Winning the first Championship in their history, Carolina Crown’s 2013 show certainly has many things going for it. Everyone knows about the Perfect brass score on finals night, but that’s only a fraction of the story. Today we’ll look into their drill from that year – specifically the closer – and talk about just how special the design is.

For a Crown show, it definitely checked all the usual boxes that Crown is know for. It added a few boxes as well, with many shows following this years unique concept. Many of the music repertoire is very out there, most of the artists and origins behind that music are not incredibly well known. Crown has done this for many years, introducing the Drum Corps World to many new sounds, while maintaining that signature dark and clear Hornline tone.

While their brass maybe great, you can’t win a World Championship with just music. Two other captions exist, and are equally as important!

The start of the closer is an impressive feat. Both difficult in it’s step size/tempo responsibilities, but also maintaining a clear form throughout the move.

The first minute catches my attention the most, with the big move being 0:24 to 0:34. This 10 second, brass heavy, full corps drill move is incredibly impressive.

Many individual lines are moving in and out of other, adjacent lines. While they all have their own unique paths, the form has a whole has a clear end goal in mind. The rest of the drill into the ending Curve is great, but that 10 seconds takes the cake in this show for me!

With so much of the Drum Corps activity changing, it makes me very happy that Crown still writes interesting and difficult drill while also maintaining their incredible brass sound.

I can’t wait to see what else they have in store, we’ll certainly return to this Corps in the future!