That's how it is when it's done right. I love it too! **edit** amplification has helped with this too, since the performers can play more fluidly and musically without having to overplay and distort sound quality in order for their sound to cut through.
About a year and a half ago, I witnessed this video for the first time. I maybe watched it 2 or three times a day, I was so mesmorized that I couldn't help it. I couldn't believe what this guy was pulling off, and how composed he was. That's when I knew that this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to join DCI in a pit. After many months of practice and many lessons, I honestly believe that I could play most of this show (maybe not those runs, but most of everything else). Next season I will be auditioning for an Open Class corp along the East coast. It's amazing how much inspiration can come from one video.
Favorite drum corps pit! This was so much fun to take me back to my front ensemble years. What I love about the Cavies pit is they REALLY know how to work the dissonant notes and resolve them with the band, it's such perfectly integrated keyboard writing!
I am a mallet/marimba player myself going into my first year of marching band. I aspire to do this well... I completely admire marimba and mallet players.
+aPattyson I've always been taught that the drumline consists of the battery and the front ensemble. It's really meant to encompass all percussionists on the field, matching or not. Perhaps the definition changes depending on where one learns it?
after spending two years on pit, and two years on drumline, with both of my drumline years spent managing both sections (we didn't have a percussion instructor) I have a lot of respect for both sections. they are both important and both present their own challenges
Lol we have the same mallets. When I make enough money, I'm buying my own marimba, because being a marimbist is a lot of fun. Also, nice stick throw. Always happens. Can't escape it.
well most members of corps go into teaching what they know best so its not uncommon for students to go watch their teacher's performances. Especially if their instructor put their name on the video
Rebecca Mylum Not necessarily. I was playing at a dome for championships during my first year in my school's national class band, and one of my hard xylophone mallets broke halfway through a 16th note run. Of course, only the top half of my right mallet broke so I kept on using it till a snare break where I was able to switch to a different pair. It wasn't really scary at all - I found it funny, actually. Especially because I was using those mallets since the beginning of the season. Although, DCI may be different. I don't know of any penalties that my state's conference have on mallets breaking.
2:31 to 3:51 is fucking awesome. I was in the pit through high school and this video was so inspiring to me, I just tried to find it again for like half an hour and it’s as good as I remembered it.
Thomas Neal When you practice 12 hours a day for three months and even learn it before the season starts, you'll be fine. Not to mention that there's a lot of memorable patterns in pit music that are not as easily seen by non percussionists. His runs simply scale modes. Chords and perms and yadayadayada.
Just watching this video and seeing how fast he's playing on the marimba with the four mallets makes me smile at the sight. I'm playing marimba for my school's marching band and playing with four mallets is pretty hard once you first learn it, but it gets easy. Playing cords with the notes really close to each other is hard but I'll soon get used to it
yasss! I play the Synthesizer in the pit at my high school and just omg the honor of getting to even be that close to a marimba player!! They are so talented, I envy my section leader
+alyssa I think he's referring to the minor second intervals in those chords. A minor second interval is basically, on a piano, two keys basically directly next to each other. So a d and d sharp. They sound very very off and personally I cringe whenever i hear one.
As in they are more focused on being hard than sounding good? Of course, but you don't win drums with an easy book that sounds great. You win with a hard book that sounds great. See Carolina Crown if you need proof that easy (relatively) but pleasant books don't win.
Yes, but a lot of the marimba book shown makes very little musical sense. It's just ridiculously fast scales and arpeggios. There's honestly no finesse or musicality involved - and I think that's the problem with DCI these days, brass books AND drum books alike. A lot of it is just showing off.
I for one think it sounds epic and awesome too. It really is a mindset. If you're used to popular/pop music you'll have a hard time appreciating the tonal spectrum of this kind of music. Also keep in mind because this is filmed from the player's kind of view the sound of his own marimba is greatly emphasised and you're not able to hear the "whole thing".
Oh I completely get it and love it. Hell, I better since I'm in a DCI front ensemble, but seriously undoubtedly being difficult is a major aspect of DCI front ensemble books nowadays.
I tried learning piano many times being a brass player of 10 years but honestly having marched one year of DCI and seen this video, I would rather learn marimba.
As someone in drumline I love the way pit players move when they play. It looks so fluid and full of passion. Awesome
That's how it is when it's done right. I love it too! **edit** amplification has helped with this too, since the performers can play more fluidly and musically without having to overplay and distort sound quality in order for their sound to cut through.
About a year and a half ago, I witnessed this video for the first time. I maybe watched it 2 or three times a day, I was so mesmorized that I couldn't help it. I couldn't believe what this guy was pulling off, and how composed he was. That's when I knew that this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to join DCI in a pit. After many months of practice and many lessons, I honestly believe that I could play most of this show (maybe not those runs, but most of everything else). Next season I will be auditioning for an Open Class corp along the East coast. It's amazing how much inspiration can come from one video.
if anybody ever disses pit, show them this
This has to be my all time favorite marimba cam. Speechless at how ridiculously awesome this is.
