Senior Show Update:
What will we put on the field for Friday night?
First, let me tell everyone how the design of a student show goes...
First, you sit and share ideas
Then you design a show that is attainable by the average marcher
Then you look at how much you will able to accomplish in each and every practice based on the fact that the majority of the band members have practiced their music and are prepared with their music and lyres on the field.
Finally, as you are practicing you determine how much time you have left, the "quality" of what is already learned, and how much more is able to be added without weakening what already exists. So...
With that said, I'd like to work during period 2 with the 8th graders and period 9 with the H.S. on both Thursday and Friday in order to strengthen the music and individual parts, and then go out to the field during both period 9 and after school on Friday and see if we can't add the rest of the moves the seniors designed!
AND... Even at my age (39) I wholeheartedly realize that to a teenager that what I have written above [to them] is a bunch of "gobbly gook", and that all you guys as seniors want to do is walk like zombies!... That's cool. We can do it! We need to get that music down though! Let's do it!
First, let me tell everyone how the design of a student show goes...
First, you sit and share ideas
Then you design a show that is attainable by the average marcher
Then you look at how much you will able to accomplish in each and every practice based on the fact that the majority of the band members have practiced their music and are prepared with their music and lyres on the field.
Finally, as you are practicing you determine how much time you have left, the "quality" of what is already learned, and how much more is able to be added without weakening what already exists. So...
With that said, I'd like to work during period 2 with the 8th graders and period 9 with the H.S. on both Thursday and Friday in order to strengthen the music and individual parts, and then go out to the field during both period 9 and after school on Friday and see if we can't add the rest of the moves the seniors designed!
AND... Even at my age (39) I wholeheartedly realize that to a teenager that what I have written above [to them] is a bunch of "gobbly gook", and that all you guys as seniors want to do is walk like zombies!... That's cool. We can do it! We need to get that music down though! Let's do it!
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