9/8 Competition

Well, there really isn't much to say about our first competition. It can be summed up in one word: terrible. Utterly terrible. This is the East High Band at its worst. I take that back. I'm sure we could have done more things incorrectly, but that would be a strech. We ended up with a score of 55.35. The only other SS3 band that did Week 1 competition was Westmoreland (they were at the same place) and they got a 64.75. Some things went well. I think. The woodwinds came in on their echo part in Natural Woman, and people played the whole way through the show. That isn't saying that they played it well, but they did play. And one of the judges said that our ending triads (chords) were nicely in tune a couple of times. This is the first year I've listened to the judges tapes. We got slaughtered. We decided to perform the entire show, but we stood still for segment 3 (South rampart Street parade) and then did a scatter drill thing to get to Segment 4 (Closer Walk). When we got back to teh school and watched the tape, I mainly watched Benson's face. It was a mixture of shock, horror, confusion and disappointment. This week we've focused on re-learning the drill/music for Segment 3. And tomorrow/Friday we are going to just starting running the show. And this Friday we've got sectionals from 3-5 and Saturday from 1-3

Oh, I forgot to mention the fact the we got back to East around 11, unloaded the truck, watched the video and THEN had a section leader meeting with Benson. I didn't leave East until midnight. That was terrific.

School has been pretty crazy. I'd write more, but I'm not really in the mood. I just wanted to get a post up about the competition.