It's a real shame that 95% or more of the people there had no idea that they had just witnessed GREATNESS! They probably thought that it was just some high school or college band. A Disney parade is hardly the venue for showing off Drum Corps talent.
Morgan Gutierrez hoenstly though. They were probably like "Look I don't really give a fuck about this parade, you wanna just fuck around and play on 2&4?
Don’t be so quick complain about the musical choice: Disney is very particular about what their guest groups play, and they chose the song, not the Cavaliers. I’ve marched there with my high school a couple times and they were total hardasses. If the Cavaliers ran the show for their Disney parades, it wouldn’t be a total snoozefest.
I think that they should have went ahead and be the real Cavaliers in this parade. They should have played a few excerpts from their show instead of playing quarter notes. Give these people (that don't know) a real taste of Drum Corps! Otherwise, it's a waste!
Man, I hated Parades. I remember one year, we left DeKalb at 10pm Sunday and went back to Rosemont School and stayed there overnight. Next day we got up bright and early to do 3 Memorial day parades. Then afterwards..... three of us piled into my car to drive 5 hours back home. Swear to God I couldn't barely move the next day.
A+ comments section. Would recommend reading if you ever marched D1 and were part of parades, then these comments will probably make you smile because these people don't get it.
2:21 my favorite part of this sequence is that the bass drums start and it sounds pretty heat. And the drummers start getting hyped and im expecting the sickest drum rhythm ever. Then they start playing eighth notes
Cavies had a great show this year... I’m glad THIS wasn’t part of it. John Philip Sousa spun in his grave and Marine Musicians everywhere were screaming at their devices while watching. Semper Fidelis should never be massacred like this.
Other than appearance, why is it they never scatter the different types of horns around so that as the parade block passes by, you hear all the different parts, cords, melodies and such all blended together. Anyone anyone Beuler?
TSFLYER4 they either act as the color guard (like American flag and stuff color guard), play aux perc with the corps, or hand out water and stuff. They could also have sectionals. If you're really lucky, you get those blocks off to do whatever. Source: I played drum set for the Scouts in 11 and 12.
7captaintwosheds7 ahhh I auditioned at Scouts last season! I loved the guys in the pit this season. A bunch recognized me from the audition so I got to talk to them a bit before their finals lot which was pretty cool!
I was at a Memorial day Parade yesterday in smalltown new england and watched a high school and jr high band attempt to play J P Sousa. They both did a better job than what I just watched. I expect and appreciate parade rabble in smalltown, it's Americana at its best. But these kids need a model of how things can be. Not accomplished here.
Is it weird/bad that i was kinda jamming out to semper fid because that is what my marching band plays for parades and yeah this my last year hearing it so yay and sad face
feel so bad for the drumline, literally some of the best percussionists in the world and in the top 12 of best marching percussionists and they're parts are just nothing 😭😭😭
I don't know why there are negative comments on here about this corps playing an "older style" of march and percussion. I totally understand it's 2018 and music/drill are far more intricate than years ago. I don't however see any problem with a corps making a tribute to how things were done in the past. Need I remind many of you in these comments of how rich and historical the cavaliers are..... founded in 1948 I believe. Just a few weeks ago I heard the Cadets playing a piece they did in their award winning 1993 show
few things. 1. Marching at Disney WORLD (no idea where this video was taken) is SUPER fun.2 It was BLISTERING hot when we were there.3. Very good Cavaliers 4.Sunburn + Uniform= unbearable pain.6.Our in between drumline break is a lot cooler and better. czcams.com/video/v9pKtNNEhaw/video.html And thats what we wore at Disney.
The guard is obviously geeked because they are in Disney World and they just can’t wait to see all the Ah-Mayzing Disney characters and pose for pictures with them and share them with their male friends. I mean, just look how “happy” they are!
