JMU Marching Royal Dukes 2006 - Firedance

Parade of Champions 2006
Feat. Alex Bender, James Ballard, Zac Hittie, Mark LeMunyon, Steve Siegel, and the award-winning Dukettes

[@BlackCatGodess]

Best marching band song to play. EVER. 2006 was an AWESOME year for the MRDs and I'd give just about anything to play this song again like we're doing to Malaguena.

[@locksfamily]

Tears - man - wow.

[@UNTduke]

YEEEEESSSSSSSSSS...ballsy

[@jkbrown5313]

Loved playing Fire Dance in 1980.Sky Ryder's than playing that fall at ECU. Amazing song.

[@HyperialAnubis]

I love this so much. The chords were hit on the mark each time by the upperbrass members. Well played JMU.

[@kevinrusch3627]

anytime someone asks me "what's the best marching band you ever saw?" I send them this link.

[@hughesrk]

Oh man.....I miss being in the MRDs so much. This was definitely my favorite song out of all the ones we performed. and the crowd's reaction that night........sick :)

[@AsaGayle]

Great as always JMU

[@TreUrvawi]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKESSSSSSSSSS! Fantastic! love the MRDs. Go see them if you ever get the chance! ~T're

[@hellomuchbetter]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUKES!

[@MCofield04]

CHILLS

[@wilsonkm]

I could've sworn...this was the biggest crowd reaction I had ever seen in my marching band career. The crowd was so loud that the trumpets were playing to the mike and I still couldn't hear them play. And I played tuba in that video. That was seriously the highlight of my MRD career. I don't think Macy's can top this one.

[@kevinrusch3627]

I happened to be passing through Harrisonburg that day, and after some pizza and beer at Luigi's, we were like "oh, let's run through campus." And we were in the stands for that. Hoo boy. Totally worth every bit of hearing loss I still have.

[@daneiul]

While I agree that their performance of A Mis Abuelos was as good as this, if you hear the original recording of Arturo Sandoval playing it, A Mis Abuelos is fucking LEGIT.

[@TheTeamIsSHaRP]

Where can you get music for this?

[@jeraldomnl]

where can I find the sheet music or can someone help please?

[@aeiouandytoo2]

i agree with your thoughts on the excitement levels of each song but there was no "failed attempt" at fusing Firedance and Mala. A Mis is a song of it's own and we do a latin song every year for our concert tune. A Mis was this years. rumor is that FD might be coming back in the 09 season though ;) cross ur fingers...

[@superiorbandgeek]

I hated I came in a year after this show. Malguena was a very close second but I just don't think A Mis Abuelos did it this year. It sounded like a failed attempt to fuse FD and Mala. together. I wasn't there but if this show was better than marching Macy's then it must have been one heck of a show.

[@silkaem]

I'm sorry. I marched for NSU, but I'll be the first to say that there isn't an HBCU that could matched sound or clarity with this program. There is no comparison. I will build a program like this one.......someday

[@FungoBoy]

i hate this arragement, lost everything from the original but it was still a good performance. why did it sound like the audience were booing?

[@Tribesmackavich]

i saw them yesterday too they where so cool but some idiot in the stand where booing them even though they where pure genius

[@haroldhomeslice]

Nvm... Dukettes are in the show piece....thus band can't move much... But still....holding in one spot for 30 seconds? :S

[@Jmuduke]

Yeah guys, sounded balls. Too bad I couldn't do section leader again this year, Bender way to get that feature tight as shit.

[@IIIThreat]

That's a huge band! Not bad for the size of the band. I couldn't imagine trying to get a band that size to balance!

[@wilsonkm]

Oh yeah....and that crowd was SO MUCH louder than what you hear on the video. The noise was literally deafening.

[@MadMarchingTrumpeter]

Actually it's a Mega C...a Double B wouldn't fit in the cord right

[@xlneoMAXlx]

i watch this and i think to myself... i hope they move at least once rofl wheres the drill >:(

[@haroldhomeslice]

Park and bark....... Although I do applaud with the trumpet soli

[@HeatherPotter15]

sounds fine to me... but I'm biased. lol. being in the band 'n all lol.

[@wannaplaytrmptjmu]

yea, dude that guy is ridiculous. He's a scream machine.

[@MadMarchingTrumpeter]

yeah my bad i thought i heard a different cord structure

[@orangeraider07]

MRDs are doing this again for the 2010 Show 2 Closer.

[@Cheezit317]

@cdonon321 KEVIN!!!

[@bluesilk]

get it bender. was that a double B i heard?

[@afrolocs]

i play 4 a hbcu but this band go so hard

[@DBZbeast123]

that trumpet who first started playing the solo is my band director!

[@StateTrooper2K1]

It's a double B natural...

[@slappy1234567]

great!

[@dji75mike]

they sound great

[@wannaplaytrmptjmu]

@RABBITBACKER I don't think they would kill them. I say they're about even given the fact that JMU has it's pros and cons, and so does Northwestern state. I think it's kinda hard to compare them, when in the end, marching band in college is about fun. =)

[@DavidTangman]

Ah, the MRD... year in, year out the finest anywhere. (class of '84)

[@davidsnarr5373]

Bender's my hero

[@MadMarchingTrumpeter]

OMG one of the best trumpet featuring marching band pieces out there and you guys were friggen AWESOME! Those are some pretty sweet high G's you bust out there, im thuroughly impressed and im gonna suggest to my band director if i can get my range up in time for my senor season! From a future trumpet soloist at Battlefield High.

