How to Become a Drum Major

Series Summary

It is an excellent dream to become a high school drum major. It's challenging, but it's definitely worth it. The road to making it to drum major and succeeding in your position is a tough one, but with help from an expert who has been there and done it just might give you a great competitive edge. If you would like to learn what it takes to become a drum major and perform with excellence, you can learn from our expert drum major, for free and online. In this free how-to video series, learn from drum major Nolan Oldham how to become a drum major and excel in your leadership position. Nolan will teach you drum major tips for band leadership that will help you prepare for trying out for drum major. He will also teach about how to give commands, how to keep tie as drum major, time signature in conducting a drum line, and how to apply drum major skills to life.

Video Transcript

"This is tips on how to be a drum major. Well I decided I wanted to be a drum major when I was sophomore, so I tried out to be the junior drum major of the Fallacious High School Band, and basically what I had to do was, there's a lot of practice involved. You have to be good at playing your instrument obviously, and you have to be good at marching. A lot of people think that just because you're the drum major, well you don't have to any marching. Well, that's not exactly true. You have to be really good at marching. So I had to practice a lot and I had to get really good at what I did and then we had to go through the tryout process which was kind of difficult."