Blue Devils Drumline 2022 || Aged Out Reacts with TJ Choquette
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2022
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The hosts of the Aged Out Podcast, Mike Fantini and Evan Worrell, react to the 2022 Blue Devils Drumline (early season) with close friend of the podcast, TJ Choquette.
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Update as of ATL show:
BD is TJ-approved! Some dirt here and there in the lot, but very good and much improved in-person.
Additionally, center snare is still beating the absolute hell out of the snare break tap off. Twas appreciated.
Great reaction vid as always. One thing I really like about this group is that the members are very thankful and humble; I’ve been thanked by them several times either in person or over Instagram every time I check them out in the lot. I hope they continue to improve and make a big push for the Sanford this year!
Yup. That’s great to hear. They go after it just like the old man/woman BD lines they usually have. They’re gonna be good and be in the hunt. -Mike
That’s a sign of a good organization, when not only their abilities are good but their attitude and behavior. On the other hand when I was in high school Carolina crown practiced at our field in 2013 and their drumline were assholes, they were laughing at my high school drumline and making fun of us.
@@drummersnare6276 that's funny cuz crown's drumline was kinda trash that year
@@AznAfroMan513 And they keep Crown from winning year after year
so go figure. Just sayin'.
i love how at 6:41 they all have the exact same head tilt reaction at the same time
I gave one of the snare drummers some playing advice over the years. When he got his contract he went back to the first place we interacted years ago and thanked me for being helpful, kind, and supportive. Jacob is a super humble kid who deserves the opportunity and has like 3!?!?!? more summers. Wild to think how good this group could be once they have vets.
All the inconsistency we hear early on has been typical of BD early season for my entire time in the activity. Sure, it’s a little amplified by the age of the group. BD traditionally spends a lot more time doing visual/staging in spring training than anyone else, and the last month they clean up fast. The last 3 weeks of 2019 speaks for itself in that regard.
Solid video once again guys. Cheers!
Wow 3?!?!?!? More summers?
Jacob is awesome!
Devs have massively improved over the last week or two. Everyone still has work to do but they’ll get there. Devils will be really good by finals week the way they tend to clean up. Not really worried about this crew.
Oh yea. Like I said in the video, almost no doubt they’ll improve like crazy by the end. I like a lot of the phrases in the book too -Mike
@@agedoutpodcast for sure. Everybody out here is worried about dirt in late June and early July but there have only been a couple of times where groups have come out this early in the season and been damn near August clean. These dudes are definitely young but that staff is way too good to let these kids show up to Indy as anything less than the Blue Devils we’ve come to expect. I’m excited for several groups this summer.
Couldn’t agree more.
I see why they picked this line this year. They have a very high ceiling. They just lack consistently staying locked in and playing together. Next year and the year after, they're gonna be monsters. Especially since most of these kids are marching at a very high level in the spring.
I usually stay off the comments but as an "old dude," I am excited for BD. The members clearly listen and respond positively to the staff and you can already see the "buy in" to the vibe of the corps. They are young but have great hands and I advise everyone to be patient as this group grows. Thanks for what you guys are posting up and commenting on! Cheers!
Great video. Always good to hear you two react with TJ and share your insights.
This drumline is going to be insane down the road.
Love the commentary. No sugarcoating and credit where it’s deserved. 💪🏻
Love all this early season content we’re getting!
6:42 is the universal expression for “that was dirty”
Great video! TJ, I thought the same thing about the snare's body with the aggressive foot, but then just saw a full ensemble video and the foot lines up with the front ensemble music.
That snare break with the plastic tops gives me shades of ‘94 vibes.
I generally think most reaction UA-cam videos are trash, but I love y'all's reaction vids. I think as a younger drummer watching lot vids I never noticed the dirt, or if I did I couldn't pinpoint WHY it was dirty. Observations like the one about the tap space on the tap fives are super helpful because they show that even the people in the top groups are human. Everyone ticks sometimes and nobody is clean all the time. It also shows me the things to pay attention to within my own playing: how consistent is the space in my own tap rolls? I think these vids are a super helpful resource for young drummers and I wish I had them when I was in highschool.
