The highest quality recording of a marching band that I have ever heard. Usually you have to be in the band practice room to hear that kind of balance and impact. Fantastic.
The HOrse was designed to meet every need for a marching band and open the door of a gold opportunity to become a better person in every area of their life
Since it took me forever to figure out what is actually spelled out during the chant, I'll share for anyone wondering. It goes: "T-H-E H-O-R-S-E"! Which makes sense, its the name of the song: The Horse.
We played this when I was in the HS Marching Band...1975-79!! We played it slower, much better drums......and the Trombones, Baritones and Tubas would blow your hat off lol. We had some of the best Trumpet players I've ever heard and, every one was a Maynard Ferguson fan, so you know they LOVED to scream those high notes! Our band of 200 won many National Awards. Fun times!
Me too! I graduated in 79 - the Jenkins High School Warriors, in Savannah, GA - we also performed lights out halftime shows that were amazing - flashlights attached to our ankles, and the majorettes twirling fire batons - it was so much fun.
Same here. 74-79. Seagoville High . It was much better when played at its original tempo. You could appreciate the tubas and baritone sax more. This old song has been chopped up through the years with bands adding and taking away from it.
This was my first year in my high school marching band and the horse Is definitely the most crazy and fun song we do. We slowly move during the beginning part to some random spot and then there’s this extended drum solo in the middle where people will go on each other’s shoulders and stuff like that. After the band comes back in they start to lie down on there backs while still playing. Definitely an amazing way to play this song.
The Horse in this version makes you think a thoroughbred horse is very lucky but in many cases make you begin to wonder but this song brings back life into you
I’ve heard of this song since I was a freshman (I’m a junior now) and I’ve never been in marching band, but I didn’t know this melody was the infamous song everyone always wanted to play until yesterday
We play this tune for our games during pregame, our band is much smaller but the sound is almost the same. (I’m in the colour guard and our routine for this is quite simple but hard at the same time XD)
The Horse is a favorite their football team favorite song which gets them fired up to do better than what they know how true this song brings them to your side
Sounds great looks great! Now here is just my opinion, so please don't take offense: it felt rushed, needs to be a little slower. Also I couldn't hear any tenor drums part (expecially during the drum break), did they tamper with the piece? Or maybe they don't have a tenor drum section?
Robert Spratlin Well then if they like that arrangement, then so be it. I said this was my personal opinion- and my personal opinion might be biased due to other arrangements.
They're playing it at around 170 bpm, witch is pretty fast for this song, my school plays it at around 150bpm, still fast but much slower than how they're playing it.
Trust me, if this was a black band, the percussion would be in the front while the brass section would be in the back! Plus the sound would be smoking and not choking!
