My director blew up today because I got a pass to finish a project worth 3 major grades. He said he valued academic success over the arts, and he got super mad when I told him what he said. I just hope he forgets about it or he said he was going to give me iss for doing schoolwork. I just want to see how the principal reacts if he gives me iss for academic greatness.
I'm so ready for marching season.
When is your guy's marching seasons? Or do you guys march?
SAME! So ready to start! We get our music for next year's show next month. I can't wait to find out what the show is gonna be!
Our show this year is going to be about dreams and i think dream catchers. last year was the sky.
Wait, you have a theme? That's super cool. All we do is pick a march song and play it.
Our theme last was Rhapsody and Blues, the show was SOOO cool, but sadly not a lot of people in the band liked the music.
Wow, that's awesome. I would have loved to play that.
I thought it was a lot of fun! I'm excited to find out what our theme is for next season :D
not a band player, but an orchestra player. I play the cello.
I'm percussion. Marching band is my favorite, but I'm pretty good at concert percussion, aux., set, and sometimes play the bass line on a keyboard because there are 300 people in my school yet no one plays bass, guitar, or piano. I'm in the high school marching band and this past season the theme was Michael Jackson which was pretty awesome, and next year I overheard (eavesdropped on my band director) that we may do a rock theme next year, and maybe heavy metal because we have a lot of players who'd be very good at that sort of thing. I'm in an orchestra too.
A metal/rock theme would be so cool! Some of the songs in that genre are amazing! :D
Yeah, I hope we do some Metallica personally. MJ was really cool, though, because so many people knew the songs so at every parade we went to people would sing along and I kinda felt like a rock star haha. One of the bands from another football team we played did a movie theme and did theme songs from Pirates of the Caribbean and ones like that. It was really cool! The other snare drummer recorded it. My band isn't very competitive, mostly because a lot of us are in county/district/state/nation concert/orchestra/jazz/etc. bands so we know people in other bands. Are you in these types of bands?
We did Britney Spears and Imagine Dragons in our show two years ago. The theme was the nuclear fallout, and it was a terrible show.
@CassNotCas yeah, I'm in a few of those bands, but I'm an underclassman so a lot of those options are given by seniority rather than by talent at my school which I think can be kind of stupid but what am I gonna do about it? I'm in jazz, orchestra, district, brass choir, pep band, and show choir band so I guess that's pretty good for now XD
@CassNotCas @MK
What's district band?
At my school, we have Marching band, concert band, jazz band, basketball band, and show choir band.
slides into the forum playing 'We are Number One' from Lazy Town on clarinet, alto saxophone, and ocarina Sup my fellow music dudes
@CorbinB3 it's a band that you have to audition for where you play music with other people in your district.
@MK Ah, makes sense.
@RedEeveestar
A group of band kids (trumpet, tenor sax, alto sax, drum set) won the school talent show playing that song last year.
clarinet, b*tches!!!
@CorbinB3 Heck yeah!
Clarinet!
woooooooooo
Trumpet! That counts right? According to half my school, "Trumpet and Clarinet are the same instrument because they're in the same key. That means they're the same thing!" (-said by a bench-warmer football player) XD
Lol, we all know that marching band people are tougher than football players…