Holy crap I've never noticed that

they’re sponsored by disney

Servals The secret is in the fund raising.

Anonymousconcept The problem is, no matter how many carwashes, cookie sales, etc. we do, we have very few in our band program to begin with, and where I live, football is everything. Nobody even knows what marching band is.

tarpon pays at least one grand to just to join they have to pay alot of money to be in the band

One grand? At Least.

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+Mpetillo5 ikr mine would be shouting lol

+Mpetillo5 Same with mine, my band director is SUCH a kid!

+Mpetillo5 if you watch 2013's performance, in the opener, you can hear the band director yell before a big hit haha -tarpon alumni

+Mpetillo5 same! Mines a short 40 year old man that resembles a garden Gnome. He would go nuts!

Mpetillo5 I would give anything to watch my band director the two years we made grand nats finals

Please elaborate.

Curious Chunk As simple as I wrote it. I travel to a ton of different places and learn about a lot of different bands in Florida along with the review of the students of all these schools and from what I've seen and what they've said, the school with "More things" aka money often get the most support and the best techs while the mediocre bands are left to the side. Not speaking in a hating term, I'm proud of Tarpon for I have friends in that band but its just a painful reality that I've come to see coming from what others would call, a mediocre school band. I was at FMEA this weekend for All-State and it was amazing to see, hear and learn where all these talented musicians come from and their high school stories.

Not to mention people in the band. My band is full of skilled people and we get custom written by the same guy who writes for the bluecoats and other outstanding groups but we didn't even make it to semi finals because we have about 120 people and a budget of around 5,000$. We had to build our own props and fundraise like there was no tomorrow.

orichic51 Don't bother taking hard work into account then, asshat.

Anonymousconcept Obviously you need hard work but that only gets you so far in these days of marching band. You need certain props and equipment to excel even farther than the hardest work you've put in to be put on the top. That is modern Marching Band Competition these days.

Two people sang it and they are in our band. They just recorded it

okay, thanx!

Which Competition was that

Here in Florida, I think it was Lions Pride competition. Can't wait to see this year's show!!!

Cool I saw them in Atlanta in 2014 for a super regional

All the money in this program comes from fundraising and band fees. We are not supported by the county, the students and band parents do all the hard work for this.

Christopher Morris Smells like you don't enjoy silver too much.

+Sean Bowers Chains for the visual effect, chin straps because the shakos tend to fly off during movement. :)

the chin straps are invisible lol and the chains can be seen for a more professional look

They have woodwinds....

The fact they're a high school lol

And I'm sure it's pretty creepy for high schoolers and 22 year olds to be in the same school. (also - cavaliers machine? anyone? An innovative show? Kinda. 10 years ago.

jason nguyen They aren't quite at DCI level lol

JFB Our drum major is Nicholas Haley! He's the best!

do you know the name of the last movement they play with all the woodwind runs?!! that is like my favorite and i NEED to know

Reigh Kazumira It's an original piece made by Frank Sullivan I don't know the name of it though

+That Guy Who Plays Cod bell And then there's texas bands who can only practice 8 hours a week who are competing on the same level

At first I thought it was all about the props too but if you watch closely everything is almost perfect. They definitely deserved 1st Place last year! See you at Super Regionals in Atlanta this weekend!

If they had money, wouldn't the be going to grand Nast every year?

what is the name of the last movement with all of the wood wind run?!!!! im in love with it and i want to know

They go to an arts school, their main studies are music and for the colorguard it's dance and colorguard.

Actually here in tarpon we only practice about 4 hours on school days and then 12 hours (9am-9pm) on Saturdays.

mondern shadic Das still a lot. Here in my school we only practice an hour and thirty minutes 5 days a week(counting sectionals which are about the same length as rehearsals) and nothing on weekends, excluding competitions and such. No wonder why you guys are so good

+Mermaid Motel (I'm from Broken Arrow) We usually start rehearsal in late July. Eight hours a day, six days a week until school starts. After school starts, it's usually three and a half (it varies on what day it is) every day except wednesday and sunday. Saturdays are sometimes eight hours, sometimes we have a competition.

+Mermaid Motel Coming from a tarpon alumni, we would practice about 4 hours after school, 2 during school on the feild, always in translation there would be some of us practicing, and 10am-9pm on saturdays

Excellent recovery, tho...

They are when we competed against them they had their own semi truck full of props and stuff lol

They're sponsored by Disney land. That's how they afford every thing.

And there band fees are really expensive

No I think that's also in their sponsorship. I heard a rumor that is around 1M sponsorship. Though I think its more of 50k.

joe parisi a lot of bands have their own semi... Almost all bands I've seen have their own

Rose Bugey Check out the Dobyns Bennett show for 2016. They have 0 props period and still made beautiful impacts