Marching bands

The Evergreen Marching Band and Colorguard (EMBC) has stewed in accomplishment, success, and hard work, for more than two decades. People don’t know, that we 're not just a normal halftime marching band--we are a competitive marching band. Like any football, drill, or soccer team, EMBC strives to compete amongst the greats. For a couple decades, EMBC has marched to success and we don 't want to stop now; however, the competitive program was close to being slashed this year, due to lack of funds

Click goes the metronome for the band to keep in tempo with the beat. Electives, such as Business math, Marketing, Band and Instrumental music, are important to students. An elective some students would like to add into school is a low brass marching band. Adding a low brass marching band into the school will give students the opportunity to show creativity, have more time to work on tone quality and more time to work on choreography. Being in a low brass marching band, one is going to have to know

“In the Marching Band and Proud of It” by Debra Nussbaum followed the story of the marching band from Pennsbury High School in Philadelphia. In the second paragraph, Nussbaum claimed that band can be “cool”. Marching bands travel across the US, are becoming increasingly competitive, and perform more interesting shows. The Pennsbury marching band has a respected reputation in the school because they gain national recognition and have a certain prestige within the school. The prevalence of band is growing

2017 Marching Band Should be a Sport Many people believe marching band is not a sport because it involves people playing music. Since people are playing music, they think it is more of an art than a sport. It is true that we people in a marching band are playing music, but there is a lot more that they do besides playing music. I have so far participated in marching band for six years, five in middle school and high school and one year in college. Even though not all marching bands compete

Contradictory to what an average person would think, marching band is just as much a sport than football or basketball. Marching band is a sport because of all the competitions, the physical exercise, and the discipline it takes to be in a marching band. Not many people are familiar with marching band because the sport only lasts for a fall semester. Because the season is short, marching band does not have many competitions. A typical marching season has only one or two competitions. However, even

and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Many people question whether or not marching band is a sport. Although some people may think it is nothing like a sport, many other people do consider it one. Marching band should be considered a sport because you need both physical and mental strength and skills. Marching band should be considered a sport because the difficulty is equal to any other sport both mentally and physically. Some students need

Kaiyah Wilhite Argumentative Essay Should marching band be considered a sport? Yes, it should. Being a member for one year, and having completed the season, I speak from experience. There are so many things to learn in the season, like body movements and music. We also had to learn all eighty-four sets, which is where to go while we are marching. Having to learn all of this takes hard work, time, and a lot of money. This is why band should be considered a sport. The definition of sport is “an athletic

older sister, Molly, had gotten into our high school’s marching band I have longed to join; that was almost 3 years ago. As the years went on I went into middle school and started my band life there. I went to 6th grade as a new percussionist. I wasn’t the most social person so playing in front of people soon became the main worry. I would deal with this difficulty all of middle school. But I learned to overcome it at my tryouts for the marching band. In 8th grade they handed me the paper I wanted most:

Band in general has always been a huge part of my life. Ever since sixth grade I have been dedicated to concert band. But in middle school it wasn’t anything life-changing. The life-changing part of band didn’t happen until high school. Ninth grade was when I started Symphonic band, Marching Band, and Pep Band. Symphonic Band was very straight-forward, we performed at many concerts throughout the year and at the end of the year we were judged at our state-assessment, where every year we consistently

Everyone knows who the band kids are. They see the band members marching under the Friday night lights and listen to their non-stop chatter about band. It’s easy to pick them from a crowd. I, despite my chagrin to admit it, am one of those kids. When I joined marching band, I never intended to become so involved. I only saw it as a chance to make friends. Yet, without my realizing it, I quickly became immersed in band. As the years went by, I developed a love for band, the people in it, even the