I have watched this so many times, it's inspiring.
Ikr :,)
Them mallet runs. And them abs... GOD EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS AMAZING
imr
ikr*
What abs...?
I think we need to start a charity called shirts for dci where we all donate money so that dci people can have shirts XD
they have shirts. It's hot, so everyone takes them off
+Zachary Kinnard the joke flew so high over your head it hit snoop dog
The cars
@@noahvanhyning7752 when your reply gets more likes then the comment
@@bricesonwatson8833 haha it's funny seeing old comments like these from me, it's like a whole different person
Favorite drum corps pit! This was so much fun to take me back to my front ensemble years. What I love about the Cavies pit is they REALLY know how to work the dissonant notes and resolve them with the band, it's such perfectly integrated keyboard writing!
I am a mallet/marimba player myself going into my first year of marching band. I aspire to do this well... I completely admire marimba and mallet players.
These are my favorite videos to watch on youtube because the pit is absolutely amazing!!
There are not enough Marimba Cams out there
Agreed. The world needs more front line!!
I BEEN WAITING FOREVER FOR A MARIMBA CAMERA THANK YOU
Wherever these guys learn percussion, I'm applying.
Indiana University
best go-pro video I've ever seen in DCI
Pit is Legit
I need to make t-shirts that say that.
HipieofBSA I would buy that Tshirt
+Ambrosia Ackerman Samee
+Hank Fuentes Bars.
THIS guy right here is a Marimba God!!!!
This is why I aspire to someday be on a Corp frontline.
And people say drum line is cooler I don't think so I love being in pit
+Abby Rusher Pit is part of the drum line. I believe you're thinking of the battery.
+aPattyson I've always been taught that the drumline consists of the battery and the front ensemble. It's really meant to encompass all percussionists on the field, matching or not. Perhaps the definition changes depending on where one learns it?
+aPattyson same here
+aPattyson that's correct
after spending two years on pit, and two years on drumline, with both of my drumline years spent managing both sections (we didn't have a percussion instructor) I have a lot of respect for both sections. they are both important and both present their own challenges
I can't believe that this is my private lesson tutor
Noah John That’s cool! Is he still your tutor?
WHO THE SHIT WRITES THESE PARTS DEAR GOD LET ME LEARN FROM THEM
Wow i am in the drumline and this right here has proven , that whatever you choose , most things are cool!
Good job!
It got intense at 1:45
all the good old days in the pit.
This is the best thing I've ever seen. I can pretend I'm really good at playing with four mallets.
will always come back to this.
Your name sounds like a wizard101 character 😂😂😂
Joseph Ludwig So true 😂
Joseph Ludwig yours sounds like a mario character
Lol we have the same mallets. When I make enough money, I'm buying my own marimba, because being a marimbist is a lot of fun.
Also, nice stick throw. Always happens. Can't escape it.
what mallets do they use?
I didn't want it to end
It is a band all by itself. I have enjoyed it. Thanks.
Simply amazing. This is a great new perspective for me.
Good God the chops needed to play this piece are crazy!!!
AHhh now I remember why I stuck with auxiliary percussion.
Amen
uasuka
^^^ love it when people have no sense of humor...
Best cam I think I've ever seen...
The incredible flexing marimba (11:11)
This guy works at my high school now
thatd what alot of people say
well most members of corps go into teaching what they know best so its not uncommon for students to go watch their teacher's performances. Especially if their instructor put their name on the video
yeah a lot of dci members end up teaching in schools. My percussion director was in blue stars pit in 2012
my percussion teacher marched bluecoats 2007, 2009, 2010 snare
"I'll delete it." Haha, well so much for that.
"I'll delete it".
No you won't lol!
Holy fuck, thank you for proving that this can be an exciting instrument
This has to be my favorite DCI video I've ever seen
“I will delete it”
5 years later
Still not deleted. Not that I am complaining and am so happy he didn’t delete it! Anyone else?
Great recovery at 5:32
agreed
I wish there was a marimba cam from 2011 :/
Favorite pit cam to this day
I like how u dropped ur mallet and kept going!
+Rebecca Mylum Nah he dropped his mallet so he was gonna give up half way through the show lol
+uasuka usually you have an extra in the stick bag. if you run out, you keep playing like it didnt happen. It's all about uniformity and composure.
+Zane Stackhouse I'm just saying that because some people would've gotten embarrassed and froze up during the show
Rebecca Mylum Not necessarily. I was playing at a dome for championships during my first year in my school's national class band, and one of my hard xylophone mallets broke halfway through a 16th note run. Of course, only the top half of my right mallet broke so I kept on using it till a snare break where I was able to switch to a different pair. It wasn't really scary at all - I found it funny, actually. Especially because I was using those mallets since the beginning of the season. Although, DCI may be different. I don't know of any penalties that my state's conference have on mallets breaking.
That is some GREAT writing!!! Great skills, too!
