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On A Water Break with Gonzako
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🎧 BONUS EPISODE: On A Water Break with Gonzako 🥁✨
Dive into this special bonus edition of "On A Water Break" as host Stephen McCarrick chats with dynamic bass drum duo Adrian Gonzalez ("Gonzo") and Mako, known together as Gonzako. From their early days marching with RCC, Pacific Crest, Blue Stars, Blue Devils, and Mandarins, to their current creative adventures, this episode offers a vibrant glimpse into their artistic process.
Gonzo and Mako share the behind-the-scenes story of their latest high-energy music video, "More Bass In Da Club," produced alongside Lou from Fourth Block. Discover how a spontaneous idea evolved into an epic drumline party, complete with professional studio recordings, choreography, and even a live crowd. They discuss challenges, surprises, and their passion for redefining bass drumming beyond traditional competitive performances.
The episode also tackles the broader topic of visual training in marching programs, highlighting its impact and the importance of fostering independent artistic projects within the marching arts community.
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Transcript
Introduction to 'On a Water Break' and Listener Engagement
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey everyone, and welcome to On a Water Break. I'm Steven, and this is the podcast where we talk about everything you and your friends are talking about at rehearsal on a water break. And we're here discuss the good, the funny, and sometimes even the challenging parts of the marching arts world.
00:00:14
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And this time, we go On a Water Break with Gonzaco. Adolph the Met and go. Welcome to On a Water Break.
00:00:26
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podcast where we talk everything marching arts.
00:00:31
Speaker
Everyone, bring it in. It's time for a water break.
00:00:36
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All right. Now, before we get to see on the who's on the sidelines this week, make sure you go subscribe, hit the notifications on your favorite listening app, write us a review, or share it with a friend. If you've got questions or a good topic to talk about, you can email us at onawaterbreakpodcast at gmail.com or find us on social media and DM us if you want to be on the show.
00:00:55
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We've even got a form now that you could fill out if you want to be a guest, and we love having people on the podcast, so you could check it out at the link in our bio on social media.
Meet the Guests: Gonzaco's Journey Begins
00:01:03
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And now we've kept them on the bleachers long enough.
00:01:06
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ah Let's come on down to the sidelines and welcome to the podcast, Gonzo and Mako, the performers better known as Gonzaco.
00:01:30
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who we are excited to have join us on the call today. i love the, oh man, the shades, the eyewear is ah giving yeah club vibes out here for sure.
00:01:44
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I'm happy to have you. Yeah, you know, it's always, whether you're indoors, outdoors, it doesn't matter. We gotta... Oh yeah, I mean, I'm right there with you....prepare for the light that is constantly on us, so...
00:01:57
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The club lights. Yeah. Gotta protect the eyes, you know? Everybody's watching and they shouldn't see where you're looking. I feel the same way in rehearsal all the time. don't want my students to know where I'm looking. I'm wearing shades inside. Exactly.
00:02:09
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exactly Well, I'm really excited to have you guys join our show today.
Gonzo's Drumming Adventure
00:02:14
Speaker
We get our guests always to introduce us with a 32-count life story, and it gives us a great chance to get to know our guests right up front before we dig into some deeper questions here.
00:02:24
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But who wants to kick it off and give us the first 32-count life story here? I'll go first. Cool, let's get in there, Gonzo. You'll get Aiton in off the map. All right.
00:02:38
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My name is Adrian Gonzalez. I go by Gonzo. I learned how to play bass drum when I was 12 years old. And Samuel Ardino, which is in SoCal. I'm 26 now.
00:02:50
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So do the math, all right? My two main gigs right now are teaching RCC bass and being one half of Gonzalco.
00:03:01
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So, yeah, that's all I need. it I don't even need the whole 30 seconds. I'm going to just let me write. You need seven bars right now. Nice. so I'm very happy to have you on the show, man. I'm sure you can't just skip right to teaching RCC. how did a Where were you marching while you were you know marching agency?
00:03:20
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So yeah, I started in San Bernardino then after grade school, I did Pacific Crest. It was my first drum corps ever. My first summer out of high school.
00:03:34
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Didn't even know what drum corps was, honestly. The only reason i did drum corps is because bass drummers were telling me that was going to improve my odds of making RCC.
00:03:47
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I always wanted to be in RCC. And was like, all right, how do I do it? And they were like, oh, do drum corps. And I was like, what is that? And then I just showed up and I made PC. So thankfully. You always had your eye on the prize.
00:04:01
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Yeah, literally everything I did within my drumming career was just to get to RCC. That was like the only thing I cared about. So yeah, I did PC. i did RCC marching band.
00:04:13
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ah did POW percussion. and did Blue Stars. And then after that, I was in RCC. And then I made Blue Devils. So I did both of those groups, like 18, 19, and 20.
00:04:27
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Wow. Okay. wow Nice. Nice. And after that, I, my first, like, I've been teaching for like a really long time, just teaching Bernardino.
00:04:38
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ah But then I taught Pulse for two years, 22 and 23. i taught Dark Sky in 24. Now it's my first year at RCC.
00:04:52
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So I got it all back full circle. 12-year-old you would be so, so hype about this. We'll get more into that in a second. Why don't we actually catch up with Mako
Mako's Transition from Skating to Drumming and Nursing
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now? Mako, are you ready to give us your 32-count live story?
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and think so. All right, let's get in there. My name is Marco. Before my whole drumline gig, I used to be a figure skater for 10 years, and then I injured my ankle, and then I ended up doing band. Before I played bass drum in freshman year high school, I played vibes and snare drum, but that wasn't really my thing.
00:05:27
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Bass drum was the place to be. So after that, I loved bass drum, and then had to age myself out a little early in 2021, and post-band, now I'm a nurse. And Adrien brought me out of the dark archives, and now we're back and doing the doco.
00:05:42
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That's my life story. Nice. Right on time. Okay. So let's get back into, a well, actually, before we get into Gonzaco, what was your marching career like since we got a whole big recap from Gonzo?
00:05:58
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Yeah. So for me, actually, so I told you I did vibes in eighth grade because my brother was in high school. So I was able to do like the program because I was related to him. And so as an eighth grader, they let me do it. So I was like, OK, might as well just do something. So played vibes. That was really hard.
00:06:16
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um And then I made snare drum my freshman year, which was like really surprising. i was like, okay, I guess. But i played bass drum that winter and I was like, this is it. Like, this is something that I love doing. This is great.
