The website listed above is the home website for the college marching band at Ohio State University. Ohio State University is a much larger university than ours here at Ball State, therefor it will be a good thing to help me compare different college bands. The website provides a lot of information on the marching band at Ohio State. It gives me a schedule of events, things they have been recognized for, and much more. This site also provides me with a history of the band. It tells me who is currently in the band and also allows for me to apply if I were interested. One big help from the website is the information on instruments in the band. I found that to be quite interesting.
This site will help me in several ways. One of which is simply that it allows me to compare different sizes and types of college bands. By viewing this site I am capable of making a good comparison. Also it provides with a lot of good general information such as things like the instruments used in the band. One thing the website helped me to look at was it made me aware of a magazine called Halftime. This magazine appears to have a lot of information that can lead me to more bands and more information on the music they play.
Marching-Band.net. 18 Feb. 2009
The source listed above is a complete database of many schools with marching bands. It holds links to an unbelievable amount of not only college bands but also high school and elementary. It allows one to search for bands they might be looking for or even just browse through a large list of bands in order to pick one they might find interesting or that could be helpful to them.
This site could be very useful to me. As I mentioned that the Ohio State band website could do a lot for me, this could do almost twice as much. It allows me to look at the homepages of many large and small bands across the country. These are marching and college bands that fit the exact criteria of what I want to be looking at. After using this site I will not only have a great idea of what other schools' bands are like, but be able to almost directly compare them to our own band here at Ball State.
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