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Apologies + First Competition!
11 years ago
==Hello, welcome to my journal!==
First and foremost, allow me to apologize because I will more than likely not be producing any artwork this week, maybe not even next week. :/ I got home at around 1:40am today, and I have a Latin project to finish. If I have time and I feel up for it I will definitely attempt to make something work looking at. :) Competition season has officially started. I'll link you guys to the official video of our first competition once I can get a link to it.
Anyways, we went and competed at the Panther Creek Invitational last night, against a blood bath of other bands... Fort Mill, the best band in the Carolinas, Green Hope, whose Baritone line this year is ridiculously good, Cape Fear, who we just generally hate, and then us, the Cary Senior High School Marching Band. :P We didn't even place in our class, which is 4A. Green Hope got 3rd, Cape Fear 2nd, and Fort Mill 1st. We had a very good show, but a lot of it needs work. Certain areas aren't very clean, and need to be revised.
The bad thing about CHS marching band is that we have a drill writer and instructors that marched Cadets. Kelly Earp writes our drill, and he's led the Cadets to victory twice, and marched on their Mellophone line. Our band director was on the '87 Baritone line, and two of our instructors marched '05 and '08, both on the Contra line. Then we have somebody from CHS who marched Cadets 2014!
In short, they expect a hell of a lot from us, and write very very difficult drill. The brass doesn't go down to trails even once during the show, so we get tired out super quickly. Plus, most of our show is very fast, and isn't even at full tempo yet. We'll be better than Cape Fear and Green Hope eventually. :) Because eventually we'll clean it so much we'll just be spectacular. It's gonna be a good season.
Anyways, yeah. o-o Fun stuff.
Anyways, we went and competed at the Panther Creek Invitational last night, against a blood bath of other bands... Fort Mill, the best band in the Carolinas, Green Hope, whose Baritone line this year is ridiculously good, Cape Fear, who we just generally hate, and then us, the Cary Senior High School Marching Band. :P We didn't even place in our class, which is 4A. Green Hope got 3rd, Cape Fear 2nd, and Fort Mill 1st. We had a very good show, but a lot of it needs work. Certain areas aren't very clean, and need to be revised.
The bad thing about CHS marching band is that we have a drill writer and instructors that marched Cadets. Kelly Earp writes our drill, and he's led the Cadets to victory twice, and marched on their Mellophone line. Our band director was on the '87 Baritone line, and two of our instructors marched '05 and '08, both on the Contra line. Then we have somebody from CHS who marched Cadets 2014!
In short, they expect a hell of a lot from us, and write very very difficult drill. The brass doesn't go down to trails even once during the show, so we get tired out super quickly. Plus, most of our show is very fast, and isn't even at full tempo yet. We'll be better than Cape Fear and Green Hope eventually. :) Because eventually we'll clean it so much we'll just be spectacular. It's gonna be a good season.
Anyways, yeah. o-o Fun stuff.