00:06:30
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So you know, you know. Yeah, i was like, bass is the place. Like, I'm going to stay bass drummer. Like, I want to play bass drum. And so a few years after that, and our winter program at the high school wasn't really a thing anymore. So I actually ended up quitting the high school program. And I ended up going independent my junior year of high school.
00:06:51
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um So I marched OCI, which ended up becoming Vessel in 18. And then after that, I marched OCI. um RCC after that. And then I've been at RCC. That's like my winner side.
00:07:05
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And then in DCI i side, I marched Watchmen, which is an open class group in SoCal. We didn't even go the full tour. Like we stopped at the SoCal championships and that was it. But it was perfect for what I needed.
00:07:16
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um And then after that, I took a break in 17. And then in 18, I marched Mandarins. And then in 2019, I made Blue Devils and then was supposed to be there in 2020. But, you know, yeah.
00:07:27
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but I know sadness, but now I'm doing the whole Gonzaco
The Birth and Evolution of Gonzaco
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thing. Like i said, Adrian brought me out of the archives. It's been a while since, you know, I got to perform and play stuff like this until I believe it was the base camp. That was like the first like big thing that I got to do since, you know, the whole COVID thing happened. So i was like, you know what, like I'm down to keep doing this. Like let's keep writing stuff. Let's keep playing some cool stuff and you know, keep,
00:07:56
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loving on our favorite instrument in the world. So that's awesome. He really did like pull you out of the depth chart then. It's true. like reached back five years. Just grab me out of the, it was like, exactly the girl.
00:08:13
Speaker
It's not that cool with just one person. Like you need at least one other person. Yeah, I've never seen anyone make bass drum look cool on their own. Like, one person playing bass drum is a tough one. One person one person splitting themselves is just snare drum.
00:08:29
Speaker
Playing snare drum on, like, a 22-inch bass drum. No way. Couldn't be me. But so, Gonzaco, you said it first formed in 2019, and then and there was, I guess there was a little bit of a hiatus here, but what was Gonzaco like in 2019?
00:08:45
Speaker
Yeah, this is actually a funny story. like So obviously, like we're still doing our thing, but this stretches back all the way to 2019, which is like well like six years ago now.
00:08:58
Speaker
It literally started because Mako and I were marching RCC and we were m full battery at rehearsal. And Steven, you play bass drum, so you understand how it goes. It's supposed to be full battery, but that it's actually just like a snare section.
00:09:13
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It's a snare's world and we're just living in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a snare section. Don't be late. You have to be here. Exactly. Exactly. It was like a hurry up and wait. So we're like hurry up and waiting.
00:09:26
Speaker
And the upper battery had like this section of the show where it was just them. And so they're repping that. And then our, our bass tech, Dan wall, he, he goes up to Mako and I, and he's like, ah one of you should play the right hand. And the other one should play the left hand of that lick right there.
00:09:44
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And I was like, oh, I was like, yeah, that's kind of a good idea. and then, okay and yeah. like just Yeah, the snare lick, right? or Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like like a segment of the show. Yeah.
00:09:57
Speaker
It was just the snares and quads. And yeah, Dan, he was just like, yeah, Mako, you should play the right hand. And Adrian, you should play the left hand of of that. whatever that is and so i was like oh that's actually a really cool idea so that's stuck in the back of my head and i was like hey mako do you want to like try and do that like you know like this week or something like we might as well just like film it you know like why just do it for nothing and so devon who is a really talented
00:10:29
Speaker
like just camera guy and editor. um He did our most recent video and he did our very first video as well. Cause he was working with RCC at the time and all of us are like the same age. So we were all like, just like real fresh.
00:10:44
Speaker
And, and so yeah, Devin was super down. was like, yeah, i'll I'll just show up and, you know, film you guys. And yeah, that was literally our first video. was like Devin who, it came out really good cause Devin is just awesome.
00:10:56
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So it's like a really high quality quality video. um And it's literally Mako and I just like we did a rep of it unison. And then we did a rep where Mako did the right hand and I did the left hand. And like that was literally the video.
00:11:09
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And we posted it on Instagram. Yeah. it just far sixty base yeah ah So it's on there. It's also on Devin's YouTube channel, Stevin Asmus.
00:11:20
Speaker
We should take that out get it on the edit. It was literally just because our bass tech was like, you do right hand, you do left hand, just during a snare section. So yeah, that was the first video ever. Dang, that's crazy. And then you were just always recalling back to that one. Five years later, when the moment came up, Matt Walters approached you.
00:11:37
Speaker
And you were like, I can't do it alone. Yeah. We've done a couple of videos in between. ah you did?
Content Strategy and Outreach
00:11:44
Speaker
Yeah. We did one with marching of vlogs in 2020, I think. Right, Mako?
00:11:51
Speaker
Yep. We did one with marching vlogs at the Lone Star Percussion store. Ripped to that store. I think it's called SoCal Drums now. Yeah. But yeah.
00:12:03
Speaker
We did one 2020. and That's when we had a long hiatus. Now we did Base Camp, thanks to Matt Walters. And then, yeah, we did our most recent one.
00:12:14
Speaker
Yeah, well, the most recent one is a huge production. I want to talk about that one some more in a minute. But with the ones on the first one, did though were those like getting shared around a lot? where they i want to try to think back, but I'm not sure if it got over to me on the East Coast.
00:12:30
Speaker
You know, I don't think we were doing, like, a lot of, like, promotion at that time. We were just like, let's make something cool and just, like, post it and just, like, you know, like, have some fun, whatever. And I don't think we did too much of, like, like, check this out, check this out, you know? So...
00:12:46
Speaker
Well, definitely think we should reshare that one now. We've got some good pages. We could blast that one. Yeah, we do. Pull it out of the archives, that if you will. It was posted on RCC base because that's the baseline we were in.
00:13:01
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Right, And that has a huge following, obviously. Yeah. I think it had pretty good amount of like people saw it, for sure. nice We do plan on reposting all of our older videos.
00:13:17
Speaker
So that's kind of like a part of why we did what we most recently did, which is like start a YouTube channel is because we started to realize like, okay, this, this seems to be something we enjoy to do.
00:13:30
Speaker
Yeah. We want to continue doing. And so a big reason why we even started a YouTube channel in the first place was so that it was all, we could start putting things all in one place because we noticed that thing, all of our content was like scattered throughout the internet. So yeah,
00:13:47
Speaker
We started kind of late, obviously, but we had no idea i was going to get to this point. So we were just doing it because it was fun. You said you started kind of late, but I feel like there's so few people that actually produce like independent band content like what you guys made, especially in Bassdrum World, but even throughout like most of the rest of it. like People aren't really going and making their own artistic like marching art-styled content, even though you know you guys are getting far away from it in a good artistic way.
