A Day in the Life of A Drum Major
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2015
- This is just one kind of day a drum major may face at our school but hope y'all enjoy! And lock your lockers :)
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You used to lock your lockers but now you don't, what happened? :( 
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"But I'm a Sophomore"
"Look at all these fish" "but I'm a sophomore" 😂😂👌🏻👌🏻
😂😂😂right
I wish my days are 7 minutes and 49 seconds long.
LMAO sammeeeeee
Uh well actually if you only had 7 minutes and 49 seconds in your day than you would be 70 in only 154 days, and that’s only one marching season, as someone who’s simultaneously trying to learn how to play there instrument and walk, therefore I believe you should rethink your decision, thank you for attending my TED talk.
*"ROACHES, GET AWAY"*
Woodwinds... I just... I have no words.. they're a special section lmao
KaylaxKyuquot Studios agreeable 😂😂
flutes dont need reeds, we need earplugs so we dont go deaf in our right ear ;D
I'm a woodwind and I know we're special 😂
But, the sousophone that talks through his mouth piece is the most special
I'm a woodwind
Those are some good sounding clarinet players. I'm a section leader of 19 clarinets and about three of them are actually audible at any given time. I'm not sure the others even know their parts, despite the multiple tests and sectionals...
Thank you! And I'm sorry to hear that, your efforts are not to waste though, there are many factors that go into having good sounding players (teaching, environment, the player's determination/focus/willpower) so don't feel too down about your section! I'm sure you're a wonderful section leader so don't be too hard on yourself!
LPSBeauty Productions SAME, but I myself play tenor.
LPSBeauty Productions ayyyy me too
Haha my band has 58 clarinets including me
I Can't Think of a Username OH MY GOSH
"My eyes are itchy."
LMAO
Lizbeth V yeah that's me ;)
"Look at all these fish!"
"I'm a sophomore.."
Bwahahaah the struggleeeeee lol
When your school doesnt support you even tho you're the state champion and you have to use THE JUNIOR PARKING LOT WITH FRESH BLACK ASPHALT
We don't even have a senior lot, this year it's the marching band field because of construction
Sam uh same 😂
Schools have some complete control where bands can practice...When I was in, back in 1973-76, we had our own 50- yard patch of ground in front of the school...same with my daughter ,1998-2002...Now, with school expanding, the current band uses the student parking lot before and after school and uses the football field for final polishing of the field shows...it is really hard for some bands to find enough space to practice marching....
4:08 shoutout to whoever was playing woods
Blooooooo
he wasn't talking about woodwinds, he was referring to the actual song, woods
The fact that you called your Log Ranger "Poop" kills me! It reminds me of ours that caught on fire last year. 😅
OMG!! How did it catch on fire?? That's crazy!!
I swear, every band director I know drives a Ford, and so does this guy (given, I only know, like 6). It's like the standard band director vehicle.
Klein Baird mine actually drives a tundra lol
Accurate
Klein Baird lol your right my band director drives a ford
Accurate for me as well.
Klein Baird rob Kelly woah how do you know lol I know 4 band directors and they all drive fords lol that like 10 band directors since I live in Texas Brownsville and you probably don’t live where I live
oh my god your band facilities are beautifulI'm so glad that there are schools where arts get more funding!! It makes me so happy to see ~~ you seem like a great DM, too! You were really positive the entire time, which is so great!! Do you have any tips for learning to conduct?
Wow, thank you so much! Our district supports the fine arts greatly and we really try our best to take care of the facilities given to us. I'm glad it makes you happy, it makes me happy that you're happy! (lmao) Again, thank you for the compliment! Learning how to conduct is best learned from previous drum majors or your band directors! One on one action is the best and I recommend that over watching conducting videos since everyone has different areas they need to work on. A few general tips for conducting would be to always practice in front of a mirror and mark where your hands should be hitting. I know for different schools there are different styles and preferences so always keep that in mind as your practicing! I always liked to keep a sharp defined ictus and motion of my arms, 4/4 being a distinct arrow, 3/4 similar to a check, etc because it's easier to follow for the band. (again, this is just our band's/my personal preference) I wish you the best of luck in learning how to conduct and feel free to ask more questions if you have any!
