Make your Marching Band demos WORLD CLASS with these tricks!

Everyone says "oh demos don't matter", "oh that's just for the drill writer", "it's just for you to hear while you put notes on the page", "oh the MIDI is good enough" (this one irks me, MIDI ISN'T A SOUND IT'S A LANGUAGE) and I get it- you got lots of other stuff to do, you probably gotta write the drill and teach the beats and drive the bus and change heads on the quads and so on. But, what if you are in the rare and enviable position of writing for groups that you don't instruct? When you represent yourself and your work through your demo recordings, you owe it to yourself to present the demos in as accurate and polished a fashion as you can! Music designers don't exist in a vacuum- we have to present and defend our work! So, this is my process for putting together a demo from Sibelius. Getting the music on the page and ready for print is a whole other task (and a separate video)- this is what happens after the score is exported to make the music come alive off the page. I'll show you my process for transforming kinda dinky, cheesy Sibelius output into professional sounding demos that represent your music the way it deserves to be heard. Tools I use for this: Avid Sibelius Ultimate Wallander NotePerformer5 Tapspace Virtual Drumline 2.5 Ableton Live 11 Amplitube 5 MAX WAVES CLA-2A SSL Stereo Bus Compressor KORG Triton Extreme Kontakt Player iZotope Ozone 9 I would LOVE to hear what other arrangers and designers do at this point in the process, and how they do their thing. There is barely ANY information out there to teach aspiring designers how to write for marching ensembles: I want to share my process in hopes that others will share theirs and we can all learn!