It'd the ending to their first number, that sounds like it morphed into the ending of Tocatto and Fugue. I may be wrong, but that's what my ears tell me. Nonetheless, absolutely fantastic chord progression

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftV7hKh4vtjQpXU.html This is the whole piece.

@@MrDavegiven0330 you are correct, crowns chord progression here is the ending from Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, transposed into Gm, and the final chord is major instead of minor. An extra bar is added just before the final chord to achieve this spicy harmonic transition

@@adamhallmc Thanks for explaining.

@Daniel Sheets Yeah Crown goes to what they call cluster chords where each member chooses a random note within a half-octave in either direction from their b-flat chord. It trains them to know what "in tune" really is.

I would feel the same way if I heard that.

lol

Bro woke up to boss music

I live in Carolina, imagine how that is for the ears😅

this is my new favourite comment

Funny story, my band director once told the saxes to do that, and they played a perfect diatonic triad.

@@zgp8850 They are the chosen ones

@@zgp8850 hahahahahah 😂

@@zgp8850 wait please explain this

not necessarily random, for baritones/euphs and tubas they play Bb, B nat, or A. and whatever the corresponding trumpet and mellophone notes are that match that. we played this as well in highschool

It was missing G°/D (the best I could do for diminished lol)

Underrated joke

Took me a minute.

@@piacomispl2023 Sure it's a stretch, but it was a sharp pun. Gjm8 (Don't know what j is supposed to be)

thought this was an among us joke

Chaotic nightmare fuel that spontaneously changes into the most beautiful thing you've ever witnessed

@@Muddytony20 b0ss

Nah fr

How the hell does this have 666 likes, but no comments

@@FumoRembecause people dont have to comment 😭

@TheRealZyncGD it just feels right to comment on anything with lots of likes-

I visualize Jesus processing to the throne during this sequence.

Holy thats a good one, spat out my drink a bit

I bet he felt like he was too

To be fair he was, on our ears

Dude you almost made me spit my beer. xD

He's clearly the Cleric, casting team heal.

Agreed

Chills bro

yeah but what chord is it tho?

only accurate title on this channel

@@somekid8014 concert Bb (mellophones on concert F) and the cluster is any note a minor 3rd above or below that

Matt is a master at his craft.

@@DanVerley correction: Matt is god

Proof that power is given, not taken.

I think he's partially deaf because of his career and has absolutely no regrets

hes the brass caption head

If they could hold Ebmaj9 for let's say....another 10....YEARS...LOL, I'd probably die one of the happiest men on the earth.

Hard to even describe the emotion, I wonder what is happening with us biologically which could cause that

I literally teared up on this chord progression. Like, I just started laughing out of nowhere as my eyes welled up. Such an intense feeling. 💙🥲💙

@@PolyInProg Just did the exact same thing. Lord what is it about those chords.

@@funkmonsterjones4753 you mean what is happening biologically when you hear these chords? Mainly its a release of chemicals in your brain that cause those feelings. Same reason whenever you hear someone scream you get heightened awareness from fear or shock. You’ve evolved so that certain tones induce certain chemicals

I was about to write it !! This Ebmaj9 made me feel like I could fly for a sec.

Yes

Very Hans-Zimmery

power of the deceptive cadence

Absolutely magical. I had to go back to hear it again.

The legend himself

yes

THE LEGEND ANSWERS

You mean they released cleanly together? Because that's not the same thing as an echo...

There is an echo tho?

what he meant by no echo is that bc the line is so in tune you don’t hear any dissonance just harmony

@@Kibaomaru okay that makes more sense because you can even hear the overtones due to how in tune they are

Nice

😎

This is a different chord progression than the hammer drop.

@@declandougan7243 hammer drop is the cluster chord thing. They change the chorale after it all the time.

@@jamesabramson6435 Ah. Good to know. I figure anyway that the original commenter was referring to the chord progression in that famous "Crown Drops the Hammer in Houston" video.

@@jamesabramson6435 That's it. It was at the Berry Center, a tremendous facility for a school district.

Amen.