00:14:16
Speaker
Yeah, and and a lot of ways, it feels like we're learning everything for the first time. so And this is one of those weird things where it's like, okay, what do we do with the old content? So we are I'm kind of thinking, like I think YouTube has a thing where you can post on your channel and it says like featured in so I'm hoping maybe you could do that. like ah I could just ask Devin, like Hey, can you add me as a feature to that old video?
00:14:45
Speaker
Hopefully it shows up on our channel, you know? So these are like the weird things that we've literally never thought about that now we got to think about like, okay, how do we get everything in one spot from the past? Moving forward is going to be really easy, from the past, don't know.
00:15:00
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like We got to tell you that out. Yeah, that's tough because it's like you could re-upload it, but you really want to gather all like the initial comments and all the like engagement that it had and let that be a part of your new page. Give it like credibility to it.
00:15:16
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah. That's tricky. really have an answer. We've got to figure that out. Yep. Slowly but surely. As long as you just keep down the road, it'll keep on the snowball keeps on growing the more you just post and upload.
00:15:29
Speaker
Yeah. So let's talk a little bit about the video. I don't even know that we we really told the audience here the video if they're not familiar yet. Do you want to walk through more bass into club and tell the listeners kind of what you guys produced if they haven't seen it themselves?
00:15:46
Speaker
Maka, let's show them our lock screen. Oh, yeah. It's true. and i don't know this works, but y'all, if you haven't seen the video, go watch that. Okay? I'm sure it'll be in the description. Oh, yeah. We got two options. Hit him with the... that you Hit him with that. Take a screenshot.
00:16:03
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Take a picture. Scan that. All right? Nice. Like... no that's actually i'm gonna give y'all some time we will definitely rest the podcast will probably make way more sense if y'all watch that first pause the podcast right now ah the link will be in the description go watch the video if you haven't seen it yet it's sick it's very well produced uh and also shout out to on a water break for the love on the video our sponsors cannot Cannot forget that.
00:16:33
Speaker
And 4th Block. I honestly should have had them on here. wasn't thinking. Shoot. But yeah, tell... us we're already it all good Yeah, they get enough. They get enough. action Give us our moment.
00:16:48
Speaker
Let us have our moment. Well, here's your moment. so' Tell the audience a little bit about the production and then maybe we can get into what it was like actually making it. Yeah. um Okay. So, I mean, the first time we ever met lou which is fourth block, was at Bass Camp.
Collaborative Music Video with Lou and New Inspirations
00:17:09
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So they did a whole bass performance. um Obviously, I've seen their videos in the past, but I've never like met them face to face, only individually with like the bass drummer specifically. But afterwards, Lou messaged me and was like, hey, like we should get something going. And I was like, you know what?
00:17:27
Speaker
that sounds good like that sounds like a good idea and then i brought it to adrian adrian was down and we were trying to think of different ideas like what to do for the ah music video what would make it different and i was like you know what if we made obviously we do our duet thing but what if we like did a four bass drum like that was like my first initial idea I was like why why don't we just do like a four bass drum thing with just us two like I don't even know how to make it possible but like something like that and then after that Adrian started looking at inspo music and you I don't know if you want to talk about more of that but but yeah and then we started kind of listening to different types of of genres and
00:18:10
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We kind of figured out that we want that hyper-pop style. And then immediately, Lou was like, we sent them the inspo music, and Lou was like, yes, this is the one.
00:18:21
Speaker
i don't know if you want to break down the song. Yeah. Yeah, what's super funny about like why we did this project was it literally just happened because we met Lou.
00:18:34
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and Yeah. We saw 4th Block perform live. And it seemed like ah Lou was cool. So like that was literally the only reason why we agreed to do this. um Because Lou seemed like a cool person.
00:18:47
Speaker
And so we have never like really set out to make to do anything like more bass in the club. We really were just like going with the flow.
00:18:59
Speaker
As far as I remember, were literally just listening to like this new album that we found by ah Miss Bashful. um Okay. So it's by Miss Bashful. I'm not going to say the title because I don't think... The song is called Mushy Mushy, but it's a really cool song and we love listening to it.
00:19:22
Speaker
And it was just like, i don't know, it's just like, you gotta like... you got to like pull your creative ideas out of, out of like what the universe like hands to you or like presents in front of you. And so when you like preconceive things too much, one, I think it's more frustrating and two, it doesn't come off as authentic.
00:19:44
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um And so that's really what just spoke to us was like that song. And we were like really jamming to it and like the car in front, in front of our place. And it was like, yeah, this this this is it right here. Like, this is, I'm really feeling this.
00:19:57
Speaker
We were both really feeling it. We could totally feel, like, the tempo. And so, yeah, we just, we kind of based it off that song, which is a Miss Bashful song called Mushy Mushy. and And just the more we got into the process, I think...
00:20:14
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the more evident the idea became clear. So I guess what I mean by that is first the song was something that we just genuinely felt and enjoyed listening to.
00:20:26
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The next step was telling Lou, hey, we really liked this song. And then lou the next step was Lou sending a demo.
00:20:37
Speaker
That was the next thing that happened. And it was a really, really good demo. And I think at that point is when like the floodgates opened. And I remember Mako and I just like brainstorming butt off like just from that one demo on just like very like broad ideas that we had.
00:20:56
Speaker
and like I remember Mako bringing up, like I think the club whole, so it's a very much of a representation of like our life as well. like Mako just recently moved into downtown Riverside. And um so I hang out with Mako a lot at her place. and Downtown Riverside is like one like see yeah one of like the best club scenes like in the country, supposedly. Supposedly, it's this guy that we randomly met one day.
00:21:26
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okay so let we're Okay, story time. This is a core memory for us. We have to the story.
00:21:36
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please tell us we met this random dude. This dude was like, yo, had an epiphany. Like his mind was blown. He was like, yo, I've been all over the country.
00:21:50
Speaker
Miami, New York, Houston. He's like, yeah, I swear. i swear this happened. He was like, but downtown Riverside,
00:22:06
Speaker
We were like, what? We were like, oh, all right.
00:22:13
Speaker
OK, RCC. So yeah, downtown Riverside is just like a really big club scene. And so we we see it like every night. And I think that had like an impact on just the music we've been listening to lately.
