The June rehearsal kicked off in the freezing cold.
The temperature didn't however dampen our enthusiasm as we revised the drills learned in May, as well as going on a practice march around the school as preparation for Tuesday's march in the city.
After lunch, the student executive groups met for the first time to go over their tasks and purposes. Those band members who weren't in a committee went down to the field to go over fundamentals... or as Chris refers to them: FUNdamentals. At around that time, the sun finally came out, in time for there to be warmth coming from the sky during the final practice of the day.
Sunday began similarly, if warmer. After making letters with different numbers of people, we formed up a parade block so that we could be tested on our grasp of fundamentals. Each time anyone made a mistake, they were out of the running. In the middle of Ultimate Parade Block, there was a set of 'Left face. Right face. About face. About face. Left face. Left face.', which proved a struggle for those with larger instruments, especially the one remaining bass drummer.
Following the end of the fun and games, we started going over the beginning of the second drill book, with questionable results.
We had sectionals, followed by more practice for Tuesday. After lunch, there was a detailed and intense rehearsal of the field show sets, which have now all been learned.
At the end of the rehearsal, the social events team announced the theme for next month's rehearsal - Rainbow.
It was a fun weekend, the next rehearsal will be the 24th and 25th of July - the first week of term.
Until then, play loud and proud.
