Song of the Week. Home Dierks Bentley

I'm going to start a new thing on my blog called song of the week.  I've always had a love for music and I love sharing what songs i'm listening to lately.  This week is a song called Home by Dierks Bentley.  Although i''m not a huge fan of country, this song has been one of my favorites for a while.  I hope you enjoy  it as I did.

And it's another Aggie

Saturday September 13th USU had another game and I finally got some videos to share! Thanks to My sister Jess and a friend from band that posted another one on Facebook.

This game we had to learn a whole new show within the three days we had to practice.  It really wasn't that hard because we didn't march as much as we did in our show on the 6th.  Especially me being the "anchor point" for the alto saxes where I pretty much didn't move the entire show.  

Our show this game consisted of three songs.  Thift Shop by Macklemore, Can't Hold Us by Macklemore, and Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepson

It was funny, when we rehearsed Thift Shop my band director said maybe we could go to the DI and get the color guard some fur coats to dance in.  I work at DI so I liked that.

I'll put the links to the songs below if you don't know them.
Thift Shop-  (This link isn't the original song because the actual song isn't the cleanest, so instead i'll link you to a guy who plays this song on the trombone, alto and tenor sax. It's really awesome1 He's really good!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUOwXemXXw8

Can't Hold Us-
P.S. This song has been stuck in my head all weekend!
Once again the original of this song swears in it quite a bit so i'll link you to the same same saxophone guy on the Tenor saxophone.But the original official music video for this song is cool casue it's actually got a marching band in it!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHgC8gfPEUE

Call Me Maybe-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRx0KNqKqnA


Here's our actual show!

It's on my Facebook, so if you need a Facebook login to see it I apologize, but I tried to make it public.
https://www.facebook.com/ellieharris1995

I'll probably post more video clips, but that's it for now.  I'll keep you posted!

                                                          Playing from the stands

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Aggie Marching Band

For those of you that don't know, I am In the Aggie Marching Band at Utah State University.  I am playing my alto saxophone in it rather than a tenor sax.  I thought it'd be easier to have the smaller horn for my first year of marching.

If you don't know the difference between an alto and a tenor saxophone, the alto is the smaller on on the left which is the one I currently play for marching band.  The tenor on the right is what I Played for most of my senior year of high school.  It was awesome! I miss my tenor, but alto is great too!

Here's a picture of us out on the halftime show during the first official  game of the season againist Idaho State Saturday September 6, 2014.  Which we won by the way! 40-20!(: 

I know you can't see me specifically in the picture, but my parents couldn't find me in there.  Which I take a a good thing because that means I wasn't too out of the formation!(:  This was our first show of the season.  In Pre-game we did Monster by Skillet, the USU fight song, National Anthem, and a student section favorite, The Newest Scotsman.

For the halftime show we did 3 sets of songs.  A Harry Potter mix, the Game of Thorns theme,  Gladiator theme, and The Fox by Ylvis.  We've been practicing and memorizing those since August 18th .  This upcoming week we  for the September 13th game we have to learn a whole new halftime show(3 songs) in the 3 days of rehearsal we have this week.  So this will be fun!

Over all It was a great time!  I really enjoyed it!  I think my favorite parts was playing I'm shipping off to Boston when we were on the side and the bagpipers were on the field during the 3rd quarter break.  I also liked dancing around with my crazy band mates, and Playing the Newest Scotsman.  Guys, I did it.  I am an Aggie.  I am a marching Aggie.

P.S.  If you're curious on the songs I mentioned above look at my post below this one.  (:

Aggie Marching Band songs

Like I said in the post above, I would post  some of the songs that we played.  I tried to find all of them in marching band style rather than the actual song by the actual artist.

UPDATE.  I KNOW THE LINKS DON'T WORK WHEN YOU PRESS ON THEM, BUT IF YOU COPY AN D PASTE THEM INTO THE SEARCH BAR IT SHOULD WORK.

Here we go:

--- Pre- game---

Monster originally by Skillet .  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooycJjkIvy8

Utah State University Fight song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l82FN04PVoM

Then the National Anthum, but you all know what that sounds like, or at least should.

Newset Scotsman- This one is probably everybody's favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjcSiJ_CbjI

---Halftime Show---

HarryPotter USU 2014 Arrangement 

We did a Harry Potter Arangment. I apologize I can't find our version of it on YouTube, but I'll tell you most of it was the Nimbus 2000 theme. It was awesome! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCfY2QGjlCs

Game of Thorns- theme song from the show Game of Thorns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4faQXqMjgUU

Gladiator-  From the Pixar motion picture Gladiator

I can't find this one on YouTube, sorry!

The Fox- Ylvis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92M0dWvC8Hk
The Fox is probably the most well known song we played this show.  If you haven't heard the original by Ylvis here's the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

Also after 3rd quater we played Shipping oof to Boston.  Just replace the beggining of this with bagpipes and that's what we sounded like.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YOjbSWFhdg

We played a lot more snips from songs from the stands, but that would take forever to list so i'll just stick with the show music.  

Well, i'll keep you all posted on how future events go.