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Love this. In HS, our area always and still does take the same 4-5 bands each year. Is it because we worked less hard or because we were that much worse, no. They set up legacies for success that have continued still to this day, and while it can be frustrating, it's not about the quality of success from results, but the quantity of hours of hard work and dedication that really matter.

I wanted to give one more shoutout to all the parents, fire teams, and especially the other bands who helped out with Vandegrift. The amount of content I’ve seen online from Vandy parents thanking everyone really just shows how strong band family is. To all Vandy students, I’mvery sorry about the incident, but I know you guys will continue to push on. It’s moments like these that remind me why I love this activity so much.

Congratulations to Rivercrest and all the other bands!!

If they make finals I will cry tears of joy

Nothing crazy on recaps, yes VR drums in 9 is somewhat shocking, but it happens. Congratulations again to all our 6A bands, I’m thinking we’re gonna have 5 in finals at Indy, and possibly bringing home Kevin!!!

Here’s my preds as well State finals Preds: Flower Mound Hebron Vandegrift Marcus Vista Ridge TW’s Ronald Reagan Cedar Ridge Pearland Coppell Cy-Fair Dripping Springs 7L Prosper

Flower Mound- don’t rely have a lot of words other than first place. I decided to sit back for this one but I mean it’s just crazy what they’re doing. Those horns in the opener, so professional sounding. That battery has some such a long way, I mean it’s just sooooo much cleaner than previous years. Their sound throughout has so much style, the inform change is sooo cool, and the ending with the prop moving, just GE all across the board. Soloists throughout are nails. Amazing job Flomo, can’t wait to see how yall do at Nats!

Ronald Reagan-such cool pre show drill. Huge and clean opening hit, triangle form is clean. Trumpets are nails, good feat. They are killing this bent leg technique. Low brass, love it! Their form controls is very strong, okay bones! Super fun sax quartet. Again drill is so impressive. Great attacks from the brass during sax feat. Lovely flute duet into the ballad. Great sounds from the WWs, brass backfield playing handled very well. Some minor spacing issues in this big curve form. Again bones!! Flags in this massive ending is effective, watch the tone brass. Amazing performance RR!!

Vista Ridge- love the visuals with the Swan Lake in the start. Wall of sound, wow brass. Great WW sound in the lacramosa, okay perc. Saxs killing the duet. Good attacks from brass in WW feat. Brass feature was nails, cover downs very clean. FE, holy cow, those runs are crazy. Great form control in the curves. Moving curve very clean going into the ballad. Horn soloist, amazing tone. Great sounds in the ballad, little bit of discrepancy in sounds from some of brass. Great perc feature. Flute solo, amazing. Huge sound going back to Lacaramosa and into Swan Lake. Saw some comments about recovery from something, didn’t see anything?? Amazing finish though, such a great show, amazing job VR!

The Woodlands-supper effective attacks in that killer soprano sax solo. Great sounds from brass in this opening section. Yeah sax, jsut insane, huge ending sound. WW’s, that tone and style is so fitting of the theme, dark but groovy, I like it. Great handling of the tempo change. Go C-net! Yeah, this is classic Woodlands right here. I hear your trombones!!! Loved that section. Pods look great, like this front ensemble writing with the trombone soloist. Sleep guard with our flutes 😴 Euph sounds are so mature. Yeah I’m in love with this show. I’m not fully understanding the theme, but I get it some. Beautiful hit in the ballad, great ensemble control. Here we go low brass, get it trumpets! Great work sax ensemble. High brass feature almost there, got a little loose at the end, still really solid. Perc with big slides despite their size. Okay rifles and flags, I see u. Sucks this is multi cam but ik they killing it. Watch those attacks brass during WW feature. Classic W in drill, so clean. Huge and clean ending sound. Fantastic performance Woodlands!

Vandegrift:- opening body work very effective. Jsut such mature sounds from the English horn, so so beautiful, and the WW’s with her. Huge opening sound, some holes in the form though, maybe sick people? Watch that 7th brass, final chord is great though bass trombone pushing a lil to much. Trumpet soloists is insane, and WW’s sound fantastic behind him. Synth to loud, here, hello brass!! High brass feat insane, omg those flute runs, amazing execution. And then it’s a wall of sound. Amazing form control ending 2nd movement. WW’s sound so magical in the ballad, great sound effects in the back. Trombones, wow. Such a mature sound. Watch the cover downs. Huge arch form is so clean as it moves into these curved arches. Ballad hit is masterful. Yeah too much synth, thinking it’s mics. C-net so effective, such a mysterious sound, go battery!! WW’s killing those passages. Wow, last hit left me speechless. Despite what happened yesterday, they just did that, unreal. Congrats Vandy!!!

Pearland-wave-like body works on the tarp adds some nice GE. Great sounds mellos, love me some Waterfront. Great job flutes. Pods keeping form as they move. Large curve is very clean. Great opening sound, mellos!! Watch the tone brass. Great sax soloist, wow their drill is mesmerizing, and so clean. Great attacks on the articulation. Okay FE. Flute and C-net ensemble sound so beautiful. They are using the field so well. Huge hit, guard running around them reminded of RRs 19 ballad, just so so effective. They do a great job with the Edge part of the show in the drill, lots of pulling away as they approach the tarps. Jazz run was so cool, rotating circle, I mean there’s so much going on in this ending. Ending form so clean, big sound. Wow what a show, amazing job Pearland!!!