Who's the center quad? P.S. Love this diverse, international group of snare drummers.
16:35 my response is he should’ve been marching BD for years Laurent has some of the best hands I’ve seen even when we were younger
Where did he march? I know he was at POW this past year but other than that idk how he got so cracked.
@@DatGuyWithNoName Vessel, Vessel Indoor, Blue Stars, POW
Thank you guys for educating me on the finer details. My humble request is that you cover the Troopers battery this summer.
TJ is the homie, great videos as always boys 🤘🏼
13:35 I was thinking the exact same thing. The one thing I think Vanguard has going against them this year is winning fatigue. My guess is judges have gotten a little tired of the same sound coming from Vanguard for almost a decade; even if it sounds incredible every time.
gonna be marching with some of them this indoor season with thesis indoor! yall should check out thesis someday, they started last year in PIO and this year we’re doing PIW!
There’s no doubt in my mind the staff know what they're doing
From what I understand, the snare line simply looks young. There are 20 and 21 year olds in the line.
Look at the lines from the 70s & 80s to see grown men playing drums. LOL
Just convinced me even more they’re gonna be solid by the end.
From what I heard, there's only one 19 year old, and he's the youngest in the line.
The youngest one is 18 years old, not 19.
Finally solid DCI content!!!
Last night in Murfreesboro- drums= 1st-Coats 2nd-BD and 3rd Boston. Sometime the scores get crazy I guess.
Can’t wait to see em live in late July. Along with Boston.
Yup. Gonna be fun.
This line will stay together for a few years so that’s a plus. It’s also just early July. Gocks are best when used unexpectedly or at the end of a dense feature IMO.
thanks for calling it as you see/hear it, honesty offers credibility, I um... 13:35 thats all
I feel the same. This line is young. I remember grown men with beards and a lot taller
I’m not sure if you realize later in the vid or if anyone else said but around 11:50 the quads sound like that because they put snare guts I believe on their drum 4
Boston’s Bass Drummer went over to Devils. Just an observation
Anne is an amazing Bass Drummer and she is now displaying her versatility marching different Corps throughout the years.
Lets not forget 2014, some serious dirt the first half of the season. Ending respectably clean with a ring. I have a feeling they will be fine by the end
Yup wouldn’t surprise me. Lookin forward to watching them evolve and improve this season.
Was talking about how young they look the other day with someone, and we came to the conclusion that for BD as well as all the other corps, it’s pretty safe to say that on average this is the oldest that these corps have ever been because of the age out extensions. Kinda interesting to think about
Yeah, but most of them lost two years of experience. Normally your 19-21 year olds would have two more summers of time to develop their skills. Not knocking em tho they are doing fine
@@ARZiehm yeah, I've read some stuff about their average age, but "young" to me is in seasons of competitive marching. I don't recognize too many of them from RCC or Pulse, so assuming they haven't done a ton of WGI, they lost 2 seasons of DCI, which other corps like Coats/Cavs/Cadets/Crown did not, and they got a bunch of BC/X/Pulse/United kids on the line. Just not experienced enough yet. got a month left though!
I can confirm that most of their snareline just turned 18 in two years when they have the same snareline minus one or two you’ll see. They are going to be crazy in a few years, BD usually has a lot of age outs each year in the drumline that’s not the case right now. They’ll get there🤞🏽
Maybe topic for a future video. The evolution of drum writing. Do you think drumline books have less and less flow to them?
We love some good TJ content
July 27th- Hattiesburg Show- BD only .1 behind Boston in drums. (18.4 - 18.5)
Looks like BD is cleaning up quite a bit. Boston may have had an off night.
Who knows? Interesting nonetheless as usual.
