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Hi Jim! Im a big fan from Quebec. This show is one of my favorite. Do you think its possible to send me the transciption of the snare break? It will be very nice. Its just for my own pleasure.

Letter K with what was written is different than what was played in Finals and in this recording. Do you have the sheet music for that?

Whoa! Is this a recording or made with VDL samples?

I appreciate the inclusion of the entire percussion score. I never had formal music education and was thrown on cymbals my freshman year of high school back in the early 90s. It took a long time to realize there was more to appreciate than just the battery percussion.

Masterpiece!

Masterpiece.

My man dropping classics!!! My Era!! Miss those days

YES

Ohhh my gawd! I had to do a double take! I've been wanting to learn these beats forever

We played this book my freshman year of HS. So rad

This is big

Yes!!!! Finally!! Great seeing you and everyone the other day.

The 32nd note singles in mm 158 are such a fun surprise. Thanks for posting this, Jim!

Hey Jim! Any chance that you'll ever take the great percussion books you've written over the years and package them up (PDFs with recordings) so that all of us flam drag fighter pilots desperately trying to avoid coming down with 'old man hands' can have something to play along to? 😉 Beyond the benefits of shedding your work, it'd also be great for those of us who are interested in battery/FE composition to be able to see how you layer, phrase, groove, and texturize your scores, as you are truly a master at this craft. It'd be great to have some insights from you; maybe even track options that have an introduction (where you tell us what inspired/influenced your writing & approach for each score and what you remember from that season), and then a "judge's tape" track where you talk over the top of the beats with specific notes about what you did or what inspired a certain section? (Kind of an updated version of this: ua-cam.com/video/xpGuc4bI4Es/v-deo.html)? I don't know - just spitballing here. I would *gladly* pay $100 (or more!) for something like that! I can't be the only one who wants something like this, right?

The show that I show all my students. we have all waited so long for this video and it makes my bad day awesome now!

I'd hire you.

🔥🥵🔥

Love it, Thanks Jim!

My life is now complete.

😱😱😱

NO WAY

Thank you.

Hi Jim, saw you at TMEA today and I just want to let you know that this was my favorite out of all of the songs that I listened to. Thank you for writing such a beautiful piece.

Thank you for posting! One of my favorite tapes, ever!

Very cool

This is such phenomenal writing, my word.

Quad lick at 4 before M really had a hold on the so cal drum scene

Jim!!! Happy 20th anniversary of 03. At finals with Brandon (cymbal section leader) this weekend. Nostalgia and Memories…cheers!!!

Would love to see you back at SCV for 2024

Goodwill is a good place 😊

Love to revisit this masterpiece every so often. Unfortunately for me, I didn't get a part on the debut of this piece, but to be fair, I had some really cool parts in that Vandegrift midwest performance :)

whats with the two bass lines?

I miss being able to close my eyes and know who was playing based on the music (this a fine example of that).

Great Stuff

@7:20 SCV PLATES: Boy were they 5X as complex as any jazz set drummer ever was on the cymbals. Whether bass, tenors, snares or marching timpani... Every single battery player through out time would want to march on a cymbal line like that, stomach pain & all. I remember packing up the drums at our truck one night after a performance at BYU. SCV PLATES announced themselves well before getting to me so I got to see them burnin' (marchin as unit) down a hall of the parking lot straight at me. They almost ran over me & though I was a little pissed, they were so intense & majestic that I was really in awe. After that, the plate section leader came over to me & said sorry. I was like, "Dude you're all good... that... was... A W E S O M E !" I always wanted to be on a unit that is so intense & involved & necessarily bad azz that they were above anything else happening around them for 10 miles. That's just me, "Jones'n even if I never played with SCV."

If I remember correctly from watching the stick heights from the lots or back or side of the field, the beginning of the snares' long buzz roll started at 1 & 1/2 inches or lower... pp or ppp?

holy based!

i completely forgot we played this with AYPE last spring until just running across it now. Such an awesome piece to play and listen to

miss those hits honestly

Can we bring back old school DCI?

Hell Cats

Very much enjoyed this show. Lucky enough to see it in Meadowlands, NJ that year.

you and Sandi Rennicks composing/arranging of the SCV front ensemble is no doubt a huge part of what makes them the best percussion ensemble. nothing but thanks to you sir.

1999 was the only year I was able to do drum corps; I was with the Seattle Cascades, and we spent most of our tour shadowing SCV all over the country. Hearing this show every night - and how it developed week after week - all the way to Finals was one of the greatest joys of my life. This book is incredible, that year's corps was amazing and versatile and resilient (dealing with the loss of Art, and Ray's recovery, right before the tour kicked off)...you guys amazed me in how you carried yourselves and set the standard. This show is one of the best shows that's ever been put on 100 yards of grass...and I can't thank you enough for your contribution to my life's soundtrack, Jim.

One of my favorite shows. Love this writing! Any plans to post Blue Shades?

1:39....The best written snare break in the history of DCI.

That sonic landscape at letter E is unlike anything that had ever been played before. Just fantastic. Thanks for posting.

I love your writing style so much. What was the inspiration for bringing back the Lezghinka backsticking solo?