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as someone who grew up in the texas hs band scene, i have the upmost respect for hebron. not only for the skill level of their students, their star studded staff, or their achievements as a program, but for the way they carry themselves. the hebron kids are so genuine and humble, and they just love to doin the thing to the best of their ability. so glad they finally had their moment to shine at boa san antonio with this show. shout out to my hebron homies out there. y’all are badass. you should definitely do more reaction videos like this. super entertaining and insightful commentary. if you’re interested in texas bands, i definitely recommend reagan 2019. one of the most highly regarded high school shows in recent history along with this one. ctj and the woodlands are two of my other favorite bands to watch as well. great content as always, keep it up🫶🏼
Reagan 2019, I completely agree. One of the best ever: style, grace, power, beauty, subtlety. Not as in your face and esoteric as Hebron and Vandy, but more accessible and enjoyable, IMO. BD influenced. I think you'll like it. I think their earlier performances were better, cleaner and more impressive than some of their later performances but the whole product is outstanding.
I was lucky enough to go against hebron once. I will never forget when one of their seniors came up to me and lifted my spirits instead of celebrating.
But also the financial capability and commitment to support that instruction. That certainly isn't meant to diminish what they accomplish (which is substantial and admirable) but what you hear and see from bands like this costs a LOT of money (and time). Let's be honest: this isn't just a handful of band directors getting this done, it's an army of instructors teaching these kids (I imagine most of them, if not all, are in private lessons) PLUS the kids working hard and the band directors and parents helping make the culture what it is.
@@505Hockey true. I didn’t have marching band in high school. As a matter of fact, just “concert band” was a joke - sometimes our “director” just didn’t feel like teaching some days and let us watch musicals. No one really cared.
The Texas competition is unreal. Marching in Texas and placing 19th at state. Many of the bands placing ahead of us are the big dogs. Props to Hebron for leading the pack.
I don’t think so. The only reason is because Broken Arrow literally broke the record that year. They scored a 98.25. I’m from Carmel, and there is no doubt in my mind that they would have beaten us
Hebron is one of few bands that actually uses full dynamic range, it’s not just loud or quiet with no in between. It’s always satisfying to have the contrast even with the entire band playing
here's some context about this show and the hebron band. for the 2021-2022 school year, hebron had 24 band all-state musicians, which was the most out of all texas schools. iirc they had a large and very talented senior class that year. i believe all of the soloists were all-state musicians. they had six trumpet players make the all-state bands/orchestras, so i think that is one of the reasons why they had such good screamers and a good high brass section. (they suffered a bit after their relatively large senior class graduated in 2022, but not too much.) you mentioned hebron's mello line. they are probably the best high school mello line in the country, but there's a general consensus that hebron's mellos peaked in 2017 (most mello rips)/2018 (most mello sustains.) speaking of hebron's history, 2021 was the first time they won in the alamodome. in fact, they won back to back at both the boa san antonio super regional and the uil state marching contest (first occurrence since 2016? by flower mound hs, another exceptional band that happens to be in the same school district as hebron.) since 2012 (the first time they medaled at a san antonio contest), hebron came tantalizingly close to winning boa san antonio/uil/boa grand nationals. hebron has been one of the best bands musically for years, but their visuals and general effect didn't always match. the 2021 season ended their "bridesmaid" status and caused a large stir among the marching band community. hebron really broke out in 2015 when they attended boa grand nationals. they won semifinals and set the record score at the time (97.85, surpassed by broken arrow in 2021 with a 98.25.) at finals, they went early and dropped to third while winning the music caption. they were weak visually, but it was a solid show. hebron would continue to medal at san antonio contests until 2019. they attended grand nationals and placed third while winning music again. they also placed relatively low at san antonio, though their show was meant to plateau later. in terms of show design, i'm not very aware of their entire design staff, so i'll focus on their arrangers. hebron had will pitts (phantom regiment guy who everyone hates now) arrange the 2015 show. i'm not sure about 2016, but they switched to michael martin as the primary arranger by 2017 and stepped up their musical demand. they took up the musical and visual demand in 2019 where they had their first sixteenth note double tongue feature. hebron further stepped up their musical gain when kevin ronan (crown-affiliated) and dave glyde joined in 2021. their drill included much more jazz running and larger step sizes in 2021. (i'm not sure if kevin ronan is still with hebron since he wasn't listed in the 2022 announcements.) 2022 was also a harder show to execute. (the funny thing about dave glyde is that there's a section from the tank part of tempus blue where the sequence is fairly similar to the double tongue feature in the closer of penstriped. they both start with trumpets double tonguing and the lower voices progressively entering.) anyways, here's some recommendations for you to react (or just watch) - broken arrow 2021 - hebron 2015 - present, with emphasis on 2017/2018 - tarpon springs 2010/2014/2022 - flower mound 2016 - 2018/2021 - ld bell 2005-2007 (for more old school) - carmel 2016-2018 - an avon show - ronald reagan 2019, but you should explore some - round rock 2013 - cedar ridge 2022 - the woodlands 2013 - present - william mason 2016 this isn't an exhaustive list. there are likely more gems that i haven't found yet, but i hope you take some time to watch some.
Tarpon Springs 2015 - "Caged" is a must watch! That show would've won them a repeat if they went to grand nationals that year with an even higher score.
my band director absolutely loves hebron and he encouraged us to all watch this state finals run. hebron is absolutely amazing at what they do, and my director has incorporated their routines into ours. hebron is absolutely astonishing.
I judged marching band for 30 years and saw many bands that could march this show over the years. I NEVER heard a marching band that could play this show. You are correct that this is Carolina Crown level of difficulty. Some of the spread chords even sounded like Crown. Just as much credit should be given to the woodwinds. Their book was just as hard as the brass and they killed it musically. It was just the best high show that I have ever heard. Congrats 2021 Hebron Band.
Ive been watching Texas bands for years... Flower Mound, Vandegrift, Round Rock, Duncanville, Marcus, Coppell, The Woodlands, James Bowie, Claudia Taylor Johnson, and Hebron
I went over to watch them at a home game and was blown away. The best part was seeing them 2 weeks later at region having made HUGE progress on their technical features. It was so mind blowing that I did a solo drive down to San Antonio to watch them during this run, and I found myself laughing during the show because of how absurd what I was hearing was. As great as this video was, hearing it in person was something else, and I’ve been in front of a LOT of good brass lines over the years. This, all things considered was possibly the most insane thing I’ve ever seen live, and I snuck off to watch 14 Devs a lot that summer.
fun fact: this show was dave glyde’s first time working with hebron. he and michael martin from crown collaborate on their music. next you should react to broken arrow 2021, they won the national championships that year and it’s been a huge debate in the hs band community who was really the better band that year.
