Drum Major Camp 1

Western Carolina Univ Summer Symposium 2015 - July 2, 2015
Drum major exhibition. First of two videos.
Please forgive the videographer. Still learning new camera :-)

[@broulf350]

Can't tell if the tall dude was the center of attention or the girl that seemed like she didn't care... 😂😂

[@faithspear6542]

"STOP....hi"

[@cubbies-gh4te]

This stuff is mind blowing. Give these young people kudos for doing this in front of their parents.

[@carwashslayer4235]

I hope to see more

[@lilybee2083]

This is so helpful! This is helping me learn how to direct, so I can try to become drum major next year!

[@bobbilder2831]

Lily Bee SAME!!

[@warreng.harding8487]

Did you get Drum Major

[@lilybee2083]

@@warreng.harding8487 I didn't sadly, but I got stand in for pep band. Our drum majors were both in hockey so I got to do it when they were playing!!

[@warreng.harding8487]

@@lilybee2083 that's good! You tried your best I'm sure

[@noot3018]

@@lilybee2083 did u try to go for it again this year

[@Mz.Denise69]

i wanna be a drum major. you’re saving my life lol

[@crazyzippyfumblefish]

Great band, of course it has great DMs

[@lolaottinger6976]

Just wow! I’ve watched this three times already. These campers are just awesome. My great niece was a conductor at a McKinney Texas High School, sadly I never got to go watch her, and she didn’t participate in college, now she is teaching littles! What I remember about the first band director I had was that he was very, very thin (if he turned sideways and stuck his tongue out, he’d look like a zipper-thin) he directed with a baton and each time he did an upbeat he used his elbows to hike up his pants! That happened 68 years ago…guess I’ll never forget that useless bit of info.😐

[@gamemakingkirb667]

That description 💀

[@gotmonstabangtan7731]

Can someone pls tell me how to do the crescendo/decrescendo with one hand while conducting with the other😣 I’ve been having trouble with it forever

[@dowdican]

Im trying out drum major for next year and got it down. Start with conducting with one hand and when you got the hang of it slowly raise the other. Conduct with one hand five times before you raise your hand. Hope this helps!

[@danboles4971]

I'd say practice, there isn't any technique to it. Keep it together with counting while moving your hand up and down, maybe at count 1 it moves up, then at count 4 it moves down until the next count 4. If you move your hands up and down at points in accordance with the time keeping of the hand, then within the next two weeks you'd be able to do it. Past that, once you are capable of counting while giving the signal to do crescendos/decrescendos, then just learn how to do it while consciously thinking about where it needs to be, changing it for when it isn't 4/4 time. Just know you can get it with enough continuous practice! :D

[@tasyafanii1862]

the cooler thing i ever see

[@theterrificteddy2157]

This video would have been awesome if whoever was recording WOULD STAY AT A PLACE. but its still pretty cool

[@weirdcrystaldj]

Thx for makin this I wasn't able to go to camp because of covid so this helps

[@cgrimesmusic2535]

Who was the instructor? I think he came to Huntsville Alabama to give us a leadership clinic. Amazing guy!

[@theonespinn2365]

I think it's cool and stuff, but learning to conduct should be more than just beating time and doing crescendos. It's appropriate for a marching band situation I guess, but before someone is taught conducting they should be taught the foundations of music and have good musical analysis abilities. I started out as a high school drum major, but my band director and I did harmonic analysis, interpretation, score reductions, and history.

[@feverpa]

Well, sounds like you've made a strong analysis of this camp and everything they do based on an 11 minute video. I mean, you're right - but you're looking at 10 minutes of exercises being demonstrated to parents. Who says they don't also do those things? Conducting for marching band is FIRST and foremost being a metronome that is easy to watch. Adding musicality is also important, but if you're adding musicality details - but can't hold a steady tempo, and can't control your rebounds, and can't keep your different beats essentially at the same "point" in space - then all that musicality is essentially wasted. A crappy drum major who rushes from beat two to beat three, and looks like a buzzard with the way they spread their arms too wide, and doesn't instinctively know when the band is slowing down or speeding up - all those score reduction and history lessons aren't worth a thing.

[@jalaxykat4565]

Eyyy that’s Bobby Lambert right there

[@raulvidal7811]

What was the song at 7:58?

[@abbigailjoy5431]

Cool by Alesso

[@chevy2061]

R.J. Vidal reminds me of that Napoleon dynamite scene when they are hand dancing in the front of the classroom lol

[@sillygirlcentral]

This looks hard as heck