Can you add change to a program and still keep Tradition? Gsu tried this in 97 by standing still while ODC performed and once in 98 alumni was pissed!! But how can bands change without taking Tradition out?
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Gregory Drane, Penn State's Assistant Director of Bands left one important idea with us when he came to audition for the Director of Marching and Pep Bands; "Tradition was a once a new idea." To be open to change, you have to be able to accept that what we currently call "tradition" was once something new and that in order to create NEW traditions we have to come up with NEW ideas and replace OLD ones. People seem to think tradition has been there since the inception of an organization, but in reality, concepts that we call tradition have been changed many, many times to get where it is now.
Well at FAMU new traditions are created over time.. just like we added a new fight song a few years ago. We're open to adding new ideas into tradition. You just have to be open to it, and I don't mean go crazy and adding a shit load of new traditions over night... you got to take it one step at a time.
tony said:
but how will that work for hbcu bands such as FAMU,GSU,TNSTATE,SCSU,SU AN so on and i just named them schools as a example
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Can you add change to a program and still keep Tradition? Gsu tried this in 97 by standing still while ODC performed and once in 98 alumni was pissed…
we added a midfield entrance which pissed some folks off...we stopped playing down field march every game which pissed some folks off (this was due mainly to time constraints)...we added honey bees which pisses me off...and we've had three games in our history since 1965 where we didn't play halftime fanfare which pisses everyone off. Overall change is inevitable though...it comes with time...i'm sure theres some hornets from 1950 that were pissed when Prof Lyle brought the current style to the band in 64.
`WT use to march on the field...then they didn't for a decade and a half...now we're in the drill again. You can't add change, you just add. The program changes with the people and directors; by the natural flow of life and music.
we added a midfield entrance which pissed some folks off...we stopped playing down field march every game which pissed some folks off (this was due mainly to time constraints)...we added honey bees which pisses me off...and we've had three games in our history since 1965 where we didn't play halftime fanfare which pisses everyone off. Overall change is inevitable though...it comes with time...i'm sure theres some hornets from 1950 that were pissed when Prof Lyle brought the current style to the band in 64.
grambling and bama st were the only two to drill to marches also.
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Can you add change to a program and still keep Tradition? Gsu tried this in 97 by standing still while ODC performed and once in 98 alumni was pissed…
hell SCSU whole style change wasmt sargent there like 40 yrs? And i do think things can be taken out if its for the good. Now things are becoming one note!! Yet very predicable.
I think gram does that a lot more them bands state. Outside of down field march which is a fight song not a march.I've only seen dr. oliver still to marches, usually for military appreciation night.
tony said:
bamasax4 said:
we added a midfield entrance which pissed some folks off...we stopped playing down field march every game which pissed some folks off (this was due mainly to time constraints)...we added honey bees which pisses me off...and we've had three games in our history since 1965 where we didn't play halftime fanfare which pisses everyone off. Overall change is inevitable though...it comes with time...i'm sure theres some hornets from 1950 that were pissed when Prof Lyle brought the current style to the band in 64.
grambling and bama st were the only two to drill to marches also.
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Can you add change to a program and still keep Tradition? Gsu tried this in 97 by standing still while ODC performed and once in 98 alumni was pissed…
book i feel you on that lol, ncat,scsu than changed it all hell nccu too. GSU has also changed marching wise in the 80's and 90's they use to march extra fast look like they were speed steppin now its basic 8 to 5
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Gregory Drane, Penn State's Assistant Director of Bands left one important idea with us when he came to audition for the Director of Marching and Pep Bands; "Tradition was a once a new idea." To be open to change, you have to be able to accept that what we currently call "tradition" was once something new and that in order to create NEW traditions we have to come up with NEW ideas and replace OLD ones. People seem to think tradition has been there since the inception of an organization, but in reality, concepts that we call tradition have been changed many, many times to get where it is now.
Well at FAMU new traditions are created over time.. just like we added a new fight song a few years ago. We're open to adding new ideas into tradition. You just have to be open to it, and I don't mean go crazy and adding a shit load of new traditions over night... you got to take it one step at a time.
tony said:
we added a midfield entrance which pissed some folks off...we stopped playing down field march every game which pissed some folks off (this was due mainly to time constraints)...we added honey bees which pisses me off...and we've had three games in our history since 1965 where we didn't play halftime fanfare which pisses everyone off. Overall change is inevitable though...it comes with time...i'm sure theres some hornets from 1950 that were pissed when Prof Lyle brought the current style to the band in 64.
`WT use to march on the field...then they didn't for a decade and a half...now we're in the drill again. You can't add change, you just add. The program changes with the people and directors; by the natural flow of life and music.
bamasax4 said: grambling and bama st were the only two to drill to marches also.
tony said:
dont make DRASTIC changes