Hebron is way ahead in broken arrow. I've talked to some of their members and even they would tell you. Hebron is on a whole different level than broken arrow
I dont really think anyone's debating that. What I have heard is that this 2021 show from Hebron was the best high school performance many had ever seen. Its a shame that UIL and BOA are timed so closely together, and it makes bands have to make the choice to go for BOA There are many good bands in Texas and unfortunately some very good ones in the same competition zones that can only put one group forward In my opinion, Hebron and Vandergrift both have amazing music programs and the depth of the player talent at both schools is amazing
As a fellow marcher in Texas. I can tell you with 100% confidence. The competition here is fierce. I made 32nd at state last year. Haven’t even started coming close to the levels that these bands are at. We’re getting better and better ourselves each year, but schools like mine that are just starting to get into the wood works have a long time to go lol.
This band was awesome. People don't realize how difficult marching band can be. I was in it for 6 years along with blood sweat and tears. We had a strict band director that pushed us to the core to be the very best.
I have always said this: Hebron's Brass, Colorguard and Percussion could *absolutely* compete with some of the really good Open Class Drum Corps out there. They're insane.
Makes sense, they’re probably burned out by the end of the high school. Not a bad thing either haha. I know that’s how it was for our indoor group in high school, none of us wanted to go to independent indoor
As someone who marched at Hebron I can confirm, you get burned out lol. I love the head director there - Mr Sealy, but its a very demanding program and by the end of it, I didn't want to see a 105 degree slab of pavement again in my life. @@RobTheNthusiast
Honestly, there's too many great shows from high school bands to mention as the bar keeps getting raised after each year, but I think in terms of musical difficulty Hebron 2022 is probably one of the hardest shows ever attempted by a high school (and holds the highest music score at a super regional). It's a shame that while Hebron's percussion is outstanding, they aren't the best in Texas. However, that's to no fault of themselves as Texas just has some killer percussion programs with some world class instructors.
I have been lucky enough to see this live several times. Wow!! Hebron was on another level this season. This show was one that I never wanted to end. It was a tour de force at the HS level. If you want to come to a Texas UIL or BOA show, let me know.....You will be stunned at the depth of quality
SASR has been the toughest HS band competition for almost all 2010’s to present. Nats at a distant 2nd except for maybe 2019 which was arguably Nats toughest year ever. That being said, last year TX UIL State started yearly competition so this will hinder those amazing 6a programs from Dallas too possibly forgo SASR for State and an occasional Nats visit. Hoping for the best as I have not missed one SASR since 2011!
as a former guard member and co-captain, nothing makes me more excited and hyper to see such crisp and synchronized moves. i'm from texas, specifically in the san antonio region and i have never heard of hebron before! im super impressed by the colorguard performance, truly. this was what i wanted out of my team, but never got it. very beautiful. aside from colorgaurd, this band in general just sound so good too! im not musically fluent, but it's pleasing to the ear, especially with the power and the confidence!
Having been part of an extremely small marching band in an extremely small town - I won't lie, it was really easy to feel jealous of bands like this and stay all pissed off that I wasn't a part of one That being said I think that's a really terrible attitude to have and I'm glad it never really bothered me all that much, performing with the boys was the best and I wouldn't change anything about it
Saw this at state my freshman year, and I barely knew what a good band was. Sophomore year I learned like the whole snare transcription. As a junior, this is still my favorite HS marching show.
Honestly, I think seeing your reaction to Hebron's 2022 show would be enjoyable. They really did well with that one too, and there are many features and solos to look forward to.
I loved 2022 but for as much as I love the source music for the ballad I felt it too overly high school arraigned for what Hebron is known for imo. Movements 1,2 and 4 are spectacular!
We hit 'em with sticks if they don't triple-tongue correctly. (I'M KIDDING.) The middle school feeder programs are amazing: By nailing down the fundamentals in middle school the high school directors can work on outrageous skills like this. "Better ingredients, better pizza," as Papa Johns says. Solid freshmen musicians can be turned into phenomenal seniors, thanks to the unsung heroes: Middle school band directors.
@@hebronbandchaperone So many other programs miss that fact. The secret sauce is obviously the over competitive nature in Texas in regards to music education but the feeder programs that funnel solid students in the list high school already equipped with stellar fundamentals.
To answer your questions… Yes. They are the best marching band to date. They do march Freshmen and they are all playing. They all have to take private lessons and pay an absorbent amount of dues to march. Each player’s cost is still less than Broken Bow out of Oklahoma. One thing that impresses me most is the difficult level of the music, which they absolutely torch it. But most excellent bands across the U.S. will have a difficult, technical portion of playing at the beginning of the show, then they play really well with not as much demand through to the end of the show. Lips get tired, we get it. But Hebron plays a level of high technical difficulty, especially in the brass, at the end of the show as well. As hard as the beginning was, so was the ending. To me, that is something that sets them apart. The band has two uniforms. Black and Blue for football games and these uniforms for competitions. These uniforms have pen stripes, hence the title and idea of the show’s concept. I was speaking to one of my fellow judge friends that judged this competition. I completely agree with her that this is the most well rounded organizations we’ve seen. Of course they won State and would have won Grand Nationals if they would have went. (There are three bands from the Carrollton/Farmers Branch school District. They rotate which school goes each year. This particular year Marcus HS went and got third. The other one is Flower Mound.) Of course this year they won State. The next year they tied for first in Prelims with Vandergrift. What happened next was something that has never happened in the history of our U.I.L. State marching contest… they both tied again in the Finals with the exact same score the tied in Prelims with. (There is a different judging panel for Prelims and Finals.) To break the tie, we look at the ordinals and the one that gets first place from three judges out of five will be named the winner, even though they had the exact same total. Vandergrift won State and they gave second place to Hebron. I don’t call Hebron a HS marching band, but a breeding ground for DCI! 🤣 Thank you for your insights into this show. It is my first time to see you and I will have to follow you to hear more reactions.
Hi! Hebron band/ props mom here. It was called Penstripe because of the gigantic pens on the field plus our uniforms have pinstripes on them. I know of no other bands with pinstripes in the state, but that may have changed. Many of these kids are now in DCI competitions. My daughter was a horn/freshman during this performance. And I was home sick with the flu. Missed her winning state (OMG ) Now any time I wear my pinstripe band T-shirts,always get comments about it. Last year at state I actually had a kid from San Antonio school ask if we had any leftover shirts from pinstripe. I ended up giving him the one I sleep in and he was thrilled. This band is a family of over 380 kids. I never had any desire to be a bad mom, but I have been so incredibly blessed by these wonderful kids. Absolutely a pleasure to get to watch them grow.
