New Zealand Girl Reacts to "TOTALLY MOST DEFINITELY NOT T/LT 2014 BLUE COATS" 😁
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This video is, hands down, in the top 5 videos i've watched on my channel. Absolutely magnificent. That's all I will share for now because I wanna let y'all see my reaction on the video!
Thank you SO much again to Sam for bringing my attention to this video.
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Also, huge shout out to Sam for collecting the different songs in this routine! Here they are below with time stamps!
1. First chart until the 5:30 mark in the vid -- Uffe's Woodshop by Tyondai Braxton
• Tyondai Braxton - Uffe...
2. 5:30 to 6:55: to wALk Or ruN in wEst harlem by Andy Akiho
• To wALk or ruN in wEst...
3. 6:55 to 10:10 -- The Hymn of Acxiom by Vienna Teng
• Vienna Teng - The Hymn... --
4. 10:10 to end -- Platinum Rows by Tyondai Braxton
• Tyondai Braxton - Plat...
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*band kids slowly start chanting in the distance*
“one of us.... one of us.... ONE OF US....”
Hello Mr. Jagged Line soloist, I didn't expect to find you here
Oh you've showed up
*Send her your solos*
Yes I was chanting this as soon as I seen blue coats
😂😂😂
Can confirm
I vote courtney should come to DCI finals next year and vlog everything. Watch the hornlines in the lot and all the hype that everyone involved in the activity experiences.
I second that
That would be fricken awesome!!! If I manage to get a substantial amount of ad revenue from UA-cam, it will definitely be something i'd like to fund!
Courtney Coulston you need to watch Santa Clara vanguard’s show. Search SCV 2018 or something like that. But that is a amazing show
Yeah about that, this years season is cancelled😭
We should all guarantee more DCI shows so Courtney can go to the DCI World Championships in the future
To answer your questions: They're not booing but blooing, a term of an endearment given to the Bluecoats by there fans and alumni when entering the field. Also most did get emotional when hearing that Hymn of Axiom section for the first time. Plus believe it or not this show was only second place, to the Blue Devils who had set a new DCI Finals score record in 2014. Regardless, so glad to see you forming a strong emotional connection to drum corps so early on in your exposure to it, welcome to the marching arts community!
ohhh I was wondering about that! I thought the rivals were boo-ing, i was like damn! lol. I learned something new, thanks! :)
WHAT, that is utterly insane that they came second. I haven't seen the performance that came first but it's truly hard to imagine a performance better than this :o
@Courtney Coulston The show that came first was Fellinisque which was the highest scoring show in DCI history with 99.65, a literally nearly if not perfect show haha.
TW Music wow 😳😳😳😳
Aaron...there is no such thing as "only second place" There is "only one show was judged to be better." ;-)
@@oldbandguy Completely agree with that! Kinda awkward phrasing on my part...
the whole time i was like girl you ain't ready for the end you ain't ready you ain't ready
the end.. lord have mercy on my eyes for crying
I HEART THIS COMMENT!
Laura Turbyfill we all KNOW
I could not WAIT for her reaction to those chord bends. One does not simply NOT cry...
I saw them at finals that year....we were all leaning with them out of shock! I legit had tears is my eyes because I was so blown away
It's so nice to get some recognition from someone outside of the DCI community. This is one of the shows that inspired me to march drum corps, so seeing someone get so much joy out of what we do as a community feels great.
And the country
As someone who has never seen anything like this before a month ago, y'all have a lot to be proud of! Incredible!
Same this also the show that exposed me to it in general
what corps?
I'm sad that such great art doesn't have even more exposure. I wish I would've had a chance to March, but I was in a Marine band at the time :)
These musicians spends 12 - 16 hr days for months at a time, practicing to perfect there show. Love DCI, so many great shows over the years. Drum Corp has always been in the for front of pushing the ideas in show and setting the standards for all other high school and college bands.
I'm not even surprised by that stat. I can't even fathom the amount of time and effort that goes into these shows. Both as individuals, and as a team. It's some true dedication and passion right there.