This primitive, classic military march has almost nothing to do with these cosmopolitan, refined performers. It's painful to watch. Look at the personalities of these marching members in this video-- the last thing they should be playing is a cigar-chomping army barracks march. Look at the faces-- they're exquisitely artistic, sensitive, refined men. The guard is fucking elegant. They're cherubic, angelic, clean shaven and camera ready. With their dance training, they don't march, they float like eagles. Soft and mysterious like drifting fog. They're coiffed and even delicate in some ways-- they're almost a mystical illusion. But let's face it, the Cavaliers' recent eleven minute programs don't fit the performers' true personalities revealed here in this video (note the royal prince waves. 0:37) For example, this year the Cavies' show coordinator was hung up on a traditional masculine ideal. Why? And the year before they were angry pugilistic political rabble rousers falling prey to propaganda, crotch kicking, and street-fighting and hoo-rahing. And the year before that playing Olympic athletes in combat sports. Come on. What in hell is this macho-obsessed trend about? Are the marching members really enjoying this ridiculous butch posturing? It doesn't ring true to the artistic finesse of the marching members. They're capable of so much more than the recent arm wrestling, tobacco spitting stuff they've been forced to do in these disingenuous "man cave" show designs, which have at their core a desire to obtain some distant masculine ideal from a Brawny commercial. It's false and antithetical to the core of these performers. Sure, they're stretching their range of character portrayals, but come on-- Zac Effron is never going to play a rough-hewn mercenary from Blackwater. Talented as he is, he would never be cast as that. Another example, Madison this year, in a laughable macho-obsession, attempted to portray band of mentally deranged desert fighters like in Mad Max, gut-punching, beheading, ass- kicking, loogie-hocking, and skull-scalping their way through an absolutely laughable and self-conscious desert lumberjack contest, all the while wearing feathers on their heads. Their characters were tribal fighters, but the performers themselves were as far from that character as you could ever imagine casting in any bus and truck tour anywhere. These are dancers, and yes their character work is getting there, but really who can be masculine when you're doing modern dance in tights and twirling flags? That's a tall order. What's happening is that the corps are receiving feedback from charitable donors that the choreography and show design aren't masculine enough. The problem isn't that the choreography is feminine. The problem is it's heart-on-the-sleeve emotive, it's too frantic, it's nervous, harried, spineless and almost comedic looking. There's a trend now to have frantic, fast-paced choreography, the result of which makes it look like the performers are wind puppets in front of used car lots. It's silly-looking and lacks finesse, poise, and ultimately it just looks disjointed and wacko. The second problem is the designers are taking that feedback from charitable donors and reactively selecting the most absurdly tough-guy premise they can possibly think of and cobbling a show around that theme. The themes are almost paranoiacally macho: MMA fighters, professional wrestlers, political activists and union organizers. What's next? Truckers, oil rig workers and leather fetishists? Such ridiculous show themes. A macho show theme cannot suddenly make your color guard something that they at their core beings are not. For example, not one of Madison's guard members is going to live in a broken down Winnebago in the mohave desert, eating snakes and cactus juice and rig their hog with metal spikes, no matter how much eye black they cake on over their moisturized faces, and no matter how much their charitable donors beg them to be more like Mad Max. Come on. Look at the guys in this video. Ain't gonna happen. Another trend that Madison is doing is they're adding psychopathic anger to substitute for masculinity. Judas. Anger. Mental instabiilty. Mad World. Mad Max fighters. (The Mad Max performers looked almost sick by the end of the season.) All their anger was an unfortunate mis-direction because the Last Man Standing show had no reason for being. The story made no sense, dramatically, and didn't match the core values of the organization. Something's gotta be done with these show designs. They must begin to fit the nature of the performer. The mystical. The elegant. The refined. The complex. The cool elegance of super heroes. So, designers must do away with their donor-guided quest for hollow displays of hyper- masculinity which ring false, have an acrid odor of inexplicable violence, and in the end just fall flat.
CZcams and drumcorpsplanet.com are the epicenters of design conversation. Every single judge reads every comment. Every. Single. Judge. Every. Single. Comment. Even your comments, although you have no insight about design whatsoever.
Let me quiz you, because you're such a lunkhead, and it will be pure Schadenfreude for people reading your answers to enjoy your public crucifixion. 1) Do judges talk to one another before, during and after the season? 2) Do judges confer with one another on specific corps' scores throughout the season? 3) Do judges read drumcorpsplanet? 4) Do judges watch corps videos from prior years and current years on CZcams and youtube comments? 5) Do judges research shows and assess audience's writte feedback during and after the season? 6) Are judges computer savvy? Go ahead. Answer, you gorgeous hunk of roasted lamb shank.