Keep up the good work guys. It’s really nice to see people who were in the activity putting up quality content like this all while providing constructive criticism. This could be a big channel one day! ❤
During that season I started watching the *crowd* watch the show at football games. Their reactions were even more entertaining than the show, lol! Lotta wide eyes, dropped drinks, and exclamations ("WHAT the... ?!?) when that first note hit. Even more fun is sitting behind other schools at competitions and watching their students react to the shows. They know how hard what they're seeing is!
it’s also a good thing to note that a good majority of these kids have private instructors as well but it’s also the dedication that they have to their craft that really tie it all together
Here in North Texas the competition is insane. Most 5A and 6A bands go to BOA regionals so each one has about 30 or more bands. Flower Mound HS (same school district as Hebron) has a JV and Varsity band.
Most outstanding Texas high school bands generally send 5 to 10 students to All State. These guys sent 24! There may have been more, but they're in the same district as Flower Mound and Marcus, no slouches themselves. They've advanced quite a few themselves.
The flute soloist in this show went to State and is now a professional musician. She's back this season helping Hebron's flute section as a tech. Her former bandmates chuckled at seeing her as a teacher now ("Oh, it's 'MISS PARK' now? Oh okay, EMILY, lol") but it's great to see the alumni giving back.
Food for thought… Why not take the next step and start interviewing some of these bands, kids, instructors, etc? Had this stuff been available when we were kids in school, I have no doubt our music programs would have been stronger, to say the least. The net has become one of the most important and powerful tools to inspire greatness since wax recordings.
Funliner content is the best content! Hebron’s 2021 show was legit transcendent. Some other great high school’s show you should react to are Ronald Regan 2019, Flower Mound 2016 and 2018, and Carmel 2016
Don’t get me wrong, I love drum corps and the powerful brass sound. But something about a full band sound (when done well) is just so symphonic-sounding and it’s actually quite jarring to hear this sound when you’re fully immersed in the drum corps season. It reminds you that although it’s hard to pick out individual woodwinds in a full ensemble, it’s easy to hear how a woodwind section adds to the timbre of the sound. It sounds, more…organic, I suppose.
best dci content other than the shows themselves. It would be really cool if you guys could get guests on for the show from various corps to speak on different topics. Love the analysis
I love going to Hebron high but to get to the goals that we’re shown people have to practice in 109°F weather or more. It’s brutal but everyone gets the job done. So proud of everyone at my school even if your not in a sport or band. Good job to everyone.
I grew up in Austin, Texas and was in band contests for years: concert, marching, and individual solos, duets, trios and so on. I loved every minute and we always did very well. Now we were taught double and triple tonguing early on, sometime in junior high school. I remember practicing it a lot first with no instrument at all and slowly until you could play very fast passages easily. It makes playing so much easier. By high school it was second nature to use double and triple tonguing. Thanks for showing this video. The Hebron HS band is absolutely amazing!
12:05 Brock Alsaffar one of the assistant directors marched Blue Devils for a while. Mr Pruitt teaches low brass with the Bluecoats and a lot of our technicians and writers work with large drum corps
we get to compete against hebron at the area contest for our area and lemme tell you, they've gotten first in finals SO MANY YEARS IN A ROW. (little frustrating but i have the absolute upmost respect for them.) everytime u get to watch them after we perform its honestly like night and day. they're absolutely INSANE.
I am a big drum corps fan and marched for five years but I watch bands on RUclips all of the time. I am very, very impressed by how hard they work and how well they perform.
3:19 just such amazing composing here! every part has their own little melodic lines, a nice bouncy feel with such great clarity! And then transitioning to this rallentando, just such a powerful section!
Having to be in competition with Hebron high school back when I was in marching band it was definitely very impressive! I’ve had three members of my high school band to go into DCI playing for Cavaliers!
I remember seeing their finals performance when we went for state competition with my jaw on the floor the entire performance because I was in such awe of it
Education: it starts in middle school. The band elective has a large participation rate, and the district encourages and arranges private lessons. The middle school bands in the Lewisville independent school district are very good. (In 2023 Arbor Creek Middle School will be participating in Midwest Clinic in Chicago).
I think that was one of the best shows. I've seen with that amount of students on the field. Sometimes it's hard to move that great.with That amount of students playing or musicians.
Love me some Hebron bands. Hebron has such a great program and I personally know that a lot of the graduates from the Hebron band program go on become high school band directors and spread what they have learned across Texas.
I've said for years that Hebron is the Carolina Crown of high school bands. Very few high school bands can raise the hair on the back of my neck, Hebron has done it many times.
It’s a shame lots of these people don’t move onto the next level and just stop at high school. I know Drum Corps would love to have some of these people auditioning for them.
Trust me a lot of kids in these kinds of programs end up doing Dci. Marched with a couple Hebron kids even specifically. I went to Claudia Taylor Johnson and we always had a bunch of kids from our school march too.
My daughter is a trumpet and actually marching in this performance as a freshman. The kids work extremely hard to earn a marching position, but really every part of this show is important from all the instruments to prop crew.
@@cl8855 There are marching positions and prop crew positions. Both are important but those who want to march must be able to march their position well with all the choreography and play their music well. Those who don’t have a marching position are part of the prop crew.
As someone who has marched in both marching band and drum corps, i was getting so many different corps vibes just from the brass section throughout this entire show. A little crown here, phantom there, a little bit of cavies too.
You should really make high school bands a series, the BOA and UIL competitions are full of monster bands that perform high quality shows. 2019 Vandegrift and Claudia Taylor Johnson. 2022 Avon. Man Vs Machine Tarpon Springs(can’t remember the year). Anything by Broken Arrow and Hebron. Some of the best shows I’ve seen growing up in the BOA world. Also shout outs to Carmel, William Mason, Flowermound, and Blue Springs for incredibly well written shows!
It's important to realize that the oldest player in this band is a year younger than the youngest player in a college band. The oldest members will turn 18 in their senior year. A DCI corps will have 3 more years of physical growth and development. That makes this performance all the more impressive.
my high school my senior year was only the size of 150 or so, i think we had the best trumpet section out of my 5 years marching with them. we always struggled with the lower parts coming out, only year every part sounded good.