@@CourtneyCoulston Blue Devils have had the same rehearsal field at home since the mid-70s. We call it Mars because the field -- at least back in my day -- was like a lunar landscape. Also, it was surface of the sun hot during the day and arctic cold at night...windy, and petrochem smells, since there are oil storage tanks nearby (An oil company actually owns the land, BD just leases it). Rehearsal scheduling is a little different from when I marched in 1984, but I remember 12 hour days on the weekends AND every day once school let out and everyone was free to devote full-time to it (I was 20 and had a 14 year old next to me). It became a full-time unpaid job. 9am to 9pm from then until the end of the season was standard, except for travel or show days. I remember an 18 hour day in Bakersfield once (NOT a fun one, and not just because Bakersfield was the armpit of Southern California at the time).
If you can march clean there, you can march clean anywhere. Absolutely the worst field I've ever marched on. And yet it's as close to holy ground as I've ever stepped foot on...the crucible where Blue Devils are made -- our spiritual home.
I would love to walk that field again, find my opening set, and let all the memories wash over me.
If you want to be the best, you have to put in the time and effort...a season of top-level drum corps was the hardest thing I've ever done. Basic training in the military (I entered service a few months after DCI finals) was summer camp in comparison. Good instruction helps, and the instructors at this level are absolutely top notch in every area, but it also requires the members to buy into the program and bring it to life.
I will tell you, tho...being on the receiving end of the kind of crowd love you saw here -- there is NOTHING like it. I felt like an absolute GOD at the end of our finals run.
"Does anyone else feel emotional watching this?"
*Me in the background crying*
"No..."
Hymn of axiom made my eyes water
@@undefined1022 This is one of my favorite shows ever and Hymn of Axiom is a big reason why.
@@osutuba one of the best ballads played
The worst part about rewatching this is never getting to watch it for the first time again. I still remember watching this my freshman year of high school and your reaction, especially in the end, is like me watching my past self. The "Oh my goodness!" and then the "... Oh?" when they did the pitch bend was priceless bc I still remember the element of surprise and awe for the first time. And when the soloist jumped off the ramp and landed on the guard right on the last hit, I basically said "I've seen enough, I'm satisfied" and decided that the bluecoats were now my fav corp. Now that I'm a freshman in college and seen dozens of more shows, Tilt is forever a favorite one. I'd recommend Crown 2013 "E=mc^2" or Bluecoats 2016 "Downside Up". Btw I was extremely disappointed when I found that they didn't win first, but got second. Although I respect the show that got first, us Bloo fans know who really won that night.
You're spot fucking on with that 2014 Crown show. 2002 Cavaliers Frameworks, and 1996 Phantom Regiment Defiant Heart are right up there too. Frameworks is maybe my favorite show of all time.
I agree with you with experiencing that show for the first time...
I graduated high school and I was blown away. I can definitely see why the Blue Devils got first....but holy cow Bluecoats has SWEPT off my feet. I was shocked with the few last notes. I enjoyed how seamless they made it....but to a musically trained ear, it sounded on and off. I can't imagine how it is on the floor with them.
But overall AMAZING. They love pushing boundaries.
Hee hee! I made a New Zealand girl breathless! (don't tell my wife!)
And NOW you have a much better idea of what a drum corps show is like....from the audience POV, with good camera and audio work.
Very glad to have brought this to your attention. Thanks SO much for being willing to look at new activities to react to.
(16:34 "That was out of this world." Actually, that was Carolina Crown's 2014 program.)
For those not familiar with drum & bugle corps...think Olympic-level marching band (as you have just seen). These groups are not attached to a school...they're independent organizations, and the top ones draw members from all around the world (the euphonium player bending backwards with his tongue hanging out during the first pitch bend near the end is from Italy, in fact). The age range tends to be 14-22, but top groups like Bluecoats tend to skew older, although there are the occasional young kids at this level.
As for being top notch....Bluecoats have been for a number of year now. This program took 2nd place. In almost any other year, this would've won (and they DID win in 2016).
You REALLY have to love hearing the crowd go bonkers before the show even ends...i can tell you as a performer, that is an incredible feeling. And the crowd at the end wasn't booing...they were Blooing!
You should have her watch Crown's 2014 show
Won't say a thing. Wife will never know. :-)
Sam thank you so much for recommending this video. This was one of the best and enjoyable videos I've had on my channel. I've watched the video several times after this because I just couldn't get over how amazing it is to watch, particularly the closing!
By the way, I'm about to send you an email this afternoon but I just wanted to comment here and thank you again.
