Choreography

A handful of our winds showed up today at 4:30 to learn choreography for the end of the show with Nick Benson. It was really helpful because we were able to focus on dot cleaning during rehearsal.

At five thirty we started practice with a warm-up lap and basics block. We quickly moved into visual sectionals, where we learned choreography for the beginning of the show. This was followed by a brief music warm-up in sectionals. The remainder of the evening was spent cleaning up the first half of our show. The weather held out for rehearsal.

We have a football game this Thursday. Our next rehearsal is Friday.
Saturday is the Everett Show.

Chilly Rehearsal

It is definitely getting colder outside. Don't forget to bring jackets to rehearsal!
We received a few inspirational speeches from the staff, and are ready for a fantastic rehearsal this Thursday.

Tonight we focused on choreography throughout the Tango. The choreography is in pairs for the most part and it should look really cool in the show. We had a short music warm-up, but the choreography took most of the evening to learn. We are very excited to perform it on Saturday in Tumwater.

Goddard Day

Yesterday was a long day for the Kamiak Show Band, but it was well worth our time.

After a late night at the football game we were back at Frank Goddard Memorial Stadium for 9:00AM rehearsal. Jack led us in stretches and then we did basic exercises with the visual staff. It was good to have Calvin Fackrell, one of our visual staff members, back for the day (he is currently studying to be a music teacher and cannot be at our regular rehearsals). The basics exercises are designed to engage our core muscles needed for marching.

Following this, we jumped right into drill with Nick Benson. We learned a lot of new choreography for the Tango, which we are very excited about! It still needs practice, but we were able to perform it at the end of the day.

We split off into music rehearsal in sectionals and subsectionals to work on the music for the Closer. Although there is still a lot of room for improvement, by the end of sectionals the music was sounding much better and we were able to put it together after lunch.

Lunch was absolutely delicious. We had burgers provided by our lovely parent volunteers, and desserts, drinks, and fruit provided by the students. Thanks to all of the parents who helped to feed all of the hungry teenagers!

After lunch we finished reviewing the drill. We worked on reviewing both the Intro and the Ravel, and combining all of the drill we have learned so far. It was hard work, but by 5:00PM we were very excited for our performance.

We changed into our uniforms for our the first reveal of our show. It was so cool to look up into the stands and see so many parents, friends, and alumni there to support us. We began with sectional performances by the colorguard, the percussion, and then the winds. All of the staff members were introduced to the parents. Then we performed a musical standstill, which was followed by all of the drill and music we know so far. At the very end we invited Kamiak Show Band Alumni down to perform the fight song with us. It was such a cool experience to see their continued support for the band.

The competitive season is so close, and we are excited to perform around the northwest. Soon we will have the closer drill on the field and in two weeks we have our first competition in Hillsboro, OR at the Sunset Classic!


Photo courtesy of Justin Gaceta

More Goddard pictures coming to the Gallery soon!

Good Rehearsal

We spent most of the evening in sectionals. Lowheads and saxaphones were separate from the other winds.

The saxophones and lowheads worked very hard to perfect their music, and it has definitely improved. They were even standing on chairs and playing by the end of the night.

Nick Benson, along with some of our other staff members, taught everyone to Tango! The choreography is coming along nicely, and once we have managed to perfect it (we are in marching band for a reason, not dance), the middle portion of our show will leave a huge impact.

By the end of the evening we were able to put all of the parts of the Tango section together and see how the new choreography looked with the rest of the ensemble. It was definitely a challenging day, and the staff asked us to do things we have never done before, but it was well worth it. We are very excited to see how this section will fit into the rest of the show at Thursday's rehearsal!





Kamiak learns to tango.
Photo by brass instructor, Stuart Pitts.