Fun Fact. Texas UIL (State regulations) does not allow for any Texas program to start learning drill until August 1st. Also unlike any other State all Texas programs are limited to an 8 hour per week - after school instruction (music and drill). They don’t want grades falling because of extra curricular activities plus our summers are ridiculously HOT! Even with these internal regulations in place Im always astounded as to what Texas programs produces by November!
I’m from Del valle myself and honestly, i’m blown away by schools like this! Vandergrift, Hebron, Vista ridge! They’re all super good and amazing it blows me away with the commitment they have
Only one other high school has ever put out sound like that. Pomona 1996. Belshazaar’s Feast. Those who witnessed their BOA finals performance tell of hearing the band’s baritone line collectively inhale before the intro hit. One witness, a member of the Star of Indiana 1990 who played Belshazaar’s Feast, said the baritone line was eighteen guys, all of whom were like 6’4”. HIGH SCHOOL. It can be done, it has been done, but it is truly a powerful feat.
We compete in the same Area as them and watching them perform live is an experience. Personally I really like their show from last year, whole lots of solos and realllllly good music
In the late '90s early 2000s in Virginia, we had some gargantuan bands that could plow you with volume and power. But that was because our band directors pushed a lot of our band members into DCI. I remember we got off the tour buses at a competition one time and another band noticed all of the crossman jackets mixed in amongst our band asked if so many of us were in DCI with satisfaction. Did we get in competing with them? My high school marching band got first place at every single competition. We went to the entire four years I was there. Best years of my life. We were just about 200 strong at our biggest
"High Schools LOVE their Flute solos" I'm not a flute player, but I will say the big reason why there are so many flute solos has to do with the quality of kid who tends to pick flute compared to other instruments in public schools. I guarantee you if you looked at the grades of every section of the band, the flute section would have the highest GPA and overall class rank (I think your Oboe and Bassoon sections could occasionally pull ahead just due to smaller sample size). And with it being a larger section, your first chair flutist will nine-times-out-of-ten be a stronger musician than your first chair euphonium or first chair tuba. If your goal as a director is to feature your absolute strongest musicians as soloists in your show, your flute section leader will be in the running in nearly every feasible situation.
As a Texas band marcher, DAMN is competitive. My school, the top in our city, has made it to State ONCE in its hundred-year history lmao. High hopes to make it to State this year and break that record! :D
While it’s such a taboo topic to talk about(for some people), the point you brought up about woodwinds really helping to differentiate the sound compared to summer drum corps, there are corps that are geared to capitalize from recruited woodwind talent if it ever came to pass in DCI, Blue Devils in particular imo. It’s a very interesting point you brought up, and imo it wouldn’t detract any from the musical content at all considering that just like the brass, these woodwinds would be recruited and be just as good on their instruments as the Hebron sax ensemble, their flute soloist was. Also corps have pretty much tried every instrument under the sun, electronic string instruments, keytars, thermin They just seem like an arbitrary omission at this point!
I totally agree with this! And maybe if they did this they might be able to up the number of marchers for more interesting drill as well. Although, I can understand that some people might complain about the tradition of it and maybe it could just be a separate class of corps.
Bro’s face at the opening impact really said it all 😂
We need T-Shirts with the face look
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as someone who grew up in the texas hs band scene, i have the upmost respect for hebron. not only for the skill level of their students, their star studded staff, or their achievements as a program, but for the way they carry themselves. the hebron kids are so genuine and humble, and they just love to doin the thing to the best of their ability. so glad they finally had their moment to shine at boa san antonio with this show. shout out to my hebron homies out there. y’all are badass. you should definitely do more reaction videos like this. super entertaining and insightful commentary. if you’re interested in texas bands, i definitely recommend reagan 2019. one of the most highly regarded high school shows in recent history along with this one. ctj and the woodlands are two of my other favorite bands to watch as well. great content as always, keep it up🫶🏼
I remember being a freshman watching Reagan 2019 😫
Reagan 2019, I completely agree. One of the best ever: style, grace, power, beauty, subtlety. Not as in your face and esoteric as Hebron and Vandy, but more accessible and enjoyable, IMO. BD influenced. I think you'll like it. I think their earlier performances were better, cleaner and more impressive than some of their later performances but the whole product is outstanding.
Thanks my guy that season was a crazy one
Penstriped was so fun to be in
I was lucky enough to go against hebron once. I will never forget when one of their seniors came up to me and lifted my spirits instead of celebrating.
Remember, these are HIGH SCOOL KIDS, not music major 20-21 year olds seen in drum corps. And they crank out these great bands every year.
Exactly a lot of these kids aren’t even old enough to drive a car yet but can double tongue like that
My high school band was just happy to have a run where no one fell down
so true
😂😂😂
My schools band will be happy when percussion doesn’t decide to have a seizure on the sticks and go 200 bpm in a 80 bpm section
“Where there’s great instruction, the sky’s the limit”
Well said. ❤
But also the financial capability and commitment to support that instruction. That certainly isn't meant to diminish what they accomplish (which is substantial and admirable) but what you hear and see from bands like this costs a LOT of money (and time). Let's be honest: this isn't just a handful of band directors getting this done, it's an army of instructors teaching these kids (I imagine most of them, if not all, are in private lessons) PLUS the kids working hard and the band directors and parents helping make the culture what it is.
@@505Hockey true. I didn’t have marching band in high school. As a matter of fact, just “concert band” was a joke - sometimes our “director” just didn’t feel like teaching some days and let us watch musicals. No one really cared.
You only get great instruction and all those resources for a band that size with $$$
The Texas competition is unreal. Marching in Texas and placing 19th at state. Many of the bands placing ahead of us are the big dogs. Props to Hebron for leading the pack.
fr we placed 14 last year.
what classification are yall?
@@potato8341 6A
@@potato8341 we placed 10th this year
It's such a tragedy that Hebron didn't go to Grand Nats that year. They would've absolutely decimated everyone
I don’t think so. The only reason is because Broken Arrow literally broke the record that year. They scored a 98.25. I’m from Carmel, and there is no doubt in my mind that they would have beaten us
They would have 🏆 won
Broken Arrow I think would’ve still won. They had I think the highest score in BOA history with a 98.25.
