I couldn’t find a thread for marching band so here is one.
This is a thread to discuss marching band,post your marching shows,talk about drill,ask for help, anything having to do with marching band:)
I’ll start by posting my school’s show for this year. I go to Plano East Senior High in Texas and our 2010 show is called “Pursuit”.
“Pursuit”
Movement 1: Firewall (Music from the movie Firewall)
Movement 2: Shadowplay (Music from cirque du soleil Ka:Shadowplay)
Movement 3: (Music from Alfred Reed’s “Symphony for brass and percussion”)
This year we have a very good band and we have a good chance of making state.We’re also competing in the BOA super regional in San Antonio. This video is from our UIL Region contest last saturday.
What do you guys think?
I’m the one with the white jacket and black pants:D
funnily there is in France a traditional hatred between what could (slightly) resemble “marching bands” and the boheme “beaux-arts” bands (of which I have been a member for 40 years :D).
They find us rogue, unable to read music, unable to play in tune, wearing strange clothes and doing silly things all the time. We just poke fun at them by having rugbymen posing as pom-pom girls or running between their perfectly planned ranks, and so on… this (almost) never ends up with direct fighting since our music instruments are already old and battered (and theirs are glossy, brand new).
Do you have “natural” enemies in the US or is your ecosystem free of challengers?
I go to Foothill and am in marching band. Our field show is called fear and the movements are called claustrophobia, agorphobia, metallophobia, and kinetephobia. Here’s a vid:
I’m in my school’s marching band as well, and we just got 3/4th place in States, but we also got best percussion. (I’m in Drumline on Bass 4, so woo. We beat the drumline in second place by 30 points)
We also had 81/100 that show, which is our best score yet.
Our band instructor is HEAVILY inspired by Drum Corps, so we have some pretty tough drill, and some insane music to play sometimes. In fact, we run in time at 200bpm off the field at the end of our show, so we have eight counts between the end of song 4, and when we run about 3/4s of the track off the field. It’s quite fun, actually.
In other news, our band is also going to the National Championships. This would be the second time the band’s been there, once five years ago when the school started, and for the second time right now.
I can’t speak for anybody here, but yes, I know of at least one guy in Spirit that was nearly 60! : O granted, they are few and far between, age usually tops out around 30 for drum corps, the real problem is that you have to PAY to do it, and you can’t make money during that time. It’s a pretty big commitment.
since I was talking about the “natural ennemies” of marching bands: the “boheme bands”… here is a picture (scanned from book copyright Martine Soussouy thanks Martine for the -modified :p- picture).
this kind of band is somewhat common in France: does these exist elsewhere? thanks
“boheme bands”'s age range from “drinking age” to 85 (may be more but I am talking about those I know). In my band the leader is 83 and I was the youngest until we recruited a lady who is just 53 …
a planefull of those bands was invited by the french embassy for the 200th anniversary of the US. It was a stunning success but alas they failed to evangelize the new world …
to 85 (may be more but I am talking about those I know). In my band the leader is 83 and I was the youngest until we recruited a lady who is just 53 …