Matt Bowers 2008 I&E 1st Place
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2008
- This is my good friend Matt Bowers and his first place I&E winning solo of 2008.
Matt Bowers marched with the 2007 DCI World Champion Blue Devils, 2008 WGI World Champion Rhythm X, and is now the 2008 DCI I&E Multi-Tenor solo winner.
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Matt Bowers is and has always been a drum machine lol. I marched with him in High School he was always impressive to watch!
supposed to be studying for school, sucked into watching dci videos on youtube again...
Arn't we all! Ha!
HE PLAYS AT BLINDING SPEED!
Agreed. The one thing that always impressed me about Matt was that he has absolutely ridiculous chops but still backs them up with technique and musicality.
i love that riff he keeps bringing back throughout the piece. it's awesome.
holy shit, that was the sickest tenor solo i've seen in a while
Not entirely...he has wet macular degeneration. His vision IS significantly impaired, but he;s not totally blind/ The fact that he could march on the field in BD, and Cadets before that, says a lot about him.
im loving the consistency! good god!
MATT BOWERS!!! went to my high school and marched with my instructer. hes butt rapin amazin. he helped out our line a little bit after his 08 season wit bd
@mrTooKanSam if you knew, he is only partially blind, more things far away.
I might have been intentional. It was a visual in their show.
he can only see out of his peripheral vision. and hes just a beast at everything else
I marched with this guy at Spirit in '03. One of the hardest workers I've ever seen!
10 bucks says this guy routienly does this in his sleep.
@thsma2009 WGi is if you you turn 22 before the season ever begins. But if you do it it mid season you're okay( I march WGI)
What an inspiration.
That's amazing!
The fact he is better than all of us in these comments i think its fine
you can tell he put a lot of work into this solo
Downright epic
I'll second that.
Well, my instructor always harps on us on slicing. When Bowers played a roll on one drums, you can see the slice mainly in his left hand (since that's like the only hand you see). Otherwise, it's the angle that the video was taken at. My instructor said that this guys was probably the best sounding, as in sound quality, that's he's heard in a long time.
WOW!! did he just do that?! lol that was amazingly clean for the speed he was going at. in fact i heard only about 2 or 3 rims good god i hope i can learn to play like that.
did he miss that one note toward the end on purpose? well on purpose or not that was still a fucking sick solo!
awesome.10 stARS!
@c2dinc where if anywhere could i get the sheet music to this, please and thank you
Sweet!
Anyone know where I can find sheet music for this if possible?
Theres always that one guy that says "WOOOO" after a lick in a DCI vid.
hey in his first section is whut chris drummer played in his 2010 i&e
@jazzman3071 yeah i watched him at 2009 WGI finals, he had the shades on at finals
spirit in 05
was he in cadets 05? if so hes got a DCI world champion title, two dci percussion trophies, a WGI world champion title, and now a tenor i&e title from dci. HOLY SHIT
Wow! I have so much respect for drum line drummers, especially when you see talent and dedication like this. I play a set but every time i see something like this, I am like DANG!!!! I need to work on my technique lol.Thank you sir for humbling people everywhere :) good job.
hes really good, that blindfold part was ridiculous. but thats quite a statement ur making...
dude, he majorly slices in his left hand. never noticed.
yeah, you've obviously never been in...
@Snebasseor OH MY GOD HE'S BLIND. Repeck.
agreed
you cant even tell the singles from the diddles. unbelieveable
They're both great drummers! lol
nice groove part
But for the Blue Devils A Corps, you must be 18-22 right? I think that is what it said on my flyer.
Damn, Fosho!
this dude had a mean ass slice when he warmed up
The dude is like 90% blind. I think we can forgive a little slice.
6:40
@c2dinc Like Matt R from RCC his age out yr is 07 but he had WGI bouns
he plays with sound quality cuz he marched cadets and rx
MAD CHOPS!!
He looks like Malcolm McDowell without hair.
HAH no. heck. the drum major for the blue devils this past summer was 17
don't quote me on this but i'm pretty sure he aged out this year (meaning Touch was his last show ever). i'm not positive though, but i think so.
Wow, his slicing is worse than mine. I'm not bagging on him, it's just that I didn't think that he would slice. I always thought that they didn't slice and that's why my instructor always harped on me to stop slicing.
Wow ive seen you comment on like all drum vids lol including the one by quakertownbands
@thsma2009 the changed it to 23 after he already aged out and left
sheet music please? :)
rhythm x 08 and 09?
He missed at the end. Nice.
what was his score?
You mean double paradiddles?
im guessing tim jackson didnt win this year?
is this the same guy who marched cadets '06?
0:34 nice slice bro
lol. thank you :)
he went Kenshi on them drums man..
Its any age, but it all depends on skill level.
Wow, do you even lift?
@mrTooKanSam it's still badass though
@thsma2009 welcome haha.
isnt the blindfold pretty redundant for him? i mean. from what i understand, hes almost blind.....
but either way, he shreds.
If you watch these:
watch?v=JJPq7qhywLs
watch?v=31B89xgfP6o
you'll see them both looking down. When you start playing some serious notes, it's hard not to look down.
And I agree some visuals would be awesome, but I don't think you can expect visuals from a non-visual guy. lol
Yeah it was redundant it was a joke and it was halarious lol - he desearved the win, the solo was very clean unlike others.
@betaomega04 It's actually called "macular degeneration."
well he's used to not seeing cuz he's practically blind.
@gfaithw
MY EYES!
you should do some research on promark. theyre gonna be good in the next 5 years.
thats my point.....
Blindfold? doesn't matter blind anyway
drums
He has tunnel vision. No perefs (however you spell it).
hahahahahaha. thats great
oh no he didnt...blind folded!
ever wonder howmany heads hes broken? lol
99999
MAD effen CHOPS
Well, he is legally blind.
thats not irony... its more redundant...
frikkin awesome but umm..... does the blindfold really make a difference?, well i guess it does kinda since he misses the last note, but still, i think he was kinda, idk, cheating with the blindfold thing
Matt has a condition called immaculate degeneration, which renders him legally blind. He told me that when he sees, he sees sporadic splotches of color; that he has a general idea of what things are, so it helps him move around a football field. When it comes to music, he uses a large electronic magnifier that blows up the image of a bar several times and he has to put his face very close to it. So before he ever plays something, he has to memorize it first.
How's that for sight-reading?
um.....long arms...
So he's better than Tim Jackson?
haha what? he only won 4 times though!
WOW Really? 06 Regiment won that year too, and there was really a 16 year old? Hahaha
Thanks for the knowledge.
He mussed his last big hit! Be made up for it by almost breaking the low drum's head.
well, i don't get why the blindfold thing is so OMFG. when my instructor marched cadets, they made them use blindfolds when playing so they don't rely on sight. but that WAS 95 96 so idk about now.
It is on purpose.
Well, Jackson won four years in a row. Haha
he is no tim jackson...lol
cool tho
But you said before that James Christian is better than Tim Jackson...That would knock Matt out of the top three.
That's on purpose.
Blue Devils drumline....Making Promark look like the shit.
I care about Bill Bachman.