Personal Narrative: My First Marching Band

When I was a freshman in high school I started marching band. I had no clue what to expect from band, but I was willing to try it out. My friends and I taught ourselves how to play the baritone and then we were ready to learn how to march. I knew a lot of my brothers' friends who were in band, so I knew a lot of the people in band. My freshman year marching band season was a very fun experience. The first few weeks of the year, June 18, 2012, we learned to march by our section leaders, and mine was Tyler Hannah one of my best friends. He went over a brief explanation over how to forward march, backward march, and slides. We spent a few days just marching up and down the upstairs hallway of Lincoln high school. The last week of June the South Knox marching band came to Lincoln and we started practicing in the parking …show more content…
The first page of music for me was very easy, since most of the music was just rest for most of the horn line. Our show was called Crop Circles, and it had all original music, which was mostly the percussionist also known as the pit. The horn line was taught choreography for the first 32 measures while the percussionist played with a few random spots here and there. During those last few weeks of July we had band camp, 5 days where we met at the school from 9-9 and practice. The heat radiating off the blacktop was visible and the sun was beating down upon us, But this didn't change anything we continued to practice, first learning to read dot cards, which is more or less graphing people. We would learn our spots on the field and how many counts we would have to get from one to another, then we would have a drill down and whoever won got to go to dinner first. At noon, we would have lunch for an hour then we would go into sectionals and work on music as a section for about 2 hour then join up with the full horn line for 2 hours. After sectionals we would have dinner, and then we would put the music to the