The volume of DCI but in a high school marching band - Welcome to Texas!

[@Loaf69420]

But they have like twice as many people in a normal dci band 💀💀

[@highschoolmarching]

And in Allen’s case, like 4 times more. 😀

[@poser_skateboarder889]

Yeah cause they have woodwinds which are pretty much inaudible except for sax

[@veronicamascaro3041]

DCI isn’t band.

[@poser_skateboarder889]

@@veronicamascaro3041 what? What are they then

[@ipapermc]

@@poser_skateboarder889 they organize competitions for bands

[@rayruiz751]

North shore 2016 had some of the best sound ngl

[@bryfunkenstein]

Eh.... Northshore is in Show style country....probably is a beast in the stands....like McArthur or Eisenhower of old use to... Allen has damn near 1000 kids including auxillary....

[@KoshiBallz]

Man my high school in Oklahoma we have 2 rooms dedicated to all our awards and that’s just for marching

[@MLMLW]

When my daughter marched in the early 2000's they went to BOA Grand Nationals every year and I remember a school from Oklahoma who were really good. It was Broken Arrow HS and they always put on a great show.

[@KoshiBallz]

@@MLMLWwell I’m from Shawnee high school in out past yeas we were amazing this year we had a fallout but then agen the tornado hit us and made some set backs but next year will be a good year ❤

[@christianmichalsky2826]

As a Houstonian band geek, I can definitely say that Texas HS marching bands are on a whole different level when it comes to competition, sound quality and performance expectations. #TexasStrong

[@gingechicken7394]

I grew up in a Minnesotan marching band. I'm glad I was able to experience a more chill, non-competitve environment. There are competition bands in Minnesota, our district just doesn't do it. We did parades, 9/11 memorials, visited the local VAs, park concerts, performed in a U of M halftime show annually, and obviously our hs football games. But it would have been cool to experience a year in a southern marching band, especially a Texas one.

[@christianmichalsky2826]

@@gingechicken7394 I always wondered what bands were like outside of Texas honestly. Granted, there are amazing bands that are able to keep up with, if not destroy, most Texas bands. But, with that said, I'd love to try something different besides stiff competition, ya know?

[@gingechicken7394]

@Christian Michalsky I loved being in a non competition based marching band, we just had more fun. Mad respect for competition bands tho

[@christianmichalsky2826]

@@gingechicken7394 Much appreciated man, and cool beans to the non competitive bands. Y'all must be pretty chill.

[@connorw6335]

Crazy how they can be as loud as them with three times the members

[@nahaight1373]

U act like this is dissing dci. Grow up 😭

[@Ian-hw9nn]

dci is louder

[@sdssteward]

You are over looking the fact that those bands have about 120-150 woodwinds. Their brass lines are about 70-80. Same as a DCI corps.

[@UserName-gk1vw]

ur forgetting the fact that half the size from a high school marching band has woodwinds😭😭

[@nickniehaus1763]

No offense to these bands but the best hornlines in DCI are louder. Not from membership size, but from a totally different tier of individual volume and the groups blend so much better. The balance and blend makes everything feel louder, look at Frameworks 2002.

[@Elloliott]

A lot of Texan bands also behave closer to DCI than other marching bands

[@ChristianRodriguez-hk9pz]

Missing Hebron

[@OGX12]

The goat 🐐

[@eternaljaxton7795]

Fr

[@Sususussysussus]

What my band would sound like if more than 25% actually tried

[@MLMLW]

I just moved to Texas and my grandson is a freshman this year and joined marching band. I can truly say that Texas has some GREAT high school marching bands. When my daughter marched back in the early 2000s her band always went to BOA Grand Nationals and there were a few Texas bands that would always make finals. Her band was always in the finals as well when she marched. I'm glad my grandson decided to march. I told him he'd have the time of his life and he is.