This year though
It’s really debatable, between Hebron and broken arrow, it’s really really close, I could choose who would have won personally
Hebron is one of few bands that actually uses full dynamic range, it’s not just loud or quiet with no in between. It’s always satisfying to have the contrast even with the entire band playing
here's some context about this show and the hebron band.
for the 2021-2022 school year, hebron had 24 band all-state musicians, which was the most out of all texas schools. iirc they had a large and very talented senior class that year. i believe all of the soloists were all-state musicians. they had six trumpet players make the all-state bands/orchestras, so i think that is one of the reasons why they had such good screamers and a good high brass section. (they suffered a bit after their relatively large senior class graduated in 2022, but not too much.)
you mentioned hebron's mello line. they are probably the best high school mello line in the country, but there's a general consensus that hebron's mellos peaked in 2017 (most mello rips)/2018 (most mello sustains.)
speaking of hebron's history, 2021 was the first time they won in the alamodome. in fact, they won back to back at both the boa san antonio super regional and the uil state marching contest (first occurrence since 2016? by flower mound hs, another exceptional band that happens to be in the same school district as hebron.) since 2012 (the first time they medaled at a san antonio contest), hebron came tantalizingly close to winning boa san antonio/uil/boa grand nationals. hebron has been one of the best bands musically for years, but their visuals and general effect didn't always match. the 2021 season ended their "bridesmaid" status and caused a large stir among the marching band community.
hebron really broke out in 2015 when they attended boa grand nationals. they won semifinals and set the record score at the time (97.85, surpassed by broken arrow in 2021 with a 98.25.) at finals, they went early and dropped to third while winning the music caption. they were weak visually, but it was a solid show. hebron would continue to medal at san antonio contests until 2019. they attended grand nationals and placed third while winning music again. they also placed relatively low at san antonio, though their show was meant to plateau later.
in terms of show design, i'm not very aware of their entire design staff, so i'll focus on their arrangers. hebron had will pitts (phantom regiment guy who everyone hates now) arrange the 2015 show. i'm not sure about 2016, but they switched to michael martin as the primary arranger by 2017 and stepped up their musical demand. they took up the musical and visual demand in 2019 where they had their first sixteenth note double tongue feature. hebron further stepped up their musical gain when kevin ronan (crown-affiliated) and dave glyde joined in 2021. their drill included much more jazz running and larger step sizes in 2021. (i'm not sure if kevin ronan is still with hebron since he wasn't listed in the 2022 announcements.) 2022 was also a harder show to execute.
(the funny thing about dave glyde is that there's a section from the tank part of tempus blue where the sequence is fairly similar to the double tongue feature in the closer of penstriped. they both start with trumpets double tonguing and the lower voices progressively entering.)
anyways, here's some recommendations for you to react (or just watch)
- broken arrow 2021
- hebron 2015 - present, with emphasis on 2017/2018
- tarpon springs 2010/2014/2022
- flower mound 2016 - 2018/2021
- ld bell 2005-2007 (for more old school)
- carmel 2016-2018
- an avon show
- ronald reagan 2019, but you should explore some
- round rock 2013
- cedar ridge 2022
- the woodlands 2013 - present
- william mason 2016
this isn't an exhaustive list. there are likely more gems that i haven't found yet, but i hope you take some time to watch some.
Love Avon is listed as a show. 😊 these are all quality products he’s got listed here.
Tarpon Springs 2015 - "Caged" is a must watch! That show would've won them a repeat if they went to grand nationals that year with an even higher score.
James martin 2019?
@@starsandstripes2704 definitely excited to hear yall live this year
I got to watch Tarpon 2022. Blew me away. Most impressive band I've ever seen. So much fun and so much creativity.
my band director absolutely loves hebron and he encouraged us to all watch this state finals run. hebron is absolutely amazing at what they do, and my director has incorporated their routines into ours. hebron is absolutely astonishing.
I judged marching band for 30 years and saw many bands that could march this show over the years. I NEVER heard a marching band that could play this show. You are correct that this is Carolina Crown level of difficulty. Some of the spread chords even sounded like Crown. Just as much credit should be given to the woodwinds. Their book was just as hard as the brass and they killed it musically. It was just the best high show that I have ever heard. Congrats 2021 Hebron Band.
By FARRR.... the best. The show design is straight out of a Carolina Crown playbook.
Ive been watching Texas bands for years... Flower Mound, Vandegrift, Round Rock, Duncanville, Marcus, Coppell, The Woodlands, James Bowie, Claudia Taylor Johnson, and Hebron
This is a good list coming from someone who lives in Dallas
@anthonydixon4636 I'm from GA and these are just examples.. I forgot LD Bell
@@wm8673 bro I actually was gonna say also LD Bell
This is without a doubt the best High School band ever, at least in my opinion. With Reagan 2019 being up there as well as Flower Mound 2016
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This music was by far the hardest to clean at least percussion wise. Still get shivers listening to our finals
Hebron marimbaaaa
Shivers in a good way or shivers in a bad way?
@@ChristopherNelson42 i would think since its hebron that its good shivers
Lol fair
what's up for 2024?
I went over to watch them at a home game and was blown away. The best part was seeing them 2 weeks later at region having made HUGE progress on their technical features. It was so mind blowing that I did a solo drive down to San Antonio to watch them during this run, and I found myself laughing during the show because of how absurd what I was hearing was. As great as this video was, hearing it in person was something else, and I’ve been in front of a LOT of good brass lines over the years. This, all things considered was possibly the most insane thing I’ve ever seen live, and I snuck off to watch 14 Devs a lot that summer.
The jaw drop at the opening hit made me lose it so hard
fun fact: this show was dave glyde’s first time working with hebron. he and michael martin from crown collaborate on their music.
next you should react to broken arrow 2021, they won the national championships that year and it’s been a huge debate in the hs band community who was really the better band that year.
Hebron is way ahead in broken arrow. I've talked to some of their members and even they would tell you. Hebron is on a whole different level than broken arrow
@@truthteller8504 in terms of music, yes
I dont really think anyone's debating that. What I have heard is that this 2021 show from Hebron was the best high school performance many had ever seen. Its a shame that UIL and BOA are timed so closely together, and it makes bands have to make the choice to go for BOA
There are many good bands in Texas and unfortunately some very good ones in the same competition zones that can only put one group forward
In my opinion, Hebron and Vandergrift both have amazing music programs and the depth of the player talent at both schools is amazing
@@turnneI thought u could only go to grand nationals every 4 years so that’s why Hebron didn’t go because it had only been 2 years
@@whydoialmosthave500subs4 I dont think that is the case...Carmel has been much often than that
As a fellow marcher in Texas. I can tell you with 100% confidence. The competition here is fierce. I made 32nd at state last year. Haven’t even started coming close to the levels that these bands are at. We’re getting better and better ourselves each year, but schools like mine that are just starting to get into the wood works have a long time to go lol.
Maybe one day we’ll make state finals…
My band made like 36th last year so I'm right with ya
This band was awesome. People don't realize how difficult marching band can be. I was in it for 6 years along with blood sweat and tears. We had a strict band director that pushed us to the core to be the very best.
