31 5 / 2012
I hope Rick Santorum is the weakest person in his marching band, but ends up having to march with the biggest, heaviest bass drum and is sore for days afterward.
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23 5 / 2012
Defenders, marching chimes, 1978.
Looks like an amazing idea
Can you imagine this?
Back problems for dayz…
It’s…what…I can’t even…
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18 5 / 2012
phantom-vibrations asked: I read the placements this morning, congrats :] It's exciting to watch you on mallets. I'm super excited for you and Katie!
I’ve discovered that I really do enjoy playing mallets in college marching band. I didn’t think I would, but I really like how it’s all pretty much self-taught, and strange as it sounds, that’s how I learn percussion the best. It is very musical and it really gives you that powerful feeling. And if I end up playing in this pit for the majority of my Marian career, I get to leave it with a sense of “this was something I helped start.” :) I’m excited for Katie, too - this is a great musical family and it’s great to have her back.
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18 5 / 2012
And yes, posts will be sparse on this blog for the summer. I will be at home until August 12.
18 5 / 2012
Placements were just announced.
Back into the pit I go.
I am not disappointed. Did I kind of want to be in the line so that I could potentially be more “there” for my dear friend Katie, who’ll be a freshman next year? Yes, I did.
But I look at it this way - back in high school when I was a junior and she was a sophomore, it was a first marching season for both of us…and she was in the line and I was in the pit, and we still found a way to each other and we still helped each other along.
Besides, I wasn’t thinking I’d be particularly good for the whole of the line, anyway. I’m not that good, and in all honesty, I don’t have the “line attitude” that seems to thrive there.
Katie is not like that either, and I am grateful that for having been in the line for four years this fall and can mix in with the rest of the line and play awesomely, she still has her head on straight and she doesn’t act like she’s any different than the rest of the band just because she plays the drums.
I hope that is something she will always possess throughout her drumming career. It’s a quality that I want to enforce into my future drumline, when I am at a high school with my own orchestra and my own drumline/pit.
I wish everyone all the best. I know the pit is still smaller than we want, and I know the line still wants to have the classic corps-style numbers in tenors, snares, and basses, but we’ll make do.
Growth does not happen in a blink of an eye.
10 5 / 2012
The beat that every single percussionist knows.
EVERY
SINGLE
ONE
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07 5 / 2012
OHMYGOD YES
let’s just take a moment
acknowledge the horrible truth that this is. holy balls.
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05 5 / 2012
When I still have time left during an exam, but I have nothing left to say
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