Band Camp Approaches!

There's only a little more than a week before band camp starts - Wednesday, August 12th at 1pm. There are a couple more things to note…

Make sure you arrive prepared for the practices! Get plenty of sleep, eat beforehand, and bring appropriate supplies. Take a look at this older post for a good list of the items that you need to bring every day: Band Camp Supplies

We have a few more updates to exercises, so go check them out on the Media page as well!

See you Tuesday, and then the following Wednesday for band camp! (make sure to look at the percussion schedule from the previous post)

Drumline warmups on the web

If you haven't seen it already, you can download copies of our exercises from here: https://sites.google.com/site/fremontpercussion/fall-2008-media

Upcoming Events

Here's the upcoming schedule for the rest of the summer through band camp:

• Tuesday, July 28: 6-9 percussion




• Tuesday, August 4: 6-9 percussion


• Tuesday, August 11th: no practice (before camp)




• Wednesday, August 12th: 1-9 with the band


• Thursday, August 13th: 9-12 percussion (All staff), 1-9 with the band


• Friday, August 14th: 9-12 percussion (All staff), 1-9 with the band


• Saturday, August 15th: 9-12 percussion (All staff), 1-9 with the band


• Monday, August 17th: 1-9 with the band


• Tuesday, August 18th: 1-9 with the band


• Wednesday, August 19th: 9-5 with the band

Note the extra percussion practices during band camp–on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 9am-12pm.

DCI Quarterfinals in Theaters: August 6th

This is one of the best ways to see drum corps this summer! Championships quarterfinals will be broadcast into theaters on August 6th.

DCI Cinema Event

It ends up being about a 5 hour show, where you can see the full performances from the top 15 corps and other short things that they show in between the groups.

Last year a bunch of us went to see the show at Cupertino 16 and had a great time. Hopefully we'll see you there!

Clearing out the cobwebs

We haven't been too active on here since the beginning of winter season, but that will change as we head into fall. Be prepared, more updates coming soon…

Early February Updates

The push is on to make it to our first show! Here are some recent bits of news:

Starting in February the Saturday practices now go until 4pm. We will still have a short break in the mornings, and add an extended break around 1pm for lunch.

The battery has music for the whole show, and individuals should be making progress playing through it. Letters A-D and F-G should be memorized by next practice (Feb 3), and you should have looked at G-H and I-K. Solo sections need to be looked at and worked on, but we will have time to refine them as we go along. Make sure to ask the staff if you have any questions!

The pit has gotten music for letters A-D, and should continue working through it and begin memorizing.

Audio for the show has been posted on the (private) school site, so make sure you have downloaded a copy and listen to it at least once a day. The more familiar we are with the music, the easier it will be to put everything together.

For everyone–keep working at it! Things are looking and sounding great so far!

Winter Percussion - warmups for Thursday 12/4

The files for drumline warmups can be found on the Google groups site:

https://sites.google.com:443/site/fremontpercussion/

…specifically:

• 8-16 Legato, acc-tap (not worrying about the accent tap part until we go over the techniques on Thursday)
  
• 8th Note Timing Exercise
  

Eventually we'll get to 16th timing and others, so feel free to look though all of them… (though some will change for this season)