This Japanese marching band genuinely shocked me. I had no clue there was marching band this amazing in Japan! Watch the original video here: • 創価ルネサンスバンガード 2016メインショ...
If they were to perform their shows as they do now, they would be amazing but would not dominate simply because the shows are built for our judges sheets. They would have to rethink how they build their shows
I remember watching a documentary in middle school about a Japanese band. Granted it was a concert band, but what I learned was that almost everything they did was self taught after school, learning from their section leaders with limited time. I don’t know how much of their marching shows are self-taught, but the dedication and skill that they have is incredibly impressive!
I sincerely hope that DCI actually goes international in the future, it would be so cool to see so many corps from so many contrives compete and would revitalize the sport in so many ways.
I fell into the Japanese marching arts hole after watching Nishihara High School 2000-2001. Great precision from each member, I highly suggest giving it a view.
My kids high school marching band just got a foreign exchange student from Japan this past Saturday in his section (trombone). It’ll fun to watch her this season to see how she does!
So man there’s this Japanese high school that had a very similar show to Avon’s 2007 Against the Clock or Avon’s show was similar to theirs. It was AMAZING. i think it was nishihara marching band 07. (Sp) If I remember right Dean Westman was a consultant with them and that video is gone. It was so cool. The drill was insanely paced. Like balls to the wall stuff and I hate myself that I’ll never be able to find it again.
I saw that Nishihara band, and I used to have it bookmarked. I think they took the video down. I believe the opener was Libertango. It was indeed insane. Non stop movement.
In high school we had a japanese band come every 4 years. As a college musician now i still go back and watch. Insane talent and dedication happening across the sea
if you're interested in corps style hs band, i recommend shonandai high school's recent shows. they're the reigning jmba champions and they are crazy. parade-focused bands like tachibana often receive the spotlight but corps style bands are amazing as well. (i think nishihara and aimachi were big names a few years back but i don't know too much about them.)
Big fan of Nishihara HS and Seika Girls. The small stage marching performances are amazing too. One group that now seems missing is Mukogawa University women's drum corps. For symphonic band i like Osaka Toin -- they do some marching too at All-Japan competitions..
Did you notice only two things that had a lil mistake. The first one one 3:00 missed the point of the group on stage left. Then color guard dropped the saber at 10:00. Both recovered amazingly. But damn just to feel that bass brass resonating in the room would feel amazing. Color guard did wonderful. This was magnificent. Gave me all the feels.
It would be really cool if you guys reacted to amachi 2016 and 2014 from WGI Winds. Both of those shows are absolutely insane and that is another Japanese group. Then, while you are at it it would be cool to see what y’all think of Avon 2022, the highest scoring winds show of all time, and Stryke 2023 which is another one of my favorite winds shows ever.
This band obviously gets some inspiration from top DCI corps but they execute as well or better than any I have seen. This is an amazing band and I would love to see them compete with DCI corps. Great job, I love it.
I have some information I want to talk! ・Soka Renaissance Vanguard is a band centered on 18-40 students and working adults, and in JMBA (an abbreviation of Japan Marching Band Association), it is a band that shines in the first place 17 times, which is the most in the association! ・As many people have noticed, there are people in this band who teach Blue Devils. ・There should be a lot of shows in the video other than this year, so please take a look if you like! ( My recommended season is 2018, 2019) There are many bands other than this band, so please check it out! Thank you very much.😊
I am incredibly confused right now, because wasn’t the original video of the Japanese marching band in the video posted before Metamorph was even performed? Did some people in common work on both metamorph and this show? But this Japanese show was uploaded in March 2017, before Metamorph was even performed/popularized (if I’m not mistaken). I don’t know if my brain is gaslighting me right now so please correct me if I am wrong. This is regarding the lick at 5:48
I don't know SRV's specific schedule, but most of the "Community" JMBA groups that compete against SRV in November/December rehearse during the Fall in a similar manner as many of the all-age WGI World groups do for the most part (essentially all day weekend camps). Honestly our pageantry competitions don't really favor the Japanese calendar very well which is why we don't see many groups come over here to compete. Cost is the biggest issue of course, but dozens of Japanese groups have attended the Midwest Clinic over the years because December is the perfect time of year to do an America trip because it's during the calmest part of their own band calendars. Same with the Tournament of Roses parade. You'll never see a Japanese scholastic group compete at Dayton because it's right at the beginning of their schoolyear when their seniors have left and they just started a new batch of rookies. Aimachi does it because they're non-scholastic and all-age. The only example I can think of a Japanese scholastic group competing in an American contest was Seika Girls SHS competing at a band festival in California in 2005/06 following their appearance in the Tournament of Roses Parade. There's no published recap as far as I know but I do know Seika handily won the contest and swept all 5 captions.
