Tango Tuesday

We returned today from a weekend full of Lighthouse Festival activities to our regular rehearsals. As always, we started off with basics which were led by one of our visual technicians, Ila. We rehearsed music in sectionals after basics until 7:30.
At seven thirty we put the drill from our new music on the field for the first time. The new drill calls for us to tango. We are so excited to see where this drill will take us over the next week!

The trumpets during brass warm-ups and sectional.

The entire brass line at music rehearsal led by our wonderful brass technicians.

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First Thursday Practice

It is great to get back into the rhythm of school and the normal rehearsal schedule. Tonight's rehearsal was the first of many great weekday rehearsals. We started to pull drill off the metronome, and practiced our new music. Looking forward to an awesome season!

Thursday Evening Rehearsal

Due to freshman orientation and other conflicts, there was no rehearsal this morning. We got together at 5PM for a four hour rehearsal. Music was added to our drill and practiced over, and over, and over. It is sounding great so far, and is improving every day. The staff members seem pleased with our work so far this season, and if we continue to rehearse this well I know we will go far.

Look we're in the beacon!
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Lianne

Wednesday

My feet hurt and my lips are chapped. Today was a productive day at band.

During morning block we practiced our basic exercises and reviewed the drill we learned yesterday with Calvin and the rest of our field staff. We also learned where some of the music matched up with the drill.
We met up on the field again after lunch for music rehearsal. Woodwinds and brass were separated at first for warm-ups and review. From the brass arc we could hear loud counting and we looked over to see the woodwind staff members doing pushups. A little while later the brass and woodwinds combined for music rehearsal. We were productive and engaged throughout the afternoon block and it really paid off.
At 6:30PM, after a delicious dinner (maybe that's just me), the winds gathered to rehearse the music and begin tracking out our final music for the week. Although we hit a rough patch during the middle of the block, after a reminder from Nick we were able to be much more productive.

Rehearsal tomorrow starts at 5PM. With the morning off, hopefully we can accomplish today's daily goal of retaining information!

Lianne

First Day of Drill

Today's goal: Be Engaged

Today was one of the most exciting days this season. At 9AM this morning we met in the PAC to take a class on learning drill taught by our coordinator, Nick Benson. From 9 until 10:45 we learned how to read our coordinate sheets, which tell us exactly where we need to be at any given time. We then headed to the field with our visual staff to test our new knowledge, and learned the drill for the intro.
After lunch we met again on the field to continue learning drill and finish off today's coordinates. This was followed by brass/woodwind sectionals where we practiced marking time to the drill while playing the music.
Following dinner the winds came together for more tracking so that we are prepared to put music to drill tomorrow! The music is sounding better every day.

It is so exciting to have drill on the field this early in the season, and if we keep up the hard work it will definitely pay off.

Day deux of week deux: Complete

Lianne

Back at Kamiak!

Goal for the day: Do it right the first time.

Today we had our first day of rehearsal at Kamiak. At 9AM we had a meeting in the PAC where we were introduced to most of the staff members and discussed the schedule for the week.
With our visual tech, Calvin, we reviewed what we learned at Fort Flagler and pushed ourselves even harder. We started tracking the music in preparation for our drill learning block tomorrow. Tracking is when we march in straight lines and play through our show music so that we can adjust to playing the music on the move before we learn the drill.

Lianne

A few things...

Hope everyone is ready for camp to begin once again tomorrow!

And I hope that everyone will come prepared with binders filled with music, instruments and lots of water and sunscreen (we're hoping for nice weather!)

If you happen to have a moment throughout these next couple days of music and visual rehearsal, drill learning and registration for school, take a look at the skit night video that our wonderful band president, Alex, uploaded. It brings lots of laughs, I promise!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok1Q09Wofc8&list=UUKgrpt6a6q9Anf04XtHB95Q&feature=plcp

You could also check out a video of our run through at Fort Flager on Friday, it's sounding great already!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdiT9w8IDaU&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

See you all in the morning!

Emma

Thursday at Band Camp!