Dan Currier You have seriously no respect for the young kids who work their asses off to put a good production in the field. It's old timers like you who piss me off because I respect you guys so much, you are the reason I got into this acticity, and it's not okay for your guys to trash the newer concepts. You don't like it? Please stop watching the activity or get into the activity and change it how you want as a director. But until then, please stop with the hateful bullshit. The activity or community doesn't need it.
drum corps is dead. be truthful and call it performance band. another idea is to drop out of dci and revert back to traditional drum corps with real marching and music fans can relate to.
Frost 101 - I been watching drum corps and have marched since 1964 until I aged out in 1971. I was also an instructor. In all those years I seen the activity declined from around 5,000 corps in the U.S and Canada to now around 50. Why did so many great corps fold and why does DCI insists on being such an expensive activity to belong to. My dues wih a national championship corps that I marched with were $70 a year. Now, you have to beg mom and dad or take out a loan to participate for eight weeks on the summer tour. Drum corps has gone from being a youth activity to being a college educational profession that very few kids can participate in. I have seen this activity practically disappear over the past 40 years. It is sad that we don't have the 27th Lancers, Bressed Sacramento, Anaheim Kingsmen, Chicago Royal Airs and Vanguard and many more national contenders around to entertain us in the art of real marching and bugle playing. It is time for DCI to change its name to World Marching Bands. The term Drum and Bugle Corps no longer applies here. Perhaps, DCA can help us out and take in the corps who want to remain true drum and bugle corps.
One of the Staff members at the corps that I used to March would say “and remember kids why do we do this” and the corps respond with “ for the money”
at 2:17 they pass a business called "Splitsville," and go into a bass drum cadence at the same time.
Saw this juuust before that part. Love it
It's a real shame that 95% or more of the people there had no idea that they had just witnessed GREATNESS! They probably thought that it was just some high school or college band. A Disney parade is hardly the venue for showing off Drum Corps talent.
No expense was spared on the creativity of those snare parts.
yes very innovative
5:30 lol the bass drum tapping off, “no no no! No!” And just stops lol
the tech is always right
Those poor quads only playing quarter notes on 2 and 4 lol...
It's shameful. It's like handing Mick Jagger a toy guitar.
I'm willing to bet it was their choice
Morgan Gutierrez hoenstly though. They were probably like "Look I don't really give a fuck about this parade, you wanna just fuck around and play on 2&4?
One of the best drumlines in the world and they’re playing easier music than high schools
Ethan Bates i
Its parade they have to
It’s a Disney parade so they have to
Ethan Bates+ Disney was probably a stick up their asses about the music
yeah it's really infuriating
can I get a transcription for the quad part?
Justin Campos 2 & 4 lol
@Dill Pickle r/woooosh
Yeah man I know a guy
Hey Cavies, my middle school band called...they want their music back.
The syncopated sneeze @3:14 was the most interesting part of the drum score.
Imagine watching Machine (2006) and this video immediately following it in the playlist.
5 minutes of rehearsal is good enough for this parade
The freaking roll-off is the hardest part of the book in this parade. FFS #3rdgradedrumbook.
Even crossmen puts more effort into their street beats
I would have been the one person to yell *SPLOOIE!!!* as they passed by XD
At 3:09 a share drummer sneezes for count off that's hilarious
Don’t be so quick complain about the musical choice: Disney is very particular about what their guest groups play, and they chose the song, not the Cavaliers. I’ve marched there with my high school a couple times and they were total hardasses. If the Cavaliers ran the show for their Disney parades, it wouldn’t be a total snoozefest.
Maybe about what they play, but now how they play it. Even the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse song has more beats than that!
3:15 bless you
This video should be titled, Cavies Castrated by the Mouse House.
I think that they should have went ahead and be the real Cavaliers in this parade. They should have played a few excerpts from their show instead of playing quarter notes. Give these people (that don't know) a real taste of Drum Corps! Otherwise, it's a waste!
I doubt that Disney tells the Cavaliers exactly what to play. And I doubt that the Cavaliers were required to play corny music like this.
It's not corny. It's barbaric.
HE360 nah Disney does tell them what to play they give them the music.
HE360 really you doubt the grip of the empire. They control all.