Hey, I was just curious what the job you were talking about that you do. You said you're a movie composer. I want to go into some sort of music field in the future and was curious if you have any tips to get into that industry.
Hey man! Yeah I went to school for film composing at Berklee College of Music and then I got my masters at USC! Definitely look into schools that have film scoring programs!
Fun fact. Japanese Military Bands do a marching festival every November at the Budikan Hall in Tokyo. The US Band in Japan participates in that festival. I got to write shows three of the four years I was there. They also have Taiko drummers come and when they all get together on stage there are over a hundred of them and you can feel your internal organs rattle. Good times. 😊
This is the first time I have seen something like this. I am a big Kyoto Tachibana fan and this adds to my enjoyment. However, I would prefer a little more of the band and a little less commentary during the performance. Also, a closer view would be nice. Keep up the good work.
It would be awsome if you checked out the Calgary Stampede Showband from Calgary Alberta Canada! They recently hired John Meehan as director which is freakin amazing
Amazing. What high school (9-12) program is this? When can they (fiscal school year) start learning visual and music instruction? Or is it even a US type education? Are they on a private school year round? Do they have concert and marching seasons? Is this a magma or recruitment type program? How can we get kids(senior and below) in the US to march this clean!?!?! ❤
If it's not their home floor, and I suspect it isn't, then there are no markings on the floor, and it doesn't look like there are. The visual design consists mostly of block drill, so they guide off of each other: ranks, files, columns, diagonals, secondary diagonals, intervals, even during rotational moves. Not "follow the leader" stuff, but pure awareness at every moment. Old school. Look at the fields for some of DCI's early years and before DCI. Many had no lines, other than the 50 and goal lines. They were probably soccer fields. After all, who would give up their big football stadiums for drum... what? Drum and... what? So you learned your shows on lined lots and fields, while getting accustomed to guiding off of the people all around you. Then you'd eventually take it off of the lines and practice with nothing but your fellow members to guide off of. There was no painting the surfaces with your marks. Your steps had to be perfect too, in order to make it all work. You had to be able to march the field blindfolded and hit the yard lines exactly right every time and in all of the various sizes of steps. Fundamentals. This kind of fundamental approach is one of the reasons so many old school drum corps members have no respect for today's activity, which is disappointing, IMO, because it's their fellow members from back in "the day" who have helped the marching arts activities evolve into the amazing stuff the performers are doing today. And the people in that Japanese band have been taught with both, old school fundamentals and modern performance techniques and design. And the package was outstanding. Great stuff happening there. Glad to get to watch it. Sorry for another long winded reply to your channel lol. See everybody at the big screens tomorrow night! Well, afternoon for me.
at least in the past, the lines were one horizontal and one vertical at center of the sqaure. On this video, i see a bit more markings, but perhaps that is for other performances?
