This might very well be the best high school band marching performance I have ever seen. I actually like this program better than the ones they have done more recently
I really appreciate your refreshing honesty. I happen to know something about this type of marching. What these high school students did is nothing short of amazing.
I Had the pleasure of seeing this show several times. This was the best show of the year in the United States. Broken Arrow won the National CHampionships and it was very deserved but this show was by far the best performed of all high schools in the US in 2021.
My daughter is in the color guard of a band in Texas. They made the State competition and I saw them live and was about 6 rows up and center during the preliminaries, and when they started it was one of the most impressive things I’ve heard.
How funny - you are watching the band my boys were in. They graduated last year. Hebron is one of the top bands in the state. This high school band is way different from college but these kids work HARD. Band camp starts about 3 weeks before the school starts.... they go 6 to 8 hrs a day and they start with physical fitness and zumba/stretches and music (during the hot part of the day). Once school starts they practice from 4pm to 7:30pm 4 days a week. They also practice early before school on Friday morning. They have competitions most saturdays and they practice on the saturdays they don't have competitions. What you are watching is a state level competition which is 6 hours away from where we live. Our school district swept first, second, and third place one of the years my boys were in band. These programs sort of tell a story. My favorite routine was *Uncharted waters* in 2016. I still cry when I watch it.
@@littlejd72 there's not really a story to our show tbh. although the opening song is an arrangement of church windows, which is about a fallen angel descending to hell i think.
@@littlejd72 I saw one comment that said it’s about how we are showing Hebron’s history and that the color of the pens are showing our diversity. But ya idrk lol.
Marvin: During the ballad, you're hearing the sax feature...look towards bottom right where the inkwell spilled out ;) Thanks for reacting to our kids' show!
Marvin....UIL stands for University Interscholastic League.....This is the governing body of all public schools in Texas....they regulate every single thing a school in Texas offers....scholastic, fine arts, athletic, etc.......Don't mess with the UIL!!!!
The difficulty level of the music is astounding! Double and triple tonguing is so clear. AND they do it at the end of the show as well, when they are at their most tired part. They continue to open the envelope. They are playing music that is so hard, most bands can’t play it sitting down, much less moving in this whip lash drill! I saw Broken Arrow that won BOA (Bands of America), and if it had been Hebron’s turn to go to BOA Nationals, there is no question that Hebron would have been the Grand National Champions. (The schools in Their district rotate which band gets to go to Nationals on a certain year. This year was Marcus HS, which came in 6th I believe at the BOA Nationals. Next year will be Hebron’s turn.) I hope their show for next year will be just as well rounded as this show is. BTW - this Drum Corps style, as opposed to A&M which is military style and Ohio State, which is a show band style. I think it’s amazing that we are comparing a HIGH SCHOOL group to College programs. If Hebron wanted to, they could go all color guard, brass and percussion and be a competitive Drum Corps!! We shall see…
To me the coolest thing about this that might be interesting from a global perspective is that Hebron is a public high school and the marching band is run by that school. It's not some elite academy that you audition for that accepts the top students. These kids all live with their families in the immediate area of the school building and are required to attend that school by default. Some of these kids will change classes after this year and take something other than marching band (most don't though, because the band is amazing!). There are a lot of youth music ensembles in Europe that are more impressive than this, but most of them are select groups that only accept the top students.
I think another high school marching band that is worth checking out is Broken Arrow High School, they won the grand national championship this year and their 2021 show is fantastic
I would really recommend Pride of Broken Arrow 2021, Woodlands 2021, flower mound 2021 and Carmel 2021. So many good bands it’s to much to name but watch their grand national finals runs !
@@lorenzodemedici6332 I think hebron takes music for sure, but GE is definitely to Broken Arrow. Visual would be a toss up and my Texan in me says hebron but who knows.
when you watch the whole thing and still have no idea what it's about or why the supersized cannon (maybe pens?) are prancing around the field, it's a fail
I love seeing an international perspective on “marching arts.” As others have said, you should react to some drum corps videos. Drum corps is similar to high school marching band, but there are no woodwind instruments (only brass and percussion), and the degree of difficulty is usually higher. Three good shows to start with are Bluecoats 2016, Santa Clara Vanguard 2018, and Blue Devils 2019 (the last Drum Corps International winner, before the global shutdowns).
Really to me the biggest differences is the music, which for high school marching band is typically “harder” music and the so is the drill which is the marching formations and movements, plus they also have props, visuals, and have single show theme the whole year. They also have competitions like this one while college bands don’t. That’s what dci is for which you should give a sniff.
