Marching bands

Marching Band Playing in a marching band is fun. I get to go to home football games. Marching band involves learning the steps, memorizing the music, and learning the spots. Also I get to perform on the field and learn the steps. Marching band is my favorite thing to do because I love to perform and march on the field, it keeps me active, and I have fun doing marching band. I love to perform and march on the field. Also we perform music and moves on the field. We mark time,…

What does it take to make a marching band great? Pride! What? Pride! What? Pride! These are the words that echo on the dusty Center Hill Marching Band Practice Field. In order for the Center Hill High School Marching Band to be a discourse community according to Swales, the community has to have “a broadly agreed set of common public goals, a mechanisms of intercommunication among its members, a participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback, one or more genres in the…

them start out the same way and go in a similar order every time, but there are always surprises that come along the way during these days. As the day starts on a competition Saturday, the Worthington Kilbourne Marching Band arrives normally in the late morning or early afternoon. The band room opens an hour before report time so that all the instruments can be shined and polished to look impressive on the field. The color guard, my section, is normally found in the dressing room getting…

These past three years I've been involved with the Point Pleasant Black Knight Marching Band continue to be the most incredible three years of my life. I've met many of my close friends through band and I would consider many of them my family. We will always be so much more than just a band and every tear, drop of sweat and bruise quickly becomes worth it. I learned many life lessons from my family. They stick by my side through the worst and best times of my life and I'm so exceptionally lucky…

When people think of marching band, they tend to believe it is a joke or a waste of time. Marching band is a more time consuming activity that starts late in the summer. Yet the people that are not involved in the Fine Arts are more likely to have these false accusations. While most believe marching band is not a sport, is for the unpopular kids, and requires no prior skill, it in fact requires a great deal of time and dedication. A lot of marching bands practice on a daily bases, implying the…

Marching band has been the most enriching activity that I have ever been a part of. When I first came to high school I was scared, marching band allowed me to make friends and have a wonderful freshmen year experience. I was new to a school as a sophomore because my family moved across the country, marching band was able to make me feel at home in this new place and allowed me to adjust more quickly. As I grew older I received leadership positions in the band, junior year being a Uniform…

I was in the marching band and the concert band. In college, I was in the orchestra and the pep band. Band for me wasn’t about playing the music. Music, to me, is just a hobby. What these group of musicians gave me was a sense of family. We would spend hours upon hours together with a common goal. In high school, that goal was to cheer on the football team or entertain a crowd. In college, it is all about basketball. The sense of school spirit that comes along with pep band is why I…

leader in this program. I have spent countless hours for band from practicing, to teaching others, and also several other things. I spend most of my time doing something band related, but I would be glad to more to benefit the band. I can use my hard working attitude to do whatever is needed of me. I can use my knowledge of music to teach others how to be better musicians and show improvement. My concern for the the 2017 year of marching band is that the senior class right now is going to be…

One of the generalities about the band is that we are ambitious towards reaching goals yet lackadaisical towards giving the necessary work. We hope to have a productive rehearsal, yet talk for most of its duration. People, thinking they are leaders, yell for everyone to “help the pit!” yet do not help them themselves. As a band, we expect others to accomplish our goals for us. We assume that someone else is going to play loud enough to cover for our own lack of sound. We assume that the effort…

Day With The Marching Band The marching band is a band exclusive to the High School where you play for sports events and competitions. What if you, as an 8th grade student, had the first and possibly last chance to play your instrument for the marching band? The day of the event was August 18. I was very nervous, but I was excited at the same time. I was nervous to probably mess up the cadences and formations, but I was excited because this was a good experience. As you might not know,…