I think Crown actually went to one of these competition/showcases in 2014. Heres the link: czcams.com/video/OGxfaAh_r9g/video.html&ab_channel=JerickoManuel
Dude, you're calling them a marching band?!?!? Shame on you!! LOL They are a drum and bugle corps. They started out with G bugles back in the 80s and since then followed DCI's footsteps and moved to Bb's. They’ve even competed in DCI a few times (I think 1992 was the last time, so probably before you were born). Maybe 1992 wasn't here to compete but as an exhibition corps. Look up Pride of Soka. Fuji Drum and Bugle Corps was thier name at inception, used Pride of Soka while they competed/performed in the US, then I think around 1993 or 94, they renamed as SRV (they took the Vanguard name from SCV). Soka means "value creation." Interesting side story - in 1992, while in the US that year, they picked up Yamaha drums to take back home. They competed/performed in A Class, equivalent to the current Open Class (i think that is what they were called back then), so they were done early in the finals week. Later that week, something happened to the Cavaliers' Yamaha drums. They borrowed Soka's drums for the finals as Yamaha could not deliver in time (and they won their first championship 🙂) I used to follow them back then, but not as of late, so I don't know how much they have changed, but at least back in the 80s and 90s, they rehearsed once a week outside by a riverside in Tokyo (outside the city center). Most of the guys had day jobs (they are all males corps). I think the age went up to about mid-30s (again, this might be old info). This is more recent info (maybe still current), but in the 2000s as opposed to the 80/90s: as a Devil, you should know the brass arranger 🙂 I pinged my fellow alumni who I marched with in DCI, who actually taught SRV in the 90s to possibly post a comment for further info. BTW, this performance was a part of their "Victory Concert" after winning their equivalent of DCI Finals. UPDATE: Forgive me as I am a bit old :-) Pride of SOKA is not the same group as them, but a different group within the Soka Gakkai umbrella. Pride of SOKA (formerly known as the Royal Kilties) is a D&BC based out of Soka University in Tokyo, whereas the SRV is made up of Soka Gakkai members, not necessarily associated with the school.
@@Ralph981sorry for the late reply. I was at DCI Finals and didn't watch any CZcams. I can't find anything in English from my quick search. Let me see if I can find anything in Japanese.
Corps under the Soka Gakkai umbrella refer to themselves as drum and brass corps ever since their switch to Bb. I think this was done out of respect for Japanese corps who stick to using G bugles to this day e.g. Yokohama Inspires, The Yokohama Scouts, etc. There was a Soka Gakkai corps that formed in my city at one point (I live in the Philippines btw), headed by someone who used to march in a Soka Gakkai corps and is now teaching percussion at a university in my city. Sadly, they folded during the pandemic and I'm still hoping they would reform bc I would join them in a heartbeat.
@@akaiyui9300 I hope they return to the stage! My home corps are Spirit of Atlanta and Atlanta CV. I'm too old for the former, but I still like watching their shows, and they called it quits for a while before returning this year. I hope for the same for your home corps. 👍 I'm going to check them out now. Thanks a lot for this info. I love hearing about these iterations of the marching arts worldwide.
I became a big fan of Japanese show bands when the Kyoto Tachibana High School band performed in the Rose Parade and Disneyland a few years ago. I was amazed at how balanced their sound was at the high school level without the need to have 200+ winds. Their visuals were so clean too. The Japanese people are perfectionists and it really showed. This indoor arena type of show might have to be DCI’s future what with all the increasing inclement weather affecting shows and climate change. Also, this may be off-putting to some but I actually love that the Japanese audiences, for the most part, are quiet and polite during performances. Sometimes, even American-style audiences are a little bit too extra that it gets too distracting. Especially when there are way too many standing Os.
This band is military marching style band and yes they are excellent. I have saved a lot of videos of them marching and they sound amazing, I especially like their percussion section, the engine room of the band. On a personal note I am a massive,massive fan of the SHS bands and particular the school from Kyoto. The Kyoto Tachibana SHS Band ( nickname the Orange Devil’s). This band is made up of female members and there are 90% of the entire band. They are great musicians and only spend 3 years in the band following graduation to college or university. But their parade style is based on dance , whilst playing beautifully. Take a look on CZcams you won’t be disappointed. Japan is without the world leaders in school marching bands.
