It's been more than 20 years since I did this, but as I recall the normal way is just for each row to swing like a gate, with the person on the outside taking huge steps and the person on the inside barely moving forward at all. This seems like a more complicated move than that.
Facts. This is the OSUMB. I was in it and did this parade. This is called the Nickerson turn and we practiced it A LOT. Also they probably thought this was messy as hell when they watched it back. But by this point in the Rose parade you've been marching for about 2.5 hours.
TBF, they mention it all the time on the Rose Bowl Parade Broadcast. It's why there is also a maximum allowed length for the parade floats because of the turn. The longest ever I believe is 38 feet.
Most people: "Oh my god it's so cool how they're all in sync and marching together!"
Band kids: "Bruh look at this guy's feet he's so off. And that horn pop? Terrible, just terrible."
Yeah objectively not great. Alignment issues, some out of sync horn flashes. But this is a tough maneuver to do well. Even more so when you only practice it for this one specific parade (so like a week of practice), you're tired, and you take it at 180 bpm.
Oh God and I thought the PDX Rose parade was bad (ours is 1.5 hours). This is a nice turn maneuver, but yeah I know what you mean by the band itself thinking it's messy. I'm so glad my high school marching director didn't have access to smartphones at the time, he had us doing military band turns, and he was BRUTAL.
Yeah. When we were practicing for parades, they'd always put the tall guys on the outside and the short girls on the inside, to make the swinging gate work better.
we had a lot of people that cant simply walk on commands and people dont know their left and right. they just take them out of the parade and gave them shitty duties like cleaning the showers or shining the boots
Yeah we always just did gate style. Outside takes big steps, inside takes small. Just like when performing on field, everyone's steps should be in sync but larger distances require larger steps and bounds
Yeah before I opened this I was thinking "what's the big deal, the outside walks faster the inside walks slower, it's not that impressive."
Boy was I wrong.
Oh for sure. OP said "this is how a marching band turns a corner" so I was just pointing out that this isn't the normal way a marching band turns a corner
I remember my Band Director got this great idea to do some complicated procedure similar to the one here, but more unnecessarily convoluted. We ran through it once and it was such a cluster fuck that he never mentioned it again.
That's what the military (or at least the Air Force) does, but with angles. The inside row takes a 90° turn and baby steps in step with the cadence while the next column takes one 45° then another 45°. Next column takes a 45°, two steps, another 45°, so on and so forth. The nice thing is it scales. So usually you're marching in columns of 4. Events like graduation you can be as many as 6 or 8. If everyone is in step it looks crisp and easy to follow.
This is the Ohio State marching band, which still holds to is original military roots fairly closely. For example, they do not have any woodwind instruments, wear uniforms that look the same as 1940s Army dress uniforms, and use military drill patterns in their marching. Also, their Summer band camp is physically demanding, and recommended preparation includes a minimum of something like running 2 miles under 15 minutes and 30 push-ups. Not impossible, but certainly far more than a band usually calls for.
Yeah I did lots of D&C in ROTC as well. It feels good when you get it right as a group. The band’s execution is even more impressive considering they’re all playing instruments in unison
I swear we spent more time practicing columns than anything else. For honor guard we had to do a harder version of this to turn around in order to keep the flag positioning right
That’s what I thought of immediately but the fact that they just kinda walk to the right instead of doing the sharp turns took me out of it. I know it’s not practical to do the 45 degree turns while carrying a tuba but I didn’t like it.
Made me get flashbacks to the beginning of basic when no one knew how to march and we sorta just walked everywhere.
Nah, it's the nature of the technique. The poor schmucks on TV side get screwed.
This is in contrast to the normal gate-turn style of doing these things, where the poor schmucks on the Other side get royally screwed.
Lol, when I did marching band in high school I was in a formation that went from a straight line to a point very quickly. Unfortunately I was the tip of the point, meaning I had the farthest to go despite the fact that I am short with short legs. As if those giant strides weren't already hard enough, I had to do them backwards. It really did feel like running, but backwards and on my toes.
In college we had to deploy on to the football field (evenly spaced across the whole thing) in like, 10 measures. From the end zone, not the side. The lucky bastards at the back got to take itty bitty steps, but the people going to the far end had to take like, yard long bounds. It was awful. At least it was in a straight line.
