It doesn't matter where you are, when you hear a drum off. You stop and enjoy the magic! 👍👍

This is the perfect competition! Two drumlines that are in the same league! And one is almost as good as the other!

This is like the perfect blend of corps and show style. Like, they can go either way. And that's hard.

This was ECSU's first year under new instruction. I admit they didn't do as we'll as I would have liked, but they have come a long way from what they were last year. As one of their instructors, I am very proud of what they have accomplished in such a short period of time. Props to Mr. Powell and the VSU drumline or giving ECSU the opportunity to show everyone who we are and the new direction in which we are headed.

Vsu Quints are funky nasty good.

3:00 cymbal and voices effect. Amazing! Both these drumlines are incredible.

I love it when show style lines incorporate a more core-style approach to their playing. I enjoyed VSU's music the most. I give show style lines a lot of respect when their basses have difficult splits as well. If it was a bit cleaner, it would have been perfect.

I loved every second of this video you guys are awesome. Looks great sounds great and Is a lot of fun to watch.... {Thanks for sharing this video with us.}

These guys and gals are goooooooooooood!!!

i love how vsu's basses are tuned to a dci level. They sound so good!!! but they have dirty spots...but ecsu's basses were a little cleaner to me..i love the mixture of styles in both bands, but ya'll gotta clean it up. vsu's quad line killed it because they were clean and it their material was a little more technical..ecsu's quad line material was on a high school level to me...ecsu's snare line was a little more cleaner than vsu's snare line

This was great.Thank you for sharing.

This what makes VSU stand out. They have a mixture of DCI and groovin collaborating at the same time which I call a balance drumline. The only thing their missing in my personal opinion is tenor drums not QUINTS/SEXTET but tenor drums. Then they really be off the hook but you have to know how to use the tenor drum in the drumline and how to incorporate it.

Both schools did exceptionally well both are winners in my book.

At PlushChronicles. I marched DCI. This is a different thing. It's about putting on an exciting show, not necessarily perfection. It certainly isn't points competition like DCI. Appreciated it for what it is. Geeze man. I never understand why people have to be so harsh and closed minded.

This was awesome and the line sounds good. I am not sure about the cymbal section for vcu but loved both.

That bass line though! Both sides are pretty clean

Red team killed the blue team...end of story. They were cleaner by far. They brought that "A" game had more poly-rhythmic cadences and were funkier because of that. In my opinion it wadn' even close. Killed them with the first cadence. Seriously, I've been teaching percussion for over 24 year. That was a tight line man.

DE QUE PARTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SON ? TOCAN CHIDILLO

This is My second favorite College Band they be Getting it tho!!!!

I love about 30'minutes from this school and seen their line, and as a corps style DCI follower, VSU is legit as fuck

Bass drums killing it with those rolls

my two favorite drumlines....

Are those BD drums from 2011?

These kind of cadences would be perfect for marching to the football stadium!

The snares are clean and crispy, just like my bowl of chips.

I love this vsu drumline its got both of what i like in a line!

what schools are those?

I really like the uniformity of both of these schools. Usually when you watch drumline battles like this, the schools have various different drum harnesses, heads, and brand drums. Both of these schools have good matching equipment. And they all played pretty clean. But I liked VSU a little better. Both were pretty great though. I give this video a like.

sound like corps pretty dope

this is like surprisingly super clean

these guys should be sponsored by Nike because they just did that shit

OUR CYMBALS SOUND GUD AF DOE!!! DEY JUS DANCE MORE

I gotta say. The vsu's crashes did an amazing job with suspending. I love the six-drums. I know there are quads and tries, but what are they called?

I have witnessed VSU's quads. I have lived.

Would love to see a drum off against and drum corp line!

I JUST MOVED TO ELIZABETH CITY 2 MONTHS AGO FROM NORFOLK AND DIDNT EVEN KNOW ELIZABETH CITY HAD A COLLEGE SHIT FOR THAT MATTER A BAND. AFTER WATCHING THESE VIDEOS, I GIVE YALL PROPS, THE DRUMLINE DID ALRIGHT. AS FOR THE BAND AS A WHOLE, FOR A SMALL BAND, YALL SOUND GOOD. I HAVNT BEEN IN-TOWN YET DUE TO MY CRAZY WORK SCHEDULE, HOPEFULLY I'LL GET THE CHANCE TO SEE YALL PERFORM IN PERSON BEFORE THE SEASON IS OUT

Sick chops from both drumlines.

