#and WGI

[chrissy-kaos]

I adore this place.. it might be my favorite place in the world. It’s such a gem. So many beautiful things to see and do. I never have enough time to see it all. Maybe I should just move here 🤔

(If you recognize where I am. For my safety please keep it to yourself. I don’t need some weirdo trying to find me)

[theamazingdigitalmarchingband]

SHORT HIATUS!!!

Hello! Apologies for the inactivity for the past couple of days, it’s been a SUPER busy April for me! And of course, it’s about to get even busier!

That’s why I am announcing today that I will be taking a short hiatus from this blog for a very important reason: I Will Be Attending WGI FINALS FOR INDOOR PERCUSSION IN DAYTON!!!

The percussion group I’m in have been working their asses off to get our show to the level of clarity and quality we need it to be at, and we are all super excited to be taking this show to the finals!!! I will be abroad from Tuesday, April 16th to Tuesday, April 23rd, and intend to put all of my time and energy into performing our very best, so I won’t have any time to post new things for this blog. However, I thought I’d share this with you guys since it is sorta related to marching band :) Thank you all for your wonderful support on my first 3 posts to this blog! I can’t wait to see what I do with it in the near future :)

I’ll see you all in a week! And hey if you’re attending WGI too, come say hi! I don’t bite!

[chai-en-kaadhale]

single and a half

[wgisportofthefarts]

I literally just made this account rn to post this

does anyone have any thoughts about WGI independent world rankings this year??

fusion coming in first? ETUDE COMING IN SECOND??? blessed sacrament only coming in third because paramount got a .10 penalty???? like that is actually crazy

personally as much as i loved fusion this year it didn’t seem like a gold medal show? meanwhile sac and paramount’s were crafted so well i’m amazed neither of them came in AT LEAST 2nd.

[talkorsomething]

ok so i gotta preface this w/ i am autistic but like, only very minorly so i understand & can make "proper" facial expressions and whatever

But! Hey tumblr guardies i am In The Tags again. With a question!

. . .

Um so how do you like smile While Counting because i can't (yet) count in my head & our instructors are starting to get on us about not smiling T_T i'm trying my best to present up so i at least have that going for me, but every time my "performing now" face is literally like 😐 ...

I dont want to get yelled at for not doing it but i dont get how im supposed to without counting in my head (& then getting off beat because i tend to count fast) .........

[oscarcito]

mclaren keep talking about a big uograde coming in miami and all i want them to talk about is weather the update is going on both cars or is this going to be hungary 2.0 for me

[markmymake]

NICHE POST ALERT

Tf2 mercs as members of an indoor drumline

[universe-of-peoples]

I wanna talk about the Camp Half-Blood Necklaces

Ok so this is something I’ve been sitting on for a while because it’s kind of a niche topic, but I wanted to do a short little study of the Camp Half-Blood necklaces in relation to a very similar real-world tradition! Read more under the cut.

The Camp Half-Blood necklace tradition, featured in the books and only in the background of the TV show, is really interesting to me. Each camper gets a leather cord to put around their neck, and for each summer they spend at camp half-blood, they get a bead to put on their cord that has been painted with a design unique to that summer. It’s a really cute and unique idea, but it is actually really similar to a real-life tradition in the world of drum corps.

Drum corps is like major league marching band - like how there’s Major League Baseball, or the NFL for football - if you’re really good at marching on a field while playing music, you may find yourself lucky enough to compete at its highest level. There are many many different corps you could march in, but there’s one tradition that almost every corps has in common. That’s corps necklaces.

The tradition can vary from corps to corps, but the basic idea is that you get a cord, commonly made of paracord (or marimba string), and on it is a charm that represents your corps, usually something to do with the corps name or logo. Then, you get a bead to put on your cord for every summer you march.

Sound familiar? It should: spend a summer, get a bead. When I came home from my first summer marching drum corps, my sister took one look at my necklace and said “it’s just like Percy Jackson!” It’s probably just a coincidence, but I’ve sometimes wondered whether Rick knew about drum corps necklaces when he got the idea for the CHB ones.

There are some differences in the CHB beads versus drum corps beads, for instance the CHB beads are unique for each summer, whereas most corps keep their beads the same. But it looks like even the way the cords are tied around the neck is the same in the PJO tv show as how we tie them in drum corps.

Another difference is that with drum corps necklaces, each necklace has a charm representing their corps. I think it would be interesting to see a version of the CHB necklaces where the campers each got a charm representing their godly parent - Percy’s could be a trident, Annabeth’s an owl, etc. The problem would be with the unclaimed campers - would they get no charm, or would they adopt the Hermes cabin charm? Food for thought.

Anyway, thanks for reading my analysis comparing Camp Half-Blood necklaces to drum corps necklaces! Both are topics I care deeply about and I’ve been wanting to do something on the necklaces thing for a while.

[slopmaster9000]

so fucked that im all the way in ohio while my girlfriend is stuck in florida. FOR A WHOLE WEEKKKKKK

[izzy-mc-fizzy]

Ok one of the most shocking and euphoric moments as a guardie is when you go in for a big toss and accidentally whip out something even bigger that you didn’t even know you could do. It’s even better if you didn’t know did it until your friends who saw it start screaming “oh my god girl that was a double!” It’s just such a confidence boost to know that I have so much more in me than I know, and that I just need to work to bring it out

[syn1st3r]

u know ur a real teen in pennsylvania when ur so bored that the only interesting thing u could do with your life is join marching band, then concert band, then indoor percussion. as a kid I thought the band kids were weird but now I'm just one of them. thank god marching band is over now tho. I couldn't take much more or freezing cold football games.

idk why i felt the need to post this lolol

[chrissy-kaos]

I had a great time hanging out with my friends at the Vintage Grand Prix weekend at WGI. I got plenty of track time too! Tho unfortunately I may have broke my car. Seems turbo related. I really won’t know until I get it home. Then I can rip into it. But overall it was a blast!

[doublemegative]

i think i could watch every dci video in the world and i would still lose my shit every time colorguard did anything

[hilaerials]

Gonna have a long talk with my therapist next week about not giving all of myself away to everyone and learning to say no.

My groups didn’t get me their WGI rehearsal schedules until yesterday and today even though I’ve been asking about them for weeks. Turns out I have to push my leave time even earlier than I anticipated in order to make it to both of their rehearsals. Not to mention, I got a call about 2 hours ago from some friends that needed help with a duet. Which I couldn’t justify saying no to because they live 5 minutes away from me. But now it’s almost 11pm and I need be awake at 3:30am so I can make the drive to Ohio in time.

I’m so fucking tired and WGI hasn’t even started

[jakeranda]

just found out there are actually dci au fics, never in my life have i been more excited

[tipytap]

guess who has a really long competition tomorrow :,)