What, that's not even possible at all. It is just two musicians on American uniforms playing Yankie Doodle and it's like a reenactment. Also there's no cameras before. Just how?
In the historic Continental army, they were called Field Music, as in battlefield. We portray them in part to honor their service and sacrifice in our nation's wars. They lived with the troops, were treated no differently than the line infantry, and were in many cases killed and wounded while serving. I wouldn't want to live one week of the life they had to endure. After the Revolution, Congress disbanded most of the Continental Army, but 55 men at West Point remained, and included at least one drummer and one fifer to maintain the tradition of military music for the new nation.
@@felixisme1239 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
I've always loved the idea of this being played at Yorktown when the British broke and fled. It's such an awesomely American story, of sarcastically playing a song your enemies wrote about how arrogant and stupid you are while they retreat from your superior forces.
We get that a lot. The red regimental coats are actually period correct for musicians of the Continental Army. I know it seems odd to have your musicians in the same color as the enemy, but it was the tradition in ancient armies for the musicians to wear the reverse colors of the infantry. In the Continental Army, infantry wore blue coats with red trim, so musicians wore red coats with blue trim.
The song is saying that Americans were so unsophisticated that they would think putting a feather in there hat was dressing like a macaroni which was a very snazzy almost effeminate young man who followed the latest fashions.
@@tedhubertcrusio372 they wore the reversed colours of their regimens, with regimental lace down the sleeves and would have worn wings like the light infantry and grenadiers. The exceptions are royal regiments and guard regiments, who wore the normal regimental coat with wings and the regimental lace down the sleeves. Not sure where your getting your yellow nonsense, and whatnot as other than the coat and the belts they wore the same uniform as all the other rank and file.
We get that a lot. The red regimental coats are actually period correct for musicians of the US Continental Army. I know it seems odd to have your musicians in the same color as the enemy, but it was the tradition in ancient armies for the musicians to wear the reverse colors of the infantry. In the Continental Army, infantry wore blue coats with red trim, so musicians wore red coats with blue trim.
If you push the stick down on the drum it hits the drum once, but if you let it fall it keeps bouncing. If you practice, you can learn to control how long and fast the stick bounces for.
Hi, if you mean jamming together, exploring different musical styles and creating beats on the fly, improvising and not following a set song or structure, that's not the case. We're playing it from memory as it was written in the 1700s.
They wore red so the officers could pick them out quickly in the confusion of battle and use them to relay commands on the battlefield. Red also identified them as musicians so the enemy wouldn't target them. In the weird battlefield chivalry of the times, musicians were considered non-combatants, so you weren't supposed to target them directly. But they got shot and blown up just like anyone else in the heat of battle.
Yes, it is a Bb fife. Historically, many fifes used by the military were in C up to the Civil War. 99% of fifers today use a Bb however when portraying any time period. A few play C fifes to be "authentic" but they only sound good if everyone is playing a C, and most people don't. Of course you can get both, but if you want to jam with other fifers and drummers or fill in with a group, it's best to have your Bb handy. If you're interested in a 3D Fife Mouthpiece made from durable and safe, synthetic nylon in the US and produced by a commericial 3D printing company, here is where you can get one: www.etsy.com/listing/1380952081/3d-fife-mouthpiece?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=3d+file+mouthpiece&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&frs=1&content_source=3fa737940c3ec92632055f31bc19f28a8b14f8d6%253A1380952081&search_preloaded_img=1&organic_search_click=1
We are playing the "ancient" version of Yankee Doodle, which is slower and has a somewhat simpler melody than the "modern" version most people are familiar with. The modern version was released around the time of the US Civil War about 80 years after this version was played.
In case you're confused, these aren't British uniforms. You'll find the US Marine Band, US Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, and the US Army Fife and Drum Corps all wearing red, in the tradition of field musics wearing the opposite color of their unit. You'll even find Btitish drummers in blue.
