Parade Camp

Jake with his baritone with an ankle weight around the bell

It was parade camp this past week! 7:30 - 2:30 every day, but because of my role in the band I had the opportunity to go from 7:00 - 2:45. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work.  We have a total of 4 vets and 7 rookies making us the largest section in the wind ensemble with 11 people. All, but 3, of us got all of our music memorized and passed off along with learning how to march. We marched and played on our last day for 55 minutes. I have not seen rookies do so well.   I think we are going to be really good this year. We marched a little parade on Saturday to wrap up the week. We start getting into the normal marching schedule in two weeks and I am excited to see how we grow.

Low Brass Fun

Right after finishing the last post our section went to nickle city in Orem. It has been a long time since I have hung out with a large group of people. We had so much fun. We Went laser tagging, and the best part was that I could see the lasers. Following that we played a lot of nickle based games. Milli and I played 2 rounds of 3 of a Japanese Dance Dance Revelation game. We played deal or no deal as a group, and we played a trivia game. (I totally am the best at getting second on trivia games). We collectively as a group pooled are tickets. 2000 of them. We used them to get the section glass chess set. It probably cost 5 dollars for Nickle City to buy and $50 dollars in tickets, but it was defiantly worth it.   I think my section is really, really fun this year.

The last week of school

This week I took the State programming test and passed. It was pretty exciting. I am glad I have coding to keep me busy during the summer.

I also took 5 finals and passed the math SAGE, which is apparently pretty difficult with only 45% of my math class passing.  I am waiting to see how I did on my other finals but I feel good about them. In Chemistry we tie-dyed shirts, and mine is fantastic. It is multiple colors of green. The only issue with it is.... I forgot cotton shrinks.  I am probably going to give the shirt to my 5 year old brother for his birthday in August.

Today, we had are first day of marching band (It was a student run rehearsal). We sounded pretty decent for not knowing the other parts and having new Drum Majors. We have great rookies that I think are going to put in the work.  I think we are going to have a solid sounding band this year.

Pre Marching Band

This year during the off season I have earned the leadership role of Brass Captain. The role of the Brass Captain is to assist the drum majors in any way possible and to make sure the band family functions well. I am excited for my first rehearsal of my fourth, and final season, on May 23rd. I am going to strive to do weekly post's throughout the summer and I will be excited for what is to come.