During marching band you have to be
able to play all of the music without needing the sheet of music in front of
you. You have to memorize the whole show because you don’t have a break where
you can go and take a quick look at your music if you forgot part of it, you
just have to keep going through the show until the end without stopping.
Most of the time there is about 3
or 4 different pieces of music in one marching band show. It all depends on what
the show is and what the director wants to put in the show. And it also depends
on how long the songs are and how fast you have them going.
Memorizing your music is a MUST, it
is very hard to make through a show if you don’t know it, for a couple different
reasons. For example many people know where they are supposed to be on the
field by where they are in the music, it is kind of like a que in a way.
Also knowing your music and where
it changes tempo or dynamics is a big thing, cause if the music slows down then
so does the marching and if you don’t know where that is then you are not gonna
know the marching slows down as well so you will stand out.
You also have memory tests with one
of the directors during marching band, usually during the first or second week
of school. If you don’t know the music there is a big possibility that you will
fail you’re playing tests and there are multiple tests for everything. So if
you fail you’re playing tests there is a big chance that you will not pass the
class with a very good grade. And it is not easy to fail band. So just do
yourself a favor and memorize the music.
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