Duncanville Marching Invitational (October 26)

[Liam Allen]

Waxahachie - They’re back for more and I’m ready for it!  Playing the Carolina in my Mind chorale is a baller move for a warm up.  Some trouble in the pit triplet runs.  Still phenomenal tenor sax playing.  Great shaping of the woodwind lines.  Great transparency of sound.  Fantastic opening hit!  Cleeeean brass feature!  I’m laughing at how freaking clean that was.  Great shaping of the phrase.  Powerful last impact.  Check that Gb tuning horn soloist.  Fantastic musicality on the Ticheli; he and Santa Clara Vanguard are very proud right now.  Little tuning error on the mellophone D; a few people were about 2 or 3 cents sharp.  Again the comment is yelled out “beautiful”!  And we’re vibing with the tenor sax again.  Holy crap sax soloists.  I’m dead.  Alto sax altissimo G goes crazy!  Great closing hit and a great performance tonight!

[Liam Allen]

THAT Wylie Band - I’ve heard good things about this show.  Great preshow.  This alto sax soloist is tapping his foot like he knows he’s about to shred.  What an opening hit.  I think these uniforms make viz hard to read.  Great cue from the drum major for the beat 2 entrance.  Good tuning in the trumpet sax duet.  Update: the sax guy shredded.  Ballad is killing.  And altissimo from sax guy.  He can’t stop himself lol.  Oh my god Evan VanDoren finally wrote a mellophone note above F.  Cool visual moment with all the individual people running through the circles to pairs. Hey Jude hit hard.  Holy crap sax guy.  Holy crap.  As a sax guy myself, you’ve made me a very happy man.  Altissimo D is crazy.  Incredible performance tonight!

[Liam Allen]

Hebron - my second viewing of the Holy Hebron Marching Band.  I can still smell the excellence.  So I took no notes during the performance.  I was too busy having multiple heart attacks.   Going back through is going to be fun.  From the first note of the first part, absolute clarity and musicality exists.  However I found myself shocked to find a few errors.  There was a single marcher on side 2 2 steps off the 50 that wasn’t in line.  A trumpet held over a release in part 1.  There’s some feet issues.  That’s it.  That’s all I can find.  Everything else is entirely opinion-based.  I wish the trombone gliss feature in Harmonium was more gooey in its entrances.  It’s closer to it than the last time I saw it.  I couldn’t quite hear the last part of the trumpet double tonguing over the trombones.  I could use more of the small brass ensemble in the ballad.  The huge woodwind feature at the front in Rocky Point needs to penetrate the rest of the ensemble.  And now fire some positivity: Steven Solis-Welch is the best conductor I’ve seen on a high school podium.  It would be a crime for him to not go into music education.  What a spectacular performance.  I can’t say enough.

[Dallas Hobbs]

FINALS RESULTS

1. Hebron
2. Wylie
3. Keller
4. Waxahachie 
5. Southlake Carroll
6. Rockwall 
7. Keller Central
8. Lake Travis
9. JJ Pearce
10. James Martin
11. Plano East
12. Lake Ridge
13. Plano Senior
14. Weatherford 
15. Canyon
16. Lamar

 

Outstanding Percussion: Hebron

Outstanding Color Guard: Wylie

Outstanding Content & Design: Hebron

Outstanding Visual Performance: Hebron

Outstanding Music Performance: Hebron

[slowbrass]

  On 10/27/2024 at 3:46 AM, Asaiah said:

If anyone filmed Hebron, send it my way please

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Seconded 👀 or anyone else tbh

[Dottie_Minerva]

  On 10/26/2024 at 9:03 PM, Dallas Hobbs said:

If theres anything specific you’d like me to comment on while watching your band perform in finals let me know and I’ll make a note to respond to you. 

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Sorry so late, any thoughts on weatherford??? And our trumpets?

[Dallas Hobbs]

  On 10/27/2024 at 3:52 AM, Dottie_Minerva said:

Sorry so late, any thoughts on weatherford??? And our trumpets?

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Loved the callback to Vandegrift’s 2019 show. Little things I enjoyed were how nicely the drumline matched the rhythm of the low brass in the opener and how delicately the low brass could play that little figure in the softer dynamics. 
 

I could tell it was challenging for them to come in together after long silences, like right at the opening hit. It’s challenging to pull stuff off like that but overall it was a really great performance. 
 

not sure what I could say specifically about the trumpets, I really only paid attention to the ensemble as a whole and remembered my favorite movements lol

[some random]

anybody have scoring sheets?