@@alwaysvalerierae This is so helpful! I'm trying out next Monday (from home via recording lol), but there's so much to it. I'm still marking the master scores of all 3 movements.
What do you expect...Carmel, Calfornia...the place reeks $$$$$$.....The school district probably has a very health budget AND some real generous band donors....bless them,,,
Holy Hell your band place thing is huge! I don't think I can call it a room if it has hallways! At my school we have one small room designated to the band, just wow, much beautiful
Oh wow, yeah, I am really grateful for the facility we had! Our school has over 4,000 kids so you can imagine the size of the school itself. I'm sure your band room is a very comfortable/home-y place! (unless you have to cram a whole bunch of sweaty bodies in it)
I know right. Band hall is amazing. I see it as a VIP lounge for band and guard.😂😂😂😂
TheSoupIsGone yeah my band room is smol 2. We have a “hallway” with the band room, choir room, and a teacher planning and 2 other classrooms. But it’s called the band hallway because no one else goes into that hallway. My band is actually crazy and no one likes going in there. To us it’s home, to them it’s like a mental asylum 😂. Kids are scared to go down there apparently lmao. They ask me how I do it. I’m like, boi band kids are the best. It’s like having 50+ new family members (not for my school, but for the other schools in my area). Yeah, some of us it’s a love-hate relationship, but you can talk to anyone in there.
@@DragonLover-hb7pz for real tho, i have a band hall, with the offices and practice rooms, and the neading to the auditorium are all of our lockers. i have never seen that hallway with no band kid.
we just have a hallway by are auditorium that is just all encompassing of our performing arts, it's where the choir room, both band rooms, dressing room, and practice rooms are
that hallway is where you spend most of your time if your a fine arts kid
it's honestly interesting to see how schools and bands are so different from one another.
Also, any tips on how to become a drum major with crippling anxiety/social anxiety?
Fire Blaze It’s really hard to be a drum major under those circumstances since you have to interact with the whole band but it’s definitely not impossible. Start by getting your body and mind used to interaction with groups of people and slowly try to increase it. Befriend or meet a lot of people in your band, you can do this one on one. There are definitely aspects of being a drum major that is behind the scenes! Let your director(s) know, if you’re comfortable with that, and let them know that you won’t let it hinder your audition!
Have faith! I believe in you! Good luck :)
ValerieRae1960 thanks man I’m really trying to get drum major for next year but as a tuba and a dude(my band director prefers girls) I’m trying everthing to get a lead/advantage so I’m always looking out for tips like thesw
Some schools, depending on the administration support ,totallly blow the band program off and focus on the football /basketball teams...all about the money....Band is EXPENSIVE...many bands have yearly band fees up to $500 / student, and that is NOT counting extra fund raising....uniforms, instrument repair, music, marching instructors for drum and flag lines do not come cheap...the yearly competition show program is a small fortune...material for the flags , the list goes on and on...even small bands, up to 80 kids, can cost about $50,000 per marching season...and that's bare-bones budget...I have been a volunteer for over 20 years..I have fees go from $50 /year...my days....to $500 /year NOW...school districts in my area allow only $2,000 /band a year for budget ...yep....that's it in my area of the State....Back in the day bands were about 120 kids.....now you are LUCKY to get one with 65 -80...on a good day....Bless our music directors !!!
on my last day of school I was ranked to Head drum major am very happy scared nervous
It's a wonderful experience! It's only natural to be nervous but as long as you know the music by heart then you'll be fine! Never stop conducting!
+ValerieRae1960 Any advice for any sound "delay" in the field? It messes up my conducting which makes me slow down my conducting
During practices/performances watch the section leader of the battery/ head snare drum players feet, if you can't see their feet, I recommend watching their hands. It's important to establish a secure relationship between you and them for you both keep time for the band and you guys should watch each other so there is never a tear. On your down time, I recommend practicing with this website to ensure your abilities to keep time: bestdrumtrainer.com/tt/ Sometimes you have to always believe/think you're right because your ears will always deceive you! Best of luck and I hope this helps a bit!
