Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps

The Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Buena Park, California, Impulse performs in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions. Impulse was the 2006 DCI Division III World Champion.[1]

Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps

Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps logo
Location	Buena Park, California
Division	Open Class
Founded	1998
Director	Aaron Zeilinger
Championship titles	2006 (Division III)
Uniform	Black short-sleeve jacket w/yellow yoke, collar, left sleeve & upper left 1/3 of front w/stylized black exclamation point Black Jumpsuit Black shoes and socks Black baseball cap w/stylized yellow exclamation point
Website	www.impulseyoutharts.org

History

Sources: [2][3]

Impulse was founded in Anaheim in 1998 with the intent of recapturing the playful, off-beat attitude of such recently departed corps as the Bridgemen and Anaheim's own Velvet Knights. In that vein, the corps adopted a stylized exclamation point as its logo and dressed in bright yellow and black uniforms.

During its inaugural season, Impulse competed only within California. In its second season, the corps traveled to the Pacific Northwest and as far east as Wyoming and Colorado.. In 2001, the corps toured into Illinois, Michigan, across the Canada–US border to Ontario, and to its first DCI Division II World Championship prelims at Buffalo, New York, placing 9th of 12 corps.

For the next few seasons, Impulse became a regular visitor to the eastern half of the U.S., attending the Division II Championships at Madison, Wisconsin in 2002 (12th), Orlando, Florida in 2003 (8th), Denver, Colorado in 2004 (6th), and Brockton, Massachusetts in 2005 (6th).

In 2006, the corps, having fewer than 60 members. moved to Division III and won the DCI Division III World Championship at Madison. When, the following year, DCI held its championships in Impulse's home state, the corps not only did not recover its former size, but its performance was not up to the previous years standard, and the defending Division III Champion dropped to a 6th-place finish at Pasadena.

Since finishing 18th of 23 corps in the new Open Class at Bloomington, Indiana in 2008, Impulse remained in California, marching a season of only two to three weeks, until their return to national competition in 2016.

Sponsorship

The Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Impulse Youth Arts Organization, a 501 (c)(3) musical organization that has a Board of Directors, corps director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission. Byron Baba jr is the President and Executive Director, and Aaron Zeilinger is the corps director .[4]

Show Summary(1999–2020)

Sources:[5]

Gold background indicates DCI Championship; pale blue background indicates DCI Class Finalist; pale green background indicates DCI semifinalist.

Year	Theme	Repertoire	Score	DCI Placement
1999	Kool Vibes	The Contender by Bill Ungerman, Daniel Glass, Eddie Nichols, and Mick Farren (Royal Crown Revue) / Good Vibrations by Brian Wilson and Mike Love / I Want You Back by Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards / I'll Be There by Berry Gordy, Bob West, Hal Davis, and Willie Hutch		Did not attend
2000	Music 101	I've Got the Music in Me by Bias Boshell / Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach / Too Much Time on My Hands by Tommy Shaw / Help by Lennon–McCartney / Dragnet Theme (Danger Ahead and Dragnet March) by Miklós Rózsa and Walter Schumann / Rockin' the Paradise by Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw, and James "J.Y." Young		Did not attend
2001	Island Extravaganza	Bali Hai (from South Pacific) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II / Hawaiian Wedding Song by Charles E. King / Hawaiian War Chat by Prince Leleiohoku	82.150	9th Div.II
2002	Hey Lucy! We're Home	Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo / Cuban Pete by Joseph "José" Norman / Just Kidding by Michel Camilo / Theme (from I Love Lucy) by Eliot Daniel	81.050	12th Div.II
2003	Pure Imagination - Musical Journey through Wonka Favorites	Pure Imagination, Candy Man, I've got a Golden Ticket, Oompa Loompa, and Cheer Up Charlie All from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley	84.800	8th Div.II
2004	Cartoon	Cartoon by Paul Hart / Powerhouse by Raymond Scott	90.325 89.050	6th Div.II 6th Div. II/III
2005	The Impulsables	Glory Days, Off to Work, 1000 Mile Dash, and the Incredits All from The Incredibles by Michael Giacchino	90.375 90.900	6th Div.II 6th Div.II/III
2006	Me, Myself and I	Selections from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Danny Elfman	84.975	1st Div.III
2007	Shichi	Music from Final Fantasy by Nobuo Uematsu	78.850	6th Div.III
2008	The Game	Three Worlds by John Meehan	77.300	18th Open Cl.
2009	A New American Classic	Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna Overture by Franz von Suppé / Morning Mood (from the Peer Gynt Suite #1) by Edvard Grieg / Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) by Giuseppe Verdi / Dance of the Comedians (from The Bartered Bride) by Bedřich Smetana / Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss II / Poet and Peasant Overture by Franz von Suppé		Did not attend
2010	United	America the Beautiful by Samuel A. Ward and Katharine Lee Bates / Beyond the Breaking Tides by Christian Earl / Songs of Earth, Water, Fire and Sky by Robert W. Smith / Amber Waves by Morton Gould / The Red Pony & Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland		Did not attend
2011	Tribute	Third Symphony, Fourth Mvmt by Vittorio Giannini / Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance / Corral Nocturne & Hoe-Down (from Rodeo), The Red Pony & Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland		Did not attend
2012	Overture!	American Overture by Joseph Willcox Jenkins / Cuban Overture by George Gershwin / 1712 Overture by P. D. Q. Bach (Peter Schickele)		Did not attend
2013	Crystal Celebration	Outdoor Overture by Aaron Copland / Powerhouse by Raymond Scott / Dance of the Hours (from La Gioconda) by Amilcare Ponchielli		Did not attend
2014	Dusk to Dawn	Symphony Number 5 / Moonlight Sonata / Ode to Joy from Symphony Number 9 / All by Ludwig van Beethoven		Did not attend
2015	Interpolation	Anna's Theme, The Monastery, Gregorian Chant, The Gypsies All from The Red Violin by John Corigliano		Did not attend
2016	Music is ___	Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Collins Foster / Symphony 25 in G minor (K-183)- Allegro con brio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky / Great Gate of Kiev by Modest Mussorgsky	61.575 60.063	14th Open Class 36th World Class
2017	In the Beginning	Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss / Rite Of Spring by Igor Stravinsky / Adagio (from Spartacus) by Aram Khachaturian / Piano Concerto No. 2 by Poul Ruders / Ritual Fire Dance by Manuel de Falla	58.125 57.550	15th Open Class 38th World Class
2018	Time After Time	Primacy of Number by Philip Glass / Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman / Time Is Running Out by Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme, Dominic Howard (Muse)		Did not attend
2019	The Greatest Hero	Incredits 2 (from Incredibles 2) & Homecoming Suite (from Spiderman) by Michael Giacchino		Did not attend
2020		Season cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Famous members

• ImpulseSV, a Minecraft Youtuber famous for playing on the Hermitcraft multiplayer server and his series Naked and Scared, which was an UHC (Ultra Hardcore) Minecraft series between him and his drumming instructor MCSkizzleman. He named his channel and made his logo off of Impulse while the SV is the initials of his name, which he has not shared at the time of writing. At the time of writing he currently has 872K subscribers on Youtube. He also streams on Twitch under the same name.

References

1. "Corps". Drum Corps International. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
2. corpsreps.com - The Drum Corps Repertoire Database
3. [email protected] - Historical Drum Corps Score Archives
4. "IMPULSE Staff". IMPULSE Youth Arts Organization. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
5. "Impulse". DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience. Retrieved 5 March 2018.

External links

• Corps website
• DCI website