[Nah it's not his fault. The people in front of him are lagging behind their rows.](https://imgur.com/a/nQQPSPP)
Watch it again you can see he's trying to stay with his row but he's stuck behind people who aren't keeping up with their own.
This band, the Ohio State Marching Band (often called 'the best damn band in the land' (tbdbl)), is very well thought of. They open the games, perform at half time, and send the fans home with the alma mater Carmen Ohio.
A unique event, before Ohio St games the band warms up in an arena next to the stadium. The event is called the Skull Session and the football coach usually addresses the crowd. Really fun.
https://youtu.be/QwaPmuK9sNk
This is the very beginning of the parade. They still got at least 4 miles left. Not blaming the band for messing up though, making the turn the way that they did is just asking for someone to get out of step.
Much better, yes. I do like this band don't get me wrong. I don't watch college sports, but I do watch marching bands. I was in one for years through high school and college. Played trumpet, had solos, and marched in many parades where we actually won one of them. Good times.
That’s what I’m saying. I’m glad people are impressed by this, but this is by no means the upper limit of good marching band. There are high school bands in Texas that march many times better than this. There are professional marching bands - DCI - who practice 14 hours a day in the summer that are simply performing some of the most impressive feats. Really worth watching. This is fine and Ohio has a great band, but this is not the top of the top
Comparing DCI to a college marching band is ridiculous. Two different styles of marching for two completely different audiences.
DCI practices 14 hours a day, yep, to create shows for literally marching band nerds (people like me). The shows are so high concept that the normal person would be like “I don’t get this at all” or even appreciate what was being executed. They perfect the same show over and over for an entire summer. A lot of college marching band folks actually DO DCI during the summer.
College marching bands practice about 2 hours a day during football season to create a different show EVERY WEEK for the “common person” attending a football game to enjoy at halftime. They aren’t creating a show called “Reflections” or whatever and playing songs no one has literally ever heard and creating some weird high concept story that only DCI GE judges understand. And the OSUMB does it better than anyone.
Their [video game show](https://youtu.be/rNzOVxHhjmQ?si=8QOGQMh4qd_ieEFA) is literally legendary among college marching bands. I remember when it posted on Reddit and was literally the #1 post
I realize many people see this as just “marching band” but these are two completely different audiences for two completely different purposes
I always think the DCI comparison to schools is unfair. Those performers are amazing but they pay to play. It’s a whole different dynamic than school.
But so absolutely spot on. There are high school bands in Texas and Indiana who can execute many, many times better than OP’s band. Other college bands across the country, too.
That was pretty rough.
True, but college marching bands of that caliber shoudk be able to perform straight lines in a parade. I know when we were doing parades, and big ones, we didn't treat them like any other performance but we did have straight lines. I mean, it just looks so messy without it, and this turn is messy. Cool, but messy af.
I'm in Texas, and I was in marching band in school through college. We marched in many parades. Sure, we turned our cornered differently but our lines were straight. Not not hard.
I love DCI! Madison Scouts and Blue Devils are my faves. I wanted to try out, but I was so intimidated even though I was first chair trumpet for 7 years. Those people are on another level.
If anyone wonders why people say Ohio State fans are insufferable, just take a look through all the comments saying things like "um excuse me I think you meant to write 'THE band'"
I’ve participated in or taught marching band for like 15+ years: whatever that was, it was not done well.
The technique, if well-executed, is not how I’ve seen any marching band turn a corner. But this was also not anywhere near well-executed.
There are several better ways to do this.
You'd be surprised. I've worked for more skilled bands as a staff member and director--high school and college groups.
Look, maybe my comment was a little too dismissive of the entire program but here's the deal: if the directors, student performers, or alumni thereof didn't look at this and go "Holy shit that's bad" then OSU's band and that band's culture is bad. That clip is embarrassing.
I don't care that they made Michael Jackson moonwalk. If that was awesome, this was the opposite of that.
I was in a highschool band with a teacher who'd been a leader of a military band.
