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Alexa Swackhammer
English 101 039
1/26/14
The Day We Got A 1 Band season was up and away. It’s said rookie year is always the hardest, learning all the moves for the first time, the music is more difficult, and trying to just fit in. For my rookie year the music was from the hit movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. Three phases or parts that were a mix of songs from the movie. All our hard work through the season put into just an eight minute show that needed to go perfect. There were many practices, football games and other competitions. It was a good amount of time spent throughout the fall. The competitions before went well, we usually placed high and got best percussions, but we had still never reached the highly mark of getting a 1. Band is an all-day activity for a Saturday, I had to wake up six in the morning and I didn’t get home till at least ten at night. I arrived at the school got my drum and my uniform and headed towards the buses. We were preparing for the Buckeye Invitational at The Ohio State University. We arrived at the Stadium at around ten and the long process of getting ready started. 60 kids all packed into a small area takes a good amount of time, since we all had to get our face painted and put on our uniforms. We had several different tents and two buses to get ready for the competitions. We didn’t have a color guard so the painted face and the uniform or custom was used to help get more points. The face paint was based on Jack Skellinton’s white skull face and the black hallowed eyes, we wore white caps to cover our hair with black pants and matching “dress” shirts that had a skeleton chest and a bat bow. When we were all together it looked pretty nice. We only had a short amount of time before we had to get our instruments and warm up. While wearing a drum on your chest and layers or clothes to make the uniform it usually would have gotten pretty hot but on that Saturday we got lucky, the wind was lightly blowing and there
English 101 039
1/26/14
The Day We Got A 1 Band season was up and away. It’s said rookie year is always the hardest, learning all the moves for the first time, the music is more difficult, and trying to just fit in. For my rookie year the music was from the hit movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. Three phases or parts that were a mix of songs from the movie. All our hard work through the season put into just an eight minute show that needed to go perfect. There were many practices, football games and other competitions. It was a good amount of time spent throughout the fall. The competitions before went well, we usually placed high and got best percussions, but we had still never reached the highly mark of getting a 1. Band is an all-day activity for a Saturday, I had to wake up six in the morning and I didn’t get home till at least ten at night. I arrived at the school got my drum and my uniform and headed towards the buses. We were preparing for the Buckeye Invitational at The Ohio State University. We arrived at the Stadium at around ten and the long process of getting ready started. 60 kids all packed into a small area takes a good amount of time, since we all had to get our face painted and put on our uniforms. We had several different tents and two buses to get ready for the competitions. We didn’t have a color guard so the painted face and the uniform or custom was used to help get more points. The face paint was based on Jack Skellinton’s white skull face and the black hallowed eyes, we wore white caps to cover our hair with black pants and matching “dress” shirts that had a skeleton chest and a bat bow. When we were all together it looked pretty nice. We only had a short amount of time before we had to get our instruments and warm up. While wearing a drum on your chest and layers or clothes to make the uniform it usually would have gotten pretty hot but on that Saturday we got lucky, the wind was lightly blowing and there