Top 10 DCI Mellophone Moments

[@Israel-Niles]

As a euphonium, I ADORE the sound of mellophones. I love how they can have emotion at the same time as playing as loud as they can.

[@DubABattery]

Trombone here, and I feel the same way.

[@scrimbles2973]

The Crown 12/13 lick gets me every time

[@KiranSundarkdog97]

And technically ‘23!

[@lobsterpokemon1376]

also in 2021

[@austinross1825]

They put that in so many shows I love it. I wonder if there’s any significance behind it?

[@Rocdar12]

I love being in the thumbnail! Marched mello with the Cadets in 2013, 2014, and 2015! Great years! UNBELIEVABLE section in 2015! I will always cherish these years, but especially 2015! ❤️💛

[@cano_music]

That’s awesome! 15 cadets is one of my favorite brass books of all time!

[@trombonen3rd545]

Watch vanguard 2017, the entire show is pretty much a mello feature lol

[@whydoialmosthave500subs4]

2018 too

[@Arfan_Hossain]

My band director marched scv ‘17 and was lead mello🔥🔥🔥

[@obamalover1300]

@@Arfan_Hossainsick

[@macerunner4674]

hi person i definitely don't know

[@skytheimpaler]

Tied with BAC '17 as my favorite show of all time. 2017 was such a good season in general

[@Mike_Knows_-INSERT_SUBJECT-]

2024 Phantom Regiment has entered the chat and demands an edit. 24 mellos, 6 feet from the 1st row, max air ……. You can feel it in your chest.

[@ColonialForbin]

I was in the second row on prelims it was insane

[@gwreevesReeves]

The park-n-bark part of Spin Cycle (Cavs '03) was legendary. Other corps would stick around after every performance just to hear that mello lick.

[@thebundinator9243]

When in the show is that

[@gwreevesReeves]

@@thebundinator9243 At about the 8:50 mark.

[@sylviadinnam2343]

I was on tour with spirit in 03 .. diamond drill park and bark mellos were loudest moment of all groups that year in cavaliers show

[@dankelly1426]

@@gwreevesReeves /By 8:50 it's almost over. Start around 8:36.

[@gwreevesReeves]

​@@dankelly1426I think different uploads had different starting points. It's possible the version you watched had 15 seconds of intro truncated.

[@cameronschwarz3950]

The scv 2018 clip should have included the final mello sustain lol. Nice list though

[@cano_music]

imma be real I lowkey disagree, all it is is a sustain and sure it sounds good but I think there are better moments imo

[@totesgene]

@@cano_musicthat hit was the single greatest moment of the entire 2018 season IMO.

[@shmevanriceballz2857]

⁠@@cano_musicyou’re an L man. Mandis 2019 and cadets 2015 mello feature over 2018 scv is criminal

[@charliewood2.023]

5:25 cloud was a paid actor 😂

[@cano_music]

Fr

[@Zacthephotographer]

Cadets 1993, Crown 2012 and best of all Star of Indiana 1991!

[@norcalmom2462]

This entire list could be vangaurd and no one would disagree. Unreal

[@Finetales]

For me it has to be the big ballad hit from SCV 2018. That mello melody lives in my head rent-free, and I don't usually have any DCI anything in my head lol. In terms of craziest runs, the G mello books were totally insane back in the day. Easy example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3aZeniva8plrdE but there's all of Star of Indiana's history and Madison '88 just to name a few insane mello books.

[@lobsterpokemon1376]

You should check out blue knights 2015 closer as well as phantom 2003's canon hits in opener and closer

[@davepeep]

mandarins 2018 will always be my fav show

[@azxtnt]

Bluecoats 2023 has some insane mello parts

[@williamsanborn9195]

I'm sorry, but the SCV '18 lick will always have my heart.

[@legendz8140]

Blue stars 2023 is one of my personal favorites!

