LordGiggles

Going onto Area.. Region 26 Alto Sax.. Area D.

You should look into Unison as well, including the Steve Goodson Unison which is a custom build, really rare and hard to find these days. In my opinion, the standard models of Unison work really well compared to Selmer's. If you are looking at a budget of $1,000 - $2,000ish, i'd recommend getting a stock unison.. but if you are in the neighborhood for $3,000 to $4,000, i'd definatly go with the upper echelon's of the Selmer's such as the Mark VI.

In TMEA when we do auditions for all-state, at all the different levels, we have 5 judges, with the high and low being dropped. I would like to have a similar method, it's just that 10 judges, 5 music and 5 marching would probably be too costly and maybe a little unorthodox, but probably a more accurate opinion could be deciphered, even with difference of opinion between the judges.

I had a friend who had a cyst removed over the summer, and it didn't really hurt him in any way.

I was replying to Aaron67, my apologies for the confusion. I was basically saying that the high and low would not work out with the current (3 music, 2 marching) UIL format.

But the UIL judging system of inconsistent ranking as opposed to raw scores is what is bothering people. Many bands deserve to make the finals roster, but only a select few make it in. Although all these bands did deserve it, the ranking system chose bands who in many people's opinions were less deserving than others. Seeing Ronald Reagan getting I believe a 23 and a 4 in music isn't just "difference of opinion." Difference of opinion would look like 4 and 7, not close enough to be state champ (4) and close enough to question advancing (23). Same thing happened with Akins, 2 and 21. You also can't drop the high and low since the judging format wasn't built for that. The judging panel would have to be larger and maybe designed differently, because for 3 music and 2 marching, you can't drop a high and a low. You can't drop a high and a low with two categories mixed together either. Dropping a high or low marching score would leave only 1 opinion on a bands marching, and that opinion could be biased and wrong. There'd have to be more judges and a different designed for the high and low to take place, so it would not be the same if we just dropped the high and low based on those results.

I think Duncanville get's it because they had two ratings of two.

Aside from the enjoyment we get from contests and football games, our band program usually tries to plan a non-required social event once per every six week grading period (6 in total ) and in the summer. Usually this could be anything from a pool party, a DCI Trip, a Banquet, A general Party, a Lock-in, and of course our Spring Trip.

The Tuba solo in the jazz section of Jai Ete a Bal is good solo for a concert band piece.

Applying fundamental concepts to music helps a lot. A lot of bands work really hard on the fundamentals, and focusing on all the possible aspects of music or marching and isolating them in exercises to train students. Established fundamentals can be transfered to music or marching which explains the way some bands sound and the lack of sound some bands may have despite the talent in their program.

A lot of the times they see which band has a rating closest to first place, and whichever one has the one closest is the one that wins.

If you constantly think about everything your directors tell you, and try to apply all the concepts that will make you better, and hold yourself to a standard of excellence, band should never be boring.

I'm interested to see Westfield due to their impressive jump back into the picture after having some bad times.

and TNT.

And Martin, how many Heat players consistantly make free throws besides Dwyane Wade? And how many consistantly make free throws on the Mavericks, including the person who has the record for most free throws in a play-off season, beating i believe, Michael Jordan. Compared to the Mavericks, the Heat are the ones who need to step up their free throw shooting as a collective whole.

The only reason the Heat shoot 46% is because of all the shots made by Dwyane Wade that actually go in... The Dallas Mavericks are a team. When giving out the MVP award to Dwyane Wade, the commissioner said that, Wade was the heart of the team.. and i do mean team. That was a lie. Wade is the team. Maybe Haslem and Alonzo Mourning played a good game too, but so did people like Marquise Daniels and Devin Harris. They were all solid. But if you take away everything Dwyane Wade did from the Heat, and take away what Dirk Nowitzki did for the Mavericks.. you'd end up with the Mavericks being much further ahead than the Heat. Dallas would of won the championship if their weren't so many **** calls. http://nelsok.com/images/72102485.gif Those are from Game 5. I'm pretty sure Game 4 was the only game the heat deserved to win, because they actually did outplay Dallas that game. Every other game, Dallas got screwed over by some bias call.

I'm pretty sure in game 5 or 4 of the Suns vs Lakers, the officials did not give Steve Nash a time out when he asked for one.

i voted.

Dude Martin, Shaq is worthless. All he is good for is getting fouled. He shoots free throws extremely poorly, and so everyone plays " hack a shaq " to screw the Heat over. Everyone on the Heat any any east-conference team trash talk and can't back it up, and play dirty. Except Dwyane Wade. Dwyane Wade is the only reason the series is not over yet. Everyone else on the Heat need to step up, except for random bursts, no one does anything consistantly well. And considering Nowitzki has been missing shots and not being the star he is, and Stackhouse was out, that's kind of sad that the Heat struggle so much against a already crippled team. Dallas will win both games at home, no question. Shaq get's screwed under pressure with home court advantage, I can't even wait to see how he is with the series on the line, in Dallas territory. Mav's played great considering Heat fans are shoving around David Hasslehoff signs everywhere. You'll see how quick this turns around after Tuesday.

Too bad Dallas has Jason Terry and Josh Howard. It's not even the fourth quarter, but I came to post this. GG for the Heat, Dallas has this game. Dwyane Wade isn't invincible. I'm pretty sure Dallas in 6 now.

The Mavs played like crap.. and the ref's made a lot of bad calls against the Mavs whenever they were on a Run. Grantid, if the Ref's made the correct calls in many cases, I do not think the Mavs may have won, but they may of been atleast in the 90's. Even when the Mavs play bad as a team and Dirk has an off night, they still put up a challenge to the Heat.

It's not good to dance with destiny.

Yeah, If Dirk made that final shot from the line, there would be no reason to assume Wade would get fouled, and it would of sent the game into overtime. Considering Wade and the Heat were playing their best, it showed how good of a team the Mavericks were, and that when they recover, the Heat will be blown away. The Mavericks didn't play a good game during the fourth, Wade should of gotten fouled out twice. Stackhouse had a lot of shots that he should of made, and it was an off night for him.

2006 NBA FINALS mavericks vs heat 2-1 game 1: 90-80 game 2: 99-85 game 3: 96-98 game 4: thursday 8:00

Yesterday's game was proof that if you double team Shaq, or basically put him out of action, the Heat are nothing. Wade is good, but he is not the entire team. The Heat are going to lose until someone else step's up. Shaq isn't a great shot either, as much as you like to defend him, he consistantly misses throws from the line. Everyone on the Mavericks can make shot's anywhere on the court. People like Nowitzki constantly make 3's. The Mavericks work together more as a team, and they are willing to make extra passes if it means scoring. The level of trust between the players, and the lack of greed in owning the ball is why they are a better team than the Heat.