Benefits of marching band
Benefits of being in marching band
I’m doing my paper on the benefits of being in Marching Band. Parents, students and teacher’s say it’s good to be in Marching Band. What they say is that Musicians do better at everything, Marching band is great exercise for the exercise-averse, Band kids are the best kids, period. People say that band students have a better memory, because most students have to memorize the music. Having to learn about two hundred different scales and play them from memory is difficult but not impossible. Nothing changes, you just go up by steps or half steps, the end. It’s tedious but easily learned. Try standing up in front of the whole class trying to play, and then listen to the thirty other kids in the class suck just as bad as you
Bands are intensely competitive against other bands. This was true when the marching band had competitions and when the concert band played against other high schools. Bands hate other bands -- and that’s not enough. Sections hate other sections. Trombones hate trumpets and aren’t fond of tubas or French horns either. Flutes hate clarinets. Saxophones hate flutes. Tubas hate flutes and trumpets. Everyone hates the baritones. Everyone loves the drummers though.
Band taught me how to work as a team, but it also taught me how to take responsibility for myself. It had to. When you’re music teacher gets down to making you play one by one, you can blame the flat note on anybody else. Because the people in the marching band and concert band came from all walks and all cliques, you learned to get along. There were people I couldn’t stand until they joined the band, and then, at the very least, we became respectful of one another. There’s something to be said for managing to learn that in high school. Another good thing about being in Marching band, is when you first start band you get to choose your own instrument that you want to play. Your band teacher doesn’t assign you an instrument; you get to choose
I’m doing my paper on the benefits of being in Marching Band. Parents, students and teacher’s say it’s good to be in Marching Band. What they say is that Musicians do better at everything, Marching band is great exercise for the exercise-averse, Band kids are the best kids, period. People say that band students have a better memory, because most students have to memorize the music. Having to learn about two hundred different scales and play them from memory is difficult but not impossible. Nothing changes, you just go up by steps or half steps, the end. It’s tedious but easily learned. Try standing up in front of the whole class trying to play, and then listen to the thirty other kids in the class suck just as bad as you
Bands are intensely competitive against other bands. This was true when the marching band had competitions and when the concert band played against other high schools. Bands hate other bands -- and that’s not enough. Sections hate other sections. Trombones hate trumpets and aren’t fond of tubas or French horns either. Flutes hate clarinets. Saxophones hate flutes. Tubas hate flutes and trumpets. Everyone hates the baritones. Everyone loves the drummers though.
Band taught me how to work as a team, but it also taught me how to take responsibility for myself. It had to. When you’re music teacher gets down to making you play one by one, you can blame the flat note on anybody else. Because the people in the marching band and concert band came from all walks and all cliques, you learned to get along. There were people I couldn’t stand until they joined the band, and then, at the very least, we became respectful of one another. There’s something to be said for managing to learn that in high school. Another good thing about being in Marching band, is when you first start band you get to choose your own instrument that you want to play. Your band teacher doesn’t assign you an instrument; you get to choose