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Post by altoclarinets on Oct 25, 2008 13:56:49 GMT -5
Oh- our varsitys all conduct all 3. Its kinda funny though- both the smallest and largest bands in out district (abt 120 and 280, respectively) have a DM doing a solo in their halftime show. One does picc, the other oboe.
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Post by clarinetlover on Oct 25, 2008 18:40:09 GMT -5
Oh- our varsitys all conduct all 3. Its kinda funny though- both the smallest and largest bands in out district (abt 120 and 280, respectively) have a DM doing a solo in their halftime show. One does picc, the other oboe. One of our DMs plays the recorder with a few other people in the beginning of "Watermelon Man" but besides that, they don't play their instruments. (And her concert instrument is a flute/piccolo, not recorder of course).
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Post by fruple on Oct 30, 2008 22:09:07 GMT -5
Well, I'm kind of late to this, but I'll post anyway.
We have one DM, and a total ensemble (drums, pit, guard, and horns) of about 60/70ish people (many quit halfway through, so I don't remember). The director wants us to have two next year, but it seems pointless as we're probably not even going to get up to that number next year. But yeah, 1:65ish.
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Post by babette2009 on Nov 30, 2008 14:30:12 GMT -5
we have between 100 and 130 band members and 2 drum majors
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Post by cpclarinet26 on Dec 29, 2008 19:29:18 GMT -5
Yeah. I feel like I've got a huge band now. We have about 400 people, 5 football show drum majors (4 of whom direct the competitive show), and I think about 50 section leaders, squad leaders, and guard captains.
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Post by altoclarinets on Dec 29, 2008 21:44:32 GMT -5
You *do* have a huge band. M<ine used to be that big, back in the late 90's/ early 2000's... not anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2008 15:28:35 GMT -5
I have 400 people in my school.
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Post by altoclarinets on Jan 5, 2009 17:02:22 GMT -5
^Fun.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2009 0:00:34 GMT -5
CP, your band has more leaders than mine has marchers.
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Post by hansel2011 on Jan 21, 2009 20:38:58 GMT -5
My band has approx. 50. One year we had 3. But the thing is, one conducted a song while the others marched and they switched off. The other years we had 1 that of course conducted the entire show. I have auditions in about 2 months and he said we could have up to 3 and our band is still averaging 50. Sorry, I dont think that helped you any. I think it just depends if the person you pick can do it by him/her self or not.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2009 22:49:43 GMT -5
So, I had a thought recently.
First of all, thanks for your responses. It makes me feel intelligent.
Anyways, the Army would tell you that 3-8 subordinates is all that one person can handle effectively. I'm starting to think that's why there is so little control in my band, because section leaders have so little authority and the dm and bd try to do everything by themselves. So whoever it was that had a 50-person leadership team for 400 people, was right on the money, roughly.
So, maybe that's the optimal size for a single-leader section, 3 to 8 people. Once you hit nine, it makes sense to appoint a squad leader. Once you have more than 8 section/squad leaders, you need another DM. On the other hand, if you have an instrument (say, mellophones) that has less than 3 people, it makes sense to tag them on with another section (say, trumpets).
Wee. I feel smart now.
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Post by altoclarinets on Jan 23, 2009 18:40:09 GMT -5
That honestly seems about right. Im trying to ensure that next year our band will have around 1 SLT for every 5 "normal people" so that we won't have the control problems we've had in previous years. Some of our sections didn't even have leaders this year. Edit: Yeah, 8 ppl/ 1 SLT x 8 SLT/ 1 DM= 1 DM/ 64 ppl, so you were right there, Oscar.
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Post by hansel2011 on Jan 24, 2009 10:53:51 GMT -5
My band had 52 last season. We had a woodwinds captain...woodwinds avg. around 15. Brass captain...avg around 15. Percusion captain...avg around 10. A guard captain...avg around 10. One dm. We are going to continue with a woodwind, brass, per., and guard captains, but I dont know how many dms we will have. Auditions are in a couple months.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2009 1:37:00 GMT -5
Which is pretty close to my previous estimate of increments of sixty.
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Post by altoclarinet123 on Apr 19, 2009 17:19:49 GMT -5
So, I had a thought recently. First of all, thanks for your responses. It makes me feel intelligent. Anyways, the Army would tell you that 3-8 subordinates is all that one person can handle effectively. I'm starting to think that's why there is so little control in my band, because section leaders have so little authority and the dm and bd try to do everything by themselves. So whoever it was that had a 50-person leadership team for 400 people, was right on the money, roughly. So, maybe that's the optimal size for a single-leader section, 3 to 8 people. Once you hit nine, it makes sense to appoint a squad leader. Once you have more than 8 section/squad leaders, you need another DM. On the other hand, if you have an instrument (say, mellophones) that has less than 3 people, it makes sense to tag them on with another section (say, trumpets). Wee. I feel smart now. Wow, that's my band. Described perfectly. We had 8 claris last year - 1 sl, 11 flutes/piccs - 2 sls, 7-8 saxes - 1sl, high brass (4-5 trumpets, 2-3 mellos) - 1 sl, low brass(2-3 bones, 1 tuba) - 1sl. IDK how the guard and percussion do it, but we have almost 100 people. With 3 dms (we have 3 uniforms - one of our dms was really small/short/whatever, and her uniform was waaay too big). So its like a 1:30 ratio.
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