Military band

beginning of the school year, a lot of the first few days of school has involved work outside of playing music and rehearsing, including things such as organizing the band room, assembling music and folders, and going over handbooks and general classroom rules and regulations. Teaching at the school year really made me realize how much a band director has to do outside of actually teaching the students. A lot goes into…

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…

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…

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,…

Earle Dickinson's Band-AID Scratches, cuts, and scrapes can all be a thing in the past with the Band-AID. Earle Dickinson, the man who invented the Band-AID, made this invention for people in need. He originally created it for his wife when one day he came home and saw she was bleeding. Originally, Band-AIDS were made for people close to the heart but that quickly changed as time went on. Try to picture the world without any Band-AIDS. Our world would be so much more different and think of…

Toumei Answer is similar to how the narrator of “The High School Band” perceives the practicing high school band’s routine. Although Shintaro’s loss may be incomparable with the narrator’s loss, the same feeling of the once spectator affected by an absence is undeniably similar. The poem starts out in a warm September morning setting, the narrator describing a high school band that “is up with the birds and marches…

The antithesis of Band, Eli dreads calculus because he can rarely stay alert and interactive in the classroom. This day isn’t any different. Struggling the entire hour to stay focused, he only half learns the topics covered during the day’s lecture. Eli is quite intelligent…

it would be fun to just be in the park. My other place that I would want to go to is actually more of an event. Every August at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis is the Drum Corps International Finals. Drum corps is basically professional marching band, minus woodwinds (flutes, clarinets, saxophones). As someone who participates…

Becoming a Drum Major has been in my mind since the very beginning of the marching band season. At first, I believed that being a Drum Major simply meant a leadership position in the band, with some responsibilities and much admiration. However, as the season progressed, I recognized the way the Drum Majors act and influence others throughout the season to do well. I saw that they inspired many people to do their best, and that was when I realized that being a Drum Major was more than the…

these standards is the trombone player and Big Band Jazz composer, Glenn Miller. Glenn Miller lived a short yet interesting life, he differed from his competitors and left a dazzling legacy on the Jazz community. On March 1st of 1904 in the small town of Clarinda, Iowa, Alton Glenn Miller was born. Miller began playing the cornet and mandolin at a young age. This sparked his love for music. In 1917 Miller finally received his very…