@@CourtneyCoulston Heh....you're MORE then welcome. Now you have a n idea why I had to make sure I watched your reaction and not the show!
Hahaha “that was out of this world” props to the guy who’s snare drum fell after the drum break that same day.
Your channel has been taken over by dci fans
You're welcome
"That was Out of This World"
No "Out of This World" was Carolina Crown's show in 2014, not the Bluecoats
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I said the same thing!!!
Omg. As a band nerd, this makes me happy seeing you reacting to DCI. If I could hit the subscribe button 10 more times I would.
Same here I love when people appreciate our hard work it's a good feeling.
Thanks guys!! It's truly some awesome stuff!
*waits for reaction to ballad and pitch bend*
"As Expected."
She said something like “that’s amazing” 30 seconds before the pitch bend and I was just there thinking “oooh just wait”
This show is considered by the majority of the DCI community to be one of the best of all time, and I'm sure it's pretty self-apparent why.
Shows I would recommend would The Cavaliers 2010 "Mad World" OR Phantom Regiment 2008 "Spartacus"
Spartacus is 100 percent essential. Can't go wrong with either tho
i'l write that down, thanks yall!
Another essential one is Cadets 2011- Between Angels and Demons
Phantom 08 for sure
Phantom Regiment 2008 for sure.
Still waiting for you to check out 2008 Phantom Regiment "Spartacus"
Her website is in the description....$50 and a reaction is yours.
Man my high school band director was in that show. Always made us play Canon in D into firebird for a show warmup lol.
I was about to say this as well ... I think 2008 Phantom's Spartacus is the ultimate show when it comes to telling a story from beginning to end.
Oh my god STAPLE in dci
Yes!!!!
Me: *watches all the ads all the way through to get her to DCI finals*
Even if she set up a patreon she would be able to go through that. I know I would donate
OMG YES THIS SHOW IS SO FRICKING GOOD OMG YES YES YES... lol sorry but yeah love this, thank you for reacting to it :D
Yes !! I feel you!! I ended up watching the same video several more times. I really cannot get over the closing. It's incredible!!!
Courtney Coulston Imagine being there! In that stadium! A few meters from the edge of the pitch. It’s an amazing activity. Some of the best moments of my life were out there on the pitch doin this. Thank you so much for enjoying this.
@@CourtneyCoulston Courtney, my dear, THIS is why you MUST come to the U.S. and see the DCI finals. I've been to the finals many times, in many cities, it's ALWAYS one hell of a show. Next...PLEASE...the Scouts or the Cadets... or the Cavaliers. All of them are legit. Enjoy!!
Courtney Coulston controversial topic: their 2016 show is better
Ramiro Paz u must only care about them getting first
Ladies and Gentlemen... We’ve turned another civilian to the drum corps world!!!!! Yes!!!!
@courtneycoulston welcome to the darkside, we have cookies 😁
This was my high school band directors favorite blue coats show
it's amazing!!
This is my favorite DCI show period
Bluecoats 2019 "The Bluecoats" is another show worth checking out in my opinion. There was some controversy because this show got second again to the Blue Devils, who performed "Ghostlight." But both are great shows, I recommend seeing both.
I'll have to admit that it took a while for "Ghostlight" to grow on me, but I respect why it won. Doesn't change the fact that "The Bluecoats" should have won in 2019,and I consider myself a massive Crown homer who thoroughly enjoyed "Beneath the Surface"
Courtney thank you so much for the kind words you give to marching bands and drum corps we work really to put on a show our audience and I'm sure all band members can agree with me that when someone that isn't in band gives compliments like you did it fuels our fire to continue perform and entertain for our audiences.
P.S everyone like this comment let's get Courtney to watch Carolina Crown's 2014 show Out of this World or better yet a head cam video from the Blue Devils trumpet soloist from 2017!!
Hi Trent! The pleasure is all mine! :) I can't imagine the amount of work that goes into putting on one of these shows! Amazing work, seriously! Haha, i'll write down those recommendations :) Thanks Trent, have a blessed day!
@@CourtneyCoulston it is alot of work but we love to do it and thank you so much and you have a blessed as well!
2016 The Academy Drum Corpse Bride!? easy to access full show. One of the best, most underrated shows in my opinion
Agreed!