[BandFan50]

  On 10/27/2024 at 3:52 AM, Dottie_Minerva said:

Sorry so late, any thoughts on weatherford??? And our trumpets?

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Is there any recording of weatherford??

[Dottie_Minerva]

  On 10/27/2024 at 6:37 AM, BandFan50 said:

Is there any recording of weatherford??

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Finals performance

we are an up and coming program. A 6A band in a super competitive area, our kids had a great time yesterday seeing what was possible and we have some real talent here. 💙 I’m so proud of the work they put in, I’d love to hear any feedback

[Tubalord11]

Congrats to Hebron on the win, no surprise there!! WYLE, talk about having their best season ever, are we looking at a possible new state finalist??👀 Obviously, they've to make it out of area J, which won't be easy, but I think it's gonna be them or Prosper anyways, but we'll know soon. Rockwall also coming out and making statement, good showing going into next weekend as well. Congratulations to everyone! 

[LKendrick]

Got some amazing tapes, two solid runs, saw some amazing bands, and heading back to the panhandle!  Was a great (and exhausting) weekend.  Don't recommend a get off the field and back in warmup again within 45 minutes for finals lol but that's how the cookie crumbles sometimes! 
 

Hopefully back at 4A state in about two weeks!

[Tubalord11]

Would love to see the full recap if possible!

[Liam Allen]

  On 10/27/2024 at 3:39 PM, LKendrick said:

Got some amazing tapes, two solid runs, saw some amazing bands, and heading back to the panhandle!  Was a great (and exhausting) weekend.  Don't recommend a get off the field and back in warmup again within 45 minutes for finals lol but that's how the cookie crumbles sometimes! 
 

Hopefully back at 4A state in about two weeks!

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Son Lux went hard!  Clearly yall have fun playing it.

[Eram97]

  On 10/27/2024 at 2:53 PM, Tubalord11 said:

Congrats to Hebron on the win, no surprise there!! WYLE, talk about having their best season ever, are we looking at a possible new state finalist??👀 Obviously, they've to make it out of area J, which won't be easy, but I think it's gonna be them or Prosper anyways, but we'll know soon. Rockwall also coming out and making statement, good showing going into next weekend as well. Congratulations to everyone! 

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We’re excited and hopeful for what’s to come (team Wylie)

[some random]

are scores usually released for this comp or are they kept secret?

[Tubalord11]

  On 10/27/2024 at 8:17 PM, some random said:

are scores usually released for this comp or are they kept secret?

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Normally the are released, if anyone has the recaps pls post unless ofc told not to, but they have the 22 results on their website 

[some random]

  On 10/27/2024 at 8:18 PM, Tubalord11 said:

Normally the are released, if anyone has the recaps pls post unless ofc told not to, but they have the 22 results on their website 

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that’s what i was wondering… i need to analyze before i set my predictions for upcoming contests 😁

[Bushpresident]

  On 10/27/2024 at 3:59 PM, Tubalord11 said:

Would love to see the full recap if possible!

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Prelims and finals here 

[BoneGuy4]

Thank you so much! Also does anyone know if this is the UIL judging system? I don’t think so since there are 4 music, 2 visual, and 1 cont and design.

[pancake]

  On 10/28/2024 at 2:53 AM, BoneGuy4 said:

Thank you so much! Also does anyone know if this is the UIL judging system? I don’t think so since there are 4 music, 2 visual, and 1 cont and design.

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it is the uil judging system for 5A and 6A at state. for area contests they still do the 3 music and 2 vis judges.

[Wannabebluecoat]

can someone elaborate on the CON and ACV meanings? Rockwall beat hebron in brass ACV but im not entirely sure what acv entails.

[bandfan102]

These are very weird.

The inconsistencies for some bands from prelims to finals really needs to be taken into question here. 


Rockwall got 11th in brass in prelims and 3rd in finals...? 
Lake Travis goes from 3rd in individual visual to 8th? 7th in ensemble to 4th..? Their music scores were also wildly variable too, probably because they went first in finals. 
Southlake carrol getting 1st in visual ensemble and 8th in individual?

These are just 3 of the standouts to me. It's just all quite odd and weird. I really don't know what to think of these recaps. 

[bandfan102]

  On 10/28/2024 at 4:09 AM, Wannabebluecoat said:

can someone elaborate on the CON and ACV meanings? Rockwall beat hebron in brass ACV but im not entirely sure what acv entails.

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Content and achievement.

[Wannabebluecoat]

yea im confused on practically everything about this scoring lol