The key to a great marching band show is the music composition selection. There are a couple of questions that you need to bear in mind when choosing a marching band composition.
1. What’s your target audience? Community, football fans, you yourself, students?
2. After your audience movies out, will they be singing, humming or whistling a part of the music from the show? In case of original compositions this is very likely to happen.
3. Is your marching band composition going to make someone feel happy or excited?
4. Will you have volunteers from the audience wanting to join you?
5. Is the music composition versatile? Meaning does it have all elements of emotions for the audience to connect?
6. Is the composition the most important part of your show, your band’s strength maybe? If so, then one has to make conscious effort to make the effect visible too.
7. The instrumentation has to be balanced. Having the artistes to switch instruments to help the band ‘sound’ is integral. It is suggested that one sousaphone should be used for every two trumpets. Ideally saxophones make a great transition to sousaphone. Similarly flutes make a great transition to Melloney/French horn.
8. Also, a balanced woodwind presence is very important. if the music also has a woodwind feature, then it is an added advantage.
9. The bands that have their own arranger and drill writer, co-ordination with them is mandatory.
The stock arrangements from the ‘marching show concepts’ often offer different difficulty levels in both the music and the drill.
1. What’s your target audience? Community, football fans, you yourself, students?
2. After your audience movies out, will they be singing, humming or whistling a part of the music from the show? In case of original compositions this is very likely to happen.
3. Is your marching band composition going to make someone feel happy or excited?
4. Will you have volunteers from the audience wanting to join you?
5. Is the music composition versatile? Meaning does it have all elements of emotions for the audience to connect?
6. Is the composition the most important part of your show, your band’s strength maybe? If so, then one has to make conscious effort to make the effect visible too.
7. The instrumentation has to be balanced. Having the artistes to switch instruments to help the band ‘sound’ is integral. It is suggested that one sousaphone should be used for every two trumpets. Ideally saxophones make a great transition to sousaphone. Similarly flutes make a great transition to Melloney/French horn.
8. Also, a balanced woodwind presence is very important. if the music also has a woodwind feature, then it is an added advantage.
9. The bands that have their own arranger and drill writer, co-ordination with them is mandatory.
The stock arrangements from the ‘marching show concepts’ often offer different difficulty levels in both the music and the drill.
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