Marching Band Thread

**donrandall** · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 657 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

I have seen that it is getting closer to the Marching Band season. I wanted this to be a thread about marching band and for you to post some pictures of your band or drumline.

This is an old picture.. but there are more drummers, behind the camera person.. and beside the camera person. We do have I believe 5 tenors and about 6 bass drums, plus about 12 cymbals I think.
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**cobainage1994** · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2020 Location: Whitewater , WI

Me as a wee little freshman. (The ginger wearing jeans)

Sophomore of Junior year. I played Snare Drum both Years

Senior Year I played/rocked the shit out (to be as modest as possible) of the quads

Drum corp I was in. I am the middle Bass.

I loved Marching band. The Band teacher was my bitch, to put it lightly, so i got away with everything.

I was the drumline section leader in high school. Did the snare clicking my sophomore and junior years when I played snare, and the the drum solos for Wipe Out

**stumper93** · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: Iowa

I don't have any pictures, but I will be a junior next year

I play the Tenor Saxophone and this next year we are doing an entire Queen show.

Songs played are Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Another One Bites the Dust, We are the Champions, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and Don't Stop Me Now....it's gonna be awesome!!

We have also played for past shows Renegade/Come Sail Away/Grand Illusion as a Styx show and Sweet Home Alabama/Free Bird/Forrest Gump Theme...

**Rikuthemaster** · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 3:09 am Post subject:

I'll also be a Junior next year. This will be my 3rd year on Trombone. I love it.

Freshman year, we played "Sing Sing Sing," and "In The Mood." Our teacher though, sucked. She looked like a meth addict, popped her pimples in class, cussed out the Superintendent, and got fired.

Sophomore Year, since we had a new band teacher who was way better, we got a cornucopia of songs to play at shows so our shows weren't all the same. All together, we played "Takin' It To The Streets," "Turn, Turn, Turn," "Carry On Wayward Son (win)," and "Thriller" for Halloween. The season was full of WIN. I look forward to this year's...
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**SeaMoney** · Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 750 Location: East Lansing, MI

I'll be a senior next year and the section leader for the alto saxophones (largest section in the band

). Hopefully our show this year will be as good as this past season, though that will probably be impossible. Last season we played Layla, Born to Be Wild, Crosstown Traffic, and Radar Love.

I can't wait for August!
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**EmoArbiter** · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 4:46 am Post subject:

Percussionist here. I'm a junior next year hoping to finally get out of our freaking pit and make the bass line as either 3rd or 4th. We're doing a kind of ethnic theme this year

Our drumline is set up with 6 snares, 5 basses, 3 tenors, and 7/8 cymbals, with a 12-15 pit

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**donrandall** · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 657 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Yeah. I'll be in the drumline this season.. tryouts are in a month or so. I do not want to be in the boring-ass front ensamble/pit.
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**xtremecarbon** · Joined: 29 Mar 2008 Posts: 3998 Location: Columbia, SC

I did MB from sophomore to junior year, 2 years total. IT SUCKED, but that is mainly because I hated my band director and the associates. I would much rather be at a different school. I played the baritone both years, it was challenging but made me stronger since I had to keep the whole angle thing. I'm taking it easy senior year

Here's some specs about our band:

We are the biggest division at State competition, 5A. We will probably have about 70-80 people. 5A bands usually have 200+, so every year we get SCREWED and we LOSE ALL of our competitions. Out drumline is usually made of 5 basses, 3 snares and 1-2 tenors. This year it is 4 basses, 2-3 snares, 1 tenor. We are just a very small band competiting in a much bigger crowd then we ought to be, since there are like 3000 kids at my school and 80 are in MB. fail.
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**donrandall** · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 657 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Wow. Our entire marching band has I believe 302 people. Including like flag team and such.
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**donrandall** · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 657 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Yes it is.
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**xtremecarbon** · Joined: 29 Mar 2008 Posts: 3998 Location: Columbia, SC

**donrandall** · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 657 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Wow. I'm in a rather crappy city, Pittsburgh. But in a reallt good suburb with alot of people that get involved with the music program.
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**GenericName** · Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 1630 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

My highschool marching band has.. maybe.. 40 people in it? And because my school is so small, our highschool band is 7th - 12th.

My marching band is epic anyway, we had a Styx show last year. (Come Sail Away, Renegade, stuff.)

I play clarinet. >.>
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