What is the importance of the clarinet in a marching band?

Answer 1

Answer cymbals in marching bandBecause with out the cymbals there would absolutely be no CRASH!!! [:

Cymbals and other percussion generally used for effect purposes. Sure you don't need cymbals, just like you don't technically need flutes since in most bands, you can't hear them. However, the only crescendo - that means getting louder-you would have would be the band getting louder and that;s it. there would be no resolution to the tension, doing a crescendo creates, and bands would seem pretty dull.

In places like Drum Corps, Colleges, Indoor Percussion units and some of the better Marching Bands, cymbals is a thing of tradition. Theyy may only play three notes in one song, but the rest of the time, they're spinning and flipping their cymbals and doing crazy stuff. Go look up Santa Clara Vanguard cymbal line on YouTube. That should give you an idea.

Hope this helped!

Answer 2

Each instrument is suppsoed to help bring the sound of the band together. Each instrument plays in a different range, higher ranges to lower ones.

If you have ever heard of a musical pyramid, then you know that the bass voices are on the bottom, middle voices(Trumpet, Trombone, sax), and the high voices on top.

Playing with the right amount of air will drasticly improve your bands sound.

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Answer 3

I'm not very sure but in some marching pieces a Clarinet is the one who supports most of the melody. I'm a clarinet my self and i know clarinets have been known for being some if the fastes players to play.

Well, in a normal band, the clarinet mostly blends in with the flutes and sometimes the trumpets. In a marching band, the clarinet does the same thing but while playing marching songs. I play the clarinet, and are great in harmonies. That is why you will see many clarinet songs in different parts. They add nice harmonies (but occasionally you will see them playing the lead part, I have done that.)

well in all my years of marching band, i have never been heard.

the clarinets are only really heard if you have a lot of them. and usually they have pretty solis.

In marching bands clarinets are generaly used to lessen some of the "brassy" sounds. My 8th grade band is very small and we have about twice as many clarinets as we do trumpets. We only have 1 or 2 trumpets and we have probably 3 or 4 clarinets. This year I don't expect us to do well at contests because there isn't enough "brassy" sound. But in most schools you will have about an equal amount of clarinets and trumpets and they will ballance each other out. The clarinet also adds more of an "earthy" sound to the group.

Answer 4

The role of the drums is to maintain the beat of the band. They are an important part of the band because without drums rhythm and beat can not be filled. Drums also do something called a fill which they add beats during a quite part of the song which keep the band have a better feeling. In most bands, drums are 99% of the time there because most band needs a drummer.

Answer 5

Well, without a drummer to keep the beat of the song its a lot more easy for all the other instruments to go out of time and completely muck up the song. Bands can work without drummers so don't bother getting one that's bad just because you think that the band isn't a band without a drummer. Hope that helped :)

Answer 6

Flutes give higher pitches to the entire ensemble. It is also easier for flutes to do complicated runs than it would be for larger brass instruments.

Answer 7

In the immortal words of a minister in the mid 1950s, its the beat.