00:22:27
Speaker
And I think it also had an impact on like our ideas when you're and we were thinking of this video. So Yeah, we're like, it has to be in the club. We got to make a club. No, I like that. um Mako thought of a whole bunch of ideas. like She was like, what if we played, like, it's two of us, but what if we play, like, on four drums? And i was like, oh, that's cool.
00:22:50
Speaker
Yeah. No, that's really smart. You guys, that was, like, i and E style, right? Like, the drums are on the ground? We did a lot of different variations, yeah. So that's kind of...
00:23:01
Speaker
So yeah, it was just like one step at a time, basically. Like just whatever ideas came throughout the process. A lot of the initial ideas made it, but the final product is a lot different than what we initially anticipated. And that's a good thing, you know?
00:23:15
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, definitely. i think a lot of the times you hear artists talk about how like some of their best moments in art were either like happy little accidents or they'll just talk about things just flowing right out of them.
00:23:27
Speaker
Like when when the vibe is right and when you're like inspired by something, you just really go right for like these ideas that come to your head right away. And I feel like what really helps too is that, um, Adrian and I, like we work really well together. We're always really open-minded to each other's ideas.
00:23:46
Speaker
So like Adrian said, even if, you know, the original like idea didn't make it into the, um, didn't make it into the final product. It was something that we both were able to work on together to like produce it into something that we really wanted to do in the final product.
00:24:01
Speaker
And so there's always just open communication going back and forth, you know, just ah ah just the pool of ideas and then kind of evolving it into like exactly what we want it to be. Yeah. which is Which is always fun because it's ah things are always changing. Things are always, you know, like it you said, evolving into something better. or like you said, it it comes naturally, which is which is really...
00:24:24
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something that helps in the creative process. It doesn't feel like one person's just taking over and doing everything on their own. Which is something that was awesome, especially working with Lou. We've never worked with Lou for for a project before. So Lou was exactly the same way. So it it would just made the creative process super easy for us, to be honest.
00:24:42
Speaker
Yeah, that's what's really cool, too, about not being in the competitive space of band and like exploring that space, whether it's in like a professional drumline environment or if it's in like your own artistic, creative
Artistic Freedom and Creativity
00:24:53
Speaker
environment. But like once you loosen yourself from those competitive restrictions, you have like so much more freedom to just do what you want to do.
00:25:01
Speaker
you You don't have to do what other people want you to do. Now, yeah especially for a bass drummer, it's crazy because we never we're very rarely doing what we want to do.
00:25:12
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But the second that you just take it on yourself to make something independent, now you can do awesome stuff. So, yeah, I think like, don't even know if we answered your question, but like to make it more clear, like a big part of why we do this is exactly what you said.
00:25:30
Speaker
think like, you know, a hard thing to define is like, what is creativity? And like, I think people have like different definitions for it, but like, For me, i kind of like have like two little like subdivisions for what I think creativity is.
00:25:47
Speaker
um I think one definition, like one subcategory of creativity is that, you know, the ability to like take something normal and use it an abnormal way.
00:26:01
Speaker
And the second part to creativity, which you just touched on, I was like, I think just having ownership of your ideas. And I think... that was the part that I felt like I was missing in my like my drumming career.
00:26:16
Speaker
Yeah. um Like I said, like I've been involved with it for a long time since like I was 12 years old, you know, and I'm really thankful for like and all of the opportunities I've gotten since then, like just being a bass tech, you know, just being the guy and just learning and like working under like, I i also feel like I've just been blessed to work under like,
00:26:40
Speaker
really good designers like Michael Cooper and San Bernardino, Sean Vega at RCC, Tony Nunez now at RCC. watched John Mapes at Pulse. I've had an awesome yeah opportunity to like watch really creative people like do their thing.
00:26:59
Speaker
And I really appreciate it. But I do think Now I was at the point where I was like, you know, like I'm missing ownership in my own ideas and i want to go and explore that. So that's like a big part of like what feels really good about the project we just did more based in the club. And I think what motivated, i can't, you know, Mocko can speak for herself, obviously, and but like for just for like for me personally, what really motivated me to like take on this huge project because it was, it was a lot of work.
00:27:31
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ah was that just like the one time that you know a very unique opportunity to like have ownership in my ideas and uh all right well we will get to a quick commercial here but when we get back we're going to get back off of the floor and talk about more independent creative bass drumming projects on our own and we'll be right back with you
00:28:02
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Behind the Scenes: Music Video Production
00:29:24
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All right, and we are back with Gonzaco here, and I want to know more about the actual day that you guys shot more bass into club. Sounds like there was a lot going on that day. Lots of preparation went into it. So why you give us the little rundown, Mako, of what the day was like?
00:29:40
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Of course. Yeah, so... First things first, just getting all the equipment together. It was a pretty high production. So we had a bunch of effects, a bunch of props, a bunch of things going on.
00:29:51
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um So making sure all that stuff was put together. And then to thank our our audience members that came and took time out of this Saturday night to come work with us. we I picked up like eight boxes of pizza from Costco. Grabbed all the refreshments and we all met up at this...
00:30:10
Speaker
thrift store actually um in Riverside. There was a place that Adrian and I like to shop at, um hang out at. They have a bunch of cool things going on. And in the back part, it's like this big warehouse.
00:30:22
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um It's all cleared out. And so we're like, oh, this is a perfect place. So we all met up at this at thrift store warehouse looking thing. ah People are starting to roll in. We were starting to get stuff together. And we were getting a little nervous because we only had, obviously, like a specific amount of time to shoot all this stuff. I think it was like from like 8 to like 1030.
00:30:42
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But obviously with the setup and the lighting, it took a little bit of time to make sure everything was perfect. So Adrian and I were getting a little stressed, but it was okay because it ended up working out. Thankfully, the thrift store person that was there like helping us out was super chill.
00:30:56
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she's like, it's all good. Like, take your time. We're good. um So we probably started shooting around. 8 o'clock, everyone started rolling in around 730. And Adrian is like the most meticulous, like organized planner.
00:31:11
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Like, nice. It is crazy. He had a whole like script and times on how long we need to spend on each segment of the video. And We didn't record the actual track in order, like different scenes and stuff, because obviously there's a lot of configurations, a lot of different setups, different bass drum setups, all that. And it took time to you know go from one setup to the other. so We organized it in a way where we can go from seamlessly from one setup and just shoot all the scenes in that one setup to the next setup, shoot all those scenes in that setup. So Adrian had a breakdown of every single thing, scene one, this time to this time, scene two, this time to this time, and all like the pictures of how each scene should look. So everything was just like boom, boom, boom, boom boom like quick once we started.