You big schools, with multiple drum majors and lockers, we have wooden cubbies and a single drum major.
Klein Baird what the hell you only have one drum major???
Our football coach kicks us off the field and doesn't even let's us finish out exercise or anything
Phoebe Fleming I'm sorry to hear that :( I hope the relationship between the band and football team gets better!!
Phoebe Fleming i feel that one
Phoebe Fleming we have practices in the morning for this reason
I'm drum major of my marching band this upcoming season, and I'm so excited!! I really enjoyed this video! :)
+Megan Foster Thank you so much! I hope your marching season is amazing!
good luck😄
megan foster same
"No one likes Julio."
Tbh 👐😂
ValerieRae1960 i love your style of vlogs btw
Aww thank you so much!! Means a lot :')
ValerieRae1960 omg ur so welcome!!!
I felt that
you guys must have a shit ton of money like holy shit. my high school band has like none of that cool stuffs. let alone a stadium
Our band is poor, we have really bad wooden things for our instruments not cool lockers, but at least we don't have to lock them :) nice video
Thank you for watching and also for commenting! It really helps give different perspectives!
I'm in a small town high school and we have 16 people in our band. we don't have a drum major but my band director has been hinting it slightly towards me because our band is kinda getting bigger.
Definitely try and do it, especially since he may be hinting at it! No matter how small a band, there is always a need for a leader, whether it is a drum major or not. It is a wonderful experience!!
At least your football coaches are nice to let you guys use the stadium. Our director has to fight every year just so we can have one or two days in the stadium. We have to practice on a blacktop every other day.
Carmen Fox I'm sorry to hear that :(
Carmen Fox us too
Carmen Fox we have our feild, we are aloud to practice on the feild some days and we almost never have to practice practice in black top😂
same for us, our football team is garbage on and off the field.
Listen i burn 100% of the time bc they just paved our black top for the first time since my DAD was in hs. Like. We neeeeed the fiellld
Omg I love this!! For our band when we want to get their attention we say "Hey band" and they say "Hey what" and they'll usually get quiet!! 😂
Nolan goodwin that’s cool!!
This was a very cute video, yet I still understood what it is to be a drum major. Thank you for this :) I'll be thinking of this video all season lol
I'm glad it has made an impact on you! Thanks!!! :)
I'm a drum major from Crosby! We saw your show yesterday and you guys did amazing!
Thank you for your kind words and support!!
Np😊
Brooke Embry you probably won’t see this, but crosby high school in texas??
"There walking quite a distance away". Those brothers were social distancing before it was cool.
And our football coach does not let us step foot on the field unless we are performing our show or doing the national anthem. We march in a parking lot 99% of the time. Our practice is right after school so we just have to pray that all the cars are leaving but if not we just march over cars. If it rains we have to stack chairs in the auditorium and lay down masking tape for yard lines.
We are very blessed to have a nice understanding coach. Our rehearsals are usually in a parking lot that we call the grid. When it rains, we stop learning drill and go inside and just focus on music until we can go back outside!
I like how you can hear a clarinet messing around in the background pretty much the enitre time
I SAW BASS CLARINETS!!! I was happy lol
I was watching and I saw the stadium and was like I KNOW THAT STADIUM! That’s so cool that I happen to know your band. Your band is really good! Always excited when our football teams play so I can hear y’all!
Its Me awww thank you so much!! Means a lot :)
Bass clarinets for life. I'm a bass clarinet section leader of a section of 6 basses, 3 Bari saxes, and 2 tenor saxes. Shoutout to low winds
I was at that stadium last week for the Galena Park Marching Festival.
Hope you had fun!! It's such a small world!!
in texas,right?
This was a cute video. It's cool to see another drum majors view on how they do things
Thank you!!! :) I do wish that I did a few more of these to show different days (since we do different things on different days but for the most part, it's the same) before I graduated high school but oh well :')
YASS BASS CLARINET
You guys have an amazing band room, I was absolutely amazed by the quality, size, and overall building space provided to the band program.
