Arcadia HS 2026 (WGI) || Aged Out Reacts

Indexed: 2026-05-18

[00:00:06]And we're back with number two.

[00:00:08]Possibly the last one. We didn't really know what we're doing to this point, honestly. We're in that weird month and a half period between indoor ending and drum corps spring training and the waiting for the season to start. Who knows what we're going to do over the past month next month and a half. We have a few people we want to talk to, a few guests potentially.

[00:00:24]Um we'll just see what comes up. We're open to suggestions, too.

[00:00:28]Did have a fun reminder in my time hop today that in '09 I was 3 days out from moving in at Crown. Uh um so yeah. Dude, I >> I think Cavaliers I know move in next Thursday. So, this is currently Wednesday, but so they're about 8 days from move-ins. Man, I I think about that and I'm like I'm definitely old because the thought moving into March just hurts my body.

[00:00:56]And I work I I like lift weights and like work out regularly as an adult, but even doing something like move-ins right now I'm just like this is a young person's game. It is definitely a young person's game.

[00:01:09]It's also funny, too, because there's a group text of a lot of us that have aged out and marched together and stuff and just know each other that we all have similar not reoccurring, but you know, dreams that pop up here and there of you're getting ready to get put into the show, but you don't know any of the drill and you don't know any of the music. So, you're just like panicking. Like, I don't know the show. How am I going to go in there?

[00:01:30]>> sleeping like in a cold sweat and your like heart rate is up and your like, "Oh god." Yeah.

[00:01:35]>> Yeah. I I don't know the warm-ups. It's funny. It's this time of year. I actually had one of those dreams, I think, 2 weeks ago, a week or two ago, like after we got back from indoor. My brain was like in the drumming mindset again, I guess, being around it in person that much. And yeah. And I I've talked to a lot of people that that is a common dream. A lot of people that marched a a in a bunch of different shows have as adults.

[00:01:58]>> that dream or something similar, just let us know. Yeah, put it in the comments. See, we got to stoke the algorithm somehow, everybody. Cut because we're watching Arcadia today from WGI Finals. I don't I don't know if it's sunny outside, so I'm imagining this is probably like semis day or prelims day. Actually, I can just check, honestly. Robert always puts it in his uh semifinals. So, we're watching Arcadia High School's warm-up full ensemble from semifinals, R Base 311. Go watch the original video. Come on, 570 views, people.

[00:02:27]What are we doing?

[00:02:28]>> a great show. Great show. Uh probably my favorite prop usage of the entire weekend.

[00:02:34]Um so, yeah. Yeah. So, go subscribe to R Base 311 like we always say.

[00:02:38]Doing great work documenting all of this for all these members and staff members for all these groups.

[00:02:44]Um H out reacts, we're the two hosts, Michael Fantini and Evan World. All the links to support us are in the video description. Uh join button, Patreon, H out fundamentals. Let us know if you have suggestions like we said in the last video. I think we're going to add another uh fundamentals playlist video or two if we get good ideas uh this off-season going into drum corps for anyone to use that wants it. So, we're open to suggestions. Leave it in the comment section below. Send it to us on Instagram in a DM, whatever you want to do. Uh yeah, join Patreon again. Let's go. Let's jump into Arcadia and uh see what's going on here.

[00:03:17]All right, let's jump right in here, everybody.

[00:03:25]There's any other program right after Right after.

[00:03:31]I love the face paint in this show, too.

[00:03:33]I've said it all season, but it's got like the Uruk-hai vibes.

[00:03:36]>> [laughter] >> Lord of the Rings. The vibe is cool.

[00:03:38]Even this like ritual bass drum thing, like I love the echo effect on that sound effect.

[00:03:43]But the storm, Helm's Deep.

[00:03:46]Someone should do a Lord of the Rings show one year.

[00:03:48]That'd be sick.

[00:03:51]Yes.

[00:03:54]Dude.

[00:04:01]All the metallic instruments, the propane tanks.

