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Playoff Marching Show?

Posted by Advice Needed on 10/16/2025, 11:43 am

This'll be the first time since I've been at this school that our football team will most likely be going to playoffs.

Do marching bands usually keep doing their shows or do they do stand tunes? I've heard different answers on this.

Re: Playoff Marching Show?

Posted by Mithrandir on 10/17/2025, 8:10 am, in reply to "Playoff Marching Show?"

You've heard different answers because it's very dependant on the community and/or culture. Do what the community/admin want to see. In my case our playoffs are at a pretty far away neutral site (usually). The people that do go only want the fight song. So we go as a stands/pep band and don't perform at halftime.

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Posted by BDSO on 10/16/2025, 5:30 pm, in reply to "Playoff Marching Show?"

When I did HS band, we would do the full show for the first playoff game. For the next ones it was just the opener or closer then some stands tunes. The only time we did the full show after the first game was when we made the state game.

Re: Playoff Marching Show?

Posted by Been there on 10/16/2025, 4:55 pm, in reply to "Playoff Marching Show?"

Mix it up for the first few weeks, keep part of your show and then just do a standstill. That will satisfy your administrators and your crowd.

Shorten the amount of time that you need for halftime by just performing the First movement of your show-(then cadence to the beginning of the last movement)-Last movement.

Or…

March one movement (the most exciting part of your show that the crowd will enjoy) then move to a block Band to play a pep tune or two to feature either the drill team, or the colorguard, or the cheerleaders in the standstill pep tune.

Re: Playoff Marching Show?

Posted by BBMB on 10/16/2025, 3:53 pm, in reply to "Playoff Marching Show?"

We do our Playoff Pep-Show!!! We play a couple of Fun stand tunes, a drum cadence, the band goes nuts during this and then we end with our Fight Song and we do it to our side. If we are the Visitor we do it to the Visitor side!!! We get our Dance team involved and they just dance to whatever we are playing and our crowd loves it. We get in our warm-up arcs and put the drumline right in the middle. We try to have as much fun as possible.

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Posted by DesertJazz on 10/16/2025, 3:52 pm, in reply to "Playoff Marching Show?"

Depends on the run... If it's one and done? I'll do the show one more time and be done to allow for sit down band time.

2 Games? Maybe the show once, then from there on it's park and bark in a set or two if I feel ambitious. May just be a block sometimes though.

Through December? Christmas show comes out! Moffit has those green books that make for good arrangements. I did a night before christmas reading in between pieces with a recliner on a timpani cart and everyone dressed in pajamas one year.

If you go to SMBC it might be worth doing an extra week of your show, but honestly, I would only do it one extra week myself.

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Posted by Han's Sire on 10/16/2025, 1:16 pm, in reply to "Playoff Marching Show?"

Do what is easiest for you to put together.
We do pep tunes in a block because we stop going outside regularly and we don't have to take all our front ensemble equipment. Those kids end up on cymbals or flub drums.

Re: Playoff Marching Show?

Posted by Warhawk on 10/16/2025, 1:15 pm, in reply to "Playoff Marching Show?"

All of it, part of it. See what you admin says. As my holiday concert would approaching, in the past, we would only work on marching on Fridays.

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