For sure. BD has gotten a ton better which we figured they would. Gonna be plenty good by finals. We’ll see who wins but I still think Bostons drumline is better - Mike
@@agedoutpodcast You know, I guess sometimes I pull for Scott Johnson because he's my vintage. Ha! Good to see someone like that
at his age still teaching at the highest level. I know he has help with
a team of great guys, but he definitely has a legacy.
Babe, wake up, new TJ video
Of course they include TJ on such a talk of the town drumline lmao 😂 BD got everyone’s attention this year
@@JRBanitt TJ reacts to JR at band camp coming soon
Nick.
@@nickberkowitz936 TJ reacts to JR and Nick at AQ auditions again 👀 coming soon
@@josephmeacham590 old
First AGAIN!!! Great content! Keep it up!
Center 3 💙
They got covid hands. Tons of chops from playing at home but group sound isn't as much there.
Love you, Teej!
Absolutely loving the early season coverage!! Are there any plans of doing BK coverage soon? 👀
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying it. Bluecoats are coming next then cadets. Then hopefully cavaliers. After that we will get to your typical 8-12 or 13 or 14 range of groups.
@@agedoutpodcast much appreciated, and looking forward to the future content!
Y’all have to react to colts this year. They are 🔥🔥🔥
TJ’s hilarious lol
Also put some respect on gocks
respect on *clean, well placed gocks*
Are those Hybrid Grey heads and not the System Blue?
Boston has the best and hardest book this year. Hands down🙌
I got to see them up close this past week and out of all the drumlines I've seen live and in-person, BAC 2022 is right up there with Cadets 2005 and Carolina Crown 2009 for me!
Agreed. Very aggressive book!!
First time watching the videos really cool and great peer review for drumline... I have a question, the two gentlemen on the podcast did they play for DCI and if so which groups?...
Hey! We’re both snare drummers. Mike marched blue stars and bluecoats and Evan marched Carolina crown.
@@agedoutpodcast Awesome... Thank you and I look forward to all the videos...👍
TJ said the same thing I commented about a week ago!!! lol Back in the day(80s-90s) these guys were much older with beards and mustaches... They were very intimidating to average High School drummer....... They also wore Hats! lol But Now??? They look like little kids........ So Different. Carolina Crown fan..........
Line needs 20 cc's of murray gusseck stat
For those of you who weren't at the MidCal(ifornia) show, the judges were not inside the field. All judges were standing to the left and to the right of the pit area. They never set foot inside the field to get infront of the drumlines. Hence why everyone is shock of the drum scores. BD were the most entertaining group by a mile, Vanguard was boring perfection in their all white uniforms.
Yeah, ever since the new rule has been in effect for no more on-field judges I have always felt the scores have been more questionable. Staging is now extra important for the sake of getting the drumlines heard as much as possible. I've noticed a lot of "cleaner" drumlines suffer in the scores because they spent most of their production backfield buried by the brass. The higher placing drumlines have figured out the importance of staging them as close to the front as possible for all features. Definitely a game changer with this new rule
“Boring perfection” is a really weird phrase.
@@Freelancer756 that's just what my eyes told me. Execution was clean, music was clean but nothing that made me jump out of my seat.
@@drksdofthmoon I get that. Everyone has their own preference of writing/playing styles. Like to me, even the cleanest BD lines don’t have me going crazy. Like I’m impressed, definitely. They’re super talented and they play well. But, I haven’t been a huge fan of their books for a while.
@@Freelancer756 What he meant was sterile and surgical. They’re still extremely good though
Good enough to be undefeated so far though. (as of July 27th) Just think when the
drum line cleans up a bit. Goodbye everyone else. Who's getting second?
Yea, undefeated as an a whole corps. Definitely not as a percussion ensemble. Hope To catch them in the lot at ATL this weekend.
@@agedoutpodcast Yep. I knew about the line not scoring tops.
Just enough to keep the corps on the top though. When I marched
we tied for the Sanford (1980 Spirit and Bridgemen 19.2) and I think
BD was maybe 4th or so in drums but they still won top corps.
