 Hey, I'm Skyler and I'm Cassidy. We're with Cal TV music and we're interviewing the marching band. Let's go So I'm here with Daniel a drum major of Cal band Why did you want to be a drum major? I just really love the creativity and working with other people that it takes to create the shows that we march You're majoring in drums. So what's your minor? Oh, my minor is Bending my back. I don't know Willie, what is this setup here? Well, these are the tenor drums Um, and I see you have a cowbell down here, too. Do you get jokes about that all the time? Way more than I wish What is the most underrated band section? Clearly the tenor drums. What's the biggest difference between the stand for band and the cow band? We're good I'm here with melody one of the flute players of the cow marching band But today she has another instrument in her hand. What is that? This is a piccolo It's a lot more high-pitched and it's louder so you can hear it better on the field Which section of the band is the most annoying? All right, so there's three instruments in band that end with the word phone There's the alto saxophone the tenor saxophone the mellowphone One of them decided that they should simply refer to themselves as the phones That's the alto saxophones. They're the most annoying. Who is the most idiotic in the band? It's the alto saxophones. Does everyone just hate them? Alan, what instrument do you play? I play the tenor saxophone What's the difference between a tenor sax and a regular saxophone? So a regular saxophone you probably made an alto which is just a little smaller a little higher pitched And some people would say that a clarinet is a poor man's saxophone. What what do you think about that? I would say they're correct. Clarinet means nothing when you're outside Would it be better? So i'm here with jack. What songs are you performing at the stanford game? The stanford game we were doing a lady gaga halftime show We're doing a little poker face a little telephone a little bad romance So if the entire band was stuck on an island, which section would die off first? Definitely the piccolos They're not going to have those body fat reserves and they're probably one of the least important, you know So that's it right there. One of your other members said that the piccolos would be the first to die What are your thoughts? I disagree because uh, there's a lot of women in our section And now when we get together we have some pretty cool ideas cool ideas how to die No, cool idea is how to survive women women pair Would you say the tuba is an oversized trumpet? I guess it's the thing about playing a tuba that makes people shout at you while you're walking down the street and just go tuba Are you a floutist or a flutist? Um floutist sounds fancier. So I think I'm gonna go with that. Yeah, but you don't say I play the flout No, you don't that'd be weird Yeah, so people just like I play the piccol No, let me just say pic. Yeah, that's kind of funny. I don't know What's the best part about being in the cow band? Oh my god the community I've been loving it the whole time and I wouldn't have it any other way Can you show me how to conduct in four four time? Oh, absolutely. That's pretty easy one two three four One two three four Anyone can conduct a marching band So I could apply Absolutely sign up next year join cow band