I have always said this: Hebron's Brass, Colorguard and Percussion could *absolutely* compete with some of the really good Open Class Drum Corps out there. They're insane.
Definitely not guard or perc, but yes brass definitely.
Any group could compete. Wouldn't be competitive though.
Interestingly not many of us (Hebron alum) do DCI during or out of high school. Love the content Everett!
Hi Drewpie
Very interesting. I figured this would actually be the case. Thanks drew!
Makes sense, they’re probably burned out by the end of the high school. Not a bad thing either haha. I know that’s how it was for our indoor group in high school, none of us wanted to go to independent indoor
thats my section leader
As someone who marched at Hebron I can confirm, you get burned out lol. I love the head director there - Mr Sealy, but its a very demanding program and by the end of it, I didn't want to see a 105 degree slab of pavement again in my life. @@RobTheNthusiast
Honestly, there's too many great shows from high school bands to mention as the bar keeps getting raised after each year, but I think in terms of musical difficulty Hebron 2022 is probably one of the hardest shows ever attempted by a high school (and holds the highest music score at a super regional). It's a shame that while Hebron's percussion is outstanding, they aren't the best in Texas. However, that's to no fault of themselves as Texas just has some killer percussion programs with some world class instructors.
I have been lucky enough to see this live several times. Wow!! Hebron was on another level this season. This show was one that I never wanted to end. It was a tour de force at the HS level. If you want to come to a Texas UIL or BOA show, let me know.....You will be stunned at the depth of quality
I’m definitely interested in checking out a BOA show now
@@funlinerproductions7071if you do, go to the san antonio súper regional, people say it’s harder than grand nats
SASR has been the toughest HS band competition for almost all 2010’s to present. Nats at a distant 2nd except for maybe 2019 which was arguably Nats toughest year ever. That being said, last year TX UIL State started yearly competition so this will hinder those amazing 6a programs from Dallas too possibly forgo SASR for State and an occasional Nats visit.
Hoping for the best as I have not missed one SASR since 2011!
@@Trombonewaffle, see you there! ;-)
as a former guard member and co-captain, nothing makes me more excited and hyper to see such crisp and synchronized moves. i'm from texas, specifically in the san antonio region and i have never heard of hebron before! im super impressed by the colorguard performance, truly. this was what i wanted out of my team, but never got it. very beautiful. aside from colorgaurd, this band in general just sound so good too! im not musically fluent, but it's pleasing to the ear, especially with the power and the confidence!
As a former guard member, completely agree! He mentioned visuals but like in passing. The band’s visuals and the guard was 🔥
There is a reason that this is widely regarded as the best high school marching show of all time
Watch the show
Having been part of an extremely small marching band in an extremely small town - I won't lie, it was really easy to feel jealous of bands like this and stay all pissed off that I wasn't a part of one
That being said I think that's a really terrible attitude to have and I'm glad it never really bothered me all that much, performing with the boys was the best and I wouldn't change anything about it
Saw this at state my freshman year, and I barely knew what a good band was. Sophomore year I learned like the whole snare transcription. As a junior, this is still my favorite HS marching show.
This hs band is the blue devils of highschool marching bands. They are so good. Definitely one of if not the best hs marching band ever.
Honestly, I think seeing your reaction to Hebron's 2022 show would be enjoyable. They really did well with that one too, and there are many features and solos to look forward to.
I loved 2022 but for as much as I love the source music for the ballad I felt it too overly high school arraigned for what Hebron is known for imo. Movements 1,2 and 4 are spectacular!
ok but why is their brass double tonguing cleaner than some world class corps this isnt fair
This particular year Hebron had about 26 allstaters! With several more Area, Regional and Districts placements aswell. Theses kids could play
We hit 'em with sticks if they don't triple-tongue correctly. (I'M KIDDING.)
The middle school feeder programs are amazing: By nailing down the fundamentals in middle school the high school directors can work on outrageous skills like this. "Better ingredients, better pizza," as Papa Johns says. Solid freshmen musicians can be turned into phenomenal seniors, thanks to the unsung heroes: Middle school band directors.
@@hebronbandchaperone So many other programs miss that fact. The secret sauce is obviously the over competitive nature in Texas in regards to music education but the feeder programs that funnel solid students in the list high school already equipped with stellar fundamentals.
High school?? This is unbelievable. My HS was lucky if we had people able to walk and play at the same time lol.
Bro that double tonguing was cleaner than most drum corps
To answer your questions… Yes. They are the best marching band to date. They do march Freshmen and they are all playing. They all have to take private lessons and pay an absorbent amount of dues to march. Each player’s cost is still less than Broken Bow out of Oklahoma.
One thing that impresses me most is the difficult level of the music, which they absolutely torch it. But most excellent bands across the U.S. will have a difficult, technical portion of playing at the beginning of the show, then they play really well with not as much demand through to the end of the show. Lips get tired, we get it. But Hebron plays a level of high technical difficulty, especially in the brass, at the end of the show as well. As hard as the beginning was, so was the ending. To me, that is something that sets them apart.
The band has two uniforms. Black and Blue for football games and these uniforms for competitions. These uniforms have pen stripes, hence the title and idea of the show’s concept.
I was speaking to one of my fellow judge friends that judged this competition. I completely agree with her that this is the most well rounded organizations we’ve seen.
Of course they won State and would have won Grand Nationals if they would have went. (There are three bands from the Carrollton/Farmers Branch school District. They rotate which school goes each year. This particular year Marcus HS went and got third. The other one is Flower Mound.) Of course this year they won State. The next year they tied for first in Prelims with Vandergrift. What happened next was something that has never happened in the history of our U.I.L. State marching contest… they both tied again in the Finals with the exact same score the tied in Prelims with. (There is a different judging panel for Prelims and Finals.) To break the tie, we look at the ordinals and the one that gets first place from three judges out of five will be named the winner, even though they had the exact same total. Vandergrift won State and they gave second place to Hebron.
I don’t call Hebron a HS marching band, but a breeding ground for DCI! 🤣
Thank you for your insights into this show. It is my first time to see you and I will have to follow you to hear more reactions.
Hi! Hebron band/ props mom here. It was called Penstripe because of the gigantic pens on the field plus our uniforms have pinstripes on them. I know of no other bands with pinstripes in the state, but that may have changed. Many of these kids are now in DCI competitions. My daughter was a horn/freshman during this performance. And I was home sick with the flu. Missed her winning state (OMG ) Now any time I wear my pinstripe band T-shirts,always get comments about it. Last year at state I actually had a kid from San Antonio school ask if we had any leftover shirts from pinstripe. I ended up giving him the one I sleep in and he was thrilled. This band is a family of over 380 kids. I never had any desire to be a bad mom, but I have been so incredibly blessed by these wonderful kids. Absolutely a pleasure to get to watch them grow.
