• Replies 10 replies
  • Subscribers 85 subscribers
  • Views 307 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Military cadence

190E(Taylor’s version)

Anyone else into millitary cadence songs 

my favoured are

steam roller baby (us navy version)

she wore a yellow ribbon

and the one that’s banned dispute it being a anti war song which I won’t name as it may cause distress to people but it’s very dark but despite what people think it’s sang ironically and it wasn’t originally used as cadence but was from an album called i say no to your war (if you know it you know it thats all I say becuase I know some people are more sensitive and obvious some people struggle with irony and tbh I did for a long while)

Parents

  • Whats a cadence and a military cadence in particular?

    I get really confused about musical terms, whats the difference between a rhythum, a melody and a beat? I don't really get the timing thing either, like when something's in 3-4 time or whatever it is. I've been watching Strictly for all these years and I still don't know either the musical or dance terms.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I believe it is a US thing. Typically a call and response chant to help marching soldiers keep time. In the UK we have things like bagpipers playing the 'Black Bear', bands playing 'The British Grenadiers' or more simply, "Left-right-left-right".

  • in reply to Martin

    Predominantly a US thing. 

    However.

    Légion étrangère -la Légion, "the Legion":

    The French Foreign Legion:

    Is another example - and it is much slower cadence at;

    88 steps per minute,

    ...(compared to the standard

    120 steps per minute;

    for other French military units).

    This is the clue to the French Foreign Legion often being positioned as the final French unit in parades (to avoid disrupting faster marching time of the other French units). 

    Band & Choir of the French Foreign Legion - "Le Boudin":

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwM3oYi5ltQ

    - With apology to any members of Belgian heritage ...as the history of the likely origin of some of the more pithy lyrics (around the circumstances of the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War) are at Belgium's expense (and are, in polite company; best translated as: "they are not so good shooters").

    It is believed that the slow cadence harks back to the earlier Hohenlohe Regiment of 1830 - which was a French Army infantry regiment established after the abdication of Napoleon I.

    This regiment consisted of those foreign soldiers; who wished to continue in French service - under the restored monarchy.

    [:BTW: The US military's standard marching cadence;

    "Quick Time" = 120 steps per minute.

    The US Double-Time march is a much faster cadence;

    "Double-Time" = 180 steps per minute].

  • in reply to Damojo

    It’s just a little (woo) a little (woah) just a Little Rock and roll

    irw call and response at it’s finest really think dualing banjos but cooler and it’s vocal based 

  • in reply to DormouseAtRest_25
    DormouseAtRest_25 said:

    The French Foreign Legion:

    Is another example - and it is much slower cadence at;

    88 steps per minute,

    ...(compared to the standard

    120 steps per minute;

    for other French military units).

    Awesome! That just burned up 15 minutes of my life, but it was worth it! My favourites:

    Thanks for that, .

Reply Children