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and performance styles of marching bands have developed over the past decades. The first school with a marching band was the University of Notre Dame in Indiana which took place in the year of 1842. The band formed and presented their skills even before the university’s football team existed, whose first season began in 1887 (“Notre Dame”). Throughout the years, band groups have become more and more competitive. Nowadays, there are several types of marching bands that participate in…

Outside the window, there was a tapping on the boards to be pulled off and let in. He stood there still and as quiet as possible. Was it ghosts or skinheads? His eyes were swimming in tears. The sound circled the street, walking from first to last building, a weapon behind its back. Dreadfully the early days he moved here he hammered in those nails as quickly as his crippled hands would allow, visioning the wood coffins in Lety, and the one for his father. The windows weren’t boarded up to…

There are several things that I can do personally to make this marching season amazing. First, I want to maintain a healthy diet. I think being able to have a healthy diet can help me come to rehearsal and have plenty of energy. Secondly, I will start having a morning routine of workouts. These workouts will help me during the season so I will give my best performance. Also, another thing I want to do is improve my self confidence. Self confidence has been a little bit of a problem with me this…

Who knew that band in high school had such a surprise in store for the new students. On top of the changes from middle school to high school already being terrifying. My experiences throughout high school band were enjoyful, prideful, and exhausting. Starting from the fun treats that band came with, to the long hot sweaty hours spent on the football field practicing our hearts out for every football game. I definitely would be a different person, if it wasn’t for the band experiences that I had,…

Gorillaz is one of the greatest bands to ever grace this earth. This is because of the variety and quality of the music they make and the personality of the characters of which have been built up over years of music making, Q&A's, and interviews. To begin with, Gorillaz is the greatest band of this millennia because of the amount of variety of the music they have made along with the quality of these songs. Their music can range from slow and chill to fast-moving and thrilling. The content of…

LAWN AND ORDER It was a beautiful day in Louisiana, Georgia, Mr.Adams was was driving his Ford Explorer to a customer 's house. Mr.Adams had a business where he would mow lawns and he specialized in doing custom designs for gardens, it was named Lawn and Order. Almost everybody in Louisiana has heard of Lawn and Order because of its recent booming success, due to channel 19 news, which featured a lot of his famous designs such as “ The Lawnmower “ and “ The Pelican “ where he would put the…

This idea is supported by the frequented use of self-address implemented in the second half. The speaker becomes more involved. “I thought,” “I looked,” “I admired,” all produce a more active role on the part of the speaker. The turning point in the poem that triggers this alteration seems to be when the reader realizes that the fish is in fact still alive. “While his gills were breathing” (line 22) is the first action given to the fish and the first time he is addressed as a living thing…

To be in a marching band, one has to almost become one with the band. The instrument played is not a single aspect, but a part of a much larger whole that must be comfortable and confident together. When I first joined the band, I was not one of the more comfortable and confident people that fit in with everyone else. Most all band members are loud and proud of who they are, compared to myself, who always hid behind others and hated being the center of attention. However, almost everyone has…

songs around the weekly campfire. When I became the drum major of my high school band and gained more opportunities to teach music and lead rehearsals than I had as a section leader, I began seeing parallels between my band members and my summer camp experiences. When a student I worked with finally played a passage she struggled with…

On Friday, July 10th, the local instrumental jazz group Yuma Jazz Company played at Lutes Casino for a couple of hours. The instrumentation was fairly standard for a jazz group, with trumpet, saxophone, guitar, double bass, and drums (I believe those were electric). The guitar and bass, along with the drums, served as a sort of basso continuo, generally backing the horns, but occasionally taking up the melody for themselves, resulting in a texture that was thinly polyphonic. Also noticeable was…