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  1. The schedule usually comes out sometime in September, and the list of bands typically comes out in the summer, but you can see some of the bands attending on HornRank https://hornrank.proboards.com/thread/1539/regional-shenandoah-tx-sept-2025 AS OF 01/20/2025 Attending*: Cypress Ranch H.S., TX Dawson H.S., TX Friendswood H.S., TX North Shore H.S., TX Shadow Creek H.S., TX
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  2. ruben_f

    UIL 6A Area I 2025

    In 2024, Brian Stevens was appointed as the new Assistant director at Cinco. He was previously with the Stephen F. Austin High School Band in Sugar Land, TX, from 1999 to 2012. (Source: Cinco Ranch Band Website) During Stevens' time at SFA "the marching band was a consistent Bands of America (BOA) Regional and Super Regional finalist, winning six Regional Championships. They also attended the BOA Grand National Championships in Indianapolis in 2002, 2004, 2007, and 2010, making the Finals each time. The band program has made appearances at the Texas UIL State Marching Band Championships," (Also, Cinco Ranch Band Website)
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  3. It has been well-known that the aggie band matches with many non-players. You can spot several instruments out there that don't even have mouthpieces.
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  4. I always made the mistake of spending too much time grinding reps on the etudes. I remember competing against almost 60 Euphos for region back in the day, and I knew if I made top 2, it would mean only competing against SIX for state (where again, you needed to make top 2). Missed it by 3 chairs my senior year. I found that each year I made region (and I made it all 4 years) I had probably spent more time on the etudes than practically everybody who had made it (putting in over a hundred hours from July-December), and one year I lost to a senior from Round Rock who didn't even start looking at the etudes till 2 weeks before the audition. I should've taken a much more methodical approach where my goal was to figure out what skills I need to develop in order to execute a "frame-perfect" run (to use a speedrunning term). There were many sections of the music where my issue wasn't because I hadn't practiced enough, but rather I hadn't developed the skills necessary to "learn" that section of the music. What I spent 10 hours on playing over and over across several weeks messing up again and again (in hopes I'd eventually get lucky) should've been spent on relevant exercises that made it so that mastering the actual lick should only take me a single practice session. I remember in college competing against a guy for band placement who had spent the entire summer marching corps and didn't even look at the audition music until the day of the audition. He spent 45 minutes on the music and still beat me even though I had been practicing it for the past 2 weeks. Because if you're a super good player, you don't really need to spend a lot of time on the music. He also played his horn everyday all summer in corps, and I didn't. It's not always about who spent the most time working on the music, it's about who has spent enough time practicing in general.
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