I would go with corps style as far as marching and maneuvering, etc, but the music selection would have a lot of showstyle influence. However I don't think I would bother having a colorguard. MOST college guards suck rancid poo anyways. So, a big dance line would be ideal in my opinion. Scantily clad go go dancers...

I'm late on the topic, lol, but considering I have been blessed to do both styles, I am leaning towards showstyle a little more. If I am starting from scratch, I have an idea that will blow some minds at competitions.

Now, if I do teach at a well established band program, I would pick up their style, and add some of the "opposite" style with it. For example, If they are corps, I would add some high stepping counts into the show, or if they don't have a cool looking marked time (like a snap), I would have all unison mark times high stepped. I think that would blow some minds at a competition.

If I get a showstyle band, we would maybe do a corps style field entrance (the infamous soft entrance followed by a loud opener) into high stepping, and a few corps style drills and songs.

if i could start from scratch i would fuse the two because the fusion of both would give you more possibilities of wat to do and it would be creative you can do new things with the music and take it to new levels while pleasing all crowds.and color nor area would have anything to do with it cause music dosen't have color only the veiws of people ..

I would start by showing the kids all sorts of videos of drum corps, college show bands, etc. and ask them what they want to do. Then once I their input, I'll weigh their opinions and do my best to give them the high school band experience that THEY want. If I fall short in some areas, I'll look around and see if I can bring in someone who can help with whatever area the kids would like to explore. If the majority of them want to be in a top ranked competition band, I'll work to hire assistants who can give them that. If they want to have fun doing lots of shows a year, or learning dance choreography I'll take them in that direction.

I was always upset at how my high school band director never brought in the appropriate people when he was unable to arrange/teach certain things as well as others.

thats real bs that its more of a challenge for a corp style drumline or bad. I guarantee that if you tried to groove to something 90 percent of corp drummers would not be able to do it and vice versa. show style has different talents that need to be worked on from corp style. I really dont like all of you corp style guys saying that show style is easy...it really isnt. In my opinion its what the crowd likes that is better. And crowds get a lot more excited by show style. Corp style just plays and they go oh they are clean but dont get hype. Think about what you are saying. Look at this band in my hometown (Greensboro) and you will realize that you cant do it. http://www.ncat.edu/%7eband/

1. yo all music aint crunk thats why their are different styles .and if you listen to corps cadences there are <s>[b]snugglebunny[/b]</s> [color:"red"]a lot</font> of grooves .its just our grooves are played staight through and they have a web of them stuck together in one cadence.you might have never heard it or looked for it but i have . like i was told and i will tell you ,you have no idea what a person is capable of unless your a psychic.wich aparently your not because you would have know i was gonna say something .( im the mouth of the showband forum and i got the credentials to prove it you should have known)

oh yeah and dont say either one is harder than the other because the both have their ups and downs.its apples and oranges get over it .


2. the way you formulate the fusion of both styles is take your favorite attributes of both and stickem together
like i like highly clean rudimental playing as in corps but i also like the flash of show bands so you stick them toghether .
the marching part is different you add to all your field shows an element of both .you might have a hype song like "get you eagle on" by nelly (dont shoot if i got the name wrong )and you high step then go into "Malugena" (i hate spelling those weird titles)wich you would core style.
but the music is the only hard part taking these two styles of music and somehow making them work now thats hard but i still have some years to figure out how to do it but when i do my band will be the next level of both so where gonna take it on the road!!!