I had to match a show I played alto in it my move was to go in between the trombones at a angle Well long story short she missed her and my hat was gone
But honestly my first thought when the vid started was "HOLY HELL THAT'S A HUGE BAND" and then I saw the blindfolds and then it was "Oh god someone's gonna die"
I'm in marching band and they tried to start teaching us how to do this, it was hard and scary haha they have serious talent (we started without trombones and good thing, because I would have been whacked in the face a few times)
In case you can't see it in this video, they're juggling their sticks while the trombones do the suicides. From a more technical standpoint, it really is rather hard to play isolated notes cleanly, so even when you see an "easy line", the snares see a note that 7 people have to play within a hundredth of a second in order to not sound terrible. They aren't even dutting through this. I'm not saying that the trombones are not impressive, but you still shouldn't dismiss the other parts so easily.
Every band should have this many trombones. We only have 6. But yeah...trombones...a good way to kill someone. During the first 2 parts of our show I am either nearly killing people or nearly getting killed.
I'm sure there are many names for it but if you listen closely the announcer says it. It's called "Number Five." The drum tech for my old high school went to CSU and brought it over so our line could play it when our band did trombone suicides.
Imagine all of the trombonist who went to far in and busted there lip on there mouthpiece from hitting the ground, NOT THIS ONE BUT IN GENERAL ( Notice how i said trombonist not freaking tromboner, it got not funny after beginning band and every spams that joke to me )
@ItsAJersseyThing Maybe you were right. I just saw the girls at the bottom left of the screen. BUT they could be a dance team. My school has them and they work as cheerleaders and also perform with the band at all of our performances. And yes. We do have 2 auxiliary teams.
im from a small town and our band is really small and im sure our trombones couldnt do that. if we broke one we wouldnt have enough money to fix them and thats the sad part. but this is AWSOME (: i wish i could actually see that one day
Just saying to all those people hating on football, I start on my highschool's varsity football team and am a trombone in band. I have done marching band for three years and my school is very competitive in it, but I would still say that football is much more difficult. Much, much more difficult. I am also in our All-State band so I'm no slacker in either
The cadence is just called #5, following most of the other traditional names of CSU's pep tunes. For example, what is currently known as "Spell Yell" was once (and still occasionally is) known as #3.
I think its a cadence i heard called Funk. University of Texas plays it as their kickoff cadence. The music was on their website but im not sure if it is anymore.
@JamaicanBoy41 funny you mention that. I go to the university of Nebraska. you know, the one with the current record for consecutive sellouts and with a number of national championship titles. and funnily enough, not only does the band program predate the football program, they had to actually schedule football games around the band performances simply because the band drew so many more people than the games back in the day. so keep in mind what helped football get its start ;)
We have been begging our director to let us do these, so we practiced and perfected them all of band camp. He asked us if he could see them, and we messed it up. We do them in the stands at football games now.
@JamaicanBoy41 you can't watch a marching band show from the away side. all the formations are meant to be seen from the home side, and you won't be able to hear the band well since they're playing in the opposite direction. i bet you the home side of those stands are completely packed.
haahah looks fun. wish my tyngsboro high had this many trombinists. including me, there r 3 trombonists in the THS band, & i'm not even in high school yet (i play in the football games even though i'm in 8th grade lol). there's more ppl in the trombone section than there is enrolled in all 4 town bands combined(5th, 6th, 7th & 8th, high school)
The key is to do it by the counts. Two count for every direction. If everyone listens to drum line’s tempo everyone should be good if they have the technique down
