AN: In the previous chapter, I made a terrible mistake. In my opening author's note, I stated that I had received drumline song suggestions from "". In reality, I received suggestions from Aquarius25 and songwithoutwordz. I put in the quotation marks fully intending them as a reminder to myself to add the names, yet I forgot. I have since corrected said chapter and added an apology, which I will repeat here: I extend my sincerest gratitude and apologies to both of you. And now, with no further ado, I will get on with it.

Chapter 10:

How Fictional Characters Can Get You Through Band Camp, Installment II

(I think we could all use some more of these, don't you? If you don't know how these work, I refer you to Installment I, otherwise known as Chapter 2.)

Writing in counting on your music:

Pretend you're Robert Langdon from The Da Vinci Code and the only way you can learn about some obscure secret society is to crack their code of rhythms.

Matt Damon in A Beautiful Mind

Any random Lord of the Rings character reading Elvish…

Or Hermione in her Ancient Runes class (cause let's face it, the stuff is like a foreign language)

The Phantom of the Opera (why, I don't know)

Highlighting sets:

Some spy (I don't care, pick one) tracking something

Robert Langdon (he's just too good for this) and the only way you can learn about some obscure secret society is to highlight C28 over and over and over…..

Wasting time between learning sets:

Roll up your charts and stage a sword/light saber fight (this suggestion courtesy of The Pirate Illusionist)

Lay down and stare at the grass and pretend you're in A Bug's Life

Pretend you're Seabiscuit and find out what that grass tastes like (not a serious suggestion)

Put your ear to the ground and pretend to be Aragorn listening to the orcs marching

When your band director tells you to play louder:

Adam Sandler in Anger Management

When your band director tells you to play softer:

Yeah right, like that would ever happen…haha

Eating that weird food that they serve you:

Stanley from Holes

Someone from The Great Escape and use your lunch time to plot how to bust out of the place

A contestant on Fear Factor (Ok, so that one's real.)

Getting sunburned out there on the field:

Heath Ledger in The Four Feathers stuck out in the desert

Aladdin, again in the desert

AN: I did as many as I could think of today. Look for more future installments. RR.