North Forest is a beats in the process, for their first year as a band(combined from two different schools), they doing ok, now the show they did back in early November was EXTREMELY better then the show they put on saturday night, but i give them another good year to become the beats Cleve wants them to be!!
yall boys have some raw t-bones,,, but other than that .. thats i can can u cant hear da band cuz they are gettin killed by da bones''i say let da bones keep doin wat they are doin and u just need da rest of da band 2 blow more
If you look at where Smiley and Forest Brook were 3-4 years ago, and where North Forest is now, the difference is night and day.
When the current directors came in, the average person in the band or in band class barely knew which end of the instrument to play in. Now people step their game up if they know we're coming. The issues you guys have now have more to do with discipline and attention to detail (the little things). If you can take care of those things, you'll be unstoppable.
Know that as you get better, there'll be those that don't want to be better, because that will require work on their part. And as it gets hot for them, they'll get desperate and do whatever they can to keep progress from happening. Keep plugging away, and eventually those people won't even matter...
On the BOTB:
Attention to detail. Period. Stop on the right line. Play the whole time. Look like everyone else. Every time you do it. You may not place where you want every time, but you'll be more pleased with what YOU do as a group.
That, and 16 CONSISTENT trumpets to balance what we have now, and we'll be alright...
i agree but if you have alot of freshman playing trombone etc why not change them to upper brass to help your band out??? this just my point of view ( anyways they young and have enough time to prepare for college on they new horn etc )
ClevePVU said:
If you look at where Smiley and Forest Brook were 3-4 years ago, and where North Forest is now, the difference is night and day.
When the current directors came in, the average person in the band or in band class barely knew which end of the instrument to play in. Now people step their game up if they know we're coming. The issues you guys have now have more to do with discipline and attention to detail (the little things). If you can take care of those things, you'll be unstoppable.
Know that as you get better, there'll be those that don't want to be better, because that will require work on their part. And as it gets hot for them, they'll get desperate and do whatever they can to keep progress from happening. Keep plugging away, and eventually those people won't even matter...
On the BOTB:
Attention to detail. Period. Stop on the right line. Play the whole time. Look like everyone else. Every time you do it. You may not place where you want every time, but you'll be more pleased with what YOU do as a group.
That, and 16 CONSISTENT trumpets to balance what we have now, and we'll be alright...
MLK BOTB 2009 HOW YA'LL THINK NORTH FOREST HIGH DOING
I THINK WE DID GOOD EVEN THOUGH WE WERE BUTCHERING SOME OF THE MUSIC JUST HOPING WE GET EVERYTHING STRAIGHT
When Mr. Tilford got to FB in 06, he had 48 in the band, 30 of which were drummers (25 of which were on that "me beat loud" shyt). So he got some of those to convert. 3 of those are the trombones y'all see us with now.
If we do have someone switch, it would be a close switch, like trumpet to french horn or treble clef baritone, or between tuba and baritone. We're getting some first-time beginners, too, and we've been trying to put them on instruments we really need more of and are hard to find, like tuba and french horn.
If you've been playing a certain instrument for a while, and are pretty decent on that instrument, we tend to keep you on that instrument.
Lil_Angel_Mello said:
i agree but if you have alot of freshman playing trombone etc why not change them to upper brass to help your band out??? this just my point of view ( anyways they young and have enough time to prepare for college on they new horn etc )
MLK BOTB 2009 HOW YA'LL THINK NORTH FOREST HIGH DOING
I THINK WE DID GOOD EVEN THOUGH WE WERE BUTCHERING SOME OF THE MUSIC JUST HOPING WE GET EVERYTHING STRAIGHT
i agree., everyone just needs feeder schools then we wouldn't be having this small band crisis!
ClevePVU said:
It's good in some cases, but not all the time.
When Mr. Tilford got to FB in 06, he had 48 in the band, 30 of which were drummers (25 of which were on that "me beat loud" shyt). So he got some of those to convert. 3 of those are the trombones y'all see us with now.
If we do have someone switch, it would be a close switch, like trumpet to french horn or treble clef baritone, or between tuba and baritone. We're getting some first-time beginners, too, and we've been trying to put them on instruments we really need more of and are hard to find, like tuba and french horn.
If you've been playing a certain instrument for a while, and are pretty decent on that instrument, we tend to keep you on that instrument.
Lil_Angel_Mello said:
i agree but if you have alot of freshman playing trombone etc why not change them to upper brass to help your band out??? this just my point of view ( anyways they young and have enough time to prepare for college on they new horn etc )
MLK BOTB 2009 HOW YA'LL THINK NORTH FOREST HIGH DOING
I THINK WE DID GOOD EVEN THOUGH WE WERE BUTCHERING SOME OF THE MUSIC JUST HOPING WE GET EVERYTHING STRAIGHT
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JYDrumMajor said:
When the current directors came in, the average person in the band or in band class barely knew which end of the instrument to play in. Now people step their game up if they know we're coming. The issues you guys have now have more to do with discipline and attention to detail (the little things). If you can take care of those things, you'll be unstoppable.
Know that as you get better, there'll be those that don't want to be better, because that will require work on their part. And as it gets hot for them, they'll get desperate and do whatever they can to keep progress from happening. Keep plugging away, and eventually those people won't even matter...
On the BOTB:
Attention to detail. Period. Stop on the right line. Play the whole time. Look like everyone else. Every time you do it. You may not place where you want every time, but you'll be more pleased with what YOU do as a group.
That, and 16 CONSISTENT trumpets to balance what we have now, and we'll be alright...
ClevePVU said:
When Mr. Tilford got to FB in 06, he had 48 in the band, 30 of which were drummers (25 of which were on that "me beat loud" shyt). So he got some of those to convert. 3 of those are the trombones y'all see us with now.
If we do have someone switch, it would be a close switch, like trumpet to french horn or treble clef baritone, or between tuba and baritone. We're getting some first-time beginners, too, and we've been trying to put them on instruments we really need more of and are hard to find, like tuba and french horn.
If you've been playing a certain instrument for a while, and are pretty decent on that instrument, we tend to keep you on that instrument.
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