Definitely gotta have all of the cylinders to come out on top. 😊
Oh, and they didn't call it the "Sanford" in 1980 because Fred was still
living and they didn't call it the Jim Ott award either because he was
our horn instructor and he died during first tour in a staff van wreck
in Mississippi. Not sure when they started calling the high brass
award the Jim Ott Award? Just a little historical info free of charge.
@2:19 "this is the youngest BD snareline I've ever seen." - ME: There's new faces everywhere & BD's fresh from the grocery store, just like everyone else this year.
I would love to talk you guys someday...
We would love to talk with the real ScoJo as well!
What is that squat down thing they are doing at 15:09 ?
Is that like a reference to some other drumline thing or what?
I think it looks funny
They had a move like that during the 2015 drum feature
@@TheScrappedPodcast what was the story behind that one?
@@tdubasdfg ya know I’m not sure but in the feature the snares are playing this eighth notes on their right hand with a quick diddle in the middle and switching people. I’ll post a link
@@tdubasdfg ua-cam.com/video/czumgemCQF4/v-deo.html
It was/is funny lookin haha. Aight so here's the story. In 2014 for the drum break we needed body and Scojo asked "Alright what can we do that's different?" Think he just wanted something unorthodox. Everyone tried some different things and the one that stuck was Manzo doing that crab walk/telephone bounce. Ended up calling it the scuttle. It did also make it into the 2015 drum break as a way to move without traveling too far but it started in 2014
Bluecoats 2022 coming soon?
yea I think this older video doesn't do them as much justice. as of right now they have already made vast improvements from what I heard on the Drumline Archive's most recent BD video
ua-cam.com/video/ttOTfgf74hg/v-deo.html
I wish I had gotten this up a bit sooner so the guys could have reacted to it! A big jump in clarity in just three days’ time.
For the algorithm. ✊
Bruh just watch tjs screen the whole video🤣
They are so young but beating SCV in drums.
“Execution, interesting!” I’m done I just keep commenting as I watch
Is this the first year using ludwig drums?
yeah system blue went up in flames lmaoo and thank god those SB snares sounded like shiet imo
Definitely a young line this year… I appreciate your comments on their inconsistencies as well as pointing out that Vanguard at this point is much cleaner and are not scoring as well… But I also notice that you guys give some automatic credit to them as DCI always does because they are “The Blue Devils“. By that, I just mean that when you listened to Vanguard, there wasn’t much to be able to point out that needed to be fixed… so you don’t say much. It was almost like the fact that they would be dirty, then get clean earned them credit, whereas Vanguard was just clean the whole time.
Then there’s the difficulty levels… if you actually broke down the two books phrase by phrase, BD’s book is arguably not any harder than Vanguard’s. Because it’s not clean, you seem willing to let the excuse be that it’s a hard book… but again, other lines are much cleaner with very hard books; what exactly makes BD’s books harder though? There’s not that much separation in difficulty in my view. And Vanguard doesn’t just stand there arced up… that’s just not really accurate.
I do enjoy the comments though. You guys are doing a good job at breaking down something that is actually mostly subjective… and that’s also as hard as BD’s book! 👍🥁
I thought it was just me. This a very young group. I thought it was blue devils b.
The B Corps is really playing a lot of notes this year..
tj keeping it a little too real too keep the fan favorite badge but I’m still rocking with him
question: are all of you guys upper battery folks? because bass tone sounded nice but they were not super clean…..
