Megapost Tour #1

​EAT A BIG LUNCH

Bring Snacks

BRING EXTRA WATER and SNACKS for the bus—SAVE some for the ride home

Wear your 2019 RB Shirt until after the performance
2:40  Sousaphones/Snares/Cymbals report (Move to North end—WE NEED TRUCKS)
2:50  FULL Band Report 
           Get meal Money ($7.00) Section leader
3:00   Load buses (Bus will arrive at 10am)
3:15   Depart Murray
6:00   Arrive Newburgh IN  (Castle HS)
6:00-7:00 Hang out at contest/Dinner
7:00   Unload Truck-Assemble/organize
7:15   Change  at bus
7:25  Leave for Warm up area
          Warm-up (B)
7:35   Practice with Castle--September
7:50  Warm-up 
8:10   Pit  MOVES
​8:17   Band Moves
8:27    Staged at gate
8:30 Perform
8:45    Load truck
9:30 Pass out snack at bus (save some for pit)
9:45 Leave
1:00 am arrive in Murray
        Take your uniform/shako/shoes/etc home--airout
        Unload trucks/buses
        Clean buses
        Battery sousaphones--return equipment to storage
         Pit unload truck

Bus Loading   
       1st to be loaded  --battery and sousaphones
           Bus # 1  2 sousaphones        
           Bus # 2  2 sousaphones        
            Bus # 3  2 sousaphones      
            Bus # 4  2 sousaphones        
             Bus #5  12 sousaphones
        2nd to be loaded (Your stuff goes on your bus)
                 Uniforms --Brass--Saxes--Flag Bags--under the bus  (includes Sousaphones)
                 Hat boxes--Clarinets--Flutes------ Go on bus

GOALS TODAY

1. Have all members “follow procedures” and know what is going on 
2. Have a great performances--BRING THE HEAT!
3. Meet everyone on your bus
   
4. HAVE FUN!

Warm-up 
      Don’t play until instructed to--no hacking
      We will start in Full band warm-ups 
        After the Castle Rehearsal  we will do sub-sectionals
                    Warm-up 
                    Tune
                    Don’t Over Play in warm-up
                    Review Rough Spots and ALL BODY MOVEMENT
        We will then get together and:
                  TUNE
                   Review coming on the field
                   Hash Marks
                  Coming off the field
                              
Buses
        Please help clean buses--be sure to cooperate with bus driver instructions

General Instructions
There are DVD on some of the buses--please nothing too much language etc.
No hacking when we are there--we will tell you when to start warming up
Clean your shoes etc.
Be in full Uniform or no Uniform--Put your  uniform away when we get home
Be on time and stay with the group
You represent MSU--act accordingly
        Watch language--be polite--etc.
        Be supportive and polite to all high school band performances and awards

Breaking any local, state, or federal law can result in removal from the class (regardless of grade implications).

No consumption or transportation of alcohol on the bus or school grounds . This will result in removal from the class (regardless of grade implications).

Public Intoxication of any kind, when with the group, will result in removal from the class (regardless of grade implications)