Cedar Ridge- very tense feeling in the opener. I do like how they are back in traditional uniforms instead all the red cloaks like at Austin ( I think) okay drumline, very solid runs. Lower body work very together. Drill is clean, rotating circle in the eye very effective. Love how the WW’s layer on each other. Very clean high brass feat, wow. Great job battery, basses are nails. Great sounds from Oboe and Euph soloist. Their ensemble sound has come such a long way. Flag work so effective around the band during the ballad hit. More perc, giving it their all, they sound so clean. Great use of the claw props during the sax solo, who sounded fantastic. WW’s killing those technical runs. Watch those curves in the u shape. Rotating circles are strong. Great ending hit, eye form is great. Wonderful job CR!!

Cy-Fair- super effective opening drill. Really controlled opening sound, great job with the crescendo and decrescendos. Great linear form in the brass. Beautiful WW feature. Great work with the crossing lines. Cover downs very clean. Very nice rifles. Really cool use of props in this groovy 3/4 section. Lovely horn solo, ensemble sounds great behind him and the C-net solo. Really feeling the theme in the ballad. Super cool body work in this very clean perc feature. Yes saber. Oboe soloists, such emotion. Love the flag work in this triumph finish. Great form control. Wow, such an effective ending. I see why they made finals, bc that was insane. Amazing job Cy-Fair!!!

Seven Lakes- super intriguing pre show body work, really sets the theme, those uniforms are so sick. Really solid back field playing. HUGE opening sound, omg. Little bit of timing issues in the lean. WW’s sound amazing in their feature. High brass feat very solid, sounds consistent for the most part. Great form control coming out of the big H looking form. Cover downs in large pods are clean. Huge circular form very clean. Super professional sounds from sax and flute soloists in the ballad, love their arrangement of this piece. Huge sound from the ensemble, compressing form was so tight. Wow, that cut off. Super strong brass and WW’s features. Form control on the sideways moving curves very clean. Low brass, don’t push the sound too much. Lines moving between each other very well. Just a wall of sound to close it out. Congrats 7L on your back to back state finals appearance!

Dripping Springs- great work from percussion getting us started, WWs sound incredible! Great sound from brass, visual are consistent across the board, very clean circular form. Brass feature is very strong, trumpet tone is so clear for high schoolers, wow. Love the C-net feature, brass injections add lots of effect. Little bit of articulation discrepancy in low brass closing out the second mvmnt, very minor. Fulgle horns sound amazing, very pretty sounds from flute soloist. I hear u mellos, great tone in the ballad, ritardando handled very well. Great work from keyboard soloists. Bones and soprano sax feat was killer, super effective use of props at the end, great curve forms. I really felt the theme throughout, very joyful music. Amazing DS, and congrats on your first 6A state finals!!

Prosper-great sound from the horn soloists, huge opening sound. Really controlled sound from everyone. A couple people out of form in cover downs in pods/triangle shapes. Great sounds from brass after the WW quartet, very mature playing from everyone, very minor balance issues. English horn mic not working :(, Great blend from WW’s with the flute solo in the ballad. They need to fix the micing bc FE coming across way too much. They got EH mic working, yay, great sound closing out the ballad. Great job again mello soloist. Large circular form is very clean, great perc feature. Really solid runs from WWs during their feature. Much stronger form controls in big rectangular shape, them running on the horizontal lines is so cool, great effect. Huge closing sound, little over the top from low brass but it’s probably mic issues. Really strong start to finals, congrats again to Prosper on their first 6A state finals performance, really felt like their best run of the season!

Alright everyone, just got done watching everyone but Hebron, unfortunately couldnt find one but I had a feeling they’d be second lol. My notes for Coppell also didn’t save but they were great. Congratulations to Flower Mound, don’t think anyone’s surprised. Here’s my comments from all but the two I mentioned. Sorry for the long posts lol

Congrats to all our finalist!

Unfortunately, no live stream was online that was free, but I found an account with finals videos, so I’m gonna watch them all later tonight and I’ll give my thoughts on each band and final results

Good morning, everyone!! Congratulations our 14 finalists!! Really happy to see Cy-Fair and Prosper in, not super shocked about prosper after the season they've had but wow Cy-Fair, way to ig bounce back from area, super happy for both. and 7L almost getting in. After seeing recaps, not anything super crazy. Vista's visual scores though...after winning visual at TMC and then both 2s at area, idk, just seems off to me but again i'm no judge. Happy to see Bell and Johnson (both of them actually) be so close. Bridgeland as well. Keller that low was not on my bingo card, I really like the show a lot and think it's way cleaner than they got credit for. Everything else seems about right. Their definitely wasn't someone last night streaming end of prelims on YT, hope they do the same for finals bc if so I should be able to catch the back half. Either way congratulations to everyone who performed yesterday!! Oh and congrats to Dripping Springs, saw their run and WOW is all I can say. and to Reagan making top half, big ups after area and TMC, they def not going anywhere anytime soon

Good luck to everyone performing today!! Can’t want prelims unfortunately but I may be able too watch some of finals, probably will just be odd classes some this year

I would LOVEEEE to see Poteet back in finals!!!

Ik, I’m lowkey shocked yall didn’t

That low. I thought they’d be 2nd or 3rd