u/JBurbYGO

Hi all,

I’m in the early stages of making a video about the evolution of sound systems and sampled audio in drum corps—specifically, how more and more corps are adopting a more atmospheric soundcheck/preshow and commentating on a few examples I think are particularly effective. I can’t easily comment on it without playing the samples in question, and by nature of what it is, a lot of the examples I have were taken from snippets of recordings from FloMarching streams I’ve collected, both officially released and otherwise.

A lot of content creators I follow (Funliner Productions, CJ’s Music, et. al.) use corps footage with audio playing as B-roll, so I was wondering if anyone has experience with making content in the drum corps space knows what rights, if any, I’d have to get to use corps audio—if the corps sound team made the samples, but they were recorded by Flo, would I need an agreement with the corps, with FloMarching, or both? Or if it comes from the source music verbatim (i.e. Bluecoats 2024), would I need to also get permission from the Son Lux label?

I know music/sampling rights are messy, especially in the drum corps space, so I’d rather double check on what I may need before getting copyright struck out of existence. If anyone familiar is able to offer some guidance, I’d appreciate any input!

I recently ran into someone wearing a Change is Everything shirt at a food line in my university and after approaching them, learned that they marched Buccaneers last season, which was cool! But when they returned the question I told them I've never marched outside of high school and was just a fan, and they weren't as interested in talking shop after that.

Perhaps it's an interaction I'm reading too much into, but it made me wonder if, among people that have been with a corps in the past, if people don't like talking to non-marchers because there's an experience you can only get from being on tour, or if there was some other sentiment I don't--or can't--know about. I know there's people that dislike the "bando" archetype or people that pose by saying "I made it to the last stage of auditions before being cut" or hand drumming in lots or whatever, but I didn't know of that sentiment extends to everyone who's a fan of activity but hasn't participated in it.