actualgirltrombone

Oh goodness, this show. I know that pretty much no one at Cedar Park has this anymore.

I really can't understand how spelling out the word hate is "too mature" for a high school marching band. For petes sake, even Finding Nemo uses the word hate. Medea is not meant to portray niceness or sweetness, but its still a perfectly legitimate expression of emotion. I guess I'm speaking from the perspective of a high school student, but I don't get what the problem is with wanting to express something different on the field.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, that was actually our theme. The way our director explained it to us is that it's just supposed to be awesome. I wasn't trying to hype, and I'm sorry if it seemed that way, but that was actually the theme of the show.

CPs show is about badassery. There is no theme except awesome. =D

We used to actually spray paint all the dots on the field, which was an absolute DISASTER at the first game. Now we just have the 4x4 grid with red dots every 4 steps and yellow in between. It's actually helped a lot.

This competition is going to take freaking forever. 32 bands at 15 minutes a band equals 8 hours of just PRELIMS competition, not including breaks or lunch for the judges. Then ten? bands make finals? Anyone who makes finals is gonna be there till like 1 in the morning.

I really wanted to be able to see Westlake's show! While we were walking out, I saw their little carnival horsey type props, so I asked a Westlake parent what the show was. Tim Burton goes to the Circus sounds like it must be absolutely hardcore and I reallllly want to see a video now.

Personally, I think we deserve a couple park and barks. As far as my count, there are only two where we stand there for any length of time; a hold set for 8 counts or 6 six counts at 180 bpm doesn't exactly count as a "park and bark" in my book. Also, we move at 180 bpm for like 5 minutes. You try to play that loud after having moved that fast and then say we stood still for "like half the show". On a completely different note, Round Rock's show was awesome! It was nice actually getting to see it, and it sounded really good. It seems like Round Rock's been eating their Wheaties this year. =) I think they're gunnin for State.

Lol, Cedar Park definately has a defined opener, ballad, and closer. Always have. We just do the transitions REALLY FAST so it seems continuous =)

Vista won?! WOW! YAY LISD FOOTBALL BOYS! =D

Man, I'm glad our district funds UIL contests and one other contest per year. The closest other contest, but still, I'm sure it helps a TON.

I'm really glad it was just a few rogue students, although over here at CP the facebook group mostly made us LOL. By the way, how is that kid who had his finger chopped off? We heard about that through said group. =) Anyway, hopefully good sportsmanship will be the name of the game this year! I'm really looking forward to seeing yall's show!

Cmon Centex, represent! Who all is going? I know Cedar Park is, and I'm assuming that Leander and Georgetown are as well.... Can we expect to see Bowie there? I can't wait, its always a ton of fun and we always get Rudys for dinner =).

we had the woodwinds listen to the brass play the first impact today and it scared the living crap out of them. its not even LOUD yet! i mean, its loud, but its not LOUD =) we've learned the first thirteen pages of the opener, but only marching and no music. i think music goes on next week. i'm extremely excited.

So I know it's only been like one or two days of band for most of us, but how does everyone think its going so far? Freshmen any good? Show as awesome as you'd hoped? Marching technique going okay? Personally, I'm SUPER DE DUPER excited. We're taking the met off and cranking tempos immediatly, which will only help in the future. Also, all the unmotivated people quit, which will only help.