Marching Band: Tempo & Movement

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Matt Goms. We're talking about marching band and choreography. The next little thing that I would like to talk about is tempo, or how the forms move, as well. The tempo is very important! Making sure that everyone is moving together, that all of their feet, that they're all marching in time, and that everything is moving together, so you don't have people that fall out of the form, and cause little rips or tears in the formation. You want to make sure everything moves together. Ideally, what you'd like to see happen is the way that you watch it on your computer, on the computer program, or you know, the way that you would see something like on a screen saver. We've all see the screen savers, you know, where it's got the dot that moves around from corner to corner moves, that's kind of what you want to see in a marching band formation. That one set moves and then it locks, and then it moves to another set and locks, and then it moves and, everybody needs to be moving together and making sure that they're taking all the counts to get there, that their feet are moving in time for the music, that they're in step. It's very important to be in step, because if they're not in step then it's going to throw off other people, it's going to look really wrong, even though they might be moving their feet in tempo, if they're not on the correct foot, that's going to throw everything off and give a bad look to your show."