00:32:02
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We were going, we were going, going, going, going. That's so professional. Yeah. And it honestly, like, I think it helped Devin too, because he kind of had an idea of what angles he needs to get.
00:32:14
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So we already had a visual of what we wanted. So then we just had to show, tell him, all right, we're going to shoot this scene now. And then he'll just kind of do his thing. And then he'll kind of like signal us from the back, like, all right, two more takes, three more takes.
00:32:27
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And then once we're done, all right, next thing, let's go. And then we just had Lou actually put tracks, like loop tracks to each scene. So then we could just get take after take after take after take.
00:32:39
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And once we had the next scene, Lou would just put on the next loop. And then we just did get our takes, get our angles, see what we needed to do. And yeah, everything went... really smoothly. And the cool thing was our audience members, they understood the assignment.
00:32:54
Speaker
They got it. they yeah They didn't understand. how that i like what Yeah, like it was it was crazy because once we saw the final product, we're like, dude, our homies, they just knew was up like this is crazy. Like we just told them we don't want this to be like a scripted like, oh, do this while we're doing this. Like we're like, just vibe out, have a good time.
00:33:18
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then If you need to take a break, take a break, come back whenever you feel like coming back. like And it just felt really natural when we were doing all the tracks, all the loops, all that stuff. Everyone was just vibing out, having a good time. So honestly, like I think even though...
00:33:33
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leading up to the day was kind of stressful getting all the logistics ironed out like the day of I don't think it could have gone any smoother because of how well Adrian just planned out the shoot day it just honestly it was really fun time for us just getting getting good shots having fun uh clubbing out you know have that clubbing vibe and um And a funny story too, like I said, it's a thrift store. So there's a lot of like random people coming in and out.
00:34:03
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um And so there was actually a couple people that ended up that that couldn't make it. um But there was like a group of like six random girls that just like showed up at the end of like, because the the closing hours, I think it was like right before we started.
00:34:17
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So these girls just walked in And the person, in the shopkeeper was like, hey, like, there's a music video shoot going on in the back. You guys want to check it out? And they just showed up. And they're like, hey, like, I heard there's a music video going on. Like, can we join?
00:34:31
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was like, yeah, you can join. And were getting down on the dance floor. They were doing some crazy moves. One girl had a cane. She was, like, whipping it around. was like, yo. This is crazy. Like that it was, it was really, everyone whi that cane too yeah it it was a fun night. I was like, dude, I did not expect this turnout, but it was great. Like, honestly, that's a party yeah.
00:34:55
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That's so fun. Yeah, well, it it actually brings me back to what we were talking about earlier when we were describing how you don't see a lot of like independent creative projects in band.
Unique Aspects of Music Video Creation vs. Live Performance
00:35:05
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When I was making my bass lick back in 2022 with my friend Adisi,
00:35:10
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It was so crazy to me, the whole like process of filming a music video. is like Because you're so used to like the real-time live rep being the thing. But when at least when we did Arlick, we treated it like a studio project. like We recorded the audio fully separately, different day, different facility, nice mics, very controlled.
00:35:32
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And then even like produced that audio out and logic and everything. And then we had much like you guys, though, yours was a way bigger production than ours. We still had like a fun day. it was like we knew one scene was the UD arena. We knew another scene was at our rehearsal facility.
00:35:47
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We had another scene like at the trailer in the woods that I lived in that season near our rehearsal facility. Yeah. Yeah. But like actually doing it like a music video, at least to me, felt like so cool because it's so foreign to what you're used to in band. Did you guys feel anything like that?
00:36:04
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Yeah. like So we just watched your video. That video was awesome. yeah Hell yeah. Yeah, that was... So that is like a cool thing about that like I'm super proud of Gonzako doing already thus far.
00:36:22
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mean, we only have like four videos. But they're all like pretty different as far as like the environment we were in. So, for example, like More Base in the Club, we did a similar thing. We did all the audio separately in a professional studio with really good mics, which Lou helped us a lot with. We had never done that before. That was all Lou with 4th Block.
00:36:47
Speaker
So shout out to Lou. Yeah, Lou's the GOAT. Yeah, Lou is literally the GOAT. Really quick, before I even answer that question, really quick. Mixing bass drum, like just the mixing process of like making, a like recording ah marching bass drum and having it actually mixed well, there's like probably less than a handful of, I would argue there's probably less than a handful of people like in the country that could actually in the world really, that could like really do that well.
00:37:20
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ah hu And Lou is one of those people. So Lou is super, super valuable to us now. And like i hopefully Lou is down to keep working with us.
00:37:32
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think you I don't know how we're going to do with them what without them, honestly. so But anyway, to answer the question, like we did we did that a separate day.
00:37:43
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And the day of the shoot, was more so it was like two things happening at the same time. It was our direct team filming a music video.
00:37:57
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At the same time, it was an event with a crowd of people, which we had to like both be responsible for and two, had to be a good time.
00:38:10
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It had to be a good hang. listen You know, Maka already said it, like we wanted it to feel as authentic as possible. And so I really didn't want to stress them out. I wanted it to just feel like a party because that's what,
00:38:24
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the whole idea was, right? Us being in the club, partying in the club. And so we weren't going to get that by coordinating it. We were going to get that by telling people to like just be chill and have a good time. So that day was probably like the funnest thing I've ever done probably. It was also like really stressful, but at the end of the day, it was probably like one of the coolest things we've ever done.
00:38:47
Speaker
because it was both a party and music video. Like Matt Walters, he was one of the people in the crowd. He's like... Oh, nice. Yeah, he was one of the people the crowd. He was like, you know, one of me and Mako's mentors for sure.
00:39:03
Speaker
Just like, you know, doing RCC and coming up in SoCal. But he was there. And the next day he like texted me. He was like, dude, if there were more warehouse drumline parties, I'd be at all of them.
00:39:18
Speaker
Wait, I'm starting to get a professional drumline idea here. Hold on. Yeah, there were multiple people texting me. Like, I didn't ask them to. Like, the next day, there were multiple people being like, dude, yesterday was so fun.
00:39:31
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And I think that was the what was super awesome about it. Not only did we get a video out, but, like, we did something really cool, like, in person with people. And we all had a good time, like, in the moment.
00:39:44
Speaker
Yeah. And the fact that there's a video now, like where that moment just lives on theoretically forever until like the whole internet gets wiped out by like AI or something. Like, i don't know. It's really cool.