It depends on the mouthpiece. Historic fife mouthpieces were pewter with a high lead content, which is why you should only collect, and not play, antique pewter mouthpieces made prior to the 1900s. Their weight slightly mutes the tone of the instrument. The 3D Fife Mouthpiece being played in the video however is made of a safe synthetic nylon in the US and produced by a commercial 3D printing facility. It is much lighter and therefore produces a sound much closer to the true tone of the instrument. I play both with a 3D mouthpiece and without and when in a fifeline with others, it blends right in. You can learn more here: www.3rdusreenactors.com/home/music/fife-mouthpieces/
Here's a recent example with the same two musicians in the video above playing at a National Park after a public performance on Memorial Day in 2024. Can you tell who's playing with the mouthpiece and who isn't without looking at the instruments themselves? facebook.com/reel/959651239218750
Close! It's US Continental Army musicians (they wore red coats at the time and still do). The fife is an instrument familiar to historic armies all across Europe, but you're right, it was also played as an instrument at home by Irish and others. The fife being played in the video was made in the US and so was the 3D Fife Mouthpiece. The fife is an ancient instrument played by many European military organizations since the 1500s and is not uniquely Irish, although they did heavily influence its use and the fife & drum repertoire, esp. during the US Civil War of the 1860s which included large numbers of soldiers of Irish, Scottish and English descent on both sides.
@@claudebauer9190 Musicians during the period wore inverted uniforms. So if the regular soldiers wore a blue coat with red facings the musicians would have a red coat with blue facings.
Great point! There are actually several versions of Yankee Doodle--the one played here is closer to the 1700s version which was played more slowly. By the Civil War, they were playing what to them was called the "modern version" which was played at a faster tempo because Civil War soldiers typically marched faster than Rev War soldiers. The version played by the Civil War and after is much closer to the tune we recognize today than the original version. We often play them one after another in music demos to show the audience how music can evolve over time. The "ancient version" as it is known in the music community, is still played however--the US Army's Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps played it most recently at the welcoming ceremony when French President Macron visited the White House. And yes, they also wear red regimential coats, just like their counterparts did in the historic US Continential Army of the American Revolution.
Hi--we get that a lot. The red regimental coats are actually period correct for musicians of the Continental Army. I know it seems odd to have your musicians in the same color as the enemy, but it was the tradition in ancient armies for the musicians to wear the reverse colors of the infantry. In the Continental Army, infantry wore blue coats with red trim, so musicians wore red coats with blue trim. We are wearing the correct musician's uniforms of the American Continental Army.
We portray musicians in the US Continental Army of the Revolution. They wore red coats, the reverse color of the infantry so the officers could spot them quickly to relay messages. Causes a lot of confusion, LOL. We hear "the red coats are coming!" a lot, but we're Yankee Doodle dandies! :-)
Not surprising that they stole the melody from Yankee Doodle to use as the theme song for the Barney cartoon character. The tune is over 250 years old and is well ingrained in the American psyche. During the US Civil War, Yankee Doodle was among a number of songs suggested for the national anthem. It’s been played by the US military since the 1700s and is still played today, most recently by the US Army’s Fife and Drum Corps during a White House ceremony for president Macron of France. Those who don’t know the history of the tune think it’s just a kid’s song, but it’s woven deeply into the history and fabric of America.
Not surprising that they stole the melody from Yankee Doodle to use as the theme song for the Barney cartoon character. The tune is over 250 years old and is well ingrained in the American psyche. During the US Civil War, Yankee Doodle was among a number of songs suggested for the national anthem. It’s been played by the US military since the 1700s and is still played today, most recently by the US Army’s Fife and Drum Corps during a White House ceremony for president Macron of France. Those who don’t know the history of the tune think it’s just a kid’s song, but it’s woven deeply into the history and fabric of America.
We get that a lot. The red regimental coats are actually period correct for musicians of the Continental Army. I know it seems odd to have your musicians in the same color as the enemy, but it was the tradition in ancient armies for the musicians to wear the reverse colors of the infantry. In the Continental Army, infantry wore blue coats with red trim, so musicians wore red coats with blue trim.
This song is going to be revolutionary
And it was!
Get it because the revolutionary war and it's revolutionary because there's a war called the revolutionary war
@@tarmy3619 really?
@@Edit-Guy maybe 🤔 I'm still learning more hmmm
Hol up wai a minute…., oh frick
respect to the cameraman who went back in time to just film two people playing yankee doodle
Yep, he’s def legendary
I going to predict that someone will not get the joke.
considering they had little to no electricity back then, huge props to the cameraman for bringing his own power supply
@@Joseph_Stalin1940 not yet
What, that's not even possible at all. It is just two musicians on American uniforms playing Yankie Doodle and it's like a reenactment.
Also there's no cameras before. Just how?
Bro this is the 1750s best hits even the pilgrims drip 💀
Pilgrims drip? Dude this like 200 years after that.
Pilgrims?
Oh lovely theyve sent me a MORON
Also *1770s
@@GoldenHawk_ Pilgrims are still a big thing
L comment tbh
Playing fife and drum?