Should have been specific @@Ralph981 - I meant DSP audio effects like a trumpet mic'd up for the purposes of reverb, etc. Let the acoustics be acoustic.
They are designed by the same design staff at the blue devils and playing some of the same exact notes that I did when I was at BD. They are incredibly great in their own right, but it is extremely relevant to mention the influence of the marching style and design that is quite literally taught to them by the Blue Devils themselves.
Your audience most of us are watching these videos for the impact of the performance. You speaking at a high volume all the way through it. It is very distracting. We don't get to feel the emotions of the performance. 😔🫢You should play the video One More Time and not talk. When I lived in Japan I would go to Roppongi,Tokyo every weekend hundreds of brass members show up to play together, it was awesome.
I don’t think you understand what a reaction video is. If you want the impact of the performance with no distractions just watch the original video lol.
Imagine having Japanese bands perform in DCI. They would dominate for sure just like aimachi took over indoor winds
There have been Japanese Sr corps come over for DCA....the prob is that DCA's championships are just after the START of the Japanese season.
Aimachi Winterguard 2015 so gooooooooooooooooood
@@martincarpio46 I haven’t checked them out but knowing that their winds were insane, their guard must also be
If they were to perform their shows as they do now, they would be amazing but would not dominate simply because the shows are built for our judges sheets. They would have to rethink how they build their shows
@@tredaviousbowser7931 beautiful shows!! you totally should especially the 2015 one
I remember watching a documentary in middle school about a Japanese band. Granted it was a concert band, but what I learned was that almost everything they did was self taught after school, learning from their section leaders with limited time. I don’t know how much of their marching shows are self-taught, but the dedication and skill that they have is incredibly impressive!
I would love for other nations to appear at DCI finals so that it's actually a world championship
lol fr
world cup: drum corps edition
occasionally drum corps from europe have come to dci iirc but its not that common since dce is more of an all age thing
I sincerely hope that DCI actually goes international in the future, it would be so cool to see so many corps from so many contrives compete and would revitalize the sport in so many ways.
I laughed so hard when I heard the blue devils 14 trumpet feature😂😂
2017*
Crystal by Simon Dobson*
BD brought it to a new audience but it's not theirs.
More of these Japanese marching bands, please!
I love the Howl's moving castle theme and seeing it in a marching composition is so cool. Also love to see the blue devils brass and drum features.
I fell into the Japanese marching arts hole after watching Nishihara High School 2000-2001. Great precision from each member, I highly suggest giving it a view.
It would indeed be so cool to see these guys at a DCI show. Let's make it happen!!
My kids high school marching band just got a foreign exchange student from Japan this past Saturday in his section (trombone). It’ll fun to watch her this season to see how she does!
This group looks more like Drum Corps Japan rather than marching band. I saw nothing but brass instruments. Phenomenal group.
So man there’s this Japanese high school that had a very similar show to Avon’s 2007 Against the Clock or Avon’s show was similar to theirs. It was AMAZING. i think it was nishihara marching band 07. (Sp) If I remember right Dean Westman was a consultant with them and that video is gone. It was so cool. The drill was insanely paced. Like balls to the wall stuff and I hate myself that I’ll never be able to find it again.
It must be 2004!
Check out Marian Catholic’s 1998 show if you have never seen it, the drill is flying all over the field.
I saw that Nishihara band, and I used to have it bookmarked. I think they took the video down. I believe the opener was Libertango. It was indeed insane. Non stop movement.
@@Daniel-lx3pqthank you for confirming I’m not crazy. I too had that shit bookmarked. It was fire!!!
This is sick, its like watching an Everett judges tape 💪 keep at it man!
The way I'm smiling throughout the whole show. Dang this is good!
In high school we had a japanese band come every 4 years. As a college musician now i still go back and watch. Insane talent and dedication happening across the sea
As I know, Soka Renaissance have instructors from The Blue Devils.