They should have played their show
They sound great
Man, I hated Parades. I remember one year, we left DeKalb at 10pm Sunday and went back to Rosemont School and stayed there overnight. Next day we got up bright and early to do 3 Memorial day parades. Then afterwards..... three of us piled into my car to drive 5 hours back home. Swear to God I couldn't barely move the next day.
Mega Fonzie try doing back to back parades then go to Disney world In the Louisiana in humidity
Lol this must have been so embarrassing to them
A+ comments section. Would recommend reading if you ever marched D1 and were part of parades, then these comments will probably make you smile because these people don't get it.
2:21 my favorite part of this sequence is that the bass drums start and it sounds pretty heat. And the drummers start getting hyped and im expecting the sickest drum rhythm ever. Then they start playing eighth notes
bless you
Loved the days where Corps would play sweet street beats. It was a way for each Corp to showcase their unique identities.
MenAreFromMarsUniform.mp4
Flam Tap, Flam Tap, Flam Tap and Repeat:).
Jennie Stevens lol true
Jesus, a world class competitor drumline and corp. Utilize their strengths dammit! its so hard to watch!
*sneeze* “let’s go again, andddd!”
Cavies had a great show this year... I’m glad THIS wasn’t part of it. John Philip Sousa spun in his grave and Marine Musicians everywhere were screaming at their devices while watching. Semper Fidelis should never be massacred like this.
lets just put alto voices in the front. that's gona sound great.
Other than appearance, why is it they never scatter the different types of horns around so that as the parade block passes by, you hear all the different parts, cords, melodies and such all blended together. Anyone anyone Beuler?
I love a good march. But there's no bounce. There is a certain snap and bounce to Semper that makes you want to March.
I saw my guard tech!!😁😁😁
I didn't wanna see low brass anyway #Salty
@ intro...... Guard!!!!!! (Felicia!!!!) stay in step!!!
Nice cadence drums.
Can I ask the Cavaliers what two cadences were played?
How is it I'm never at Disneyland at the right time to see these showings?
Lucas Walters Because they weren’t at Disneyland, they were at DisneyWorld.
What does the pit do on days like this?
TSFLYER4 they either act as the color guard (like American flag and stuff color guard), play aux perc with the corps, or hand out water and stuff. They could also have sectionals. If you're really lucky, you get those blocks off to do whatever. Source: I played drum set for the Scouts in 11 and 12.
7captaintwosheds7 ahhh I auditioned at Scouts last season! I loved the guys in the pit this season. A bunch recognized me from the audition so I got to talk to them a bit before their finals lot which was pretty cool!
the pit was in the front, behind the guard but in front of the horn line
Our pit would play realy simple instruments like the (in christmas) the gingle bells, the cymbals, and other super easy instruments.
Apparently they're playing horns. Anyone can play this.
Hey Cavies, Rosemont Middle School called...they want their f-ing cadence back.
I was at a Memorial day Parade yesterday in smalltown new england and watched a high school and jr high band attempt to play J P Sousa. They both did a better job than what I just watched. I expect and appreciate parade rabble in smalltown, it's Americana at its best. But these kids need a model of how things can be. Not accomplished here.
SoundzRite what’s the name of the song?
Is it weird/bad that i was kinda jamming out to semper fid because that is what my marching band plays for parades and yeah this my last year hearing it so yay and sad face
Where is he plum at?
Muito top
All those tubas and can't hear them at all.
Todd Rutledge 4:10
Actually it’s contra to be correct
Tubas aren’t meant to be heard but felt :)
so did the wood winds forget about this or was the people in front without instruments the woodwinds
drum corps dont have woodwinds, thats the pit
Can I get some guard equipment/work please?
everyone complaining about the parts has never marched a disney parade and doesn’t understand how they work
What's the name of the song they are playing?
That part at 3:06 is totally from a George Mason 2016 exercise.
The most boring candance ive heard but its cool sounding.
Mike it’s a variation of the d&k cadence from drumline the movie
Ayyyyyyyeeeeee mellos in front! Why doesn't my band do this?
what was the name of the song they played, i can't seem to put my finger on it.
Willson Hooks semper fidelis
That was nice to watch
Basically
Song?
So...where are the Cavaliers? When do they play?