[00:04:06]Nice juxtaposition of like the more subtle moment within all the aggression.

[00:04:10]>> uh the Not sure what the source material is, but very marimba spiritual vibe.

[00:04:16]Sorry I talked through that. Go back. I apologize.

[00:04:18]>> were Those were pretty smooth threes and splits in general there from the uh the bassline.

[00:04:25]Oop, not back far enough. There we go.

[00:04:27]Boogada boogada boogada boogada triple triple down.

[00:04:33]Yeah, triplets and sixteenths I think.

[00:04:35]>> Yep.

[00:04:36]Building the density, the note density up towards the end of the phrase.

[00:04:40]Mm, very dissonant writing.

[00:04:47]Good permutations. Woo!

[00:04:53]Just ripping it, finalizing off with the unison there.

[00:05:10]Good call and response there from the keyboards back to the quads.

[00:05:17]>> [music] >> Pause.

[00:05:20]Very cool character-based phrase. I liked it.

[00:05:24]>> Yeah, great opening statement from the quads, too. Just going in and out of like what is like thematic there with the just doom doom ta and then getting into like some of the speedo stuff, fast rolls back into the doom doom. So, mixing in that like digestive material where it's like kind of breath and then density and breath and density and then notes.

[00:05:42]Yeah, it's it makes it easier to digest as a viewer. And also, as we've watched this again, pay attention there's some cool like quick back and forth interaction call and response between the front keyboards and the quads within that phrase, too. It's pretty cool.

[00:06:07]Good stick control.

[00:06:10]>> [music] >> Good low double stroke figures, paradiddles and everything.

[00:06:29]Good grace note control.

[00:06:37]Yeah, with like the flam Great ensemble.

[00:06:43]>> Full ensemble.

[00:06:45]with the stabs there.

[00:06:48]Good roughs, drags, whatever.

[00:06:53]Oh, I like how they dropped those left hand flams down decrescendo there in the middle of that phrase.

[00:06:59]Good crescendo roll. I'm going to back up. We were talking a lot about that.

[00:07:02]There's >> roll.

[00:07:03]>> going on there. We're just like The decrescendo flams and then the flam hertas chukaduka. And then the crescendo roll out of it.

[00:07:11]>> Mhm. Yes.

[00:07:14]>> [music] >> Yeah, that like four letter idea.

[00:07:32]>> [music] >> Yep.

[00:07:36]Right there.

[00:07:40]Ooh, the drum set filled that right the crescendo triple roll. That was cool.

[00:07:45]>> [music] >> Ooh, there's a subtle difficulty there.

[00:07:53]They played two counts of triplets alternating, and then they played those low threes really well and crescendoed them. That's a mature skill set and takes a lot of control.

[00:08:02]>> [snorts] >> Dude, the note accuracy of the front ensemble there, too, as they're playing those like super high dynamics, just lots of energy, lots of just motion from the height of the mallets that back down to the bars. So.

[00:08:24]Play some good crescendo triplet rolls as a battery. It's a big opening phrase.

[00:08:29]Mhm. Long phrase.

[00:08:41]Mhm.

[00:08:49]Those little flourishes of 16th notes.

[00:08:53]And then the triplets begin again.

[00:09:00]Oh, nice little Yeah.

[00:09:00]>> Little ripples right there at the end.

[00:09:02]>> Yeah, yeah.

[00:09:07]Ooh, lots of just different hand changes in the wrist, too, to get those notes in. Mhm.

[00:09:24]>> [music] >> Mhm.

[00:09:31]Soprano sax.

[00:09:33]I was going to ask what was that.

[00:09:37]It's too unique looking of a horn or wind instrument for me to know.

[00:09:42]>> [laughter] >> I knew you'd know. I knew you were going to call it out, too.

[00:09:58]It's good how they like feed in from one to another with the buzz roll. Like they pass off during the buzz. Makes it very seamless.

[00:10:06]Yeah.

