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  • I'm curious as to how large the school is...

  • They should be playing some "big band" pieces! XD

  • HOLY CRAP Its a standing band lol

  • their flag corp actual has some good dancers in it.... my highschool didnt.... aberdeen sd sucks

  • @JondogC I'm from Spearfish Sd, ours sucks too.

  • that band = big

  • Only a band this big would come from texas xD

  • theres no freakin way thats a high school band....

  • Their color gaurd is biger than my whole band.....

  • @amylee101456 Pssh, bigger than your whole band? Their band is bigger than my entire SCHOOL.

  • i miss drum corps -_- OH IMPULSE HOW I LOVE YOU! >XO

  • i miss fall season...

  • *sigh* I miss marching season.

  • That is a HUGE band..

    ...they're not all that loud though go figure.

  • @ExternalGod that takes talent...

  • damn this is a huge band

  • I like how the entire band takes up the whole field.

  • OH MY GOD!!!!! I HAVE NEVER SEEN A BAND THAT BIG!!!!! This coming from someone who is in marching band and has seen ALOT of bands.

  • As an ex section leader and marcher, I have this. "Okay, good sound. Go dynamics. Oh! Tuba!" "HOLY FREAKIN FRIED CHICKEN!!!! THAT IS A BIG BAND!!! I THOUGHT WE WERE BIG WITH 312!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AH!!!" and "They aren't going to move. LAME! No wonder the music is good! If I hadn't had to worry about a giant pit of mud, I'd have pianissimo-ed and forte-ed a lot clearer!" Two positive and one annoyance.

  • @RiseAboveThis92 Okay, this is just a number to showcase our color guard. We move in our show after this. Promise.

  • that's a HIGH SCHOOL band? D: that's frightening 

  • @2015PSU Yes, i know that for a fact because i'm in it...it's quite fun actually... :D

  • their whole school is in the band....i think.

  • @jedikilla123 This is defenitely the whole band...i know that for a fact because i'm in it.

  • holy crap, my high school marching band only has 81 people. that's including colorguard, front ensemble, and the kids from the middle school that hold our props. My friend's high school band only has about 25 people.

  • As a former marching band member (not in this band), the concert formation seen in the video, allows the attention to be focused on the flag bearers/dancers routine and not the band. They are approximately 50 flag bearers. As the video doesn't show the whole band, one can assume that it stretches from end zone to end zone. There appears to be 8 band members per 10 yards (80 per row, 7 rows). A total of maybe 560 in the band + the 50 flag bearers brings the total over 600. AWESOME!

  • @gdodge2002 As a band member of this band, I'd say your calculations are correct. We have lots of fun :)

  • HOLY CRAP, Is that like 200 people?

  • @Trevor09092 No, that'd be about 600 people...i'm in this band, i would know...but it's really fun

  • OMG Come on, band, you guys are like robots! >_< It's a freakin' rock song! Move around a bit! Rock out! Loosen up!

  • @GameMaestro14 ..that's not a rock song.

  • @RunawayFyre Yes it is. And if you have your own cute definition of rock, it's still a high energy song. And the band is standing still.

  • @GameMaestro14 Lady Gaga is pop. Nothing wrong with that , but don't put it into some other category. It's like saying Selena Gomez is rock . It just isn't.

  • @RunawayFyre Pop is not a genre. Pop is a term short for "popular music". All popular bands were in that category some point. Aerosmith was pop. So was Led Zeppelin. Lady Gaga is closer to rock than anything.

  • @GameMaestro14 When you're a band of about 600, there's not that much space to move around in a formation like this...

  • @MissMaryAliceAngel It can be done. Unless you are literally shoulder to shoulder on the field, you can do SOMETHING, even if it's not necessarily choreographed. Just so long as they're not standing at attention like deer in headlights, ya know? Loosen up. Have fun with it.

  • @GameMaestro14 Okay...i see what you're saying, but we're giving the chance for colorguard to show off, so we kinda have to stay still or else we'll take away the spotlight from them.

  • @MissMaryAliceAngel Yeah, I can understand that. That's good to do here and there. But even so, it just looks so awkward when the band is standing at attention during something like this. :( I just think they should loosen up. Stand comfortably. You don't have to move a lot to put energy into performance. Look at many rock n roll bands. Most of them don't have to move around that much to have energy. It's a matter of being loose and having fun, is all I'm saying. Ya know? :/

  • @GameMaestro14 Yeah, i see what you're saying

  • @MissMaryAliceAngel I dunno, I guess it's just the way I learned marching band performances. I was taught to be a performer, which is why in high school marching band competitions, I never cared about points. Just give a good show, that's what's important. It's unfortunate that in high school people think just because you're in a little room with a tape recorder you must be a marching band god. lol

  • This is high school?! Are there 5000 students or something?