[@azh4579]

Glad to see Cadets 2015 get some recognition. They won the Ott for a reason, absolutely monstrous hornline

[@scottghall1]

I believe it was the Blue Devils, or maybe the Phantom Regiment, but in 1976 there was a mellophone duet opener for Chase The Clouds Away.

[@Mark-sj3xb]

The Mother of All Mello Runs: 1991 Star of Indiana That show was a master class in Mellophone artistry. Star wrote the textbook

[@drchuck9]

1998 Cadets was essentially an 11-minute-long mello feature.

[@k_zildjian4460]

I'm guessing it was waaayyy before your time, but you should listen to Garfield Cadets '83. There are two kinds of drum corps shows--before 83 Cadets and after 83 Cadets. It's not as clean or intricate as some of the ones on your list (surely a limitation of the g-bugle), but in the age of "louder, higher, faster" it was the first time I can remember middle horns truly being featured in a show. Everyone tends to talk about the innovative drill design, but for me it was the mellophone book that stood out.

[@xzutar-_-]

Spirit of atlanta had a crazy melos this year

[@lukeduarte7840]

As a mello player I agree. A slap in the face

[@Encyclopedist]

There are some fine clips in here, but in general, if you think the ten greatest examples of something (ten best books, ten best movies, ten best hail-mary passes, whatever) can all be found in the past ten years, that's probably a sign that you haven't explored very far. I envy you for your future and presumably ear-opening explorations into drum corps performance.

[@James-r8d5u]

Check out the PR 1996 mello lick

[@cano_music]

Will do!

[@Raymond_Churchill]

How is scv 2018 mello feature ranked that far down

[@cano_music]

hey these are my opinions and I’m totally not biased after marching mandarins

[@naelegion3055]

​@@cano_music You marched Mandarins?? That's awesome. What year(s)?

[@cano_music]

@naelegion3055 23 and this upcoming year

[@Raymond_Churchill]

​@cano_music I respect the opinion, and while I didn't think it's third, opinions are opinions. My bad, I didn't know that you marched the Mandarins and the show this year was one of my favorites!

[@cano_music]

@raymondchurchill9133 hell yeah dude! Vanguard 18 was definitely a legendary show

[@colelmore]

I’d like to put 2017 Blue Stars into the running for this! So much good mello writing in that show

[@prestonjones20013]

You cut off Felliniesque before the best Mello moment of the whole show

[@justamaninTN]

Cadets consistently have the best mellos going all the way back to 1983 with Barbara Maroney.

[@Sharkacy]

dude, how many freaking mellophones did cadets ‘15 have??!!!?

[@YoungQuist00]

Almost all of SCV 2018 was a mello feature 😅 my first dci show… troopers 2023 was my first in person

[@mxtty5633]

Madison scouts 1988 closer though, mellos are ROARIN

[@CRAVEST0]

Phantom Regiment 2003, some interesting Mello parts in there... anyway, the video is great!

[@danielmcconnell5902]

Wait until you discover 1987 Cadets.

[@ClutchKilla]

Not even in the comments, no one is talking about Phantom 08 -- the legendary Spartacus!

[@ChristopherNelson42]

Ok I’m actually mad that Bluecoats 2011 creep isn’t on this list.

[@cano_music]

Very good show

[@dankelly1426]

Nice picks for the 2000's. If interested, check out Cadets and Star from the late 80's up to 93. George Z. had the 91 mello's up front in the drill for almost the whole show.

[@steverman2312]

You should see phantom regiment 2015’s closer, theres a pretty epic mello rip in it, just four guys, doing a high C that just cuts through the whole ensemble

[@bloxxer_boy]

Blue Stars 2010 opener tho

[@colelmore]

And 2017!

[@totesgene]

How did you cut off before the sustained mello hit in Vanguard 2018? That was perhaps the single greatest mello moment. You should also go back further. There was a lot of great mellow work in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Fun watch. Thank you.

[@Penguinrex09]

SCV 18 and Bloo 23 are my top 2. Its impossible to not thing SCV 18 and their closer when I hear my friend (currently auditioning for corps as a mellie) play anything

[@Jacob_Brown]

Can I make a request for this. Cadets 1992 mello run.

