Imamoonvomit Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) There are so many factors that make a good drumline.... When it comes to musicality, no one can beat Phantom 06. While their book might not have been as difficult as many other drumlines, the touch and control displayed by that battery is unsurpassed. When it comes to a drum line approaching the drum with passion and aggressiveness, SCV 04 wins. It's hard to ram a bunch of notes when you are teaching a groove based technique package, but it's because the entire drumline is grooving that they approached their playing the way they did. Overall cleanness, I'd probably say BD 97. From a compositional standpoint, Cavies 00. Metrically this book blows others out of the water. Wierd time signatures and uncommon tuplets are everywhere in these notes, and the line pulls it off without a sweat. Sound quality wise, the Cadets 01-03 and 05 drumlines beat the hell out of their drums. No other drumline really puts that much velocity behind their stroke. From a drill and listening situation standpoint, I'd say star 93. Having a line that stretches half way across the field with 2 separate tenor lines one each end must have been #### near impossible to clean. In addition, all of the stuff with the line splitting and coming back together. Edited June 6, 2007 by Imamoonvomit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Bennett3rd Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 However, I just posted on another thread that to this day I believe 87 SCV had the cleanest, most captivating drumline I've ever seen on the field. Scary good! Nobody was touching that drumline. (I know they were outscored in finals by Garfield, but ... Holy Moly. 87 SCV had the goods.) I saw SCV in 1987 at Prelims of SCI East. They were first after the intermission, and the drumlind was at the top of the hill, running the drum solo. I was standing back away from the line (they scared me). Ralph grabs my hand and has me stand in FRONT of him as they played. I nearly wet myself!!!!! HANDS DOWN one the top 5 lines of ALL TIME. Oh yeah, the Blue Devils 84,85,86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzcon Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) LINK REMOVED--LM I...love you? This is one of the things I've wished for forever...now I'd just like a finals copy of 2000 Cavaliers. My life would be complete then. ALSO, I must say that Star 93 may have had one of the best snarelines of all time. Man those first generation Pearl free-floaters sounded fantastic. Heck, all the drums sounded good...they tuned them fantastically well! Edited June 7, 2007 by Lance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slow Adam Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I...love you?This is one of the things I've wished for forever...now I'd just like a finals copy of 2000 Cavaliers. My life would be complete then. I have Cavies 2000 finals judge tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJN Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 SCV 98 needs to be recognized - Snare feature was innovative, the way it was written and executed. I completely agree - the interpretation and execution was great. One of my favorite snare breaks. There are too many great lines to pick one ---- here are a few that I would consider the best 1987 SCV 1991 SCV 1989 Cadets 83-90 Blue Devils 2003 SCV 2006 PR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meaghatron Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Is it the 1992 Cavaliers drumline that is supposed to be pretty darn good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzcon Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Is it the 1992 Cavaliers drumline that is supposed to be pretty darn good? I have a copy of the 1992 snare break from that show...it's darned hard. They DID win drums that year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHall Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Oakland Crusaders in the late 70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Since this thread turned into great drumlines not the best over all, IMO 1983 27th drumline should be put in there. They had a great book and were really exposed. I think I like this line better than 84's. who would be the best line of the 70's 80's 90's and today. if you could pick just one from each decade. Very tough to compare lines of today with the movement they do compared to drumlines of the 70's and 80's going up and down the 50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanjrusMcRynky Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 SCV 88, 98, 02-04. Regiment 06 wasnt bad either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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