Colleges and high school marching bands used to have a similar look and feel (and approach/mission) for most of the 20th century. It was really the high schools that were copying what the colleges were doing. Then DCI created its competitive circuit in 1972, and various states began forming their own competitive circuits for HS bands to compete in that emulated what DCI was doing. Most colleges didn't follow this model and continued to base their mission around the football culture and entertaining game-day crowds. High Schools began flipping from 'one show per week' to 'one show per season' in order to create a highly polished product that would impress judges in the various state competition circuits. The concept of a show "theme" was also a side effect of following what DCI was doing. Every major show evolution in HS bands (from costuming, to electronics/microphones, to props, to music choices) from 1980 to the present has been a result of schools trying to "outband" each other. The whole deal where all the kids have a show shirt that they wear under their uniforms bearing their shows "theme" didn't start becoming a thing until 2000.
@@takigan That’s cool that dci had that effect on high school bands, I wonder if there are any high school bands that still do the “show of the week” type stuff that college bands do
GREAT JOB!!!! Who is the guard instructor now? It seems to be changing year to year. This is the most well rounded program I have seen from Hebron. I hope y’all are doing a winter guard! ✨❤️✨
This might very well be the best high school band marching performance I have ever seen. I actually like this program better than the ones they have done more recently
I really appreciate your refreshing honesty. I happen to know something about this type of marching. What these high school students did is nothing short of amazing.
Still can't believe that kids between the ages if 14 and 18 did this. It's amazing
True😍
I Had the pleasure of seeing this show several times. This was the best show of the year in the United States. Broken Arrow won the National CHampionships and it was very deserved but this show was by far the best performed of all high schools in the US in 2021.
💯. The music difficulty attempted on this show (which they nailed BTW) takes the cake for anything attempted by a High School Program up to 2021.
Hebron wasn’t at nationals they would’ve won
BLUECOATS BAKERY 2014 Definitely need to react to this.
Ok he's seen college marching. He's seen high school marching. We need to get this guy to watch....
Drum Corps International
Agreed
Some of the shows from the 1989 season would be sick
why? they've lost their dignity and turned into interpretive dance troops
@@redcar9949 that's 35 years ago
Yooooo this is my band
Heyyy, greetings🙌
Congrats
Me too🤩
@@benjohnson1071 noooo wayyyy Ben
Dude same
Yeah, some of the schools here in Texas are just absolutely insane. Even the smaller schools like mine do more than most people would expect lol
Yaaaay! You read my comment on your other marching band video, tysm for reacting to our band!!
The props being used are QUILL PENS.....name of the show is PINSTRIPED!!
My daughter is in the color guard of a band in Texas. They made the State competition and I saw them live and was about 6 rows up and center during the preliminaries, and when they started it was one of the most impressive things I’ve heard.
Every single marcher in that field produces the sound.
How funny - you are watching the band my boys were in. They graduated last year. Hebron is one of the top bands in the state.
This high school band is way different from college but these kids work HARD.
Band camp starts about 3 weeks before the school starts.... they go 6 to 8 hrs a day and they start with physical fitness and zumba/stretches and music (during the hot part of the day).
Once school starts they practice from 4pm to 7:30pm 4 days a week. They also practice early before school on Friday morning. They have competitions most saturdays and they practice on the saturdays they don't have competitions.
What you are watching is a state level competition which is 6 hours away from where we live. Our school district swept first, second, and third place one of the years my boys were in band.
These programs sort of tell a story. My favorite routine was *Uncharted waters* in 2016. I still cry when I watch it.
Those are pens, they’re props based on the theme of our show. It’s based on our uniform
Is there a story to the show? It has all these pens and art theme but the music is so dramatic
Yeah it's a incredible show.. but what's the story?
@@littlejd72 there's not really a story to our show tbh. although the opening song is an arrangement of church windows, which is about a fallen angel descending to hell i think.
@@littlejd72 I saw one comment that said it’s about how we are showing Hebron’s history and that the color of the pens are showing our diversity. But ya idrk lol.
I’m a Plano EAST kid here and we were rooting for watching you during your finals run. huge props to you guys you deserve it for sure
Marvin: During the ballad, you're hearing the sax feature...look towards bottom right where the inkwell spilled out ;) Thanks for reacting to our kids' show!
💙💙
Marvin....UIL stands for University Interscholastic League.....This is the governing body of all public schools in Texas....they regulate every single thing a school in Texas offers....scholastic, fine arts, athletic, etc.......Don't mess with the UIL!!!!
We have tubas, trombones, trumpet, mellophone, saxophone, clarinet, flute, and piccolo, drum line and pit
The difficulty level of the music is astounding! Double and triple tonguing is so clear. AND they do it at the end of the show as well, when they are at their most tired part. They continue to open the envelope.
They are playing music that is so hard, most bands can’t play it sitting down, much less moving in this whip lash drill! I saw Broken Arrow that won BOA (Bands of America), and if it had been Hebron’s turn to go to BOA Nationals, there is no question that Hebron would have been the Grand National Champions. (The schools in Their district rotate which band gets to go to Nationals on a certain year. This year was Marcus HS, which came in 6th I believe at the BOA Nationals. Next year will be Hebron’s turn.) I hope their show for next year will be just as well rounded as this show is.
