I'm in NYSFBC too. What class are you in, our band is in Large School Division 3. I'm in the drumline too....last season i played 3rd bass because i was the...
Yea UE did get killed....thats what we call Union Endicott. You will probably hate me but i'm in Baldwinsville. We got 1st. So yea we got major rivalry...
I dont know what that is but since ya'll are talking abiout divisions, we (Plano East Senior High {PESH}) are a Division 1 school and a Class 5A school. We ...
I just want to wish all of you a Happy New Year!<br>I watched the Tournament of the Roses Parade this morning. It was awesome. The bands were huge. There was a...
We are a class 2A band and have only been doing competetive marching for 4 years now. Last year was our first truly serious year, and we walked away with ...
i honestly dont think that we're as bad as the judges make us seem...we were a National Class Band like 10 years ago then all of a sudden we cant even compete...
I kind of know what you mean. My band always gets high music GE scores and lower marching scores. But at state prelims this year the music GE judges decided we...
That happened to us last year. Our director ( who doesn't do anything but attendence, and hates the marchign band) thought that we got cheated out of a better ...
i know where you're coming from but still i think we should have done a little better than 8th..i know we werent good enough to beat u guys and CS but at least...
Are you using sarcasm about your director hating the band? If not, then why is he or she directing it? That just sounds a little strange to me. My director ...
I'm not using sarcasm, he hates marching band. He tried to get rid of it but the students petitioned, so he hired a guy to work with the band. He also does it...
Marches that have prominent piccolo parts, Stars and Stripes for example, would definitely sound like something's missing. If you listen to a number of other ...
our director doesn't get paid extra for marching band cuz our school is really cheap and refuses to provide any funding for the band/ choir/ drama programs. he...
We went to Florida in April 1999. I didn't go on that trip, but they did the Orlando Music Fest (I didn't go, but I got the patch lol) They competed in ...
Hello all, this is Matthew. I was just curious. I no there is no competetion around my neighborhood, so I was just curious- am I the only BASS saxophone player...
I think marches sound better with a piccolo sound. This Christmas concert, we played a song called Jingle Bells Forever in Full Orchestra. John Philip Sousa...
All the different music teachers get paid because it's their regular job like any other teacher. My band director is not even required to perform at football ...
I asked some friends and they say that most marches(basically excluding Sousa marches which sound like crap without a piccolo) do not sound incomplete when...
I can agree with that. Other composers really didn't write much for piccolo, but Sousa did, and it could be one of the reasons that his marches are so popular,...
hehe me again...I also have that problem. I'm the only one in the area that plays contrabass (trombone and sax) and alto/soprano Trombone. There are advantages...
Hello everyone, I am new here. my name is astral and I am looking for help from a drum major. Someone who will be willing to help me learn.<br><br>Thanks ...
Has anyone heard of him? He takes spirituals and makes them into a concert band peices. His works I have played or heard played are Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss,...