Yea we are all snare drummers. Very possible some of the nitty gritty with bass drumming could get overlooked sometimes. But we’re learning 😂
true the learning never stops! i felt myself replaying to phrases after y’all would give comments on the snare ticks because i wasn’t catching stuff you guys noticed
I miss the balls out early 80s,
Those Ludwig snares have more tone than anyone else, if they keep these members together in 2 years the blue smoke band will return 🤘
Lack of hats and shoulder pads makes them look 12 years old. Hats especially add height and can make kids look more mature/intimidating
The center snare marched POW last winter. Which means he was 10th or lower in the Pulse organization snare pecking order. The first 10 in auditions make Pulse, the rest make POW. Make of that what you will. It looks like this is the chance of a life time for some of these kids, because of the Covid seasons disruptions. I'm getting a POW like vibe from this line. Starting the season really rough (while the Pulse snare line was extremely clean 2 months before WGI finals this past year. that's why they won), then getting to a point at the end of the season that they have cleaned up so much, you are amazed that it's the same line. There's a good chance that BD's season will go that way this year. But please, there is no way this line should be within a point of Vanguard right now. I think the field judge not being on the actual field has a lot to do with that. When the designers hide the battery in the back of the field for most of the show and the horn line is blasting in between, it's really hard to hear dirt. Next year, please vote to put the execution judges back in the middle of the field where they belong. And save the 'safety' argument. For 48 years i don't recall any judges being seriously injured or dying on the field.
correction: the first 9 in auditions make Pulse
Want some cheese
with that whine? Sounds to me like a diatribe from a loser who couldn’t make either Pulse or Pow or any other respectable WGI group for that matter, or bitter also-run who obviously never marched cause you got cut from the BD line.
I hate those Ludwig marching drums, if you look at the quads you can see a few have off kilter drums 1 and 2. And the snares are just heavier, more poorly made Yamahas, same goes for the basses. I have no idea why so many people switched to using them this season.
Might not be the best, but they sound way better than those system blue drums ever did.
Yerp
Vanguard is better this year and will grab Sanford stakes in the finals.BD's rookie snareline will clean up but hyping is typical and can get you to overplay.accents.
Tom Kaufman SCV very well may end up taking the Sanford. But let's not pretend it's a runaway slam dunk.
BDs young rookie percussion section is going toe to toe with SCV.
In seven head to head matchups SCV has a 4-3 lead.......and the percussion caption/subcaption is 11-10 in favor of SCV.
BD is right there with them.
@@gunner-qf9eh Scott Johnson is not instructing anymore,he made that BD drumline reputation,we both have a triple threat Boston Crusaders .I have not heard them yet but expect stiff competition.
@@tomkaufman3914 SCOJO is still at BD. I was at BDs rehearsals in Grand Terrace CA, and he was there. I went to all the SOCAL shows last month, he was there.
@@gunner-qf9eh That is a game changer.
No disrespect to BD intended, but I don’t understand how they are consistently beating SCV in drums right now
ua-cam.com/video/ttOTfgf74hg/v-deo.html
Check this out, the video they reacted to is an early season vid. This is current
The slotting is real
Sometimes it depends on the judges and over time some judges can get tired of the familiar book style SCV has as well as simply just how it truly is when it comes to the performance on the field.
@@RHG_Music I'm curious why ppl keep saying the same thing on otherwise great DCI content: Why is [insert corps here] getting slotted so bad?? They should have beat [other corps here] last night!!! Why was their [insert subcaption here that really doesn't matter] behind [other corps]??? I know they're better than [insert other corps] bc I said so!!!! I know because I'm better than all the judges!!! 😉
@@FBarnacle or maybe I don’t blindly agree with every ranking the judges give. I can have opinions
So what exactly happened to the system blue drums? I remember watch a video with Scott Johnson saying how good those drums were going to be. The sound was supposed to amazing. He was all gung-ho about these new drums. Now when I saw the video it was before they actually started to use them. Then once I saw the blue devils playing on them…………OMG they were the worse sounding drums I had ever heard. Lol I didn’t even like the look of them. So if someone can elaborate on why they went to Ludwig drums instead of those I would appreciate it.
More like the dirt devils
Blue devils are mid af
OMG I bet your other 2 subscribers feel the same way😆
@@FBarnacle dawg what are you on about I don’t even upload anything 💀
@@SamuelmMorales you just proved our point 😆
In all respect, y’all have a much more coherent podcast without TJ. It’s distracting when he’s on