Online Resources

Marching Band Planet - This site has lots of good information about marching band, colorguard, and DCI groups. Take the time to check it out.

MarchingTVChannel - anyone who loves or is interested in the Marching Arts, such as Marching Band, Drum Corps, Color Guard, and Drum Lines. It is the first Marching site to embrace “Web 2.0” principles and deliver a full-featured line-up of Video content plus an array of community-building features. Marchers, guard members and drummers are encouraged to participate and enjoy at www.MarchingTVChannel.com.

Metronome Online
- an online metronome ideal for quick and easy use while practicing music, this music tool helps with your rhythm as well as tempo selections.

Music Theory - This is a great music theory application that will strengthen any student's theory skills. It covers clefs, ledger lines, note values, time signatures, dotes and ties, simple and compound meter, major/minor scales, intervals, and more essential music fundamentals.

Scale Cruncher - allows users to build different types of musical scales starting on any note.

Drum Bum - presents 13 primary illustrated drum rudiments with a separate video to further explain and demonstrate.

Vic Firth - The best site for web rudiment presentation; this site has superb videos and excellent documentation with insight on how to track progress on all the rudiments.

Other Resources

Dan's Shop - specializing in brass and woodwind instrument repair.

Dan Kelley
1850 Wellington Road
Burlington, NC 27217
Phone: 336-584-8033
Email: djkelley@netpath.net

I've personally used Dan to repair our instruments and he's local, very reasonable, and normally gets your instrument back pretty quickly. -Tim