00:39:57
Speaker
That is really cool.
Future Aspirations and Financial Challenges
00:39:58
Speaker
I never thought about the way that it cataloges like catalogs that forever. It like makes the moment endure in a way, kind of, um which is super cool. I've never thought about it that way.
00:40:10
Speaker
Do you guys think that you could have a club that featured a drum line doing something like more bass in into club? That would be awesome. Could that be like a gigging ensemble?
00:40:23
Speaker
Did we not talk down a residency? Dude. after After doing this video, basically, like, I really feel like between Mako and I, like, a floodgate opened.
00:40:35
Speaker
We have no, like, shortage in ideas. We have shortage in, like, literally everything else. But there's no shortage. And that was definitely one of the like Like, imagine, like, making like a making that a thing. Like, making, like, a line-up.
00:40:52
Speaker
of like performers in the community and like renting out some space and making it just like a really cool thing to do. Well, dude, I think you could like make it a business, kind of.
00:41:02
Speaker
like you would want I think you would want to have like a pool of people because you can't need everyone at every gig. That'll never happen. But if you had 25 age outs that all like knew this this little packet, then you could start booking the line.
00:41:21
Speaker
at like raves that'd be crazy like that and then you would actually be paying your people they would be able to do the gig go out like have the party play at it ah Everybody makes some money. um yeah That'd be awesome.
00:41:37
Speaker
The thing is, like, we are still trying to, like, figure out how to break even with our business. With the business. It literally just does. So if if that ever happens, I would love to do that.
00:41:53
Speaker
That's definitely something we need help with. That's like when I said, we have no shortage in ideas, but with shortage and everything else, I think like the things we have shortages in is one time and two, like the money to break even.
00:42:08
Speaker
Yeah. Marco and I, we don't like plan to make money off of this. I don't, I don't plan to ever make money off of this. And like, obviously we only have one video on YouTube. It's obviously not monetized. Like,
00:42:22
Speaker
But like i don't and we don't have really have a dream of like making money off of this either. you know That's not not even a goal of ours. I do think we have a goal of like finding out a way to make high-quality content just as high as what we just did no and not like go into the negative for it.
00:42:44
Speaker
That's just not sustainable. We want to figure out a way to break even. And that's something we're still figuring out, something we've never thought of before. And that's something we didn't think of when we were sitting in the car like, bray so all right, we're going to have Devin film this. We're going have four bass drums. We're going to be in the club.
00:43:02
Speaker
We're going to rent it out. We're going to have all the props. That's not what we were thinking of. We were just going. And figured it out along the way. And then we realized, like, yo, this, like, you know, obviously, if we want Devin to do a good job, we got to compensate him because he's totally worth it. If we want a venue space, ah we actually got to, like, rent it out for, like, $300. If we want this stupid stanchion prop, like,
00:43:29
Speaker
The little velvet rope things. The hole with the velvet rope. I was like, oh, that would be like $10. No, dude, it was like another $200 just to rent it for day. yeah You know, wait we got to like put a backdrop so that the line outside looks like a club and not like a thrift store. And it's like, we got to go to Joanne's and buy that.
00:43:49
Speaker
And then like Costco pizza is more expensive than it was before. And then it's like, you know, so it's like, mean, we're super proud of it. but we're still trying to figure out a way to break even.
00:44:01
Speaker
And we are like, Oh, so freaking thankful to our sponsors. for helping us do that. like i couldn't like we We basically we didn't break even with this project, but we did get about halfway through, which I am sure. But I think that it's it's super awesome that you guys are actually like blazing down the path here.
00:44:22
Speaker
You actually inspire me a little bit. I haven't gotten around to do it yet, but I want to go like make a bass drum music video now. Heck yeah. Or at the least, like something I've thought about, I make music with um A buddy of mine who's a rapper, I'll produce beats.
00:44:38
Speaker
And I've been thinking, like wait, I should definitely like take one of the beats and like promote the song by writing a drumline music video over it. like Just boom. It's right there. I can just blend both my passions.
00:44:50
Speaker
Yeah. Do it. Yeah, there needs to be more bass drummer taking on more like designer roles, you know? that's why I want to promote it as much as I can with the Airbase page however I can, too. It's like I want to see more people do stuff like what you guys do. I'll just share it.
00:45:05
Speaker
Please just do it. Make the project. Yeah, so that's another hard part. and you know We kind of touched on like just breaking even financially, but another really tough part of what we do that we were not anticipating is marketing it.
00:45:21
Speaker
I mean, you know, we the thing about sponsoring and stuff is that, okay, well, now we have like some, you know, we got to like create some value. out of like what we've just invested in. And I think the best way we could create value is to entertain people.
00:45:36
Speaker
And so trying to be the lightest audience is just like, it's a hard, like we're bass drummers making a video and we're really good at bass drum. We're figuring out the video part. We have no idea what we're doing with the financial part.
00:45:49
Speaker
And we also have no idea what we're doing with the marketing part. So it's like, we got to figure that out too.
Influence and Encouragement in the Drumming Community
00:45:55
Speaker
And only true. Are you both going to Dayton? We are. Or I think Mako is still thinking about it, right?
00:46:01
Speaker
I'm still thinking about it. Because I'm also a nurse, so I just try to figure out my scheduling. So we'll see. But Adrian will be there for sure. Yep.
00:46:12
Speaker
Very cool. I taught Pulse, right, in 23. We're from SoCal, both Mako and I. Mako and I are partners, okay, just in case I wasn't clear about it. We're partners, so like So I'm in Dayton with Pulse.
00:46:30
Speaker
Mako did not, like, I thought Mako was in California, dude. I, like, literally I'm clicking a rep. I turn around. I'm in Dayton, Ohio. Okay? Like, not in California. I'm in Dayton, Ohio. It's, like, the day before finals. I've been there for, like, a week already.
00:46:44
Speaker
I turn around and Mako is walking towards me.
00:46:48
Speaker
Like, she straight just flew to Dayton and didn't even tell me. And, like, I i thought I was, like, in a fever dream or something. Yeah. like am i in a simulation so yeah she might surprise me again i don't know so
00:47:06
Speaker
man well i feel like it would be so cool if if there was some type of gunzako performance either if it was in the tent or what but you know there's gotta to be space out there for something yeah that'd be cool e definite i have to go now yeah We can pull strings.
