dude i played that piece at a band camp one time, didn’t have a great part since we had to split so many percussion parts but it was amazing to listen to
It's pretty common for a few HS marching bands to feature the same music pieces in their marching band show. In this instace, they are using "Ignition" by Todd Salter
I want my band to at some point have a feature like this because I'm 99% confident we can pull it off. Our feature this year sounds really good but it's not nearly as hard as past years.
Ignition was "the piece" that year - every so often there is a concert band work that comes out that everybody and their mother puts into their show for the GE and Music points and you have to think that a lot of these bands do not see/hear each other until Grand Nats, so its not super uncommon for designers to pick the same music.
I will say, there was one year that I saw about 6 different versions of "Les Mis" at circuit championships, and by the time the 5th band performed, everyone was very happy that their "24601" theme wasn't just straight up "Les MIs" but really neat resettings of some of the thematic moments from the show.
Btw does your school also feel like Carmel was overhyped? Like they’re music was cool just not highly creative and had no emotion or arrival points besides the beginning and end. Also I would have never guessed their theme if someone hadn’t told me, “Vitruvian” (the anatomy human picture guy)
Its really up to the composer. Really alot of these shows is just a collaboration of several pieces. So if that feature can fit into a shows theme. Then they will use it.
This is literally Blue Springs' Golden Regiment music from their 212 Show which placed them 10th at Grand Nats in 2021. 3A Golden Regiment setting trends for these 4A schools. 😂
Flower mound has a lot of money, so it would be no surprise if they were buying shows that have already won in other state competitions. I hear that’s what the more affluent schools do.
I highly doubt it. Bands would be easily called out and be practically shunned by the entire community very quickly, especially a band with the national popularity of Flomo. Although that money does fs go into hiring good experienced show designers to give them a big competitive advantage
For those who may not truly understand why, it’s not a underground woodwind conspiracy. Although that would be kind of cool. Most bands use stock “original” arrangements. And as long as they are not within a certain mileage of each other, or maybe different circuits, etc. they can purchase these original songs. Very similar to how musicals work. Or is supposed to work.
Usually the same songs get a new composition from a different composer, but when this happens these “epic” sections get left alone and repeated. You’ll see a lot of last year medaled shows get used by a different school the following year, although it’s not always a great out come
Do you think they all got their music from the same composer and they wrote in the same woodwind feature to save time? If that’s the case, I am not accusing said composer if laziness or anything like that. It takes a lot of work to write music, and writing 3+ pieces with three or more movements for so many instruments that are all due at generally the same time is… honestly kind of mind boggling. I wouldn’t be able to do it myself, but then again I don’t know if this is the case
I hate the way BOA is ran. You’ve got smaller schools like mine, that are on the brink of making semi-finals every year but because of class representatives and what not we never get to go. We literally beat a band by score one year for a spot in semis, but because they were representatives they got to go in. Then you have these 600 member texas bands that just can’t even be competed with…
I agree… but I think the problem is more with funding than BOA itself. Yes Class Reps are ridiculously stupid and the rule definitely needs changes. But imo the problem with the ultra competitive texas/indiana bands is that they have much more funding/resources. No shots at those programs but they have dozens of staff members and great middle school programs too. This is not a bad thing, I think its great that the culture is so much different from everywhere else, but its how everything should be ideally. Programs are just not at that point right now, ykwim? Also box 5 does not make it easy for the band community to grow but thats a topic for another day
That's nothing. Our band ripped pretty much our entire 2022 show from another band's 2017 show. We found out about it the week before grand nats. The only significantly different part was our ballad, which I had suspected from the beginning didn't really fit all that well in the show, and now I know why
@@6band well if the guy the wrote/composed and did drill for my band also did for bands in OK, AR, LA…back in the 90’s nowadays it’s even easier with everything being online and digital. (you don’t notice it until you go to a festival out of state and other bands are there.) You don’t think he would repeat things to make it easier on himself? That’s easy money.
If you do anything original or out of the box you wont win. Its been like that since 2011. You got to play in the box, play music that fits the box, everything is quiet and sounds the same except for a few bands every now and again. Then again why play something impressive and hard when you can have the whole band play mf and never need to take in air. Judge brain.
lmao i play ignition back in 8th grade now we have to play arabesque in 9th 😭😭 and i swear my middle school director told the high school director about me and now they want me to play first chair trumpet for it IM NOT THAT GOOD 😭😭😭
Because to the judges, the actual musical content doesn't matter. As long as it's clean, and you're hitting all the show design checkpoints. Hell you could have 3 groups with the exact same repertoire. Judges don't give a shit about what you write for groups, just how well the kids in the group execute what you write.
@@ProjectThemePark Are you a show writer? Because I can tell you from experience how much of a pain it is to spend so much create something that's interesting to listen to just be beaten by shows that were executed well but the actual repertoire was boring and unmemorable.
@@brothaNblue I am, Im a writer, designer and educator in SoCal. It's a pain but there's so much more to design than just making things memorable and interesting. There's alot to learn but it's fun to learn
