DVD's & Videos

Performer's Academy Horn Line Visuals

by Richard Lopez

A must DVD for all bands to learn the basics of Horn Line Visuals!

Add visual excitement to your next show with this new video by Richard Lopez, expert guard and band instructor from San Antonio, Texas. The video includes all the latest horn and body visuals. A complete DVD divided into four parts.

Adding visuals to your horn line has never been easier than with Horn Line Visuals-a unique new training DVD that takes you through a series of easy-to-execute visuals for all instruments. Horn Line Visuals consists of four different sections: isolations, progressions, horn visuals and visual combinations. Everything you need to know is detailed in a simple, step-by-step format.

Isolations:

Beginning with simple isolated movements of the upper and lower body, Horn Line Visuals will demonstrate how to more effectively use your space and create texture in your marching forms. In addition, you will also learn the four basic body positions, weight shifts and moving through time.

Progressions:

Put your visuals in motion! In this section of Horn Line Visuals you will learn how to incorporate visuals into drill transitions with simple three-step-turns, moving with elevated steps, and stopping with elevation changes.

Horn Visuals:

Building on simple horn positions for both brass and woodwind instruments, this section of Horn Line Visuals will teach you how to create new lines by utilizing body and horn positions together. You will also learn how to create form changes with body and horn facings, as well as how to generate ripple effects across the field.

Visual Combinations:

For the final segment of Horn Line Visuals, we have developed nine different combinations of various lengths that can be put together, taken apart or used as is to fill any number of counts. We end with a demonstration of the "27 Points in Space" in which the body and horn can travel. This useful exercise will prove very effective in perfecting your new horn line visuals.

Add new dimension to your program with the simple, step-by-step methods of Performer's Academy’s Horn Line Visuals!

Price $45 (30 minute DVD)

Performer's Academy

"Flag Fundamental Warm up" DVD

by Richard Lopez

 

In today’s competitive color guard world, nothing can be more important than a strong fundamental program. With Performer’s Academy’s latest video, Flag Fundamental Warm-up, strengthening your program’s fundamentals has never been easier! We have designed a basic flag warm-up that includes spins, isolations, flourishes and carves. Each exercise is explained in detail to ensure students use proper hand positions, check points and equipment pathways. Finally, we have organized the exercises into a comprehensive 5-minute warm-up routine that will build the skills essential to any successful color guard program. Creating and cleaning choreography will become painless with the strength and precision built by Performer’s Academy’s Flag Fundamental Warm-up.

 DVD Price$45

Performer’s Academy

“Marching Band Body Warm Up”

by Richard Lopez

 With the addition of horn line visuals and high velocity drills, demands on the body are ever increasing for today’s marching band students. To help prepare your students for the daily task of performing these challenging visual programs, Performer’s Academy has created this quick, easy-to-follow warm up and stretching video. Your entire organization can use this warm-up, creating a unified program for horn lines, drum lines and color guards. At the start of your daily rehearsal or before competition, this eight-minute warm up can help prevent unnecessary injury and prepare your students for the demands ahead.

“The Body Warm Up” is broken up into two segments. Segment One explains each stretching exercise in detail to ensure proper body alignment and weight positioning. In Segment Two, all the exercises are put together in an easy-to-follow combination that will warm up and stretch the body from head to toe!

The next time your band steps onto the field, make sure your students are prepared to safely handle the demands of your visual program with Performer’s Academy’s “Marching Band Body Warm Up

Video Price $45