Free Online Drum Major Training Course Launching September 15th, 2021
We are proud to announce that we are launching our first ever free online educational course for the marching arts community. Our mission in launching this drum major training course is to make drum major training more accessible and to provide an asynchronous learning tool for band directors who are seeking to train their drum majors or prepare them for their drum major auditions.
The curriculum taught in the course was put together by the Genesis conducting staff and the lessons are demonstrated by the Genesis 2021 drum major team. We are proud to have worked with Hen’s Bread Productions to film the course during spring training of our 2021 season as well as doing the editing, graphics and animations that make the course beautiful and engaging.
On September 15th we will be officially launching and making available to the public a comprehensive 34 video course that covers everything from conducting fundamentals to field timing analysis. The following is an outline of the topics covered:
Posture
Basic Posture
Hand Shape
Projecting Confidence
Gestures
Cut Offs
Cues
Dynamics
Beginner Style Development
Advanced Style Development
Metronomes
DB90
Tonal Energy
Fundamentals
Travel
The Paint Brush Exercise
Ictus Placement
The Table Top Exercise
Flick
Field Timing
Understanding Sound on the Field
Head Conductor Responsibilities
Backfield Conductor Responsibilities
Patterns
Arrow Pattern
Cut Time Pattern
Complex Meters
Slow Tempos
Team
Conductor Roles
Conductor Staging
Team Warm Up
Matching
We are excited to release this product to the public and could not be more proud of our students and staff who worked hard to create it for the drum major community and the music educator community. We believe that creating online education options will strengthen our activity, make it more resilient to emergency events, and ultimately help us to fulfill our mission of Education Through Performance with an ever growing group of students for years to come.