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Post by altoclarinet123 on Apr 19, 2009 15:21:35 GMT -5
NCIS is better than law and order. lol. sorry i had to add that. I agree...
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carlaxbassoon
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Post by carlaxbassoon on Apr 19, 2009 15:29:15 GMT -5
our marching band is getting new band uniforms. finally, too. our old band uniform is like 18 years old, and they smell. xD So, I can't wait.
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Post by altoclarinet123 on Apr 20, 2009 20:37:09 GMT -5
Cool ^^ Are they new designs, or same design new uniform?
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Post by redhead on Apr 22, 2009 22:13:21 GMT -5
So, about 10 minutes ago, I got a phone call from the high school band teacher and... I made marching band!
So, I am now eagerly waiting for June, when I will be begining marching band.
And now I'm expected to go sit down and do math homework. With all this energy.
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Post by Sforzando77 on Apr 23, 2009 16:20:25 GMT -5
So, about 10 minutes ago, I got a phone call from the high school band teacher and... I made marching band! So, I am now eagerly waiting for June, when I will be begining marching band. And now I'm expected to go sit down and do math homework. With all this energy. Yay! That's so exciting I am so ready for Marching Band. My school had our spring scrimmage last week, and we (the band) got to go and play a that, and march an abbreviated pre-game. So much fun! Plus all the new freshmen who had committed to marching with us next year were invited to come play with us and hang out with the band for the day, so that was really cool! I'm just so excited! I love marching Cannot wait for Early Week!
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hansel2011
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Music expresses the words which can not be spoken...
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Post by hansel2011 on Apr 23, 2009 17:11:06 GMT -5
^to redhead...
Thats amazing. You will really love it. I cant wait for August. Our school is starting a week later so camp will start a week later. It is a long wait, but I will manage. Just keep busy over the summer and it will be here before you know it.
...what is Early Week? Oh well, we have our spring concert in a couple weeks and I cant wait for that.
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Post by altoclarinet123 on Apr 23, 2009 21:29:45 GMT -5
Congrats! our school doesn't try out for marching band. I kind of wish they did, but we can't afford loosing people.
I can't wait until june when we get the music and stuff. I can wait the other month after that - just as long as I have the music!!!
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Post by Sforzando77 on Apr 24, 2009 23:43:15 GMT -5
Early Week is just the what my band calls the week before classes start, when we're all up on campus having rehearsals and learning our drill and doing team-building/group bonding type activities. Basically a pre-season, week-long band camp type thing. It's super fun! ;D
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carlaxbassoon
Band Geek
I'd rather my band uniform over jeans anyday.[F4:1179605852]
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Post by carlaxbassoon on May 4, 2009 20:45:55 GMT -5
Altoclarinet123: sorry i didn't reply before. xD I havent been on the forums got a bit busy.. but yes. they are like completey different. It's pretty...snazzy. We are getting fit for them tomorrow...and incoming freshmen are coming too...wait till they hear they once they take band class they have to do marching band. xD
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Post by altoclarinet123 on May 6, 2009 21:44:34 GMT -5
I got sl and I am soooooooooooooooo excited! But I can't really do anything or prepare yet because we haven't had our reading rehearsal and gotten our music yet. I'm not even sure if it is completely written yet. So I have been practicing our marching band warm ups and planning exactly which warm-ups I will use, but that is kind of boring... just a way to get my energy out.
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Post by altosax4life on May 7, 2009 23:42:22 GMT -5
I am soooooo excited. I've had a taste of marching and now i want more! I had so much fun this first year and can not wait for the 09 season i met so many great people and became such a nerd. little did i know that's where i belonged
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Post by altoclarinet123 on May 10, 2009 20:52:26 GMT -5
I am soooooo excited. I've had a taste of marching and now i want more! I had so much fun this first year and can not wait for the 09 season i met so many great people and became such a nerd. little did i know that's where i belonged Well said. So we had our first leadership meeting on friday. One of our big goals is getting more people and expanding our band program - the band is on the possible cut list for our failed budget (meaning everyone pays 500 dollars per year - yikes!). We need lots of brass and sax. We have way too many percussionists. Also stuff like running back to sets and not texting during rehearsal and memorizing and actually hosting sectionals - the typical stuff. Our bd also wants all of leadership to go see DCI in the beginning of august, which I have only heard of recently (yeah I'm only a freshman give me a break). I know that it is kind of along the lines of professional marching band and they have competitions and the movie on the 13th, but what is it more specifically, like who are the people participating in it?
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2009 21:49:21 GMT -5
^You basically have two types of corps, junior and senior. DCI are junior corps, DCA are senior corps. A junior corps is only for musicians under the age of 21 and is generally of higher caliber than a senior corps. Instrumentation is all brass and percussion (hence the name). The nature of DCI World Class corps (what you'll be seeing in August) make them very competitive and very intense, which leads to some very impressive shows
For the rest of it, I'm going to turn you over to Sam. Oh, Saaaam.
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Post by Trombonium on May 10, 2009 21:59:58 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to next marching season, but I'm already worrying about the responsibilities I'll have as SL for next year.
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Post by altoclarinets on May 11, 2009 19:25:04 GMT -5
DCI... hmmm sounds like its time for some YouTube Magic on behalf of Altos here... Why am I talking about myself in third person? Then... And Now
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