[@eventingthedude]

Im a part of a Texas 4A marching band and our band has some of the most state championships out of all the bands in Texas and it’s definitely been an experience. We went to state for the first time in 9 years and got to march in the stadium shown in the video. We placed 25th out of 26 bands which is fine because some of those bands were insanely good. Marching band is definitely a very serious thing in Texas and can be a bit of a big deal at some schools

[@MLMLW]

@@eventingthedude- My grandson's high school band has been building for a few years and this year they had the most members they've ever had. This year was the first time in 5 years they ever made finals at any of their competitions. In the very last competition his band came in 1st place in their group for semi-finals and won 3 caption awards, then they came in 3rd place overall in finals and won 2 caption awards. They are made up of a lot of freshmen and sophomores. They have a lot of 8th graders coming in next year, too.

[@kingraven_4333]

​@MLMLW what school if you don't mind me asking?

[@MLMLW]

@@kingraven_4333 - Hutto High School in Hutto, Texas.

[@kingraven_4333]

@@MLMLW I love hutto because of their mascot but I don't live near them

[@Clarinet.dommy1]

This may be biased because I’m from Hebron, but where are we? Where’s Vandegrift?

[@highschoolmarching]

I just picked 4 to highlight that hadn’t already been in the Top 5 in TX video. Hebron and Vandy were there.

[@Clarinet.dommy1]

@@highschoolmarching Oh I understand. That’s on me for not checking

[@highschoolmarching]

@@Clarinet.dommy1 Haha - no worries!

[@monkemonke3590]

man allen better be loud they got like 480 marchers in varsity 800 counting JV

[@adopate719]

That's funny because how many of them do you think actually play

[@monkemonke3590]

@@adopate719 bro even if only half of them played that would still be more then double the amount of people in a single DCI corps

[@engineero9779]

Marching band in texas is wild

[@mr.shelton8063]

Should check out Sundown HS in Texas. They are a 2A school with over 100 students in the band

[@The_WatchList]

Sundown's show was great this year. The Texas theme brought tears to my eye's.

[@eventingthedude]

When my school was a 3A we had over 200 people in our band and now we have 150 as a 4A. There’s a lot of eighth graders in band tho so our band is gonna be pretty big next year since only about 20 people are graduating

[@bslave1398]

That rouse band sounded very balanced and in sync!

[@trumpetparker9771]

their 2023 show was amazing!

[@soli7695]

This my school 🗣️

[@Zoofa_]

Bro imagine being in rehearsal kinda me

[@raskullsshako]

Damn my school got 11 people in our band 😭

[@xavierjohnson9647]

dude 11😭😭😭😭

[@lucyg8970]

It could be any reason why. It's always quality over the quantity, the band directors could be really bad, school admins could be shitty, it could be anything on why they aren't big. The band directors job is to promote the band and recruit more members, and if the band director doesn't then that's probably why. But no matter how big a band is, they all work just as hard as any other band to put on a show

[@RainAtWindOq]

@@lucyg8970 yeah, my old band director was super cool and fun as hell. But he also knew how to be serious and strict when need be, he was like our friend. But then he had to switch schools and a new director was placed, nobody liked her. Maybe because we were the first band she was teaching, or we were just not ready to move on. Needless to say a lot of people dropped after that. I stuck around to see and yeah she struggled a lot. But I’m sure she’ll get better with time, I ended up switching schools too.

[@thenerdbyrd7026]

That 3rd's music 👌👌

[@cheerio3442]

their closer was INSANE to listen to live! i was on the upper level to the right during this performance, it was crazy. the low brass was in fromt of us Edit: didnt realize it was north shore 2018, but still their 2023 show was incredible!!! 😅

[@Kylies.Storys]

Uh Hebron? Heard them, thought it was DCI. Allen is loud bc of all the people but since there’s so many they aren’t very good at marching, I saw them, it’s not that good

[@BucketheadsBucket]

What my highschool marching band would look like if every single person to ever attend were in it. 💀

[@TJ_ax]

How much brass do you want? yes

[@thesportcorner._.8286]

Yo i think you missed Hebron High School

[@invizz_geo-.-]

The first band was probably the loudest, but most likely only because they weren’t moving at all. The only visual they did was choreography during the hold.