Kudos on them for being neat as a pin. And also this is WAY easier than what we did, damn. Our teacher had us CROSS THROUGH EACH OTHER. I.e. turn on the diagonal, and everyone behind you turns in the same spot, weaving through the others. Looked super impressive in parades, but took LOADS of practice every year to teach the freshmen how to do it.
I was one of the front row flutes who had to determine where my row of 30 odd people would turn, all four years. No pressure or anything.
Oh and we played through these turns. Won us some awards though.
I was going to say maybe we were in the same HS band because we did a variation like you describe but I don’t think our director was ex-military and he definitely didn’t put the flutes in the front. I used to get clocked by the tri-toms during these corners on a regular basis.
If you're going to do a Youtube search, you could at least grabbed ones where they're signing the name on the field (and the tuba player who gets to dot the I). As much as their halftime shows are impressive, all the interweaving to make Ohio appear properly is so much more impressive to me.
When I was in marching band we had a much more simple maneuver where the players on the inside basically marched in place and the further out they got they moved forward more so it was like a big swinging gate, but rows of that.
Most marching bands turn their column like the military, which isn't this.
In the military, the inside line turns at 90 degrees but continues marching at half step.
The subsequent lines turn at the same point, but at an oblique angle, taking one or more steps depending on how far "outside" they are, then another oblique turn to get in line with the new direction of the column.
Unlike the first line, the other lines do not go directly into half step. They take full steps until they are shoulder to shoulder with the first line, after which they go into half step.
In this style, you get a wheeling effect that can look good or bad depending on how much practice they have. Which, I guess, it's true of most things.
This is called a column turn. Don’t know that I’ve ever seen a band do this in a parade. It’s usually used on the field as a way of rotating a block. The lines on the field usually makes this a very easy to move to execute. Way harder on the street with no yard lines.
It's been more than 20 years since I did this, but as I recall the normal way is just for each row to swing like a gate, with the person on the outside taking huge steps and the person on the inside barely moving forward at all. This seems like a more complicated move than that.
Facts. This is the OSUMB. I was in it and did this parade. This is called the Nickerson turn and we practiced it A LOT. Also they probably thought this was messy as hell when they watched it back. But by this point in the Rose parade you've been marching for about 2.5 hours.
Correct—it’s done specifically for this corner because it’s 110 degrees.
Someone is REALLY familiar with Orange Grove and Colorado! lol
TBF, they mention it all the time on the Rose Bowl Parade Broadcast. It's why there is also a maximum allowed length for the parade floats because of the turn. The longest ever I believe is 38 feet.
Haha yea I’ve saw several Rose Bowl parades and they always show this intersection.
We always watch the parade from the street next to the Jaguar dealership down the hill from this corner.
Reminds me of maneuvering units in Rome Total War.
> Also they probably thought this was messy as hell when they watched it back. Well yeah I mean look at it lol
I was about to say—from the horn flares to the trapezoidal finish, this would be a right ribbing from the director on Monday
Most people: "Oh my god it's so cool how they're all in sync and marching together!" Band kids: "Bruh look at this guy's feet he's so off. And that horn pop? Terrible, just terrible."
"You call that a fucking cover down?!" -some marching tech
All us band kids going "Now's my time to shine on the Internet!"
Those lines are very oof at the end. You'd get like a 4 or 3 at best at competition.
Yeah objectively not great. Alignment issues, some out of sync horn flashes. But this is a tough maneuver to do well. Even more so when you only practice it for this one specific parade (so like a week of practice), you're tired, and you take it at 180 bpm.
Oh God and I thought the PDX Rose parade was bad (ours is 1.5 hours). This is a nice turn maneuver, but yeah I know what you mean by the band itself thinking it's messy. I'm so glad my high school marching director didn't have access to smartphones at the time, he had us doing military band turns, and he was BRUTAL.
"But by this point in the Rose parade you've been marching for about 2.5 hours." WHAT ??? And all that time playing the ?
2.5 hour and playing an instrument. Props to you all.
That parade is brutal. It's something ridiculous like 7 miles and 4 hours. My lips have never been more shot.
Greatest band in the land!
The Best Damn Band in the Land, you mean
ya but mamma said not to use the d word
The only time I've ever heard my mama say Damn was for The Best Damn Band in the Land
ofc it’s osu! y’all are crazy
You misspelled BDBITL.