Qual o nome da música ?
name song?
feel so bad for the drumline, literally some of the best percussionists in the world and in the top 12 of best marching percussionists and they're parts are just nothing 😭😭😭
Splooooie. Also I am comment number 200
No low brass ok I see how it is
Needs more contra
2:10
F in chat for quads
I'm a trombonist and I could do that
What happened to Bunco rules
too easy. where's the razzle dazzle
What a disgrace to this or any corps. And some high schools too.
Its not their fault Disney probably had a huge say in what they were allowed to play it what they had to play so they got stuck with the boring stuff
gesundheit
Boii hay you messed up one of the tenors
I don't know why there are negative comments on here about this corps playing an "older style" of march and percussion. I totally understand it's 2018 and music/drill are far more intricate than years ago. I don't however see any problem with a corps making a tribute to how things were done in the past. Need I remind many of you in these comments of how rich and historical the cavaliers are..... founded in 1948 I believe. Just a few weeks ago I heard the Cadets playing a piece they did in their award winning 1993 show
Show the baris some love Dx
Now THAT is a drumline
few things. 1. Marching at Disney WORLD (no idea where this video was taken) is SUPER fun.2 It was BLISTERING hot when we were there.3. Very good Cavaliers 4.Sunburn + Uniform= unbearable pain.6.Our in between drumline break is a lot cooler and better. czcams.com/video/v9pKtNNEhaw/video.html And thats what we wore at Disney.
Mike I wouldn't call it better, considering how dirty it was.
The guard is obviously geeked because they are in Disney World and they just can’t wait to see all the Ah-Mayzing Disney characters and pose for pictures with them and share them with their male friends. I mean, just look how “happy” they are!
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Why are the quad parts so boring
Oh come on Mellows, you can sound much better than that. It's a little late in the game to be playing "hit or miss" on the music.
put the horns TOGETHER, this sucks
This primitive, classic military march has almost nothing to do with these cosmopolitan, refined performers. It's painful to watch.
Look at the personalities of these marching members in this video-- the last thing they should be playing is a cigar-chomping army barracks march. Look at the faces-- they're exquisitely artistic, sensitive, refined men. The guard is fucking elegant. They're cherubic, angelic, clean shaven and camera ready. With their dance training, they don't march, they float like eagles. Soft and mysterious like drifting fog. They're coiffed and even delicate in some ways-- they're almost a mystical illusion.
But let's face it, the Cavaliers' recent eleven minute programs don't fit the performers' true personalities revealed here in this video (note the royal prince waves. 0:37) For example, this year the Cavies' show coordinator was hung up on a traditional masculine ideal. Why? And the year before they were angry pugilistic political rabble rousers falling prey to propaganda, crotch kicking, and street-fighting and hoo-rahing. And the year before that playing Olympic athletes in combat sports. Come on.
What in hell is this macho-obsessed trend about? Are the marching members really enjoying this ridiculous butch posturing? It doesn't ring true to the artistic finesse of the marching members. They're capable of so much more than the recent arm wrestling, tobacco spitting stuff they've been forced to do in these disingenuous "man cave" show designs, which have at their core a desire to obtain some distant masculine ideal from a Brawny commercial. It's false and antithetical to the core of these performers. Sure, they're stretching their range of character portrayals, but come on-- Zac Effron is never going to play a rough-hewn mercenary from Blackwater. Talented as he is, he would never be cast as that.
Another example, Madison this year, in a laughable macho-obsession, attempted to portray band of mentally deranged desert fighters like in Mad Max, gut-punching, beheading, ass- kicking, loogie-hocking, and skull-scalping their way through an absolutely laughable and self-conscious desert lumberjack contest, all the while wearing feathers on their heads. Their characters were tribal fighters, but the performers themselves were as far from that character as you could ever imagine casting in any bus and truck tour anywhere. These are dancers, and yes their character work is getting there, but really who can be masculine when you're doing modern dance in tights and twirling flags? That's a tall order.