Oh yeah definitely
This day was my first drum corps experience! I remember the chills this gave me as a little 14 year old! Mad props 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
little does she know there’s a show called out of this world
Yaaaaaaa
Crown 2014 baby
HAHAHA YES!
Also Felliniesque 2014 was a great year!
Marvin Rodriguez they literally have the worlds highest score, I would say that’s the best year for them ever
all band kids in this comment section “BLOOOOOO”
BLOOOOOOOO
BLOOOOOOO
BLOOOOOOOOO
Blooooooooooooooo
BLOOOOOOOOOOOO
As a high school band nerd, I love seeing people react to drum corps. There is something about watching people's absolute awe in the face of drum corps that just fills me with a sort of giddy joy. I sincerely hope you react to more drum corp shows, they're just absolutely incredible :)
Heh....it's also fun to watch the staff freak out when it's going well. Look up 1990 Star of Indiana and watch the staff (standing just behind the DM podium) during the last minute. ua-cam.com/video/vITnKT9-m2g/v-deo.html&feature=emb_logo
first DCI show I ever watched, during my first year of marching band.
Now THAT was a fine intro to the activity!
sam signorelli same with downside up! that was my intro to the community. i'm so honored to have seen the wink happen live!
My intro to the community was Blue Devils Metamorph, got me addicted to dci, and now i know bluecoats and then tilt and then me just loving everything
I can’t even cap when I say you gotta react to more of these, those guys and gals are some of the most talented musicians and performers out there
When you said “does anyone else get emotional,” I was already CRYING 💕🥺 so glad you loved this show, one of my absolute FAVORITES
When you asked if anyone else was feeling emotional, that’s us every time we watch these shows haha. All of it is so good!
If you're enjoying DCI I would recommend watching some videos of "Blast!", it's an older theatre production of former DCI members, essentially "DCI on a stage".
I remember listening to my first show it was the Blue devils 2017 show metamorph absolutely amazing!!!!
I see A lemon same
Nice. My first discovery of DCI was 2001 on PBS when they use to broadcast championship, saw my live first show in 2004.
Is it just me or was her reaction to the closer the most pure joy?
Seeing someone's first time watching this gives me thrill of watching it my first time all over again! I'm glad you liked it!
Imagine watching the top 12 DCI corps on Finals night in Indy...in person....the atmosphere is electric as each corp leaves it all on the field.
yeah in person is SO emotionally overwhelming.
One of the best ballads in DCI in the last decade. One of my favorite shows of all time!
How do they move like that? Speaking from experience marching in drum corps, hundreds to thousands of hours of rehearsal.
Can you watch Santa Clara vanguard 2018
As someone who has marched drum corps, thank you. Thank you for this genuine reaction. This is what I live for in every performance I did. I tried to throw down every show for this reaction. Thank you so much.
what groups did you march?
Jersey Surf, The Hawthorne Caballeros, and The Bushwackers.
Imagine, for a moment, what it's like to be at a concert where the music is really loud. This is way better. Not because this is louder (it is), but because the sounds that you're listening to with a drum corps are mostly acoustical, and not so much from a loudspeaker. It just hits way different, and it's really hard to get that over a UA-cam video. You actually FEEL it.
I promise, these videos are going to turn you into a DCI channel. There tends to not be a lot of recognition outside of this community.
I don't think it's possible to not enjoy the last 2 minutes of that show. It's so easily accessible to anyone.
That guy realizing he would do that jump for the last time 😭
I actually know him, awesome dude.
As someone involved in drum corps for years, watching your reactions was genuinely heartwarming. Thank you!
I've listened to this show thousands of time and that closer still gives me chills every single time. I would recommend Santa Clara Vanguard 2018
SCV2018's ballad.... man... I love the ballad in Bloo2014 a LOT.... but man... SCV18.... that ballad... doesn't matter how many times I see or hear it, I always fall apart. When you understand the message in that ballad.... changes you.
Her face is like, "how?!" LOL
This was my favorite show for several years. That was until Santa Clara Vanguard’s 2018 show “Babylon.” The ballad and closer of that show blew me away.
Obligatory shoutout for my corps families: Louisiana Stars (2019) and Spirit of Atlanta (2020-21)
You should have seen it from the stands live. It was emotional for me being there. That is the highest we ever placed at the time.
Loved watching this again with you. Glad to have you as a fan.
Thanks.
I Am A Bluecoat.
