Drumline Battle - Elizabeth City vs Benedict College

There was a little deaf girl in my Sunday school class. She couldn't hear the music, but when the drums began to play, she lit up. You feel the drum with your whole body. It penetrates to your very soul. Love the drum.

I love how that one guy dropped his drum stick and casually pulled out another one like it never happened 😭

Liked both of them, but really impressed with E City. Small and tight as heck! They put on a great show.

Great showing from both bands. EC needs to force one of those cymbal players to learn quads 🤣

I love drum battles. They make me happy.

Who needs coffee when you can just listen to this? I am wide awake now!!! 😊

See what we can do together! Amazing!!!! But they all count on each other doing their part. Beautiful.......

Great balance of drum corps style and HBCU showmanship I love it.

I luv these Brothas and Sistas jammin’ on dat damn DRUM!!! BRAVO!!👍🏽😁👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Great material Benedict . Smooth transitions between cadences. Stick drop was unfortunate but great recovery. Good job yall 🐅 💪🏾

I am a 60 yr old white man from the Uk, a musician myself, I play drums and bass guitar, I'm going to sound racist now, but................. not towards black people, but white, black people make me so jealous, why do they have so much rhythm ,and the best drummers in the world are all black, all my heroes, billy cobham, dennis chambers, tony royster jr, I'm sitting in my PC chair here rocking up and down , sounds brilliant.... keep up the good work, you should all be proud of yourself 😁

This was totally 💯🔥💥🔥💥🔥💥 drumline rule! I miss playing 🥁

❤❤❤❤❤1st place to the purple and gold drum line! I L.O.V.E. when they play on the other's drum. I enjoyed watching their performance❤ The blue and white drum line was good, and all of them have GREAT are very talented! Keep it up 🫶🏾

Thank you for allowing me tto see this awesome performance from two very good bands. Great job.

I marched in the Sherman high School drumline year 95 through 99 and there was actually a part we incorporated from bel biv Devo, songs poison . Check it out! Sounds like we have introduced some lyrics. My drum instructor is named lavell Jones

Love melodic basses. Grew up in drum corps (timptoms and snare) and any time we'd see a drum line doing this I was mezmarized. One of the most memorable was the bass line for the old Kingston Indians. So melodic and funky! Loved it!

I was smiling the whole time you guys are awesome

My honest assessment: even though EC was definitely smaller, they projected more and had a better balance. They got the win for this one. Benedict's leg tenors and blast basses in the back overpowered the rest by a bit, which kinda affected the balance, but after listening to both snarelines at the low end, EC had cleaner taps and low height rolls. I kinda wish EC would get themselves a quadline to have the tonality and voicings, but that'll come. overall: EC: clean, balanced, but not enough voices, but also played original material, though it was a bit repetitive. No screw ups with the material or any stick drops, bassline knew when to back off. I give a 9/10 Benedict: fuzzy around low heights with the snareline, prolly because there's so many of them. Decent balance, little too much at the back end, original material, and good voicings. (stick drop at the beginning gets them -1 though, but +0.5 for a good recovery) I give a 8/10

Great performances all around!!! I love the drum line!

Well we know who won that show! South Carolina HBCU.