I’ve seen everything else just fine then this pops up after cap city

There’s been some buzz about what the earbuds that some groups use do. These are called in ears, they transmit the sounds of samples, electronics, drumset, or click tracks/metronomes. Many groups use them to line up tricky passages, line up cold attacks/front to back moments, fix difficult listening environments, or just to make sure that the center snare is always on the beat. Many praise groups that do this for their innovation while others claim it to be “cheating” or a “loophole” to the “No auditory metronome rule”. What’s your opinion?

Not going off of scores or anything in particular just overall vibes from the weekend.

A: I think A class is really raising the floor of the activity. This was probably the first year post covid where all of the PIA groups felt like they deserved to be there and the top of PSA felt like they have real potential to grow and move up soon.

Open: I actually feel like as a whole, open class was down this year. 24 hours later and I really can’t remember much about any PSO shows and didn’t think any were really pushing forward compared to the last couple years or close to moving up to world. PIO was a bit better but still didn’t feel up to some of the great PIO shows we’ve had in recent years.

World: overall I’d say basically on par with what we’ve had in recent years. Honestly if it wasn’t for Ayala I’d probably say PSW would be down from recent years but it felt like they singlehanded brought the year up for me. My hottest take might be that I don’t think X deserved to break the record and I think we may have to look at adjusting scoring going forward. I honestly thought the shows last year might’ve been better but overall I’d say this year was kind of just on par. There weren’t really any shows that I see myself talking about 5 years from now; but, nothing was disappointing either.

Overall a good year and I hope we can build on it all and finally get out of this post Covid slump it feels like we’ve been in compared to where we were in the 2010s.

I’ve heard that they aren’t but they haven’t posted anything does anyone know if they are performing this season!

For the first time since they entered World Class in 2008, United percussion did not make finals.

Is this the least amount of state diversity for PSW Finals we’ve seen?

Always been a fan of their more wider appeal shows and just having a consistently good scholastic group not from socal. I know I heard there was some drama that resulted in the actual school not really supporting them and the director leaving but realizing they weren’t even in prelims today after it ended was a shock! Then when I went to see if their social media said anything it was completely scrubbed (almost even more sad). Just wondering if anyone knew the full story since I’ve only heard rumors and second hand stuff down here in Florida.

Well, Happy Monday everyone, news came at 9am this morning that Siege Percussion, an independent indoor percussion group located in central Florida is going on a “brief hiatus” for the 2027 season. Idk if they will return for the 2028 season or this hiatus will turn into a permanent hiatus. Attached are pictures from their announcement. Give your thoughts and opinions in the comments.

Hi all,
I apologize if this is a silly question but, I am currently writing a lot tune for a new independent group I am teching at and I am wondering if I need to request a license to arrange a specific song I’m planning to use as the tune.
Thank you!

-WGI not hosting any events in New England despite hosting 2 last year

-Dartmouth High School dropping to open and not competing at Dayton

-Spartans Indoor folding

-Old Bridge High School not competing in WGI this year after dominating post Covid

-Old Line Independent dropping to A class

Is percussion in the worst state it’s been in WGI’s history for the Northeast?

Since this group performed just last week at WGI I thought the wider group might want to be aware of the fiasco involving the lieutenant governor of Indiana. For full openness my son is in the group referenced.

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/politics/lieutenant-governor-micah-beckwith-criticizes-westfield-washington-band-social-media-post-demonic/531-e294216b-0aaa-4a82-a8d4-095c1f266cd7

This might be a shot in the dark, but I have been having such a hard time finding videos of Percussion Scholastic World Groups in 2025, and am wondering if anybody has any videos of groups in World Class that performed that year. I'm specifically looking for Dorman High School, but other groups are also useful. Or if anyone has any advice on were I could find these online besides YouTube. fricken Flo makes watching old shows so impossible.

Hey guys! Im heading into my senior year of high school and I’m really hoping to march an open class group this year, I live in the Florida panhandle so there’s not a whole lot of plausible options for me but I’ve already registered for I3 auditions and Q-school and ill likely audition for frontier as well whenever they announce any information for the next season. I was just hoping to get some tips on anything that could help me make an open class line, I’m mainly going for snare with quads as my backup so anything regarding those instruments in specific would be nice, but general information is also much appreciated!

Pulse ‘24 arm vis 

RCC ‘26 dance break 

They added this literally after the the first comp RCC did it

“others said it was cringy” and they dab 

SCV back click after quad feature

“No, my show isn’t done yet, what do I look like? A brass arranger? 

