For those who think band is only for geeks

This is the Indoor Percussion show (part of Marching Band) that my high school did back in 2009. This video is of the Florida State Championships (FFCC) that we ended up winning.

The show was called Metal. It had 3 movements. the first movement is about metal in the industrial sense, the second is metal as art, and the last is metal as in the genera of music (we played an adaptation of Symphony X's Set the World on Fire from their 2009 Album Paradise Lost)

(I'm the guy conducting)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bobd7...DDAVmGOXcIW2E=

F'n Awesome man, brought tears to my eyes!.

That...was....AWESOME!!

Severe talent going on there! I had the privilege of marching in award winning bands when I was in school...and my kids have done so more recently. I KNOW how much hard work goes into a phenomenal performance like that. Thank you for sharing!!!

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Originally Posted by JLC

That...was....AWESOME!!

Severe talent going on there! I had the privilege of marching in award winning bands when I was in school...and my kids have done so more recently. I KNOW how much hard work goes into a phenomenal performance like that. Thank you for sharing!!!

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exactly, Guitarist for 20+ years now, passed onto my son who is on my rear in skills already, and my oldest daughter is in the school band moving her way up to first chair on the Bass Clarinet. On a side note it was such a blast to help her learn the Clarinet using the guitar. and learning some of the clarinet myself.

Hey that was pretty cool. Back in the stone age when I went to school the coolest thing the band did was play tequila.ha ha

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Originally Posted by luvmyballs

Hey that was pretty cool. Back in the stone age when I went to school the coolest thing the band did was play tequila.ha ha

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I can't even tell you how many times I've had to play that stupid song at football games lol

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

I can't even tell you how many times I've had to play that stupid song at football games lol

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I can't tell you how many times I had to hear that stupid song while playing in football games...:rofl:.

Very cool stuff Aaron...makes me wish I had just an ounce of musical talent.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

I can't even tell you how many times I've had to play that stupid song at football games lol

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well my HS band program was more modern, so our general line up was the doors, the eagles, guns & roses, nirvana, metallica, slayer, and various other bands. some originals as well. LOL. Just Sayin :P but i feel yeah i got so tired of purple haze, light my fire, and comfortably numb.

Really cool. I'm in my high school's marching band (Low brass section leader, aw yeah :cool: ) Unfortunately we're still fairly new, so we aren't very big. We started our first winter guard/ percussion ensemble for the first time this year (participating in that as well. Bass 4.) Nowhere near this level, but maybe one day. Mind if I share this on my band's facebook page? They could all use a bit of insight into what we should be striving for, because we're all pretty new to it. Half of us are wind players, so you can imagine how it's working out.

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Originally Posted by SpencerShanks

Really cool. I'm in my high school's marching band (Low brass section leader, aw yeah :cool: ) Unfortunately we're still fairly new, so we aren't very big. We started our first winter guard/ percussion ensemble for the first time this year (participating in that as well. Bass 4.) Nowhere near this level, but maybe one day. Mind if I share this on my band's facebook page? They could all use a bit of insight into what we should be striving for, because we're all pretty new to it. Half of us are wind players, so you can imagine how it's working out.

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Go right ahead, here are some videos of my marching band, you can share these as well. We are a very small band, with only 25-40 marching winds depending on the year, but we won the florida Marching Band Championships 7 years in a row! Small bands can really do a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju6bABxQvm0&context=C427eb71ADvjVQa1PpcFNnoQ88xgvkz5fgdazqxfRCL884Jh3zSg E=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMVO1GfCyys&context=C48c3206ADvjVQa1PpcFNnoQ88xgvkzy_8H8ozMctJAeXn8FcPI8 0=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVUWp8kGIRw&feature=plcp&context=C46b9e81VDvjVQa1PpcFM8m5i7u68MH3mhh6Y0i p98d8YWUhTkw_8%3D

There is nothing geeky about band! Ive marched high school national competitions, college, DCI its all a great experience. I work with high school bands in my spare time now and it is a pleasure, one of the greatest experiences of my life for sure!

And here is one last video (from before my time but a sick show)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_CY5vs-y8o&feature=related

Excellent performance, everyone involved should be proud of that one!

awesome all around!!!! thanks a ton for sharing the vids!

Not really my thing but still very cool. I can tell alot of hard work must have gone into it. Congrats on winning too!
On a side note you should post some pics of your tattoos. It looks like you got a whole sleeve there man

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Not really my thing but still very cool. I can tell alot of hard work must have gone into it. Congrats on winning too!
On a side note you should post some pics of your tattoos. It looks like you got a whole sleeve there man

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Sorry to disappoint, but I actually don't have any tattoos. What you see in the video was part of our uniform for the show.

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...t/8b083122.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...t/f36770f0.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...t/4009f718.jpg

They are pretty obvious up close but from a distance you can't tell that they are fake.

Very Cool!!

Both my kids are in band, my daughter on the flute and my son on the sax. Not sure where they got their tallent from becasue the only thing I can play is the radio.

I was in marching band, our band won more competitions than our football team, it was actually cool to be in band at my high school. Plus drumline is awesome no matter what.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

Sorry to disappoint, but I actually don't have any tattoos. What you see in the video was part of our uniform for the show.

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...t/8b083122.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...t/f36770f0.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...t/4009f718.jpg

They are pretty obvious up close but from a distance you can't tell that they are fake.

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Ohhhh yea that explains it...
They do look real from what i saw lol!

I'm on a kindle fire and cant get flash.. do u have a youtube link for this video? I played squads at a highschool where u were definetly "cool" if u WERE in band. We as well played current music and kick button 70s songs... pink Floyd, Zeppelin, etc.

I really want to see this video!

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Originally Posted by cdavidson9

I'm on a kindle fire and cant get flash.. do u have a youtube link for this video? I played squads at a highschool where u were definetly "cool" if u WERE in band. We as well played current music and kick button 70s songs... pink Floyd, Zeppelin, etc.

I really want to see this video!

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http://youtu.be/bobd7dFj1as

I can post the links to the other videos I posted as well if you want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87o4a572Ddo

That was awesome! :bow::bow: Thank you for sharing it :)

You are right too, lol...band isn't for geeks. I was very active in my high school band..was 1st chair bassoon during concert season and flag captain my jr/sr year. I got to go for one week of training at the Spirit of Atlanta band camp which was incredible. Our band was very drum corp style..lol..your video reminded me of how much fun we had. Thanks again for the post :P