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Post by frenchhornchick on Aug 14, 2006 16:23:15 GMT -5
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Post by alrec on Aug 15, 2006 22:15:21 GMT -5
a lot of schools have band fields, so no one cares, becuse the spray paint of course goes away after a few mowing turns.
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Post by Scott Benson II on Aug 15, 2006 22:34:38 GMT -5
At URI, the trombone section had a tradition of using chalk marks on the pavement...and a lot of other sections got angry at us, because after a stretch of two weeks with no rain, there's two shows worth of chalk on the ground! Not spraypaint, but it's close.
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 16, 2006 13:47:35 GMT -5
At URI, the trombone section had a tradition of using chalk marks on the pavement...and a lot of other sections got angry at us, because after a stretch of two weeks with no rain, there's two shows worth of chalk on the ground! Not spraypaint, but it's close. Then they'd hate our band. Every year before this one, everyone's spot was spray painted on the asphalt and marked with chalk. Now we have the permit for the stadium, so we have 5 different colored plastic markers with our drill number on them. It's a lot cleaner.
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Post by frenchhornchick on Aug 16, 2006 16:05:59 GMT -5
At URI, the trombone section had a tradition of using chalk marks on the pavement.... y do you march on the pavement?
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Post by Scott Benson II on Aug 16, 2006 19:15:33 GMT -5
Ah, that would be because we practice in a fenced-off corner of the Fine Arts parking lot. It's got a full-size football field painted on it, so it's a shorter walk than the...3/4 of a mile or so down to the football team's practice fields. After marching season is over, they take down the fence and let people park there.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 16, 2006 21:59:52 GMT -5
We used spray paint to not forget our dots, but we abolished that this year.
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Post by friskylurker on Aug 16, 2006 22:09:58 GMT -5
We practice in the back parking lot, and we use crayons to mark our spots. A few people use chalk, but it rains so frequently here, especially in the summer, that it's really not plausible- the marks are gone before you've learned where to go.
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Post by mpclarinetgirl on Aug 16, 2006 23:07:59 GMT -5
we used spray paint to mark our dots on the field on hard to get to sets so that we could dress it and hopefully get there again the next time. It just made practice go easier and quicker...made less drama on the field in the dreaded "I'm right and your wrong" dot-queen (our bands form of a drama queen) issues
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Post by Greenepony on Aug 17, 2006 11:10:54 GMT -5
At URI, the trombone section had a tradition of using chalk marks on the pavement.... y do you march on the pavement? We're not allowed to march on the football field because heaven forbid our sneakers in tidy patterns would do more damage then football cleats running all willy-nilly. Last year when we were setting the locally-infamous 'Sanchez Diamond' (a cockeyed 200 person square) we marked our places (or three of the ten-dozen possible spots) with a line behind our heels. Despite a lot of rain it took till winter to wash off completely. Otherwise we're responsible to remember our own spots, though when setting for the first time we use part of the drill chart (they fall apart real quick) or a rookie to keep our spots while setting the regulars.
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Post by Keyboard_Countessa on Aug 18, 2006 11:49:19 GMT -5
My high school band practices on a parking lot, and we have spray paint dots as a way of marking the proper 8 to 5 marching step (1 dot every 4 steps on all the yard lines and in between). We also use the dots as marks for warm-up spots and chalk marks when working on drill.
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Post by cosmicwonder on Aug 18, 2006 12:14:13 GMT -5
We're not allowed to mark our field. We just have the yardlines and hash marks to go by. We don't even have any yardlines markes except the 50. It's annoying, but it makes us a lot less dependent on looking at marks to find where we're going.
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Post by ~*Not~a~Stalker~* on Aug 18, 2006 22:28:52 GMT -5
We don't use it for our dots,but when we have props on the feild,we use it to mark where it'll be.Also for the hash and tick marks.Its pretty cool,cause eventually it kills the grass, and you don't even have to use the paint.And of course the grass just grows right back.
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Post by clarinetgirl2006 on Aug 19, 2006 2:17:52 GMT -5
Well I know the band field up at AU has the painted mini field on it, so then that way we have the yard lines marked, since they don't have yard markers. Also, the high school band field has to be repainted every week since they usually kil the grass and can't see the lines no more. Now, at the stadium, we just got new turf and well, I'm not sure how that will hold up. But, at the fairgrounds, they paint yard lines and have yard markers in order for all the bands to get to their marks.
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Post by hchswiregrasshorn on Aug 19, 2006 14:33:51 GMT -5
Our band is cheap. We use bottle caps on our practice field. Unfortunately people get used to looking down when they march to the next set. Plus the bottle caps get moved sometimes and people march to the wrong spot then tell the bd that there right, because there's a bottle cap there. We couldn't do the spray paint because we always have people who join in or quit in the middle of the season, and we have to constantly tweak the drilll a tiny bit. Like we spent all of thursday's practice placing a trumpet in the drill.
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