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 Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:12 pm
I do not understand it at all seeing as how i'm a highstepping marcher it looks kinda boring to me but i wanna know what yall ppl are talkin about with themes and stuff and y do u guys not turn ur bodies and are pit member actually part of the marching band seeing as they don't actually march. ....expain plz sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:57 pm
You can turn your body in corps style. You can go direction of travel, or backfield. And it's not at all boring. There isn't a show we've done in 5 years that isn't 180 bpm in the 1st and 3rd number.
And front ensemble (I'm quite picky about that. My sister, who was front ensemble section leader for two years, never let me call it 'pit.') is a part of marching band, but no they do not march.
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:30 pm
To be frank, I don't really understand high-stepping. xd
Our shows for half-time and competitions have a theme- this year, mine was the 80's, so we based our show around important events from then, such as the AIDS epidemic, the winter olympics, etc. Music was chosen and written for this, too.
Some bands will turn their bodies on the 45, or anything like that, but it's usually just facing front or backfield. While the technique itself doesn't look exciting, it's tough to perfect, and many shows are extremely fast tempos. There was a point last year in our show where the woodwinds were practically running backfield (with good marching technique, of course) for tons of sets.
As for pit, they're the ones who don't march. They're usually mallet instruments, drumsets, keyboard, and possibly electrical stuff, if your show has that. (My show this year had voice overs in parts of each movement, like the announcer from the winter olympics, Reagan's whole little speal about tearing down the wall, etc. It really put power into it.)
Here's a clip of my band at USSBA Nationals! /shamelessadvertising We're all over the field for a lot of it.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:26 am
Corps style does look kind of boring to me, honestly. Not that high step bands can't be boring too.
I do like the smoothness of the forms though. Our band is military style, so when we change formations we usually don't all get to our new spots at the same time. But we can still have some pretty cool corps-like effects with good charting.
I dunno, high step seems easier to me because we always face direction of travel (well, sometimes we joke around in rehearsal and do high step slides or backwards high step, haha). I would think it is definitely more physically demanding though...
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:32 am
It all depends on the person, I personally love corps style and when you see it at it's best like when you watch Avon, James Logan, Ayala, and Broken Arrow you might change your mind. Usually I think the high step marching band lacks my taste in marching band here are some corps style high schools James logan high 2009Avon 2009 Ayala BAC 2009Pride of Broken Arrow 2009
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:40 am
Mirienne Corps style does look kind of boring to me, honestly. Not that high step bands can't be boring too. I do like the smoothness of the forms though. Our band is military style, so when we change formations we usually don't all get to our new spots at the same time. But we can still have some pretty cool corps-like effects with good charting. I dunno, high step seems easier to me because we always face direction of travel (well, sometimes we joke around in rehearsal and do high step slides or backwards high step, haha). I would think it is definitely more physically demanding though... I can say that high step look less demanding than corps style for example blue devils 2009Imagine the memorizing power they have to do to get to that level and also the fact that they have to have precision control of marching also (like the high march style) It takes a lot to do corps style also
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:59 pm
momoXD569 Mirienne Corps style does look kind of boring to me, honestly. Not that high step bands can't be boring too. I do like the smoothness of the forms though. Our band is military style, so when we change formations we usually don't all get to our new spots at the same time. But we can still have some pretty cool corps-like effects with good charting. I dunno, high step seems easier to me because we always face direction of travel (well, sometimes we joke around in rehearsal and do high step slides or backwards high step, haha). I would think it is definitely more physically demanding though... I can say that high step look less demanding than corps style for example blue devils 2009Imagine the memorizing power they have to do to get to that level and also the fact that they have to have precision control of marching also (like the high march style) It takes a lot to do corps style also They sit down? In chairs?!! What a bunch of slackers!! wink I'm not saying corps style isn't hard. I've seen that ESPN bit and everything with the drummer with all the machines hooked up on him. Just that imagining that same show done in high step, it seems like it would be even harder than it already is. But meh, I've only ever done high step so I don't know what I'm talking about. Has anyone here done both? Your expert opinion is needed. Haha. That was an amazing show, btw. It almost makes me want to do corps next summer xD
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:14 pm
