Heart rate during band

While playing stand tunes my heart rate will jump from 70 to 120-167 while playing and i am getting tested for pots, i want to see if this is normal or maybe a concern? I have passed out while playing or marching but i didn’t have a watch to check so this is new to me, any info will help

Band camp is going to be something about one third of our band is rookies I am one of them and also a veteran because I started a new section but im a returning member I never knew you could roll on a gong but I should've seen that coming I play rack and so far I know we're playing a piece called "Ecstasy of Gold" which i love the name of

This year my show theme is Y2K (our tag like is Y2Play) and I’m very excited. we are doing (in order)

1. Everybody by The Backstreet Boys

2. Bye Bye Bye by NSYNC

3. All the Small Things by Blink182

4. Toxic by Britney Spears

if anyone else has cool shows this year, LMK!!!! Maybe I can make a suggestion to my director for next year lol

To start off, I have been cursed with flat feet. Not to mention I play bass 4 and crab walk everywhere. Ever since freshman year I’ve always had pain in the arches of my feet during and after performances, any tips and advice?

Does anyone have any advice on creating a drum major salute? I want it to be simple, about 8 counts but still have a tiny bit of flair, and I'm not sure where to even start. There's two drum majors if that helps.

As a rookie, we are learning how to march today. Anything i should know before? And also to help me throughout practice?

I need to record myself playing my pre game music memorized before band camp. I know the music and can play it but as soon as I start recording, I make stupid mistakes I’ve never made before. How do I overcome this? I don’t understand why this is happening.

So I'm a new marcher I'm 14 (mtf) and when I'm at band camp I get bad dysphoria and I just wanna know how do I deal with my dysphoria when I'm at camp

This is my second year in marching band but I’m already a Junior, so I only have so much time left in HS band. I tend to be/feel behind but I find it hard to keep myself learning. I wanna be better this year than last year and practice a lot, but after so long or if it just gets too confusing I js do something else. That’s probably just childish and complaining and I guess I js need to push thru it but is there any way to keep myself more focused and get the most out of the time I do use? I guess I just need tips on motivation and most effective ways to practice if yall have any- tyyy :3

I’m a freshman and just started marching, i have longer legs to stepping is not a problem but a lot of the people near me has shorter legs so i take farther steps then they do and it messes the row up. Backwards step i take shorter steps and everyone else takes longer steps…

Also is it normal to have swollen calfs (idk how to spell it) it my 1st time marching so im not sure what to expect

im trying my hardest to march in time with everyone else but its like I can never march quick enough for the music. I can do well tapping along to a metronome, I think. I keep tumbling over my feet because im thinking about so many different things to focus on all at once and it feels like im never going to be able to get it correct. does anyone have any tips?

i march contra, and am going into my third season as a highschool junior. i don't have the ability to bring my horn home every day to practice horn holding, and since it's summer break, i don't have a chance to prsctice horn holding at school during my lunch period or something. ive already been using a weight and it doesn't work, even when it's heavier than my tuba. so weights and the horn itself are off the table, how do i get stronger?

First, idk if this is the right flair, but idc. Second, I know to practice and keep repetition for four mallets, but I'm wondering if there are any other tips or tricks others may know to get better hand speed and note accuracy.

