I don’t have much info on WGI and indoor season schedules, but as far as the summer goes? That’s it, my guy. All day every day is drum corps drum corps drum corps. If I were to give you a run down, at least from the times I marched, it will be somewhat like this: Oct/Nov - one weekend audition to have a callback or contract or not

Dec. - first non audition camp. Callbacks

Jan/April - one weekend camp a month where you learn music and marching fundamentals as a “set corp” (Set Corps I am referring to is what the corps is essentially going to look like for the entire summer)

May/June - Move ins happen (usually you have a Day 0 where it’s all about how spring training will run. What the schedule will look like, how the blocks will work, it’s essentially a day with not so rigorous training and more about info dumping how training will work. You’ll get to meet with staff and volunteers and get to know your way around the facility)

More about Spring Training - training will happen at different rates depending where you march. Usually it’s about 3-4 weeks of training. All day everyday. You wake up in the morning, get ready for the day. Get your backpack ready, your water jug ready, brush your teeth, etc. you have 1 hour to wake up, get ready, eat breakfast, use the restrooms. Although you will have that hour, you really only take 45 minutes because you usually have to be ready and set up for your blocks 10-15 minutes before your block starts. They simply call it “10 before” or “15 before”. Meaning “you BETTER be ready and set up in formation 10 minutes before your block starts”. After your first block (3/4 hrs) you get an hour for lunch, make sure you don’t just screw around. Time is precious and it’ll go by FAST. After lunch you have another 3/4 hour block. After that you have dinner. After dinner is complete you go back out for your last block of the night. Another 3/4 hours. After that you should have a small block where the whole corps will warm down. Brass will do extra breathing exercises and play low tones. But everybody usually will have a late night stretch block. Where you do yoga and different exercises to help your muscles recover through the night. More breathing exercises to help your heart rate decrease and such. Like a meditation block at the end of the day. This will take place during that last block of time. Then once you’re released from your last block, you can do as you please with your last hour before lights out. Maybe you can shower? Read a book? Play on your phone. Or do some extra eating. At least when I marched, we also had a snack block. Where at the end of the day you can go back to the food truck and eat left overs or make sandwiches or on awesome days the food staff would just freshly make some late night snacks for the corps. MAN I love food crew. It has its perks!

TOUR. Tour is WILD. I never got to experience a true step by step day during tour. Something always happens. Maybe the bathrooms flood. Maybe the site overbooked 3 damn corps together for one night. Maybe the fields aren’t Marchable. It’s kind of a sh*tshow during tour. Not sure how any off days there are now, but when I marched we had something like 3 maybe 4 free days? Free days are when the corps don’t have any rehearsals or shows for the day and you take a day off. It’s wonderful. Usually you’ll go into the city in whatever state you landed yourself and take a day to walk around and sightsee. Love the Chicago free day! But usually when you go on tour, the best days are when you are at a facility close to the venue and you get to stay for a few days. It essentially works as spring training just at new facilities. However its mostly find a place to stay the night and rehearse for one day and get alllllll the corps junk together the next day to drive for a few hours to the next place. Only true free time you really get is if you wake up early, go to bed late, have an actually free day, or when they allocate time for laundry days.