RBC Band News: online!

Well wow. What is there to say?

I really thought everything kind of congealed tonight.

And aside from the musical/guard part of it, i think the BAND, came together in only a way the rain could bring about. I think we really worked as a team...

...and walked home together just as Nick elaborately detailed. (haha)
It was a fantastic game and will go in school's history books for sure.

A side note:
We tried something new tonight.
The "Holla Back Cadence" is just really cool, and I hope you all found it relatively easy to march. I want to tell it's story.
so now...Sam presents... THE BIRTH OF THE HOLLA BACK GIRL CADENCE

I have to mention that I had discussed that beat with Kelly O'Leary after listening to Z100 one too many days in a row. We recognized that a popular beat was found in not only the Stefani song, but also a Kelly Clarkson song.

It's a great beat. Extremely catchy. And it was the idea of Kelly, (not Clarkson) to have such a cadence. But how would we pull it off? We don't have a drum line.

HOWEVER, Caitlin Krow insisted that the percussion actually try to play it!

Cait helped me get the bass drum beat, complete with rim knocks, and Juls listened to it to get ideas for all the other percussion components. Rich creates his own solos on the quads.

So again, emphasizing TEAM SPIRIT, it was really a group effort to learn this hip and happenin' new cadence. I knew it was a success when people started dancing to it off on the side.

And we really lucked out that the heaviest rain held off until after our show.

Thanks to all the parents and siblings who came out tonight and got soaked in the process.

When it was pouring, I told John's mother, "WELCOME TO BAND!"
Yes. It takes a special kind of student, as well as special parents who don't mind becoming a roadies/chauffers for 3 months.

Thank you all so much.
-Samantha Negraval = Sam