The Hellcat drums at DCI 2010 HD

[bluemagickbo]

play that funky music white boys!!!!!! damn lol

[PunkRockDrummer44]

Three Camps!

[Nidaime299]

thats one clean bassline

[bemisguy777]

These guys are nuts. I've never really given the military much thought, but it would make sense that their drumline rocks. The fact that they are so clean on field drums (which usually sound like static from a tv) says a lot.

[MonsterMash51]

I love how their drums sound like you're munching on chips:) love it!

[th3mexican227]

Needs more cowbell

[bryan770]

I love even when they all sped up it still sounded like one drum throughout the whole thing that is so cool.

[zxxrawrxxz]

Anyone else notice how it sounds like the drum licks from drumline the movie just sayin

[Bramblebaugs]

@zxxrawrxxz No, go away.

[zxxrawrxxz]

@Bramblebaugs no you

[M3ssageT4k3n]

they played 3 camps alot

[sumbooodeeee]

1:24 mutated version of electric wheelchair 2003

[SCVschlitzandgiggles]

@sumbooodeeee You're joking, right?

[sumbooodeeee]

@SCVschlitzandgiggles no........ wtf?

[trigapula]

visuals on point

[CSryand2m]

who needs kevlar? these guys are just as bad ass as any blue devil snare drummer i've seen.

[TheKickfire]

the guy on the middle right tought the clinic at our day of percussion:0

[HaloAllTheWayXxX]

11-11-11 vets day! These are my kind of soldiers. Truly great percussionists.

[bohgpipes]

Where's their headwear?

[TheActualRizzyy]

That was pretty sick.

[N1kk1St1xx]

For once, a video I've jerked off to, and am not afraid to show my mom.

[xcreamo21]

HELLCLEAN !

[MrSabian123]

i like how the blue devils are watching and there like damn

[MrSabian123]

this is awesome! I love old drumming like this it is my favorite!

[323Speedy571]

I think i joined the wrong branch -_- <--- says the Airman...

[snakerocks1]

hella clean! 

[silentdreams05]

Awesome! They are playing "3 Camps" in the beginning. That, played as an excersize, in these days, dates back to the civil war times and it was used as a messaging system. Man, it's great to hear that played. Great job, fellas. I enjoyed it.

[katebandchick]

Nice job guys. No ancient delay? 

[OriginalMattyMatt]

haha bd in the background at 3:15

[TheDragonmaster18]

ok here is what i dnt ge. when HBCU drumlines have their drums tuned this way and play what is shown here you guys have a probablem with it but when these guys play stuff like this you treat them like they'rethe best drummers in the wrold. smh

[brennannb]

@TheDragonmaster18 HBCU drumlines DONT play stuff like this. They also use horrible technique which is why many people dislike them. They also don't play this clean.

[TheDragonmaster18]

@brennannb hbcu drumlinesdo play stuff like this and some are this clean as well their technique isnt terrible its just different. some actually do try to combine the corps style technique with showstyle drumming but it almost never works in my opinion. a lot of southern HBCU lines use different forms of the moller technique and some use your standard technique but its very laid back and relaxed instead stiff like corps technique. check out SCSU drumline and BCU as well as NSU.

[brennannb]

@TheDragonmaster18 the fact that you said corps style technique is "stiff ", shows your ignorance. Any drum instructor who teaches at a DCI corps will tell you to play relaxed. If they were truly playing stiff then they would have a choked off sound, which in all the DCI lines I have seen, do not.

[TheDragonmaster18]

@brennannb actually my drumline was stiff includng me i had to learn on my own to be more relaxed

[brennannb]

@TheDragonmaster18 where did you march?

[TheDragonmaster18]

@brennannb in high school i marched for bellaire high school from bellaire, texas which is a small city with in houston texas. and the instructor i had at that time taught us the technique that drum corps use but we were very stiff and uptight when we played. and we played a lot of things closed instead of opened like they shouldve been. my high school at that time used the blue devils technique

[brennannb]

@TheDragonmaster18 well, you guys probably played it tight and stiff because you were adjusting to the technique. did it get better after a while? or did you give on the technique? look at Blue Stars drumline, the way they play is very firm and controlled, but still relaxed and natural.

[TheDragonmaster18]

@brennannb it did get better but now they have a new instructor who is from madison scouts and they play the way madison scouts now. and scince he's been there they have won a lot of indoor drumline competitions. this past season they didnt do to well but thats because its mostly freshmen on the drumline. so they have a lot of work to do

[brennannb]

@TheDragonmaster18 most techniques when first applied feel weird and sometimes stiff but once your hands get used to the grip,etc.. it becomes natural and comfortable.

[TheDragonmaster18]

@brennannb ah i see. thats why i have always prefered the way southern drumlines play because its even more relaxed and loose than the drum corps technique. and the tradional grip in left hand is very laid back.

[TheLogan1156]

@TheDragonmaster18 I hate to bring up an issue that seems to have been resolved peacefully, but, the reason people rag on HBCU drumlines for tuning their drums this way is because they use modern, high-tension drums. The drums that the Hellcats use are traditional, maple shelled drums that cannot be tuned like modern drums. If a modern snare drum sounds like this, it was not tuned well.

[JabariIsUntalented]

@TheLogan1156 If they're using Kevlar heads, then yeah. But if they're Mylar heads then I think thats they were going for. Never been in a HBCU line, so I don't know for sure.

[TheLogan1156]

@JabariIsUntalented Even with Mylar heads, a high tension snare shouldn't sound like this. It'll sound similar, though. I'm too nitpicky.

[JabariIsUntalented]

@TheLogan1156 Yeah I see what you're saying. If your Mylar head sounds like a rope drum, you're doing something wrong, haha.

[TheLogan1156]

@JabariIsUntalented Haha. I'm glad we have come to this completely pointless agreement.

[atteheikkinen]

Jack Bauer

[drummerboy11695]

it doesnt matter how big their battery is.....everything they play is clean and together and the visual effects are pretty bad ass too

[loltheasshole]

and i see blue devils in the background

[loltheasshole]

I heard some electric wheelchair

[johnwooton]

Awesome! Hey Jeff, nice collection/arrangement of solos and licks. Send that to me!

[Sieffadiddle]

Book reports @1:46 !!!

[barndrummer]

I want to see what this line was like way back with Jack s. Pratt :)

[JDeazy]

Devils are watching you!

[drumcorps0junkie]

the original rudiments that started what is now modern day drmlines!

:)

[optsyn]

Wow... they're playing some notes!