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ive never gone to band camp before but i want to do it so i have lots of practise before i start my freshman yr in high-school and marching band.i was wondering if the try-outs are rly hard for the percussionists sweatdrop
i get rly nervous when i have to do things in front of ppl i dont know by myself.especially try-outs
my friends in band tht have gone to band camp before keep saying its alot of fun and tht i should do it,but im not sure if im gonna make it becuase i get so nervous i start crying.
wat should i do?

Our band camp is a field right next to our school, but maybe once or twice we'll go up to the football field and practice.
It usually starts in August sometime in there for about a week out of that month.

I enjoy going to band camp because everybody is just so much fun! We also do other things other than just the camp we'll go tubing down a river, and a scavenger hunt around the city, which is awesome too! It's just plain fun, and hard work.

Basically band is the one place people from all over come together and be their perverted selfs (in my school)...especially during camp.
Good times... 3nodding ^ ^
I heard my new school Im going to next year, is from 7or 8am-8pm.
Its all about the music!!!!!!

Well since this is about band camps, I got a story, *WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME*. This took place before my freshmen year I was told this story by my upperclassmen my freshmen year.
It was about the third day of band camp and the lunch of the day was ham and cheese sandwhiches from Hardees, for a drink they had chocolate milk. Well the drumline decided to finish the last of the crate of milk, about 25 cartons, though dumbly enough the band had to go back outside. Well, the band practice the feild show in the 75-85 degree weather, and I will leave you imagination to do the rest.

Reading your stories makes me wish we had band camp away from school. Ours takes place on our stadium, practice fields and baseball fields at our school. adn the band room. Its still fun, but I think it would be more enjoyable if we went somewhere cooler. I mean temp. Southern arizona+mid-late summer=if you are cooked by the end, you are one of the lucky ones. Its so hot. Like over 100 everyday and very little shade or clouds msot fo the time. Either that or its pouring rain and humid. This past band camp, it got so hot out that our principle came and told us to practice in our big new gym with brand new ac. Which was kinda nice, but we were doing stations, and as clarient sl I was in charge of one of them with the head dm. And of course, the director chose our group to be the only one still outside.

Most band camps usually take place in the summer?! what. Mine was during a long weekend. :I

okay. so at my band camp, I found a guy who looks exactly like the guy from Aang the last airbender. Like the anime. Not that movie. //shudder
We rehearse for a loooooooong time, and free time people usually sleep and stuff. :I We also were there with another school and they were the bitchiest school ever. I mean, we're there playing our instruments and they tell us to stfu. We also invited them to a concert and they just ran all over the stage and all of us wanted to just go up and tell them to gtfo. :I

It was fun though!<3

Band camp for me is a love/hate relationship. XD

We don't go to an actual camp, we just practice at our school. 2 weeks, this past season July 12 - 23, Mon-Fri, 8am - 4pm. Then after that was a week off, then school on the 2nd of August. But this year, bc will start later since school starts later. It depends. smile I still have band camp tans from the past season. XD Honestly, I like them, since I used to be very pale until bc, the same with figure (bc does wonders!).

Our band camp schedule?
- Mornings, 8 - 12, marching fundamentals and then later rehearsals.
- 12 - 1 is lunch/free time.
- 1 - 3, 3:30, or 4 is sectionals and/or full band musical rehearsals.
- Whatever time we stopped rehearsal - 4:30 is marching again.

So yeah, pretty simple for us. When school starts, though (since we have a block system, and band is 4th block), we have marching rehearsals til the end of the class. We have afterschool practice on Monday (musical, and we keep having them til we are sure and awesome at our parts), and Tuesdays and Thursdays (marching fundamentals/rehearsals).

And that's how we do it at OCCHS. biggrin

At LHS, we had band camp at an actual camp for one week in August. I always loved band camp, especially my Junior and Senior years. My Sophomore year was very interesting, and I do not remember much about my freshman year. Our camp schedule went a bit like this (I cannot remember the exact times):

7:30-8:10 Breakfast
8:30-11:45 Marching rehearsal
12:00-12:40 Lunch
12:40-1:40 Nap time
2:00-3:00 Music rehearsal
3:00-5:00 Free time
5:00-5:40 Dinner
6:00-9:00 Marching rehearsal
After 9:00 we would have some evening activity. On the first night it was movie night and ice cream where we would watch videos that some sections made. Then we would have a BINGO night, Dance night, In- Cabin Night, and then Bonfire on Thursday evening. Bonfire was always a big deal. Thursday morning was Toga day for Seniors. Seniors would use a bedsheet to make a Toga and wear it to breakfast. At Dinner it was Senior Dinner and they would make a special meal based from what the seniors voted on. We would get dressed up and the dinner table would be nicely decorated. It was a lot of fun. Then the seniors would make speeches if they wanted to. I gave one and started crying becuase it was such an emotional moment.


What made my Sophomore year very hard to forget is that the whole week was bombarded with a lot of thunderstorms. On our last night, we had a severe storm sweep through bringing with it tornado watches and warnings. We were in a warning at the camp. We had bonfire indoors (no real fire was lit, but we gathered around a makeshift fake one). During the bonfire, the camp lost power for the entire night! I remember walking back to my cabin and seeing lightening streak across the sky. It was awesome! lol