Monday
Monday morning started with a PT session in the gym at 0730. This mornings session
wasn't taken by the PTI's they were away in Wales on AT, instead it was taken
by Vicky Davies from the Portsmouth Band, which was different... After a quick
shower and change it was over to the School for some practise. Today I had no
professors lessons, which gave me the whole day for some well needed practise
after the weekend.
Tuesday
Tuesday morning is rounds morning, so everyone is up making the beds, making
sure there is no dust anywhere in the room and hoovering the floors. Then at
0815 we fall in and march over to the School of Music. This morning I had my
first professor lesson of the week, this was on the Double Bass, which I have
my assessment on next week, so we ran through all my pieces, scales, studies
and then did some sight reading, just like a mock assessment.
Tuesday night we had an orchestra rehearsal in which we started looking at music
for the Christmas Concert.
Wednesday
Parade Band morning, but this morning we had an inspection of our white helmets,
white belts, cross strap and pouches and our brasses. After the inspection,
about 20 of us had been picked up and had extra parades later on that night.
We then started looking at a new march we are playing for the New Entries Passout
in 4 weeks.
Wednesday afternoon we would normally have RT, but as a punishment for the phys
session on Monday morning we had to pick all the leaves up off the Parade Square,
dust everywhere in the School of Music and make sure it was spotless for when
the Drum Major inspected it. After that we had an inspection of our individual
practise cells.
Thursday
Thursday morning starts with another PT session, our PTI's aren't back from
Wales yet so this mornings session was taken by the Navy PTI's from HMS Nelson.
This session went a lot better than Mondays one.
On Thursdays the Bass Guitar prof was in and my lesson involved looking at Dance
Band Music, Big Band Music, assessment pieces and not forgetting scales.
Thursday night we have a Concert Band rehearsal, tonight the students on the
M2s Course came over to the School to take the rehearsal, because they are conducting
at the Denmead Concert we've got coming up in 2 weeks.
Friday
We started this morning with Parade Band where we started looking at putting
the display together for the Passout. After Parade Band I had an aural lesson
where we are preparing for our M3 exam coming up. During Friday lunchtimes the
choir had a rehearsal in which we started looking at Christmas music for the
concert. Then after that I had a Tuba lesson with Andy Cresci, at the moment
I am learning to play the Bb tuba which is bigger than the Eb tuba I normally
play. Then at the end of the day we heard the bugle and everyone was happy and
looking forward to the weekend.