It's a very weird listening environment. When you are on the field you can only hear what is right next to you and everything is lost. I play snare, and when we were marching all you could hear were snares and tenors. The bass drums seemed to get lost. From the front everything sounds normal, but on the field it's just different.
Just thought i'd say this. My one of my instructors who marched cavaliers and I were talking last night and I asked him about the Cavalier that had fallen into the cadets block. He wasn't fake feinting or anything...He had locked his legs and passed out. Hope that helps so now we can stop all the hating.
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i would use this quote..
"If you look for trust you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end despair"
-C.S. Lewis
Take a few of the snares off. Then put tape in the middle and then about half way from the middle. Then fold up a square of paper towels and then tape that completely kind of off center a big. That will give you a pretty dry sound.
Indy is a really nice area. They'll be happy there, and since i'm going to guess that some of the staff will have kids in marching band well....the Indy area has some very talented Band programs, Avon, Centergrove, Lawrence central, Ben Davis, Carmel etc.