4 years ago I was a freshman trombone playing here my memories with the Oak Mountain band are my most cherished and memorable in my life. So many great people came together and worked hard to produce shows like these for years I’m grateful for my time spent with them thank you
Props to two sections whose parts and performances were spectacular. The Mellophones were just plain awesome. Loved hearing their roar throughout the show. They are the thread that pulls all the voices together in my opinion, and this coming from a low brass guy. And the trills thrilled! Every show has to have mellophone trills! Then there were the Sousaphones. What a foundation to build a show on! Honorable mention goes to the bass drum line. OMG the splits!
Everybody loves paint-peeling moments in a show, and there are plenty of them in this one. But there are two subtle moments in this show that I find personally impactful. The first involves the four Sousaphone notes played at the end of the trumpet duet in the Pirates of the Caribbean segment. That third note is soooo intense and moving, and my ears so want to hear a gong right there. The second moment comes at the end of the jazz run in the Pirates of the Caribbean segment. That Trombone horns-up and rotation to front makes me think of a formation of British marines bringing their muskets to bear, which is emphasized by the snare work beforehand. This is obviously a perfect allusion for the Pirates of the Caribbean segment.
I was a trumpet player for central and was amazed by your guys show. I can tell you put forth a lot of effort for it and I'm glad to see such a great show performed by an excellent and such big band.
Lucas Dial thank you for your kind words. It was a wonderful show and this was the "peak" performance by the band that year. Best one of the year. Honored to have been part of it and to have shared it with so many. Loved your comment!!!
Bob Fitzgerald yeaa it was great I'm always so glad to see your videos because you are one of the only people to capture in depth the feeling and experience of being in a marching band. I'm going into my 5th year of marching band and I am 1st chair on quads and am also a section leader XD.
I’m in Benjamin Russell’s band (the band that hosts this particular competition) and when I watched this show, it was absolutely amazing when I was a Freshman
Bob Fitzgerald I'm also in band it'll be my second year and I'm in the band call the Pride of Broken Arrow. we marched in the 2017 rode parade this past season. you should check out our show from 2016
I've seen you're show 3 times. At showcase, Spain park and LMI . This show never fails so amaze me! Best show out there in my opinion! I'm from Shelby county high school !
I saw this live, I was one of the kids in the black uniforms on the back bleachers. the cannons scared us all to death but the show was so dramatic and attracting
ask_sandstar_ swag thanks for your kind comments and for watching! I had the chance to see all of their performances for the entire season and this one was the "peak". It was an amazing show and will hold the standard for future OMHS shows to aspire to. Glad you got to see it.
I'm the first chair trombone from Jemison. We won best in class Band, Majorettes, and Drum Major. All 1's. Most Entertaining Overall band. We played Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting, Creep, Thriller, Aquarius, and Let the Sunshine in. We were a 2A band this year, but we're expanding quickly. I hope to be competing with this band in a few years.
Thanks for watching! I really loved the 2016 show. It was my son's senior year and I watched it go from concept to this peak performance. I have posted Oak Mountain shows back to 2009. Hope to post the 2017 show after competition season.
As a trumpet player for Trussville who will be playing you tomorrow, I find it funny that you close with the theme from POTC while we close with the Kraken from POTC
I have watched all your videos and I have just started 6th grade beginner band and it all seems so crazy/impossible I play snare btw but I think this is giving me encouragement to try my hardest in percussion
kindin millwood that's awesome. You can do it! Set a goal and get to work! Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy these videos have encouraged you. Thanks for watching!
Zachary Hathaway Yes, we will be posting the 2016 version of JIG 2 after football season ends! Might be able to get some more stand tunes in as well. Thanks for watching!
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4 years ago I was a freshman trombone playing here my memories with the Oak Mountain band are my most cherished and memorable in my life. So many great people came together and worked hard to produce shows like these for years I’m grateful for my time spent with them thank you
Hi Brandon! Thanks for commenting and for being a great member of the OMHS Spirit of Cahaba Marching Band! Please visit when you can.
dang bro im a freshman Sousa playing here now, apparently are wild west show is the best oak mountains ever had
I am a freshman trombone right now at calera eaegles High school
Props to two sections whose parts and performances were spectacular. The Mellophones were just plain awesome. Loved hearing their roar throughout the show. They are the thread that pulls all the voices together in my opinion, and this coming from a low brass guy. And the trills thrilled! Every show has to have mellophone trills! Then there were the Sousaphones. What a foundation to build a show on! Honorable mention goes to the bass drum line. OMG the splits!