Keep up the good work guys. It’s really nice to see people who were in the activity putting up quality content like this all while providing constructive criticism. This could be a big channel one day! ❤
It's okay man. We all had that look on our face when we first saw them 😂
During that season I started watching the *crowd* watch the show at football games. Their reactions were even more entertaining than the show, lol! Lotta wide eyes, dropped drinks, and exclamations ("WHAT the... ?!?) when that first note hit.
Even more fun is sitting behind other schools at competitions and watching their students react to the shows. They know how hard what they're seeing is!
it’s also a good thing to note that a good majority of these kids have private instructors as well but it’s also the dedication that they have to their craft that really tie it all together
Here in North Texas the competition is insane. Most 5A and 6A bands go to BOA regionals so each one has about 30 or more bands. Flower Mound HS (same school district as Hebron) has a JV and Varsity band.
watching this show live at uil was an otherworldly experience, and we were just out of finals that year
Most outstanding Texas high school bands generally send 5 to 10 students to All State. These guys sent 24! There may have been more, but they're in the same district as Flower Mound and Marcus, no slouches themselves. They've advanced quite a few themselves.
The flute soloist in this show went to State and is now a professional musician. She's back this season helping Hebron's flute section as a tech. Her former bandmates chuckled at seeing her as a teacher now ("Oh, it's 'MISS PARK' now? Oh okay, EMILY, lol") but it's great to see the alumni giving back.
very rich program
Food for thought… Why not take the next step and start interviewing some of these bands, kids, instructors, etc? Had this stuff been available when we were kids in school, I have no doubt our music programs would have been stronger, to say the least. The net has become one of the most important and powerful tools to inspire greatness since wax recordings.
Reach out, I can make that happen. 😊
I would be down for an interview
Funliner content is the best content! Hebron’s 2021 show was legit transcendent. Some other great high school’s show you should react to are Ronald Regan 2019, Flower Mound 2016 and 2018, and Carmel 2016
My biggest flex is I can play the soprano sax solo in its entirety
can you play a double altissimo b?
@@imauz1127 yeah but it’s a c played in this
Don’t get me wrong, I love drum corps and the powerful brass sound. But something about a full band sound (when done well) is just so symphonic-sounding and it’s actually quite jarring to hear this sound when you’re fully immersed in the drum corps season. It reminds you that although it’s hard to pick out individual woodwinds in a full ensemble, it’s easy to hear how a woodwind section adds to the timbre of the sound. It sounds, more…organic, I suppose.
You should watch Hebron 22 as well. I’d personally say some of the music and visual is even harder than 21 and it’s still absolutely amazing. :D
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best dci content other than the shows themselves. It would be really cool if you guys could get guests on for the show from various corps to speak on different topics. Love the analysis
I love going to Hebron high but to get to the goals that we’re shown people have to practice in 109°F weather or more. It’s brutal but everyone gets the job done. So proud of everyone at my school even if your not in a sport or band. Good job to everyone.
Penstriped was definitely one of my favorite shows that we ever did. I can’t wait to perform this one at Grand Nats.
I grew up in Austin, Texas and was in band contests for years: concert, marching, and individual solos, duets, trios and so on. I loved every minute and we always did very well. Now we were taught double and triple tonguing early on, sometime in junior high school. I remember practicing it a lot first with no instrument at all and slowly until you could play very fast passages easily. It makes playing so much easier. By high school it was second nature to use double and triple tonguing. Thanks for showing this video. The Hebron HS band is absolutely amazing!
12:05 Brock Alsaffar one of the assistant directors marched Blue Devils for a while. Mr Pruitt teaches low brass with the Bluecoats and a lot of our technicians and writers work with large drum corps
I think this guy was in ghost light with Alsaffar so this is lit
we get to compete against hebron at the area contest for our area and lemme tell you, they've gotten first in finals SO MANY YEARS IN A ROW. (little frustrating but i have the absolute upmost respect for them.) everytime u get to watch them after we perform its honestly like night and day. they're absolutely INSANE.
Woodlands ‘22 is a personal favorite of mine
I am a big drum corps fan and marched for five years but I watch bands on RUclips all of the time. I am very, very impressed by how hard they work and how well they perform.
3:19 just such amazing composing here! every part has their own little melodic lines, a nice bouncy feel with such great clarity! And then transitioning to this rallentando, just such a powerful section!
Having to be in competition with Hebron high school back when I was in marching band it was definitely very impressive! I’ve had three members of my high school band to go into DCI playing for Cavaliers!
Hebron's 2022 show is also very strong
I remember seeing their finals performance when we went for state competition with my jaw on the floor the entire performance because I was in such awe of it
Education: it starts in middle school. The band elective has a large participation rate, and the district encourages and arranges private lessons. The middle school bands in the Lewisville independent school district are very good. (In 2023 Arbor Creek Middle School will be participating in Midwest Clinic in Chicago).
Avon's band director is Matt Harloff, the brass director of Carolina Crown. His band in 2024 is incredible.
I think that was one of the best shows. I've seen with that amount of students on the field. Sometimes it's hard to move that great.with That amount of students playing or musicians.
Check out 4:04. "We'll just walk walk right through each other, lol."
Love me some Hebron bands. Hebron has such a great program and I personally know that a lot of the graduates from the Hebron band program go on become high school band directors and spread what they have learned across Texas.
I've said for years that Hebron is the Carolina Crown of high school bands. Very few high school bands can raise the hair on the back of my neck, Hebron has done it many times.
It’s a shame lots of these people don’t move onto the next level and just stop at high school. I know Drum Corps would love to have some of these people auditioning for them.
Trust me a lot of kids in these kinds of programs end up doing Dci. Marched with a couple Hebron kids even specifically. I went to Claudia Taylor Johnson and we always had a bunch of kids from our school march too.
@@ipadbossbaby4558 Oohhmmygot 😳
DCI is about 25 to 30% Texas kids these days.
5:05 "what are they feeding these kids" LOTS OF CANE'S TO MAKE US BIG AND STRONG
Bruh hebrons show last year was amazing. I had the pleasure to play against them
There are some student POV gopro videos of this show. It's even more wild from that perspective
My daughter is a trumpet and actually marching in this performance as a freshman. The kids work extremely hard to earn a marching position, but really every part of this show is important from all the instruments to prop crew.
what do you mean "earn a marching position?" are you having cuts for marching band?
