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Tuesday 12 March 2013

North Region Musical Development Weekend


by Cadet Tom Hepworth
 
On the evening of Friday 25th of January, we left squadron, mid-blizzard, to head to RAF Linton-on-Ouse for the first ever North Region Musical Development Weekend.  The aims of the weekend were to gain skills and knowledge in band management, conducting and band discipline.

We arrived late Friday evening for the course, due to the adverse weather there was a lot of delay fetching cadets from York train station and so no activities (apart from the briefing) took place that evening.


The next morning, we awoke bright and early for breakfast in the officers’ mess, which was great! Then it was straight into our first lecture, icebreakers. We learnt why it was important to know your fellow band members well and were taught some exercises to help with this.

That afternoon we had an hour of snow craft! With a competition for the best snowman,  the winners were a group of three girls who made snow dogs, (but obviously the 1224 snowman was the real winner).

We then learnt conducting skills from Flt Lt Puller, before getting chance to try out our new skills on the band.

Overall I though I learnt a lot from this weekend, and would recommended it to any cadet wishing to improve their musical skills and help to start/run a squadron band. It was a really good experience.


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