I'm so proud to be in this band
(Band of 2017-2018)
It is something to be proud of....
Oh hey Dakota
Dakota?
Everybody loves paint-peeling moments in a show, and there are plenty of them in this one. But there are two subtle moments in this show that I find personally impactful. The first involves the four Sousaphone notes played at the end of the trumpet duet in the Pirates of the Caribbean segment. That third note is soooo intense and moving, and my ears so want to hear a gong right there. The second moment comes at the end of the jazz run in the Pirates of the Caribbean segment. That Trombone horns-up and rotation to front makes me think of a formation of British marines bringing their muskets to bear, which is emphasized by the snare work beforehand. This is obviously a perfect allusion for the Pirates of the Caribbean segment.
I get literal chills every time I watch this during the last movement of this show, specifically when the drill depicts the ship and the cannon fires.
samsyoutube my favorite Oak Mountain show! Thanks for watching!
The band was on fire Saturday night! Quoting Steve Rondinaro (as best as I can remember): "...pure, unbridled energy!"
I was a trumpet player for central and was amazed by your guys show. I can tell you put forth a lot of effort for it and I'm glad to see such a great show performed by an excellent and such big band.
Christian Belcher thank you so much for your nice comments.
your welcome
Stradequit yeah very nice. Sounds really good and crisp
wow this was so good I died but then dead me watched it again and came back to life because it was so good
Lucas Dial thank you for your kind words. It was a wonderful show and this was the "peak" performance by the band that year. Best one of the year. Honored to have been part of it and to have shared it with so many. Loved your comment!!!
Bob Fitzgerald yeaa it was great I'm always so glad to see your videos because you are one of the only people to capture in depth the feeling and experience of being in a marching band. I'm going into my 5th year of marching band and I am 1st chair on quads and am also a section leader XD.
I’m in Benjamin Russell’s band (the band that hosts this particular competition) and when I watched this show, it was absolutely amazing when I was a Freshman
this was a great competition. I really had fun performing here. go wicksburg
that was awesome I always love to hear Pirates of the Caribbean!!
Thanks you for all the hard work this year Mr. Fitzgerald!!
All thanks to you guys! You did the hard work and sweat! I am happy to have captured it for you all!
Bob Fitzgerald that's pretty good haha I'm curious to know if you've won any grand national championships?
Bob Fitzgerald I'm also in band it'll be my second year and I'm in the band call the Pride of Broken Arrow. we marched in the 2017 rode parade this past season. you should check out our show from 2016
Yall definitely deserved all those awards, Yall were Amazing!
Music Lover 101 thanks! The students worked so hard on this. Thanks for watching!
on that is one amazing trumpet player ! !
I've seen you're show 3 times. At showcase, Spain park and LMI . This show never fails so amaze me! Best show out there in my opinion! I'm from Shelby county high school !
Melanie Gutierrez Y'all have a cool show as well. Great trumpet section in the opener, great flugelhorn solo, and great clarinet solo.
My daughter is the Dance Line Sponsor at SCHS. You guys had a great show as well. Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
I'm in Southside High School band (The Pride ) but in the awards Ceremony all I here was Oak Mountain
Shaun Davis Same here, let's change that this upcoming year, why don't we?
I was screaming the whole time when we won the awards!!
MCBcookies me too! Congrats!!! Thanks for watching!!!
SPIRIT OF CAHABA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍
Wow this was like 10 miles away from my house great job
I saw this live, I was one of the kids in the black uniforms on the back bleachers. the cannons scared us all to death but the show was so dramatic and attracting
ask_sandstar_ swag thanks for your kind comments and for watching! I had the chance to see all of their performances for the entire season and this one was the "peak". It was an amazing show and will hold the standard for future OMHS shows to aspire to. Glad you got to see it.
awesome performance! really excited to hear the jig 2 redux for this year !
I'm the first chair trombone from Jemison. We won best in class Band, Majorettes, and Drum Major. All 1's. Most Entertaining Overall band. We played Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting, Creep, Thriller, Aquarius, and Let the Sunshine in. We were a 2A band this year, but we're expanding quickly. I hope to be competing with this band in a few years.
This band never fails to impress ❤️💙
Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
I didn't know a pirate show could be so good
Statues I agree. Thanks for watching!