  • @fosterslover somewhere around that...

  • First off where on gods earth is there a school this big to suppport this many band members this is big enough to be a flash mob band from the city of god knows where

  • @SERGANTANGEL this band is from Texas... We have 1 high school for the whole town, and where we live, band is actually pretty cool

  • This is not a marching band, this is a standing band. I would love to see them actually performing drill.

  • @isablondethng Oh, there are videos...trust me...just search Allen Eagle Band, or Allen Eagle Marching Band Show and you can see some.

  • i thought my band was big...AAAAAA?

  • @OfficialDjBAMF2012 We have about 600 people...

  • @MissMaryAliceAngel thats a shit ton. How do you all learn halftime shows?

  • @OfficialDjBAMF2012 Just like any other marching band...well, maybe a little bit differently...we're all out on the feild and, well, when i marched last year we were given these papers that told us where our spot was and we each had a number and a letter and we'd go from one to the next. i didn't march this year because i was in the front ensemble this year and they did it a little differently...

  • @MissMaryAliceAngel my band has 120 and theres mass confusion trying to get to the hashes and sort it all out. I couldnt believe the chaos in your band.

  • @OfficialDjBAMF2012 As far as i know, we don't have much confusion...but we go over the steps a lot, kind of, and our band director will tell us how to do it too.

  • @MissMaryAliceAngel I gotcha now. Well, our band got choosen to go to london this comming new years eve to march in there parade there.

  • This isnt a marching band. This is a family. The worlds largest family.

  • @TheOneShirokage You have no idea...

  • this band has more kids in it then my highschool has all together haha thats sad

  • i wish i could be in a band tht big!!

  • omg! that band is HUGE!! but i think it's awesome that they were able to play clearly and balanced lol GO BIG BANDS!! =D

  • First off......everyone saying "that band is wayyyyy too big", this appears to be a big high school. So why not have a big marching band???? This is about the size of a typical college band. And just because they have one video of them playing a song standing doesnt mean they don't EVER march.

    That being said....the color guard is terrible. Is it just me or does anyone else hate color guards whose flags never leave their hands?

  • @Thabeautdisaster i concur with you about the colorguard. i mean we had more work and were cleaner with only three this year for field show.

  • @Thabeautdisaster they werent bad. I donno if you noticed, but it doesnt look like the poles are cut. A Lot of bands that do a lot with their flags cut the poles and make the flags smaller.

  • @Thabeautdisaster First off, you are correct, we do march...

    Second off, the flag does leave their hands in the show...i guess just not in this song...

  • ITS A LEGION MARCHING BAND

  • Yeah, my color guard team at my highschool has 4 people, and like 20 in band.

  • How can they be called a "marching band" when they don't MARCH!! Standing in place and playing a song outside on a football field just means you are an OUTSIDE CONCERT BAND!! You have to actually MOVE to be a marching band... it's in the name and it's the definition of a MARCHING Band!!!!!! Wow. They are big. They stand in one place and play. Color Guard does a very simplistic routine and isn't even together. Maybe if there weren't as many they could be together? Looks like crap.

  • @maparzow Have you ever watched one of our shows?!?!?! We DO march!!! Go search us!

  • How do you fit all of you in one band room???

  • @largeaquaticmammal We didn't, until this year when we got a brand new fine arts facility...

  • Honestly, I would hate to be in a band that big. Can't even do anything.

  • @Modnar2011 Oh, you can, we have lots of fun doing it, too!

  • How the hell do they even march a drill with a band that big? It's not practical. This band needs cuts.

  • @avenged7xguitar still got nothin on famu go rattlers!!!!!!!

  • @avenged7xguitar You're right, everyone participates for the first three games and then they get into their contest show and they have about 100 +/- shadows.

  • @avenged7xguitar Where this band is, being in band is cool. Don't hate! And it's not that hard to do drill with a band this big, it's just like doing drill with a smaller band.

  • i dont think three drum majors is even enough... O.o

  • I can barely hear the low end... very top heavy, IMO. :/

  • And that would be Allen High School.....

  • i feel bad for the smaller bands to go against these people.!!

