ABAlrighty then

Jeez o' Man did I have a good time at the Mummers Parade in Ashland last night. Ok, well I won't lie to you, I really don't LOVE parades - but... we sounded alright, and you marched reasonably well considering we were doing it for 2 hours, not to mention the forty five minutes of standing around beforehand.

Percussion: we'll work something out for next time, but I was content to march to taps all night.

Don't forget, your uniforms are now YOUR responsibility, keep them clean and not wrinkled up and don't forget Coats, Pants, Hats, DM's, and BLACK SOCKS ABOVE THE ANKLE (which everyone has from the Winter Concert)

On a "mean band director" note - the band room is an absolute mess. trash, food, personal belonging, chairs and stands and such out of place... Unless you want to spend your time after performances on clean up duty- you better start taking care of our common space and belongings. Spread the word.

19-6 spells I told you so...

My dear friends - doesn't it feel good to be part of a winning Spartan Nation and one big Spartan Family? And now it's on your shoulders to work hard and achieve and bring home some Spartan Glory. Only if we march as one and play as one can we improve, and those things will only happen through dedicated effort. Remember that in the four rehearsals leading up to our premier competition at Hempfield two weeks from today.

I finally got around to putting the Brass & Sax feature up on YouTube... watch, study, practice, perform.

SCHEDULE UPDATE

On Monday October 27th the marching band and color guard will travel to the IU29 building in Mar Lin for a performance at the Red Ribbon Week kick off pep rally.

Students will be dismissed to the band room during 1st period.

We will travel/perform in Full Uniform - be prepared to change in the band room before and after. Black socks and DM's, Hair UP, no dangling earrings eye patches or ski masks.

The Date of our Bloomsburg Fair Performance is inaccurate on the original fall schedule. We will perform on Monday September 22nd at 10am

Consider Yourself Told

Reflecting on Thursday Ensemble and Meet the Team

Well Done!
Thursday evening's performance at meet the team went well and I was pleased and proud to present you and conduct the show excerpt. Also a big THANK YOU for following directions in the stands and not hoot-n-hollering for individuals on other teams (and also for not booing people you don't like, apparently that's tolerated among other coaches/staff). You're a classy bunch of kids and we need to always keep our appearance in the public eye.

What pleased me more was your effort and attentiveness at yesterday's after school rehearsal. Lets play a game called "keep it up" and hopefully I will have to say "just because you take your horn away from your mouth doesn't mean you're supposed to start talking" with increasingly less frequency.

Hope for a dry evening....
-cg

First officially official Remarks on Rehearsal post:

Monday's Guard & Percussion:

Girls - guard rehearsals will be a lot more productive in the future, my fault... hopefully everyone's nearly together with work for fanfare through episode 1. the band proper is half way finished with putting music to episode 2 so we need to get the work written/learned for that. rifles; i'd like to see your episode 1 work finishedish soon for approval - remember - less is more

Perc' - i didn't talk to anyone after rehearsal and Mr. Noyalas and i haven't spoken... hopefully you were on task and can play the first three songs.

Tuesday's Winds:

Folks - you know i hate to be the mean band director but you've got to work with me here... you can't deny that if we keep putting forth the effort i saw from those of you in attendance for all of this afternoon's rehearsal we won't have a very clean/entertaining show to perform. i am content to have made it half way through episode 2 adding music set by set, but it's never going to come together if individuals don't step up to the plate and learn their parts on their own time. you know who you are, and so do the poor folks who've got the music memorized and are hitting their sets.

For Thursday:

Winds in a basics block at 3pm stretching/marching
Guard on the front sideline at 3pm stretching/spinning
Percussion on the field at 3:15pm

Goals - finish putting music to episode 2, run/clean opener - episode 2

Expectations - everyone in attendance, everyone giving 110% effort, have your music, have your set books and/or drill charts, know where you belong, know what you're playing... take some individual responsibility and pride in what we're trying to accomplish here together

Evening Performance - meet the team is at 7pm, we're playing on the field and in the stands in uniform - make sure you've got black socks and your Drill Masters

tsk tsk tsknology

Ok so......
I've found a band aide to fix the PDF download promblem (sb sp)

Stay Tuned for MORE Technical Difficulty

So Uh.... on MY computer where I author the band web page the links to the downloadable PDF files actually work. I'm hoping to have tech support help me correct this problem.

Welcome!

So Mr. Gunnell is getting all tech'ed out this fall (and also talking about himself in the third person) and in addition to the rippin' new Band Website with lots of bells and whistles and downloadable tid bits - there's this sweet new blog thinger that will host some other bells and whilstles and viewable thingers as well as provide him (me) with a place to comment on rehearsals and performances and just share some thoughts with you loverly people.

Feel free to use the comment do-hicky to interact with the Band's Blog, BandBlog, BandLOG, B&LOG...