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.

i hate when turf stadiums here don't repaint their hashes very often, so they get worn off and nearly impossible to see. It makes me a sad panda.

IDK about the rest of you but even people who are in shape can't generally take running around the field at an average of 180 bpm for 6 out of 8 minutes while playing loudly and holding a horn without at least a little complaining =)

I saw their drumline preformance video for the KEYE Marching Challenge thingie. They look like they're pretty awesome, and a lot different than what we usually see. I'd love to see them in action live.

I'm not saying its a bad thing! I think its great that bands and corps both use each other for inspiration. I'll also fully admit that our show next year (the music selections at least) are "stolen" from different corps by way of SFA. I just think its an interesting phenemonon that corps, which most people consider elite, sometimes take concepts from high school bands, and I wanted to know if there were any more examples of this. Also, there's a reason stealing was in quotes. I know its not actually STEALING, but when you see almost the exact same move made in almost the exact same way, it does bring to mind the thought that it might not be entirely original.

So, has anyone else seen any examples of this? The two ones that I can think of right now is the Cadets taking Cedar Park's winking smilie face and Cavaliers 95 taking the awesome ripple move from Spring 93. Anyone else got anything?

Dan, I'm always so excited when i hear "arranged by Daniel Montoya" at marching competitions.

I'm SO SO SO excited that CP is going to Arlington instead of the usual local band competition, it'll be nice to get some critique and see what everyone else is doing. I'm SOOO excited to see Marcus. And also to go to Arlington, cause we havent been there in 4 years or so.

Thanks for noting that the last set of the Cadets was straight up stolen from CP. It was kind of flattering, but we were still like WHAAAAAAAT? Also, although it may look kid-ish, the drill that goes into the winking is not for children.

So, person from McNeil, yall have nothing to worry about football wise. Poor VR wasn't even doing too well in their 4A district (although admittedly with Lake Travis and such), so I wouldn't worry too much about having the worst football program. Now BAND, on the other hand, I am excited to the maxxxxx to see from VR. =D

I think a wiki might work, but the current directory just doesnt do anything. There's so many bands that aren't on there, and honestly if you want to look up a band there is google, or even the people on this website. Currently, the only bands that are on there are the bands of people who already use TXBands or the notorious BOA or State winners who should have their own website anyways.