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 Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:19 pm
We've been having rehearsal for weeks now. Well, for the band, two weeks. For drumline, three weeks (drumline has a separate "camp" called percussion camp. We just head to the school and work on warmups and the show and showing the freshies what drumline's all about). We've been having four-hour rehearsals all week. ( 8:00AM to 12:00PM )
However, today, I have to say, was the worst.
Our rehearsal was to last from 8 until 6PM. That sounded okay at first, but then we actually started rehearsing.
This year, our opener has 32 sets (last year was about 35 or 37), but we only had the first seventeen sets done. So, we basically spent all day working on drill.
HOWEVER...
This morning, my camelbak leaked, so I had to take a waterbottle, which got all warm and gross in the sun.
We had a lunch break, and we just kept going on with setting drill. It was extremely hot outside, and I felt like I was going to DIE! Especially when my section leader told us that the band needed to reset one of the sets, but we didn't have to reset anything. BUT, we would keep our drums on while they put their horns on the sideline and reset everything. Keep in mind, we had 6 hours left. Yay back pain!
At 6:00, we performed for the parents after long hours of getting to set 27.
So I have to ask you:
Have you ever had to have these long, long practices that just don't seem to have an end? Do you ever get extreme lobster burns from forgetting your sunscreen and marching for ten hours?
Basically, share what comes to your mind, eh?
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:34 pm
haha, last band camp, my sophomore band camp, i forgot my sunscreen at home. Later, my director was commenting about remembering sunscreen, and he said "I dont want lobster children" and he was looking at me with a smile on his face lol.
Our last day of band camp was tuesday. We set drill during night rehearsal and will eb setting drill for our entire rehearsals for a while. We've only gotten about5 sets done, including park and blows. Which for the first time setting drill during the season, isnt that bad. last year we didnt evens tart setting until the first school day rehearsal.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:13 am
Lol! I understand. I have this sunburn on my face right now. I can't touch my forehead or my nose without feeling immense pain. D: I'm wearing a hat to rehearsals now (and wearing more sunscreen. ^^) .___. my band director would throw a fit if our drill-setting went like that. We probably would have gotten most (if not all) of the opener done at band camp if we hadn't had to spend days re-learning how to march.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:01 am
well, currently our director is the choir director. she was in band for 13 years, but i think its been a while since she set drill. We did a lot of runthroughs because my section has two of the worst marchers and they were at the front of our line, so it kept getting badly messed up and i couldn't get them to fix it-_-
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:32 am
Oh. o.o
Disobedient line? Or, were they just incredibly confused?
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:45 pm
Bit of both.. i dont advise putting rookies next to eachother.
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:51 pm
I like setting drill (it's less painful than basics block...), but I agree, sometimes it seems to just go on forever. We learned around fifteen sets in an hour and a half yesterday, and it felt like a long time...my sunscreen always comes off, and I never get a chance to put it back on. D= That happens pretty often. xd
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:05 pm
Goddess : .___. no joke, man. No joke. There's this one girl who's a senior this year, but this is her first year marching (she was in pit last year). She's not very good at guiding. It's not a hard concept, and you'd think she'd see when she's out of line. Then we have this kid who doesn't quite get...anything...
Oh, well. D:
Terra: Oh, totally! I hate doing a basics block, but luckily, we haven't been doing them for very long lately.
Lol. Good golly. xD How many sets does your show have? o.o
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:19 pm
Our band camps we march from 8 to 5, have music rehearsal and then do more marching work for an hour or two. That's just for fundamentals and mock shows though. We don't learn the actual shows till later.
The part that goes on forever to me is re-learning all the different steps (and learning right/left/right back/left back pivots and diagonals for every frickin one...). I think there's five or six different ones. Of course the freshmen don't know any of it so we have to do it, but ughhhhhhhh it takes so loooooooooooooooooong.
It doesn't help that our style of marching is not done in high school, so they're starting from scratch.
Also, I never understood why we travel to a hotter location to have band camp. One year it reached 104 degrees...I had really bad sunburn on the backs of my legs, and my shirt was all faded from the sun. D:
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:04 am
Alchemic Kraehe Goddess : .___. no joke, man. No joke. There's this one girl who's a senior this year, but this is her first year marching (she was in pit last year). She's not very good at guiding. It's not a hard concept, and you'd think she'd see when she's out of line. Then we have this kid who doesn't quite get...anything... Put those two together and you have Tim. Hes a senior that doesn't quite get it...hes always out of line and his playing is worth a bblade of grass-_- It takes him an hour to learn a run that everyone else learned in a minute or two. So setting drill with him is...fun.
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:09 am
at least its better than what happened to my band 2 years ago, we went away for band camp then it was awsome but sucked at the same time, our first tune had 40 SETS! can you belive that and our secound had 35, it was bad and of chorse that was when the temp toped off at 110 degress yah we were marching in that from 8 a.m. till noon we had lunch then we had seconals and had an hour of free time then we went to dinner and from 7 till 9 marched
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:59 am
Alchemic Kraehe Goddess : .___. no joke, man. No joke. There's this one girl who's a senior this year, but this is her first year marching (she was in pit last year). She's not very good at guiding. It's not a hard concept, and you'd think she'd see when she's out of line. Then we have this kid who doesn't quite get...anything... Oh, well. D: Terra: Oh, totally! I hate doing a basics block, but luckily, we haven't been doing them for very long lately. Lol. Good golly. xD How many sets does your show have? o.o
I guess I like basics in a way, because I've gotten a lot better at marching this year, but it still hurts like crazy. Our band camp is 12 hours, so we usually spent half of the morning in basics and half of the morning working on drill. During mini-camp, though...it was still a total of 12 hours, but since we hadn't started drill yet, it was three hours of basics. It was horrible. xd
Well, we've decided to learn our drill really early this year so we can clean it faster for grand nationals (first time our band is going ever- so excited :] ), but we were running a little behind. After our two weeks of band camp we have parts 1 and 2 (out of five, not including our pre-show) on the field, I think maybe 56 sets so far? Along with tons of subsets near the end of what we know.
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