Marching Band and iPads

As a Columbus native with family members who are both former and current members of The Ohio State Marching Band, I am extremely happy to see all of the publicity that they are getting recently.  As a former member of my high school's marching band, I know how much work it takes to create a competition show over the course of a season and as a sister of two former members of the OSU band I know how much work they do to learn a new show every week.  The Today Show on NBC did a piece on the band recently and revealed that they are now using iPads to help create and learn their new shows.  Their director, Jon Waters, the assistant directors, and each squad leader have been loaned an iPad that has animated versions of their shows that not only give them their coordinates for each set, but can also show them exactly how they are to get from one point to another and where they are in their music at the same time.  Talk about technology in music!!

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