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Marching Band

Grizzly700

Grizzly700

Mar 18, 2008
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Maryville, TN
#1
Well, its that time of year again, time to get ready and in shape for band camp. Anyone else here in band? I'm a tuba player. Share what your shows are going to be and all that stuff.

Here is a link to my band's music this year - http://heritageband.org/


And here is a video of last years Journey show PLUS and good shot of our first chair trumpet falling on his face and recovering quite nicely -
 
#3
I played the electric bass in marching band. It really taught me some cool lines.

My senior year was "Earth, Wind, and Fire"

before that is was the music of Bill Chase:



The guy actually let me have a bass solo.

'Twas sweet.

I'll always remember what the tuba players told me... "Turn it up... we don't know our parts" :D
 
#5
I used to play Tuba and Trombone in marching band. Our music over my 4 years was:

Freshman year: Reflections of Earth (Music from the 2000 Disney Millennium celebration)
Sophomore year: The Quest (An original piece)
Junior Year: Perpeteum (The music of Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy)
Senior Year: Infusion ( Take 5 and the Black eyed peas...ugh.)
 
#12
username n/a said:
I don't like band people. They always spit on the floor. :hmm:
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In 10 years of music recording I've only seen one brass player bring a rag for clearing his instrument. I just don't get it. Hardwood floors and you're clearing your instrument on it? How would it look if I changed strings and left all the packaging and old strings in the floor where I was? :rollno:
 
#13
elpezpr said:
In 10 years of music recording I've only seen one brass player bring a rag for clearing his instrument. I just don't get it. Hardwood floors and you're clearing your instrument on it? How would it look if I changed strings and left all the packaging and old strings in the floor where I was? :rollno:
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I'd say you have an amazing talent and ought to sell the strings your body apparently produces.
 
#16
KeithBMI said:
before that is was the music of Bill Chase:



The guy actually let me have a bass solo.
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We played that for our jazz band districts. She didn't play us the actual song until the week of the concert. Had I listened to it earlier, I probably would have totally wanked on the bass at the end.

And I did marching band 10-12th grade, all on baritone. My last show, which was last fall since I just graduated, was the music of the "Doobie Brothers". I use quotes because it was actually three tunes written by Michael McDonald (freaking boring) and one written by Kenny Loggins. Before that we did a grab bag of different songs, the opener being Karn Evil 9, which was fun to play. And the year before THAT, we did Styx.

Now that I think of it, I really wish we could have done some better shows while I was playing, but you're gonna complain about every one of them so whatever. This year they're doing the music of Chuck Mangione.
 
#17
I was really into marching band , though the later years weren't so great as all the freshman and sophmores had no idea what they were doing. I played tuba, too. The bands in my area are super competitive which results in pretty amazing shows from the bigger bands. Last year we play "The Machines" which was pretty sick.
 

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