BTW - this Drum Corps style, as opposed to A&M which is military style and Ohio State, which is a show band style.
I think it’s amazing that we are comparing a HIGH SCHOOL group to College programs. If Hebron wanted to, they could go all color guard, brass and percussion and be a competitive Drum Corps!! We shall see…
Imagine seeing this before you perform
To me the coolest thing about this that might be interesting from a global perspective is that Hebron is a public high school and the marching band is run by that school. It's not some elite academy that you audition for that accepts the top students. These kids all live with their families in the immediate area of the school building and are required to attend that school by default. Some of these kids will change classes after this year and take something other than marching band (most don't though, because the band is amazing!).
There are a lot of youth music ensembles in Europe that are more impressive than this, but most of them are select groups that only accept the top students.
I was waiting to see a video like this…definitely worth reacting to
LETS GO IM IN THIS
I think another high school marching band that is worth checking out is Broken Arrow High School, they won the grand national championship this year and their 2021 show is fantastic
I would really recommend Pride of Broken Arrow 2021, Woodlands 2021, flower mound 2021 and Carmel 2021. So many good bands it’s to much to name but watch their grand national finals runs !
Facts especially Broken Arrow congrats btw
@@jamescardona233 thank you and loved y’all’s show
Broken Arrow was great this year. But I think we can all agree that if Hebron went to Nats this year they would've swept.
@@lorenzodemedici6332 I think hebron takes music for sure, but GE is definitely to Broken Arrow. Visual would be a toss up and my Texan in me says hebron but who knows.
@@CandyManT1D Broken Arrow could’ve won Visual, but Hebron still had one of the best General Effects I’ve ever seen out of a high school band.
Highland park high school sugar rush 2021
YOOOOO I’m in this band !!!
when you watch the whole thing and still have no idea what it's about or why the supersized cannon (maybe pens?) are prancing around the field, it's a fail
I love seeing an international perspective on “marching arts.” As others have said, you should react to some drum corps videos. Drum corps is similar to high school marching band, but there are no woodwind instruments (only brass and percussion), and the degree of difficulty is usually higher. Three good shows to start with are Bluecoats 2016, Santa Clara Vanguard 2018, and Blue Devils 2019 (the last Drum Corps International winner, before the global shutdowns).
Really to me the biggest differences is the music, which for high school marching band is typically “harder” music and the so is the drill which is the marching formations and movements, plus they also have props, visuals, and have single show theme the whole year. They also have competitions like this one while college bands don’t. That’s what dci is for which you should give a sniff.
Colleges and high school marching bands used to have a similar look and feel (and approach/mission) for most of the 20th century. It was really the high schools that were copying what the colleges were doing.
Then DCI created its competitive circuit in 1972, and various states began forming their own competitive circuits for HS bands to compete in that emulated what DCI was doing. Most colleges didn't follow this model and continued to base their mission around the football culture and entertaining game-day crowds. High Schools began flipping from 'one show per week' to 'one show per season' in order to create a highly polished product that would impress judges in the various state competition circuits. The concept of a show "theme" was also a side effect of following what DCI was doing. Every major show evolution in HS bands (from costuming, to electronics/microphones, to props, to music choices) from 1980 to the present has been a result of schools trying to "outband" each other.
The whole deal where all the kids have a show shirt that they wear under their uniforms bearing their shows "theme" didn't start becoming a thing until 2000.
@@takigan That’s cool that dci had that effect on high school bands, I wonder if there are any high school bands that still do the “show of the week” type stuff that college bands do
Yoooo I am in this show I spin flags 😂
GREAT JOB!!!! Who is the guard instructor now? It seems to be changing year to year. This is the most well rounded program I have seen from Hebron. I hope y’all are doing a winter guard! ✨❤️✨
I was there but with Stephen f austin high school, honestly one of the best things ill ever do as a highschool freshmen
Time to react to a DCI Show. and a couple more BOA bands. Anyway..Buddy they are playing all the music. lol.
Lmao I’m in this band :)
Say cannon again, and they might be cannons...
You should react to the Keller 2021 show, Enso It Goes. It was really good.
React to Porter high school state marching band
Who's porter
Can you react to Westlake High School Marching Band’s “Adrift” show? (2021)
IM IN YHIS BAND 😂😂
Ayo I see myself lol
Do a vid on flower mound high school
This makes you better than the Zealand girl
You should react to flower mounds grand national finals performance from this year
You should react to Lake Travis High School’s Please Be Seated
You should watch flower mounds show
You should take a look at broken arrow 2021
react to broken arrow 2021
Another great band to react to is NBHS UPROOTED 2021 BOA show
You should react to Midlothian high school panther regiment 2021 show named jewels