Hardest show

[I<3thebox]

I clocked YOUR* show tonight, its 10 minutes and 20 seconds, but tonight was way faster so its probably closer to 10:45 - but thats with 30 secs of intro nothingness...

so.... 10:15 ish?

at an average of ... Id say 174 is the avg tempo

dude... I can multiply!

174 x 10.25 = 1,783.5 BEATS - poor drumajors! (that half beat would be the intro skipping on Friday )

Good thing YOU* dont have guy drum majors... they'd have some SICK biceps

 

*I use the word YOUR in order to remain officially anonymous

[sw33ttapioca]

id have to say part 3 last year.. 90 degree slides to front side line & marching at a tempo near 200 & direction changes that you have to be careful with or youd slip..

[themainclarinet]

Nick of course I agree with you! It's because I love you!!! Watch out

[manuel_pablo]

  sw33ttapioca said:

id have to say part 3 last year.. 90 degree slides to front side line & marching at a tempo near 200 & direction changes that you have to be careful with or youd slip..

Part 3 this year was way harder for me than last year.

[MartinHorn]

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It was Piano Concerto(for strings), Sketches on a Tudor Psalm, and Ostinato which is the best of all three movements in Phantom's 2003 show.

 

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This is the show Martin is playing this year. And it looks pretty tough.

 

Yes it is tough. Some corrections for ya. The Phantom show had 4 movements (Canon in D, Wild Nights, The Lord's Prayer,and Ostinato) and we did play Ostinato we didn't play Piano Concerto(for strings) or Sketches on a Tudor Psalm. And while Ostinato was awesome and is the best, The Lord's Prayer is amazing too.

[Band Of Champions]

And you sucked it up Julian.

Lol JK

[QuadraticBeats]

  speedracerrox00 said:

This year for sure. My first year was the lamest show EVER.... you have no idea (unless you're in my band ["HELP! I'm stuck in a bad show!"])... last year's show was pretty hard i guess, atleast in comparison to the one before it but...wow. we have a lot of work to do to get used to this show and get on the level it was written for.

Haha... haha... yeah, I saw that at the LHS-CPHS game as an eighth grader, (Eight Grade Night), where I was happily getting to play toms. I thought Leander was the best thing I'd ever seen, and thought Cedar Park was just... well... stupid. But now... I sometimes considered attempting to transfer into Cedar Park, particularly on band competition days when we were performing like crap, in my opinion. Thankfully, the drumline redeemed itself from the previous year's crappiness, and managed to actually beat all the drumlines in our divisions in the band contests we went to (not Lone Star Classic... we got 6th and best front ensemble in their Division II category there), namely being Capital City Marching Contest and Westlake Marching Competition (We also were the first band to play in our divisions at both of those contests). From a crappy drumline to what we have now, and all in one season... good times.

[Band Of Champions]

Sounds like fun

[ThanksForAllTheFish]

By far, our show this year was the hardest our school has ever attempted. It paid off though. We did well at Nationals.

[iplayband07]

The Woodlands - "Competition" (2005)

 

Has to be the hardest i've marched. The closer was pretty much.. like.. a continuous slide across the field. Went from like.. the 20 on side one to the 20 on side 2.. and then all the way back. roughly.

 

and the ballad was all in double time.. except for one set before the big hit, and then the last set was in single time. hardest ballad i've ever marched.. And it was also double time sliding across the field from like.. the 15 yard line side 2 to like.. the 20 on side 1. horrible.

[Danpod]

Hardest I've marched: 2000 - Abstraction

 

Hardest I've played: 1999 - The Power and The Beauty

 

Hardest I've conducted:

2001 - Under Construction

2002 - Anime'!

 

I think I've covered all my bases...

[ClaireAnnette07]

You guys may think I'm lame, but I think "Minimally Speaking" was a difficult show for our band, mainly because of the sets..we had a lot of meshes that were difficult and one clarinet slide that was just...horrible...for us in the front. As for the lamest, I'd have to say this year, just because the sets were way easy and so was the music. If we would have played "Ruslan and Ludmilla" (the 3rd movement..embarassingly, we only played 2), it would have been better...but only a select few could handle the ridiculously long 16th note runs

[actualgirltrombone]

  iplayband07 said:

The Woodlands - "Competition" (2005)

 

Has to be the hardest i've marched. The closer was pretty much.. like.. a continuous slide across the field. Went from like.. the 20 on side one to the 20 on side 2.. and then all the way back. roughly.

 

and the ballad was all in double time.. except for one set before the big hit, and then the last set was in single time. hardest ballad i've ever marched.. And it was also double time sliding across the field from like.. the 15 yard line side 2 to like.. the 20 on side 1. horrible.

i feel so bad for everyone from the woodlands, because you mainly watched the guard instead of the band. the marching looked really hard, and the forms looked good, but because of the guard it just didn't grab your attention...

[euro_euph06]

  actualgirltrombone said:

i feel so bad for everyone from the woodlands, because you mainly watched the guard instead of the band. the marching looked really hard, and the forms looked good, but because of the guard it just didn't grab your attention... 

I remember watching the band instead of the guard.

 

 

 

Anyways-

 

My hardest show (as of this day) to march was From Many Comes One. It had 111 sets of very difficult drill, and because MG lazily wrote it, the difficulty rose to a greater level. But it was also a very fun show to boot because of the music. The hardest show musically I've played (as of this day) was my freshmen year show Artwork of the Mind. I was on the second euph part and we went the frickin' high B natural. I think first part went to the F above that!!! But the impact statements were really loud and good. I encourage all to listen to it from the media section of this website.

[Aegis Fang]

I'm sure my band could perform harder stuff than we do, but our stuff is so easy... maybe it's just because I've been marching it for a long time now... I dunno. Even last year when we actually had a decent show, it was really easy.