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.
Seattle Cascades: Imagine the Future
Cascades Board members and Admin members discuss where they are and where their vision for the future.
Blue Knights: Keeping Your Membership Engaged
Jordan Helwerda, Austin Greene, and Daniel Belcher present an interactive conversation about the strategies and procedures they have used to great success, and which you can adopt for your own group!
Guardians: What Does It Mean To Be “Open Class?”
The Guardians present a discussion on what actually makes a drum corps open class, and what the difference is between this distinction and other levels of the marching arts.
Guardians: The Corps Conflict
The Guardians interview a band director, addressing students marching drum corps in high school and their eventual return to their scholastic program.
Guardians: Hiring Service-Oriented Staff and Why That Is Important
Guardians discuss their hiring practices, what they look for in support-staff roles, and how they utilize them. They also discuss the importance of having a diverse staff to meet the needs of a diverse membership.