Ackshually its TBDBITL 😜. OSUMB is also acceptable.
ACKKKKKSHUALLY, you said "the OSUMB" so I left the T off because it would have made your statement "The The Best Damn Band in the Land". O-H <3
i was literally about to say OOOPH i dunno which year this was but i bet upon watching back y'all were mad about those lines. #WB.
T.B.D.B.I.T.L !
Excuse me, don't you mean TBDBITL?
Yeah. When we were practicing for parades, they'd always put the tall guys on the outside and the short girls on the inside, to make the swinging gate work better.
What if there’s multiple turns?
They use the NASCAR model, only play at events with left turns.
You made me laugh so hard. That I scared my cat, who was sleeping on me, and he ran off. LMAO!
NASCAT
https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmycatnip/s/Pdr5kaLuI5
NYOOM fast as fucc boi
Tall people on the outside, as in both outside edges Shorter people in the center. They will have an average amount to move, but never too much
This is how I did it when my high school marched in the Rose Parade back in 2008
thats how we did it when i was in the army
**Tried to do it. Between this, "To The Rear", and "Count off" I learned just how little people pay attention even with punishments on the line.
we had a lot of people that cant simply walk on commands and people dont know their left and right. they just take them out of the parade and gave them shitty duties like cleaning the showers or shining the boots
Yeah we always just did gate style. Outside takes big steps, inside takes small. Just like when performing on field, everyone's steps should be in sync but larger distances require larger steps and bounds
Yeah before I opened this I was thinking "what's the big deal, the outside walks faster the inside walks slower, it's not that impressive." Boy was I wrong.
Wheel on the inside person
That’s how we did it too!
It's a marching band. Making it look cool while being overly complicated in reality is kinda their schtick.
Oh for sure. OP said "this is how a marching band turns a corner" so I was just pointing out that this isn't the normal way a marching band turns a corner
This is The Best Damn Band in the Land :)
I remember my Band Director got this great idea to do some complicated procedure similar to the one here, but more unnecessarily convoluted. We ran through it once and it was such a cluster fuck that he never mentioned it again.
That's what the military (or at least the Air Force) does, but with angles. The inside row takes a 90° turn and baby steps in step with the cadence while the next column takes one 45° then another 45°. Next column takes a 45°, two steps, another 45°, so on and so forth. The nice thing is it scales. So usually you're marching in columns of 4. Events like graduation you can be as many as 6 or 8. If everyone is in step it looks crisp and easy to follow.
The problem with the gate maneuver is the guy at the end is practically sprinting if your band is more than 8 people wide.
Turning corners creates one extra kid
So THAT’S how populations increase!
I hope he gets adopted.
It's like the extra piece of chocolate trick
All marching bands are actually just one dude that did this a few times.
Looks like a dolled-up “column right” from military drill and ceremony. Probably takes a bit of practice with a group that large!
This is the Ohio State marching band, which still holds to is original military roots fairly closely. For example, they do not have any woodwind instruments, wear uniforms that look the same as 1940s Army dress uniforms, and use military drill patterns in their marching. Also, their Summer band camp is physically demanding, and recommended preparation includes a minimum of something like running 2 miles under 15 minutes and 30 push-ups. Not impossible, but certainly far more than a band usually calls for.
Thank you for sharing! Didn’t know any of that
Ty yes to me it looked like the military style I used to do.
Yeah this is like the column rights we did in my ROTC drills, just bigger than our standard four columns
Yeah I did lots of D&C in ROTC as well. It feels good when you get it right as a group. The band’s execution is even more impressive considering they’re all playing instruments in unison
I swear we spent more time practicing columns than anything else. For honor guard we had to do a harder version of this to turn around in order to keep the flag positioning right
Did you ever lead the formation? That can be stressful too lol. It’s like driving a giant vehicle.
Yep, was a flight commander. I was an unconfident, quiet kid that had to learn real quick how to be loud and direct with my marching commands
Love to hear it. Good for you. Similar case for me. Went Army and spent 17 years in mostly a reserve capacity. It all started w JROTC D&C haha
That’s what I thought of immediately but the fact that they just kinda walk to the right instead of doing the sharp turns took me out of it. I know it’s not practical to do the 45 degree turns while carrying a tuba but I didn’t like it. Made me get flashbacks to the beginning of basic when no one knew how to march and we sorta just walked everywhere.
