Marching Band

“This year’s show design process for the Wyandotte Marching Chiefs of Roosevelt HS was a circuitous path to the final product. The original concept was built around the “In the Arena” quotes and was supposed to support a gladiator theme and…
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Steve Martin Composer/Designer- GPG Music Publications Roosevelt HS Marching Band, Mark DeAngelo, Director 2011 Show  "Heros and Villains" BLOG > "Mid-Season Evaluation" As a benefit of the amazing technology available to us,…
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Get Inside The Box — And win! Randy T. Gilmore I recently saw a comic depicting a boss pointing at a subordinate saying, “You get back to your cubicle and start thinking outside the box!” Other than being an obvious oxymoron, you can…
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"First Thoughts"  The 2011 Wyandotte Marching Chiefs show is entitled "Heroes & Villains". This year, the Wyandotte design team was struggling a bit with the concept development and asked me if I had any shows that I wanted to write.…
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Cope Your Way to a Stress-free Life By Randy Gilmore, Marching Show Concepts, Inc. First published in Fanfare, Volume 21, Issue 3, Spring/Summer 2007. Reprinted by permission. This time of year finds many of us weighed down and…
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Be Remarkable! By Randy Gilmore, Marching Show Concepts, Inc. First printed in Fanfare, Vol. 22, Issue 1, Autumn 2007.  Reprinted by permission. Marching bands can hardly help but be noticed. People instinctively turn their heads…
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It's Your Story...Stick With It! By Randy T. Gilmore, Marching Show Concepts, Inc. Originally published in The Bandmasters Review Online, September 2008 - volume 10 - issue 1. Reprinted by permission. Even though the Olympics are…
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What did You Say? The hallmark of effective teaching is based on successful communication. The basis of successful communication is intrinsically bound to our use of words. Words have power. Rudyard Kipling goes so far as to say, “Words…
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Going the Extra Mile By Randy T. Gilmore Our inner drive to “be the best,” to run farther, jump higher, have the best band program, or do anything better than ‘the other guy’ is ingrained in us as children. You never see a…
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Checklist for Success for Your Upcoming Marching Band Season Last fall, after I had just finished judging state marching band finals in another state, it got me thinking about what I would tell each of the band directors of the groups…
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Marching Band “Kickoff Rehearsal” Visual Teaching Progression Jeff Young This teaching progression is designed for the very first marching band rehearsal of the year, typically in late spring or early summer. This may seem…
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Techniques for Drawing Focus Scott Kurtzweil Sounds of the Desert Music: Lawrence of Arabia, Sandstorm from Hidalgo & Caravan In the last installment of this series, we discussed basic design elements with regard to…
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