Western Michigan Marching Band Cadence

[Queenrocks2020]

ya'll sound awesome

[Airbourne9696]

i like the tri-toms even tho they really dont fit into stuff like that usually.

[aintmybabyfour]

To anyone who think's tri-toms are stupid...

Bottom line is: They are better than you.

[MrSnareplaya]

@aintmybabyfour but tri toms ARE stoopud

[felidsentry]

Being someone who's heard this in person quite a few times, I LOVE the tri toms! I think it is a mistake to have quints and quads ramming everyone's eardrums to death, without some good 'ol low tris. It sounds awesome, and I love the BMB.

[SyntheaInPink]

Wow :/ if my school had that much money we would also have a lot of quints, quads, and even tri tomps u_u

[pfortyseven]

@sbon2 if you weren't an idiot you would know that a bass harness has j hooks flipped over on the bottom to hold the drum up, and hooks on the top so secure it. Rather than fabricating gaping holes in the uniform for them, we wear them outside the uniform.

[Midnightpitbull2]

i dont understand why you guys march tri toms...

[DragonTamer2345]

Hey, you guys use Dynasty drums... that's the same ones my school uses :D

Never seen a trio though. I've always loved the way the Quads sound though. Too bad i can't keep a rhythm to save my life.

[sbon2]

y do they have their uniforms ovwer their harneses???

[pfortyseven]

@sbon2 bass harnesses dont work under uniforms......duh.

[sbon2]

@pfortyseven um well that made no sence to wut my questions asked and it makes n sence to have ur harnest under ur uniform

[msharpashotr]

@sbon2 standard with the drum core

[dogluverdanny]

the tri toms look stupid :\

[Anonymous2SF]

i hate tri toms and why so many tenors

[Anonymous2SF]

i hate tri toms

[pfortyseven]

@Anonymous2SF heres something for you guys.

I marched Tri's here in 2010. It's harder than you think. Our instructor writes some serious shit for them. and they are tuned lower than the quads so they add voicing to our sound. If you heard this in real life, rather than on a shitty camera, you would speak differently.

[Liles1zc]

You know what I hate more than anything in the world? Tri-toms

[usarmytubahooah]

I marched with WMU at band day for six years. It was the coolest thing I ever did in my high school. (My school was tiny and didn't have a marching band.) I wish so much I could have gone to WMU and been a part of this band.

[VMFA115Starloric]

That

Sounds

BAD ASS.

[Youllneverknowthis]

bronco band is amazing. there's a lot of vocals to this cadence,all very silly. and, this was from 2006, not 2009 when they went to the rice bowl.

[redforrussia]

that thing at thirteen seconds how they go whoop are band does a doo doo doo thing =/ lol i like theres better

[347826able]

what happend to wmu they were awsome at the texas bowl back in january and their drumline was much larger iwas in the rice band that year the only black guy on the drumline

[d5hepinstall]

This was one of the last years when WMU could boast one of the largest drumlines in the country. So many students were auditioning for the line that the tri-toms were added early in the decade to provide some more depth and give more kids a chance to play. It was impressive how consistently clean the line was for its size. Since 2006, the line has shrunk back down to a comfortable size. The 2009 WMU Drumline marched 5 snares, 4 tenors, 4 tris, 5 basses, and 7 cymbals.

[129kathleen]

that was great i liked how the tubas danced unlike in our 8th grade band where we run into each other

[GP3PocketSnare]

WHY ARE THEY USING TRI TOMS?!?!

[boo2134567890]

people need to learn how to tune there drums...and play them...they also had too many sextets and way too many tri"s...all they needed was about 4 quints and no tri:s ,,..lol my opinions.....unless they tuned them to sound good

[rossapher24]

ehhh quality could have been better. lol Our band is really small...we only hae about 40 people, but then again not a big town.

[soccerdeffense10]

theyre fundamentals arent good.

[ajsnuker]

OMG...the bass sounds soooo good.... i love the sound of multiple tones bass drums

[bradtaylor32]

Aaaand Dynasty drums still sound bad. Whats up with the tenors? Five drums too many for them?

[dcamp06]

There are both tenors and tri-toms.

[itscalledfutbol16]

hey...retard....the vid has crappy quality and 5 drums too many for the tenors??? guess not...seein that they have SIX

[bradtaylor32]

Yeah, the vid has crappy quality, and the drums sound bad. I'm not blind, I was talking about the trios, not the squints, idiot.

[itscalledfutbol16]

wow...shutup

1) theyre called TRI's

2) theyre called sextets

idiot

[CALLAHAN04]

i thought they sounded a little off too

[GeekinthePink02]

my high schools cadence is more complicated than this....

[rhssnare]

Don't think anyone really cares..........

[ikarooz]

prove it.......

[Chris08852]

pretty good, but the camera makes it sound like crap.

[g3ta5ugarh1]

shity michigan college dude shut up i live their

[ilovetheused99]

God I love marching band...next year is my last year...I'm sad. Marching band was my release

[TSpeed2010]

My uncle used to be the assistant coach the football team at WMU in '06!

[FluffMuffTater]

Man these guys are good for being some shitty michigain college

[pfortyseven]

that as a reply to someone elses comment. didnt work. wtfe. cant wait to try out for that drumline next year.

[NailI3unny]

hahahaha I can hear Adam half-ass yelling at the end.