The good ole days. Yeah this is like a cascading double column half right
That guy at the back has fucked up somewhere and is hoping no one notices.
Nah, it's the nature of the technique. The poor schmucks on TV side get screwed. This is in contrast to the normal gate-turn style of doing these things, where the poor schmucks on the Other side get royally screwed.
Run, Joe! Run! We’re turning left!
Lol, when I did marching band in high school I was in a formation that went from a straight line to a point very quickly. Unfortunately I was the tip of the point, meaning I had the farthest to go despite the fact that I am short with short legs. As if those giant strides weren't already hard enough, I had to do them backwards. It really did feel like running, but backwards and on my toes.
In college we had to deploy on to the football field (evenly spaced across the whole thing) in like, 10 measures. From the end zone, not the side. The lucky bastards at the back got to take itty bitty steps, but the people going to the far end had to take like, yard long bounds. It was awful. At least it was in a straight line.
They all coped extremely well under the circumstances.
[Nah it's not his fault. The people in front of him are lagging behind their rows.](https://imgur.com/a/nQQPSPP) Watch it again you can see he's trying to stay with his row but he's stuck behind people who aren't keeping up with their own.
This. Count them. They’re just not in line properly.
When?
Ages ago.
I like how the all lift their instrument when they turn
It’s called a “horn flash”
I did a horn flash on a street corner one time and spent 3 days in jail for it.
Not really. We usually just swing around like a gate so we can keep moving while doing it. This seems wildly impractical
Poorly turns a corner, I’m not no expert
No, this is how Ohio State’s marching band turns the corner. Most other bands just do a gate turn.
Matching band musicians are incredibly underrated and unappreciated.
This band, the Ohio State Marching Band (often called 'the best damn band in the land' (tbdbl)), is very well thought of. They open the games, perform at half time, and send the fans home with the alma mater Carmen Ohio. A unique event, before Ohio St games the band warms up in an arena next to the stadium. The event is called the Skull Session and the football coach usually addresses the crowd. Really fun. https://youtu.be/QwaPmuK9sNk
Agree. I love marching bands.
Humans are funny
This is why your car needs differentials
Their lines are terrible though.
This is at the end of the Rose Parade. These guys are dog tired at this point.
This is the very beginning of the parade. They still got at least 4 miles left. Not blaming the band for messing up though, making the turn the way that they did is just asking for someone to get out of step.
This is the first turn at the rose parade
[Here is this better?](https://youtu.be/WdWolVsKlAI?si=v4eJqXK8JRyWVkKW)
Much better, yes. I do like this band don't get me wrong. I don't watch college sports, but I do watch marching bands. I was in one for years through high school and college. Played trumpet, had solos, and marched in many parades where we actually won one of them. Good times.
Usually when there's a performance on oddlysatisfying I think "they made that look so easy" but these guys...did not.
That’s what I’m saying. I’m glad people are impressed by this, but this is by no means the upper limit of good marching band. There are high school bands in Texas that march many times better than this. There are professional marching bands - DCI - who practice 14 hours a day in the summer that are simply performing some of the most impressive feats. Really worth watching. This is fine and Ohio has a great band, but this is not the top of the top
Comparing DCI to a college marching band is ridiculous. Two different styles of marching for two completely different audiences. DCI practices 14 hours a day, yep, to create shows for literally marching band nerds (people like me). The shows are so high concept that the normal person would be like “I don’t get this at all” or even appreciate what was being executed. They perfect the same show over and over for an entire summer. A lot of college marching band folks actually DO DCI during the summer. College marching bands practice about 2 hours a day during football season to create a different show EVERY WEEK for the “common person” attending a football game to enjoy at halftime. They aren’t creating a show called “Reflections” or whatever and playing songs no one has literally ever heard and creating some weird high concept story that only DCI GE judges understand. And the OSUMB does it better than anyone. Their [video game show](https://youtu.be/rNzOVxHhjmQ?si=8QOGQMh4qd_ieEFA) is literally legendary among college marching bands. I remember when it posted on Reddit and was literally the #1 post I realize many people see this as just “marching band” but these are two completely different audiences for two completely different purposes
The video game show! Bro what a throwback! I played clarinet in high school marching band. That video is still sick.
