imdome9768]

them ludwigs are singing

[@christopherbowers7219]

Classic BD writing!!!!!!!

[@Mybackupphone-q6n]

And Classic BD dirt...Lol😊

[@christopherbowers7219]

@user-of1hd2dy1t Early in the season. Who you got taking drums?

[@fred....]

👍♥️💥🌈🌹✨❤️

[@gfcsdad]

4:35 is dirty af.

[@was920]

Granted the book is a lot more technical than Boston's, I gotta say this sounds a WHOLE lot muddier than Boston right now.

[@pacibels_cannon]

They don't prioritize cleanliness early season, just wait and you can make a fair comparison later

[@CommentCorrector]

They’re winning?

[@clb9081]

1st note.....

[@ebifurai415]

they aren't as clean as vanguard but their book is harder imo

[@CommentCorrector]

It’s the same every year. Their book is harder but never truly clean

[@itsthat_1_guy]

I'm in bd battery to for the c corp that is

[@adamis_____5]

8:26

[@EricPeelMusic]

Holy crap, someone please get the quad heads in tune!

[@isaacmartinez2102]

Totally sold out, the BD lines of the late 90's, and early 2000's were epitomie of greatness. The pre Brandon era was the best.

[@galaxybrainkid1222]

Agreed

[@urbandecayed79]

4:22 Great. They turned Blue Devils into a ballet troupe

[@Jona_2006]

Se ven mas debiluchos que el año pasado

[@gregjacksun]

SCV Better this time.

[@Salamitommy-d5m]

Easy to play cleaner when you are playing a 3 times more simple book

[@listener84]

@@Salamitommy-d5mRennick focuses heavily on fundamentals early on, which is why vanguard is cleaner early on. Different approach, both are great.

[@gregjacksun]

@@Salamitommy-d5m That's why I said "this time"

[@gregjacksun]

​@@Salamitommy-d5m I will say I dig BD's writing though. Seems a little more adventurous than recent. Is Scott Johnson still writing this?

[@ConnerBrown-tq8vx]

@@Salamitommy-d5m Name 3 things BD is playing Vanguard isn’t also playing right now.

[@JohnSmith-zi9or]

Everything is just rammed and fast. No musicality. This is the problem with modern day DCI. This style needs to die. I'm not a boomer.

[@jakemf1]

Watch the entire show musically is not the issue the scores are going to reflect that just watch

[@the.alexkim]

Wait till this guy watches Boston haha more notes more fun

[@BDizDaBest]

You may not be a boomer, but you still have a lame-ass boomer mentality towards the activity. So...congrats on being boomer-adjacent, I guess? Haha

[@BerserkRain]

Saying that when this is literally a reflection of mid-2000s and early 2010s style book is funny. But also, there were plenty of parts that literally had musicality also literally their book last year was pure musicality as well. I wouldn't stress about BD for one time having moments in the book where they are playing fast and have notes. Literally the Cadets and Phantom back in the day rammed to another level before modern DCI.

[@JohnSmith-zi9or]

@@BerserkRain Music does not need percussion to be busy like this. I swear if GenZ had to play the National Anthem, they'd ram beats all throughout it. Sometimes less is more. But not for these kids. That's why your shows are incredibly boring and stupid. No large and evolving marching forms. Park and blow. Battery just ramming.

[@TXBD4964]

Please go back to Yamaha 😢

[@DariusHickman13]

The Sanford is coming back to the Devs🧼🔥💯🏆🥁

[@artbenny]

Santa Clara Vanguards has much better drummers. Their percussion section is why better than these guys.

[@edgarserrano1296]

alright foo chill 😂

[@John-p4s]

this is just garbage, even for early season. “you couldn’t play those beats if you tried”, yeah yeah I don’t care. cope with someone having a different opinion. all bd ever does is field beats that lack musicality and cleanliness. they may be super technical, but it’s awful for the vast majority of the season. it’s honestly pitiful.

[@dylanwedde]

i love bringing other people down over the internet! maybe instead of sitting alone in your basement being a keyboard warrior and dogging on people for not being perfect 100% of the time, you could instead applaud these people for the work they’ve put in! just a thought!

[@JesusScycolaTheThird]

☝🤓

[@pokemonlvr727]

“this is just garbage” ☝️🤓

[@JesusScycolaTheThird]

bro felt so tough after this one guys 😈

[@John-p4s]

@@dylanwedderespectfully, no! these are the blue devils we’re talking about! this is the problem with society nowadays, people like you want participation trophies and handouts. “Just applaud them” - absolutely not. Not when the bar has been consistently raised over the years by not only them, but other corps as well. You can’t just field garbage and expect me or others to automatically give a round of applause for doing something difficult, but doing it really bad at the same time. That’s not drum corps. The standard is the standard, and I will not disrespect the activity by lowering my standards.