I'm a freshman at Cypress Falls, and I swear they read this exact comment or something. huge emphasis on an ensemble sounds.

+LeBashfulBadger Flomo already did lmao.

When they got 1st last year and we got 6th, so yeah they beat us

Flomos show was great

Our 2016 show is great

Oh my god, I wanna see it soooo bad!!! As an alum from last year, I miss y'all so much!! AND y'all are playing my favorite ballad of all time this year!!!

+frenchhornplayer1000 Ayy fellow mellophone player😎. Jk I'm a trumpet marching a mellophone spot at duncanville. Good luck this year though.

Thanks! I am an alum now, but I still support them obviously whole-heartedly!!

Mystytopaz Oh my god, I wanna see it soooo bad!!! As an alum from last year, I miss y'all so much!! AND y'all;all are playing my favorite ballad of all time this year!!!

First

They've gotten 1st for the past 5 years

The middle schools are heavily invested in making sure every player can sound like their instrument should sound. So even the last chair Marcus kid will sound reasonably close to what a professional would sound like, at least on one single note. A lot of time is spent on breathing properly, placing the tongue in the perfect spot to get the cleanest note start, practicing note starts so that all students enter at the exact same time, making sure the air is supported through the sound and making sure everyone releases at the exact same time. At most schools you have at least a few players who can do this. At Marcus it's at least 80% of the band. Also at least 80% of the band is in private lessons so everyone is getting weekly help from a professional to sound as good as they possibly can. In other words very few kida play with bad sounds (even the last chair players) so the overall sound has very few impurities.

wow

For real, Wylie and McKinney Boyd are starting to make a statement for themselves. Both of them should be at state soon, not just one of them.

@Adithya I personally didn't find Wylie's final performance to be that great and personally thought Mckinnwy Boyd would move on and North Mesquite would be the alternate, but then again my seats weren't the greatest so who knows the forms could have looked alot better for the judges. Personally I feel North Mesquite is the band to look out for as the up and coming star because they were a younger band than 2 years ago, and if they truly Hunger for State I can see them moving on in 2.

Kyler Wortham on a regular basis, Wylie hadn't played their show well. they really stepped it up in finals. that's why Boyd unfortunately didn't go

xXCerealBowlXx I go to Boyd so it was hard at first to not make it but I got over it quickly. y'all sounded good and i knew we didn't make it to state once y'all played

Kyler Wortham you were correct

***** as a member, i can honestly say that isnt true. its not the money that makes the band, its the members.

Type R Designs is it true you guys only march juniors and seniors?

Baredex Definitely not true, that's Allen HS. The $3,000 payment isn't true either from up above.

***** Like half of that

***** Nope, I marched my freshman year. It's still not $1500, I don't know exact pricing though. It's lower than that.

lol.

No they wouldn't....not with the way Marcus, Hebron and Flower Mound are performing these days. I will say if Marcus, Hebron and FM (all from the same district) weren't in the mix, you would have a case. '97 Poteet definitely plays with an extremely tight projecting sound without that distorted trainhorn element that a lot of the high-level bands of that era had...That sound would certainly put them in finals in this day and time, provided they could achieve the expanded dynamic range that amplification allows for these days.....but in any case, they lack visual polish. Look at that horrible bouncy upper body carriage at 5:18. That would not fly in the Top 5 in 6A these days.....not with the money that the 6A bands invest in visual staff that Poteet certainly didn't have back then. As for Westfield.....that was a particularly strong year for Westfield and it's much harder to single out individual components that differentiate it from the 6A medalists from the current era when listening to audio pulled from a VHS tape that's zoomed out into the stratosphere and blurred to all foggy hell. I do think Westfield would still lose...but I do respect your opinion if you think they would win.

crazy how delusional this is lmao you gotta have schizophrenia or something

It's way louder in person

Compared to other bands, nah.

Are you high?

+cptx1970 And Russian Christmas Music existed before DCI did it... it's not reheated if you saw it in 1987... IT WAS 1987! These kids weren't even born yet. Also, why are you comparing high school marching bands to world class drum corps? That's really unfair to these folks.