The music stopped for the week on Tuesday as band members started Band Visual Camp, which focuses on visual fundamentals, in preparation for the upcoming marching season.

“We will have all incoming 9th graders and current Liberty students come to the gym where we will break down the fundamentals of how to look during marching along with the physical steps of how to march,” assistant director of bands Cecily Yoakam said.

The camp is a three day long after-school rehearsal in order to teach basic visual techniques, fundamentals, and marching.

“I think visual camp will help during marching season because we’ll get to build relationships with everyone in band and new people will get to know what to expect for this upcoming season,” junior Isabelle Raade said. “I’m really excited to meet the new freshmen because it’s my senior year and when I was a freshman a senior left a huge impression on me and I want to be able to do that to someone.”

The visual camp is the first way to introduce incoming freshmen to the new people in their section as well as to the idea of marching and playing.

“The visual camps help tremendously with preparing for next fall,” Yoakam said. “Again, it gives students a chance to get to know one another and get used to high school band, and it also gives us an instructional advantage in the summer because we don’t have to get so detailed when we have a lot of material to cover.”

Not only for new members, the visual camp allows returning players to relearn and improve their marching technique.

“Visual camps are a great way to help introduce newcomers to what we do here in the marching band, while also giving the old members a chance to meet with the freshmen,” sophomore Shivansh Tiwari said. “I am very excited to meet with the new freshmen and see what they can add to our program as well as seeing what the 2022 – 2023 Redhawk Marching Band will look like.”