Mirienne momoXD569 Mirienne Corps style does look kind of boring to me, honestly. Not that high step bands can't be boring too. I do like the smoothness of the forms though. Our band is military style, so when we change formations we usually don't all get to our new spots at the same time. But we can still have some pretty cool corps-like effects with good charting. I dunno, high step seems easier to me because we always face direction of travel (well, sometimes we joke around in rehearsal and do high step slides or backwards high step, haha). I would think it is definitely more physically demanding though... I can say that high step look less demanding than corps style for example blue devils 2009Imagine the memorizing power they have to do to get to that level and also the fact that they have to have precision control of marching also (like the high march style) It takes a lot to do corps style also They sit down? In chairs?!! What a bunch of slackers!! wink I'm not saying corps style isn't hard. I've seen that ESPN bit and everything with the drummer with all the machines hooked up on him. Just that imagining that same show done in high step, it seems like it would be even harder than it already is. But meh, I've only ever done high step so I don't know what I'm talking about. Has anyone here done both? Your expert opinion is needed. Haha. That was an amazing show, btw. It almost makes me want to do corps next summer xD Ahaha The chairs were weird to me, idk why they used it, but If you can imagine how big a professional football field is... I am guard and was in band, There are bands who do corps style with high step but there is also straight leg marching that most of these corps use High Step is not preferable in corps because it is unreasonable to march at 160+ to your drill moves. The straight leg marching is hard to keep in a show because u have to avoid bending your leg by a lot so it doesn't just look like walking, there is also the parts in straight leg where u show the direct change of direction also. I am sure High step has a lot of technique in it to. biggrin James logan 2009 was a very tiring show to march. I am one of the rifles biggrin
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 12:55 am
momoXD569 Ahaha The chairs were weird to me, idk why they used it, but If you can imagine how big a professional football field is... I am guard and was in band, There are bands who do corps style with high step but there is also straight leg marching that most of these corps use High Step is not preferable in corps because it is unreasonable to march at 160+ to your drill moves. The straight leg marching is hard to keep in a show because u have to avoid bending your leg by a lot so it doesn't just look like walking, there is also the parts in straight leg where u show the direct change of direction also. I am sure High step has a lot of technique in it to. biggrin James logan 2009 was a very tiring show to march. I am one of the rifles biggrin Huh, the main reason I hear high step isn't preferable in corps is because all the bouncing around negatively affects the sound, compared to roll step. We don't do straight leg though. It's kind of funny, we get taught all this really specific technique for high step, and then we get to military and they tell us "yeah, this is basically walking." xD That's quite an impressive show! Those rifles are insane, I can see why it'd be tiring. And that's so awesome that you did Rite of Spring. Man, I wish we had done competitions at my high school.
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:54 am
Mirienne momoXD569 Ahaha The chairs were weird to me, idk why they used it, but If you can imagine how big a professional football field is... I am guard and was in band, There are bands who do corps style with high step but there is also straight leg marching that most of these corps use High Step is not preferable in corps because it is unreasonable to march at 160+ to your drill moves. The straight leg marching is hard to keep in a show because u have to avoid bending your leg by a lot so it doesn't just look like walking, there is also the parts in straight leg where u show the direct change of direction also. I am sure High step has a lot of technique in it to. biggrin James logan 2009 was a very tiring show to march. I am one of the rifles biggrin Huh, the main reason I hear high step isn't preferable in corps is because all the bouncing around negatively affects the sound, compared to roll step. We don't do straight leg though. It's kind of funny, we get taught all this really specific technique for high step, and then we get to military and they tell us "yeah, this is basically walking." xD That's quite an impressive show! Those rifles are insane, I can see why it'd be tiring. And that's so awesome that you did Rite of Spring. Man, I wish we had done competitions at my high school. That is also true because most untrained marchers would end up bouncing especially marching at the allegro speeds. My band director said that we always have to look superhuman in a show XD and my guard director says we also have to impress. Yea we did XD I am one of the few guard ppl that know that cuz I was in band last year It's really sad XD And it's a lot of fun to do marching shows. I want to try them all biggrin DDD
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:19 pm
our band is corps style, basically unless we have a follow the leader formation we are always facing thesideline, during standstills, strictly on the 50, why? because it is a directional factor, it projects the sound at your audience more effectively.
I mean no disrespect, but i never really understood high stepping.EDIT: example: This is for informational purposes only. im not advertising.
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