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Ten Exercises for Improvisational Marching

Typical “box drill” gets boring. Sure, it teaches kids to stay in line. But field shows are more than just box drill. One person has found a way to help students better understand and respond to the demands of today’s complicated drill by studying the moves behind our 2-D choreography. Here are ten improvisational drill exercises, one for each move, in order of difficulty.

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For the First-Time Instructor

Advice for the first-time instructor, based on a personal look back at the writer’s own first day in front of a 160-member marching band. By Joe Haworth, brass and visual instructor for The Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps.

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Halftime Magazine®, a bimonthly print publication and online community, presents the sights, sounds and spirit of the marching arts, providing education, entertainment and inspiration for students, directors, alumni and fans of high school marching band, college marching band, drum corps, color guard and winter guard, indoor drum line or percussion, and all-age ensembles.