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 Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:10 am
Masquanade I've always wanted to do a Nitendoe theme. Play like Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong. Ha ha ha. I'm such a loser. last year our band had an uber sweet Senior trumpet player.. He was awsome, if he would have shown up more often he would have played The Mario Theme during our silent drill... but he never came to practice because he had a life... anyway... The show we are doing this year is Beatles Music Magical Mystery Tour / A hard day's night Yesterday Elenor Rigby Hey Jude and we have about 4 trumpet solo's but the worst trumpet section ever... and 1 percussion solo, also sucks (because there is only 4 of us)... all in all there are about 42 people in band... sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:27 am
Masquanade I've always wanted to do a Nitendoe theme. Play like Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong. Ha ha ha. I'm such a loser.
... actually, it's her idea. Sorry Neko! sweatdrop
Ahem, anyway, my show this year is an ancient Chinese theme. Pretty cool. biggrin
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:15 pm
Masquanade We've played John Williams stuff for concert . . . but I guess a composer like himself think it's degrading to have marching bands perform his music- because as you know you have to rewrite it some way to make it fit on the field. Ha ha ha. I never thought about it but there are no Star Wars or Indiana Jones or Harry Potter themed shows. Of course . . . Harry Potter doesn't exactally the most exciting score I've ever heard. xp My schedule? We practice in class for an hour Tuesday-Friday. Tuesday nights we have practice anywhere between 5:30 to 8-9. Friday afternoon we practice right after school and that's about it . . . Idid hear about this one band that practices every day after school for three hours. Or maybe four times a week! eek This is a band right near me supposivily. But yeah my band doesn't do competitions- there are none in this area but this year if we do good at state contest we might be able to go to one! whee *crosses fingers* Actually, my band has done John Williams. It sucked, but we did it. We played Raiders of the Lost Ark, Far and Away, and the ET theme. As for Harry Potter, no it's not that exciting, but it too has been done. We saw a band at States that did it. Drum major was dressed up as Harry Potter himself, and drummers were wearing slytherin stuff. The colorguard had gryffindor stuff on, and they battled...it was odd Speaking of odd, I once saw a band whose theme was "Orb" and they had a giant purple yoga ball that was being bounced all over the field. Which also reminds me that we saw another band that did Devil Went Down to Georgia...the drum major played the electric fiddle...and sang!
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:03 pm
Helter- eek eek OK . . . singing, fiddling drum major- all the power to them because none of my three drum majors can do that. domokun And the yoga ball . . . hmm . . . I did see one band- I forgot the theme, but they had these giant golden sparkly balls put in their show for the dancers I think . . . it was actually pretty cool until they started doing this mosh pit- let's put the horn line in a huddle and let them jump around and scream- thing. eek
Demon Shia- .hack theme? I don't know about that . . . .hack music is very . . . calming and techno-ish. I can't really see it be put on the field. sweatdrop
I remember one year some one did the Planets Theme. That was a REALLY boring show. Even with Jupiter and Mars put in there- no, no, the Planets should never be done as a marching show.
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:46 pm
HelterSkelterX Speaking of odd, I once saw a band whose theme was "Orb" and they had a giant purple yoga ball that was being bounced all over the field. Which also reminds me that we saw another band that did Devil Went Down to Georgia...the drum major played the electric fiddle...and sang! I saw a band who did 'Surfin USA', and the majorettes had a shark fin, and only like a few people played. The woodwinds played beach volleyball... on the field. O_O It was weird.
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:44 pm
Masquanade We've played John Williams stuff for concert . . . but I guess a composer like himself think it's degrading to have marching bands perform his music- because as you know you have to rewrite it some way to make it fit on the field. Ha ha ha. I never thought about it but there are no Star Wars or Indiana Jones or Harry Potter themed shows. Of course . . . Harry Potter doesn't exactally the most exciting score I've ever heard. xp Exactly. From what I've heard about him, though, he seems like a nice and adaptable guy . . . it's a shame. *dreams of a Star Wars show in which the guard duels with lightsabers* And Harry Potter, well, I've thought that the Quidditch theme would make for some good show music (I have the soundtrack, and it's about the right length), but you're right.
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:04 am
So what do you think would make the coolests show? If you had unlimited money to create it? (And a kick-a** band to do it in <--not saying your band is bad- i'm just saying a totally awesome one)
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:00 pm
We don't do halftime shows, so I have no idea as to a theme. Our marching band practices are only during the last two weeks of August from 6pm to 9pm. I suppose we got it easy. Meh, I feel so left out. crying
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:33 pm
Hmm....the show we did last year had to be one of my dream shows...We had a rock theme...Our songs were Iron Man, Smoke on the Water, and Pinball Wizard....Hehe...In Pinball wizard, during the drum break, the whole band was formed in this giant pinball machine...and we had one of the managers roll this huge green ball "through" it..hehe..it was so cool....Of course, I was a trumpet then and right on the 50 yard line...so the ball came right by me. Needless to say, I almost got knocked over many a time or two. (the ball was 5 ft in diamater..hehe)
But another dream show would have to be Riverdance lol....If at one point in the piece the whole band formed this giant line or either ranks across the field and we started highland dancing..that'd be so great lol....
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:35 am
Keltzy We don't do halftime shows, so I have no idea as to a theme. Our marching band practices are only during the last two weeks of August from 6pm to 9pm. I suppose we got it easy. Meh, I feel so left out. crying Your school has no Field Show?! SACRILEGE!
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:25 am
Meh. I don't know, maybe it's a good thing. Our band sucks at marching. Or as our french horn put it, we can play, and we can march, but we can't march and play. 'Sides, I don't think we'd have the time to practice, our classes are only about 1 1/2 hours long, and we can't go after school, 'cause there are too many kids in sports and stuff. Maybe that's why I'm a concert band geek rather than a marching band geek. Actually, I'm really pissed at my section leader. I think that if I march next year, that it's going to be on french horn or tuba.
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:15 pm
But if you actually were forced to march in a show, your marching would quickly get better. So what do you do, if you don't have a show? Just march in parades?
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:11 pm
hrm... my school did... A 'highlander scottish rhapsody' show; a Gershwin show, including 'an american in paris'; a beatles show and a Disney show.
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:13 pm
Masquanade Demon Shia- .hack theme? I don't know about that . . . .hack music is very . . . calming and techno-ish. I can't really see it be put on the field. sweatdrop I remember one year some one did the Planets Theme. That was a REALLY boring show. Even with Jupiter and Mars put in there- no, no, the Planets should never be done as a marching show.
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:11 pm
Masquanade So what do you think would make the coolests show? If you had unlimited money to create it? (And a kick-a** band to do it in <--not saying your band is bad- i'm just saying a totally awesome one) three words. Zoot. Suit. Riot.
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