Taylor High School

Summer Band Dates/Details

May 25 – 29: Percussion Camp/Drumline Auditions

July 2: Full Color Guard Practice (8:30a-4:00p) – cite TBD

July 3: Band & Guard Practice (9a-11a) 

July 4: Fourth of July Parade (Time TBD)

July 8: Color Guard Weapon Practice (Time TBD)

July 15: Color Guard Weapon Practice (Time TBD)

July 11: Dance Clinic for Color Guard 9a-1p

July 22: Color Guard Weapon Practice (Time TBD)

July 23: Color Guard New Member Practice (Time TBD)

July 24: Student Leadership Training 9a-3p

July 27: Full Summer band & guard marching camp begins

Tentative Summer Band Schedule

7:15am - Staff/Leadership Arrive

8:00-11:30am - Marching (Practice Field)

11:30am-1:00pm - Lunch (you may eat lunch at the band hall area, or you may leave campus for lunch if you have transportation.)

1:00pm - Indoor Music Rehearsals / Indoor color guard practice (may be at an alternative campus)

4:00pm - Dismissal

4:30pm - Leadership Dismissal

What to Wear

Light Colored Clothing Instrument Shorts-NO PANTS ALLOWED

Socks

Hat

Sunscreen

Sunglasses

Athletic Shoes-No sandals, Crocs, Vans, Boots, etc. ONLY ATHLETIC SHOES

What to Bring

Water Jug 

Music

Guard euipment

Pencils

Flip Folder

Fall Scheduling

The marching band rehearses 5 days a week, Monday through Friday.

YES, on days during marching season that are student holidays, we DO have rehearsals. We will rehearse from 9am to noon on these days. They are required and are a major test grade in the gradebook.

Those dates are as follows:

Monday, October 12 – Thursday October 15 

Practice Schedule (until approximately November 1)

Monday – Zero Hour 6:30-7:45am

Tuesday – Zero Hour 6:30-7:45am / Evening Rehearsal 5:30-8:30pm

Wednesday – No Zero Hour / Color Guard Weapons Sectionals 4:45-5:45pm (as needed)

Thursday – Zero Hour 6:30-7:45am / Color Guard Flag Sectionals 4:45-5:45pm (as needed)

Friday – Zero Hour 7:00-7:45, Evening FB Game

Saturday – Marching Contests 

Course Credit

Earn your Fine Arts and PE credit through your participation in Band

1st two years of high school marching band counts as your PE Credit

Marching Band/Concert Band/Winterguard

*Can you take concert band but not marching band or vice versa?

No. They are not 2 separate courses. Marching band is the focus of the curriculum about the 1st 9 weeks of the school year. Concert band is the focus the rest of the school year. We offer a full program - it is based on a 40-week arc of curriculum where students learn important skills through movement/marching as well as through music making.

Prepare students for the future in areas of time-management, dealing with stress and busy times.

*Can you be in both concert band and winterguard?  

Hopefully yes.  We are working on this to have two separate classes scheduled at least in the Spring Semester. 

UIL Pre-Performance Physicals

MARCHING BAND PRE-PARTICIPATION PHYSICAL EXAMINATION. UPON ENTERING THE FIRST AND THIRD YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL AND UPON ANY 7th OR 8th GRADE STUDENT PARTICIPATING IN MARCHING BAND, A PHYSICAL EXAMINATION SIGNED BY A PHYSICIAN, A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT LICENSED BY A STATE BOARD OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT EXAMINERS, A REGISTERED NURSE RECOGNIZED AS AN ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE BY THE BOARD OF NURSE EXAMINERS OR A DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC IS REQUIRED. STANDARDIZED PRE-PARTICIPATION PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FORMS, AVAILABLE FROM THE UIL OFFICE AND AUTHORIZED BY THE UIL MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, ARE REQUIRED.

MARCHING BAND MEDICAL HISTORY FORM. EACH YEAR PRIOR TO ANY PRACTICE OR PARTICIPATION A UIL MEDICAL HISTORY FORM SIGNED BY BOTH STUDENT AND A PARENT OR GUARDIAN IS REQUIRED. A MEDICAL HISTORY FORM SHALL ACCOMPANY EACH PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND SHALL BE SIGNED BY BOTH STUDENT AND A PARENT OR GUARDIAN.

Year 1 and 3: Physical Examination AND Medical History Form Required

Year 2 and 4: Medical History Form Required