Military Tattoo
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This is another one that I had far too many photos to incorporate. My daughter took over 200 pictures of our rehearsal, so it was a job and a half narrowing it down even to these!
Supplies:
paper - SNU College Art
paper template - DEB Fabric Arts
flowers - ABL Floral Abundance
brads - Ro Musica
luggage tag & label - EHI Destinations
fonts - Gatsby; Halda Smashed
Journaling:
Though I have marched on parade with the band plenty of times, this was my first opportunity to participate in a real marching routine. The band had performed before at the Tattoo, but this would be my first time. The event was an Air Cadet band competition, and we would perform at the closing concert on Saturday evening. The location was the beautiful coastal city of Victoria, BC, and the time was early May - not yet spring for us, but spring would be settled in Victoria by then. I looked forward to the trip with excited anticipation.
Our first tune is a lovely march called “Mon Ami.” We have a great routine for this that includes counter marches, wheels, slow marching, and a cross-over. Although there are a few places where we need to know how to do something specific (like the wheel and slow march), for the most part it’s just an elaborate game of follow-the-leader. The second tune is “Sir Duke.” I have a hard time with this one because moving as one unit while spread out in a circle is highly imprecise. At least, it’s hard to be precise. But it works and I think the crowd will enjoy it.
Lastly, we will march off – just straight marching with one counter march – to the Air Force March Past, a piece we are all very familiar with.
Of course this all required a great deal of practice. We began by practicing the pieces in the band room, and later moved to the local arena where we learned the routines and practiced them first without playing, and then put the music with the marching.
The first rule of practicing is: Repeat, repeat, repeat! Over and over we
marched the routines and played the music, until it became second nature to
us.
At the tattoo we all felt we had done our best. We received many
compliments, and the crowd especially enjoyed “Sir Duke,” showing their
appreciation through their enthusiastic applause! Both the trip and the
performance combined to give us all memories that will last a lifetime!
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