Welcome to Bandtek, a marching band drill design service with more than 20 years of experience. My name is Victor Neves.  I'm a music teacher, band director and drill designer and I've been writing marching band drill since 1982.  In all I've designed pretty close to a hundred and ninety marching band shows.  That's a lot of marching band shows.  For a band director to gain equivalent experience writing marching shows for their own band, they would have to survive six careers.

     The number of shows matters because learning to write drill involves a lot of study, plus trial and error.  I designed a career's worth of marching in my first few years' teaching and the bugs are pretty much worked out of my design system. The result is that my drill is easier to march.  My drill design is more musical. My drill design is more enjoyable for the audience.  And my drill design earns higher general effect scores.

     When I begin to design a marching band show, my first priority is to serve the music education needs of the band. Each custom designed show is created to meet the needs of individual students in an individual band. That helps small band programs grow and helps large band programs get better. It really works. 

     Even though competition is never the top priority, every year Bandtek bands win first place trophies in several states, sixteen total so far.   Of course winning isn't everything, but it sure is fun.

     In addition, I've found some useful stuff online over the years.  I've been online since 1988 and have seen a lot of the best of what's out there.  I've linked up the best of what I've found.  So, check out the downloads, the list of bands that send out free cd's, the humor links, and while you're here, download some drill samples, check out the music literacy project and try the chorales.  The music education and design philosphy might change the way your band learns and performs.