- July 29th, 2008, 12:16 am
#187691
There are seven games next year. Please, for the love of God, as awesome as that show could be, please tell me we're not stuck with it for seven games.
I am currently a member of the band and would like to address the issues some people have had with the style of show we do. Believe it or not there is a reason we do only one single long show that generally takes a few games to get perfected. This is so that there is always something new for the fans to see at each game. When we start out we just get the basics of the first few pieces and then the next game we try to add more "flair" such as horn flashes or dances in those pieces along with the new piece that we then tack on to the end. Now as BJ mentioned earlier sometimes due to weather, injuries, or illness these extras are not accomplished as well as we would like and we must then decide what would be best for us to learn, ,be that the flair or the new music, in the time frame we have left. As to the music choices themselves, the theme of the show and the pieces that go with them are selected by the band members themselves and voted on by the leadership. Some years there are not a lot of choices and others it is overwhelming. We try to best accommodate those pieces that are recognizable and fun to hear, as well as those that we can work good visuals into (like the trumpet line playing each other's horns two years ago or the massive chorus line merger last year). This being said I would like to thank you all for your support of the band. Unless you have been in one before, you have no idea how amazingly gratifying it is to finish the show and be deafened by the crowd when we finish (especially those weeks we play to the student side). Please try to remember that it is not easy to put together a show as large and as complicated as ours are but that we all work our hardest to make your experience during halftime as enjoyable as possible.
I am currently a member of the band and would like to address the issues some people have had with the style of show we do. Believe it or not there is a reason we do only one single long show that generally takes a few games to get perfected. This is so that there is always something new for the fans to see at each game. When we start out we just get the basics of the first few pieces and then the next game we try to add more "flair" such as horn flashes or dances in those pieces along with the new piece that we then tack on to the end. Now as BJ mentioned earlier sometimes due to weather, injuries, or illness these extras are not accomplished as well as we would like and we must then decide what would be best for us to learn, ,be that the flair or the new music, in the time frame we have left. As to the music choices themselves, the theme of the show and the pieces that go with them are selected by the band members themselves and voted on by the leadership. Some years there are not a lot of choices and others it is overwhelming. We try to best accommodate those pieces that are recognizable and fun to hear, as well as those that we can work good visuals into (like the trumpet line playing each other's horns two years ago or the massive chorus line merger last year). This being said I would like to thank you all for your support of the band. Unless you have been in one before, you have no idea how amazingly gratifying it is to finish the show and be deafened by the crowd when we finish (especially those weeks we play to the student side). Please try to remember that it is not easy to put together a show as large and as complicated as ours are but that we all work our hardest to make your experience during halftime as enjoyable as possible.
- By LU Armchair coach
- By Humble_Opinion