[@cano_music]

I’ll make sure to make an honorable mentions list!

[@macerunner4674]

I'm not 100% sure but i think thats the one thats just the most insane thing I've ever heard

[@Jacob_Brown]

@@macerunner4674 look up cadets 1992 and listen to the last 2 minutes and you’ll see what I’m talking about

[@cano_music]

@macerunner4674 Probably 1998

[@burdrchitect1680]

The Cadets Mello writing for the whole 90s decade is crazy... my favorite is Cadets 1998 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3aZeniva8plrdEsi=vaIoBdjiB63r-nbw

[@scottwilliams6835]

You need to take some time in the wayback machine. All the way back to the 80's my friend. The hit from the 4 mellophones that buries the rest of the horns near the end of 89 SCV. The cavvies lines of the late 80's with the rips. Double C's from the mello's a the end of the opener in 92 SCV. The G mellophone was TWICE the horn the new F mello's are. WAY more range and much more distinctive cutting sound.

[@MiraDaWulf]

Theres too many to put into just ten. But Bloo19 ballad, ehhhhhhhh

[@dci_boi]

I found you again

[@nwmusic2010]

Phantom regiment ❤

[@Kerflappadoodle]

I know these are opinionated, but I love crowns 2014 mellos

[@cano_music]

Really really good brass line for a really really good book

[@anna._olsen_]

the whole scv 18 show was just a mello feature

[@disastreee]

2016 bluecoats opener hit thooo

[@kasmith2020]

PR 07? It’s firebird!

[@TheFelloMello]

2010 Stars Opener 😎👌

[@hornplayerchris]

Mellophones didn't exist before 2010?

[@HavenMarches]

I may be a bit biased but BK 2019

[@walterwhite6605]

lol, how can this list miss almost any show of the Star of Indiana....?

[@brandonmathis1892]

Vanguard 2016 opener should be no 1

[@RNG-Hater-456-ju8bj]

5:20 lol mello ticks

[@notbryan2076]

Whats that song at the end? Kinda reminds me of adagio for strings

[@cano_music]

It’s Shostakovich 10 Movement 2

[@notbryan2076]

@@cano_music i mean the song after cadets on the black screen

[@notbryan2076]

@@cano_music symphony 10 mvmt 2 and 3 are bangers tho

[@cano_music]

@notbryan2076 it’s an original piece I wrote that I have on my channel called bittersweetly

[@etucker434]

SCV 2018 should have been higher on the list.

[@bradsweeney5781]

Need more crown. Boom

[@spazz7957]

i liked coats creep

[@jeffe_77]

While I totally get that this is a subjective list, perhaps changing the title to My Top 10 DCI Mellophone Moments 2010 - Present. Here's an example from Star 1991 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/apjVlnygnNKVd80si=u2OMQrsGDhSujDrV&t=263

[@phregh9676]

No Crown '23?

[@cano_music]

Nah their show def had some moments but none came across my top 10

[@SALEENS7GTR5]

9ths: The Video

[@brianaw220]

Phantom 96

[@gabrielfaure9091]

Alternate title: “My favorite mello licks in the past decade heavily skewed to the past 3 years.” Do yourself a favor and watch DCI before Lucas Oil. I suspect you haven’t seen anything before ‘14 because Crown isn’t mentioned. 1980’s Cadets too.

[@cano_music]

Damn dude chill lmao

[@cano_music]

I have but I genuinely prefer the modern ones? I can have an opinion

[@KlldbyCuriosity]

ok but contra moments never get credit

[@clarkfitzgerald8814]

Is this a troll video???

[@hunteravellona]

this list is actually so incredibly based

[@supersop]

i love how this ignores the mello wars of the early 90's between star and cadets or the late 80's cavies or 82 cadets...... I'm not posting about old vs. new but my friend ..... do some research. Even mid 80's Scouts beats most of this.

[@cano_music]

Dawg this is personal opinion