I marched dci for two years. Best experience of my life. Nothing compares to the emotion you feel performing a show for the last tine ever with a group of people you'll never see all together again. Dci is just a really special thing that not a lot of people know about. And I'm glad to see you enjoy it.
This is probably my 30th time watching this show and I still get chills and so emotional
It's great to see drum corps being featured on your channel! It's been going on for almost 50 years like this as DCI, and it's honestly one of the coolest things to watch and listen to.
It's gratifying to see someone out of the Drum and Bugle Corps circle enjoy the performance so much. The kids work so hard each summer to put on a complete different show each year.
They got robbed with a second place finish with this performance. They were the best on the field that night. I was there and it was amazing. Blue Devils won but this show was absolutely stunning. There will be very few people a few years from now that will remember the Blue Devils show, but EVERYONE who was there will remember this show.
Sorry, but Blue devils 100% deserved their win. Bluecoats may have had the better show, but Devils had the better execution. The fan favorite show isn't always the show that deserves the win 🤷♂️
thats a bad take
If you ever get the chance to see a live show DO IT! Seeing these shows live is a whole different experience, and I still think back to the time I went to my first show in 2005 and stayed up all night in my hotel room because I was so thrilled. I'm pretty bummed that I bought tickets the second they went on sale for a show near me, and then the season got cancelled weeks later. It would have been my first live show since 2009.
Can't believe someone actually got her a working link, nice! Subbed for the reactions to these, but have been digging your other content too! Would still love to see you come back to more of these, there are plenty of gems of shows in the drum corps activity! Also, that was a crowd favorite show, but I think they might be gotten 2nd or 3rd, below the Blue Devil's that year, same group you reacted to, but different show.
I had originally put together a vid of maybe 6 endings -- '14 Bloo was one of them -- but it got taken down before she even got the link....I managed to find this one, tho.
I lost my job as A/V Coordinator at the Comvention Center here in Bloomington when the live events industry completely dried up when the pandemic started. Courtney’s enthusiasm about our activity has inspired me to start writing again. She’s a treasure.
One of my favorite Drum Corps related videos is by Ben Gunnarson and is called “Bluecoats 2016 Trumpet Soloist Supercam”. It is the same group, just two years laters (and very different uniforms). It’s a GoPro video that switches between a practice rehearsal during the week leading up to finals, and their encore performance after they had won first place. It is one of the coolest perspectives I’ve ever seen, and I highly recommend watching/reacting to it at some point.
Seeing this show live was one of the best experiences of my life. Definitely the best show you could have watched to introduce you to the world of DCI!
I love these performances. I marched in my high school marching band during my freshman and sophomore years (I became a varsity football player junior year, so I had to leave the band). We had a VERY large high school band...the size of some college bands...and were multiple award winners. Everyone in the school greatly appreciated the band, and even when I was on the football team, we always cut our halftime locker room speeches short so we could get to the sidelines in order to watch them perform. Having been on both the band member side AND football team side, I can attest that the band practiced just as long as hard as the football team every day during the season. I still suggest you watch the Ohio State University band performing their famous home game pre-game routine "Script Ohio". It's a tradition going all the way back to the 1930s, and it is always incredible seamless. During every performance, one of the graduating senior sousaphone (tuba) players gets the honor of "dotting the I". One of my college professors (who also became a good friend) had been a sousaphone player at Ohio State and had dotted the I back in the 1970s. It's a really cool tradition...and I'm not even an Ohio State fan!
That's cool but I am able to play football and do band
The Bluecoats finished 2nd that year, and finished 3rd the following year, and they finally captured their first (and only to date) DCI championship with a show titled Downside Up. The three bluecoats shows from those years are to date my favorite ever DCI shows.
I somehow got hooked on these, there's something really endearing about Courtney's reactions haha. Someone should tell her to check out PBR Top Wrecks and Rides. 😊 She might enjoy them after watching her football hit reaction videos. Cheers ya'll! 🍻
This right here, is my favorite DCI show of all time. Thank you for reacting to it! Made me really happy. And as you probably have learned, they are not booing, as that is EXTREMELY, and I mean EXTREMELY rude to the corps, since they practice and rehearse for months on end. They are instead "Blooing" which is a tradition from alumni and fans to scream "BLOOOOOOOOOOOO" before and after the show.
