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 Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:05 pm
Anyone ever heard of two bands, let alone across town school RIVALS, combining for a marching season? Well, that's what we're going to do this year!
Before, we were very pitiful, barely having any members and having to compete against Class 5A bands when we were barely over eighty members. And our only other high school had less members than us. This year they didn't even think they'd actually be able to have a marching band if they didn't combine, because they actually had so few members.
So, what do you guys think?
Good idea or a bad idea?
It's chaos now, because people have to be cut and we have to organize who plays what and stuff like that. But, our community really seems to like the idea, and at least we're getting a bit more recognition now. Before we had really negative things said about us -- because we supposidly didn't support our football team because we never played for them at their games on Saturdays. But that's when we had competitions. Crazy much?
But yeah.
Here they care more about sports like football, baseball, and soccer rather than marching band. They don't even count it as a sport, and they won't let it count as a P.E. credit like ROTC does or anything like that.
Maybe you've heard of us from Indoor Drumline Season?
CoHop anyone?!
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:16 pm
i cant WAIT for this summer marching camp!! its my first year!! WOO! ^o^ i cant WAIT!!! i have no idea if its a good idea or not though, my brain isn't working today!! sorry for not being any help!
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 4:17 am
It could be a good thing if it helps you compete. On the other hand, 80 members isn't bad in some circuits. TOB, for example, is organized into "groups" by size so you always compete only against bands with similar restraints on maneuvers and volume.
Group 1 - up to 30 musicians and a maximum of 30 guard
Group 2 - 31 to 50 musicians and a maximum of 50 guard
Group 3 - 51 to 75 musicians and a maximum of 75 guard
Group 4 - 76 or greater
There are only a few bands with more than 100 members. Usually if they can wrangle that many players, they can also raise travel money and they'll switch to the BOA circuit. Depending on where your school is located and how much money is available to travel with, switching circuits might be a better option. Usually, busing students from one school to another for practice is hard work. You won't be able to practice more than a couple of times a week and it will cost money for transport either to the band/school or to the students and parents depending on who is responsible for getting students to practice.
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:06 pm
Huh. Odd. But if your band wants to stay in the class 5A competition rankings (where all the big, important awards are usually hanging out) it makes total sense. More members = more complicated drill/music = more notoriety = more awards (sometimes). I'd say that it's a good idea that would be really easy to totally screw up. Schedules between both schools would have to be synchronized, and that's a whole world harder that it sounds. But in the end, if it all works out, it makes great PR for both bands.
Broken Arrow does something similar to this. Anyone from their middle schools' and high schools' band programs can audition for the marching band, which rehearses and performs as a whole group. They've got one of the best band programs in the state of Oklahoma.
My band only combines with the rival band for the crosstown clash game. We'd make a combined form on the field at halftime and play some tunes at set, for some pretense of city unity. sweatdrop Between the two high schools, we get a combined band of about 300 people.
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