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September 05, 2008, 01:57 PM ET
U. of Texas Web Site Offers Marching-Band Basics
Sure, you enjoy watching those flashy halftime shows by big universities’ marching bands—lots of brass, lots of snare drums, lots of Sousa. But unless you’ve been in a band yourself, you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how much effort goes into preparing each performance.
The Web site of the Longhorn Band at the University of Texas at Austin starts to put the process into perspective. The site offers a series of smartly-produced QuickTime videos demonstrating basic marching moves that would-be band members need to know before they audition for the 350-student ensemble. Slides, turns, marching backwards — band members need to know not only a lot of moves, but also how to follow the very precise directions that link the moves together into choreographed performances. And that’s all before anyone’s played a single note.
Add music, a football field, and 94,000 spectators, and you’ve got yourself a show.—Lawrence Biemiller
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