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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