Honor Bands

Every year there are many chances to make it into honor bands, although they are really hard to get into and take a lot of work, they are extremely worth it. Some of them are just a weekend thing and you stay in a hotel like UNI and ISU Honor Bands.

There are others that last two days, usually two weekends; you go in one day and have rehearsal all day and then the next weekend you usually go back for the concert, such as Coe College. High school honor bands are a lot different from honor bands in middle school.

In middle school when you make an honor band, it basically only takes up one day, you usually go to the school in the morning and practice all day and have lunch there in between practice times, and have the concert in the same day later at night. There are many different middle school honor bands although many people don’t make it into them.

There is different ways to get into middle school and high school honor band. For example when you are in middle school, in order to get into an honor band your director has to tell them that you would be good for it. While in high school you have to fill out an application on your own and give it to your band director and they turn it in for you.

Honor bands are a lot of fun and are really worth it, you learn a lot, become a better player, and you even meet a lot of people from a lot of different places. So if you are in band and haven’t been in honor bands, it’s worth trying it.