[@MarineBugler]

No one will ever match Chris McGee "The Trumpet Messiah' of JMU in the earl 80's. :) ... the dude was a complete trumpet monster.

[@jbrown2216]

Even with the 300+ people we have in the band you can still hear the pit. We must have been playing outrageously loud!!!

[@monkeysninja]

i saw them at Hanover competition 2 weeks ago and they are incredible just not by the sheer number of a college band but just the pure sound this is what i join band for to be in a to produce sound exactly like this

[@djt434s]

good stuff

[@ROFLMAOtheNARWHAL]

I'm in high school, and U

[@hypnos86]

O_O

[@Awfulavery]

Not to say anything negative whatsoever about prior and future generations of the MRD's, but this was hands down the best performance by the MRD's of all time. and yes, I may be partial because I was in it.

[@keyowilson5695]

+Avery Daugherty If you ask me the number one memory of my MRD career....Macy's Parade would be number 2. This night was the number one greatest memory as an MRD. The video does no justice to show the crowd volume...I remember we couldn't hear the trumpet soloists.

[@SSBBgrl]

I'm so proud to be a Marching Royal Duke!!!! :) I can't believe we're going to play this again for our closer for show 2!!!! I'm so excited!!!!! :) We're not just Virginia's Finest...We're AMERICA'S FINEST!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MrFierce06]

They sound great...The Sound Machine will be there to rep this weekend!!!It's great for both schools....EAGLE PRIDE!!!

[@aeiouandytoo2]

i think we're doing Firedance for the 2010 season along with a bunch of the other famous concert tunes from years past

[@aeiouandytoo2]

Amen to that! I just recently in the trumpet professor's surprise concert and McGee popped a dub C at the end of the last song with all the alumni and current students...sweet

[@futurecrowntrumpet]

yeah man. i heard this in 2007 and the "tried" to fit them on a high school field. loud as HELL!!!!!!!!

[@wilsonkm]

29,999 views....=)

[@wilsonkm]

I was the 50,001th viewer. Can't stop watching this...I remember this night like a few minutes ago. During the ending when we came off the sideline, the crowd was so loud I did not know when to come in. Our energy that night was unforgettable....

[@porkboi]

Got.... Damn.... That gave me that grit face you get when you know something sounds good... you know the one that urgh face.

[@spiderman917]

that is awsome!!!

[@AndreastheRed]

does anyone know who the drum major in the center is? it looks like someone i know, but i'm not sure.

[@wannaplaytrmptjmu]

@bradlovesreskins yep, he's a beast, I still wonder why he didn't go play in a Drum Corp.

[@coldsteel0714]

ALL I KNOW IS NCCU is gonna get theyre ass whooped at this game!!!

[@orangeraider07]

although we didnt get to finish drill for this in time for POC, it was pretty awesome to perform it today.

[@malemunyon]

This is one of our "concert tunes" in which the Dukettes (Dance Team) perform with us. We don't move a lot in order to keep the focus on them.

[@FungoBoy]

oh thanks! =p

[@Therealrealbenji]

*Throws baby*

[@wilsonkm]

I've got some awesome memories from being an MRD this year, but for those of us that was in this show, I have to say this was the most unforgettable moment of my MRD career. Macy's Parade 2008 can't even top this one.

[@jpat09]

this reminds me how much im gunna miss playing in a marching band....holy crap that was amazing

[@MoreThanWhatIAm]

@orangeraider07 And it sounds amazing! It's going to look hot this weekend at POC :D

[@samisbrown]

wooot!!!

[@JMeUphonium]

Dancing.

[@ROFLMAOtheNARWHAL]

I'm in high school, and I was at POC yesterday, and I will say this: the Marching Royal Dukes' performance made my freaking year! You guys are AMAZING!

[@jocobo99]

u guys hav great chops.....especially the guy that hit the clean double c

[@NAB4]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOAAAA!!!!

[@TSquared2001]

@KrisKrunKNC You sure? 2011 has been a CRAZY year in terms of trumpets

[@cwes478]

Good Lord!!! AMAZING sound!!! Powerful, yet CLEAN!! That's what's up!!

[@Cheezit317]

Too bad they don't play nearly as loud as they used to..

[@TATYSAMN]

yes, it was so beautiful it took my breath away. Simply amazing.

[@lnspttmn]

our band has to play this this year. It is AWESOME!

[@samsaphone]

JMU is, as usual, ridiculous legit. I love them.

[@TonyFranchise98]

Now that is what you call BLOWING!!!!!!

[@Rudysetgo]

WOW O.O. I hear boo's at the end :\

[@wannaplaytrmptjmu]

You should hear the line this year ;)

[@dancerchick834]

ohh I miss playing this piece :(

[@samisbrown]

woot =D i love that song

[@Beachlover935]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@silkaem]

OMG! That was outrageous!

[@tko333]

they dont move much...