First Day Of Marching Band
Band Camp
This is the story of my first day of marching band. I was 15 and it was July 20. I was one of about 40 to 50 freshmen in the marching band. I had been waiting all year for the opportunity to join the marching band. I will cover 4 major areas of the day. First, how the day started. Second, when we hit the pavement to start learning. Then, going through the first part of the show for the first time. And finally, the end of the day. When I first woke up that morning I was extremely nervous about being in the marching band. About an hour and a half before we were going to start I forgot to buy sunscreen and had to go buy some at Walgreens. After that I went to the school, it was about 45 minutes before practice. When I got in the band room I found my assigned seat. I was …show more content…
When we got out their they had us lie on the pavement and do core exercises when the pavement was scorching hot. We then moved on to the fun of learning how to march forward, backward, and left to right. That was about an hour to two hours of our eight hour day. We then took a popsicle/water break for the staff to hand out drill cards. When everyone finally had one Mr. Ames then explained how to read them. We went back onto the pavement to learn where our drill spots were and how to move from one to the next. We did this for the next three hours and then went inside for music rehearsal. We broke off into brass, woodwinds, and percussion. We did the strangest thing, the brass instructor told us to lie on the floor and we had to work on our breathing and we did this until dinner. After that it was time for our hour dinner. When we were dismissed for dinner we would line the band halls and eat the food we had brought in. Most of the sections would eat together and the play games after they had finished. After the hour was done they called us all into a mass music practice and did that for the next 45 minutes. We then went back
This is the story of my first day of marching band. I was 15 and it was July 20. I was one of about 40 to 50 freshmen in the marching band. I had been waiting all year for the opportunity to join the marching band. I will cover 4 major areas of the day. First, how the day started. Second, when we hit the pavement to start learning. Then, going through the first part of the show for the first time. And finally, the end of the day. When I first woke up that morning I was extremely nervous about being in the marching band. About an hour and a half before we were going to start I forgot to buy sunscreen and had to go buy some at Walgreens. After that I went to the school, it was about 45 minutes before practice. When I got in the band room I found my assigned seat. I was …show more content…
When we got out their they had us lie on the pavement and do core exercises when the pavement was scorching hot. We then moved on to the fun of learning how to march forward, backward, and left to right. That was about an hour to two hours of our eight hour day. We then took a popsicle/water break for the staff to hand out drill cards. When everyone finally had one Mr. Ames then explained how to read them. We went back onto the pavement to learn where our drill spots were and how to move from one to the next. We did this for the next three hours and then went inside for music rehearsal. We broke off into brass, woodwinds, and percussion. We did the strangest thing, the brass instructor told us to lie on the floor and we had to work on our breathing and we did this until dinner. After that it was time for our hour dinner. When we were dismissed for dinner we would line the band halls and eat the food we had brought in. Most of the sections would eat together and the play games after they had finished. After the hour was done they called us all into a mass music practice and did that for the next 45 minutes. We then went back