Band Camp

Well tomarrow I will be starting our Marching Band Camp at my high school. So offically my summer is over. The number of coasters I have released during summer=0. Which I'm not to happy about, so becuase of band camp and school which occurs in a week and a half my time is now limited greatly. I'm not saying I won't be visiting the site up to 20 times each day, I'm sure I'll still find time for free time, but my overall time is now limited.

Just informing everyone of this. and I still plan on participating in as many contests as possible.

what instrument do you play, or do you just march? lol

[stoning]You could just quit [;)] imo i really dont like marching bands, its the one thing about a carnivel that i really hate well.. and the carny folk ....food kinda sucks whilst i think about it. Even most the rides suck at a fair. come to think of it i dont like carnivels much.........

I already started band camp, and my summer ended on July 16th. My summer program started which was about engineering and it was from 8 to 3, and right after that, bandcamp started and school will start in a few days, so yeah. My summer ended a while ago[:(]

I play trumpet, and I don't plan on quiting becuase I'm a senior and I like the music we are playing.

I play trumpet too, and about anyother instrument there is, lol. JP, but i do play 8 instruments, or is it 9? Eh, doenst matter, i can pretty much play whatever you put infront of me, lol[:)]

I only play one, but it's kinda like two, and sometimes up to five. THE PIANO! I know that It's not exactly the "coolest" instrument out there, but I can also play the keyboard (exactly the same) and the keyboard is where alot of sweet techno music comes from [8D]

Hmm, i play piano, orgon clairanet, flute, piccolo, trumpet, saxaphone, french horn, baritone, i can kinda play a tuba, i can also play grade level 6 music on a plastic recorder, i can kinda sorta play chords on a guitar, thats all i can think off. Hopefully i will learn oboe soon (btw, grade level 6 music is EXTREMELY difficult and takes TONS of practice)

but how well can you play each one? I play alot of grade 10 piano music

i play flute, clairanet, trumpet, piccolo, recorder, and piano supurbly. I play flute the best. It was quite embarrasing once, during band class i play trumpet, and we had a song for festival with a flute solo in the begining. She went down the row and had all the flutes play it, then she sits there for a minute, looks at me and said get my flute and come up there and play it. I did, and she said i got the solo.

Originally posted by whitewolf2759

but how well can you play each one? I play alot of grade 10 piano music

can you play flight of the bumble or moon light sonata?

I can play moonlight sonata, and I would play flight of the bumble bee if i coudl find some sheet music for it. I can also play most of the Pat?????????tique(i think that's spelt right) sonata, Mnay Scott Joplin songs (old ragtime bar music, very hard stuff) and I'm trying to learn the famous Hungarian Rapsody.

lol, i just found some sheet music for flightof the bumble bee[8D] IF anyone is interested (there is more than just that one piece theree) here's a site with a bunch of free music on it: http://www.findfreesheetmusic.com/cgi-b ... cgi?ID=446

COOL!!!!! THAAAAAAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOUUUUUU!!!!!!!! i will get to work on playing it right now..... on piccolo that is (lol)

[Master of Puppets]

ROFLMFAO

"And one time... At band camp..."

Ah american pie. lovely.

I used to play trumpet. Lousy crap instrument. I have some awards and crap from when I used to play piano (got to grade 9 piano and quit)

yeah, now I play drums, and drums only.

"And one time... At band camp..."


I was thinking the same thing.

we all know what come after those famous words!!![devilish]
Anyway i never went to a band camp...just stupid summer ones

I'll try to ignore MOP's comments about trumpet
I play trumpet too, just finished my second band camp (it was rough too, I had orchestra camp for 3 1/2 days before that, so my lips were wrecked).

individual: What show are you playing this year? We're doing WSS (Something's Coming, Mambo, Officer Krupke (maybe), I Have A Love, Somewhere).

[Master of Puppets]

Don't worry about my comment, that's just my opinion. I didn't like playing it. It's no problem if others do like it.

We are playing "Providence Unfinished" a piece writen for the former director of our band and is very difficult, we plan on marching it at around 200 BPM. Then our second piece is, "With the Multitude of which One Spoke" which is nearly as difficult.

I'm just wondering but, is your band camps for "competitive" marching band? Kinda like what DCI does?

We are playing "Providence Unfinished" a piece writen for the former director of our band and is very difficult, we plan on marching it at around 200 BPM. Then our second piece is, "With the Multitude of which One Spoke" which is nearly as difficult.

I'm just wondering but, is your band camps for "competitive" marching band? Kinda like what DCI does?

Whoa, 200 BPM!
Our marching band is kind of in the middle. We generally don't do well at BOA-type competitions because we prefer to let our brass play out (BOA usually likes "full band sound" - i.e., brasses don't play over the clarinets). We do consider ourselves a competitive band, though. Last year, we got killed at competition with posture, we got 90's in music and 70's in posture. So, we spent most of band camp fixing that. I guess that's competitive.

We don't compete in BOA anymore, but we used to back in the 80s and early 90s. But Indiana is considered to be the most competitive state for marching band anyway. Since 1980 we have had 8 state championships and 4 National BOA's. As of late we havn't done to great, mostly becuase judges don't like just marching anymore, they want more visual stuff, so we are doing alittle bit more with movement and performing aspects of it, I guess. I don't think we would do to great in BOA now because we have only 12 woodwind players and 27 Brass. So we are one of those small bands, but we can still play with alot of sound.