  • @2015BamBam Smaller bands would still win on MARCHING!! If they don't move other to get on the field and off the field, how can they win a marching band show? If they do then it's rigged. The judges I know would either DQ them for not marching or laugh and stick them in last place!

  • @maparzow true.!

  • @maparzow Okay, this is just a stand tune we played on the field for the colorguard to perform their routine, this isn't the actual show. So we wouldn't get DQ or stuck in last place because if they see this, then they're obviously at the wrong place.

  • WTF.!!! THIS IS A FUCKIN HIGH SCHOOL.?!? awsome....

  • ...This is a high school?

  • is it sad i sang along to this XD

  • @silentperson00 No, it's perfectly normal. This is the band i'm in, and there are plenty of songs we would all sing along to.

  • t'f, That fricken is like the whole school !!! >.< Massive damn marching band!!!

  • @AsianPolarBear98 there's about 5000 kids in the school...i don't think they'd all fit on the feild and be able to march...or stand comfortable and play their instrument...

  • thats not a band... THATS AN ARMY!

  • @BINGFRYSRDUN We DO march! It's just like marching in a smaller band!

  • @DancingLauren They can't march cuz there is no room on the field.

  • That awkward moment when their guard is bigger than your whole band...

  • how the hell does this happen!!! thats alot of ppl!!! normally i would see that amount of ppl in college i had never thought that i would see it in highschool!!! approximently or a guess...how students are in the Allen Highschool band???

  • @usmcbrat14 Between 650 and 700 at the last count. I'm pretty sure it's the largest HS band in the US.

  • @usmcbrat14 i think this year it was close to 700 in the escadrille, maybe about 500 in band.

  • That band is massive. O.O

  • Not a marching band....it's a standing band

  • @CookieDude1178999 how are they supposed to march with that many people they cant move smart one:) lol no intent to be mean with that..

  • @CookieDude1178999 we march, just like a smaller band would march...

  • DAFUCK, that is a lot of people :o

  • The drill looks so damn hard

  • Huge Band...Huge Sound!!

    Nice to hear a band with complete sound...

    Amazing

  • Omg... i hear NO Clarinets :(

  • How do get so much band members??? WTF!!!!

  • @killa2dacore band is just cool where they are, i guess

  • Jesus. I didn't even realize Allen was doing Gaga. That's hilarious. Better than 2007's show.

  • I wonder how they have room to march on that feild without falling

  • @mel14kentucky it's very easy, just like a smaller band...i haven't seen anyone in this band fall though...

  • i love this song, and i love hearing it played by marching bands. i do have to agree with rtdm93, though. the reason this band sounds so good is because the stand in one place. it takes more talent and skill to move and play than it does to just sit there and focus all of your energy into playing i understand that they can't really move all that much with that size of a band. and you NEVER want to deny a highschool/middle school student the chance to advance in music.

  • i am a music major and i plan on being a high school music director some day. if i had a band this large, i would split them up into two seperate bands composed of instrumentalists of equal talent on both sides. then i alternate which band marched every week. we'd do the same show, and when we practiced, we'd use the shadow technique to learn the show faster. fans would much rather see a moving band than a band that just sits there playing stands tunes. but that's just me. :)

  • @rnoles22 We march all the time! We march everyweek unless something goes COMPLETELY wrong...

  • @rnoles22 Okay, i agree with everything you said, except we do march, we just stand there because we're giving the colorguard a chance to perform.

  • wow, we have a band of about 30 ppl... This band makes my band look like a midget!

  • you wan this band to move?Where?How? the damn thing goes from inzone to inzone! lol

  • @TheNihipali5 it's quite simple, really

  • alright

    1. Have tryouts for the band and cut people.

    2. MOVE!!!

    3. Have harder flag work.

    4. Cooler drum beats

    5. Doing this will produce a badass BOA band!!!

  • @rtdm93 go search one of the shows, it'll show you marching with all these people, it'll possibly show you harder flag work, it'll show you cooler drum beats, and if this is the only video you've seen of this band, you have no idea how badass we are.

  • Geez! That marching band is GIGANTIC! I only have 42 people in my marching band and it goes from 7-12 graders -__-

  • A: -Do you know Michael?

    B: -No... can you be more specific?

    A: -He plays in the school band.

    B: -Derp...

  • holy shit i go to a 1A high school and we 60 in our band people and i thought THAT was alot

  • good lord is the entire school in the band???

  • @princessyrandom1214 no, then we'd never go onto the field...the school has about 5000 people...

