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Post by bluescalesdragon on Jul 24, 2008 10:43:37 GMT -5
For our Japanese samurai show, it would be awesome if we found a way to demonstrate comitting suicide, which is what the 47 ronin do at the end. The image of our colorguard stabbing themselves with their sabers makes me laugh for some reason.
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Post by bariclaribob on Jul 24, 2008 10:47:55 GMT -5
Can you say Thriller Dance?!?!
Yeah. We did the leftrightleft claw thing, the side stepping, the pivot, the monster walk shuffle thing... the guard captian (who has NEVER played an instrument) taught us the dance with all these weird head snaps and crap, and she was like, "It's easy if you pay attention." Yeah. Tell the saxes that. They had to play through the whole dance.
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Post by altoclarinets on Jul 24, 2008 13:23:22 GMT -5
Well. That's quite something. But not that uncommon- both Oklahoma and UT have done it. I think the oddest dance ever to be a part of a field show is the Soulja Boy. Now I know, a lot of bands (including Duke) did it last year, but there's a problem with it: Soulja boy is a RAP song. The only music is the synthesizer in the background repeating those four notes over and over again. So, the band usually dances to... SOMETHING ELSE... At the football game: *home band does Soulja Boy* *home crowd goes wild* opposing band member one: why are they doing the soulja boy to march grandioso? OBM 2: i have no idea. I rest my case.
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Post by bariclaribob on Jul 26, 2008 17:42:59 GMT -5
I know other bands Thriller dance, but I considered it weird b/c it was so awkward. Especially when no one was watching except a couple kids who had apparently never seen the music video.
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Post by altoclarinets on Jul 30, 2008 19:07:27 GMT -5
Hm. Yes, that would be awkward.
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Post by Sherri the Bari on Jul 31, 2008 9:26:41 GMT -5
Weird moments... - Freshman year: we held these poses after this explosion.. so we were all "dead".
Sophomore year: - we started the show laying down. Weird to start - we had a girl running around the field in a nightgown ((she got cast simply because she couldn't do guard because of her broken arm)) - we had this set of boxes.. that tended to get stuck on the field when it was wet... and we ((the prop pushers)) had to turn on the generator to get the tube thing to fly out of the boxes.
Junior year: - Started the show on one knee. - All got up at different times to get to our "pods" - There was this circle at the end of the first movement.. that was all flutes except 3 saxes. We called ourselves "the circle" (the entire band closed around the circle at the end of the movement. And everyone else had to adjust cuz of the circle. We couldn't see them. And the BD 'guessed' on the prop size.. he guessed too small) - The beginning of the 2nd movement, we all had to hold our instruments in this weird way.... - We had orange dots one glove and we had to "pop" it at the end of the 2nd movement - The drums played the beginning of the hey song at the start of the 3rd movement. - we all had to jump and yell "awww yeah!" and act crazy and get to our spots - there was this CRAZY woodwind lick and the Saxes had to march it while the clarinets and flutes stayed still. - the Jazz part.. just awkward in itself. - orange flags that we pulled out of our uniform at the end. Fun stuff
OH! and at UIL Region, one of the freshmen fell down.. at a hold
We also had a few incidents of the visiting school's dance team/band taking up so much time that by the time we were in our 2nd movement the football team was making their way back to the field. I always laughed cuz I was friends with some of em and they'd try and wave at me.
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Post by iFrostyflute on Aug 1, 2008 19:25:56 GMT -5
Last year ...
Our show was Four Seasons and the third was Spring. The pit opens with "Singin' in the Rain", the guard has umbrellas, and at the end, we form a huge umbrella.
One halftime in October, it rained on us. Ironically, it rained the heaviest during Spring.
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Post by lvcguardgeek on Aug 2, 2008 8:59:23 GMT -5
Well, my sophomore we had the scatter, where everyone just ran around the field to their spots randomly in the middle of the show.
But anyway, this year. Our show was called The Divine Comedy
- We started the show with the members of the guard and drum line "whipping spirits into the circle of hell." Bascially there was a circle of the band standing there waving their arms and there were some member around the outside and the
- During Purgatorio, the drums used chains to make a cool sound, and the trumpets ran to one of the drum majors and like beckoned to him with their hands.
- At the end of Purgatorio, the guard surrounded the two soloists.
- The guard stripped from black to white
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2008 21:43:06 GMT -5
We had a spiraling thing, actually two connecting spirals, called "D'hock'mk'hok" or something by our then-trap set player.
We also had a meat grinder, which is a neat effect and really easy to produce (look for oscaristhegreatest on MML and I have a show that has them in it), and we're going to have a modified one in this year's show.
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Post by ~*Not~a~Stalker~* on Aug 21, 2008 21:14:35 GMT -5
We have a part in our third song where there's a grand pause, and then the trumpets and saxes start playing this....slow bopped melody. I don't know exactly how to describe it. While they play that, the clarinets and low brass bop notes, alternating. The entire band spreads our legs, bends, pops back up. And then repeats for sixteen counts. And then, in the last song, there's a tuba, Bari, bass guitar melody that's really jazzy and bouncy, and they march while the rest of the band dances to their spots.
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Post by Horn man on Aug 21, 2008 21:27:58 GMT -5
Last year, we started one song with whatever pose we wanted, so we just came up with some of the most rediculous poses ever. It was quite funny.
This year, our show is Santana, so our DM is dressed up like, obviously, Carlos Santana. He has a cool hat, jacket, a fake mustache, and a guitar. Our pit has keyboards hooked up to large speakers, so his salute is going to be him pretending to play the guitar, and then the pit is going to play one of his guitar solos played on an iPod or something hooked up to one of the speakers. Then he slings the guitar behind his back and conducts. It's really quite cool.
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Post by bluescalesdragon on Aug 22, 2008 20:40:39 GMT -5
In the second movement of our Japanese samurai show, there's a trumpet solo. The drumline (whom doesn't play the second movement) is in a circle around the soloist. They won't be holding drums.....they'll be holding bamboo sticks.....
Supposedly everyone in the band is going to be dressed in a karate outfit and maybe carry the bamboo sticks on our back......which should be interesting.
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Post by piccolo + ADD = fun on Aug 22, 2008 20:51:58 GMT -5
Can you say Thriller Dance?!?! Yeah. We did the leftrightleft claw thing, the side stepping, the pivot, the monster walk shuffle thing... the guard captian (who has NEVER played an instrument) taught us the dance with all these weird head snaps and crap, and she was like, "It's easy if you pay attention." Yeah. Tell the saxes that. They had to play through the whole dance. We're doing thriller this year too. Our fronts haven't done the dance yet. One bass drum player has though. Quite funny.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2008 22:44:38 GMT -5
The University of Northern Colorado is trying to get a Guiness Record for most people Thriller dancing at once...I was invited.
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Post by Greenepony on Aug 24, 2008 20:08:50 GMT -5
Can you say Thriller Dance?!?! Yeah. We did the leftrightleft claw thing, the side stepping, the pivot, the monster walk shuffle thing... the guard captian (who has NEVER played an instrument) taught us the dance with all these weird head snaps and crap, and she was like, "It's easy if you pay attention." Yeah. Tell the saxes that. They had to play through the whole dance. haha Youtube baylor university thriller dance. BUGWB did the whole dance last year. So for our pre-show we're playing "Deep in the Heart of Texas" Oh my goodness. We have to snap a 180 and then form Texas, this is two songs after we high step run onto the field. I nearly fall over every time. I think they're trying to kill us.
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