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Post by lightningflute2010 on Jan 21, 2007 20:51:44 GMT -5
we use poker chips. basically, in four colors. We learn drill four pages at a time, and then we pick up the chips and mark new spots. We use the soccer fields during marching season, since the soccer team has no use for them. We have 2 adjacent ones, so the varsity football team uses the others. bad idea. big distraction.
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Post by trumpetskickbrass on Feb 3, 2007 13:12:58 GMT -5
we used to so we didnt forget out dots, and then after marching season they would be sprayed over with black spraypaint so it never looked like it was there. but we got rid of that this year, and now we have a grid. it was scary at first, i have to tell ya. but now its like the bands best friend in terms of remembering our spots.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Feb 4, 2007 0:33:34 GMT -5
we used to so we didnt forget out dots, and then after marching season they would be sprayed over with black spraypaint so it never looked like it was there. but we got rid of that this year, and now we have a grid. it was scary at first, i have to tell ya. but now its like the bands best friend in terms of remembering our spots. man, but you didn't have to black out all those dots. *shakes head* all of the sprayers were high on the fumes. and it didn't work so well either. You can still see them a bit. The grid works so well though. I was surprised.
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Post by cosmicwonder on Feb 4, 2007 11:34:44 GMT -5
We weren't allowed to have dots or poker chips or anything based on my old bd's retarded philosophy that if you had you dots marked during band camp that you wouldn't be able to function without them at a competition. It didn't work anyways; we still were bad. We did have every 4 step marked off to make learning drill easier though. Our new bd wants to have a blacktop and do the spraypaint thing. I'm all for it.
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Post by charli07 on Feb 4, 2007 21:06:18 GMT -5
We use flags with numbers on them...they go about a foot off the ground. And we also use golf tees..they get broken really easy though.
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Post by trumpetbabe69 on Feb 26, 2007 20:27:27 GMT -5
we have an astro-turf/field-turf field. Meaning its realllllllly nice and realllllly expensive! And if they dont even like us using it! Our football team is really good, we would never even imagine marking it in ANY way, shape, or form!
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Post by hddrummer on Feb 28, 2007 16:45:20 GMT -5
we don't. we have dot sheets for reference, but that's it. our spots aren't marked. I knew people did that, but when I first found out, I was like, "isn't that cheating?"
lol.
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Post by Lprdgecko on Mar 2, 2007 17:10:07 GMT -5
We don't use anything but our memory and a coordinates sheet for us to know where our spots are. Like, on the sheet you'll have your coordinate (I was C7 this year) and it'll say the set number and something like "12 steps behind the front sideline, 3 steps inside the left 40" and you would use 8 to 5 steps to find your spot. It didn't help this year that on our practice field, the spray-painted hashes were off... Oh well.
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Post by nklauste on Mar 2, 2007 21:45:23 GMT -5
We marched parade shows only, so we didn't have any markers at all. We would be placed in our spots by our director at band camp the first time we were learning our drill and after that we had to know exactly where we were supposed to be.
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Post by chhsbassclarinet on Mar 8, 2007 23:14:02 GMT -5
We use spraypaint on the field we use to mark our spots most of the season. We use the soccer/jv football/band/9th grade football practice field that is crap anyway (although we get blamed that it doesn't grow hardly any grass). But so we paint dots just so the members can see their exact spot without having to think to much, lets just say that some of our members can't think, and some don't have any depth perseption. But yeah, later in the season though, we get to march at the sadium once a week, and when we are there, we have poker chips and just use them to mark our spots, and pick them up at the end of practice.
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Post by altoclarinets on Feb 21, 2008 9:37:30 GMT -5
We use poker chips- red, white and blue. Instead of the traditional "drill charts" that have everyone's spot on them, we have "coordinate sheets"- we are x steps in/out of x yard line, and x steps in front of/behind front sideline, front hash, back hash, or in the case of the guard, tubas, drumline and a very few full band sets, back sideline. The fields (grass for hot days and concrete for wet days) are spray- painted off in 4-step intervals. Unfortunately the back hash doesn't quite line up, so we have an "adjusted" back hash about two steps in front of the "official" back hash.
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Post by kahlen on Feb 22, 2008 19:47:23 GMT -5
The front and back hashes are spray painted, but other than that there was nothing. Just regular dot books. Some kids used poker chips but not everyone.
Not to mention it seemed like everyone forgot about their poker chips. You'd be walking around after practice ands see like ten of them sitting somewhere on the ground.
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Post by altoclarinets on Feb 24, 2008 21:27:37 GMT -5
We don't forget to pick up our poker chips... we forget to BRING them. Which is why we got 2's at uil and the trombones have the biggest guns of anyone in school... lots of pushups
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Post by Euphoniums PWN on Feb 28, 2008 18:20:44 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure if we used spray paint, the BOE would smite us. That's why my ever-so-smart BD uses the chip system. I think I'm going to bring chalk though, because we're getting about 50 freshmen who won't know how to use the chips properly (and never will).
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Post by bisaxual on Dec 30, 2008 2:51:51 GMT -5
I go to grissom too and using tape really works but the parking lot has alot of loose rocks so sometimes the tape falls off. That is what happened with one of my sets.
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