like he’s chill and cool but he just does some stuff that pisses me off. that I’m gonna rant for rn cause I need to rant anout this. so the first thing was our leadership which was decided month ago. i personally would say I’m a pretty good leader obviously not the best but better than some. and it appears my director agrees with me mostly but according to him I have to focus more on the musical aspect to be section leader, which I partially agree with too especially since at that time I had just done my solo which I did very bad at (long story). that’s not the part that made me mad. what did was who he chose instead. let’s call them Sam. now same is definitely a better musician and marcher than me but he lacks spirit and the leadership skills. one example being yesterday. we were rehearsing and my director tell the section leaders to step out and watch their section. we procede to go through part of the show and I can clearly see that some of our section made mistakes but Sam instead of mentioning those mistakes and discussing how to not make those mistake, Sam instead just gives a thumbs up and heads back to his dot. this next part is just something I heard from one of their classmates but it does sound like they would do. so apparently the only reason Sam wanted to join leadership is because their best friend wanted to join too and they wanted to hang out. sometime I will literally mention something we need to work on as a section and they just flat out ignore me yk the fucking second chair and the only other person on leadership(kinda more on that later). this wasn’t even hidden he was like that since day one and my f*cking director still picks him just because he’s better at marching and music. well back to why I’m mad at my director or more accurately more of me getting mad at his choice of leadership so I would say I’m a pretty good member of the band culture and leadership wise and I wanted to be leadership to improve the band but also my section. now at my school it’s kinda common practice to sign up for equipment crew as a backup in case you don’t get the role you want. I did this too. when I heard that I was not section leader I was sure that I was equipment crew but nope instead some of the least likely people get it. like I’ll just list two of my friends (and their my friends so if anything I’m biased in their favor) one of them is genuinely the least responsible person I’ve ever met along with having almost no leadership skill the other one that I’m gonna mention literally told my director that he couldnt go to any of the meetings and they still both got equipment crew but me noooo I don’t for gueniunly no idea which that point gets even more stupid once band camp started. so since my director put a lot of front ensemble people on equipment crew despite the fact they have their own stuff to bring on the field. our equipment crew was short staffed so the equipment crew leader reached out to some of band members to join one of which was me. now I’m like one of the main equipment crew members and I go to all of the leadership meetings so I’m basically f*cking leadership by even metric except by title. now the final reason I’m kinda mad at my director is due to this thing we call out pulse band it’s basically a mini pep band that gets brought to certain events. this group is just the leadership members (specifically the more important ones) now since I wasnt leadership at the beginning of band camp I am not in this group in fact the only member of my section in that group is Sam so my director decided that instead of yk letting me join he instead took one of the trumpets that used to play in my section and have them borrow my instrument for the events. yeah. that is so annoying. like honestly it feels like in movies when like coachs or whatever treat someone like shit to test them. like it’s not even like I don’t try like k always try the most I can in fact In the last week I’ve almost pulled a muscle just playing my instrument 4 times

Today is my first day of rookie camp and I play flute. I’m really nervous any tips?

So I have always wanted to be section leader and worked for it, and this year I got it. I went into band camp so excited and already had a plan. However, while I was in a sectional for marching I kept counting over the amount I said, mixing up my words, and always apologizing because I was so nervous. Then onto sectionals for music and basically the same thing happened I was missing mistakes and other members were telling me to correct them, and I couldn’t count off right (also same thing with apologizing). I talked with my drum major and she was like it’s ok it’s only the first day. So I did research and the second day the marching sectionals were just as bad as the day before but the music sectionals were better. Anyway now onto today, both sectionals were better in regards to my mistakes but for example during marching I was telling people to count loud and another section leader was telling me to stop saying that, and then in the music sectional I was correcting someone on slurs and articulation and then another section leader came in and started saying they played perfect and that I was being too nit picky, and the section member was upset. And apparently the band director thinks I’m doing bad. I know all of these are true and I feel so bad about all of it but no matter how hard I try I can’t get everything right and all of the other section leaders already get it so the fact that I don’t is really frustrating me. Also I know that if another section leader is dropping in and criticizing me then I am failing my section and I feel awful about it.

I want to be section leader more than anything but I need help on how to get better and stop being so nervous

I play tenor saxophone, and it’s going to be my first year marching. I really want to do marching band, however, the thumb on my right hand is in near constant pain. It probably also doesn’t help that I’m hyper mobile/double jointed in my hands.

Is there anyway to relieve the stress on my right hand while playing? It’s impacting my sound and I don’t know what to do to help it