This is Utah's (and maybe the nation's) smallest marching band! Spanish Fork High School performs their 2011 field show at the Mt. Timpanogos Competition in Pleasant Grove, Utah on October 8, 2011.
These kids have some balls, i would never play in a band that small, the band did fine besides the snare in some parts, and the color guard had no idea what they were doing.
For the longest time my parents didn't want me and my siblings to go to Spanish Fork High School because their music department was terrible and then a couple of years ago when we got a new band director the band started to grow and the marching band sounds better. I know because my brother and I are in marching band.
Yo give some respect to the drumset player. Any drummer knows how hard it is to keep steady tempo when someone else is totally off tempo. In this case, the snare player right behind his head was all over the place, but he stayed pretty solid throughout. Good for him
John Dalton the director is never supposed to give the tempo... The tempo is what ever tge drums say it is. I will give you a link to my band, if we speed up, the band band speeds up with us.
Ohyx+ In my high school I think we have like 1000-1500? It’s somewhere in the thousands. We’re a regional school so we accept students from the surrounding areas.
This band...became State Champs this year! In fact they are back to back State Champs. Only have 39 kids! But they have come so far! So proud of all their hard work and dedication!
I miss the old twenty one pilots well theres really not much they can do with such a strict band as in theres not much they can do with only like 7 members in terms of 'ok we need x number of x to play this part and x number of x to play this' -just sayin :/
mr.krabs is one thicc bih, lemme see that krussy They don't suck. They're actually pretty good. I've heard bands with 200+ people and they sounded horrible. These guys are great.
Well maybe they don’t have good instructors , or maybe they just don’t know anything . Or they need to learn how to count Bc counting is key ........but I mean overall it wasn’t too band I could figure out the songs and everything
This post is bs for a band of that size that was really good, don't juge by their size juge by there show and how they all played confidently and all where in step. Now the color guard, uh well...
Who ever made this changed the tittle it use to be "Utahs, worse and possibly smallest band" notice the random comma at the beginning and how it doesn't make sense
They sound terrible, and they should learn to keep their feet in step too. Not to mention that their color guard are just walking around in circles, and randomly twirling their flags. The worst marching band I've ever seen....
TheMaskedPumpkin There's only so much you can do with a band that small. Douglas Mullen They don't have a trumpet. They just have piccolo, flute, clarinet, trombone, sousaphone, snare, synth, set, vibes, drum major, and three guard.
Gary Valdez marching and concert season don't correlate very much for my school atleast we got superior rating 6 years in a row and we just got our firs superior rating in marching this year
My band has 100 people and I still think it's small. But these guys have guts, like I would probably quit band if I was in a band that small. They did great for their size.
Dang, our band is around 40, but more people are coming up every year. We went from like, 200, to 90, to 30-40s. Really good teacher to a teacher that was good but required auditions to be in the band making many people not join, and then he didn't tell people he was leaving until the last minute of band camp and so we had a lot of people quit band. The new director came and was good but not as great and then our new director is really good. We just have more freshmen than the rest of the band... sadly. We consider ourselves a small band.
Okay let's be honest, you have got some balls if you're willing to play with only that many people. It's small, well very small and they don't sound that bad.
Honestly, The marching should be DEAD ON with a band of that size. It's not that hard for 6-8 high schoolers to march perfect. The music isn't that bad though.
dalew101 they don't have the proper support. For example that snare drummer has no other snare drummer to look up to, to learn from. The good marchers/players in HS bands are only good because they learned from those before them. There's not enough leadership.
I looked up this exact same marching band and found a video of them from last year; they've grown enormously. They started with this few, but now they're probably up to 40 or 50. I would bet this marching band is in its early stages; maybe this is their first year with an actual marching band. Overall I'd say these kids have had the hardest job anyone in a band can have: leaving a legacy and building a program you know you might never be a part of. Fantastic display
Wow 1 Tuba 1 Trombone 1 Flute 1 Clarinet 1 Piccolo 1 Snare 2 Pit Members (3 Sometimes) 3 Color Guard Members 1 Drum Major For a 12 Member band they have big sound.
In our schools band, especially my grad year, there were around 30 members on the field, Half were high schoolers and half 7th/8th graders. It's an amazing feeling when you see that the previous band program you were in keeps growing and plays better each year. They now have 60-80 kids this year.
hey at least they make up a larger portion of their band. My high school band my senior year last year had 2 people in the front ensemble with like 90 people in the main band.
At my school we called it both it really just depends on what you want to say. We say front ensemble so as not to get people too hyped for the musical and the pit for that.
um no. it actually is called the front ensemble. the pit is a nickname, and people use it because the front is like a pit of large instruments that can't be marched with.
Phylismagilous Same dude. My school is really pushy about sports and there's little fine arts support. Things have gotten better since we changed principals however. We have 25 people in band and 16 in choir (and two of the choir people are also in band). You guys did alright though for how small you were.
I'm from Abilene, one of the largest small town bands that I know of! DEFINITELY the largest in my state. Nearly everyone in each grade (6-12) are part of the band. Seeing this just broke my heart. It also surprised me, hearing the flute! And they're so good... If only there were a few more members. Props to them, for being so brave.
3rd year band director, and we started a new marching program year 2. We had 20 plus about 10 guard and it's terrifying. Big props to going to a comp with that, I'm definitely not feeling ready for that.
This year utah decided to have all but one of it's competitions for whatever reason, but taking a look at the scores spanish fork (this band) is now a 5a band and came first out of 9 bands in it's division.
This band reminds me of a band from a school who's football team we played every year. The whole program was maybe 35 members, and their single snare drummer would always put on such a show. I loved how the always put to shame the whole ''money is everything'' kind of thought. They actually played very well, even more so considering their school's funding and staff, and their marching wasn't half bad (thought with a band that small you certainly can't do anything difficult)
As a percussionist, I feel so bad for that snare player. Even though he was a bit confused, all he has for the whole show is the same thing over and over
This may be the greatest video ever recorded. Forget the effort of the band members. How.the hell did the audience make it through this without cracking up?
Not a marching band, but the high school jazz band I’m in right now has a percussionist, flute, trumpet, trombone(me), and a sax who’s instrument currently isn’t working. We’ll probably end up sounding something like this
My HS Marching Band this year is maybe 16 people, meanwhile the colorguard is about the same size, I'm trying to watch videos of small marching bands so I know what to expect our sound to be like cause I've only ever been shown marching bands that are huge