00:47:26
Speaker
We have connections. It's true. It's true. Next year, yeah. Next year, next year. We'll see, we'll see, we'll see. look We'll see, we'll see. But here, while we get into this here, we actually touched on a lot of that good, like, what was the best part, worst part, learning experiences. But could you guys both let me know, i guess, what your favorite, if like, can you remember some one specific part of of of the party, if you will, that was like your favorite moment or or your favorite part of the day?
00:47:57
Speaker
Hmm. There's so much that happened that day I think that my favorite part was like seeing everybody roll in and just like, we're all like hugging each other. And i was like, dude, thank you so much for coming. Dude, like, oh man, we're so excited. We don't know what the heck is about to happen, but we're ready. And I was like, oh yeah, I'm excited too. Like, I don't know what's about the anticipation.
00:48:20
Speaker
ah What was about to happen was probably my favorite part. Cause like seeing everyone, beforehand because it's all our homies, you know, like if if you didn't notice, we got like the 2020 baseline up in there. Like we got a bunch of our friends, you know, so the fact that they came to like support us in this project too was something that really special. So seeing them and just like it was really comforting. That was definitely one of my favorite parts for sure.
00:48:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's awesome. Just like seeing all your friends come out to support you and you didn't let them down either. You gave them like a bomb ass time. It's really cool. Gonzo, what about you?
00:48:55
Speaker
I think my favorite moment was feeling like, I forgot what my title was for this music video. It was like creative producer or something. i think that just like taking on that role the day of was my favorite part. Like I, I've actually like always wanted to make a music video and I, and I never thought I actually would.
00:49:16
Speaker
Like I, I took film in high school and I think that's what started it. I was doing drumline high school. That was also doing like a film class and was really into it. i was like, Dude, I don't want to make a movie that's way too much work. as wait tilll i just like I can't even watch movies. like My attention span does not help I watch. expect me to make a movie? I don't even watch it. exactly. But I love music videos and like I'm obsessed with music videos and I watch them all the time and I always thought, man, in a different life, and I would be like a music video director. you know
00:49:51
Speaker
So that was back in high school. And now I'm 26 and I like made my first music video. I think just like taking on that role was such a crazy moment. like I didn't and didn't know it was going to actually happen. And I really felt like that guy on the day of. And it it was super cool. like Again, just like having ownership of your ideas and like doing it in the medium.
00:50:15
Speaker
that I wanted to do it. And like I don't know. That's crazy. It is It's awesome to like blend all of your different passions together into like, One master project, which I mean, you got many more projects to come, I assume and hope.
00:50:30
Speaker
But to like really tee it all up and get all those interests in one is something really special. Exactly. All right. Well, let's take a little pivot here. I want to hear about something that's bothering you, something that you want to get off your chest about the
Visual Training in Marching Arts
00:50:45
Speaker
marching arts. Why don't we get into this? What are we doing segment?
00:50:49
Speaker
What are we doing?
00:50:57
Speaker
What are we doing? All right. Awesome. So these What Are We Doing segments, I really are just wanting to hear something that you think we could do better or something we should do different. So, Mako, why don't you kick us off and let us know what are we doing?
00:51:13
Speaker
course. So for me, um I actually teach visual at Ayala High School, like in the fall. Okay, nice. So I've been doing that for about four years now.
00:51:25
Speaker
um So obviously with that, just getting the training, because I work with Zach Carrasco, which is one of like the head people RCC and also at Blue Devils. So lots of visual training there. But I feel like because now I have that like visual eye, like and I know how to pay attention to like the entire picture, not just the drum line, because before I did Vej, obviously, all I would pay attention to is the drum line and the drums and the drums and the drums.
00:51:51
Speaker
But now that I can see the full picture, I just feel like visual training isn't something that's highlighted in a lot of places.
00:52:02
Speaker
And just, I don't know, I could tell when there's groups that really focus on it, and there's groups that don't really focus on it. And it's just something that like, I don't know, it kind of bothers me a little bit, because it's like, I could...
00:52:17
Speaker
There's groups that could be moving better, you know? like There are. Looking a little weak, looking in a little, you know, like... Look, I'll call it. yeah United, when I was there, was not moving well.
00:52:29
Speaker
Yeah. We're trying better. We're trying harder nowadays. But it's been dark on the East Coast. You know, like, you could tell when, like, it's not even just, like, the choreography. Yeah.
00:52:41
Speaker
But just marching, like crabbing, like there are so many groups where like they just crab so badly. Like, I'm sorry, but like, it's just, I don't know. It's something that I started to notice and not even just like drum line, also like full groups as well. You know, like I could tell when some some horn or woodwind, even if it's like fall band, you know, you can tell when some groups don't really focus on like the fundamental basic training of how to move well, how to understand your body, and how to, you know,
00:53:17
Speaker
Especially, and this is in like choreo terms too, like move your spine or move your hands, like the difference between this and like this, you know, like having those small little minute differences. That's something that, you know, starting to, you know, ruffle my frothers a little bit.
00:53:36
Speaker
Yeah, i mean, it's a whole different mindset, too. Like, I think even all the way up to the highest end groups, like, if you're not going to focus on marching and do basics from time to time, then your students aren't going to think about it either.
00:53:49
Speaker
And then they're just going to look bad. Like, you just need to get them in the mindset of paying attention to those details. exactly And I think that's like... That's another part of the score, you know, like, you could be like, wow, we're playing so clean, we're playing so great. But then it's like, why aren't we placing? Well, it's like, well, maybe if you look at the visual score, that can make a difference, you know?
00:54:09
Speaker
that's also not just dots. It's also how you look the whole way from one dot to the next. here Yeah, I totally agree with you. I feel like it's a hard problem. Hard nut to crack, though, because over here, at least on the East Coast, it's like,
00:54:23
Speaker
Yeah, for better for, well, they're really just for worse, not for better or for worse, just for worse. There's not a lot of good visual training in our high schools. So then like the first time that these kids get like decent visual information, oftentimes it's like when you finally get to United or something like that. So that's just like, yeah, tough. And oftentimes this is something I say on the same topic all the time too. I'm like the,
00:54:49
Speaker
You know, not literally the kid at United, but when you think about any world-class snare line, like, the guy that just makes it on that line is probably, like, someone that has been devoting their life to snare drum, not necessarily to moving well.
00:55:04
Speaker
Mm-hmm. So, like... that person that's going to barely eke in there is also probably going to be a visual tick. Cause they, I like just don't expect that there's someone that's like devoted their life to dance, you know?
