Ah yeah I really miss hearing the same five musical selections across dozens of bands while they play the easiest arrangements known to man because hardly anyone could play a run with decent timing

Unfortunately people don’t realize that double tounging and random woodwind runs don’t mean you’ll get first place lol. If BOA was like wgi and partly graded on difficulty then by all means they can complain, but clean and consistency beats all. It also helps that Avon and Carmel are GE powerhouses.

In your opinion, who has really good visuals? I would really like to see a show that displays that.

@@texanboiii562 I would say the Midwest as a whole come November. TBF they do get to see and practice those assignments a whole month earlier than Texas programs plus their overall music demand is mid to low compared to what some of these Texas programs are pumping out year over year. Hope that helps

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Oh wow 😬

there is only two high schools in pearland so yeah and i am going into pearland high school in one year

@deannabowers6182 one of the trumpets tuning slides fr just popped out, look to the right of the form when the trumpets are standing still

Actually it was a mouthpiece…

@@sappled oh fr? strange for a mouthpiece to shoot out forward like that

@@trombonebestinstrument yeah dude was doing a horns up and it flew out. physics is a weird thing

@@sappled an incredibly strange thing fr, thats so unlucky for that guy though 😭

they’re as spread out on the field as you realistically want to get. there needs to be a fine balance between being visually dynamic and keeping the performers close to the audience where they’ll be heard; this show does that pretty well. pushing people further backfield increases the distance between any two performers and makes it harder for those in the back to see drum majors (which is a flat out necessity with bands this big, you cannot listen to other parts of the field for tempo due to speed of sound). 300-350 members is actually a pretty good spot to be for a band like this. the bigger the band, the bigger the sound after all. a good number of competitive bands sit around this size. hell, my college band frequently sits at 500+ members and we make it work.

Not that I don't prefer Hebron. To win, you need to be spotless.

Well to be fair Avon definitely had the hardest visuals this year especially with that opening choreography and still won the title, vis, and GE. I think there needs to be a decent blend of difficulty and execution to get the difficulty points, cleanliness points, and cool factor points for vis and vis ge

@@katana2140 I wouldn't say Carmel had the hardest visuals, they had the cleanest drill. The hardest drill went to Hebron and Carmel had the best overall visual book. I would say this. Hebron got the highest music score in history, but places 4th in Music GE. At the high school level, difficult, but clean music does not win. You need clean music, clean drill but good visuals.

@@user-ml2re8ek7b I never said carmels drill was the hardest because it’s definitely not. I am saying Avon had the hardest and honestly I though Avon had cleaner drill than Carmel too

@@katana2140 I meant Avon, not Carmel. And again, Avon did not have the hardest drill. Not by a long shot. Perhaps you can site their most difficult drill sequence?

Really what instrument? I’m in the band too

What school are you from?

@@justyour_average_lifelover Greenon Jr Sr High from Ohio!

@@transangelic_asylum that’s awesome! What place did y’all get

@@justyour_average_lifelover ooh, I actually can't remember, maybe low-70s to mid-80s? we're a small school with almost no money (arts departments here don't get a lot, lol), so even that was a surprise! It was also the highest score our shows have ever received at BoA :) (63.65, if I recall)

@@transangelic_asylum at least you made BOA Grand Nats! My high school band has never been to grand nats but we have been to UIL State and did pretty decent this year :)