2:31 to 3:51 is fucking awesome. I was in the pit through high school and this video was so inspiring to me, I just tried to find it again for like half an hour and it’s as good as I remembered it.
Those mallet runs...
not exactly sure why, but this made me mind blown
That's incredible!!!!
That was awesome!
This is extremely demanding music
It's amazing that you can memorize a 13 minute show, while most of the kids at my middle school cant even remember their region music.
Thomas Neal When you practice 12 hours a day for three months and even learn it before the season starts, you'll be fine. Not to mention that there's a lot of memorable patterns in pit music that are not as easily seen by non percussionists. His runs simply scale modes. Chords and perms and yadayadayada.
ikr
Just watching this video and seeing how fast he's playing on the marimba with the four mallets makes me smile at the sight. I'm playing marimba for my school's marching band and playing with four mallets is pretty hard once you first learn it, but it gets easy. Playing cords with the notes really close to each other is hard but I'll soon get used to it
Needs more cowbell
Okay that joke is so old
+Drummer From Heaven this comment is old
Sarah Elizabeth your mom is so old
I love that concert snare part at 11:18! You are a Marimba God!!
Our drum captain needs to watch this.
I have so much respect for mallet players. Playing mallet instruments is HARD, it's certainly not for everybody; it really takes talent.
yasss! I play the Synthesizer in the pit at my high school and just omg the honor of getting to even be that close to a marimba player!! They are so talented, I envy my section leader
Tiana Clark I also play the synthesizer in the pit! But I also play marimba too.
"I will have it deleted"
Oh my god even the marimbas are awesome
Marimbas were always good...
Awesome, sweet technique
This is so sick!!!
I Like your flip flops kappa :P
That ensemble goes hard!
Those are some pretty keyboard sweet runs!
Good lord that was intense! I had no idea that what these guys did is that difficult
"How do i stop it?"
#Legend👑
Anyone notice the stick drop at 5:32 or so?
Wow! I didn't notice it the first time!
The only reason synths should be used in Drum Corps. Right.. About... There 6:04
Perfect!!!
As a Cavies snare potential, the pit, especially marimba, seems like such a difficult yet, for lack of a better word, awesome group.
Amazing
how 2 chops pls
Use a pillow and try to keep your hits to sound the same. It burns... But no pain, no gain.
lit
I just learned the grip he is using. This guy is really good!
Those runs... Soo sick.
i wish there was a "love" button
wow he's amazing at that
Damn this looks so cool!
Jose Reyes dude me too, I'm only a freshman though but I'm going to try out for drum line next marching season.
The_Actual_Ghost_King Nice man! Good luck:)
Awesome!
Very original!
Inside 2's were amazing in technique
F'ing SNIPER with mallets!
They came to my school and practiced the year of 2014
Chops af
7:07 to7:20 killed me omg
CRINGEEE
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+alyssa I think he's referring to the minor second intervals in those chords. A minor second interval is basically, on a piano, two keys basically directly next to each other. So a d and d sharp. They sound very very off and personally I cringe whenever i hear one.
yes there is some insane mallet technique as well.
I cried ^.^
Those chops!
Does anyone get the feeling that most marimba parts in DCI are demand for demand's sake?
As in they are more focused on being hard than sounding good? Of course, but you don't win drums with an easy book that sounds great. You win with a hard book that sounds great. See Carolina Crown if you need proof that easy (relatively) but pleasant books don't win.
Yes, but a lot of the marimba book shown makes very little musical sense. It's just ridiculously fast scales and arpeggios. There's honestly no finesse or musicality involved - and I think that's the problem with DCI these days, brass books AND drum books alike. A lot of it is just showing off.
I for one think it sounds epic and awesome too. It really is a mindset. If you're used to popular/pop music you'll have a hard time appreciating the tonal spectrum of this kind of music. Also keep in mind because this is filmed from the player's kind of view the sound of his own marimba is greatly emphasised and you're not able to hear the "whole thing".
Oh I completely get it and love it. Hell, I better since I'm in a DCI front ensemble, but seriously undoubtedly being difficult is a major aspect of DCI front ensemble books nowadays.
Well of course, but making music difficult doesn't mean it can't be awesome to listen to anymore :)
I tried learning piano many times being a brass player of 10 years but honestly having marched one year of DCI and seen this video, I would rather learn marimba.
This song😭👌
fucking seamless
watching this give me motion sickness. truly wonderful playing though
Oh my gosh, I would flip out in dci cause all those sticks hitting my legs when I play (maybe it's my broken stick bag)
Ukeleyla Pretty sure its a broken stick bag. My school has just as many mallets and my mallets don't hit my legs
Darn...that sucks :/
Ig I just gotta deal with it
I wish I could rehearse in my flip flops....
@napkinoftruth its a ribbon crasher!
Thanks!
I have a new respect for pit percussion.
mallets definitely have some of the harder music in the corps
SICK!
So is your boss.
Spread the word.
I think he was a pit instructor at our school for indoor last year.
I like how this guy almost has the same last name as me
I love pit. Its so fucking fun!!