[@J41ner]

Not me hoping Westwood hs would be on there from our 2021 or 2022 shows but then remebered we were a 3a school and dont compare 💀 (if you check it out make sure it IS NOT westwood warrior band NOT US ALR)

[@kaleinc4383]

Check out nwapa marching bands bucko…GPHS kills all these texas bands 🤣Gphs is college band level to the max💯

[@Ermwhstthesig178]

The south plains bands most are bad but lubbock-cooper cookes and are loyd and climbing up there rapidly in placing

[@prestonjones20013]

You’re missing the loudest band tho, Hebron

[@jonathanshouse1128]

Loving what murray state does 🔥

[@prestonjones20013]

@@jonathanshouse1128 appreciate it bro🤘🏼

[@sirus976]

You forgot Hebron Vandy Flomo Marcus Raegan and like all the big boy bands who are a LOT louder then this

[@ryannelson2392]

little disappointed CTjohnson 2014 isn’t here. not quite a build up like you like it but it’s still a damn good buildup.

[@bruhno1302]

Bro our band was at the plano east comp with allen, they literally have like 400-500 people in the band, it was so many that the couldnt even do much on the field, and it's only juniors and seniors ontop of that

[@MLMLW]

That's alot of marchers on the field.

[@Ian-hw9nn]

why not hebron

[@letoad]

That first note gave me Hebron 2021 flashbacks

[@Follow_da_law]

Dang, the microphones probably help, just sayin…

[@Schleeeg]

“but theres more members” half of them are woodwinds. that doesn’t count. you people have the worst takes

[@RealDuckyVr]

me sitting here knowing my band could never: 0_0

[@VivaVenezuelaa]

do Claudia Taylor Johnson's show from this year, they have a pretty loud note right after the singer stops singing.

[@ironmatic1]

What’s the musical selection in the first clip?

[@_diwata]

My highschool is new so we only have like 40 kids in band including me so like they could hear us on the crowd but we’re not that loud sadly

[@notevenme0129]

same bestie, that was us last year(literally 40 ppl) and we're just playing catchup with 2/5ths of our band being first year marchers(there's 60 of us now:3).. it'll get better for us little guys

[@macerunner4674]

last year mine had thirteen people THIRTEEN PEOPLE

[@notevenme0129]

@@macerunner4674 omg that's terrible!! I hope yall got at least full attention from the directors.. I feel like they expect us to do everything on our own and they're just there if we have questions.. but by god not even an even number😭😔

[@sbyrstall]

That was G bugle loud, not multi-key "loud".

[@Buggalloo323]

I’ve had competitions against vista ridge 😅

[@rebot0725]

allen on this is wild they march sm kids to sound so mediocre

[@Joon_Ro]

Naw but compare this to penstriped tho

[@OGX12]

How in the world is there that many sousaphones

[@organboi]

It's called using mics on most of the band. Just like drum corps are all doing now.

[@phoenae]

vista doesn't use mics and has never used mics. The only mics used are on the soloists, but they are attached to a podium.

[@zeldafan1787]

Allen is huge but actually really quiet in person…

[@LangBuildsMc]

facts

[@few4th]

Truth

[@marcosishes]

Yeah, so many kids you have to tune with. Poor directors...

[@RonanBodisch]

It's because their intonation isn't as solid as other large bands, even Rouse with quite a smaller band is louder because their intonation is more on point

[@damienrodriguez94]

Would've been great if you added Hebron 2021.

[@jasonchen8842]

wait until you here vandegrift

[@davivu]

Yes standing still….very difficult. Also to note their programs are year long while most HS programs are done in 4 months or less.

[@highschoolmarching]

How many impact hits do you see from any band anywhere that isn’t standing still? And Texas marching bands are not year-round. They can’t even get on a field until August 1.

[@randomchild3862]

nahhh brother hebron high school on top

[@ManskisTreeHouse]

Bad year to march Piccolo flute

[@suacyb678]

no hebron, but allen is ridiculous

[@darthskrillcoresoto4611]

Check out Vandergrift high school I saw them at boa this year and they’re very loud I love their show (2022)

[@EHL2023]

Boo orland is better

[@doffymingo2187]

I know it’s a lesser known band but what about John Horn’s 2018 show

[@andyzavala2349]

I’ve had three chances to March against John Horn, ‘19, ‘21-22, loved each year, and I did watch their ‘18 show, hella fire

[@jordanmoon377]

Where is the diversity!!!!! What about Texas Southern or Praire View!! Two SWAC bands, very loud!!

