"High-Step: A Story of the Michigan State Marching Band"

High Step was recently featured in the 2009 East Lansing Film Festival.

The Spartan Marching Band is a unique Band where they strive for perfection. From marching in front of 70,000 people, to upholding decades of traditions the marching resinates with excitement and passion for the sport of marching. This documentary follows a "game day" looking through eyes of four prominent members of the Michigan State Marching Band. From 6:00AM on a game day Saturday the band preforms the jaw-dropping march to the stadium, to the crowd pleasing pre-game show where the band spells STATE. The band strives to inspire Spartans everywhere and leads MSU to another victory. GO GREEN!

Produced By: Nick Constantine, Peter Corriveau, Carly Ludtke, and Andrew Vallentine.

Category:

Film & Animation

[MicTheMailman]

OMG leave those goddamn DCI out of here they have nothing to do with college marching bands.

[Samqle]

its ok we spartan people forgive u for going to the dark side. haha jk

[Shamell2011]

So not true....there are high stepping bands who are a lot better but you all are good as well

[PapicitoNegro]

Great video!

[kschmirler]

haha, you have color guard

[Foxy1]

KKKKKK KKKKK PSI!!! Hi I would like to come up and hang out with the brothers and sisters of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma...I am in Detroit. I use to marching for Kentucky State University Mighty Marching Thorobreds!!!

KKPSI Sring 2002 AEA

[Foxy1]

KKKKKK KKKKK PSI!!! Hi I would like to come up and hang out with the brothers and sisters of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma...I am in Detroit. I use to marching for Kentucky State University Mighty Marching Thorobreds!!!

KKPSI Sring 2002

[numberThree0703]

This brought a tear to my eye. Thanks guys

[SonicBoomC98]

@hlywood72 Well, of course if you're talking about band or anything else, everyone style for the most part comes from the first person or the first people or entity to do something. A lot of high school bands who try to mix traditional and corps style together could probably learn a lot from watching MSU

[Autocycles]

I drove to East Lansing to watch the Homecoming parade the last three years on Friday night and was shocked to see the band in tee shirts and blue jeans. That evening on Flint Channel 12 news, they showed the band marching in uniform.....must have been file footage. Certainly not from that day, as I was there. The band sounded OK, but come on. The Michigan band would never be seen in public out of uniform.

[hlywood72]

I marched 1992-1995 Grambling State University "World Famed" Marching Band! Our style as well as several other HBCU bands (Jackson State, Southern) came directly from MSU! Most schools won't admit it but Grambling does. Our first band director Dr. Conrad Hutchison is on the record several times stating "Gramblings Marching Style" comes directly from MSU. For years Grambling only used "Nickel Plated " horns but that has now changed. It is so amazing to watch the band ....... Go Spartans!!!!!

[BuckeyefanHill33]

OSU and MSU def. have the best bands in the Big Ten as well as the country. The awesome thing is that they have a great respect for one another! They both know that they always strive to be the best. I'm in TBDBITL and I'll stick by that name until I die ;) but if there is another band that I like and want to listen too it's MSU. I hope they say the same for us. Hope you guys can come down whenever you play OSU again.