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oakland competed at HGI and placed 2nd in class A and 3rd overall. their drummajors were 1st in class and 3rd overall. percussion was 2nd in class. they were also one of only 3 bands to receive a superior. they will be competing at the following other competitions: sept 27 columbia invitational oct 4 lebanon invitational oct 18 MCI oct 25 COC they have the entire show on and they are ready to go!!!!!!

you are ignorant

oakland is doing a show based on motion.

oh and for the girl comment, thats what drum corps does to you. gets you in shape...... like sports do, but even more so. i know a contra player... wait you dont know what that is. its a tuba, you know the big thing? he loses about 50 lbs in a summer marching corps. hes not a fat kid in general just tall (hes about 6' 2") , but when you move like day in and day out (rehearsals sometimes till 1 in the morning) your body sheds every ounce of body fat you could possibly possess. drum corps kids are probably in better shape than 98% of your high school football team. they LIVE in thier SPORT for months solid, dawn till freaking dusk, even hours after dusk actually. $uck it.

yeah thats running you nim wit. its called jazz running. its running so freakin smooth that you cant hear a glitch (or their feet, for those who know anything about band) in their sound. and yes thats a 28 second clip, but what you dont know is how much they do that drill. its a phantom signature. its what makes their sound so pure (not that you care at all), but its hard as $hit. that was a certain push from their show that just happened to make it to the net.

thanks for a kind comment nitro!!!

drum corps and marching band do not share the same purpose. high school marching bands are there PARTIALLY to support the football team. drum corps have no school athletic affiliation. they exist strictly to promote music & marching education in a competitive format and to be one of the 12 finalists come august. once again, marching band is not a sport. drum corps is a sport. /thumb[1].gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":thumb:" border="0" alt="thumb[1].gif" />

you are quite ignorant.

truely cannot wait for the season to start! even though it will be college football and band for me this year... :'(

agreed nitro

i still hold that marching band is not a sport. drum corps is. but i found this in an online paper talking about colunteer high school going to the sugar bowl last year.... ???If a nonmusician of average physical fitness simply walks down the street at the pulse of your average radio pop tune for about 3.5 minutes without slowing down or taking a break, he or she would begin to understanding the minimum demands of a Marching Band member,??? Sarver said. ???If you increase the speed to slightly under that of speed-walking, strap on a 30-pound sousaphone or a 60-pound drum, don a lined jacket, pants, gloves and hat, play the instrument??”which means controlling your breathing while varying your direction every 16 steps or so??”you will start to understand that Marching Band is a sport.???

we dont know. wait untill band camps start. or even untill shows are announced.

thats cool. power to baby bands.

how about you look at the list of first band from all east. those would be the best musicians.

i do not believe that marching band is a sport. drum corps is a sport.

yes SOME of those things do become second nature but you are always striving to be better than you were at the last performance. therefore you are constantly thinking about them, critizing yourself on them and trying to improve them, while you are on the field. especially the things that can be seen. marching band is more mental than sports.

that already exists. its called COC. come on down.

i think it definitely take more mentality. most shows have around 60 sets we have to memorize. we also have to think about wether your toes are up on a forward move, are you on the balls of your feet with perfectly straight legs on a backwards move, is yor horn bouncing on the more, are you with the drummajor, are you inline with your horisontal and vertical guide points, how is your horn carriage, are you on the correct foot? then you have to remember things like horn pops, halts, tempo changes, direction changes, not to mention the 7+ mins of music you ahve to remeber. plus intunation, dynamics, balance, tone, and other musical elements. sports, more mentality? i think NOT!

yay for DM rants.

you are obviously on drugs! How about you post a vid or an audio clip or something so we can decide since yall don't compete on the field and therefore we never get to hear yall

that is the best vid ever! i watched the finals on espn but i must havge been in the bathroom for that! lol it is the perfect example of how corps is a SPORT! the tenor kid had some of the same stats as someone running a marathon... i suppose runners arent athlets though.

well at least ive heard of SD. they have a name in the band community. yeah they've been talked about becuase they have fallen from the band world in the past few years but really what is hickson???? tell me about your competition history! have you beaten Mac, Johnny O, Father Ryan, Page, Munford, Dobyns Bennett, Columbia, Franklin, Brentwood, Ravenwood, Siegel, Houston, or even Oakland or Lavergne ? well actually your obvious band knowlege is so pathetic you have probabbly never heard of these bands. point made.

im a band kid and i say high school marching band is a performing art. an intense one. DCI is definately in the sport category. its on its own level. tricity what corps did you march??!!

like the comment about homecoming court. our band president was on this years basketball and football homecoming court.

sounds like a great thing!