barisaxy08 Posted June 3, 2007 Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 Ours will start tommorow (June 4th) and for some reason I'm really excited to get into it. I'm ready to get started for marching season. How about you? when does your band camp start and are you ready? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdzsaxplaya Posted June 3, 2007 Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 Wow thats early, ours starts July 30th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel_pablo Posted June 3, 2007 Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 Wow thats early, ours starts July 30th This is just our one week June camp. Our 'real' summer camp doesn't start untill mid-August Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy08 Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 Our one week camp was the last week of school. Our real bandcamp starts July 30th, but Leadership camp is the week before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcomac29 Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 we started ours last week... but that's over now... so we just have sectionals each week, then the entire band meets back in august. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassoonPadwan Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 He11 yeah I'm excited about band camp!! This is my last year, and it's going out with a bang!! I'm going all out this year, with everything! There are some big changes a foot in our program so I'm really excited about everything. Too bad this is the last year that I'll be with them. =(........... it's cool I'll be cheering from the stands. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossman Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 I kinda like that idea from marcomac29, about having sectionals every week. but does it work; I mean do ppl attend every week like they're supposed to (seeing as its summer and all). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fata1 Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 Ours started on May 30th but it was only three days. We didn't use instruments or anything. We were just teaching freshman marching basics while the upperclassmen refreshed their memory. On July 31st, our school is having a guy named Scott Lang come to talk to us about leadership and motivation. After that, we have about 4 weeks of marching band throughout August in which we'll be learning drill with instruments and everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdzsaxplaya Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 We had a mini-camp, but that was about 2 weeks before school ended....so yeah, that mini-camp was also the same as others, teach the fishies the basics and refresh ours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRtrumpet Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 We go to one all next week in Brownwood that our school sends us to, but our real camp doesn't start till the begining of August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the terminator Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 we are going to have two 2 hour sectionals in July, and we have full day practice for all of august except the last week where it is only 3 to 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-ratbowieband Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 you guys start early... We begin August 3rd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitewing09 Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 mine starts august 1st Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRtrumpet Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 We start the last week of July. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 I believe ours is starting July 26th for freshmen?? but I'm not quite sure. We have sectionals every week run by section leaders for the upper woodwinds. Since there's a limit when you can start teaching marching a stuff we make them optional so that it's UIL legal. I can't believe that band camp is longer this year! Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitewing09 Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 i cant believe how short this summer feels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 yah, it's almost over... but it's like 3 weeks longer than any summer my school has had before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizlilnikkaboy Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 Yeah this summer is pretty short because of band. We start on July 27th... with 9 am days until 8 pm at night.. how long will you guys be practicing for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Band-Chica Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 Our freshmen camp starts July 28th or 29th, but that only lasts two days. After that, everybody else is back and ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Tomorrow is our first day of full band camp! Fish camp was today and yesterday, and I'm EXTREMELY happy with the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the terminator Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 HAHA, we already got our freshman doing fundamentals since last Thursday, and although it's still really dirty we basically have our first 2 movements memorized. Our freshman are quite impressive as a whole, and actually are really cool people. Can't wait to start putting the show together. Our goal is to finish our show by our first football game, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 wow, the whole show???? That's extremely ambitious. I really hope you guys can do that. If so, I'd be VERY VERY Impressed. We're just shooting for mvmts. 1&2. I believe we start learning drill monday morning or monday night... not sure yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fata1 Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Our camp started on Tuesday. We had a motivational speaker come talk to us. His name is Scott Lang. I'm pretty sure he also talks to some really good bands like Broken Arrow. Anyway, he was good. Then, on Wednesday through Friday, we were finishing up with fundamentals. Each section was out on the parking lot teaching the freshman while upperclassmen got to review. It also gave the officers to put in some leadership practice before we really get moving. The real fun begins this Monday for us. We start learning drill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the terminator Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 learning drill all day long, I'm compeletely wiped out. Our director had murder in his eyes at one point b/c our loading crew didn't charge the long ranger which he hooks up the metronome to, and then we were trying to correct each other and he wanted us to shut up, and that was a small problem. Still, it was an extremely good day, and we have finished memorization for our first 2 movements. I love our 2nd movement, but it is really slow and so physically draining that by the end of it you wonder if you can even put up the effort to continue with the third. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitewing09 Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 we had fish camp this week it was aight i got really brown but then again im always brown and then our full band starts monday how fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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