Now that’s soldiering…
In the historic Continental army, they were called Field Music, as in battlefield. We portray them in part to honor their service and sacrifice in our nation's wars. They lived with the troops, were treated no differently than the line infantry, and were in many cases killed and wounded while serving. I wouldn't want to live one week of the life they had to endure. After the Revolution, Congress disbanded most of the Continental Army, but 55 men at West Point remained, and included at least one drummer and one fifer to maintain the tradition of military music for the new nation.
@@claudebauer9190 bro restated the Declaration of Independence
@@felixisme1239 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
@@felixisme1239it’s not even that long if you took 10 seconds out of your day to read it 💀💀🤑
“I own a musket for self defense”
Good luck with that!😂
@@claudebauer9190 the luck is for the 4 ruffians that broke into my house
@@legobobafett3870 and for the neighbor's dog
@@legobobafett3870fix bayonet…
And charge the last terrified rapscallion.
I've always loved the idea of this being played at Yorktown when the British broke and fled. It's such an awesomely American story, of sarcastically playing a song your enemies wrote about how arrogant and stupid you are while they retreat from your superior forces.
This is a promotional video for the mouthpiece on the instrument which is made by the fifer in the video using 3D printing.
Where can I get the mouthpiece?
Some will be available in early January. Keep an eye on this site. They sell out fast. www.etsy.com/shop/CyberFife?ref=pr_shop_more#items
Damn that makes me want to fix bayonets.
FIX BAYONETS!
This makes me want to make ready.
@@floppa_marine5820 fr
Steady on, we are no longer at war 😄
did you know triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up?
I love this song too. They did amazing.
This hits harder than a Ship of the Line
love this song
This beat is so good it made Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa start dancing and shouting
The drums are legit fire🔥
I love the drums of this music
Excellent Job. It is also the official song of Connecticut.
like commander, i would have to report that this beat is straight fire
British soldiers playing a American patriotic song (they are actually in disguise)
We get that a lot. The red regimental coats are actually period correct for musicians of the Continental Army. I know it seems odd to have your musicians in the same color as the enemy, but it was the tradition in ancient armies for the musicians to wear the reverse colors of the infantry. In the Continental Army, infantry wore blue coats with red trim, so musicians wore red coats with blue trim.
Also, the British military musicians actually wore yellow with white trimming and red highstocks
It first started as a song to mock The Yanks
The song is saying that Americans were so unsophisticated that they would think putting a feather in there hat was dressing like a macaroni which was a very snazzy almost effeminate young man who followed the latest fashions.
@@tedhubertcrusio372 they wore the reversed colours of their regimens, with regimental lace down the sleeves and would have worn wings like the light infantry and grenadiers. The exceptions are royal regiments and guard regiments, who wore the normal regimental coat with wings and the regimental lace down the sleeves. Not sure where your getting your yellow nonsense, and whatnot as other than the coat and the belts they wore the same uniform as all the other rank and file.
I went to Mazatlán last week...and I just imagined these guys on a boat pulling up to the beach playing this lol.
“Oi bruv, this wonderful music is quite fire indeed, just what I need to get sturdy on those rapscallions!”
God Bless America
I remember using that tune on one of my videos!
I love how you made it historically accurate by giving the musicians red coats
We get that a lot. The red regimental coats are actually period correct for musicians of the US Continental Army. I know it seems odd to have your musicians in the same color as the enemy, but it was the tradition in ancient armies for the musicians to wear the reverse colors of the infantry. In the Continental Army, infantry wore blue coats with red trim, so musicians wore red coats with blue trim.
good job I love it
let's hear .British grenadiers.
Smells like patriotism 🇺🇸🦅
thank you
this is awsome
How's he tapping the drum so fast precisely
If you push the stick down on the drum it hits the drum once, but if you let it fall it keeps bouncing. If you practice, you can learn to control how long and fast the stick bounces for.
@@calvinpakutka6839 sick
everbody gangster until this song comes on
nice coats lovem.
we makin it out europe with this one
Very talented
Lol this is awesome
thank you for sharing
Guys play it at 1.25x it sounds good
That's the tempo used in the 1700s. Much slower than today's version and also a simpler version of the melody was played back then.
the 2 musician's in the corner not doing anything but playing music in G&B
Hi, if you mean jamming together, exploring different musical styles and creating beats on the fly, improvising and not following a set song or structure, that's not the case. We're playing it from memory as it was written in the 1700s.
God Bless America.
Certified hood classic
Fire!!
