slowbrass

Catch a spurs game, explore the riverwalk, visit the alamo. Not a ton to do but most of your day will be occupied anyway.

Considering the cutoff is 1850 in 10-12, they might linger in 3a for a year or two…depends on the freshman class size.

Scores if the split was 30/30/40… Avon 29.1 music 29.5125 visual 39.17 GE 97.7825 Flower Mlund 29.25 music 29.5875 visual 38.94 GE 97.7775

I agree, but this all still feels like sour grapes due to the timing. If you applied that split to the finals results at San Antonio last Saturday, Hebron gets an outright win. Flower Mound benefits from the current system just as much as Avon does. Just didn’t break their way tonight.

Just wanted to share how utterly floored I was watching finals last night. It’s said all the time, but the amount of depth and talent in this state is unbelievable. My jaw was on the floor at multiple points in everyone’s show. Definitely want to shout out M&J and Cedar Park for being my favorites. Still got chills.

Predictions Flower Mound (GE) Hebron (M, V) Vandegrift The Woodlands Vista Ridge Cedar Park Ronald Reagan Rouse Moe & Gene Johnson Cedar Ridge Dripping Springs Westlake Pearland Seven Lakes Music Hebron Vandegrift Vista Ridge Visual Hebron Flower Mound The Woodlands General Effect Flower Mound Vandegrift The Woodlands

Congrats to FloMo, Hebron please figure it out. I’m not sure who feels worse right now, the drums or the winds who did literally everything they could. Also, if anyone has the recap with content/achievement, I’d love to take a look.

Coppell - doing coppell things, playing the heck out of their horns and drums. The quad break in particular caught my attention, although it wasn’t totally clean. Great job from them!

Pearland - I’m a simple man, and I love On the Waterfront, so of course I enjoyed this show. They’re a big band with a big sound, which is great 90% of the time, but in that other 10% some clarity gets lost and it’s overall a little muddy. Really nice visual moment in the ballad as well.

Cy-Fair - percussion! This gave me serious 2015-2019 blue knights vibes. The battery isn’t just ramming 25/8 and is actually part of the orchestration. I thought the show was beautiful and understated (except for a few out of control moments in the brass) and the hook of the show is a 10/10. Great design and great band.

Cedar Ridge - this one felt fresh after the first three shows, which were great albeit a bit formulaic. Starting with a little battery feature and actually playing pines of Rome basically straight down was super fun. Year in and year out they manage to mash up two pieces of music that have no business being played together, and it’s great every time. Doing more with their numbers than most other schools could manage. Great great show.

Seven Lakes - best opening statement of the day so far. The musical and visual elements were so in sync and then boom, they punched me in the face. Really liked how that once piece from SCV 2014 was integrated throughout the show, finishing with that massive trombone sledgehammer. They must have had over 60 flags out on the field too. They got my blood pumping for sure!

Dripping springs - a very flower mound - esque field design with the stark black and white with pops of color. It’s fantastic imo. Trumpets and mellos are on something else. The arrangements of the source material are so tasty. I wish they marched a bit more, but this is a well deserved finals berth for them. Looking ahead, they’ve got a great shot at having three performances in Indy as well.

Prosper - love the brass and musical selections. Wish there was more woodwind presence throughout the show. But on the other hand, either Wes Cartwright is just mailing it in for them or he’s truly run out of inspiration. It’s a very bland and boilerplate visual design.

Feeling vindicated rn, after seeing Hebron’s percussion at area j a few weeks back, I knew it would be a problem. Now it’s looking like thats once again the biggest obstacle between them and flower mound. Gotta figure that out.

Forney - 20 Waxahachie - 21 Rockwall - 32 Rockwall Heath - 40

JBA - 37 Hanna - 38 Edinburgh -41

There were a few individual captions that were odd to me, but with a few major exceptions (Keller mainly) I feel like the judges were in the ballpark of what I saw and heard.

What. A. Sound.

Keller brass is no joke! They definitely play like a finalist level band.

I do not believe hebron will be attending, as no one has heard from them since mr. sealy drove the school buses into a volcano

I think it’s fair to say that among the groups in FloMo’s echelon, their demand trends toward the lower side. That’s the beauty of their designs, layering relatively simple concepts on top of each other until the final product reflects the complexity of their theme. Their calling card is cleanliness, and the most successful seasons they’ve had are generally the seasons when they are able to polish every single moment till it sparkles.

First time seeing a full performance from Flower Mound, and yeah, I get it. Immaculately designed and performed. Agree with VBF that the ordinals seemed to reflect what I saw as well, although as I mentioned earlier in the thread, I thought Marcus could have ended up with percussion. Overall, FloMo beats Hebron narrowly but decisively again, and I don’t see that changing for the remaining few weeks here in Texas. As a brief aside, I appreciate the contrast between Hebron, who seem to pour their resources more into performance, and FloMo, who does the same with effect. However, Hebron really needs to be able to stake more of a claim to percussion. Because they aren’t touching flower mound visually. I don’t understand why they then handicap themselves by learning a “band show” and a “drum show,” when as far as I know, the majority of the top drumlines in Texas choose to beef up the band book and simply perform it ‘a la carte’ at whatever drumline contests they choose to attend.

TIL Hebron isn’t doing lone star 😶

Having props alone doesn’t affect the score either way. However, if they’re used in a fashion that the judges think adds to the effect of the show, a band that has props may end up scoring better than a band without them.