[sslvkm]

no there is like 5 tenors and like 5 tri toms

[punkpyro12]

is there 10 quads??!!

[untrueman]

Holy Shit how many quads?!

[anvivo08]

Ah....I tried out for the drumline. I didn't make it (I'm a violin major - lolz), but I still absolutely love the marching band. Go WMU!

[drummerchicMSU]

...what would john weber say

[Pizzatastic]

I remember doing this at band day this year :) You guys got the funnest cadence EVER.

[Midnightpitbull2]

Wakefield Cadence is 10 times better

[ghyprh]

Didn't your band get owned by WMU's band back in 04?

[Midnightpitbull2]

there are many Wakefield high schools, where is the one you talkin about?

[TheYoungOne477]

this cadence is kick ass

[butchinn92]

were you marching on a highway lol?

[darkarcherraven]

holy shit, you guys have alot of quads!

o-o

we only have 2. we have 4 snares and 2 bases. (yeah, we used to have 4 but those 2 other losers quit -_-) i like your cadence though, i like the rim stick thing in the beginnning

pretty cool

^.^

:3

i wanna play the quads but for now, i'm stuck with snare

._.

[Misfitsfan41]

good lord! first was all, that was impressive, but second of all you have the biggest percussion and tuba section I have seen but then again, I'm only in high school...

[conrangr]

Oh shit look at all the quads

[crystal1065]

loved it!

[treefalse]

7 Tenors = Sexiness

[Flamsanddiddles]

i hate to sound ignorent but wats the point of haveing so many trios insted of quads or quints it realy makes me wonder

[peterrifel2pro4u]

im pretty sure the trios are tuned lower than the quads, so in all they have 8-9 tuned pitches coming from those drums rather than just 4-5

[oneonebravoA4]

shut up flamsanddiddles

you may know a hell of a lot more about the drums than me but this sounded awesome so SHUUUTTTTTYYYYYYYYY

[Flamsanddiddles]

hey i have played for a while and i never said that they sounded bad its just i wanted to know. my school has nvr used trios and i just didnt see the point ok thank you come again

[pcam06]

Back in 2001 WMU marched 12 snares and I believe 6 quads and 8 basses and more and more people showed up to audition, and since the band doesn't cut anybody (unless they can't play worth nothing), they needed a way to expand, but not by putting more people on cymbals or snare, so they added the tri-toms. They're supposed to be a middle voice between the quads and basses. Weactually have the same number of trios as we do quads: 5 and 5. I hope that expains it a little.

[HempfieldBander]

That is nothing in 1998 my high school had the largest and best drumline ever we had 13 snares 10 cymbals 7 tenors and 12 basses six sizes but two per part

[41192cubs]

And I'm sure you guys sounded like complete shit...

[paintball874]

Tim-Tams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DeathTaxin]

I love this cadence. Our high school plays this too :O We just don't scream what they're screaming out. It just sounds completely retarded Lol

[dood0dood]

no it sounds completely cool cause it shows there having fun jeeze im in 8th and know that.

[BiggestofMikes]

When you get to college, better yet WMU... you'll understand the screaming.

[swisnieski]

Pretty cool, but what is it they're shouting in the background?

[BiggestofMikes]

"This is how we do it up real good."

"Bling Bling"

"oooh... oooh... HOAH!"

"E-ie-e-ie-oh (from sousas... then band)

"C'mon Broncos... LETS GO (from sousas... then band)

"It's WMU... for you! (from sousas...

HooaH! Hooah! Aaah! Aaah! OOoh yeaahh! Oooh yeeeahhh!

[snareskillz]

holy shit how many quint players do u have

[peterrifel2pro4u]

half of them are tri toms

[other1508]

Loved it!!! I just graduated last year and I played everything for drum line to pit to Tuba on the veterans day parade. Just keep up the god work.

P.S. Tuba is not easy.LOL

[LostUchihaKira]

Nice. That was awesome.

[moosie93]

I used to watch marching bands and think 'how cool' now that i am in marching band (bass drum player) i have a whole new respect for the band. and i think, damn right you better LOVE us, it aint easy.

[aqplaya92]

Damn. I'm the only quad player in my marching band of like 50 people, and I've never seen those "quint" things. That's crazy.

[skatardrummer]

You guys have a seriously huge drumline. The beats aren't noteably clean, but I'm sure that having over 25 people in the drumline has something to do with that. We saw you guys at Ford Field and we were like, "Holy &^$*!" We'd never seen that many basses at one time.

[pcam06]

I agree. I'm in the snareline this year and we downsized to 8 snares, 5 quads and tris, 6 basses and 7 cymbals. Things cleaned up quite a bit.

[pcam06]

Also check out the stuff from this year.

[klybly92]

This ia great. My high school has only two quads (im one of the players) and you guys have quints...thats just amazing.

[pfortyseven]

okay. you are ignorant. and stupid. those arent quints. they are sextets. there are six drums. look.

[ghyprh]

Sometimes, i really do miss marching on that line. But the stupid fucking teachers there nearly forced me into anger management.

[BiggestofMikes]

I REALLY wish there were more BMB videos.

[flamdrag333]

hell yeah! i loved playing 'street beat' this year...thanks for posting this man! (even though you cant hear the snare part... :( ...oh well)

GO BRONCOS!!

[madscout96]

BMB rules! Go Broncos!

[natesmith083]

Nice Drumline

[squince19]

hot