@@cl8855 There are marching positions and prop crew positions. Both are important but those who want to march must be able to march their position well with all the choreography and play their music well. Those who don’t have a marching position are part of the prop crew.
I think we can all agree that the "Hebron" set doesn't spell Hebron. It spells "Yeah your band will never play this good"
As someone who has marched in both marching band and drum corps, i was getting so many different corps vibes just from the brass section throughout this entire show. A little crown here, phantom there, a little bit of cavies too.
1:20 ok I counted and I think they had:
24 trumpets
16 mellos
20 trombones
16 euphs/baris
12 tubas
Which totals to 88 brass members.
dunno about the others, but 16 baris were marching in 2021👍
88 of about 350 makes sense sound wise, that’s why the woodwind sound is so prevalent. they also probably mic’ed them up, but i’m not sure
@@spiyder nobody was mic’ed except soloists
You should really make high school bands a series, the BOA and UIL competitions are full of monster bands that perform high quality shows. 2019 Vandegrift and Claudia Taylor Johnson. 2022 Avon. Man Vs Machine Tarpon Springs(can’t remember the year). Anything by Broken Arrow and Hebron. Some of the best shows I’ve seen growing up in the BOA world. Also shout outs to Carmel, William Mason, Flowermound, and Blue Springs for incredibly well written shows!
There was i think 3 kids from this band that marched that year also marched blue devils 2022
It's important to realize that the oldest player in this band is a year younger than the youngest player in a college band. The oldest members will turn 18 in their senior year. A DCI corps will have 3 more years of physical growth and development. That makes this performance all the more impressive.
i live in texas and i am in band and bands here are crazy. its super cool too see. hope my band goes to state this year:D i saw this show in person
The Hebron Band has won state marching and state wind ensemble competitions in consecutive years. That is unheard of
The Dallas/Fort Worth surrounding area has some AMAZING high school bands!!!
If I remember right one of Hebrons drum majors was Vanguards drum major last year.
This is true 👍
Hebrons shows have only gotten better over time!
Their 2022 show is also crazy!!
sometimes i’ll literally be playing parts of this show in my head and can’t figure out which drum corps show it is until i realize it’s hebron
As a Texan high school music lover, I am proud and excited to remind everyone of the UIL marching finals in November, as usual.
Kinda surprised y’all didn’t do this earlier.
my high school my senior year was only the size of 150 or so, i think we had the best trumpet section out of my 5 years marching with them. we always struggled with the lower parts coming out, only year every part sounded good.
you should definitely make a fun liner high school series i think that would be amazing
I watched this live bruh!! I had to compete against them for the past few years and will have to for the next couple of years!!
9:28 I’m the far right marimba. If you couldn’t tell by the rest of the band you can look at me and see just how we knew we’d finally done it
bro congrats!! super impressive
Fun Fact. Texas UIL (State regulations) does not allow for any Texas program to start learning drill until August 1st.
Also unlike any other State all Texas programs are limited to an 8 hour per week - after school instruction (music and drill). They don’t want grades falling because of extra curricular activities plus our summers are ridiculously HOT!
Even with these internal regulations in place Im always astounded as to what Texas programs produces by November!
I’m from Del valle myself and honestly, i’m blown away by schools like this! Vandergrift, Hebron, Vista ridge! They’re all super good and amazing it blows me away with the commitment they have
@@pop1923 Roma, Sharyland, and several Laredo schools killin it.
Only one other high school has ever put out sound like that. Pomona 1996. Belshazaar’s Feast. Those who witnessed their BOA finals performance tell of hearing the band’s baritone line collectively inhale before the intro hit. One witness, a member of the Star of Indiana 1990 who played Belshazaar’s Feast, said the baritone line was eighteen guys, all of whom were like 6’4”. HIGH SCHOOL. It can be done, it has been done, but it is truly a powerful feat.
We compete in the same Area as them and watching them perform live is an experience. Personally I really like their show from last year, whole lots of solos and realllllly good music
Vandegrift 2019 promise you won’t be disappointed also another Texas band by the way they won grand nationals that year
Now, that's a band that doesn't talk in the middle of reps 😂
In the late '90s early 2000s in Virginia, we had some gargantuan bands that could plow you with volume and power. But that was because our band directors pushed a lot of our band members into DCI. I remember we got off the tour buses at a competition one time and another band noticed all of the crossman jackets mixed in amongst our band asked if so many of us were in DCI with satisfaction. Did we get in competing with them?
My high school marching band got first place at every single competition. We went to the entire four years I was there. Best years of my life. We were just about 200 strong at our biggest
This is wildly impressive for a high school
Loved how you changed it up to watch HS bands, plz do more
"High Schools LOVE their Flute solos"
I'm not a flute player, but I will say the big reason why there are so many flute solos has to do with the quality of kid who tends to pick flute compared to other instruments in public schools. I guarantee you if you looked at the grades of every section of the band, the flute section would have the highest GPA and overall class rank (I think your Oboe and Bassoon sections could occasionally pull ahead just due to smaller sample size). And with it being a larger section, your first chair flutist will nine-times-out-of-ten be a stronger musician than your first chair euphonium or first chair tuba. If your goal as a director is to feature your absolute strongest musicians as soloists in your show, your flute section leader will be in the running in nearly every feasible situation.
As a Texas band marcher, DAMN is competitive. My school, the top in our city, has made it to State ONCE in its hundred-year history lmao.
High hopes to make it to State this year and break that record! :D
While it’s such a taboo topic to talk about(for some people), the point you brought up about woodwinds really helping to differentiate the sound compared to summer drum corps, there are corps that are geared to capitalize from recruited woodwind talent if it ever came to pass in DCI, Blue Devils in particular imo. It’s a very interesting point you brought up, and imo it wouldn’t detract any from the musical content at all considering that just like the brass, these woodwinds would be recruited and be just as good on their instruments as the Hebron sax ensemble, their flute soloist was. Also corps have pretty much tried every instrument under the sun, electronic string instruments, keytars, thermin
They just seem like an arbitrary omission at this point!
I totally agree with this! And maybe if they did this they might be able to up the number of marchers for more interesting drill as well. Although, I can understand that some people might complain about the tradition of it and maybe it could just be a separate class of corps.
Better than some world class drum corps tbh
Yeah, as a kid in band in TX, they're a BEAST to go against, I recommend Centennial High School (my school) for some Disney themed shows :D
Hebron is a beast man. They are insane. My favorite high school band along with tarpon springs
I am currently play clarinet at Hebron, wait till this year (grand nats)