Blue Stars Videos, Interviews, and Webinars
We give you access to the top designers, instructors, and marchers at the Blue Stars Drum & Bugle Corps, with behind the scenes videos, interviews, webinars, and podcasts! Pictured is Tim Hinton with the 2019 Blue Stars Brass Instruction Team, taken at the Rockford Show of Shows. The Marching Roundtable is an Official Media Partner of Drum Corps International.
Blue Stars Brass Share Tips on Preparing for the Season
Online tools, coordinating and equipping your staff, warm-ups and sectionals, plus building relationships across captions.
1015: Blue Stars Brass Share Tips on Preparing for the Season
Online tools, coordinating and equipping your staff, warm-ups and sectionals, plus building relationships across captions.
Blue Stars – The Visual Program Cheat Sheets: A Helpful Guide
Blue Stars Visual Staff members Kyle Castro and Roger Marquis discuss concise concepts and techniques to take any program to the next level visually.
Blue Stars: Making Sectionals Count
Get more done in less time! Join Blue Stars Brass Caption Head Travis Larson to learn how to equip your staff and students to run efficient and effective sectionals.
Blue Stars: Modern Visual Design – How to Stay Relevant as a Band Director
Blue Stars Visual Staff members Aaron Barnes, Kevin Ford, and Luke Zamprelli discuss the tools that every band director should know to translate the visual intent to your students and audience.
Blue Stars: Behind the Scenes of a World Class Drum Corps
Blue Stars Admin Team, with special guest Chef Sue Wilson, discuss the ins and outs of spring training, tour life, and all things drum corps.
Blue Stars 2019 Helping Performers Be In Character
Doug Hall of the Blue Stars Visual Instructional Staff explains how he helps the performers embody the concept of the show by embracing and performing a character they create themselves.
Blue Stars 2019 Teaching Choreography and Movement
Kris Gailbreath of the Blue Stars Visual Instructional Staff explains how he teaches choreography and movement to the corps members, including sharing tips you can use with your own group for greater success.
Blue Stars 2019 Teaching The Tubas
Michael Post of the Blue Stars Brass Instructional Staff shares behind-the-scenes information about how they get great performances from the tubas in the corps. We discuss special issues around breathing and the greater responsibilities and efforts required by those carrying this largest brass instrument while marching today's demanding drills.
Blue Stars 2019 Teaching the Hornline
Jay Sconyers of the Blue Stars Brass Instructional Staff discusses the plan mid-season to continue to detail the show, build on the technique from the winter, and perfect the show as much as possible.