End of Week Deux

What a week! We accomplished so much, the most I have ever seen accomplished in one week in my four years!

We were able to memorize all of the music we have up to this point, put drill to almost all of it and meet all of the goals for the week. Friday's goal was "Push to the End" and that we did (the football pep performance was great everyone)!

Last night right before rehearsal ended we did two full runs of the La Vie en Rose (Intro) and the Intro the the Ravel on the field, and the staff were very pleased with the way that it looked and sounded!

Overall, we had a great week of rehearsals, got so much done and made some great memories. Calvin singing during morning block, anyone?

Hope everyone has a very restful weekend and comes back ready to work hard for 4 (deux squared) more days on Monday!

Emma

P.S. Nick posted next weeks schedule, check it out please!

https://sites.google.com/site/khsshowband/updates/week3schedule

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!
http://mukilteobeacon.villagesoup.com/schools/story/un-deux-trois/887281?cid=2343376#.UDZ8WVrGOH4.facebook

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

Goddard Day & Alumni Reunion

Please join the Kamiak Show Band at Goddard Memorial Stadium for this special presentation of this year's show, DeuX. The band will then be joined by alumni for a unique performance of the Kamiak fight song. Everyone is welcome and this is a FREE event!

Questions? Contact, Liz Ferry at bandliaison@kamiakarts.org