User blog comment:Wetstream/Marching Band Season/@comment-5342796-20140823163032/@comment-5342796-20140824125856

Ah, we just have summer camps at the beginning of August--which are actually pretty intensive all-day affairs, but y'know, no actual games. And I totally feel you on that second part. I usually just pretended to play and waited for the upperclassmen to pick up the slack because I was so out of breath from marching, I was like "No way am I hitting those high notes or holding them out for sixteen beats or whatever." (Little secret: most people don't even hear the flutes, so... whatever. We're still the one of the best sections you've never heard.)