The band performance area includes the end zones which extend 10 yards past the goal lines. Inside — measured toward the 50 yard line. Outside — measured toward either end zone, away from the 50 yard line. Sidelines — The sidelines are the front and back boundaries of the football field. The back sideline is on the opposite side of the field. In marching band the performance area extends 12 feet in front of the front home sideline.
It extends behind the back visitor sideline, all the way to the backfield stands. Hash Marks — The hash marks intersect the yard lines 24 steps away from the side lines. The back hash is nearest to the back sideline. College hash marks are 4 steps further away from the sidelines. Competitions on college fields will have both sets of hash marks.
Vertical Hash Marks — The vertical hash marks are not always marked, but when they are, they show one yard increments. Horns are held up at an degree angle from horizontal. Yes, The mellophones in my band have the lead pipes on our horns professionally bent slightly upward, which is a great way to cheat this and make it easier. At one point the baritones were supposedly also going to get this, though I'm not sure what happened with that. Uniform: pants, jacket, helmet, gloves.
Here's me sans the gloves, which haven't come in yet from order:. Just marching is great, but how do you know where to go? This is where drill comes in. Drill is the marching part of band. Drill consists of a series of "dots"; each dot is a position on the field where you need to be at a certain time. A drill page looks like this:. Dragging around those hefty sets of drill while rehearsing would be pure insanity, though, so we make what's called a "dot book" - looks like this:.
We don't really have any rules about how to make dot books; the main thing is just to make sure that all the information that will be useful to you is on the page. Other bits: most of the time one marches shoulders flat to the front of the field, and in straight-line paths from dot to dot. There are exceptions. Also, drill instructors give terse instructions for putting horns up, down, etc. I know that I have left things out, but it's not supposed to be comprehensive - and it's long enough already.
Thank you so much for posting this. I really appreciate it! I am a incoming freshman this year, and we were required to make dot books, and this really helped. I'm currently working on an ethnography of the band culture and I've been struggling to explain how these basic things work. I'll be citing this page in my bibliography They'll usually be more than happy to clear up any confusion, and as I said, usually in most high school circuits they get it right.
I've got a few horror stories about bad field lining- things like bad weather or too much wear and tear on the field may make the lines unreadable by the time you go on. Worse yet is fi your show is on a baseball diamond with a football field marked on it- the base lines may look like the real 40 yard line Pitcher's mounds that are not levelled prior to the show can be an issue too A lot of drill writers may not know how your practice and show fields are typically set up, so they will frequently put both sets of hashes on the charts and if they don't, you can always put them in with your pencil if you want.
And yes, if you divide the filed into three sections at 28 steps each, you actually come up a little short. The cheat we use to adapt to this is that we unconsciouly become conditioned to the fact that the step size of your grid is ever so slightly larger front to back than it is side to side. Don't bother trying to think it out and put it in mathematical terms unless that's yoru thing - just read and adjust to forms, use the sideline and hashes as your visual reference, and pretend nothing is wrong and you'l find that it's not really a problem- you'll end up making the tiny adjustment automatically by eye and by feel in no time- your instincts will do that for you if you don't overthink things- this is why every form ends up being adjusted by tiny bits off the written dots- going with the form is always more important than the precise dot.
The college hash is a little less than 4 steps above the high school hash. If you're marching in a show that has college hashes and you have a dot that's 4 steps above the high school hash, you can use it as reference and go a tad further back. Yes, the college hash is 32 steps from the sideline, and the high school hash is "28", but they are not 4 steps apart because of the "cheating".
Anyone get it? And great post VinnyE. So basically what you're saying is, for most of us, the high school hashes marked in a stadium are 9 inches closer to the sideline than on our practice field? Joseph Boboige Jul ' Our hashes are the 28 steps from the sidelines. We have two going from and back. We usually go off those and the sidelines. I remember at our championships 2 years ago for TOB at Dover, the field had both hashes, but they were so poorly marked you couldn't tell which was which.
Ak42u Jul ' Aren't pro hashes even further in? Of course that only adds to the confusion And yes, the pro hashes are the width of a field goal apart. About Help Contact Forum. If your band uses high school hashes Danderson Jul ' Or do you not know what I'm talking about revharrison Jul '09 Neither.. I just go where the dot said to go. Shawn Wright Jul '09 Well, High school hashes are usually unevenly spaced, so that there are 7 groups of hashettes between the front sideline and the front hash and the back sideline and the back hash, and 6 hashettes in between both hashes.
Dave F captain Jul '09 Believe it or not, I think the distance between hashes on high school fields might vary between states
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