Elizabeth City aint no joke both Drumlines are Assume.

hey damn this is pretty good!!

Tight. Groove. Show. COLLEGE! Nice!

Dang love that santa clara snare drum solo thats a warm doe

Good clarity, nice groove

I wish people would stop panning the damn camera so much or get a 360 camera and a tripod!

Cold as in "ColdSteel" ?

Im not sure if this was before or after a game or ECSU didn't get a chance to tune the tenors/quads/etc.. The 10" drum had the weirdest overtones in it. And Vsu's snares sounded like the top head was wayy tighter than the bottom, which gives alot of "pop" but zero "wetness".. Id loosen the strainers a little, bring the bottom head to a higher pitch, and bring the top head down half a turn on each lug. The snare will be the same pitch but sound a million times better!

Dude im a DCI fan that started out with showstyle and still love it VSU is number 3 right now.

You haven't heard many college drumlines have you?

It's nice listening to clean lines. And yes I'm a DCI fan.

It's a shame I still have the sweat suit from this year.

Good job to both

GET IT

excellent rythme

Not bad for a couple high school bands. These kids should do well when they get to college.

Proof?

The drumline in blue was standing on business that day.

both did good but the red line was dope im just being honest

Some of those cadences sounds like marching cadences

vsu is perfect blend of corps and show style. i fuck with this shit

were is that dudes stick

VSU is so nice and clean. They cymbals are on point and everything the line plays has a groove. ECSU nice but they got some cleaning up to do.

I have to admit ECSC had more snare tricks in the bag. VSU quints rocked.

That first track by VSU Dope

the cymbal slide choke they were doing at 3:35 was pretty nice..i like that

yeah I realized after seeing ECSC lol, my bad. But they're not, the ones BD had a shiny pearl-white coating, not plain white.

Can not mess MDFS not close it sound like us twenty years ago

#VSU hands down #trojanforlife but i give it to ECSU they came a long way so major props to them

good battle

the one in the blue was jammin!!!

Glad to see there are HBCU drumlines that don't use those awful tenor drums.

See ECSU this year. We doing work. 2013!

come on vsu snares...yall can be cleaner then that but ecsu went in

Please type so we may understand you.

vsu all day beside the other band one of them drop there sticks

Rhythms from Mother Africa!!!

Thumbs up

Both lines are good but VSUhas better showmanship! I miss this!

Wow This Was LONG ago ..... Come see ECSU now i promise we have improved since then we use this battle as fuel to keep elevating higher

This was a decent battle, we still got a long way to go tho ECSU done came far from last year tho sheesh.

VSU kicks ass and i like the stick tricks dude thats with attitude

sware them toners are beautifull afff

their uniforms would look so much better if they put the harnesses under :(

Both of these lines are beyond fantastic. However, the person filming has a lot to be desired. Lots of shots for the cymbal and the combo drums but not of the snare line. Go figure

what do you mean niether was together there wer plenty of clean moments and cadences all through this battle , not everyone adjusts their basses the same either , and vsu practices control i dont know what video you were watching

VSU hands down

Outstanding for both crews, well played ladies and gentleman.

i meant the way their uniforms are and they way theyre marching

I was talking about the white pearls...

We are named ECSU. Not ECSC.

Cameraman zoomed in when buddy dropped his stick

Who ever recorded dhis , didn't have to do a close up on dha snare player who dropped his stick on Blue side....

look at those ancient dynastys

Watch ECSU new blocks from this year and Warren County block

they played cheesy puffs by the scv

Love VSU

We was brave for blocking up!! But #vsu got sum dope punches!!!

@ced hell yeah bro tell em

lmfaaaooooooo red quadssss crazyyy asf

7:58 nice vanguard bite.....next time try NOT to make it sound like channel 3 ZZZZZZZZZzzzzz....sticks every where bro!

This has to be the wackest battle EVER! Both lines have really dirty parts, but I hear VSU playing some cold material.

Great battle to watch. much respect to both lines. to me VSU is cleaner. but tbh MDFS would eat both of them.