Thank you so much! We are very fortunate to have such an amazing facility and supportive administrative personnel!!
“look at all these fish” *bUt iM a SoPHmOrE*
Weird flex but 👌🏾 😂
“Look at all these fish”
“But I’m a sophomore “
NO WAY!! I performed here at Galena Park last Saturday and won 1st place 6A
Any tips for wanting to become drum major next? Like getting more known around the band, and how to handle a whole band that big
Shout out to Mellophones. I am a Sophomore Mellophone player. We are the misunderstood instrument.
What band are you. I am part of the Blythewood High School Blue Legion
I'm a new mellow for the foley high band in foley Alabama and I love the mellophone I switched from the trombone
North Shore Senior High School Band!
I too am a mello, the struggle of not being able to see the major is extremely real lmao
Bands who march French horns are better!
2:52 I am shooked who marches bass clarinet and baritone saxophone I am dead inside
We used to...but they quit 😂
our school still marches baris but they removes bass clarinets after 2016 season
You guys have so much space. My band is entirely a one room operation with rickety old stands.
This entire video is a mood
hehe thanks for watching!!
Remember that time at band camp?
I'm not even a drum major but I love this video
Vmin Is Life I’m glad you enjoyed it!!
This was my freshman year your show blew me away
Daniel Viramontez thank you so much!!!
I watched this before trying out and I didn’t understand, now that I had my season as drum major, this makes me reminisce
Thanks for this, this is all I needed to know going into fall season
thanks for watching!!
Thank You for making this I hate when people say being a Drum Major is easy because it’s not easy like it looks.
thank you for watching and wishing you the best!
The Samson brothers remind me of my drum major and his brother.
Once, on of the parents asked for help and they both went and when they did, they walked the exact same, in step and everything.
Interesting 🤔
That looks so fun..
This is a good video. Our drum majors are our directors favorite. It's sad that you guys have to stay late to clean and stuff. When we have to clean, our whole band stays late and each section gets assigned different areas.
Chloe _ awww thanks, it’s very different in many bands!
Football coach seems nice. The coaches at my school, on the other hand, kicked us off of the field when we were supposed to be rehearsing outside for the first time in three weeks, the morning of our first competition.
Their whole band area is bigger than my school’s lobby, office, art hallway, orchestra/band room, choir and probably theatre too.
I now know of 4 high schools that have marching bass clarinets.
Man last time I was at that stadium I fell on the stairs. Just walking down going to the band bus. It was great.
“Come on ya lazies” as a sousaphone continues to play.
Gotta love being a tuba player.
I submitted my drum major audition on Saturday lol, our band is around 30 people with 2 drum majors and only one spot is open so I don’t have high hopes
Your band hall is like a mansion compared to mine. We have the main part where we play. We have the band directors office, instrument room and uniform room which at all relatively the same size.(like a bedroom size) then we have the loading crew room full of water and some percussion things. Then we have the majorette room and color guard room which are all so small you wouldn’t beileive it. My closet is bigger...
I do street marching band and next year I am going to high school and I don't know if I am going to do field show though I have one question is it hard???
how do you like Mr. V ? He was my director at GCM ! tell him avery fergerson said hi for me plz
Whoa that's crazy! What a small world!! I'll let him know! And he's awesome, he helped us a lot with technology and sound stuff!
My school plays on the bottom of the parking lot after school
This was so cute😊 And y'all are really good. How much do drum majors really get to play with the band? It will be my first year in August (I'll be in 8th grade. SO excited!) One of my friends is our section leader, and he will be drum major this year. He will be a junior, I know he's really excited about it, I just hope it doesn't take that much time away from the section
first last drum majors rarely get time to play their instrument during summer band. When school starts, it depends on how your program may do it but they might half it where half the class you are outside working on drill and then the other half you are inside working on region music. It all depends though! Especially if the drum major has a solo in the program as well!