[@chrisinstl]

I only do high school bands here.

[@deemanDavid]

They have feeder high schools too 😂

[@danielthomas6063]

vandergrif

[@kevinclee1261]

Hebron is better than all those bands

[@josephsheehan6079]

That was not Cedar Park at the end that was Vista Ridge

[@skillz1217]

no, it was vista

[@vivians2884]

woah

[@TylerDunphy]

Although you can’t directly hear the woodwinds, it brings it all together like melted butter.

[@n4nao]

what are they feeding you guys down there😭 im in TN and our band is loud but no where NEAR this volume. not to mention yalls sound is so crisp too

[@53Kieran53]

Holy cow!! This band probably has a single person for one of my whole band! This is crazy! Doesn’t beat McAdams high school tho

[@connorjenke8811]

Where's FloMo?

[@random_9471]

Our band just experienced actual loud sound when our director dared all of the freshmen who joined (60 of them) to play for once, and we heard the most insane reverbs in our stadium, it sounded like we played 3 more notes after. It's all a matter of trying 👀

[@NicoWashowich]

It’s insane how loud rouse is with only having so few members compared to the other bands that are just as loud

[@neonbat6669]

Also notice the sizes there’s so many people in one band so obviously it’s gonna sound bigger when it’s twice the size and IS bigger

[@averagetexan9930]

Live in Fort Worth I’m in the VR Eaton marching band and I have to say that the Allen band ain’t as loud as bands like flower mound, Sherman or even Marcus, you’d think they’d be super loud but they really ain’t live

[@k-poplov3r..200]

As a Texan marching band member I can definitely say that Texas marching bands are huge and very loud. Plus there are some really good schools out there..

[@drewpowwild6971]

me who’s in a school where there smallest section probably is still bigger than the whole band 🧍🏾‍♂️

[@Ritchie307]

NSHS goes to my competition and I got a couple of friends in that band

[@snickersdasnek5554]

You also have to account for the size of the band, yes in Texas we are really loud but that one schools brass section is the size of our whole band.

[@este_ban_._9565]

As a north shore band kid I think Hebron should be there too😭

[@MaxisaBandKid]

You right Esteban

[@reedboy3364]

So we’re just gonna pass on Hebron 2021 and flower mound 2021?

[@queenregina5783]

ayo where is Vandegrift?! 400+ people in that band!!

[@Luke_69420]

Listen to Hebron Highschool, they are DCI level sound

[@azxtnt]

You should do Massachusetts next

[@mysticalmusicmythology9918]

Amazing intonation.

[@hoshuah566]

Tate High School Showband of the South 2018 MPA i kid you not i get goosebumps every time i watch our show from that year cause it’s quiet and then loud most people i’ve talked to said we sound like DCI

[@hudsonbryant4854]

y'all should check out the south jones band 2022 show, about 130 hornline members. it'll definitely suprise you

[@henny7895]

i can’t believe hebron isn’t on here, they are the loudest high school band i’ve ever heard

[@nickniehaus1763]

Ohhhh baby Praise Ye from Belshazzar’s feast

[@jasoncarter8100]

My school beat a Texas school by weight points

[@destineewilliams788]

But do they have good quality are they consistent

[@gman7888]

6a?

[@MaxisaBandKid]

OMG I've never seen NSSH on one of these lists!!

[@dustinharris5573]

Love Rouse HS chart of Enigma variations

[@jonahhammett996]

John Horn 2018 may be louder than any of these

[@ashersaenz]

Hebron 2021 should be without doubt on this list

[@ThatAsianKid-cn6qd]

Try listening to pslhs 2022 mpa

[@videogamehighlights4209]

yet they will always be the 2nd largest state

[@Pec100]

Nothing on homewood high Alabama

[@nevada_maybe5946]

They are like 4 times the size of corps tho

[@Rusaisme]

missing lumberton 2022

[@arykc]

allen has a jv band too 😭

[@lukeanderson6427]

round rock 22 ballad

[@Raymond_Churchill]

I hear Phantom Regiment 2011

[@rebekkaherickson8086]

everything’s bigger in texas

[@angusrock1563]

Too cool