[00:10:10]Oh, that was cool.

[00:10:15]Great add-in.

[00:10:17]Into the flam drags.

[00:10:31]Nice.

[00:10:34]It's a lot going on there. With the flam drags.

[00:10:37]I love that lick, too, where you do like the where you add the flam into the already decaying hand.

[00:10:43]And all the five-let stuff in there.

[00:10:45]There was a lot of flow and feel changes throughout that whole snare moment. It wasn't a super dense just like where you got to pinch a lot, but it shows a lot of maturity in their ability to feel space and time and the flow of that phrase. I feel like the word flow was probably used in learning that phrase a lot.

[00:11:01]Like when they go to those accents.

[00:11:03]Just not over punching the 16th notes there. Just staying nice and relaxed.

[00:11:06]>> Not over punching the 16th notes and keeping your hands relaxed when you stop the stick down to get the lower double strokes right after and all that stuff.

[00:11:12]Yeah.

[00:11:13]Very, very fun and intricate snare moment there.

[00:11:29]Lot of solos for a lot of the individuals throughout this show so far.

[00:11:32]>> Yeah.

[00:11:36]Got a little tempo speed up going.

[00:11:38]Killer run now.

[00:11:47]Big half time feel.

[00:11:52]Nice.

[00:11:54]They're showing so much control at this moderate tempo, holding on to all that stuff and playing it well.

[00:12:00]Those double accented heritage >> [music] >> I love the timbre of that wood block instrument. I think it's a Is it a log drum? Might be a log drum.

[00:12:24]Nice job doing all the split singles, but also really good job doing like the balance and blend of the unisons. Mhm.

[00:12:33]Ooh.

[00:12:36]We love the double accented heritages.

[00:12:38]Oh, yeah.

[00:12:40]Oh, great dynamic drop down. They got so low as a musical ensemble there.

[00:13:01]Oh, very fast. Very dynamic.

[00:13:03]>> Very fluid moving around. Yeah.

[00:13:07]The feel of this whole piece is just cool.

[00:13:12]I like how aggressive the show is.

[00:13:13]Uh-huh.

[00:13:16]Oh, good job with that uh Look at it at the the the the the the the the the the >> The the the the the the the the the the the That kind of [music] rough idea.

[00:13:23]Yep.

[00:13:27]Yeah, and this ending was cool how they brought back the thematic idea from the very top of the show just as they close up the props.

[00:13:34]Oh, they had those awesome props, didn't they? That was this show, wasn't it?

[00:13:38]>> [laughter] >> Well, you just mentioned the props and I forgot forgotten about it until right now.

[00:13:43]Credit to uh >> [laughter] >> That's funny. Credit to um their parent organization for building those props, I'm sure, or having the ability to have a company build them cuz they definitely won the award in my book and your book, I think, for the coolest props in any show we saw this year.

[00:14:01]Yeah, the design of them, just the implementation, um several usages of them, the way they reconfigured them, moving around was was very sweet.

[00:14:10]>> very cool. Very, very cool. Fun show.

[00:14:12]They played well. Tons of mature skill set skill sets throughout that whole thing and I mentioned it at one point and I want to call this out before we wrap this up.

[00:14:20]All of the solos for all the different members of the quad and snare line throughout that, it just shows the quality of player they had in every single position in that drum line or you wouldn't give a solo to that many people unless you had a strong ensemble, honestly. Pretty much everybody in the battery. I think they all did. I think every quad player had a solo moment. I think every snare drummer had a solo moment to like Bass drums, obviously.

[00:14:43]Bass drums, obviously, like a solo unison instrument. Yeah, that's kind of its own animal, but Yeah.

[00:14:50]High schools are cool. Watching high schools succeed is awesome. That's all I got. Arcadia was great.

[00:14:55]Glad to see them having an awesome season with a really fun, cool show. We were big fans. Um Got anything else?

[00:15:02]I'm good. All right. Go watch the original [clears throat] video, everybody.

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