Some Big Steps

Well it's friday,

This really means a few things.

1. Practices are done for the week

2. I should probably study, but will inevitably end up at some pipe band event

3. It's about 3.5 days until grade 2 practice

So, the week in recap.

Tuesday saw Wes back at practice. Which meant some serious catching up to do. We got a ton of work done on the medley contstruction, and the new MSR is coming along nicely. This tuesday we'll have the instruments out just to see. Hopefully I can find enough drums for the corp to play.

What a wonderful problem to have!

Thursday, last night, was an incredible practice. There was all of five snares out to practice. Four that will be playing no problem, and one fella that's gonna take some work but is really keen and I'm looking forward to teaching him.

I dug out a few snares and harnesses and got the grade 3 corp up and playing last night. Mark had the pipers working hard and after 3 play throughs of the new March for the MSR, they sounded pretty darn good.

Bob and Lynn Cooper were out last night. Bob brought me two great Salutes to work through. One, I'll be teaching to the Kenora drum corp who are looking for something showy to play. The other is the famous Centennial Salute.

The copy I have doesn't have a composer on it, but Bob thinks it was composed by Dave McNichol back in the day. When John Fisher comes in at the end of the month I'll confirm this. The salute is informally dubbed "The Cowbell", and I'll be teaching it to both corps hopefully to be brought out for the winter concert.

As I mentioned yesterday, Mad Plaid is this weekend. Definitely worth checking out.

If you look over on the right menu bar you'll find the blogs I tend to follow closely. I really wanna recommend the CRPB blog Ian wrote today. It's a very personal view of piping and being thankful for decisions you had nothing to do with.

Take some time and check it out.

Okay I have to go study, mid-terms next week....

See ya'll this weekend. Looking forward to it.

Sean