One time, in band camp...

So, obviously i haven't updated a blog since advanced wars DOR(not that anyone cares that i haven't), so for no apparent reason, I finally feel like writing one.

School's is gonna start for me in just over a week, which sucks. So, this last week, I've been at band camp (i'm not a band geek, it's required for joining marching band), and the schedule was from 8:30 to 8:30 with a 3 hour in total break for lunch and dinner. Basically, this week was as our band director called it, hell week, and it was pretty hard. We were out from 8:30 to 11:30, and then again from 5:30 to 8:30 marching and playing. This is my freshman year so this is my first time doing marching band, and since friday, I wasn't that good at marching and playing, mainly at one part where we had to go backwards while others were going forwards and we would mesh, but I kept crashing into this guy. Now, I've corrected my mistakes, and I'm doing significantly better. Our band director had originally planned for us to finish the drill, for parts 1 and 2 (out of 3, not including pre game, and stuff like that) to be finished by next friday, but we apparently finished one week early.

The music this year, was selections from jekell and hyde, which i think is really cool music. I don't plan on doing this again next year cause it's waaaaay to time consuming, and it gets repetitive.

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As someone who's been through 4 years of high school marching band, I know what you're talking about. It gets better after band camp, don't worry. You'll eventually get the hang of marching as long as you stick with it. I know how it is the very first time you start moving and playing at the same time; it's usually not very pretty, but after a while it becomes second nature.

Just make sure to memorize your music entirely. When you're on the field you want to be able to concentrate on where you're going, and you can't waste time trying to remember the fingering of a specific note.

Good luck, and I hope your band does well.
 
Yeah dude I had band camp the past 2 weeks, from 8:00am to 9:30pm. I am going in the 10th grade, I have been doing this for 3 years now. I'm in pit percussion, I play vibraphone this year. Our band director picked a show with a TON of pit features, so the show is quite hard this year. But the good thing is the rookies are fairly impressive this year. However, I have to tell the other vibraphone player to use piston strokes.... every 10-15 freakin' seconds (piston strokes is the technique that is used when hitting a keyboard instrument).

Ahh, marching band is much fun.
 

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