An whoever this was we was gettin... Im laughin at u right now


SIR_GRAM

SIR_GRAM

Legend
05 Grambling was a FOOO.... Across the field!
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

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Sir Gram you must not have been in the band because i thought you were..but anyways this is from this past season 2006 "Top Back" and it looks like the JSU game..and you did right to be laughing because thats exactly what we be doing everytime yall play :nod: But its good to see that you are proud of your band because I definitely would not be posting clips of the BOOM if they sounded like GSU lol..good school spirit though bruh I feel ya pain
 



NastyD said:
Sir Gram you must not have been in the band because i thought you were..but anyways this is from this past season 2006 "Top Back" and it looks like the JSU game..and you did right to be laughing because thats exactly what we be doing everytime yall play :nod: But its good to see that you are proud of your band because I definitely would not be posting clips of the BOOM if they sounded like GSU lol..good school spirit though bruh I feel ya pain
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*sigh*
 
SIR_GRAM said:
05 Grambling was a FOOO.... Across the field!
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

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That is Homecoming 2006 against Alabama St. The marching hornets didn't make the trip.
 
SIR_GRAM said:
Im jus bein Sarcastic an acting dumb wit yall
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So, what do you think of the GSU bands over all sound?
What was the difference in sound between the SWAC/MEAC challenge and the BC BOTB?
What did yall do differently between the two performances?
 
Prof K said:
So, what do you think of the GSU bands over all sound?
What was the difference in sound between the SWAC/MEAC challenge and the BC BOTB?
What did yall do differently between the two performances?
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I want to know the answer to that as well because they sounded good at the Swac/Meac challenge, maybe some people dropped out of the band or something towards the end.
 
NastyD said:
I want to know the answer to that as well because they sounded good at the Swac/Meac challenge, maybe some people dropped out of the band or something towards the end.
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Nahh, I think they were the same size.
Bands sound should be like McDonald's hamburgers, never change no matter where you go.
 
Prof K said:
So, what do you think of the GSU bands over all sound?
What was the difference in sound between the SWAC/MEAC challenge and the BC BOTB?
What did yall do differently between the two performances?
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Well i play sax, so Brass is what u really can hear....
Our band is just not consistent, where not aggressive and we dont practice hard on blowing and musical dynamics.. Doc preach bout it 24/7 but the band just never grasps it.. The most of our arrangements be Junior Highish... so i mean... When u let beggining band playing players in your band, or when u switch every brass player every year, or when u have people with low skills and like 3 months experience on horns play it, this is whut u get and all of this happens at GRAM...

The SWAC challenege was to me the Best game in the regular 06 season, sound an all.. den as the season progressed we jus fell off! Like always!


GSU's overall sound to me is immature and uncontrolled. Not consistent and most of the time sounds very Highschoolish.. We dont attatck the first note.. most of our songs everybody jus creep in like .. "OO i aint know we was bout to play" and when your band jus focuses on the last note, you know datz BAD!
 
SIR_GRAM said:
Well i play sax, so Brass is what u really can hear....
Our band is just not consistent, where not aggressive and we dont practice hard on blowing and musical dynamics.. Doc preach bout it 24/7 but the band just never grasps it.. The most of our arrangements be Junior Highish... so i mean... When u let beggining band playing players in your band, or when u switch every brass player every year, or when u have people with low skills and like 3 months experience on horns play it, this is whut u get and all of this happens at GRAM...

The SWAC challenege was to me the Best game in the regular 06 season, sound an all.. den as the season progressed we jus fell off! Like always!


GSU's overall sound to me is immature and uncontrolled. Not consistent and most of the time sounds very Highschoolish.. We dont attatck the first note.. most of our songs everybody jus creep in like .. "OO i aint know we was bout to play" and when your band jus focuses on the last note, you know datz BAD!
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You just confirmed my suspicions... what was the point of the thread again?
 
SIR_GRAM said:
Well i play sax, so Brass is what u really can hear....
Our band is just not consistent, where not aggressive and we dont practice hard on blowing and musical dynamics.. Doc preach bout it 24/7 but the band just never grasps it.. The most of our arrangements be Junior Highish... so i mean... When u let beggining band playing players in your band, or when u switch every brass player every year, or when u have people with low skills and like 3 months experience on horns play it, this is whut u get and all of this happens at GRAM...