I remember going to school hearing this in 9 am because field trip
AAAH! JUST AS THE FOUNDING FATHERS INTENDED...
Now need some 3d Brown Bess
This fire makes the White House in 1812 seem cold
Why did he tap it off if he was going to play at a completely different tempo?
🤗👏👏👏
like to hear british grenadiers while playing british in war thunder
THE RUclips ALGORITHM HAS BLESSED ME AGAIN
😍😍😍
That's the matter of red white and blue song i did that in band
So that's who was playing the fife & drum when Oliver was talking about the American farmer.
Please explain. Thanks
Thy fire beat George Washington be hooking up in thy studios
From the thumbnail I totally thought this was my high school lmao
bros got the 1 2 buckle my shoe
*extremely aggressive salute*
4 Star General Naird brought me here.
London
Freedom in disguise
No they're wearing Continental Musician Uniforms. Which is inverted colors.
@@andrewmcclintock7582 ohh interesting why red tho
They wore red so the officers could pick them out quickly in the confusion of battle and use them to relay commands on the battlefield. Red also identified them as musicians so the enemy wouldn't target them. In the weird battlefield chivalry of the times, musicians were considered non-combatants, so you weren't supposed to target them directly. But they got shot and blown up just like anyone else in the heat of battle.
Are you playing a Bb fife, I noticed the 3D type mouthpiece pops up now and then for sale
Yes, it is a Bb fife. Historically, many fifes used by the military were in C up to the Civil War. 99% of fifers today use a Bb however when portraying any time period. A few play C fifes to be "authentic" but they only sound good if everyone is playing a C, and most people don't. Of course you can get both, but if you want to jam with other fifers and drummers or fill in with a group, it's best to have your Bb handy. If you're interested in a 3D Fife Mouthpiece made from durable and safe, synthetic nylon in the US and produced by a commericial 3D printing company, here is where you can get one: www.etsy.com/listing/1380952081/3d-fife-mouthpiece?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=3d+file+mouthpiece&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&frs=1&content_source=3fa737940c3ec92632055f31bc19f28a8b14f8d6%253A1380952081&search_preloaded_img=1&organic_search_click=1
Darn red coats
imagine they do this in america
I feel like I have to go to the Bunker Hill hahahaha happy new year everyone and yeah I know it's not that time yet
Play at 1.25 your welcome 🥁🤗
We are playing the "ancient" version of Yankee Doodle, which is slower and has a somewhat simpler melody than the "modern" version most people are familiar with. The modern version was released around the time of the US Civil War about 80 years after this version was played.
The red coats finally tasted the American patriotic beer!
In case you're confused, these aren't British uniforms. You'll find the US Marine Band, US Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, and the US Army Fife and Drum Corps all wearing red, in the tradition of field musics wearing the opposite color of their unit. You'll even find Btitish drummers in blue.
@@davidwarner3326 Oh okay thanks for the advice
is this the barney song?
The song has been around for more than 250 years, so it's been used for a lot of things, most recently by the Barney show.
I want to know, does playing with a mouthpiece actually sound like playing the fife without one?
It depends on the mouthpiece. Historic fife mouthpieces were pewter with a high lead content, which is why you should only collect, and not play, antique pewter mouthpieces made prior to the 1900s. Their weight slightly mutes the tone of the instrument. The 3D Fife Mouthpiece being played in the video however is made of a safe synthetic nylon in the US and produced by a commercial 3D printing facility. It is much lighter and therefore produces a sound much closer to the true tone of the instrument. I play both with a 3D mouthpiece and without and when in a fifeline with others, it blends right in. You can learn more here:
www.3rdusreenactors.com/home/music/fife-mouthpieces/
Here's a recent example with the same two musicians in the video above playing at a National Park after a public performance on Memorial Day in 2024. Can you tell who's playing with the mouthpiece and who isn't without looking at the instruments themselves?
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Army 2/4
POV: British men playing an Irish instrument produced in China and playing a U.S. song.
Close! It's US Continental Army musicians (they wore red coats at the time and still do). The fife is an instrument familiar to historic armies all across Europe, but you're right, it was also played as an instrument at home by Irish and others. The fife being played in the video was made in the US and so was the 3D Fife Mouthpiece. The fife is an ancient instrument played by many European military organizations since the 1500s and is not uniquely Irish, although they did heavily influence its use and the fife & drum repertoire, esp. during the US Civil War of the 1860s which included large numbers of soldiers of Irish, Scottish and English descent on both sides.