It’s so cool to see someone who’s not part of the drum corps community get excited about drum corps! Please spread more of this 😁😁
Watching your reactions to this and the emotions you experience reminds me of my very own emotions to each of these shows! Thank you so much for trying new things and welcome to the dci community!
Oh wow I love this show. We performed the song played in the opener for my closer for my sophomore year of high school show. This was my introduction to DCI as a band kid and I've never been the same since.
16:34 "that was out of this world"
Me: speaking of Out of This World...
i did color guard as well as play an instrument. Marching band was one of my most fun, time consuming, hard work, proudest, honoring experiences of my life and I will never forget the experience or the people that i was able to meet!
I marched 2008-2010 Bluecoats, in the colorguard, and I LOVE seeing people get introduced to this activity and to ‘coats. SO happy that you liked it and had an emotional connection to it, that’s what it was always about for us as performers ❤️
If you're loving the forms then I'd recommend cavaliers, either 2002 (frameworks) or 2008 (samurai)
I was blessed to be at this show live. Absolutely stunning.
Courtney, you have no idea what rabbit hole you have dove into haha. It makes me so happy to see the different emotions feel while watching this show and I am so glad you have found out about this activity because it truly means the world to a ton of people.
Scoring is based primarily on technical execution: how well the notes are played, their blend and unison with the rest of the corps; marching is judged on levels of precision from consistency of spacing between members, evenness of shapes and straightness of lines, even positioning of instruments, torsos, and individual feet.
In drum corps parlance, a winning show is not necessarily the most captivating show, but the cleanest show. Thus, we all have favorites, like this incredible BLUEcoats show, that didn't win.
For the corps members and staff, it's all about doing your best and giving it your all so each performance is better than the last, and wowing the audience. Every corps deserves a standing ovation for the work they've done. There's only one First place, but every member can achieve their goals.
BTW, I was there for all three nights of finals, I saw this show three times...and each time the ending made me feel like I was suddenly drunk. It is the most pleasantly bewildering drum corps routine I have ever seen in decades.
These guys used our high school field for practice during the touring season so I saw them LIVE and I will never forget the feeling of the pitch bend at the end blasting you in the face
You should watch Carolina Crown's E=MC2 - that was one of the first DCI shows I watched and was AMAZED not only by the difficulty of runs in the brass, but also the emotion and story of the show as well as their seamless movement! I am a trumpet player but never got the chance to march DCI before age-out (there are limits on the ages of the corp members) but always dreamed of working and playing and marching at their level. They are the athletes of the band world! Bluecoats used to house at my high school on tours and I actually got to see them perform this live - breathtaking! Hymn of Axciom, the ballad, made me cry. This is by far one of the favorite shows!
Not sure if someone has mentioned this to you yet, but here are what things are called in Marching band /DCI terms:
The people that you call "dancers" are called "Colorguard"
The people playing those mallet and auxiliary (other instruments that aren't practical to march) is called the "pit"; the people that march with the drums is called the "battery."
Then everyone one else that has an instrument that is marching is called "horns" or "winds" with the following in that category: trumpet, mellophone (it's like a trumpet with a bigger front bell), Euphonium (the marching baritone; also can be looked at as a "larger" trumpet), and tuba/sousaphone.
Everything that I left out is because of certain rules that DCI has for certain instruments; DCI has however has started to include more and more instruments that corps can use in there shows.
GIRL . . . You just saw one of the more innovative drum & bugle corps performances in the last 20 years. I remember hearing about this show, but never got a chance to see it. Your reaction was exactly what corps members are hoping for when they perform in front of a crowd. I never got the chance to march in DCI, but I loved being in marching band in high school and college. And people called us "band geeks" while I was growing up . . .
13:00 As a drummer it warms my heart to hear a percussion-break referred to as "beautiful." I never would have thought to express it like that, but yeah, it really is a thing of beauty 😊 I tell my students drumline is "the world's most cooperatively precise activity."
I was in marching band in high school. They hold state championships in that stadium. It's amazing. So, so many great memories there.
I know it's been said a million times, but truly the experience of being there can't be beat. Not only is it more exciting because you're among a crowd buzzing with enthusiasm, but you can literally FEEL the sound at many points when it gets really intense. This experience beats many live sporting events as well.
