Arabella

We're in the opposite situation. We have not won a single game this football season, but our band has been getting increasingly good since we got our new director 4 years ago. (I wasn't here.)

Not that I know of. Did anybody see snakes on a plane?

Oboe, tenor sax. I'm going to learn flute soon, hopefully. Also I'm thinking about saying "what's up?" to the english horn at my school and taking that for a spin. I love learning new instruments.

I absolutely loved marcus's show. I saw L.D. Bell for the first time ever yesterday, but I wasn't as impressed as I expected to be. While it was a cool show, it was definately way too synthesized and I didn't find it visually exciting. I'm not saying I didn't like it though, the music was good. Also I wasn't high up enough to see any forms.

We march two bari saxes, three tenor saxes, and three bass clarinets at Paschal.

Good directors, good leadership, GOOD FUNDAMENTALS, dedication, involvement.

Yeah, I tried to change it to 11 right after I posted it but my computer was being silly and not letting me do so.

Wait. That's ten double reed players- eleven if you play (I didn't gather that). You have no idea how jealous I am!

Oboe! And I really want to learn english horn. I just need to get my hands on one.

Usually, the band hall opens about 3 to 5 hours before we perform, which can change depending on how far away the stadium is.. We warm up about an hour or 45 minutes after the band hall opens, we have our inspection and run through about 45 minutes after for probably an hour, then we load up and go.

I loved it. The DDR theme rules.

I play oboe and march tenor sax, another one of our oboes plays bass drum in the battery, and our other does pit and has played the solo in our show for the past two years. One of our bassoons marches alto sax and the other is in pit.

I love marcus's uniforms, the gray looks so classy. Haha paschal's uniforms are so old, and as much as I love them, I wish we would get new ones. You see all these other bands who have the cool power-ranger type uniforms (I'm sure you can figure out what I mean) and we have these really old-school striped ones that make it really obvious when your shoulder's aren't square.

Does anybody know where to find recordings of the etudes? I only have recordings of our first chair oboist playing it, but I need something to practice with. They're recorded on my phone, and each etude is crammed into 30 seconds.

I loved your show! I saw it at the Denton contest, very cute. I agree, it was a good drill and your guard was good. I like the big hit where you bust out with "material girl".

Haha I think you're right.

Hey just because drum corps is more work doesn't mean I don't get tired.

I really enjoy band. The practice is tiring, but the football games and contests are so worth it. The people in my band make it so worthwhile. Also I absolutely love concert season. During marching season I play the tenor sax, but I get to play my oboe for concert season and I love it so much. Plus, by the time concert season starts, I'm usually pretty fed up with not having any free time due to marching band.

Our directors just tell us to be respectful, don't talk while other bands are performing- the basics. It's really rude of that band to laugh at your band for any reason, unless there was some sort of cute/funny body move or something. We're allowed to cheer all we want if we make finals or something, and we definately do that.

I think your dog dying is a perfectly reasonable excuse. I wouldn't be able to concentrate at practice if my dog died and I was stuck miles away from home. I think your director is kind of unreasonable for saying you can't leave when your grandmother is sick in the hospital. Family emergencies should always come first, no matter what.

I'm really glad we have an 8-hour rule. I love band and everything, but when you've used all eight of those hours and you have a football game and a contest every week, it gets a liiiiittle tiring.