Pharm Frog
Full Member
High school marching bands spend about 12-20 hours a week practicing, depending on how good the program is.
Our band practices about 6 hours a week, and is comprised of music majors who are forced to participate (but don't want to be there) and essentially high school caliber musicians who treat the marching band as a pseudo fraternity/sorority.
Ohio State's band requires that everyone audition for the band, and expects them to practice 20-30 hours a week. It'd be nice if you could find 200 kids who were willing to take up essentially a part time job to be in the marching band, but I don't think that's a reasonable expectation.
Any chance we could get a fife and drum corps going? Don’t need as many and can create a lot of racket.