Being able to feel the power and sound in your body is just not something you can prepare for. Every person I have exposed to DCI through a live show thoroughly enjoys the experience because you can't help but feel excited through the rush of it all.
The ballad sounded THAT good and they were spread out diagonally across most of the field. So impressive.
Their ballad, Hymn of Axiom, still brings tears to my eyes too. You're not alone in that!
It was so much fun watching you watching this! My son was the drum major dressed all in white on the tall podium! It was a great show!
Tell him, as a fellow DM (SoCal Dream Sr. 03-04) that I loved his style. It was a great show.
I love how you’re reacting to all of these and how you’re becoming a fan of it 😊 it’s awesome seeing someone have an emotional reaction to something like this that they are new to.
blue devils 2014 and carolina crown 2015!!!!!!! seen them both in person. AMAZING shows!!!!!
That jump into the guard at the end always gets me. So perfectly timed and executed.
This takes dedication, a lot of hard work, and hundreds if not thousands of repetitions. I was in marching band from 7th grade to 12 grade. It was some of the hardest work ever, but I had sooooo much fun!
The energy at the end was EPIC!!
Saw this show in person (a few times) and still think it's awesome!!
Exactly why I've been a DCI fan and Marched percussion in high school the 80s... THIS FEELING
2014 blue devils felliniesque, which beat out this show unfortunately, is also really good. There’s a full show on YT rn that hasn’t been taken down yet. React to it before it does please.
Wouldn't say unfortunately lol
I absolutely LOVED watching your reactions. As a DCI alumni, we never really saw how our shows affected the fans/audiences. We knew we had an emotional connection to our own shows, and other corps shows, but I never really realized how deeply impacting it can be for someone outside of the DCI community🥰
I wish so much that I could go back and march again! I LOVED my time in DCI. It went by way too fast, but was worth all the blood, sweat, and tears. All the long practice hours of dawn till dusk, or beyond, months on the road, I loved it all! It was all so ver worth every second💕 I'd do almost anything to go back again💗
I'm not a very emotional person, but watching your reaction made me want to cry. Happy tears of course🤗 Thank you for reminding me of my passions💕
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Now watch Crown perform Out Of This World
someone get her to watch the cavvies upside down drumline feature
There's another drum corps activity called Drum Corps Associates (DCA) which does the same thing as DCI, just that it is an "all-age" organization, meaning that people who age out after DCI (age 21) they can still march or even if youre just starting out within the drum corps community. DCA has performers from all walks of life and all ages, most of whom marched DCI and want to continue marching. I recommend the Hawthorne Caballeros, Reading Buccaneers, Atlanta CV, especially all of these corps recent shows within the last year or so. DCA just goes to show you that no matter your age, you can still put on a kick ass show!
Thank you for being a part of our community and bringing more exposure to this activity that changes the lives of so many.
Had the awesome oppurtunity to march with Boston Crusaders 2011&2012 and Aged out with Carolina Crown 2015..would give anything to do it again.
So awesome seeing your reaction to the perfromances, brings me back to the first time I got exposed to the activity!
Thanks again!
This was the first DCI show that I ever saw all the way back in my freshman year of high school, so this definitely holds a place in my heart 😂 My visual tech for marching band my junior-senior year marched this show, and he always said this was the show that put the Bluecoats on the map 👌
10:20- being someone who marched this show I can confirm there is a huge rush of emotion during this ballad😂🥺 that being my age out year made it so much more special
Dude....this is my all time FAVE Bloo show! Absolutely magnificent...and in any other year, probably would've won.
Do you happen to know if that blonde guard girl at the very bottom of the screen after the last hit aged out that year or did she hang on until 2016?
I remember the shot of her at retreat talking with the BD guard guy and the high she was still on came through the screen...I kinda wanted her to end up with a ring after that.
sam signorelli I’m not sure man since I aged out I didn’t keep much contact with other members just the battery guys
The fact that your actively reacting to dci shows is amazing 🤩
Hi Carlos! Thank you! It's a whole new world I've never seen before, ever!! Super enjoyable to watch and learn about :D
You should definitely keep it up with these band vids. I am a marching band member and I write shows and it really lights up my entire day to see people who are actually amazed at what we do. I’ll say, I’m not blue coats level but marching is something that a lot of people disregard.
LOVE your reaction to the pitch bend at 13:59!!! AWESOME reaction to a Awesome show!