Moose Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Your band must hate each other... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sax5warrior Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Your band must hate each other... we do now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sax5warrior Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Where is Coppell again? I just know that there were some very good saxes at the auditions yesterday at what our principal loves to call "The Ridge". I forgot what school they were from, but I think it might have been Coppell... stupid 300-people bands. I hate it when HS marching bands number more than 250ish. Anyhow, I got to monitor in the tenor/bari sax room instead of percussion for some reason undiclosed to me by the band director. Some of those tenor saxes made me crack up at how good they were. Besides that...Congrats to Bronson Armijo (bari sax), Tony Bokaie (trumpet; unfortunately, our second best and section leader (definitely not by playing ability) got 15th, and our other trumpets got even lower. It'll take more than just wheaties for our trumpets to compare to other schools), Ryan Cooper(bass/?tenor? trombone(and the whole t-bone section... arguably the best wind section overall in the band)), Sean Havrilla (English horn and possibly oboe... definitely at least 2nd place.) for making 1st places. I don't know if anyone else made first. Flutes also only had one of us make high (Lucy Hires). Funny that the one who acts like section leader all the time just because Lucy isn't there all the time made lower than those who she tries to "lead". Enough ranting... congrats all. Coppell is west of the north part of Dallas and north of the city of Irving Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuadraticBeats Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Okay, it must have been Connally... urg... I don't remember very well except that they were the best saxes I'd ever heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRtrumpet Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 oo ok, isnt there the ATSSB in TMEA that have their own all state band? and i think you can even try out for 4a all state..check with your director..since 4a people are allowed to try on the 5a track too, i thnk for a 2a or 3a you can go for for 4a or 5a too. you should do it. It would be pretty cool to do that. Its probly different music though right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_DRUM_MAJOR Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 nope i dont think so, all the music should be the same.. i know it is for 4a-5a but itll probably be the same since last year 3a kids tried out too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRtrumpet Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Hmmm. Something to think about. I'll ask my director about it. I just got my music for some area all star band tryout thingy in January. I think i'll make this one... the music is (half of) the music of next year's atssb region music. Only 1A's and 2A's try out for this so I think im in.... haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_DRUM_MAJOR Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 i made it in tonight, yay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireAnnette07 Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 i made it in tonight, yay Me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsstephenyo Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 hebron sax sweep at region 24. all four alto spots. first chair bari, first chair tenor. pretty sweet. and to think i was only joking when i said it earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xukaniz Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 5th in the region on a crappy performance. Woot! To Area I go! Â Hopefully I will have a better audition. Â How did everyone else do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arundo Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 11th chair out of 12 to advance...but my instrument broke in the room...so I guess playing on a broken horn and still advancing is pretty good ehh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_DRUM_MAJOR Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 howd it break? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterNick Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Yeah, so I was one out of area... again. But I'm not too shaken up by it. If the judges don't want to reward phrasing and musicality, well then that's not my problem.   I still made 7th chair in the state on string bass, so I'll have fun in San Antonio anyways. Eh...phrasing and musicality is what Solo & Ensemble is for.  I know when it comes to region auditions, you could have no musical expression save for what's on the page, but as long as you cross every "t" and dot every "i" you should rank highly. It sucks, but that's the way it is. Many of my professors in my college have a few qualms with the all-state audition process, but that's another rant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuadraticBeats Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 It's funny... I didn't practice this year at all besides the band-camp practices for All-State, and our section leader this year made 5th, three off from progressing to Area. Given that he was beaten only by seniors, he'll probably be first next year... but I've heard that some Leander percussion section leaders thought I was the best drummer on our line. Hmm. It's a bitter thing to swallow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortisimo Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Hmmm, region isn't over yet, but we were only beaten by Richland in numbers of people going to phase 2 in our region. We'll see how it plays out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuadraticBeats Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Your band must hate each other... Yeah. It's a wonder we even sometimes do well at all... I remember overhearing a conversation last year between our old percussion director and our assistant director talking about the little "cliques" they noticed... they thought it was pretty funny. I find the whole situation particularly sad on an entirely new level... I find it hard to bear. I wonder if it has anything at all to do with our band director's tendency to randomly yell at people? It seems like a lot of new section leaders thought he was a good example. I fear becoming as arrogant and foolish as they are... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyboard_Countessa Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Went to Region yesterday. Got there around 4 and didn't leave until after 10. Didn't make it. I'm not surprised since I've never made Region Band (and never really wanted to, to be honest), but since it was my senior year I was more disappointed than usual, especially since my BD seemed convinced that I would at least make it to phase 2. *shrugs* Oh well. Now comes my favorite part of Region Band tryouts: "retiring" the Region music... *gets out paper shredder and matches* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesnareguy Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Region Band was fun. Didnt advance tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sax5warrior Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Went to Region yesterday. Got there around 4 and didn't leave until after 10. Didn't make it. I'm not surprised since I've never made Region Band (and never really wanted to, to be honest), but since it was my senior year I was more disappointed than usual, especially since my BD seemed convinced that I would at least make it to phase 2. *shrugs* Oh well. Now comes my favorite part of Region Band tryouts: "retiring" the Region music... *gets out paper shredder and matches* eh, i dont have a paper shredder but eh, lets just say, i burned the music...*evil!* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRtrumpet Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 I killed the music with my playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlayOboe Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 I came in 2nd, so I'm advancing to area! I'm happy with it, but I was 1st in phase 1 so that kind of rots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_DRUM_MAJOR Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 PlayOboe Posted: Dec 13 2005, 10:09 PMÂ I came in 2nd, so I'm advancing to area! I'm happy with it, but I was 1st in phase 1 so that kind of rots. Â that happened to me too..but i liked looking at the list at phase 2 and seeing 8 5a's behind me lol ...off to area f 4a! woohooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireAnnette07 Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 I killed the music with my playing. That sounds like a bad thing...if it is, that's what happened to me at region seating. Thank goodness I'm 4A and had already advanced to Area F before bombing! Haha.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRtrumpet Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 haha. Well I had bad luck with the cuts. They made me play the parts I didnt know how to play on BOTH songs.. and on the ch. scale I was nervous and didng go all the way down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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