Marching Arts Education
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The Pacific Crest Color Guard Program
How to create a new direction and great success! Only a few vets had returned from 2018, but the staff and members collaborated at a high level to bring a new direction to the Pacific Crest color guard program.
The Pacific Crest Brass Program
Improve your brass section by miles in one year! The brass educational staff and members discuss the development of the 2019 brass program and its success.
The Pacific Crest Visual Program
Great advice on improving YOUR visual program! Pacific Crest staff and members discuss the concepts and strategies that brought such profound improvement to the corps.
River City Rhythm: Bringing Your Leadership to the Next Level
River City Rhythm alumni drum majors provide information on various topics including group culture, conflict resolution, mindset, and more to develop efficient, influential and talented leaders within your ensemble.
The Pacific Crest Percussion Program
Pacific Crest Percussion Caption Heads and members discuss the great improvement and how they made it happen.
Improving Our Social Emotional Well-Being From Home: A Drum Corps Model
Stephen Collins helps us take a look at many of the aspects of Drum Corps that we can use to find happiness right now.
River City Rhythm: Starting an Organization from the Ground Up
Bojan Hoover and Beau Hansen discuss how River City Rhythm started in 2009 with a small dream, and gradually grew into the multifaceted performing arts organization that it is today.
River City Rhythm: Advice and Strategies for New Designers
Mike McIntosh, Drew Shanefield, and other members of the River City Rhythm share advice and strategies for new designers in the marching arts.
Gold: I Want to March Drum Corps! Now What?
Bill Fritz and Ryan Johnson discuss the new drum corps performers, how to prepare, first-time marchers, brass for woodwind players, and stepping stones to the top drum corps in DCI.
Gold: The Percussion Audition Process – Demystified
Eric Shriver of Gold explains the individual audition and what to expect.
Gold: Applying Fundamentals to Choreography
Joey Valenzuela of Gold discusses blending body and equipment by applying fundamentals to choreography.
5 Years of Gold
We look back at four years of Gold shows, then discuss what's next, what's Gold's identity, how have they built their culture, and what can a student expect coming to Gold.
Movement for Musicians #2
Katie Hopkins and Conrad Isenhour from Marching Band Movement take you through an hour of warm-up, training, and choreography.
The Music City Brass Experience
This webinar features an interactive preview of Music City's digital brass book featuring breathing, buzzing, flexibility and a brief interview with staff and members.
Music City: Timing Tips and Primers for Superior Consistency
Jesus Sanchez of Music City shares an overview of how to improve your rhythmic accuracy and consistency by knowing what to listen for and when to listen for it.
Music City: Advice on Improving your Color Guard Technique
A look into the Music City Color Guard’s technique and training program.
Music City: Effective Design For Percussion Arranging
The program coordinator and percussion design team discuss the process of how to coordinate effective percussion arranging with visual ideas.
Seattle Cascades: Inside the Cascades Family
Get a look inside the corps from members’ perspectives, hear why they chose to march with the Cascades, and what it is about the corps that made them come back.
Seattle Cascades: Developing a Leadership Training Program From Scratch
Educational Director Dr. John Wilkerson and members discuss the corps' leadership training based on Jon Gordon’s book, “The Energy Bus.”
Seattle Cascades: Design Decisions After the Designing is Done
Seattle Cascades designers and instructional staff members explore the thought processes and logistics behind show changes in the middle of the season.