Chapter 2: How Fictional Characters Can Get You Through Band Camp
AN: Weird title, yes, but it makes sense later.
This is basically a way to survive band camp while keeping your sanity. Well, some of it. It works for me, anyway. The basic idea is to pretend that you are someone else, a "fictional character" if you will. It makes sense later!!
Ok, so let's say you're learning drill. This is just an example. Lets say you've got this 24 count move, from like the 30 to the 50 and the band director keeps telling you to run it back. Well, pretend you're:
Legolas, Gimli, or Aragorn in The Two Towers 20-minute running scene
Seabiscuit
Random cowboys riding random horses
Dash from the Incredibles
That's a pretty general one, and a pretty good list of characters to chose from. Here's some more for other situations.
Polishing shoes:
Be Cinderella, or if you want something more fun:
Sit all alone pretending to be Cosette from Les Mis and sing Castle on a Cloud
Commandeering Freshmen to Do your Work:
While you're sitting all alone polishing those shoes, wait for a freshman to walk by and then pull a Tom Sawyer. Or for something more pop culture:
Do your best Capt. Jack Sparrow impression to talk them into it
Marching Backwards:
Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk (he might as well be fictional)
Marching Forwards:
Ringwraith
Dementor (although they're practically the same thing)
Ghost of Christmas future from A Christmas Carol
Watching the Field Commander:
Pretend you're Perseus and everyone but the drum major is Medusa
Dodging Colorguard, Tubas, and Bass Drums as you run back sets:
Aladdin on the magic carpet
Spiderman!
James Bond
AN: That's it for now, but look for more fictional character installments in the future.