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Marching Bands
Marching bands consist of a group of instrumental musicians performing outside that normally includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments. Most people see marching bands at high school and college football games but many bands also compete in marching band competitions. There are also many professional marching bands, like Drum Corps International (DCI). Ask questions about marching bands in this category.
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What is a celebration with marching bands?
Many celebrations include marching bands or drum corps. Different holidays where parades occur are good times to see a marching band perform in a parade setting.
Along with parades marching bands also perform field shows that most often take place during the halftime of a football game. Of course, a football game only has at maximum two bands that each perform once. Many bands also take part in competitions as well as band festivals. Both of these types of shows focus completely on marching bands and their performances.
Numerous marching bands belong to different competitive organizations whether they are a high school band, college band, or some variation of a drum corps. Since these organizations have member schools that vary in size, they have different levels of judging depending upon the size of the school/marching unit. Each of these organizations hosts so many shows a year where these groups perform usually culminating in a championship for the year.
Band festivals differ from competitions for the fact that they are not judged and simply a way for bands to perform their shows.
What is the importance of the clarinet in a marching band?
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!
Is high school marching band a sport?
Yes, I am in my Schools Marching Band and we practice more than the football players, Marching is more than just holding and instrument up, playing, and moving, we also do visuals and go up to high speeds it is very difficult and even though a lot don't consider it a sport, I definitely would.
Should marching band be capitalized?
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What are some large marching band instruments?
A wind instrument is any instrument that uses air to be played.
Examples of wind instruments in marching bands:
clarinet, flute, saxophone, trumpet, tuba, trombone.
Usually people don't march with double reed instruments such as the oboe and bassoon.
Who are the best high school marching bands?
Since the 2008 college football season, the James Madison Marching Royal Dukes have regarded as the nation's largest collegiate marching band with a staggering 474 members. The MRD's have been featured in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2001 and 2008, Presidential Inaugurations for President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and the 1983 NFC Title Football game between the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles.
The MRD's have also been a recipient of the "Sudler Trophy" which is the highest honor available for a collegiate marching band, and the first band to ever receive it as a D1-AA school.
How did high school marching bands get started?
The first marching band to ever march during halftime at a football game was the University of Illinois' Marching Illini. They performed at halftime in 1907 during the University of Illinois' game against the University of Chicago.
What position do you assume while marching?
There is no position during the march order. It could be construed as a modified position of attention, however, there is no movement during the position of attention.
The Mankato Area 77 Lancers is the only amazing thing that has happened in the marching industry. They are a marching band from Mankato, MN. They have won won numerous Grand Champion Awards, Drumline Awards, Color Guard Awards, and Drum Major Awards.
Does marching equal strolling?
Basically... No... You stomp your feet when marching while strolling is just like doing a normal walk.
What College uses Victory in their marching band?
I'm assuming you're refering to the Notre Dame Fight Song.
It's also my high school's fight song.
A marching quad is a set of four tom-toms that are used by marching bands. They attach to each other and then to a plastic harness that rests on your shoulders, and weigh from 30 to 40 pounds
How is a cell like a marching band?
A cell and a marching band are both made up of separate components that need to work together. The cell, with all of its parts like the nucleus, mitochondria, lysosomes, Golgi bodies, ribosomes, vacuoles, etc., need to work together for the cell to work. A marching band is the same. The many different sections like trumpet, baritone, tuba, saxophone, flute, clarinet, percussion, pit, etc. need to work together to create a marching band.
Yes, all schools should have a band, preferrably the marching kind.
there's no such thing, but there is such thing as a brass marching band