They would put open class on it’s behind… give them DCI rehearsal hours and they would possibly break records in WORLD.
this looks more wgi indoor winds combined with wgi indoor percussion and wgi guard than dci.
No.
if you're interested in corps style hs band, i recommend shonandai high school's recent shows. they're the reigning jmba champions and they are crazy. parade-focused bands like tachibana often receive the spotlight but corps style bands are amazing as well. (i think nishihara and aimachi were big names a few years back but i don't know too much about them.)
dude....
DUDE
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥THIS IS SOOOO FIRE!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
upload schedule is insane man, keep it up
dying 😫
Big fan of Nishihara HS and Seika Girls. The small stage marching performances are amazing too. One group that now seems missing is Mukogawa University women's drum corps. For symphonic band i like Osaka Toin -- they do some marching too at All-Japan competitions..
This is gonna be great!!
This would BREEZE into top 12
Soka Gakkai Renaissance Vanguard Marching Band... just amazing!
Did you notice only two things that had a lil mistake. The first one one 3:00 missed the point of the group on stage left. Then color guard dropped the saber at 10:00. Both recovered amazingly. But damn just to feel that bass brass resonating in the room would feel amazing. Color guard did wonderful. This was magnificent. Gave me all the feels.
Feel bad for the person bottom right that went to the wrong set… my eye immediately went there.😢 2:58
rip
Oh wow!
Nishihara 00-01 still one of my favorite high school shows of all time. Definitely worth checking out
They remind of 90s early 00s drum corps.
the fanfare you liked is the intro to The orient express by Philip Sparke. it's a wonderful piece
My father was the leader of this group. I have been to this marching band's concerts many times since I was a child.
Soka Renaissance Vanguard, 2016 Program, "STEAMPUNK - Inventions for the Future"
It would be really cool if you guys reacted to amachi 2016 and 2014 from WGI Winds. Both of those shows are absolutely insane and that is another Japanese group. Then, while you are at it it would be cool to see what y’all think of Avon 2022, the highest scoring winds show of all time, and Stryke 2023 which is another one of my favorite winds shows ever.
There’s tons of rep similarities to Flowermound high school in 16/17 I wouldn’t be surprised to find that flomo has some BD staff people as well
Perc goes crazy
This band obviously gets some inspiration from top DCI corps but they execute as well or better than any I have seen. This is an amazing band and I would love to see them compete with DCI corps. Great job, I love it.
I have some information I want to talk!
・Soka Renaissance Vanguard is a band centered on 18-40 students and working adults, and in JMBA (an abbreviation of Japan Marching Band Association), it is a band that shines in the first place 17 times, which is the most in the association!
・As many people have noticed, there are people in this band who teach Blue Devils.
・There should be a lot of shows in the video other than this year, so please take a look if you like! ( My recommended season is 2018, 2019)
There are many bands other than this band, so please check it out! Thank you very much.😊
Crankin’ em out lately!
😂😂😂😂 I died as soon as I heard the trumpet feature!
Their guard is so good!
time traveler confirmed
@@shloakmehta I knew you would say that 😂
I am incredibly confused right now, because wasn’t the original video of the Japanese marching band in the video posted before Metamorph was even performed? Did some people in common work on both metamorph and this show? But this Japanese show was uploaded in March 2017, before Metamorph was even performed/popularized (if I’m not mistaken). I don’t know if my brain is gaslighting me right now so please correct me if I am wrong. This is regarding the lick at 5:48
This is impressive
I don't know SRV's specific schedule, but most of the "Community" JMBA groups that compete against SRV in November/December rehearse during the Fall in a similar manner as many of the all-age WGI World groups do for the most part (essentially all day weekend camps).
Honestly our pageantry competitions don't really favor the Japanese calendar very well which is why we don't see many groups come over here to compete. Cost is the biggest issue of course, but dozens of Japanese groups have attended the Midwest Clinic over the years because December is the perfect time of year to do an America trip because it's during the calmest part of their own band calendars. Same with the Tournament of Roses parade. You'll never see a Japanese scholastic group compete at Dayton because it's right at the beginning of their schoolyear when their seniors have left and they just started a new batch of rookies. Aimachi does it because they're non-scholastic and all-age.