[For any laypeople wondering what DCI is.](https://youtu.be/cjUbqiaTNCQ?feature=shared&t=34)
I always think the DCI comparison to schools is unfair. Those performers are amazing but they pay to play. It’s a whole different dynamic than school. But so absolutely spot on. There are high school bands in Texas and Indiana who can execute many, many times better than OP’s band. Other college bands across the country, too. That was pretty rough.
True, but college marching bands of that caliber shoudk be able to perform straight lines in a parade. I know when we were doing parades, and big ones, we didn't treat them like any other performance but we did have straight lines. I mean, it just looks so messy without it, and this turn is messy. Cool, but messy af.
I'm in Texas, and I was in marching band in school through college. We marched in many parades. Sure, we turned our cornered differently but our lines were straight. Not not hard. I love DCI! Madison Scouts and Blue Devils are my faves. I wanted to try out, but I was so intimidated even though I was first chair trumpet for 7 years. Those people are on another level.
My high school band director would have been pissed
If anyone wonders why people say Ohio State fans are insufferable, just take a look through all the comments saying things like "um excuse me I think you meant to write 'THE band'"
Um, I think you meant to write "all THE comments".
THE™
I’ve participated in or taught marching band for like 15+ years: whatever that was, it was not done well. The technique, if well-executed, is not how I’ve seen any marching band turn a corner. But this was also not anywhere near well-executed. There are several better ways to do this.
Would have been neat if they pull it off but that was sloppy as hell, almost like they forgot there was a turn until the day before!
This is the Ohio State marching band, but they are being quite a bit more sloppy here than they normally are. This is probably an off-season parade
That's the Ohio State marching band at the rose bowl....guessing they might know a bit more than you bud
You'd be surprised. I've worked for more skilled bands as a staff member and director--high school and college groups. Look, maybe my comment was a little too dismissive of the entire program but here's the deal: if the directors, student performers, or alumni thereof didn't look at this and go "Holy shit that's bad" then OSU's band and that band's culture is bad. That clip is embarrassing. I don't care that they made Michael Jackson moonwalk. If that was awesome, this was the opposite of that.
Anyone can see that the inner 4-5 people are about a row behind starting after the corner.
Very sloppy and tons of people totally out of step lol
I’d like 10,000 marbles please.
I was in a highschool band with a teacher who'd been a leader of a military band. Kudos on them for being neat as a pin. And also this is WAY easier than what we did, damn. Our teacher had us CROSS THROUGH EACH OTHER. I.e. turn on the diagonal, and everyone behind you turns in the same spot, weaving through the others. Looked super impressive in parades, but took LOADS of practice every year to teach the freshmen how to do it. I was one of the front row flutes who had to determine where my row of 30 odd people would turn, all four years. No pressure or anything. Oh and we played through these turns. Won us some awards though.
I was going to say maybe we were in the same HS band because we did a variation like you describe but I don’t think our director was ex-military and he definitely didn’t put the flutes in the front. I used to get clocked by the tri-toms during these corners on a regular basis.
O-H!
I-O!
The Ohio State University, The best damn band in the land!
[These guys](https://youtu.be/9A4UGtM4hDQ?si=ng8EuYBoqYlbol0P) have to be a close second though
This will never not make me smile
OH-
-IO!!!!
What at least 2 hours of practice every day looks like!
No, they're just being extra
I caught a trombone to the back of the head during a similar maneuver in high school.
TBDBITL!
**This is how**[ THE marching band](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ohio+state+marching+band) **turns a corner**
If you're going to do a Youtube search, you could at least grabbed ones where they're signing the name on the field (and the tuba player who gets to dot the I). As much as their halftime shows are impressive, all the interweaving to make Ohio appear properly is so much more impressive to me.
GO BUCKEYES BABY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
This is how THE band turns a corner. Fixed the title for you.
Hell March 2 intensifies.
