military is the best style marching ever in is sharp and fast and it is not soft and boring like core.

Have you ever seen DCI?

Yes, and most remind me of 'Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies' except with horns. Real bands actually march and don't wear capes.

LONG LIVE MILITARY!!!!

Yes, military is the best. It actually shows what a band can do...........not how much "fluff" they can lay out on the field.

wowww. i truly disagree. wow. I am from a corps band, but wow. Saying military really shows what a band can do is just retarded. There is concert season. Play a march then. As for marching? walking in squares is not a hard feat. Try rolling your feet every count, marching backwards on the balls of your feet, actually having sets to remember, and playing good music. That is what I think makes a corps band wayyy better.

Must we start this arguement all over again!

There is already another thread on this subject...and you are comparing apples to oranges again...

Really people, must we agonize again. This has been beaten to death in another topic. Please, go to it, read it ALL, and then decide if you want to make inane comments disguised as opinions.

My gosh. Are we still getting worked up over such a petty thing?

I was from a core band, and now I march military so I'd like to think I'm less biased since I've been in both. Haha. So, here's what I think.


"Try rolling your feet every count, marching backwards on the balls of your feet, actually having sets to remember, and playing good music." We roll our feet too. It stops the bouncing. Marching backwards is hard. Military style is easier to remember because core band marching usually looks like a big blob and alot of things we do is follow-the-leader. Playing good music? Ha. Playing "marches" while "marching" makes more sense, doesn't it? And marches are good music too. It's a lot more exciting, even if it's less "pretty-sounding".

Try stomping everytime you counter-march or turn and see if your calves don't burn for about a week. Try staying in striaght lines, diagonally, vertically, and horizontally. It's not as easy as you think. And any mess-ups are easily detected. When someone in a core band messes up, it's not as noticeable or fatal. There's more chance of hitting someone while military marching. In core band, I was nevr afraid of getting hit or hitting someone. When I switched to military, I almost hit a trombone and the drum major because I didn't snap my flute down fast enough. Plus, flutes have to wait until they are very close to the person going towards them to snap their flutes down or they'll hit someone. And when trombones do their countermarches, they still have to play, while bending over and focusing on not swinging that slide into someone's face. We also have to always hit the yard-lines with our right foot and we can't look down to see if we're hitting the lines or not.

As for you military people, marching backwards is hard. You can't see the person behind you and you also have to do it on the balls of your feet. And you've seen core drills. It looks like there's no sense in anything but there is. Their drill is alot harder to remember and landing in your exact position everytime is a killer. Also, you always have to adjust your steps. Whether they're large steps, small steps, fast steps, slow steps, etc. Our step sizes are the same all the time and as hard as that is, I hate having to think "Ok, 9 steps, small steps, land near that tuba, behind that clarinet, playing Atmadja."

So here's the smaller version: Military style is great for it's focus on details and fundamentals. It looks sharp and professional. Their music is exciting. Core is great for it's entertaining drills and diverse music. Flags are awesome.

Get over it already. It's like the election. Some people will agree, some won't. We're all marching bands right? Sheesh. Why can't we just all love each other? :'D

It's funny that you were in a corps band but you don't know how to spell corps.

coco I see you are new so I will help you out before a mod or admin gets you............

Under rules under Flaming...........* Insulting posts (including the correcting of spelling or grammar)

Can't do it.

We could all correct from time to time .....and we could all be corrected from time to time.......it becomes a waste of time.

Hey pittjib25, like what you had to say. I think most people like what they are used to. I really love a good military band because that is what I grew up with and watch every Friday night. I marched in one for 5 years. I have learned over the years to like watching corp bands. There are some really good ones out there. It is hard to compare the two when they are so different. Let's enjoy them both. I will have to admit that when I see a good military band, it thrills my heart.

Funny how you couldn't find anything wrong with the actual message so you make fun of misspelling instead.

nice pittjib25 that was an awesome...yet long....comment. i mean, yea i guess it is hard in a corps band to march backwards but everything else is easy. and pittsburg, we have our own style. noone else in military stomps like us. our countermarches are WAAAAY better too, and u know how hard it is to do a countermarch and try not to hit people. i hit a senior bass drum player once. it's so hard to do!! so if ur in corps and saying military is easy...try it one day!!!!