ValerieRae1960 Last year, the drum major played clarinet and she had a solo, but since he plays baritone and trombone, I doubt he will. I hope he still gets to play with us (I kinda have this HUGE crush on him) but whatever happens, this is going to be a great season!
that baritone playing the Kinetic Noise Ballad like an entire octave up 4:07
You're so much more chill then my drum major. He's more strict the the band director.
I'm sure he's just doing his best! Thanks for watching though :)
This makes me nervous for when I go to band camp🙈
I don't know who you are, but Im already in love with this channel
I’m from north shore middle school and found your channel 😂
Our rehearsals go from 6 to 9 you start earlier.
My school got rid of Drum majors Since the 80s and I don't know why.
Also the band I'm in used to have 100 members we were called the "Marching 100" but after 2013 when the new school got built we dropped to 80 and now that we have a new band director we have 38. The new band room is small.
My BD is named Mr Reed as well!
Literally watching this because I'm nervous to auddition for Drum Major thats literally starts 6 hours. I really need to be asleep and prepare but I just cant relax..
Good luck!! (sorry if the reply is too late)
I can't even put my locker key back on lmao, I just leave it there inside the locker
What’s funny is our battery has to get to practice an hour early, but the drum major is always late
y'all we have to cary out stuff out to the field 😂😂
My friend was a drum major and she was really good. But she quit and we got this idiot who drops the stafd every 5 seconds in the parade
omg i enjoy watching this cause this is exactly the day in life of a drum major lol! We are also 4 of us
Aww, drum-major love!!
ValerieRae1960 yas 💖
When your school doesn't have a drum major.
ahhh i’ve marched in that stadium so many times
I go to Harrison Central High and I’m in band there love y’all guys thxs for the POV video I’m trying be one next year
This one day at Band Camp...
-TBH, I was one of the drumline types. Played BD in the high school, moved on to college and swapped out for SD... all those years, and no regrets. I just wish my school hadn't gotten rid of their band this year-
I'm so sorry to hear that they got rid of their band program!!
Dedication.
The drum major at my school don’t show up early before practice
Shout out North Shore!! I used to teach at Galena Park HS!
you know this is an old video when someone says "video blog"
my band doesn't have lockers we have rooms lol so we have a jazz room, woodwind room, brass room, drumline room and mariachi room with cubbies to put stuff in
That's cool!
A classic
VALERIE 🔥🔥🔥
I am so jelly on how big y'all's band are. ;(
Omg my band locker is number 104 too! 😂
Aww marimba my favorite
Yay! I hear Pit!
"The first thing a drum major has to do is to show up to practice early" *as she walks into the room last*
it be like that sometimes
ValerieRae1960 lmao ik my drum majors are huge goofballs but I love them for it
Love band
I recently just got the position of drum major in our band it's my first year and i am so nervous. Could possibly give me some tips on what to do at band camp this summer?
xPeri x congrats I also made drum major recently , but you'll be fine
Practice your conducting! Learn what style your director wants!
Learn how your sections work/learn the relationships (friendships) between your band members while also learning their names
Figure out what works for your band and what doesn't!
We call our Drum Majors Field Commanders
Vladimir Volkenstein ooo
The high School Marching band I was for all four years of high school is quite well known actually.......... We are called the New Philadelphia High School Marching Quaker Band an we've been competition band since the 1970s an we were established in the year 1915 so we one of the oldest bands from Ohio............ an for many years we were the only band from Ohio to go to Grand Nationals an BOAs we are Class AA an at state we are a Class A band........... But we know how to put on a show tho let me tell ya an Im alumni from class of 2014..... I encourage you to watch all our old n new competition vids from the 70s till now an we one of the bands in Ohio we all sliver horn line
How much people are in your band ?
Is anyone else going through this loop whole of band videos that are 5 or more years old
Great vids! What camera is this?
+Jayden Luis Thank you! For this video, I used a Sony Cybershot 16.1 Megapixel camera
In my band, if the drum majors or section leaders are caught cleaning up after everyone else, the whole band gets yelled at and sometimes have to even do pushups