Competition

purpledragon275 • 1 October 2016 at 11:27 AM

I'm having a marching band competition today. Wish me luck!

lykhaos117 • 1 October 2016 at 11:29 AM

@purpledragon275

Good luck! 😊

quote • 1 October 2016 at 3:26 PM

@purpledragon275

Good luck and have fun! I hope you do well. 😊

purpledragon275 • 1 October 2016 at 3:50 PM

We just performed and we did really well! Awards are at 4:30 so we'll find out what place we get then.

clarityxx • 1 October 2016 at 4:05 PM

Yay, congratulations! I hope you win!

quote • 1 October 2016 at 4:20 PM

@purpledragon275

That's great to hear! I hope you get first 😊

mastergemma • 4 October 2016 at 8:26 AM

@purpledragon275
How did you go? What position are you in the band?

purpledragon275 • 4 October 2016 at 9:39 PM

@mastergemma

We got 13th place! That may not seem very high but considering how tough the competition was it was really pretty good (top 12 made it to finals-so close!) Also I play the alto saxophone.

mastergemma • 6 October 2016 at 7:49 AM

@purpledragon275
Congratulations and that really was close!

I don't know too much about music, what's the difference between a normal saxophone and the alto saxophone?

Or as Homer Simpson would say it... the Saxamaphone.

icesparkle22 • 6 October 2016 at 10:24 AM

Congratulations!

Marching band sounds SO fun, I do swim team competitions and they are not the best thing in the world unless you get that big shiny medal (open your hand they're as big as that)

Jumping into a freezing, salty pool at 7:00 am and swimming laps, then getting out, and racing yourself half to death against insanely fast people like my best friend xD

purpledragon275 • 6 October 2016 at 10:31 PM

@mastergemma
Thank you!
The alto pretty much is the "normal" saxophone. It's according to size, from biggest to smallest: bari, tenor, alto, soprano. Soprano's aren't very common though. We have one bari, 4 tenors, and 12 altos.

@icesparkle22
Thanks! It is a lot of fun, but a lot of work as well. We're performing at Mizzou next Saturday. I love to swim as well, but not competitively, just more of a 'It's a million degrees outside so I'm jumping in the pool.' xD

mastergemma • 7 October 2016 at 9:08 PM

@purpledragon275
Do you perform often and are there competitions often?

Where I live you don't hear a lot about marching bands except when there are parades. I remember seeing a parade many years ago that contained a marching band, it was very cool seeing it!

purpledragon275 • 8 October 2016 at 2:32 PM

@mastergemma

We do! We just had our last game yesterday and we have 3 more competitions before the season's over. We practice ALOT-3 hours a day Monday thru Friday. We also march in a parade for our homecoming week. It's a lot of work but it's worth it.