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joboe · Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 25 Location: Illinois

jpsaxman, and altosaxgeek5 Do you guys have a color guard or danceline? Question

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altosaxgeek5 · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject:

Oi...we have a colorguard.. there's... a lot of them. I don't really pay them much attention.
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joboe · Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 25 Location: Illinois

r they good? where do you go? and they are the most important part of the marching band!!! if they mess up or if they don't know the worke you can c it, if you don't know your music you can move your fingers and pretend. lol (I am in the guard if you couldn't tell!)
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BuffaloBariSax · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject:

I don't know for sure, b/c school hasn't started, and we don't have full number count yet, but this is preliminary

20-25 flutes
30 clarinets
21 saxes- 10 altos, 8 tenors, 3 baris
20 trumpets
20 trombones(?)
1 Horn
5 Baritones
4 Sousaphones
15-20 'Rummers
6 Color Guard

Like I said, I'm not sure. But pre-enrollment had us sitting at 165, so we should sound good.
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JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

My numbers dwindled a lot

2 alto's
1 tenor
1 bari
2 mello's
5 trumpets
1 sousaphone
4 trombones
4 clarinets
2 piccolo's
2 snares
1 bass drum
2 pit

15 colour/dance (but they have no coordination)

our band is pretty bad as of yet
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alto-girl · Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Australia

What's the difference between concert bands, wind bands, marching bands, jazz bands etc? What other musical groups do you have at your school?

In Australia we don't have big 'marching bands' - at my school we have a Wind Symphony (I suppose a Concert Band), a Stage Band (jazz band maybe?), Orchestra, many different instrument ensembles (flute, saxophone, cello etc), string groups, and choirs.

So what do marching bands do? (I know they march... Laughing

) But what happens with all the other bands? Your 'Band Directors' seem like pretty important people - are they just the conductor or something else?

And don't you get to miss class for your rehearsals (or something like that)? Gah! Now that I've got that all out...sorry for so many questions ...

BuffaloBariSax · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject:

At our school, marching band is part of the band program. If you sign up for band, you march during the (American) football season, play pep band music during basketball games, and play concert (wind symphony) music at other times. Our class is our rehearsals. We have band Mondays and Wednesdays for 2 hours in the morning and an hour and 15 minutes on Fridays.
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Prophetic_Sax · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Elkridge, MD

Guys, all I can tell you is to cherish and remember those days....

Bond as much as you can with each other, because those will be memories that you will cherish forever....

As you can tell, I've been out of High School for some time...LOL...(will be 20 years in 2008!)

But I remember my freshman year, our marching band was HUGE....Honestly, I can't even remember how many were in each section...I would have to really sit down and think...I know we had at least 65-80, and that's not including the Color Guard....so all total, I think we had between 130-180 marching, including the pit and 3 drum majors....

I want to give a shout out to the 1984-1988 Bishop Noll Marching Warriors!!!!! Cool

For those in the Midwest, I don't know if they still hold the Music Bowl....we almost won it in 1984...I think we did, but they cheated us! Crying or Very sad

....that year we won EVERYTHING in EVERY category for all of the marching competitions that we participated in!!!!

Sorry....just strolling back down memory lane!!!!....LOL
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Tully · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 170 Location: Woodinville, WA

Our marching band situation is like BuffaloBariSax described above. We don't have a color guard, but there are about 150-160-people. HUGE band.

Frankly, I dislike marching band, but we are definitely one of the best in the state. I can't really say why, but mostly, I think it's because the director will, as he is fond of saying, "rip you a new one" if you don't do everything correctly!
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JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

Haha..even for a small band We are starting to kick butt!

Alto Girl:
Here's an american guide to band programs (at least for my school)

Your Wind Symphony would be like our Concert and Wind Ensembles...they are bands that contain no stringed instruments. They play "concert" music (No jazz). Concert music is like marches and overtures and themes.

Marching band: A band that marches on an american football field while playing music, consisting of a woodwind line, a brass line, drumline, and a color guard (most of the time). Check out www.DCI.Org to see some cool american marching bands. Those don't have woodwinds though because their drum corps, but you get the idea of it.

Jazz Band: A band that plays jazz. Very laid back. They play jazz if you couldn't tell by the name, if you don't know what that is, than look up artists such as Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker (all jazz saxophonists), Miles davis, Glen Miller, etc.

Pep Band: A band that goes and plays music at other sporting events at schools. They play in the stands. A marching band will generally play in the stands when not marching at half time.

Pit band: The band that plays music for the musical drama production

homeslice60148 · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 15 Location: San Antonio, TX

Ok, we have a pretty big band, but nothing like our neighbors down the street (435 member band...high school band). I think our numbers (during concert season) come out something like this:

2 oboes
2 bassoons
2 Piccolos
12 flutes
11 clarinets
6 Bass clarinets
1 Contrabass Clari
16 alto saxes
7 tenor saxes
5 bari saxes
22? trumpets
3 flugals
8 french horns
6 tenor trombones
3 bass bones
7 baritones
5 Tubas
1 string bass
20-ish Percussion

and only 2 directors

Now, before anybody passes out, these are all divided into three bands, and during marching season, we only march a 95 person hornline. Feel free to visit our website: http://www.taftraiderband.org
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alto-girl · Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Australia

Thanks, JazZz! I understand more now... but what is a colour guard?

JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

A color guard is the dancing ensemble of marching band. During the program they will dance around/inside the formations with generally flags and sometimes rifles and sabers. There is a lot of variation on this, but that's a color guard in it's most traditional sense. A danceline is the same thing, but more focused on dance with a little dabbling in flags.

http://www.regiment.org/videos.cfm
Watch the bottom video, I like it the best. The color guard is the people off to the side holding the flags. If you go through the various pictures on this site you'll see various items they use (parasols, flags, rifles, sabers, etc.)
This is a Drum Corp (brass + drums only) so they are professional marchers with a professional color guard.

p.s. my schools color guard is awesome, we suddenly got amazing and have started ranking in groups of 20+ bands!