The only example I can think of a Japanese scholastic group competing in an American contest was Seika Girls SHS competing at a band festival in California in 2005/06 following their appearance in the Tournament of Roses Parade. There's no published recap as far as I know but I do know Seika handily won the contest and swept all 5 captions.
czcams.com/video/NFcnyVIE3uw/video.htmlsi=qpGlSyPmbQMPgq2g
Hey, I was just curious what the job you were talking about that you do. You said you're a movie composer. I want to go into some sort of music field in the future and was curious if you have any tips to get into that industry.
Hey man! Yeah I went to school for film composing at Berklee College of Music and then I got my masters at USC! Definitely look into schools that have film scoring programs!
Fun fact. Japanese Military Bands do a marching festival every November at the Budikan Hall in Tokyo. The US Band in Japan participates in that festival. I got to write shows three of the four years I was there. They also have Taiko drummers come and when they all get together on stage there are over a hundred of them and you can feel your internal organs rattle. Good times. 😊
you have to see some of those early 2000's nishihara shows, insanely clean especially 2001 and hold up insanely well
日本のマーチングバンドの中でも有名に凄いマーチングバンドです。ハイクオリティで大好き
they're good at what they do, but put them in the florida heat in the summer and fall, oh damn are they not prepared
Claudia Taylor Johnson High School from San Antonio, Texas, used a grand piano in their 2021 production. I don’t think anybody played it though.
I saw the show multiple times in person that year. What a show that was 😫
Buccaneers used a baby (?) grand piano last year.
This is the first time I have seen something like this. I am a big Kyoto Tachibana fan and this adds to my enjoyment. However, I would prefer a little more of the band and a little less commentary during the performance. Also, a closer view would be nice. Keep up the good work.
I dig you digging' this
I think jt band director had a video of a japenese marching band playin g in the board when I walked into band one day
time traveler confirmed
Westfield High school had a grand on the field in Texas in the early 2000
It would be awsome if you checked out the Calgary Stampede Showband from Calgary Alberta Canada! They recently hired John Meehan as director which is freakin amazing
すごい！
They could win DCA Finals next year in Indy.
Shout out to my Japanese Peeps. Thanks Dude!
I wouldn’t put them as Drum Corps but as WGI Indoor Marching. Though their are rules in DCI and WGI concerning lighting.
Damn fine.
Amazing. What high school (9-12) program is this? When can they (fiscal school year) start learning visual and music instruction? Or is it even a US type education? Are they on a private school year round? Do they have concert and marching seasons? Is this a magma or recruitment type program? How can we get kids(senior and below) in the US to march this clean!?!?! ❤
There was a school recently that played their opener, I forget which one did recently, but it may have been FloMo? Someone could probably confirm that
would those trumpet licks be done before BD 2017 since it was in February?
Dave Glyde arrangement? Wayne Downey? Sounds like part of what FloMo played this year a bit! But also Hebron-ish.
I don't know about now, but at least in the recent past, WD did arrange/teach the group
12:21 sounds like we have a screamer in the background
The drum break is orginally from BD 2007. Japanese corps are the real deal.
Hear me out…add drum corps to the Olympics
i never thought japan would have marching bands because of how rigorous school is but damn!!! THAT PERCUSSION‼️‼️
Lyra de Maua Brazilian band sounds much better.
Color Guard = If Boston Crusaders and Blue Devils had a baby
Damn imagine if they were in dci
If it's not their home floor, and I suspect it isn't, then there are no markings on the floor, and it doesn't look like there are. The visual design consists mostly of block drill, so they guide off of each other: ranks, files, columns, diagonals, secondary diagonals, intervals, even during rotational moves. Not "follow the leader" stuff, but pure awareness at every moment. Old school.