@@claudebauer9190 Musicians during the period wore inverted uniforms. So if the regular soldiers wore a blue coat with red facings the musicians would have a red coat with blue facings.
"Yankee Doodle" at marching speed. I saw a Civil War camp band play this tune at Disco speed, but hey, it 1861, not 1776.;)
Great point! There are actually several versions of Yankee Doodle--the one played here is closer to the 1700s version which was played more slowly. By the Civil War, they were playing what to them was called the "modern version" which was played at a faster tempo because Civil War soldiers typically marched faster than Rev War soldiers. The version played by the Civil War and after is much closer to the tune we recognize today than the original version. We often play them one after another in music demos to show the audience how music can evolve over time. The "ancient version" as it is known in the music community, is still played however--the US Army's Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps played it most recently at the welcoming ceremony when French President Macron visited the White House. And yes, they also wear red regimential coats, just like their counterparts did in the historic US Continential Army of the American Revolution.
Bro really trying to take them taxes back
sounds like London Bridge 🌉
I use a musket for self defense
1770s kids only know
british people: hahaha check this song we made to make fun of the american colonists!
colonists: shit this beat slaps this be our anthem now
Roger Ramjet and his Eagles, fighting for our freedom……….
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Red coats
Field Musicians for America's Continental Army wore red coats at the time of the Revolution.
Yes and no. The coats are red, but they're not British.
REDCOATS?!
Field Musicians for America's Continental Army wore red coats at the time of the Revolution.
wyd if this outside ur home 🗿
Sounds really good but why are you wearing British uniforms
Hi--we get that a lot. The red regimental coats are actually period correct for musicians of the Continental Army. I know it seems odd to have your musicians in the same color as the enemy, but it was the tradition in ancient armies for the musicians to wear the reverse colors of the infantry. In the Continental Army, infantry wore blue coats with red trim, so musicians wore red coats with blue trim. We are wearing the correct musician's uniforms of the American Continental Army.
The song makes me to charge against British
British American dudes
The USA was built by the British.
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We portray musicians in the US Continental Army of the Revolution. They wore red coats, the reverse color of the infantry so the officers could spot them quickly to relay messages. Causes a lot of confusion, LOL. We hear "the red coats are coming!" a lot, but we're Yankee Doodle dandies! :-)
@@claudebauer9190 ah, ok
I have no clue why you did this,And in the streets?
We were actually waiting to step off in a parade that day, and quickly ducked into this historic site's garden to make this video.
They’re playing the Barney theme song duh 🙄
Not surprising that they stole the melody from Yankee Doodle to use as the theme song for the Barney cartoon character. The tune is over 250 years old and is well ingrained in the American psyche. During the US Civil War, Yankee Doodle was among a number of songs suggested for the national anthem. It’s been played by the US military since the 1700s and is still played today, most recently by the US Army’s Fife and Drum Corps during a White House ceremony for president Macron of France. Those who don’t know the history of the tune think it’s just a kid’s song, but it’s woven deeply into the history and fabric of America.
Some rowdy colonizers when the British raise taxes:
BARNEY THE DINOSAUR THEME SONG
Not surprising that they stole the melody from Yankee Doodle to use as the theme song for the Barney cartoon character. The tune is over 250 years old and is well ingrained in the American psyche. During the US Civil War, Yankee Doodle was among a number of songs suggested for the national anthem. It’s been played by the US military since the 1700s and is still played today, most recently by the US Army’s Fife and Drum Corps during a White House ceremony for president Macron of France. Those who don’t know the history of the tune think it’s just a kid’s song, but it’s woven deeply into the history and fabric of America.
this will be useful for making fun of British people...
@Bluegrass Banjo "Oi, don't use that shong to make phun of Bri'ish people, en. Itsh not very nishe. 🤓🇬🇧"
only the 1864 kids remember this
wrong uniform XD
No
We get that a lot. The red regimental coats are actually period correct for musicians of the Continental Army. I know it seems odd to have your musicians in the same color as the enemy, but it was the tradition in ancient armies for the musicians to wear the reverse colors of the infantry. In the Continental Army, infantry wore blue coats with red trim, so musicians wore red coats with blue trim.
@@claudebauer9190 Oh, sorry for saying things I didn't know
@@andrewbuttress4052 No worries! Like I said, we get mistaken for Brits all the time! :-)
I liked it, but you're both redbacks so -2 points, 3/5 stars
they are continentals they are just wearing musicians' coats which are the reverse colors of the regular regimental coats
@@alexanderthegreat3591 fair, +2 points. 5/5 stars