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re: GBFTL band camp question..
Posted on 7/15/13 at 5:30 pm to los angeles tiger
Posted on 7/15/13 at 5:30 pm to los angeles tiger
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I would have told you then to get him on French Horn and Mellophone for marching band.
Once again, we get to the question of whether or not he likes other boys...
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Posted on 7/15/13 at 5:32 pm to LuckySo-n-So
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Once again, we get to the question of whether or not he likes other boys...
Seriously. Get him a baritone, trumpet, or tuba
Posted on 7/15/13 at 5:37 pm to CSATiger
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CSATiger
All sophomoric bullshite aside, good luck to your son. I hope he makes it. I had an incredible three years in GBFTL, a long time ago.
Posted on 7/15/13 at 5:38 pm to CSATiger
My son just finished up with four years in band, and he's a trumpet player. Proud to say he was 1st part and pre game all four years. It's best to have good marching skills and music major is not a pre requisite. He had a great time traveling and almost got to visit every SEC stadium. Has made many good friends in band and Golden Girls because they spend a lot of time together. If he does make it, you will not see him much that first semester with practice and school. If you tailgate, you'll know how to get to see him. If not, you'll become an avid tailgater! Also, hey warmup in the IFF prior to every game around 9AM till 11:30. Then get a break to make it back to the hall, then eat, then start dress rehearsal and war ups, again. It's exhausting, but he'll love it, and you will, too!
Posted on 7/15/13 at 5:54 pm to jmon
As a former woodwind in TGBFTL, here's how cuts work. 2 scores: playing and marching. Marching is pass/fail. Fail and you're out. Then comes the music playing test. You play a piece and you get a score. They rank the scores and draw a line after the desired number of people. So lets say hypothetically that they want 20 clarinets. You want your son to be in the top 20 on the playing test. Assuming your son is coordinated enough to march, PLAYING TEST is by far the most important.
Good Luck.
Good Luck.
Posted on 7/15/13 at 6:37 pm to jmon
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jmon
sounds great for him. I am used to not seeing him much during school. In HS-band,jrotc, honor society etc.
Posted on 7/15/13 at 6:44 pm to lflettrich4
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Assuming your son is coordinated enough to march, PLAYING TEST is by far the most important.
This x1000. As a piccolo player facing another possible cut of >50% to the section...tell him to practice his butt off.
There's plenty of practice rooms in the School of Music or Music & Dramatic Arts buildings. Clarinet cuts may not be as bad, but you can't take anything for granted. This post was edited on 7/15/13 at 6:45 pm
Posted on 7/15/13 at 7:44 pm to LuckySo-n-So
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All sophomoric bullshite aside, good luck to your son.
I second that.
I hope he makes it. I had an incredible six years in GBFTL, a long time ago. (You double the incredible if you play mello)
Posted on 7/15/13 at 8:35 pm to CSATiger
Lol your son plays clarinet. He's going to get cut. That's just how it is.
Posted on 7/15/13 at 8:39 pm to jmon
Does he know you post? I'll tell him.
Posted on 7/15/13 at 9:56 pm to The Boat
reads them all,will be looking for you
Posted on 7/15/13 at 10:06 pm to Jet12
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There's plenty of practice rooms in the School of Music or Music & Dramatic Arts buildings.
Are those available for anyone to use? Post-undergrad job and now graduate school have led to my alto sax sitting in its case for far too long a time. I used to be a decent enough player, and I'd like to give it a spin again.
Posted on 7/15/13 at 11:22 pm to CSATiger
I didn't march or ever go to LSU but I have marched at the college level and I can tell you that brass players are about 80% more likely to make the cut.....unless they are god awful at marching
Make sure he has 8 to 5 down to a science and he should be good to go
Make sure he has 8 to 5 down to a science and he should be good to go
Posted on 7/16/13 at 10:43 am to TheBuescherMan
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Are those available for anyone to use?
As far as I know. I'm not sure about summer hours, but you should be able to walk right in and get one. I'd say the ones in the M&DA are nicer, either on the first floor (to the right of the front door) or on the second floor.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 10:45 am to The Boat
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Lol your son plays clarinet. He's going to get cut. That's just how it is.
There's always some casualties, but I don't think clarinet cuts will be so bad this year.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:04 am to toosleaux
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:05 am to CSATiger
I'm an old guy, so I don't know if this helps at all. I was a freshman in Tiger Band 41 years ago. Back then, you had to pass a personal audition with the band director first in the spring of your senior year in high school. If you passed that, then you had to survive the preseason cuts from the freshman week of preseason rehearsals. The total cuts amounted to about 10% of the preseason members. There were a total of 3 cuts during the preseason. I was an average trumpet player, but a horrible marcher. I survived the first two cuts, but the band director called me into his office and said that my marching had to improve greatly or I wouldn't survive the third cut. Thankfully, there was no third cut that year, and I made it. I was "invited" the following year to participate in preseason rehearsals with the freshman incoming class. (Think "voluntary practices" in the NFL--you'd better be there!) Fortunately, the extra practice that second year allowed me to become a better marcher, and I made the band cuts easily. I played another 3 years in the band after that.
The best way to prepare is to be the best player you can and be prepared to learn the marching routine quickly. Things move faster in college than in high school, and everyone's an all star!
The best way to prepare is to be the best player you can and be prepared to learn the marching routine quickly. Things move faster in college than in high school, and everyone's an all star!
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:09 am to DenverTigerMan
Oh, and being a music major is not necessary; I was in Chemical Engineering.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:15 am to 777Tiger
If he gets in, ask him to ask the band director to teach new songs, especially from this decade. Thanks and good luck to him.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 12:26 pm to MBclass83
Sad sad thing watching all them woodwinds walk into the IFF and only a few of them come back the next morning...
Sucks bc the rest of us were all planning the next two nights out trying to take cut night seriously.
Now pregame cuts is different, if you suck you scared.
If your kid can't make the football team give em a trumpet or some drum sticks, Jack
Sucks bc the rest of us were all planning the next two nights out trying to take cut night seriously.
Now pregame cuts is different, if you suck you scared.
If your kid can't make the football team give em a trumpet or some drum sticks, Jack
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