American Reacts to Royal Marines Corps of Drums VS Top Secret Drum Corps - EPIC Drum Battle!

In a nutshell, one is British military, the other are Swiss Civilians. Even though their civilians, their skills are so well regarded, that they are regular participants at military musical events, like this one where they were special guests at a Royal Marine concert, you can see the rest of the RM band sat behind the drummers.

Steve, FYI: 'Corps' is NOT pronounced 'corpse' (like a dead body) - it is pronounced like 'core' (of an apple! The P & S are silent). 👍☺

One (RM) is composed of full-time active military who play drums in addition to their other military duties, and are from UK. The other (TSC) is made up of regular civilians from Switzerland who play drums as a semi-professional hobby. Btw, neither group is made up of dead people. They are Corps not a corpse. 😂

The marines are military the secret drum corps are civilians from Basel Switzerland might explain their precisino😊

🤗These are civilians 🇨🇭who are in Top Secret. 💕The other is a military band!💋They are the Best in the world!💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋

Hi Steve you really need to check out British Army Flash Mobs. In the UK we actually have the Army in full uniform appear on our streets at certain times of year usually leading up to Christmas and they do a flash mob of military bands playing music. It is very entertaining and is a complete surprise when it happens I was witness to this at Waterloo train Station a few yrs ago and it was brilliant

The current His Majesty's Royal Marines Band Service was formed in 1903, currently consisting of five bands. However there has been Royal Marines drummers on every ship of the Royal Navy for over 350 years. Top Secret was forrmed in 1991 in Basel, Switzerland. Their style is similar to the American drum corps style, which you see in most high school bands and American military services.

My granddad was in the Royal Marines Band section after WW1. So proud of that.

A terrific combination performance , something I'd love to see live . The RM. band is always a great and they are serving soldiers of course . Truly spectacular .

The Top Secret group is composed of males ages 17-40 from all walks of life who have day-time jobs & practice in evening & on weekends. They are not military but civilians

Top Secret is a volunteer drum unit, they all have regular jobs, but drumming is their passion. You need to look up some of their other performances, with the whole unit performing. It looked like the unit here wasn't the entire membership in Top Secret. They do amazing things during military tattoos.

Steve Thankyou for yet another terrific reaction. This was so cool to watch I’ve never seen anything like it before. I hope you and your family are well? Take care 😘 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸

I remember seeing the Top Secret Drum Corps at the Edinburgh Royal Tattoo in 2006, it was certainly memorable!

WOW! Again!

Hi Steve. This lot blow me away. You, like me, really appreciate the precision involved in such performances. So I would recommend you check out The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2022. In it you will see The Top Secret Drum Corps, The United States Army Field Band and The United States Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team. You will get precision overload. The Honor Guard Drill team were stunning. I wouldn't want to be the guy walking through the middle.

Why are they so good? Practice, practice, and more practice! I used to be stationed on the same base as one of the RM bands, the drummers used to practice most mornings.

The Royal Marines Band Service is the musical wing of the Royal Navy and an independent element of the Royal Marines. It currently consists of five bands plus a training wing – the Royal Marines School of Music at HMS Nelson – and its headquarters is at HMS Excellent, Whale Island, Portsmouth. Corps of Drums The bands are always led by 'buglers', who are trained on both the side drum and the bugle as well as the Herald Fanfare Trumpet (natural trumpet); this section of the band is referred to as "the Corps of Drums", which since 1903 is now situated at the front of the band. Whilst similar to army corps of drums, these are members of the Royal Marines Band Service, although they retain their own rank structure. RM Buglers have a similar history to Army 'drummers' in that they were used to convey orders on a ship on drums and bugles, and would then mass onshore into corps of drums, though they were still expected to work as individual soldiers, also known in slang by the Royal Navy as drummers. These drummer-buglers trace themselves back to the raising of the Royal Marines in 1664 as a maritime foot regiment, with six drummers attached to its battalions, making them the oldest specialisation in the Royal Marines. Today's buglers carry out duties ranging from repatriation services (sounding Last Post bugle call), mess beatings (drum displays), beating retreat (marching displays) and concerts on behalf of the Royal Marines and the entire Royal Navy. Top Secret Drum Corps is a drum corps based in Basel, Switzerland. With 25 drummers and colour guard section, the corps became famous for its demanding six-minute routine performed at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in 2003. With its invitation to Edinburgh, Top Secret became one of the first non-military, non-British Commonwealth acts to perform on the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle. Since its success in 2003, Top Secret was invited to return to Edinburgh in 2006 with a new routine. They were invited a third time in 2009 and again in 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2022. Under the leadership of Erik Julliard, the band is also responsible for the founding of the Basel Tattoo, a military tattoo show similar to the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, now held annually in Basel. 🇬🇧&🇨🇭 🥁 🥁

That is truly the epitome of human co-ordination, skillset, experience and performance. Displays of this High Quality are so uplifting for the Human Spirit. Thank You to Everyone involved in this precision.

Corps is pronounced as 'core'. It's French, originally. A corpse is a dead body. 😂

Need to listen to more of their performances they do a lot of different types the bands of the royal marines they are brilliant