THAT WAS EXCELLENT!!! GO ERIN G.!! MADE ME TEAR UP!!
well deserved ratings what an amazing show:) gave me goosebumps.
Thanks for your kind comments! I get them too especially the part of the pirate ship. Thanks for watching.
Would love to be a part of this Band seems like so much fun! Great Work!at LMI
Very neat halftime show. I will look for more.
Thanks for watching! I really loved the 2016 show. It was my son's senior year and I watched it go from concept to this peak performance. I have posted Oak Mountain shows back to 2009. Hope to post the 2017 show after competition season.
That was incredible
Malcolm Douge thanks for watching!!
Great show this year, really enjoyed it at LMI!
Nathan Jones same!
My schools show is also a pirate theme! I love our show and this show is amazing too!
Let me rephrase that: this show is so much better than ours I wish we're doing it lol
Brady Wood I'm sure your show is awesome! Would love to see it! Thanks for watching!!!
O.M.G. That was awesome!
I had fun doing this. I'm gonna miss this show. Can't wait for what next year will bring!!! ;)
As a trumpet player for Trussville who will be playing you tomorrow, I find it funny that you close with the theme from POTC while we close with the Kraken from POTC
Woah wow and can't wait to see u guys at nationals
Just some rebel regiment alto
Amazing show! Thanks for posting. My niece is in your band, but I'm in VA with my three marching band kids and hadn't seen the show.
That stinks that your season is over so early. I was looking forward to possibly seeing you guys at JSU again. Awesome performance!
Connmagic thanks for watching!!
Y'all were amazing! We were the smallest band there! Berry High School
David Banks we didn't get to see the first bands. I'm sure you guys were awesome. Thanks for the kind comment and for watching!
The low brass at 9:36 my god...
I play bass drum at the Chattooga high school in Georgia and we on all superior ratings in our class. our show is the Beatles and our class is 2a
sacred Eclipse that's awesome! Good luck with your show and keep working hard! Thanks for watching!!
Ahhhh. I love Oak Mountain. I would have gone there if we hadn't moved.
Impressive!
Bob anytime I look up to your band
sacred Eclipse thanks for watching! I’m just the band videographer! All kudos to the entire band family and directors!
One of my friends is there in the band.
Joe Chill Gaming who is it. I'm sure I would know them.
I'm in eighth grade and I played Russian sailor dance
I have watched all your videos and I have just started 6th grade beginner band and it all seems so crazy/impossible I play snare btw but I think this is giving me encouragement to try my hardest in percussion
kindin millwood that's awesome. You can do it! Set a goal and get to work! Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy these videos have encouraged you. Thanks for watching!
Your welcome and thanks for making them! Are you staff at the school of just like a can of what?
fan
or 😂
kindin millwood Mr. Fitzgerald is a parent who has been the videographer for the band for quite a number of years. He's the best!
Can't wait for the Jig 2 this year
Blackhawk 6878 me too man! Always so much fun to watch and listen too!
Its posted! Have you seen it?
hi from cchs band of pride go oakmountian eagels
Hello to you as well! Thanks for watching and hope you all had a great season!
hey bob its charlton county indians in ga @@bwfitz
niceeeeeeeeeee
Puddixflam E thanks for watching!!
#goombroom
Seems like everyone from Arkansas this year was doing a Pirate theme too.
my brothers the one in marching band he is just on my channel
Your half-time show is amazing. Are you going to make any more jig cadence videos any time soon or any other cadences the drum line has?
Zachary Hathaway Yes, we will be posting the 2016 version of JIG 2 after football season ends! Might be able to get some more stand tunes in as well. Thanks for watching!
Its posted! Enjoy....
This band it bad @$$ and are Sabinal band played the same thing but a slow one I think
What is the first theme song from Pirates of the Caribbean?
Alex Prelipcean "Davy Jones", it's from the soundtrack for "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest".
Thanks!
jig2 please
its posted!
50 sets?
Gboy 80+
When is jig 2
coming ?
I MasterR I after football season is over! Stay tuned!!! Thanks for watching!!
Its posted!!
is it just me or the band size shrink in half
This year the band is around 230. About the same as last year....Thanks for watching!
They rigggeddd errthanggg💪🏾💜💜💜hueytown high is the best💜💜💜💜💜❗️
That pit is unnecessarily big for a high school marching band
bigger is better!!
Max Vestring It really isn't... unless they know what they're doing.
DrummerEHS well good thing they kno what theyre doing
Left Twix Yep.