Band Camp Day 6

Band Camp 2010

Yesterday, band camp was from four to nine.  That was nice, five hours instead if eight.  Where I live, it's still really warm out at four.  Fortunantly, we didn't really move a lot until the sun started to go down, and it cooled down.

I don't like double time.  It confused me.  The middle part of our show, the ballad, changed from single time to double time and vice versa many times.  I still can't get it right even if I'm not playing.  One sax player said not to play, the music will come in time.  I'm not a very good marcher.  I've thought about playing pit: that's percussion instruments that you don't have to march.  My friend, who's a percussionist, said that percussion is a whole lot harder than it looks.  Bells look easy, until you use the ones that don't have the note names on them, and you're trying to use four mallets.  I'm a whole lot better at music than marching.  The thing is, I don't know the first thing about any percussion instruments.

My favorite part of marching band so far is the social aspect.  I like meeting new people.  All of the marching band and color guard are really friendly.  Many people have asked me if I like marching band, and I say that I need to experience the whole season, and not just band camp, to make my decision.