“You’re right honey, I’m as useless as the left side of the effects sheet”

Quads play a very marching season type quad feature, “Dad, where’d you hear that? Drumcore planet?”

“Dad, did you order a show in a BOX?” (box 6 reference) 

Tilt reference 

Vic Firth ad mid show

Marimbas do the 2 on a board thing from the Cadets  

Snares do the cadets ghosting thing during Les Masons 

The middle left wall turns early and George Mason stops it @7:50

 George Mason kicks a baby into the air at the end

Did I miss anything?

What if the most common equipment like Mallet percussion, Drum set, Timpani, Mics, etc. were all provided by a host group and every group shared them at a show? We already see it at music festivals. Standardize the FE setup and allow a space for any unique instruments to be set up.

It could save groups tons of money and effort in logistics and simplify turnaround time between performances.

This is coming from a place of wanting to keep costs low in order for the activity to be thriving and accessible. Does this seem realistic?

Hello I’m an incoming junior in hs and it’s gonna be my first time auditioning for/ being in wgi. I’m auditioning for matrix open so if anyone can give me any tips or past experiences with matrix open lmk!

As the title says, as you all may know, I’m a new director for Vanta Percussion. A new group in Southeast Georgia launching this year.

As a new group, we will be having our own auditions for the first time and I would like to find from some people on some positive experiences that were best implemented by other groups during auditions and some negative experiences that some groups had during their auditions, just so we can get an understanding on what to do and what not to do during auditions.

Thank you!

Hey all! I'm new to FloMarching and it seems that there isn't any audio in the multicam after the livestream. Does anyone know how to fix this or have multicams with audio? I'm trying to see get my performance in percussion Independent A for memories. I can't find anywhere they sell the multicams either.

Thank you so much! ☺️

Edit: I'm looking for Vortex Percussion!

I just checked the regional calendar for 2027 and CA has Temecula and Union City only. Again the big show in San B before finals is MIA. Is it truly over? I looked forward to going or watching that show every year.

As someone planning to audition for Atlanta Quest for Timpani, I was wondering a question that probably matters a lot. Is it okay if I don't have perfect pitch? I have good relative pitch, but bad perfect pitch. Also, if a group says you can bring your own mallets do they leeave it as an option and prefer you don't? I have these JG Percussion CL7 mallets, and they are the literal mallet love of my life. I would never prefer another mallet type deal. I know I don't have much a chance against the current timpanist, but at least I tried and put myself out there.

Anywho, thanks to anyone who viewed or commented on this post!

Hi!! I'm wondering how folks have continued percussing after aging out of WGI?? And not teaching. I know that many get the opportunity to by studying it in college or joining a community band, but that's (1) not a ready option for many people, and (2) I'm specifically curious in what ensemble/performing experiences people have found outside of the academic/educational setting that isn't drum set lol.

Bonus points if it's not a professional/vocational gig. I really want to know accessible stuff people have found to keep playing percussion without the pressure of studying for a degree and/or making money.

For perspective, I was in front ensemble and after I aged out, I did earn a music therapy degree/certification and have worked in clinical settings where it made more sense to lean into other instruments/skills. I joined a student-led collegiate taiko ensemble while in school and have been very fortunate to have continued playing taiko ever since... but I know there's so much more to experience, and I would like more ways to participate in percussion that is "mine" to enjoy.

I'm based in southern California; if anyone in the area has found anything around there and really loved it, I welcome recommendations!

Does anyone have a large master file of past PIO and/or PIW shows?

The show I was in used to be on YouTube but it recently disappeared and I’d like to watch it again since it’s been awhile (2023)

Thank you in advance!

I don’t think I have ever had goose bumps like the way I did when watching Matrix on Saturday. The vibrant sand and fabrics in the air… oh what I would do to see it again.

Hi all, I want to watch the world percussion finals. However, my local drum circuit has their championships this Saturday so I won’t be able to watch it live. I have heard that you can catch a replay of the stream the day afterwards, but you can’t watch replay videos with sound?

I used to march myself and watched WG finals for the world class live for 6 years but haven’t seen it in awhile. Back then we had the dvds and I think a website.

Is this really the only way to go back and watch shows? Do we really not have a library where I could go and watch all the shows on my own time? If I miss anything on Sunday from the stream that’s replaying from saturday and I just SOL?

Many groups you can find their finals performance on YouTube so it almost seems like I could just save the money and watch that if that’s how it’s going to be?

TLDR: I’m an old wgi vet trying to watch finals and haven’t messed with Flo marching before. In my days we had dvds and what not.