Today's menu
Lunch: Tacos
Dinner: Burgers

Breakfast at eight this morning, followed by a morning visual rehearsal until lunch time.
We have made massive improvements this camp and it is great to see everyone stoked for the season. After lunch we had sectional time. Later we got together as an entire ensemble for the first time. It was exciting for everyone to see how the show will come together.
Skits tonight were awesome! We'll be home soon!

Band Camp Day One

9:28AM THE BUSES HAVE LEFT KAMIAK FOR A WEEK AT FORT FLAGLER!

10:30AM Ahoy! We are on the ferry! Hopefully the other passengers don't mind the massive amount of band kids.

12:50 We have arrived at Fort Flagler! Everyone is excited, especially Emma.

Today we had visual rehearsal and checked into our dorms

Because the internet signal at Flagler is unreliable, we will do our best to make updates to this post today and other posts throughout the week.

The season has started!

It was great to see everyone at Pre-Band Camp on Friday! I know that all of the sectional leaders had a great time getting to know the rookies again and reconnecting with fellow vets.

Members showed great marching, everyone is looking awesome already! Nick Benson will be excited to see the progress have we made in such a short amount of time.

The music also sounded great! I can't wait to receive more music and start putting this whole show together!

I hope everyone is getting pumped for band camp tomorrow. It's going to be so much fun! Remember to be at school by 8:45 so that we can leave on time and get the season started off on the right foot (or the left, ha ha) And, don't forget to bring a sack lunch to eat on our trip over.

If you still haven't packed, or thought about it, take a look at this list to make sure you don't forget the essentials (towel, deodorant, clothes, instrument...)

http://www.kamiakarts.org/PDF/Band%20Camp%20Packing%20List.pdf

Excited to see you all tomorrow!
Emma

Spring Camp: Final Day

We started off today with about twenty minutes of sectional time so that we could bond before the season. It seemed like every section was having a blast. After sectional time we gathered in the band room for a quick pow-wow and then split up (winds, percussion, and guard) to work on pre-season exercises. The winds went with Nick Benson, our program coordinator, to learn more stretches and posture exercises, which came with a lot of French words. Before being dismissed we broke up into sections one last time and received a wrap-up speech from our head drum major, Jack.

Spring camp has been very successful, and we have already improved tremendously as a band. I am looking forward to summer sectionals followed by band camp at Fort Flagler in August. Hopefully you all enjoy the summer and are pumped up for the season. Don't forget to be practicing your instruments so we can arrive at band camp ready for success!

Lianne

Flutes playing games during sectional time.

Dates to remember:

June 30th - Drum Corps International comes to Seattle! Well, Renton. DCI corps will be performing starting at 7PM. Here's the website:
http://www.dci.org/schedule/detail.cfm?event=7ef52ef0-84bf-4bfc-99fd-71c732347647
http://www.nwmusicgames.org/index.htm

August 8th - DCI World Championship Pre-lims will be in theaters! It's as close as you can get to the event without flying to Indianapolis!

http://www.dci.org/cinema/

August 10th - Kamiak pre-camp rehearsal!

August 13th-17th - Kamiak Band Camp @ Fort Flagler!!

Spring Camp Day #1

We are having a blast on the first day of spring camp!! So great to see so many new faces and so much excitement for the upcoming season. We are just breaking into our sections now. Looking forward to a great season!

The trumpets say KMFT :)

We wrapped up the first day of spring camp with our first posture exercises. Everyone is looking taller already! Can't wait for tomorrow!

Don't forget the forms students received today need to be returned tomorrow or Thursday at camp!

Lianne

3 DAYS!!!

Hey all!

We're 3 days away from Spring Band Camp so hopefully everyone is excited! We'll be learning music and marching as well as a couple of other things!

Everyone should be at school, in the band room, at 4 pm on Tuesday ready to rock!
You'll need your instrument and comfy shoes (and clothes). And, if we're lucky, maybe some sunscreen!

See you soon!
Emma

Get Excited!!!

Hey all!!!
Only 3 weeks and 1 day until the first day of Spring Camp!
Hope everyone is ready for an awesome season to start, especially with the release of our show theme, DeuX!

Can't wait to see you all soon!
Emma