Look at the fields for some of DCI's early years and before DCI. Many had no lines, other than the 50 and goal lines. They were probably soccer fields. After all, who would give up their big football stadiums for drum... what? Drum and... what?
So you learned your shows on lined lots and fields, while getting accustomed to guiding off of the people all around you. Then you'd eventually take it off of the lines and practice with nothing but your fellow members to guide off of. There was no painting the surfaces with your marks.
Your steps had to be perfect too, in order to make it all work. You had to be able to march the field blindfolded and hit the yard lines exactly right every time and in all of the various sizes of steps. Fundamentals.
This kind of fundamental approach is one of the reasons so many old school drum corps members have no respect for today's activity, which is disappointing, IMO, because it's their fellow members from back in "the day" who have helped the marching arts activities evolve into the amazing stuff the performers are doing today.
And the people in that Japanese band have been taught with both, old school fundamentals and modern performance techniques and design. And the package was outstanding. Great stuff happening there. Glad to get to watch it.
Sorry for another long winded reply to your channel lol. See everybody at the big screens tomorrow night! Well, afternoon for me.
at least in the past, the lines were one horizontal and one vertical at center of the sqaure. On this video, i see a bit more markings, but perhaps that is for other performances?
I think Crown actually went to one of these competition/showcases in 2014. Heres the link: czcams.com/video/OGxfaAh_r9g/video.html&ab_channel=JerickoManuel
ブルーデビルス2017とバンガードの2013年キングアーサーのオープニングが似ています。
the woodlands high school 2022
the woodlands high school 2022
these kids live and breathe marching and music-making!!! Stunning visual band-display in every sense! thanks for sharing!
does anyone know the opening fanfare piece name?
オリエンタル急行です。
Plz reacts show of the Yokohama scouts
Indoor competition
I’m sorry that I’m blowing you up! PS- Howl’s Moving Castle doesn’t get enough play on the field!
Dude, you're calling them a marching band?!?!? Shame on you!! LOL
They are a drum and bugle corps. They started out with G bugles back in the 80s and since then followed DCI's footsteps and moved to Bb's.
They’ve even competed in DCI a few times (I think 1992 was the last time, so probably before you were born). Maybe 1992 wasn't here to compete but as an exhibition corps. Look up Pride of Soka. Fuji Drum and Bugle Corps was thier name at inception, used Pride of Soka while they competed/performed in the US, then I think around 1993 or 94, they renamed as SRV (they took the Vanguard name from SCV). Soka means "value creation."
Interesting side story - in 1992, while in the US that year, they picked up Yamaha drums to take back home. They competed/performed in A Class, equivalent to the current Open Class (i think that is what they were called back then), so they were done early in the finals week. Later that week, something happened to the Cavaliers' Yamaha drums. They borrowed Soka's drums for the finals as Yamaha could not deliver in time (and they won their first championship 🙂)
I used to follow them back then, but not as of late, so I don't know how much they have changed, but at least back in the 80s and 90s, they rehearsed once a week outside by a riverside in Tokyo (outside the city center). Most of the guys had day jobs (they are all males corps). I think the age went up to about mid-30s (again, this might be old info).
This is more recent info (maybe still current), but in the 2000s as opposed to the 80/90s: as a Devil, you should know the brass arranger 🙂
I pinged my fellow alumni who I marched with in DCI, who actually taught SRV in the 90s to possibly post a comment for further info.
BTW, this performance was a part of their "Victory Concert" after winning their equivalent of DCI Finals.
UPDATE:
Forgive me as I am a bit old :-) Pride of SOKA is not the same group as them, but a different group within the Soka Gakkai umbrella. Pride of SOKA (formerly known as the Royal Kilties) is a D&BC based out of Soka University in Tokyo, whereas the SRV is made up of Soka Gakkai members, not necessarily associated with the school.
Thanks for this clarification. Do you have a link to their marching org? I'd be interested in seeing more of this.