What's happening is that the corps are receiving feedback from charitable donors that the choreography and show design aren't masculine enough. The problem isn't that the choreography is feminine. The problem is it's heart-on-the-sleeve emotive, it's too frantic, it's nervous, harried, spineless and almost comedic looking. There's a trend now to have frantic, fast-paced choreography, the result of which makes it look like the performers are wind puppets in front of used car lots. It's silly-looking and lacks finesse, poise, and ultimately it just looks disjointed and wacko. The second problem is the designers are taking that feedback from charitable donors and reactively selecting the most absurdly tough-guy premise they can possibly think of and cobbling a show around that theme. The themes are almost paranoiacally macho: MMA fighters, professional wrestlers, political activists and union organizers. What's next? Truckers, oil rig workers and leather fetishists? Such ridiculous show themes. A macho show theme cannot suddenly make your color guard something that they at their core beings are not. For example, not one of Madison's guard members is going to live in a broken down Winnebago in the mohave desert, eating snakes and cactus juice and rig their hog with metal spikes, no matter how much eye black they cake on over their moisturized faces, and no matter how much their charitable donors beg them to be more like Mad Max. Come on. Look at the guys in this video. Ain't gonna happen.
Another trend that Madison is doing is they're adding psychopathic anger to substitute for masculinity. Judas. Anger. Mental instabiilty. Mad World. Mad Max fighters. (The Mad Max performers looked almost sick by the end of the season.) All their anger was an unfortunate mis-direction because the Last Man Standing show had no reason for being. The story made no sense, dramatically, and didn't match the core values of the organization.
Something's gotta be done with these show designs. They must begin to fit the nature of the performer. The mystical. The elegant. The refined. The complex. The cool elegance of super heroes. So, designers must do away with their donor-guided quest for hollow displays of hyper- masculinity which ring false, have an acrid odor of inexplicable violence, and in the end just fall flat.
Jesu Spectre holy shit you don’t have to write a paper buddy
Did you see the guy sneeze lol
K
CZcams and drumcorpsplanet.com are the epicenters of design conversation. Every single judge reads every comment. Every. Single. Judge. Every. Single. Comment. Even your comments, although you have no insight about design whatsoever.
Let me quiz you, because you're such a lunkhead, and it will be pure Schadenfreude for people reading your answers to enjoy your public crucifixion. 1) Do judges talk to one another before, during and after the season? 2) Do judges confer with one another on specific corps' scores throughout the season? 3) Do judges read drumcorpsplanet? 4) Do judges watch corps videos from prior years and current years on CZcams and youtube comments? 5) Do judges research shows and assess audience's writte feedback during and after the season? 6) Are judges computer savvy? Go ahead. Answer, you gorgeous hunk of roasted lamb shank.
Those uniforms look like shit, they need to go back to the old school ones
They are for 2021
Guys let’s listen to the random guy on CZcams for uniform advice$
a once proud corps from the 60s now look like a joke. this is not real drum corps. I feel bad for Don warren.
Dan Currier You have seriously no respect for the young kids who work their asses off to put a good production in the field. It's old timers like you who piss me off because I respect you guys so much, you are the reason I got into this acticity, and it's not okay for your guys to trash the newer concepts. You don't like it? Please stop watching the activity or get into the activity and change it how you want as a director. But until then, please stop with the hateful bullshit. The activity or community doesn't need it.
Dante Noble
drum corps is dead. be truthful and call it performance band. another idea is to drop out of dci and revert back to traditional drum corps with real marching and music fans can relate to.
Dan Currier drum corps isn't dead, you're just too blind, ignorant, and stuck up to realize it
Frost 101 - I been watching drum corps and have marched since 1964 until I aged out in 1971. I was also an instructor. In all those years I seen the activity declined from around 5,000 corps in the U.S and Canada to now around 50. Why did so many great corps fold and why does DCI insists on being such an expensive activity to belong to. My dues wih a national championship corps that I marched with were $70 a year. Now, you have to beg mom and dad or take out a loan to participate for eight weeks on the summer tour. Drum corps has gone from being a youth activity to being a college educational profession that very few kids can participate in. I have seen this activity practically disappear over the past 40 years. It is sad that we don't have the 27th Lancers, Bressed Sacramento, Anaheim Kingsmen, Chicago Royal Airs and Vanguard and many more national contenders around to entertain us in the art of real marching and bugle playing. It is time for DCI to change its name to World Marching Bands. The term Drum and Bugle Corps no longer applies here. Perhaps, DCA can help us out and take in the corps who want to remain true drum and bugle corps.
Those costumes, can't even call them uniforms, look absolutely terrible.