...Band in most schools, is made up of students stereotyped as “band geeks/nerds”. When in reality, band is composed of students who have a love and expressive passion for music. Marching band on the other hand, is a part of band, usually found in high school, that incorporates music and visuals into one extremely vigorous sport. It is a genuinely important part of high school, because not only can give you great looking calf muscles and exercise, but it can also help you multitask and build leadership skills. Although it may require great deal of hard work and practice, the fun that comes with marching band makes all that work worth it. For example, during marching season the whole band develops into one enormous family, and in this family, we go on trips together, we go to games together, and we enjoy every bit of it....
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...All of us a part of folk groups throughout even though we may not realize it at first. A folk group is a type of group, which shares a least one common element or folklore between them. For this assignment, I will be discussing about the folklore of two folk groups that were a part of my life, my high school marching band and drumline. I believe that marching bands as well as drumlines are folk groups because they share informal knowledge, customs, gestures, and traditions passed down by the band members only and not by the band instructors. For example, one of the informal traditions my high school marching band does is when we put pieces of grass from the school’s stadium inside our left shoe right before the tournament begins. The reason...
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...States, modern marching bands are most commonly associated with performing during American football games. Many American universities had bands before the twentieth century typically associated with military ROTC programs. In 1907, breaking from traditional rank and file marching, the first pictorial formation on a football field was produced as a "Block P" created by Paul Spotts Emrick, director of the Purdue All-American Marching Band. Spotts had seen a flock of birds fly in a "V" formation and decided that a band could replicate the action in the form of show formations on a field. The first halftime show at an American football game was performed by the University of Illinois Marching Illini also in 1907 at a game...
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...Is marching band a sport? Many people reject the idea of marching band being a sport, but A sport is any “activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment”. Marching band requires lots of physical exertion, especially in certain schools’ marching styles. One might argue that rolled step is just like walking and takes little to no effort, but Olentangy Orange High School’s band partakes in high step, similar to that of the Ohio University Marching 110.OOHS band’s high step involves picking up your leg at 45° and maintaining your shin 90° to the ground. Furthermore, we also must point toes down towards the ground whilst lifting our legs. All this must be done within...
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...Before I earned the drum major position, I had fallen in love with my marching band. The big hits that made the crowd roar, the lush, tender moments, and everything in-between made my experience transcendental. In addition, I practiced, sweated, and improved alongside friends that have become my family. I auditioned for the drum major position this year to put myself in the position to set that passion to work for the band’s improvement. However, as the competition season drew closer, I could see that the band was not where it needed to be. My initial solution was to identify and solve individual issues. I watched for sloppy marching and made sure we drilled that technique more. Mistakes in music were corrected by leading sectionals. I decided to count aloud when marching to solidify the count structure. Week after...
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...just gotten on my nicely pressed marching band uniform. The whole band was getting ready for the second performance of the year. I slowly zipped up my jacket to ensure it didn't get stuck and then went to get my gloves and hat. Up to this day I had liked marching band. I liked the whole idea about how you had to look a certain way, act a certain way and play a certain way. That was all about to change though. As the band walked over to our warm up area everyone was talking. Not about drama in school but the show and how not to mess it up. We got to the warm up area. All of the staff was there. The band warmed up like always and got yelled at like always by Mr. Skeffington. The...
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...During marching band, I had never really been one to want to stand out. I always wanted to blend in with the rest of the flute section and make the formation look as perfect as possible; being quite shy my first two years of high school, I just wanted to play and go through the motions along with everyone else. I was afraid of the rest of my fellow flutes judging me, my ideas, and my playing skills, so I never stood out or spoke up. That is, until my junior year – I decided that I would try to step outside of my already very minimal comfort zone. This year, I signed up to play piccolo for this season’s show, since I had one lying around at home. Although, it was definitely a switch to get used to. After a few practices, my relationship with...
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...I started marching band during my freshman year in high school. My first thoughts during my first practice were “this is too hard” and “this isn’t for me” but later in the year, I learned to enjoy it with every event I participated in. The Cedar Hill Longhorn Red Army Marching Band is a great organization that teaches a great number of skills useful for life to become successful in any situation such as teamwork, time management, and discipline. Teamwork: All aspects of a team is critical. Each part contributes. There is astounding fulfillment in coming together with a team, buckling down with a group, to perform a show. What's more, the cooperation is altogether different from that of a sports team, where the objective is to defeat rivals...
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...Throughout my life, I try to completely enrich myself in all aspects. These have all affected my personal character and qualities and have made me the person I am today. A very important extra-curricular of mine is marching band, in which I play the tenor saxophone. Additionally, I am the uniform captain, which means I am in charge of sizing everyone for their uniforms, distributing them, and ensuring they are all handled correctly. During marching season, I spend on average around 30 hours a week in practice, competitions, and football games. Marching band has taught me the important qualities of teamwork, cooperation, and creativity. Additionally, marching band has allowed me to meet so many new people and make new friends. I have definitely become much more outgoing and convivial through participating in this activity....
