Marching band isn't always easy, you have practice and football games and competitions on the weekends. You also have have practice on Tuesday and Thursdays. During practices we learn drill which is the coordinates on the football Field to show you where to march from to the next set.
Once you learn your sets, you know the show.
In marching band we have two weeks of band camp to get us prepared for the marching band season.During band camp we do lots of exercises to get us ready to go outside to start marching. Our band director hires assistance to help kids with marching and learning their sets. Our band director gives us a sheet of paper with coordinates to find on the football field and once we find them we put a Yellow, Red, or White chip on the ground and we march back and forth from those chips to remember so we don't forget. Once we are finished we practice, practice, practice to make sure we have everything learned and ready to preform.
Competitions are very fun. You might have to get up early to go but they are really fun. you get to go and watch other bands preform their show and hang out and meet new people from other bands around the area.You also get to eat they have good food at some of them. We also have to make sure the weather is on our side and is okay enough to participate in the competitions. If it is raining then the field gets muddy and its hard to march. And if it gets really cold then you might want to bring some blackets to use just in case.
Football games are very fun too. We get to play music and watch our football team play against other teams and we get to preform for our football crowd and have a good time.
My favorite would have to be peperallys. The band gets to play diffrent kinds of music and we get to watch tallent shows and hang out with friends and have a good time.During peperallya. we get to sing, dance, and goof off. Honestly without marching band in the summer I would just be sitting on the couch all day during the summer doing nothing instead of practicing for our show and getting to go to football games and competitions on the weekends.
