Day 76

Date: July 30th, 2011
Time: 1:01am (CST)
Playing on iTunes: "Only One" by Yellowcard


Location: Chattanooga, TN Day 2


Good evening everyone! Glad to be back. I'm so glad that someone else got to be a part of this block first hand. Hope you enjoyed her entry!!


Today was a very enjoyable day for myself. I haven't had the most productive or best days the past few days from a playing stand point. Nothing to do with the teaching, but I just haven't had the best concentration. I told myself last night when I wake up this morning I would be focused and ready to get to work and get better. Today was my day. I was ready to go and ready to work.

We did our usual keyboard sectional to make sure all of our fast passages were solid. Some of them were not up to par from what we usually had them to so it took us a little bit to get them back. After that extra effort put into getting the great sound back, we actually got better than we did the previous day with what we needed to do! Kudos to the rest of the keyboard line. Great focus!!

A very special day today!! Dr. Iain Moyer's birthday! Everyday Iain puts his amazing focus and energy into making us better players and performers. Today was his day. We got him a cake for all the hard works he's done for this pit. It's unbelievable everything he has done from all the music he has written, to the time he's put into making us sound good and the miles he's traveled to be with this group. He is very loved by everyone in the pit and he's a lot of fun to have around. You can tell his love is with the Cadets Pit and it will always be there. Thank you for everything Iain! Happy Birthday!!

After lunch, we got together with the battery for percussion stadium to tighten up any loose ends with our percussion feature. Afterwards, we had a little time before ensemble to get some sectional work in. Iain took the japanese drums away and had us work on our jam out section in the percussion feature. This was really fun because it's interesting hearing just the taikos outside of the whole corps. I was grooving out the whole time. There were some really cool sounds coming out of these drums. You will probably be rocking out at that part in the percussion feature as well!

Tonight was our first show with some new guard changes. A lot more visual aspects added to the end of the show to make it more, majestic, if you will. Murfreesboro is another classic venue for DCIs shows every year and tonight was another G8 where all of the top 8 corps would be. This time we were not coming in as the underdogs. All of the G8 shows we have been in the top 4 but not in 1st place. The crowd tonight was jam packed and very responsive to everything we had to offer. We fed off their energy and they fed off ours. That's the best way to perform at your best, a recycle of energy from the crowd and the corps. We definitely had an amazing show tonight. But with a few more secret things to add in tomorrow night, we seem to be doing very well.


A little fun fact about tonight's show: We rehearsed in eastern time, drove to central time where the show was, now driving back to eastern time to Atlanta.

The crowd at Murfreesboro

The Masters of Summer
1) The Cadets - 93.150
1) Blue Devils - 93.150
3) The Cavaliers - 92.400
4) Carolina Crown - 91.350
5) Phantom Regiment - 88.400
6) SC Vanguard - 87.450
7) Bluecoats - 87.200
8) Blue Stars - 84.100


Time for the next regional in the Georgia dome tomorrow night! Atlanta here we come!!

Taylor and I with our new Cadets baseball jerseys!

Thought of the Day: "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein