Post #271,526
10/29/06 1:10:18 AM
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Going to State!
Not quite sports, but since the band plays at the football games, thought I'd sneak it in here. Our son plays the bass clarinet in the [link|http://www.berknerband.com/|competition band for Berkner H.S.]. Lots of teen drama involved this year with a new band director, but all is much better now as they cleared the regional competition and qualified for State.
(...I missed out on the whole band scene in high school - debate took up all my time. Never had much appreciation for the complexity of marching bands - they have somewhere over 180 set points in their routine - with many 14 hour days in the last few months...)
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Post #271,533
10/29/06 10:20:11 AM
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Its a sport, try doing anything else at a full tilt
for nine minutes while hyperventilating if you play a wind instrument, Evern BBall has breaks at either end of the court.
thanx,
bill
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Post #271,534
10/29/06 11:18:49 AM
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Nine minutes? Pfft, that's nothin'
Try [link|http://dci.org|DCI]. That's hard.
And yes, so is HS marching band. At least the competitive style is.
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Post #272,510
11/7/06 7:40:41 PM
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In the finals!
Amy went down to San Antonio to watch the competition. Called a minute ago to say that the Berkner band made the final cut to ten bands.
Woohoo!!!
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Post #272,511
11/7/06 7:43:01 PM
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Woot! Congratulations!
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Post #272,547
11/7/06 11:20:48 PM
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awesome :)
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Post #272,641
11/8/06 6:48:52 PM
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We're Number Nine!
We placed sixth out of 31 bands from across Texas in the prelims.
A new panel of judges was brought in for the finals. They had been sequestered.
Still, being in the top 10 is pretty damn good for a band with a new director.
Mighty Ram Band! Oh Yeah!
Smile,
Amy
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Post #272,677
11/8/06 10:19:05 PM
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Congrats to the kids!
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Steve
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Post #272,866
11/10/06 4:28:35 PM
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Compressed version
For those w/ a short attention span, here's an [link|http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/cus/images/ramband.gif|animated gif (2.7mb)] that captures some of the marching patterns compressed to about 10 seconds.
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Post #272,875
11/10/06 5:51:17 PM
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that color guard gets to hoppin, nice set
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Post #272,880
11/10/06 6:20:02 PM
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:-)
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