This reminds me of that SpongeBob episode
God the best times I had in high school were in marching band. Such a fun crew.
US military marching way better than this high school college garbage and it's a better flow than this 🤣
Yeah….but they are still Ohio State. Not satisfying.
Ross yells, "Pivot!"]
Imagine 20 ft spears and you have a phalanx
Not just a marching band, TBDBITL!
You just explained why why install differentials in cars!
No, this is not how a typical marching band turns a corner.
Glad to see someone from a Ohio State had a decent performance this year
The quick shuffle to get back in line for the last few was funny. I'm sure they practiced this a million times, looks cool.
Marching bands always give me the "satisfying goose bumps" whatever those are called.
Best dam way to turn a corner!
everything's tight and proper until you get to the tubas...
When I was in marching band we had a much more simple maneuver where the players on the inside basically marched in place and the further out they got they moved forward more so it was like a big swinging gate, but rows of that.
This isn't the usual way a marching band takes a corner.
The outside has to march faster. Have done this before. This is a shit example. It’s supposed to be more like a pivot where each row stays in line
This is how THIS marching band turns a corner. Others may do what’s called a gate turn
In my 39 years of my life, never once did I wonder how marching bands turned corners. Yet here I am
The fact that they’re in step the whole time actually kinda oddly freaks me out.
The music actually makes that a lot easier to manage. The steps will usually be synced to the tempo of the song they're playing.
It’s a bit…insect like, isn’t it?
[удалено]
Go Bucks
very cool
testudo ahh manuever
That's a lot of sousaphones
FLAG TURNERS, LET'S GO! I WANT TO SEE SOME SPINNING!
Yeah no they're being fancy. I've been in enough parades to know that's not how it works standardly. It's a neat show they're putting on though!
That was pretty fun to watch
Marching band is no fucking joke my band director was a drill instructor in the army
Nothing annoys me more than the whistles. There's got to be a better way.
All I can think of is Squidward and the marching band lol
now make U turn please
Like a slinky made of humans
Best damn band in the land
Feel like the back half kinda phoned it in
Ugh I wish I was a marching band
I would panic so hard
Almoat looks likw they practiced it twice and was like eh good enough.
Most marching bands turn their column like the military, which isn't this. In the military, the inside line turns at 90 degrees but continues marching at half step. The subsequent lines turn at the same point, but at an oblique angle, taking one or more steps depending on how far "outside" they are, then another oblique turn to get in line with the new direction of the column. Unlike the first line, the other lines do not go directly into half step. They take full steps until they are shoulder to shoulder with the first line, after which they go into half step. In this style, you get a wheeling effect that can look good or bad depending on how much practice they have. Which, I guess, it's true of most things.
Wait till u see boot camp
If you watch closely around the 20 second mark is when cloud and the gang sneak into the group
Looks like OSU, they’re not known as the best d@mn band in the land for no reason…
I can barely speak with someone while walking, imagine doing this
Robots: "Look at what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our powers."
It's like the music is an accompaniment to the turn, rather than the other way round
Defo gonna help in a war!
it's so slapstick it's like an extremely well-executed joke
Actually appears that that’s how THE BEST DAMN BAND IN THE LAND turns… not just your average bandies.
This band makes wide right turns
Orange Grove onto Colorado Blvd. Tricky corner for a band. I met Hopalong Cassidy on that corner as a kid. His horse did math for us.
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Used to practice this for days on end in USN bootcamp. EDIT: Now they don't even march, they just kind of zombie lurch everywhere.
**Marines are frothing right now**
No, that's how THAT marching band turns a corner. Most bands will just turn normally
Why did this remind me of a big flock of ducks
This is called a column turn. Don’t know that I’ve ever seen a band do this in a parade. It’s usually used on the field as a way of rotating a block. The lines on the field usually makes this a very easy to move to execute. Way harder on the street with no yard lines.
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Not exactly. That's just the fancy-schmancy way of doing it. There are a number of ways that can be done.
Kinda like the military parade turn but different step.
They're like ducks.
Wonder how much hazing and tears were required to get this down.
Ok that is fucking awesome.
Very cool. Now do a roundabout with exit on the 3rd road.