00:55:16
Speaker
Oh yeah. And like, that's something that I had in my back pocket as well. Like I, in my 32 count, and like I used to figure skate for 10 years. so I have that dance, like movement background. That's also another thing, you know, like,
00:55:28
Speaker
Just having dance basics, even in like the visual package is something that's super important. And that really helped me kind of understand how to move my body and, you know, how to use space with my body. So that's that's another thing I can add on to just having dance foundation is something that that is definitely a big advantage, I'd say.
00:55:48
Speaker
Yeah, by the way, like, those choreographed moments in More Bass in the Club, that was all Mako's idea. Nice. And, like, I think that made, like, I love the pacing of how it fits into the music video.
00:56:07
Speaker
You know, something about a music video and the music industry, it's not always just about the music. That's why there's, like, a video for it. And so Mako did a really good job of, like,
00:56:18
Speaker
making more bass in the club unique by incorporating everything she's talking about. And I like i really think that that really made the video to me. That's like my favorite part now is the choreography in it.
00:56:30
Speaker
so Yeah. No, that's super cool because it's like the same thing we were saying about like doing your passion in a music video project, like Mako getting to write visual into the music video is like being true to the marching arts and also just being true to what you like.
00:56:44
Speaker
So that's awesome. Not the lack of visual expertise at many programs in schools, particularly on my side of the country, but all the other bit stuff is cool. ah Gonzo, what's your what are we doing?
00:56:57
Speaker
My what? Okay. What are we doing to support these independent projects from blossoming?
00:57:11
Speaker
I would say the success of Gonzaka going into the future is really going to depend on whether or not we could break even. you know At this point, like we do this because we have really big ideas and that's kind of like Mako and I's personality is if we're going to commit to something, like we're going to commit to it.
00:57:35
Speaker
and We want to do things of all different, um at all different levels. I mean, we want to do our best to do like our own do-it-yourself videos and a little bit more like just, you know, iPhone camera videos, like just some chill drumming videos.
00:57:51
Speaker
We want to have like some, like like we want to have like in a relative sense, like lower tier videos, mid-tier videos. And then every so often do like these top of the line high tier videos that we just did with more based in the club.
00:58:05
Speaker
yeah It's like really what we want to do. But that all depends on whether or not we could ah find a way to break even, you know, with these like creative projects. And so right now I'm just kind of having, like we're kind of having a hard time figuring out who we can reach out to, yeah to help us fulfill like that need that we have.
00:58:30
Speaker
both in the financial aspect and also in the marketing aspect. Like we we really have nowhere to look, you know? Yeah. Whereas, you know, let's say like a like Taylor Swift has like a whole bunch of options to look for, like just, you know, like, or like a rapper like coming up has like a lot to look towards, like with record deals and stuff. I mean, there's not really like a record deal that Mako and I are looking for. it we have like our own um personal ways of like making a living you Mako's a nurse I just graduated school so this is something we really want to make happen apart from like our real lives but that that totally depends on like just how much support we can we can get from the community so yeah I'd say what are we doing with that
00:59:20
Speaker
I definitely think it's going to take a lot of creative thought. I mean, if I were you guys, just to bring it back to my Eagles drumline and professional band experience, I think like maybe even just the two of you figuring out how you can make Gonzaco a marketable gigable entity might be a way that you can start making some money back. That's not necessarily just sponsorships.
00:59:41
Speaker
Yeah. Going to take a lot of thinking to think how you, who, yeah i don't have so yeah and for what you don't have the answers yet. But definitely a bright road ahead for you guys to get that figured out.
00:59:57
Speaker
All right, cool.
Community Spirit and Marching Season Reflections
00:59:58
Speaker
So gush and go is pretty quick and easy. My gush and go this week is just I just got done my first competition weekend with United for the year. We little late for our first show, but, you know, we got to take what we get with the show schedule out here. we were up in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, ah in their gym in the ah holy Mecca of East Coast WGI.
01:00:22
Speaker
And it went really well. My base kids did really good. It's my second year teaching now. So I feel pretty, pretty locked in and and sturdy, especially with my best, my vets, I was going to say.
01:00:33
Speaker
um But yeah, it's cool. it feels like the WGI season gets so much more real the second you hit a regional. And that's about all that's new with me. But Mako, what do you want to gush and go on about?
01:00:47
Speaker
You know, I'm trying to think right now, but I'm just going to gush and go about just the end of the season. It's coming up. You know, i just want to just pay my my ah my cheers and my support to all the groups out there. I know right now it's like in the thick of the season. Everyone's ramping up to...
01:01:06
Speaker
to get to their final products and Dayton's coming up soon. So I just wanna express my my my graces, my good lucks to all the groups out there. um I'm not teaching anywhere right now, but I live vicariously through Adrian with RCC. So obviously I'm giving a little bit more flowers there, giving them my support.
01:01:25
Speaker
But yeah, ah just having a good time, watching and enjoying everyone, the you know getting better and seeing the final products. So good lucks to everyone out there.
01:01:37
Speaker
Well, thank you very much. Good luck extends over here. And Gonzo, what are you going gush and go on about?
01:01:46
Speaker
It's so this is my first year teaching RCC. And I've learned like just so much being back in this environment and working with the staff at this level is just like so different than anything I've ever done. And so like I feel like I'm learning so much like a water hose of information like every day I'm there. It's like a really tough responsibility, but it's like really challenging just like on me.
01:02:14
Speaker
just like me putting the pressure on myself. But now coming to the end, it's like I really just focused on maximizing everything I could learn on what I could do better and and how I could grow for next year. And so that's kind of what I'm going to gush and go about, just like pushing all the way to the end and you know staying humble and just doing everything I can to like contribute now and learn in the future.
01:02:41
Speaker
So I'm really excited for RCC. It's been a really, really fun time. I'm super honored to be there. Thanks. Hey, it's called Gush and Go, not Gush and Stay. Let's go.
01:02:58
Speaker
All right. Well, thank you both for a great rehearsal this week. Tell us where we could find you guys on social media. So you can find us on YouTube and Instagram, both under Gonzaco.projects.
01:03:11
Speaker
um Just keep an eye out for us. There's more ideas in the gauntlet that are coming. We don't know how long it's going to be, but we'll be back. Don't you worry. So just keep an eye out for us.
01:03:23
Speaker
Nice. Yeah. So give them a follow. ah You could check out, you know, the Yeah Base page as well. I'll share anything that they put there as well as, you know, a lot of great bass drum content on my own.
01:03:34
Speaker
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01:04:11
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01:04:21
Speaker
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