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...I first joined band in 5th grade as a trumpet player at Chapel Hill Elementary School. At the end of my first year, I recieved the award for Most Outstanding in Band, and had participated in district honor band. After two more years of successful trumpet playing, Mrs. Brown asked if any trumpet players would like to play the French Horn. It was at this point with my competitive attitude and love for a challengethat I expressed my intrest of playing a new instrument to her. Once 8th grade started, I quickly adapted to playing the new and more challenging instrument. I persuaded my mom to allow me to join the Southwest Dekalb High School marching band. After a 2 weeks of practice, I performed in my first game as a trumpet player against Pebblebrook High School. After this game, I was approached by Kelley Walker...
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...When I was an 8th grader, I was blessed to be apart of the high school marching band. I remember back then, band camp used to be all day and we’d stay and eat lunch at the school instead of leaving and coming back. After lunch, Mr. Fisher would play videos of these professional marching bands. They were part of an organization called Drum Corps International. It’s like the NFL for marching band kids. The first show we watched was “Spartacus,” performed by Phantom Regiment. At the end of the show, the drum major is slayed and the rest of the show continues without the drum major. This was a big deal within the marching community. I didn't know it at the time, but by watching that one show, my life would forever be changed. Fast forward to Sophomore year and I made the decision I was going to march the following summer. Granted, my parents hadn’t necessarily said yes to me leaving for 3 months and living on a bus for the entire summer, but they did say I could leave for a weekend and see what it was all about. The first corps I auditioned for was Legends. They’re an open class corps based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Auditions went well; I made friends, got a callback, was able to keep up with all the audition pieces, but something just didn’t feel right. They didn’t feel like home....
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...google.com). A marching band is a company of instrumental musicians performing outdoors for the purpose of entertainment and sometimes in competition. Instrumentations typically include brass, woodwinds and percussion instruments (en.wikipedia.com). The marching band at Partido State University was one of the competing units among the marching bands. They joined military parades, concerts, street parades and many more. It means that joining in marching bands had a lot of trainings and practices to be done. In this regards the academic performance of the band members maybe sacrifice because of double priorities. In addition, the society may have different expectations of the performance of the band members according to their own perspectives. It was observed that there are band members who had incomplete or failing grades. It all depends on how they personally addressed problems as a student and as a band members who got failing grades and incomplete grades faced a consequence of termination as a band scholar. Statemant of the Problem This study aims to determine the problems encountered by the PSU Marching Band Members that affect their academic performance. Specifically this sought to answer the following questions: 1. What are the profiles of PSU Marching Band Members as to: a) Age b) Gender c) Instruments 2. What are the academic performance of PSU Marching Band Members? 3. What are the problems encountered by the PSU Marching Band Members which ...
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...way to learn and envelop yourself, escape from the world when it becomes chaotic, and get out the thoughts and emotions that just cannot be expressed as words. And I have indulged myself in it from the start. I have become drum major of the Mary G. Montgomery Pride Marching Band, made MCPSS honor band, I sit first chair of my school’s symphonic band, and I am the lead alto saxophone in the MGM jazz band. Strangely enough, this all started with a divorce. When I was in the fourth grade my parents divorced, little did I know it was a blessing in disguise because in fifth grade my father remarried and that’s when it really began; my newfound older step-sister was in the exact same band that I now lead, and because of her I decided that I too wanted to join band. Immediately, I loved it; it came so naturally, and as I progressed, I was amazed at the things I could do with music the way the seemingly subtle change of one thing could completely change the entire experience, emotion, and message that existed within a piece of music. High school is where I truly blossomed as musician. As a freshman, I began playing in the jazz band (which developed into my favorite style to play), I made first chair in the symphonic band over three seniors and a junior, I began learning how to play the bassoon, and I began to teach myself piano and guitar. Currently, I play alto saxophone, bassoon, clarinet, piano, and guitar. Being drum major has given me an experience that is like no other; I get to...
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...People think that flag line can't compare to dance line and cheerleading. As spirit organizations we have our similarities and differences. We have to go through tryouts, after school practice, early Saturday morning practice, Friday night football games, halftime performances and band competitions. Twirling a flag is not as easy as other think it seems. Twirling a flag can be fun. You have to get dramatic with it. You have to be graceful with it and a little wild with hair flowing. First there’s tryouts. Tryouts start off as a clinic, which shows us the basic. We learn how to do carve, blue devil, sunshine, windmill, spin drops, speed drop, and how to jazz walk and run. I felt so lost when learning the jazz walk and run. It feels like we were running as ducks. A carve, blue devil, windmill, and spin drop were easy to learn. A windmill when you sweep the flag by your foot and drop it behind your back and come back up with. A spin drop when down on odds and up on even but you’re going in a circle. A carve is when you make two circles then a bottom circle. I couldn't get the sunshine for nothing. The sunshine start of like a windmill but you drop it behind your back grab it with your left hand. For some reason it was difficult. I started to get discouraged. I knew I couldn't give up. It's the day of tryouts. I'm nervous, palm sweating, and confidence was below zero. We went in groups of fours. My Best friend was in my groups and this was here second year on flag line. That...
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...This year was a big year for me. This was my first year ever marching on the field. Ever since my first year of band in 7th grade, I have always been in the pit (minus my senior year when I was drum-major). It was a huge difference in view. I have always had my back to the band doubling whatever the director threw at me, and never able to see the cool things that the band is doing being me, but this year allowed me to see everything that happens on the field. It was a big change of view. I will admit that I was extremely nervous coming to band camp (even though I showed up on the right day). I was excited to be put on the field, but also very nervous. I didn’t want to be that band member that had no idea what I was doing and was just meandering...
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