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 Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:27 pm
This year we have a new band director who has no experience with directing marching bands. It's awful. Last year, we had drill charts. It was very neat and gave us a visualization of the show. It told us which way to march, how many counts, exact position, and everything else you can think of. Our new band director gave us a small piece of paper with the directions written out. It doesn't tell us which way to march. I don't know if I'm supposed to be marching backwards or slide stepping. It's not clear at all. It doesn't give exact counts and doesn't specify anything important. My opening position is "0.75 steps outside left 35 yd ln and 6.75 steps in front of visitor hash home side." It doesn't make sense whatsoever. The hashes on our band field do not match up with the hashes on the football field this year. They did last year. He made up something called "zero points" and put them about 10 inches in front of each hash and said they were where the hashes would be on the football field. Just how bad is your band director?
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:31 pm
That's really weird. We use drill charts, but we write the coordinates in our dot books for when we're marching on the field with instruments, usually after we've learned the drill. Our dot books are mainly for if we're jumping around from different parts of the show.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:32 pm
We used drill charts my freshman year.
Sophomore year we got those little cards you're talking about -- they were a disaster. Our BD decided not to print out 350 copies of everything for everyone; section leaders and field commanders had drill charts. (They ended up giving everyone drill charts for one song that had some pretty complex moves, though.)
Junior year we went back to drill charts.
This year we'll probably get drill charts again.
I hope.
We won't get them until band camp.
Our director is epic; she's been teaching at my school for 25 years and has never gotten anything less than straight superior ratings at marching festival -- even when she taught at other schools.
She knows who you are, what instrument you play, and how well you play it before you even leave middle school. It's ridiculous.
She's an incredible person; everyone respects her.
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:29 am
My high school had drill charts and we would create dot books, with whatever info we needed. My college had drill charts, too. We were required to print them ourselves, though. It took forever. And we hardly used them. We moved so fast, we only got to look at them for about a minute when learning drill, and that was about it.
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:23 pm
We used to use drill books but now, the last 2 years we use lanyards. A card with my positions in a necklace that goes around our neck so it is easy to march and find your spots. We had dots in our practice marching field it makes so much easier because you know how long each step is.
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:08 pm
We use charts, yes. And we have the weirdest drill show ever. The drill charts make it easier, and I get better in math. Well, it really doesn't help, since in drill, you use your bodies, and in charts in math, you use your arms on paper. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:21 am
we use drill charts or at least we did,no one knows what's going to happen with our new BD. D:
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:51 pm
We use really nice drill charts. It's weird that your MARCHING band director has no experience with MARCHING band.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:24 am
We use to use them, but we decided it takes too much time.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:38 am
We use coordiantes. Facing the press box, left is North and right is South. The field is divided up into squares like a coordinate plane. If your coordinates say Chart 1. N45 4.0, 3.7 Front of Front Hash, then you'll go to the 45 on the left side of the 50, go the the front Hash mark, march four steps (using an 8:5 step) of the left side of the line, and about four up. That's your spot for that set. After everybody gets ot their spot, he tells us the counts (we are supposed to have a pencil to write that down) and we practice marching from the previous spot to that one. We are supposed to automatically know whether to slide or backwords march to the spot. If we have trouble, then he tells us what to do.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:53 pm
We do we do. We get the show stapled together then we get page protectors and put them in a binder and wear the binder like a purse so it's easy to carry.
In our drill charts we have a grid. Each square is four steps. We have no special direction cuz that would be "too complicated for the band."
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:30 pm
we tried drill charts and it went somewhat okay but it did confuse alot when we first started.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:46 pm
My band teacher has been teaching at my school for 15 years. Got no problem with him except that he forgets little things every now and then.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:52 pm
We use 1 drill book with all of our drill in it and use it for the whole entire season and then we burn them.
I also remember we used lanyards and they also included the holds and everyone got confused we them.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:03 pm
my band uses drill charts and we
plot ourselves in dot books.
But, to save our instruments, when
learning our drill the first few tries
we march with our drill and spray
paint this football feild with spraypaint.
Each section gets a different color.
It's still hard to tell whose dot is whose.
After a while we foret about the dots and
actually march with our intruments
It's very effective.
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