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 Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:44 pm
Our school's high school band is VERY small, hardly more than 30 players, so in order to give us more sound, our director moves up select few 8th graders into the high school marching band. We do very well in competitions, and i was just wondering if anybody else's band ever had to move up 8th graders.
btw, i was moved into our high school band in 8th grade. i'll be a sophomore next year. I thought it was a good idea because i have a whole year more experience than the rest of my grade.
would like to hear your thoughts about this please!
oh crap i forgot to put this in the marching band forum
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 5:57 pm
our band starts the biginners in 7th grade, and they can choose to join marching band in 8th.
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 1:59 am
well, i live in a lovely (jk) town called pearl city in hawaii (it really sucks,)
and we have SO many people that we have 7 elementry schools, each PACKED to the rim and ONE MIDLE SCHOOOL
and one HUGE Highschoool , and there is only marching band over there,and usually they have 40 freshmen, and tons more soph-seniors.
so yeah for me its weiiiird... but hey every place is different, i wish i could be in marching in 8th grade.... GET EM YOUNG! lols xd
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 8:23 am
ohh yeah
our band is only about 35 people tops.
And more then half of them are younger people that have been moved up
but we're doing really good biggrin
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 3:22 pm
not strange at ALL
last year we had 7th graders too.... that didn't work so well so we switched back to just eighth graders.
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:11 pm
That is strange to me. We don't have 8th graders becuase our director doesn't like them, and thet are too immature in their attitudes and in their playing ability for marching band. Alot happens in a month before band camp, it's quite weird. They mature. Also, it's alot of fun being a freshman in my band, aha, many traditions. mrgreen
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:52 pm
im an 8th grader and im inmarching band.....awesome
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:29 am
our middle school has a marching band that only does parades and our high school has a marching band that does parades and competitions and next year the marching band for the high school is only gonna have 25 people
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:33 am
no not strange we have 7th graders
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:07 am
No, it's not. We mainly keep our marching band members from the 8th grade and up. If we have to, we'll bring in 7th. And if we're really desperate, 6th graders. I go to a small skool, so anything's possible.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:46 am
Our band has bout 50 in it, we're medium sized, but we add 8th graders if they are good enough to be in high school marching band. It helps get our band bigger, but i'm not really sure about it helping us be better.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:12 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:37 am
With our last band director we had 9-12 graders two years ago. With the new band director we had 10-12th graders. This year he wants to bring the freshmen back. With just 10-12th graders we had roughly 75 members. In a school of about 900.
I think it's better to get them while they're young....sounds chimo-ish but the more years they have experiance the better don't you think?
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:33 pm
Our marching band has almost 60 players but we have an 8h grader night where 8th graders come and march with us.
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:27 pm
You only put SOME of your 8th graders on the field? xD
A lot of small schools here do that. Including us, so it's not weird at all. And we hover just under 50 members.
It's really good for the 8th graders too, it's like they get a taste of high school without actually being in high school. That way it's not as weird by the time they start freshman year.
By the way, our 8th graders stay in HS band full time. Concert season too.
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