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For the students who are contracted to a drum corps, summer means sacrificing those types of plans in exchange for a unique musical and travel experience. The decision to join corps as a high schooler comes fraught with difficult choices.
Lyllian Neuberger, another first-year Music City guard member, echoes the sentiment but also focuses on the positive side of participating in drum corps. On the other hand, some students adequately balance their high school opportunities while marching in corps. Grace Murphy will be entering her senior year and second year as a color guard section leader at her high school while being a first-year guard member for Legends Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI Open Class group from Portage, Michigan.
Though she misses some high school rehearsals during the summer, she still helps her high school while on tour. Because of the need to practice before beginning their tours, many DCI groups move in for spring training before some high schools end the academic year.
At Legends and many other corps, the administrative staff works with students to accommodate end-of-year commitments and some conflicts during the summer tour. Nick Powers, a color guard technician for Music City says the corps makes accommodations when possible. Schedules in August can get tricky too. His high school in Indiana starts in early August. Even when Hecht only had weekend rehearsals with Southern Knights, his schedule was challenging.
Every member deals with some difficulties when transitioning into life with the corps, regardless of age and when they join. However, Schnicke says that she appreciates the intensity and the logistical organization. Student motivation could vary greatly between high school marching bands and drum corps. Because DCA corps rehearse more sporadically, adjustment is a little different. I also get letters from a people who say that DCI is destroying the drum corps movement.
I have a strong opinion about that too. To read about that, click here. Let me reiterate what I was trying to say back then. Please, please, please, don't try to model your marching band shows after the drum corps you see on TV. It can't work in the long run because in your band's limited rehearsal time, with its smaller instructional staff, it isn't fun for the kids in the short run.
Make your marching band a place where you foster of love of learning and a create a lifetime thirst for music. That's what band can do best. It's good for us, good for our students, and good for civilization. That's a noble cause. Update I've had a pretty good time these past 14 years. Drum corps changed - a lot. Band changed - but not so much, and in some pretty important and positive ways. Back in the day as we old timers say marching bands would move a little, then stand and play, then move some more, then stand and play.
Gradually over the past two decades, drum corps figured out they could do that too, IF they threw in some "body choreography. The Blue Devils have made an art of it.
The running joke among their rivals who they keep beating is that they march well and play well, but hardly ever at the same time. I think this has been good for the activity. More music is better. Marching bands are doing it too, and wise directors are choosing to use limited choreography vocabularies to accomplish it.
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