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Forum - General discussion - marching band trumpets cool tricks

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sectionleader
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Posted: 2006-08-12 05:15 CET
at my school when we march into the stadium we usually do the boring old up down left right.
i need help.
i know that there r tricks and what not but i dont know them so i need u guys to tell me.
and i dont what 20 post bout the trumpet spin.
theres other stuff too.....i think.....idk.......u tell me

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
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SeverFire
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Posted: 2006-08-12 05:31 CET
You could always throw the trupets in the air or something.. lol. Actually at my school one player started a trend where you simply lean back on every 1st beat, which positions your trumpet pointing upwards if it's at cradle.

Then there was the whole thing where everybody was doing place-swapping. One guy would switch places with another guy on the other side of the line -- one walked across in front, and the other behind, all in step. Then you do it between ranks, many at a time...

The whole section could also bust into cut/double time marching.

But we only did this stuff on way to practices, never on the way to competitions or games.
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sectionleader
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Posted: 2006-08-12 06:08 CET
dude thanx for the help

but i still need a ton more ideas
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skankin_toaster
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Posted: 2006-08-12 17:57 CET
back flip while playing? i unno. What you should do is just have a choreographed dance thing... or if it doesnt gross you out to much, all the trumpet players throw there trumpets in theair and catch another one, then keep playing.. i unno, you just gotta get creative with it....
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skanetic
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Posted: 2006-08-31 04:11 CET
WTF kind of bands are you guys in, our visual staff would kill us...
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RCT2head
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Posted: 2006-08-31 17:16 CET
well i march a baritone... the lean-back is by far the easiest... as well as to roll with the music, like left/right/up/down on particular beats
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Trumpet_Crumpet
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Posted: 2006-09-16 04:17 CET
RCT2Head you should try throwing ur bari up into the air and catching it lmfao. It probably crush you that thing is so huge.
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RCT2head
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Posted: 2006-09-17 23:27 CET
yeah... i think that if i did that, i'd be screwed almost as bad as the horn... lol
my drum major's an ass... we were doin the place tradin in 2-bys, on the way back from practice... since they're now makin us march to and from the field for practice... but yeah, so he told us to stop 'now's not the time'... so when is the time, parade w/o having practiced it first?
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