United States Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps

[TopGun8993]

@EastAsiandictator- You don't have to like this music. This music represents absolute British influence on the American colonies. Many "Americans" at that time were born in England, so their cultural and military influence was absolute British. It speaks volumes about our nation that we were the "student" of our master England. We stood up to, and defeated our oppressive master, created our own country, and now we have Lady Ga Ga.

[Aerohog1]

BAAAAD editing, but spare me the goober talking about the folks playing for you. The drums are freaking awesome. Maybe a little too modern in arrangement. I have everything from a six-lug single tension marching snare with gut to a Premier twelve lug pipe band snare. That open style drumming is bitchen'!

[FlierFrank172]

Too bad they're using drum cadences that sound like a high school or college band. 

[Aerohog1]

@FlierFrank172 Hey Frank, no offense unless you're a drummer, but you're talking about ROPE DRUMS vs. 12 lug free floating high-tension heads that do the work for you. HUGE difference. I personally love the throaty gut sound. Got my college band director to let me put gut on our marching snares. We kicked ass!!!

[H0llaZ1990]

His move at 0:21. Robot-like.

[Tiget666]

what song starts at 5:20 ?

[fshbait1]

Oh man that bass drum solo (I think there may have been snare drummers there too but) it made my jaw drop. For as fast as he was playing he made it sound so clean. Oh man I'm gonna have a smile on my face the rest of the day!

[ghghghgghgh100]

whats the song at 1:24

[huynherexpress]

So professional... kudos guys!

[EastAsiandictator]

I really don't like this music...but I'm not going to disrespect it...

Everyone has their own taste of music

[infatryman1802]

A really good work!!

Congratulations from a spanish fife/drum!!

[shadowwatcher42d]

the snares are too tight, they sound wrong, too moder, no longer represents the "Old Guard" go back to 200 years ago!

[snaredrums7]

@shadowwatcher42d the camera also makes those snares sound bad. They're actually very beautiful drums. Look at other videos of the drumline

[areacable]

@snaredrums7 yep, I have much better camera gear now. Remember this was 2008.

[osakar]

look like red coats

[gage51desoto]

@osakar musicians back then wore red, in battle it was the musicians that played certain songs that helped the regiment locate each other, each regiment had different melodies to listen for. They wore red because the muskets and canons caused a lot of smoke and so by wearing red and playing certain songs they were easy to spot, the only down side is they were easy for the enemy to spot as well.

[eltonforlife]

they final play crazy army on the fife :)

[CJCbassman09]

@eltonforlife to them its Whup Jambory(excuse my spellin) i dont think ive really every heard the old gaurd play it before/ after this

[66fredo99]

What it DO, babeee?!? Thats some quick-azz stick-handling by the snares, but dude on bass drum is a BEAST. And they gave him a raw dog solo part @ 2:57!

Can u imagine these beats and moves with the Continental Army at Cowpens? These jokers bring the funk. Might've invented the "robot" 200 years earlier. LOL

[updagert1961]

Awesome !

[2ndpadrummer]

the only thing i dont like about old guard is that they play more modern drum beats, but they portray an infantry regiment from the 1770's when the beats werent even created back then... either way there still preaty good

[john3047X]

they could play shit and be really authentic, then they would get laughed at.

[HardCorpFifer]

i definitely agree with that. the drumming is WAY too modern. but it makes for some pretty sick solos.

[john3047X]

if they played pure ancient, you would probably be saying ooh there wayyy to ancient get out of the stone age old farts. think about it

[JohnnyH1982]

@2ndpadrummer the marking time on the march is more than a bit iffy as well.

[robbe8889]

so do i, they are just GREAT

[MatisseForeva]

I love their version of Whup Jamboree.

[malagapenitente]

the number one