Great work on Scramble last night. Thanks for your work to make that playable, now we have to keep working to make it sound great. With the longer break ahead (no summer sessions on Tuesday) make sure to make good use of it. Review all exercises we have worked on and make sure you have them at the tempo goals set previously. Also, keep working on school songs and cadences.
We’ll see you next Thursday, have a great Independence Day!
Sorry for the late post. Yesterday, we worked on cadences and school songs mostly. Our goal to play all of Scramble on Thursday June 28th. Along with Scramble, keep working on all of the other music, exercises and school songs. We’ll see you Thursday!
Happy Summer Solstice! Due to the storms tonight we were limited on the marching portion but we got a lot of good playing in on exercises and school songs.
Music
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Practice hard this weekend and let’s meet our goals for this coming week!
Another great night of summer sessions! Without Mark tonight, we went into sub sectionals and worked a lot on school songs.
Music
Besides School songs, be sure to refer to older posts and keep up on all the other music that we have been working on.
IMPORTANT: Unfortunately, the snare sectional that was planned for tomorrow has been cancelled. A new date will be set soon.
PDFs for Scramble and Nefarious will be uploaded tonight and you can find them on the Music PDFs page.
Music
Note: If music is not on this update, refer to earlier posts for pieces and tempos.
Make sure to have Fight the Team ready for next Tuesday. Have a great weekend and Go Bucks!
Here are updates on music from tonight’s summer session.
Look at the following:
We’ll see bass drums tomorrow and everyone else on Thursday at 5!
We have a few updates for the upcoming weeks of summer sessions. In addition to our normal sectionals before summer sessions, Mark plans to have more personalized sectionals on Wednesday nights. This week, he plans to meet with bass drums from 6-8:30. Next week, he plans to meet with snare drums at the same time. Sections not involved are still welcome to attend and have separate sectionals. This will be discussed further on Tuesday.
Bass Drums
June 13th: 6 – 8:30
Snare Drums
June 20th: 6 – 8:30
Dates for Tenors and Cymbals will be decided soon.
If you are considering trying out on one of these instruments, even though it’s not your current instrument, you are still welcome to come and learn!
Great second day of summer sessions, now time to go home and practice for next week. Here is the music we covered today with some associated tempo goals.
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Buckeye Technique 1: 216 bpm
Buckeye Technique 5: 156 bpm (with the ghost note)
No Joke Strokes: 168 bpm
Building Blocks: 124 bpm
Mellifluous
Marching
Fundamentals we covered this week can be found on the Summer Sessions page.
Thanks for your hard work this week and we’ll see you next Tuesday at 5!
With our first session of the year in the books, we are getting ready for band season! To keep you up to date, we will be making postings after every summer session with updates on music and marching. Tonight was fairly simple but things will only get more challenging from here on so it is important you put the time in to keep up.
Music
Buckeye Technique 1: 197 bpm
Look at Buckeye Technique 5 and Building Blocks
Marching
In place movements
See you on Thursday at 5 for sectionals!