...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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...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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...The abrasive sound echoed through the air. The vibration ringed in my ear after our last note, after my first and last performance in marching band, and immediately relief and poignancy sweeps through my feet. I felt happy and accomplished, after all the sweat and tears everyone has shed to finish this show. In my previous school in Japan, we had marching band unlike this one with no competitors, but both groups has shaped the person I am today. Just like my hobby of illustration, I learned that the more detailed and precise we paint, the more vivid and lively our results become. Both of these marching band organizations helped me realize that outcomes are just superficial, and that people could gain from failures. By joining the band I started to practice more of my clarinet, took extra care to balance both academic work and marching band practice, and made communication with people I was not accustomed to. When afterwards I got compliments from...
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...This season was the first year that I have been in color guard and marching band, even though I had previously been in band in middle school. Prior to joining marching band, I played flute and piano. It was a difficult decision for me to give up flute to join color guard, and I contemplated my decision for the weeks up to it. Now, looking back, I am so fortunate to have made that decision. Marching band has shaped me into who I am today. I sacrificed many weeks of my summer to prepare for the show and competitions. We worked for ten hours a day from eight to six for two weeks straight. The whole day was spent outside on a football field in the heat of the summer. We listened to the screaming of instructors when we did something wrong. This taught us a lot about discipline. We had long rehearsals and had to memorize drill and actions. I learned to look out for others around me. We were all in pain and tired but we knew the show must go on. We kept watch over each other’s health and well-being. I learned about teamwork. You can’t produce a ten-minute show by yourself. You have to work with the other members in order to show the beauty of the music through flag work. The season kept going and the show was finally coming together. Our first competition came at White Oak High...
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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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...Ever since I was young, I have been drawn to music. When I was just four years old, I heard the sound of a guitar, and immediately wanted to learn how to play it. Since that moment, my passion has only progressed. The first time I performed, I stepped up on stage with my small guitar and managed to strum out the only 2 chords I know. A few years later I had the ability to get on stage and have the choice as to which instrument I want to play. Now, I am focused on turning my passion into a career and majoring in music business and production at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. During the summer, I had the opportunity to go to Camp Electric for the third time. Camp Electric is located at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a worship and rock and roll music camp. The professional artists at camp teach individualized classes during the day based on your instrument track and then perform concerts at night. In the morning, the classes are larger and contain everyone in the same track, but in the afternoon the classes are split up based on skill level and future motives. My afternoon class on Wednesday of camp with Rhett Nolan, who drums for NF. This was such an eye-opening experience because NF is my favorite artist. While in class, Rhett made a statement that changed my viewpoints of my music career drastically. He described to us about the times he practiced his drums in a dark abandoned storage unit every night, not boasting to anyone about...
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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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...what has impacted me, one thing that stands out is band. This organization has shaped who I am and has helped me develop many great qualities. I have learned how to manage my time wisely, how to be outgoing, and how to be a leader. Knowing how to manage one’s time will greatly impact how one’s day unfolds. Being a band student, I have many tasks to complete within a limited amount of time. During school, I have roughly ten minutes to make sure I get to the band hall, change my clothes, and get my equipment and my section to the field before practice starts. On Friday nights, I have to make the choice whether or not I should go home before a game. If I choose to go home, it is mandatory that I get there in time to eat and get ready to be back at the band hall before we leave for the game. At first this schedule was difficult to maintain with all my other activities and school work but after awhile band helped me learn how to manage my time not only in band but also in other aspects of my life....
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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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...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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...I had to audition for concert band in the seventh grade. I was thirteen years old and had a decent number of friends, most of which were also in the band. My two best friends were Brett and Ryan. Brett played tuba and Ryan played trombone. I also played trombone and was fairly talented at it ,but I was worried because I heard that the band directors were very strict and most people didn't make it into the top bands at Centennial middle school. In addition to that I was also nervous as a result of my recent aquisition of a new trombone that was a higher quality instrument than my previous trombone, and I hadn't fully adjusted to the new instrument. After all of the band students received the audition music for next year we all started practicing...
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...Just one more time! The words repeated in my head every day during high school. I was a band nerd and powerlifter, but I was totally known as the crazy band nerd, who stayed in the band hall during her free times. I played the clarinet, I was not the best player, but I never gave up. Band consists of marching season and concert season. Personal, I loved marching season because of each routine Mr. Steele would come up with, but the most hated season was concert. Concert season consists of sightreading, and those were the time I saw the crazy side of the band directors. Plus, the band was split into two bands: Symphony and wind ensemble. Marching season is where all the competitive, fun and honorable memories began my high school and life....
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