Bands all over the country are experiencing this. With all respects, your cadences and music are too simple. Play grade 4 or 5 music and popular selections and kids will want to join the band. They sound pretty good on this one but it just isn't exciting. When you can make the crowd start dancing, then other kids will want to join and people will open their wallets because it is making their kid popular. I give them three stars for a good effort. Winter/summer underarmor helps. Good luck!
@AlexNAFD I understand. No offense intended. A lot of school songs are more basic, sometimes older that don.t interest a lot of kids but we still need to play them. It is fun though to mix in some band versions of popular numbers.I'll post a vid of one that really turned one of our program around for the better and really increased our membership the next year. Good luck and keep sounding good!
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@ChuckLetson Just a FYI, the song comes from "Hail to Old IU" we just changed it a little and sped it up. So, if you have a problem with this song then i would be keeping it to yourself, otherwise your going to have A LOT of people commenting about you and i dont think that is a firestorm you want to start. Just sayin...
I think the main problem is that there are too many music choices. There should be a concert/marching band as in years past, not two seperate classes, and the uniforms have always been too hot.
It's true that New Albany's band seems to get smaller every year. But with the band doing it all on their own, with no help from the school. It's hard for them to grow. i will say though this year was a lot better than the past few. There were more parents involved than the past 3 or four years. But that's not enough. We need to get all parents involved. I'm NA band alumni and we all need to step up to this challenge. There for we can be a great band and compete with the big competition.
i live there and i go to that school now cool! imma a freshman this year LOL!
ciciraybeckah 1 year ago
@ciciraybeckah Poor Poor freshman....lol..jk.....imma junior at NAHS :)
AlexNAFD 11 months ago
terrible
ketchup1279 2 years ago
Oh My God! Black Jesus was on here! Haha. I was in that marching band this year. Wow. It's tiny. But I think we're doing pretty good.
torirhay16 2 years ago
damn school song XD I spy Bert
Killerclownmeat 2 years ago
Bands all over the country are experiencing this. With all respects, your cadences and music are too simple. Play grade 4 or 5 music and popular selections and kids will want to join the band. They sound pretty good on this one but it just isn't exciting. When you can make the crowd start dancing, then other kids will want to join and people will open their wallets because it is making their kid popular. I give them three stars for a good effort. Winter/summer underarmor helps. Good luck!
ChuckLetson 2 years ago
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@ChuckLetson Thats the school song not a music selection.
AlexNAFD 11 months ago
@AlexNAFD I understand. No offense intended. A lot of school songs are more basic, sometimes older that don.t interest a lot of kids but we still need to play them. It is fun though to mix in some band versions of popular numbers.I'll post a vid of one that really turned one of our program around for the better and really increased our membership the next year. Good luck and keep sounding good!
ChuckLetson 11 months ago
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@ChuckLetson Just a FYI, the song comes from "Hail to Old IU" we just changed it a little and sped it up. So, if you have a problem with this song then i would be keeping it to yourself, otherwise your going to have A LOT of people commenting about you and i dont think that is a firestorm you want to start. Just sayin...
AlexNAFD 11 months ago
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TheCcabw 11 months ago
I think the main problem is that there are too many music choices. There should be a concert/marching band as in years past, not two seperate classes, and the uniforms have always been too hot.
proudparent2008 2 years ago
It's true that New Albany's band seems to get smaller every year. But with the band doing it all on their own, with no help from the school. It's hard for them to grow. i will say though this year was a lot better than the past few. There were more parents involved than the past 3 or four years. But that's not enough. We need to get all parents involved. I'm NA band alumni and we all need to step up to this challenge. There for we can be a great band and compete with the big competition.
vols1885 3 years ago
This band gets smaller every year. New Albany needs to make some changes.
mmm4586 3 years ago 2