@@Ralph981sorry for the late reply. I was at DCI Finals and didn't watch any CZcams. I can't find anything in English from my quick search. Let me see if I can find anything in Japanese.
Corps under the Soka Gakkai umbrella refer to themselves as drum and brass corps ever since their switch to Bb. I think this was done out of respect for Japanese corps who stick to using G bugles to this day e.g. Yokohama Inspires, The Yokohama Scouts, etc.
There was a Soka Gakkai corps that formed in my city at one point (I live in the Philippines btw), headed by someone who used to march in a Soka Gakkai corps and is now teaching percussion at a university in my city. Sadly, they folded during the pandemic and I'm still hoping they would reform bc I would join them in a heartbeat.
@@akaiyui9300 I hope they return to the stage! My home corps are Spirit of Atlanta and Atlanta CV. I'm too old for the former, but I still like watching their shows, and they called it quits for a while before returning this year. I hope for the same for your home corps. 👍
I'm going to check them out now. Thanks a lot for this info. I love hearing about these iterations of the marching arts worldwide.
I recommend watching Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School (SHS) Marching Band. They are simply amazing and definitely fun to watch.
IPU and WSS are great as well
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I became a big fan of Japanese show bands when the Kyoto Tachibana High School band performed in the Rose Parade and Disneyland a few years ago. I was amazed at how balanced their sound was at the high school level without the need to have 200+ winds. Their visuals were so clean too. The Japanese people are perfectionists and it really showed.
This indoor arena type of show might have to be DCI’s future what with all the increasing inclement weather affecting shows and climate change.
Also, this may be off-putting to some but I actually love that the Japanese audiences, for the most part, are quiet and polite during performances. Sometimes, even American-style audiences are a little bit too extra that it gets too distracting. Especially when there are way too many standing Os.
Be prepared for Rose Parade 2025 🌷🍊
Check out the Seika Girls High School marching band and the Tachibana Senior High School marching band.
My favorite band is the one from Kyoto
This band is military marching style band and yes they are excellent. I have saved a lot of videos of them marching and they sound amazing, I especially like their percussion section, the engine room of the band.
On a personal note I am a massive,massive fan of the SHS bands and particular the school from Kyoto. The Kyoto Tachibana SHS Band ( nickname the Orange Devil’s).
This band is made up of female members and there are 90% of the entire band. They are great musicians and only spend 3 years in the band following graduation to college or university. But their parade style is based on dance , whilst playing beautifully.
Take a look on CZcams you won’t be disappointed.
Japan is without the world leaders in school marching bands.
Well then don't watch a video besides Kyoto Tachibana.
I will recommend Koyoto Senior High School marching band consider One of the best band in Japan,Fan from Norway
FLOMO tunes, 2015 and 2017
This is where DCI should have been heading… not electric guitars and lame effects.
lol This is ridiculous. There are effects all over the place in this show.
Should have been specific @@Ralph981 - I meant DSP audio effects like a trumpet mic'd up for the purposes of reverb, etc. Let the acoustics be acoustic.
unfortunately you talk through it
Man stop talking about Blue Devils! These people are just great in their own rights
They are designed by the same design staff at the blue devils and playing some of the same exact notes that I did when I was at BD. They are incredibly great in their own right, but it is extremely relevant to mention the influence of the marching style and design that is quite literally taught to them by the Blue Devils themselves.
Your audience most of us are watching these videos for the impact of the performance. You speaking at a high volume all the way through it. It is very distracting. We don't get to feel the emotions of the performance. 😔🫢You should play the video One More Time and not talk. When I lived in Japan I would go to Roppongi,Tokyo every weekend hundreds of brass members show up to play together, it was awesome.
I don’t think you understand what a reaction video is. If you want the impact of the performance with no distractions just watch the original video lol.
@@funlinerproductions7071 i understand. I didn't like it.
So why not just watch the original video with no commentary instead of taking the time to spread negativity on my video?
pretty pathetic that the staff just reuse BD music instead of creating something original