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What do yall think of a femboy in marching band I am curious as a femboy in marching band wanna know what yall think

What are some of the best drum corps memes

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I'm wanting to get my name known for drumline composition, if anybody has a spare musescore marching band show with winds, I'm willing to write drums for it.

Hello, I am considering auditioning for Tenor (quad) drums for my schools next marching season. I am a girl, 5'2 and weigh about 120 pounds. If I make it, do you think I would be able to carry the drums on my back efficiently? I know I may have some trouble when first starting, but I'm just wondering if it is possible for me.

I’m going into my senior year next year and have been a proud member of my school’s marching band since 8th grade. Ever since freshman year, I’ve thought being drum major would be an awesome experience, and I feel like I have the leadership skills and musicianship for the position.

At the same time, I really love marching and playing trombone, and I don’t want to give that up. My band director told me I’m definitely qualified and would be one of the strongest choices for drum major, but he also said taking me off the field would be a big musical loss for the band. Typically though, in my band woodwinds are drum majors, although my band is smaller and there might not be anyone else that will audition, so there is a chance I'm guaranteed the spot.

So now I’m stuck between the opportunity to lead as drum major or continue to march and perform with my section. I’d appreciate any advice from people who’ve been in a similar situation.

I will be moving to a new school next semester.

My old school is VERY strict about the dress code; no unnatural hair dye, no facial piercings, and hair length has a limit for men… etc etc.

The new school I will be transferring to will be the total opposite! I’m planning on getting a facial piercing (either a Monroe or two nose piercings) but I’m not sure if it’ll affect my playing…
(p.s I play the clarinet)

(Sorry for bad grammar my first language isn’t English.)

I’m auditioning for drum major after previously being Asst drum major last season, both me and the previous head are auditioning for it. Part of the audition involves an original salute. Our show this year is time travel themed so I was wondering if I should maybe turn my arms like clock hands in my salute.

I though swapping from marching tenor bone to bass bone would be an easy transition but not really and I need helpppp 😛

Here's the things that I'm struggling with (idk what y'all call these things so I'm going to clarify every term I use):

For the record, we unfortunetly don't do actual shows so I'll only ask for help on parade stuff

During cadences when only drumline plays, we do these things we call horn flairs, which is where we move our instruments along to the beat. With a regular tenor trombone, the main tuning slide part goes inbetween your body and your arm and you hold the slide with your right arm, and it's pretty comfortable. The thing is with a bass, that little tuning slide chunk is a lot thicker, and my arm is constantly at like a 30 degree angle when I try to do what I regularly do, and the rest of the horn is jagged when pointing outwards as well. Making it really uncomfortable

During state fair and football games we have a command of 'parade rest' which is where we put our left arm behind our back, our left leg steps out a little, and we look down at a slight angle. During that, tenor bones usually just let the horn hand down of their right side, upside down, with the slide horizonal, with all of the weight on your hand. This isn't really a problem for short rests, but during longer ones, it feels like my thumb is going to become dislocated from the weight of my bass bone and I REALLY need a different way to hold it.

Also since I'm like the first person to ever march bass bone in the ensemble, NONE of our music has a bass bone part, so I do think it's a good call to be adopted by the sousa part, since for some reason when I try to play high, even with a tenor mouthpiece, on my bass, my chops abandon me.

I’m a trans man in my schools marching band and I just got accepted as one of the drum majors for next years season! (yay me!) I was wondering if I can bind during camp and shows and stuff or if I should just wear binding tape? The thing is that trans tape has been leaving scars the last few times I’ve used it and I just prefer to bind anyway. It’s not a problem to do either way but no one in my real life has been very helpful💔I’ve been in drumline in the past so I know marching band can get pretty tiring at times but going from bass drum to drum major is a bit of a jump, at least in my band. Also if anyone has any further advice for being drum major it would be greatly appreciated!

so recently I posted on advice for marching band since I’m new and starting in the summer and a lot of you gave good advice but if I put it shortly, I wanna know about the athletic part of it. I know marching band requires a lot of your athlete side of you and let’s just say I’m not the most athletic person out there so I wanna know what kinda i guess “athletic stuff” your school does for marching band so I can get an idea.

Looking for prop ideas for a show that has this description:

A conflict is coming. Every new technological advancement brings benefits laced with risks. Will the next step forward bring about the inevitable clash between humans and technology? Can artificial intelligence subdue the human spirit? Will humanity fend off the threat of sentient technology? Or… will the organic and artificial merge and become one?

I’ve seen some pretty generic ones like frame boards with an image of a human hand converging with a an image of a robotic hand but that seems too easy and not very impactful.

Let me know if you have any suggestions that aren’t too expensive. We are a really small band from a low income area so we can’t afford much.