Anxiety in Drum Corps The football field may be considered a space for football, but it is also a performance area for the marching music performer. The performer who uses the same space as football players is a member of a drum corps. Marching musical performers experience the same nervous anxiety ticks as other athletes. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effects of anxiety has on performers of drum corps. Drum Corps Drum Corps International (DCI) defines drum corps has a drum and bugle
DCI, an acronym that not too many people know the meaning of, but for those who do, you’ll soon learn that it is more than marching band. Started over three decades ago, Drum Corps International has “delivered the message of ‘excellence in performance and in life’ to over 7.2 million young people” (Drum Corps International About). That motif of excellence is echoed throughout their 60 day tour around the country. While learning their music, drill and visuals, the participants learn something more
The roar of extreme sound emanates from a football field. It is clear that this is not an ordinary high school marching band playing at a football game. These are Drum and Bugle Corps, boasting an instrumentation of all brass and percussion instruments. This arrangement of instruments can create an enormous amount of sound, sometimes louder than a rock music concert. Due to their thorough auditioning processes, they have a group of musicians, who can play extremely well, all of whom are brought together
generally is very noticeable in every band: the gender imbalance. The gender imbalance is can be described by looking at a band and noticing the people in each section. Some have all males or at least a great majority of them, like percussion (which is drums) or low brass (tubas, baritones or trombones). While others such as high woodwinds (flutes or clarinets) have a majority female population. There are a few sections you may be able to look at and see this, such as trumpets or saxophones, but even this
Six Week Personal Exercise Program My weakest sport is Football. My weakest areas are strength, fitness and speed. The skill related fitness required in Football is Agility, Power, Co-ordination, Balance, Speed, Cardiovascular fitness and Muscular endurance. Agility is needed to dribble past an opponent; Power is needed to withstand pressure from an opponent and to shoot with strength; Co-ordination is needed to be able to have the ball under your control; Balance is needed to be able
Being in band and playing music is beautiful, peaceful, and deadly. I will never forget that day when the band went rouge. They destroyed everything in their path. No one made it out… except me. 1 Day Earlier… “Ok band, let’s head outside for marching band!” yelled the band teacher. “A flat, E flat and F sharp, A flat, E flat, and F sharp, A flat,” “Would you stop! That’s annoying!” I said. “Well if you want to get a good grade in band Hunter, then you have to know the right notes!” Alex
Army Cadets at Newcastle Under Lyme School often use their .22 ranges and find it extremely hard to see what their shoot total is mid-way through the shoot. Problem Army Cadets at Newcastle Under Lyme School often use their .22 ranges and find it extremely hard to see what their shoot total is mid-way through the shoot. They cannot view the target through the sights on the rifles, as the sights are iron sights. A solution is required whereby this problem can be cured, and the individual
that decisions made by these authority figures, while callous and arbitrary at times, are only made with the intent of enhancing the military. At the same time, the responsibility that Jessep and Cole had were the same. The objective of the Marine Corps and the Naval Academy is the same. All total institutions are vital in preparing soldiers for war.
Classic drum and bugle corps are musical ensembles that descended from military bugle and drum units returning from the First World War and subsequent wars. Traditionally, drum and bugle corps served as signaling units as early as before the American Civil War, with these signaling units having descended in some fashion from ancient drum and fife corps. However, a modern drum and bugle corps is a musical marching ensemble consisting of brass and percussion instruments, synthesizers, and a color guard
With four and a half minutes left of halftime, Annandale High School’s football coach, Michael Scott, forces the marching band off the field by shaking the drum major’s podium repetitively. Nevertheless, Michael brought his football players onto the field and did not realize that he was being disrespectful to the band, especially on senior night (Devorak). After participating in marching band for 7 years, marching bands do not receive the credit, recognition, and satisfaction that they deserve for
a lifeguard at Magic Springs and Crystal Falls. After my brother, Tyler was living out his biggest dream of marching with a World Class Drum and Bugle Corp. He had spent the summer touring and competing with the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corp. My family and I took a trip to Indianapolis, Indiana to watch Tyler compete with The Crossmen at Drum Corp International World Competition. It was a three day competition that was being held at The Lucas Oil Stadium. On that hot, August, Friday afternoon
On the extreme end of the spectrum there is Drum Corps. Each summer the members burn thousands of calories a day. The Drum Corps International webpage states, “On days the corps doesn’t play a show, the group rehearses all day, logging as many as eight or 10 hours on the field (DCI.org).” This activity logs many hours full of rigorous musician ship and physically
college basketball coaches of all time be talking about? In this case, he is talking about something many people think is dying in this country. Truthfully, it’s actually thriving. Many people know it as marching band, but I know it as Drum Corps. Drum Corps was more than music; it was friendship, hard work, dedication, and emotion. It shaped my entire outlook on life from an early age and is one of the reasons I am where I am today. We were all working hard together as one towards something
The show starts out with long chords and dramatic pauses in the music, creating suspense and tension. Right away you are impressed by the musicians’ ability to convey drama and emotion. Eventually the corps comes together and a gigantic black tarp with the words “Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here” printed on it is pulled over them by the colorguard. This is a very effective tool that leaves no question where the show is headed. As the show progresses
piano, flute, trombone, and baritone. When John was 13, his father enlisted him in the Marine Corps Band so he wouldn’t join the circus, however he did play drums for Pt Barnum, the Circus King. John remained with the Marines until he was twenty years old. When John was no longer with the Marine Corps, he a pit orchestra. This is where John learned how to conduct. After that he went back to the Marine Corps as their head conductor for 12 years. He also led the “President's Own” band from Presidents
WGI Guard: Origins The national guard championships had occured during the summer at the DCI Drum and Bugle Corps Championships or at the National Contests of the American Legion and Veterans of Foregian Wars before 1977. One day on August 1977, the DCI Championships was held in a basement in Denver. The basement had columns in it so the performers had to manuver around them, while judges had to look around the obstructions. The basement also had no air conditioning as well. Despire the problems
independent motivation. Gym class offered and taught many, difficult and challenging ways to improve my physical abilities and endurance. I don’t participate in any school sports other than marching band, which is hardly considered a sport. I played bass drum in that, so that was working my leg, back, and shoulder muscles. Outside of school, I had a gym membership during the summer, and I didn’t really utilize it as much as I should have. When I did go to the gym I did the elliptical, then the little strength
watching every move and to see if everyone is on step or to grade the quality of the music. According to Musicedmagic, there are semi-professional organizations such as the Drum Corps International (DCI) that compete almost every night of the summer and according to Halftime Magazine, in 2005, ESPN2 broadcasted a video of the tenor drums player Jordan Thomas on how hard he worked. Also, I have searched on the ESPN page “marching band” and I found articles on marching bands there; and many people come to
DCI is pretty much professional marching band without the woodwind section. Drum Corps, opposed to its title, not only contains a drum line and a pit section, but also all brasswind instruments as well. All twenty-two of the existing DCI bands consist of approximately 200-300 members that have completed multiple rounds of auditions to make the band. After
not restricted, and holding an automatic rifle with an attached drum magazine. The other is an arm in a formal suit holding onto a drum mallet while the rest of the body is made up of a large musical drum. The arm of the convict represents crime in America. This is another example of Europeans viewing Americans as the villain. Along with all the racism in America, it is also chock-full of criminals. The automatic rifle with a large drum magazine is the face of American gangsters. This represents the