I think it's them Tubas playing the pedal Eb instead of an overtone🤔

@@johnkwok28 As far as I know crown doesn't do pedals in the same way they don't do screamers in the trumpets, I never marched though so someone correct me if I'm wrong

@@Avstinato From the conductor's expression at that moment I think he really intended the tubas to go low, and you can hear clear tonguing on that Eb🤔 I've never marched too so maybe I'm also wrong, haha

Well we got 3 people could be wrong, anyone wanna be right? Lol

@@johnkwok28 might as well give my two cents as a tuba/physics dude. Basically as we move from high to low notes on a tuba, the upper harmonics (which determine timbre) get louder relative to the fundamental pitch of the note (the pure sine wave). That's why higher ranges sound "thin" and "falsetto" while low ranges sound "brassy" on tuba. In the range of a pedal Eb, the upper harmonics will be much, much louder than the fundamental, as it is more brassy growl than it is pure bass tone. Therefore, the sound of a tuba section playing that note can be modeled quite faithfully by playing it's 2nd and 3rd harmonics (perfect 5th), as little will be missing (again, weak fundamental). Our ears fill in the fundamental for us and it sounds very real as it does in this video. In addition, Eb1 is quite an unstable, nasty false tone for many 3-valve B-flat tubas. I think that, if anything, using physics to trick our ears into hearing it would produce a more convincing Eb1 than actually having players trying to false tone it at fortissimo under the whole ensemble. I could be wrong but that's basically my reasoning!

same. i knew it was crown the second i saw the title

I'd love it if they'd hold the Ebmaj9 about 5 seconds, stager breathe if needed, and continue....

Just a shame the electronics went out on finals =(

@@adamshepherd7370 you know, that’s a problem DCI didn’t always have…

If you’ve got good headphones you can also hear they’re so in-tune that an Eb1 subharmonic is clearly audible at around 0:57 despite the tubas all playing Eb2

YES!

I honestly believe if it were not for my skin, I'd turn into some stage of liquid at that very point.

Listen louder...the tears WILL flow

Not almost

Not a pedal Eb, but the tubas are playing an Eb below the staff and a Bb on the bottom of the staff, and they’re so in tune that it makes a lower Eb undertone.

The contra tubas are absurdly low...nearly pedaling...by that low note is what gives that chord such resilience.

@@Rainmaker65 as a tuba player… that’s likely low F. such a fun note to play and so powerful if you can get it in tune

@@Rainmaker65 they’re not playing low Eb, that would be a false tone on the 3 valve Yamahas they use, that’s just an undertone from the Eb a line below the staff and the Bb a fifth above that being so in tune

@@eriks1669 it's strange because I understand the mechanics of overtones, because I used to sing a Capella. Loved creating them. Thanks for the extended explanation.

I hope they come to England. I need to stand in the middle of this before i die...

The Hammer.

That was "Carolina Crown" - one of the top brasslines in DCI - warming up for a performance. 😎

No this wasn’t the hammer. Look up Carolina crown drops the hammer for the more famous one

Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps.

It was amazing!

I imagine the top drum corps have music writers (with PhDs probably) as good as anywhere else in the world, writing for ~100 undergrad level musicians that get about about 6 months of sporadic song learning and a few weeks of daily rehearsal before putting the shows on the road. I don’t think it gets much better than this outside of virtuoso soloists. The particular piece in the video is from Bach I believe, same kind of stuff that makes for a popular symphony performance.

@Stephen Beck you are giving too much credit to the arrangers and too little credit to the DCI musicians. They execute pretty impeccably, and some of it is technically difficult. Much of the DCI shows have adapted outside music and the transcription is usually pretty crude. Deviations appear more like patches of duct tape than parts which form the show into a genuine whole.

These are cluster chords, every person is assigned a random note. It’s for for tuning and training your ear. The cluster kind of screws with your ear/sense of pitch and the goal is to try and be in tune immediately once playing in unison again.

@@june-ls1hw This and its a balancing/blending exercise. A lot of others commonly refer to these as space chords too.

it helps center intonation

post a video when you can

Although this is similar to marching band, it is in fact a completely separate activity that you can watch in person all across the country. Might fill the void left by the end of marching band.