That Thunder Across The Land!!!

nice pittjib25 that was an awesome...yet long....comment. i mean, yea i guess it is hard in a corps band to march backwards but everything else is easy. and pittsburg, we have our own style. noone else in military stomps like us. our countermarches are WAAAAY better too, and u know how hard it is to do a countermarch and try not to hit people. i hit a senior bass drum player once. it's so hard to do!! so if ur in corps and saying military is easy...try it one day!!!!


That Thunder Across The Land!!!

You should go to nammb.org and check out the video section. There are very difficult moves and very difficult music done by many bands other than just walking in squares. Both styles can be just as hard or just as easy.

i'm a senior from jacksonville. we've always been military.. however, it gets really old. you kinda run out of things to do. and marching up and down the field in lines.. gets boring. i mean, i think that military is a whole lot harder than corp, however i think corp is alot more fun! you get to play better music for sure! We are actually doing a little corp drill for our last game! I am pretty excited! =) I dont think the "better" is based on military or corp.. i think it's how good the band is.

... I dont think the "better" is based on military or corp.. i think it's how good the band is.
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FINALLY! Someone who gets it!!!

I graduated from a respected military style band and now in corps at a collegiate level and I would be willing to say that corps style is harder to march and better to watch. I am totally partial to military and it's my favorite style, but there is a reason why most bands converted to corps beginning in the '40s

nbtrb, my daughter went from marching military in junior high and high school to corps in college. She felt that military was harder. In fact, everybody in the band who tried to march military said it was much harder. I wouldn't know. I was strictly military; however, a great corps band deserves the same praise that a great military band does!

Sax, expressing your opinion is fine. But just stating that Military is better because of your ignorance of the way a core band works. If you started band in a core/corps band you would be all for core and give military no chance because its "Different" its not what your accustomed to there for you don't like it. Dude just dont post threads like this. They are very pointless and usually just start arguments on the forums.

See im glad there are people on here with some rational thought. There different styles. people have their own opinions on them. In the end they all get the same praise from there own people.

Marching the entire field is more physical than making little arcs. Military when done right is much more taxing. Just ask the band members at Texas A&M.

Have you ever seen a DCI corps when they finish? When done right, it doesn't matter if it is military or corps, you work hard! If you don't break a sweat by the end of 8 minutes, you're not working hard enough.

IMO...this is a silly topic...both are equally challenging, in different ways, and appeal to people based on their background and experience more than anything. To say one is better than the other is opinion...that doesn't make it fact.

"Military marching is the best style of marching ever. It is sharp, fast, and is not soft/borning like corps." There. Im your personal spell check sax3. However, i don't agree with you're veiws.

I hope you know that correcting grammar and spelling does not make you sound smarter. It makes you seem arrogant. Don't I sound like a #### if I say, "'However, I don't agree with your views at all.' There, I'm your personal spell check."?
I've already voiced my opinion on this so I won't bother to do it again

Well if i were you i wouldn't want people obviously from Pittsburg to type that way. It doesn't say a lot for the band or the people in it.

Pure ignorance. You obviously have NO idea what you are talking about.

Why would you write that CAPT is ignorant when he is stating his opinion - as most people do when it comes to who or what is best? He may be biased, but he is certainly not ignorant.

Opinions are like noses - everybody has one.

Whatever. Hey if the kids want to get on here and have a P####ng contest over military or corps style, so be it. If I want to throw a little wood on the fire to see you guys dance like the chicken on a hot plate at the state fair so be it.
If you don't want an opinion.............don't ask, don't read and don't respond.

Ignorance............."I'm laughing at the superior intellect."

This is better than the bleeds vs. Txbroadcaster stuff going on. Heck which is better does not really even matter....or does it.

oh............^Thanks LV

My first time in this forum. I played in the US Army Field Band in Washington DC for 22 years. When I was in High School and college we always marched military style. I guess I like the military style because basically I think the music is more challenging. The kids hear all the rock and rap music they want - they should learn a little bit about some of the music that bands were really written for. Many of the kids today have no idea of how to play a march or any other more so-called "serious" band music.