Marching Band Observation

Of all the things I’ve ever experienced, being in the Blanche Ely Marching Band was the most meaningful. Growing up I couldn’t fathom the value of life’s intangible things, but my perspicacity grew when I made the decision to stay in the band. The most important lessons I learned while being in the band would be: the importance of resilience,

So, most people have great memories right? Mine are marching band memories. Marching band started with my sister. My mom and my sister inspired me to do sports in the first place. It was either marching band or volleyball. Which I believe marching band was for the best. I'm working up to the things that my sister accomplished. My music has helped me develop my life, my values, and my goals.

For five years, I have been a committed member of my high school’s marching band. For two of those five years, I have been given the opportunity to be the drum major where I conducted and commanded the band. Despite being the only sophomore competing against juniors for the title, the band director saw that I possessed the leadership qualifications needed to inspire the band to work as a single unit. Being drum major, as well as participating in marching band itself, has made me more communicative with other people. As a senior member, the younger students look to me and the other seniors for proper examples of experience. However, as the drum major, the younger members look to me for proper marching technique, advice, and an ear to listen.

My senior year of high school, my high brass director left on an extremely short notice, leaving our band one director short for the whole marching season. I cannot begin to describe the trials that we encountered as a band, specifically the high brass family. Not having our “band dad” with us took an excruciating toll that set the high brass back and ultimately the whole band. As a senior, it was my job to step up and facilitate my section since we did not have anyone else to guide us. I did my absolute best to accommodate the younger members with ideal practices to improve their marching skills and playing techniques. During this challenging time, I attempted to take on the persona of a band director to motivate my section to work hard every

Our marching bands local community would be University High School, Orange City, FL Titan Regiment. This is because it’s the community that we are located and the high school that we represent anywhere that we go to. The next community above our local community is state community FMBC. This stands for Florida marching band championships. This is held every year to figure out who are the top bands in Florida. This is a state community because it’s based on all the states marching bands over the state of Florida not just a particular area. Lastly you have the national community. For marching bands this is the BOA. This stands for bands of America for high school students. This is a national community because this represents the entire band in

One community that I have always felt a strong connection to and have contributed to is the marching band community. The best contribution that I have made to the marching band is teaching all the underclassmen. Throughout my four years in the marching band, I have held both a section leader and woodwind captain position and one task that both positions share is teaching the underclassmen how march. However, I have found that the teaching job is not only for marching band but all aspects of high school life. Many of the underclassmen that come into high school are usually lost in the confusing transition so they ask many questions. Since I am the upperclassmen and their teacher, I give insight into their predicaments. In addition to teach them

I learned from many of my peers that a leader will accomplish nothing if they don’t learn to respect and influence those around them. In the end, I did not become a perfect leader or the leader with the most talent, but I was able to empower my peers to push through the pain of the season and influence them to stick to the repetition needed to build great skill. I now realize that the effort I gave wasn’t for my own personal benefit, but was made in hopes that I could instill what I’ve learned to the youth of the band. My hopes and dreams for the younger band members is to continue to grow and perform to the best of their

In Marching band, we have one rule we two rules we can never break. We cannot stop the mode of production, and we must always be determined, forever improving our marching and our academic studies. These two rules were meant to represent something bigger then ourselves, to not only think of us as an individual, but to fully comprehend that we have to better ourselves not only for our own sakes, but for the sake of the Band as a whole. We were taught to implement these two rules not only in band, but in our daily lives. This meant to be at our peak performance, all the time. If we couldn’t live to these standards, we would be kicked out. All of this made the Marching band become part of our lifestyle, which reflected our performance as a band

The Penn Hills Marching Band is by no means a small band, boasting approximately eighty members for the 2016-2017 season. However, there is always room for improvement, especially when accounting for the large population of our school district. There are many recruitment strategies that the band could employ to boost participation, as well as increase enthusiasm within the group. All members of the band should work to recruit across a much broader range of students; appealing to middle school concert band students exclusively does not reach as many people as possible. Publicity events such as the band’s annual trip to the middle school for a performance and the community day events are also key to future member enrollment. With as much potential

Unfortunately, band is always overlook in high school. The students that don't participate in band fail to notice that we are more than just band nerds. Just because band members are A & B students and very good at their instrument dose not mean we are nerds. Marching band is the biggest student run organization at Miramar high school. Band does not get finically supported by the school so band members have to fundraise to keep the organization running. The sport organizations get supported by the school because they think students care more about sports than band. I am a member of the Miramar High School Marching Band/Concert season, and I can tell you thats not true and we should get supported. Miramar High students and teachers

Through my high school career I have been apart of many different groups and teams, and each group had a rich mixture of people. There are times when someone was needed to lead them. I recognize as a leader, you must take in to account as many ideas and feelings as possible to reach an agreeable situation.

Students will have some awareness of what a marching band is, how to march and hopefully be familiar with some instruments used in a marching band

The Marching Knights are working extremely hard. They have been working since the beginning of July and everyday after school on their new show, In the Name of Love. The show is supposed to represent how the power of love trumps all. In the show there are three different movements that are played, and the characterization is shown in the set and music. In an interview, Flute player, Lisa McCollum said herself, “Marching Band is a lot harder than most people think. We do a lot and put forth a lot of effort, we’re always out in the heat everyday, even when it's raining, just to achieve a goal that we all want, we all work together as a team, and one whole as a family.” When asked her opinion about the show she said, “It's interesting. There

Sophomore year of marching came. This year was a surprise for everyone. With our show being named ‘Masterminder.’ The band members marching were under control by the color guard soloist; the puppeteer. This show was pretty exciting, too. The judges also thought that. We made it past regionals AND semi-state. What? Yeah, we all thought the same thing. We had made it. We had FINALLY made it after so many years of just trying to get past regionals for once. It was a bitter-sweet feeling waiting for placement awards at Lucas Oil Stadium. The instructors went around to each band student one by one. The congratulated us on an amazing season. I started tearing up, but that isn’t surprising. As we marched our way out of Lucas Oil Stadium that night, I knew that this was only the beginning of a new generation for the Marching Marksmen.

Joining a marching band can be such a wonderful “once in a lifetime” experience. The two weeks of band camp where everyone practices nonstop to learn all of their drill and music, and the exhausting yet entertaining band competitions, and the long hours of after-school rehearsal, all of which can only be experienced in a marching band. But not only is the band hardworking and successful on our own, it’s all under the control and help of Mr. Barrett, our band director. Mr. Barrett is such a hardworking, ambitious, caring, and humorous teacher. He puts the band before himself, and dedicates his time to teach and care for his students. He has created a bond with his students that makes him unlike many other teachers and instead he is more of a guardian and mentor, rather than someone that just gives the band their drill and music and tells them to play and march. Mr. Barrett teaches his students to strive for success at every competition and leads the band with his patience and dedication.