  • my school played them in a football game at cowboys stadium, they made that feild look small

  • wish my marching band was that huge!

  • Holy Cow! I'm in the marching 110 and I thought my band was big, there are 237 of us. I feel like 237 is maybe half of this band maybe. If the spread out they could take up the whole field. That is so awesome!

  • @jaspa696969 Allen High School is in Texas

  • @balloon303 Foreingers such as jaspa refer to all Americans as yanks. They don't differentiate the way we do over here.

  • damn they're good.

  • dear jesus. that band has more people than I dont know what.

  • ok so we had 165 in our marching band in hs.. and we were teh biggest band in the state. this is just fucking sweet.

  • Our band has 60 members... dear lord, this is a huge marching band.

  • ummm that looks like my band :S

  • Marching band?? Where's the marching?

  • @mbeauasl Did you see how many were there?

    They took up more then 3/4ths of the field WHERE would they march?

  • @SoixXxioZ It was a joke...

  • @SoixXxioZ on the feild dumbass

  • @mbeauasl search one of the shows...then you'll see marching...

  • we had 20 people in my marching band. stop complaining.

  • geez! I thought this was a college band at first! My high school band only has 70 members!

  • So how far away can you hear them?

  • @SteevyTable from my old house...not sure how far that is...

  • omg that band is HUGE

  • @iceblade4197 650 people I think

  • look at all these band geeks flipping out and say "OMG MY BAND IS LOUDER" stfu and enjoy the video.

  • My college band played this song but in a different arrangement. This was good playing for a high school though. From what I see they can't march around cause there isn't any room. When you have that problem then you need some shadows on the sideline sharing spots in the drill for people. I was a shadow my freshmen yr of high school. It wasn't a bad thing.

  • @redhead812 Okay, you obviously don't know the Allen Band. We march, we have shadows, we have fun. This is just the band standing still so the colorguard can have a chance to perform. We can march around, just like any other high school marching band, it's not that hard!

  • my high school band is an a band in california. our whole band pit and colorguard included takes up like two rows of you guys.... and we could probably play this better...

  • ok people you accurately measure how loud a band is... ON YOUTUBE. you have to see it live...

  • well at least we can see the color guard can HALF WAY do some BASICS..... ahaha ....

  • bigger is NOT better. just sayin. that was HORRIBLE.

  • It's funny how huge the band is and only 1 person is qualified for TMEA All-Sate on their Band Program. That is clearly the result of Quantity over Quality, and i have never seen this band participate in the State Marching Competition level.

    Anyways, I just wanted to troll there for a little bit. Love the participation. eh.

  • doesnt look they even have room to do any maneuvers 

  • I play the Bari Sax, and I'm the only one in my entire school. There's only like one other in the whole school district, and he's in high school. I'm in 7th grade, and my band director expected me to hold a note on the Bari for about 15 beats, but I actually held it for 31. I was recently accepted to Quad State in Kentucky, and my other band director said that it was all because of the Bari. I am proud to be a Bari Sax player. SEMPER MELIOR!

  • Where is the marching?!

  • Whats funny is I can still tell whos not covering...

  • Are band isn't even 1/4 of this -_-

  • oh comeon. the guard work should of been better. :/ and they could of given it more UMPH with the dance. insted of looking like robots. :/

  • i have this song memorized on my trumpet , it gets annoying lol thats a biggg band

  • how many people are there?

  • My school's 8 member drill team is more impressive.

  • :O 

  • this was... definitely not impressive at all. my school's band of 90-100 kids has way more bass punch. this sounds like a giant mid-voice section. and the dancers are pretty awful too. really simple routine, and not even in sync with each other.

  • Why cant we have beautiful color gaurds

  • they just like...twirl the flags. not impressive. come to PESH, were better. :)

  • DAAAAMMMNNN thats a lot of high schoolers!

  • I like the one at the 30 yard line.

  • is the whole school in the band?

  • I'm sorry but I've had harder dance work and I"m in drumline.

  • how does a band with this much hornline do a show? Whether it marching band or DCI a good hornline should have at max 115 players. maybe less. a whole lot less if it is a Corps

  • i love my marching band, i like the video, and love some of the comments, but i dont like fords(0:50)

  • i agree that it's sad when a big marching band isn't moving air, but this is not one of those bands. i think they're very good

  • And as for the volume, there are about 200 freshmen who were specifically told by our director not to play. And the reasons that the camera guy stated. One more thing, we can march perfectly well without running into any people. It's not that hard.