Five Hours Rehearsal

We're done with the two hour rehearsals.  Dang it.  Five hours felt like an eternity.  I am so extremely glad that this isn't my first year of marching band again.  We were doing move E.  That's eight steps forward, eight left, eight back, eight right.  We didn't do that move last year, so it was new.  I got an upperclassman sax to watch me, one who was kind of mean/bossy to me last year.  She said that I looked good.

I'm officially playing piccolo.  I asked my band director on Thursday if I could, and he agreed.  Their was already a freshman on it, but he wants 3.  The freshman had to audition, but I played piccolo in concert band, so I didn't.

The weather was kind of iffy today.  Thunderstorms and rain.  It rained during rehearsal.  Last year on the first day of these five hour rehearsals it poured.  It's a theme.  Pouring rain on the first day of camp.

We also got part one and two.  We already had part three.  Part one is a separate piccolo part, and the rest are just the flute part.  At the end of the ballad, there's a high A, which is already high on flute.  It says piccolo over it.  My marching band mentor told me that it was written, so play it.  I blasted everyone out to produce the note.  The freshman piccolo doesn't play well in tune, but she probably plays better dynamics.  My marching band mentor has perfect pitch, so she tuned us.  The freshman piccolo was really flat, and I was good.  My director said he may cut the last note of the ballad down to one piccolo.  He'll pick me if he wants in tune, but her if he wants it to die away.  Tuning only applies if there are more than one piccolo player.