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Post by Gil Alexander on Aug 25, 2006 15:38:45 GMT -5
Today is the first football game of the season, woot. Post here about how stuff went and pretty much anything about marching band in general
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Post by AshVersion2 on Aug 25, 2006 16:04:13 GMT -5
Would someone please tell the silly Brit what marching band is?
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Post by Angie on Aug 25, 2006 16:47:24 GMT -5
It's a band that marches and plays at football games to keep people peppy (haha, we're like nerdy cheerleaders). We do parades, local events, marching contests (we learn a show where we march on the football field in various formations while playing music with a theme), football games, and other various things. Man, it has been humid during practice lately. . . Though the freshmen don't realize how easy we've got it; the director isn't mean yet because we're still kind of far from contest, so they don't know how it feels to have to march a ten minute show multiple times in a row (with various pauses to get yelled at) on a hot humid field without a break. And most of the show is so fast it's almost like you're running.
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Post by Jayda on Aug 27, 2006 17:00:59 GMT -5
Hah, your freshmen have got it easy then We've done the whole 'run it through several times in a row with breaks only for rude and hasty corrections and much yelling at individuals' many times now. When do you guys start doing those? They're just sooooo much fun, wouldn't you agree? We did our show, and let me tell you, we were BAD. Not even just bad, but lousy. We marched and played like crap, and not just because we had about fifteen people sitting out due to missing Monday night rehearsals, but just because we suck. We're never going to get it at this rate, hence the memorization tests of the first movement tomorrow on the first day of school. And I have misplaced the second page of it, so no way am I going to do well. Gah, band is not so fun right now
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Post by Angie on Aug 27, 2006 18:02:30 GMT -5
A couple weeks before our first contest usually. But don't get me wrong; our director can be at least moderately mean all the time. *nods* I think you're exaggerrating a bit.
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Post by Jayda on Aug 27, 2006 18:10:12 GMT -5
Is that good or bad though? Because mean teachers usually get more results, don't they?
Probably. Exaggerating where?
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Post by Techy on Aug 27, 2006 18:35:54 GMT -5
Actually, she isn't really exaggerating. Not much at least. It's more of a two hour on end thing, water break for 5 mins, then back out on the feild for an hour and a half to an hour and 45 mins. Monday night is going to be HELL because of my pulled muscle *-*
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Post by Angie on Aug 28, 2006 19:37:59 GMT -5
You only have to march half an hour between water breaks? We have to march at least an hour, and we often don't get any water breaks! And I meant I'm sure she's exaggerrating how badly y'all did.
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Post by skittlestiger on Aug 28, 2006 21:07:05 GMT -5
Top this, we marched for around four hours every day for two weeks in the summer and got one or two ten minute water breaks! ah torture, sweet sweet torture. We already played and marched our first song at the pigskin classic, we're doing rent this year!
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Post by Angie on Aug 28, 2006 21:17:54 GMT -5
That's about how our summer band was. Luckily, it gets slightly better once school starts. *nods*
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Post by Jayda on Aug 29, 2006 21:07:14 GMT -5
You only have to march half an hour between water breaks? We have to march at least an hour, and we often don't get any water breaks! lol, no. We march anywhere between an hour and a half to two hours, then get a water break, then march for an hour or so. Then we go home. Those are how our Monday night rehearsals go. No water breaks suck! We usually get one, I think. And trust me, no exaggerating on how badly we did. It was terrible. Even the instructors said so. What's the pigskin classic? How'd you guys do?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2006 11:55:15 GMT -5
ok. my worst experience (which will repeat itself rather soon due to rugby season beginning again was this, though not recent, was hell)
Murrayfield last year. Scotland v France (Guess who won...). We arrived at 10am after an hour and a half on the bus. Outside temperature, 3 degrees centigrade (not sure wot that is in farenheight, but its 3 degrees above freezing!). 10.30 we begin to umm... warm up our pipes. Standing around in kilts and not allowed our capes on (basically rain jackets which make it marginally warmer). 11am we go onto the pitch for rehersals. it begins to rain. hour and a half later, we are still on the pitch, soaked and our hands are purple. Faces to numb to play so basically we sound crap. drummers can barely hold their sticks. 12.45 break for lunch 1.30 onto the pitch for pre match entertainment. still freezing and purple 2.00 still standing there. cant feel legs 2.30 im prety much dead and they expect us to march of the pitch... hmm yeah
so that day was the worst ever for pipe band lol
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