See the 3-time world champion Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps practice in Ambridge

Hartman says the Madison Scouts visit is a great opportunity for Ambridge students and the general public to see a champion drum corps in action.

Madison Scouts will arrive in Ambridge around 5 a.m. Monday and stay on the high school campus until6 p.m.

“Since this day overlaps with one of our band camp days, this will provide an amazing and unique opportunity for the marching band students to experience and gain an understanding of what it takes to compete at the highest level of field marching pageantry,” Hartman said.

“I explained it to our students as, ‘It’s like marching band on steroids,'” Hartman said. “Members rangefrom high school to college students, typically music majors, who have devoted a great deal of time into becoming some of the most proficient young musicians in the world. In addition to brass, percussion and electronic instruments providing the wall of sound, there is a visual element that coincides with the music that includes color guardmembers dancing, tossing and twirling flags, rifles or other apparatus. Uniforms are now costumes, and large props are used to transform a football field into another world.”