The SWAC challenege was to me the Best game in the regular 06 season, sound an all.. den as the season progressed we jus fell off! Like always!


GSU's overall sound to me is immature and uncontrolled. Not consistent and most of the time sounds very Highschoolish.. We dont attatck the first note.. most of our songs everybody jus creep in like .. "OO i aint know we was bout to play" and when your band jus focuses on the last note, you know datz BAD!
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WOW..all I can do is this for his honesty :tup:, I mean i knew things were bad because of the way they sounded sometimes but I aint know it was that bad..but Im sure every band has some dilemmas that need to be fixed so hopefully people stop switching horns, practice and learn their music well and yall should be ok.
 
I mean aint nobody tryin to talk down on they own band or school.. Its just the truth.. Im a Realist, ive always have been.. And i hate settling for less when others (bands) dont. And thats why Gram are the UNDERDAWGS na.... Dats all im sayin, a few Gram folks got upset.. but i aint dawg Gram... just said its faults.. But i know they not gon change no time soon. Its just the system

Like i say this like one of the best songs I ever heared gram play and sound... And this is where we should be all da time

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Look man, this is gRambling's problem from my honest opinion when I hear them:

1. brass players lack tone quality- I can TELL no ONE does lip slurs over there as a section, not in tune, can NOT project correctly, horrible phrasing, lack of concentration- the bones are the worst section in my opinion. You can live or die with your bone section. If they suck, you die.
2. trpts- never ENOUGH of them to do what gRambling's arranger does. Simple as that.
3. woodwinds, gRambling actually has an okay woodwind section, but the presentation makes them look like a hill of jumping beans in the stands and on the fields. Get a position of attention and KEEP IT. The juking is okay but the position of attention THROWS everything off. No one looks alike.
4. Set up. GSU ALWAYS sounds better when the tubas are at the side. how you all have phasing problems with tubas at the top I will never understand but for some reason the band's overall tone and projection changes for the better when they're at the sides.
5. Orchesis- too few, too sorry
6. arrangements- there isn't much problem there but there IS too much problem with the instrumentation. You have a few trpts and a low brass monstrosity for arrangements that should feature an instrumentation like this:
32 bones
46 trpts
22 sousas
24 bell fronts
24 mellos
AT LEAST 24 saxes- because your arrangements have things that the saxes can add to the color (which did NOT take place on Torture- just don't play that because your brass doesn't have the discipline and your saxes have stuff that is counter productive to anything your mellos are doing)
18 clarinets
16 piccs/flutes
If you all would focus on just filling up the horn like FAMU with the numbers I gave above or add 12 to low brass and 12 to trpt from there you would sound like a really balanced, moderately powerful, in tune, clean, disciplined band.
On the field- you can't march 8-5 because your style has no discipline. In your drills your transitions suck because everyone's knee-lifting bicycle style the whole way through. Reteach the style and structure the drills to have a more disciplined mark time. And get all of the horns pointing the same way, SHAT!
 
All Grambling needs to do is go back to the roots.........be Grambling. The same can be said for a few other bands as well.

I look at alot of old school tapes when I have free time and The SWAC was waaaaayyy more interesting back then. Everybody had an identity.
 
The only question I have is...

Why are GSU members saying that sound good, when they are clearly mimicking SU.... GSU can only sound good, "trying" to sound like SU?
 
the flood gates have up, now this topic has band directors coming out the wood works on what they fell is GSU's problems lol
 
SUtrp96 said:
The only question I have is...

Why are GSU members saying that sound good, when they are clearly mimicking SU.... GSU can only sound good, "trying" to sound like SU?
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LOL ahhh hear u go..... So the whole SWAC tries to sound like SU.. so the whole SWAC wanna be SU na.. jus cuz somebody play full, its SU mimicking.. SO no other SWAC band can open up...

Right, damn u must like to argue.. u gotta add yo 2 cents to EVERYTHING. An damn i aint even been on here long enough an u the most annoying already
 
SUtrp96 said:
The only question I have is...

Why are GSU members saying that sound good, when they are clearly mimicking SU.... GSU can only sound good, "trying" to sound like SU?
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why would you say they are mimicking Su? Just because a band plays full from time to time doesn't mean bands are trying to mimick SU, now if they did it on all songs i would say they were trying to
 
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