Get A Life Marching Band Rehearsals

Rehearsal schedules and play lists for the GAL Marching Band are below. Directions to all rehearsal venues are available near the end of this page. A brief marching tutorial is also available.

Band Rehearsals & Play List (click any location name for more info)

Band Rehearsal Schedule
Date	Time	Location	Comments
July 10, 2010 (Sat)	3 - 5 PM Bring a chair!!!	Garden Home PARK (the park right next to Garden Home Rec Center)	New music for 2010 season: Rock That / September, So Very Hard to Go, Pick Up the Pieces, Desperado
July 11, 2010 (Sun) CANCELLED	CANCELLED	Garden Home Recreation Center gym (7475 SW Oleson Rd) (map)	New music for 2010 season: Rock That / September, So Very Hard to Go, Pick Up the Pieces, Desperado
July 18, 2010 (Sun)	12:30 - 2:00 PM (Note time change)	Garden Home Recreation Center gym (7475 SW Oleson Rd) (map)	New music for 2010 season: Rock That / September, So Very Hard to Go, Pick Up the Pieces, Desperado

Need to work on some of the new tunes? Click here for music to rehearse with!

**Colorguard** Rehearsal Schedule
Date	Time	Location	Comments
Every OTHER Sunday beginning 10/11/09	11:30 AM - 1:30 PM	Garden Home Recreation Center gym (7475 SW Oleson Rd) (map)	Biweekly off-season rehearsals

Need Music??? Contact our Librarian

If you need MUSIC for an upcoming rehearsal, email librarian Dan Dees as soon as possible so that he can have parts ready for you. You can reach Dan as tubamandan66 AT yahoo.com (replace "AT" with the @ sign).

Need a Uniform??? Contact our Executive Director

GAL Founder Bob Pulido is the keeper of all the uniform parts. Contact Bob at 503-659-9228 for the "Fishing Guy" T-shirt and accompanying "GAL Swoosh" hat, or the formal lime green GAL polo shirt and accompanying formal GAL white hat with black lettering. Bob is also the person to contact if you're looking for a sweatshirt, or to see if he has any jackets in stock.

Parades: How to Turn Corners

We spend a lot more time working on music than we do on marching, but we can still use a little marching help now and then. This short tutorial contains the five Important Rules that'll have you turning corners like a pro in no time.

Rehearsal Music and Marching Routines

Want recordings of some of our charts to rehearse with? Want to work through that tricky part of Birdland and need some help? Try the Rehearsal Music page for links to various rehearsal aids.

The page also contains the details of the YMCA parade routine that we did in Pasadena.

2010 Parade Tunes

Brick House
Celebration
Domino
Get Down Tonight
Hey! Baby
Last Night
Messin' With the Kid
That's the Way (I Like It)
Thriller
We're an American Band
Wooly Bully (arr. Barrett)
YMCA

Parade Specialty Tunes

July 4: Veterans Salute, You're A Grand Old Flag, National Anthem March, Semper Paratus
Nov, Dec: Frosty the Snowman, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Holly Jolly Christmas

Full 2010 Active Play List

Except for Christmas tunes (listed above as Specialties), this is the complete list of active tunes currently in the GAL "book". This is the list of tunes we draw from for standstill performances.. There are music rehearsal notes available for many of the tunes; check 'em out and mark your parts.

All Right Now
America the Beautiful (Higgins arrangement)
Beer Barrel Polka (entire tune from the beginning, with the "speed up" on final chorus)
Birdland (Added Summer 2005)
Brick House (Added Summer 2006)
Build Me Up Buttercup
Celebration (Added Summer 2009)
Domino (Added Summer 2005)
Get Down Tonight (Added Summer 2009)
Get It On (On hold - 2010)
Gimme Some Lovin' (Added Summer 2005)
Hey Baby!
Hip to Be Square
The Horse (Added January 2010)
Hot Stuff (Added Spring 2010)
Joy to the World (Added Nov 2002)
Last Night
Long Train Runnin' (Added Spring 2010)
Louie, Louie (Baratta arrangement -- "Newiest Louiest", added Summer 2003)
Louie, Louie (Vinson arrangement -- added January 2009)
Love Train (Added Fall 2009)
Messin' With the Kid
National Anthem March (Added Summer 2005)
Over the Rainbow (Added Summer 2009)
Rock That / September (In rehearsal - Summer 2010)
A Salute to Julie and Homer (Added Spring 2010)
Semper Paratus (Added Summer 2006)
Shake Rattle and Roll (Added Summer 2006)
Soulfinger (Added Summer 2002)
So Very Hard to Go (In rehearsal - 2010)
Takin' Care of Business (Added Summer 2004)
Takin' It to the Streets (Added Summer 2006)
That's the Way (I Like It) (Added Summer 2008)
Thriller (Added January 2010)
Veterans Salute
We're an American Band (Added January 2009)
Wooly Bully (Added Summer 2003)
You're a Grand Old Flag
YMCA (Added Summer 2005)

Work List

These are tunes that have been handed out, but are still "in preparation" to be played in performance.

GAL Groove
Bad
Fins
Get Down on It
Long Train Running
Love the One You're With

Rehearsal Venues

Here are the places we rehearse (or have rehearsed). See the "Location" column of the rehearsal schedules to determine where each practice is being held.


	Garden Home Recreation Center, 7475 SW Oleson Rd. Corner of Oleson Road and Garden Home Road. Best route depends strongly on where you're coming from, click here for a map or personalized directions. Look for the gymnasium.
	West Hills Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 6501 SW Multnomah Blvd. This is a few blocks east of Garden Home Recreation Center (our typical practice spot). The fellowship hall is the building on the left as you pull into the lot. Map.
	Elsie Stuhr Center, 5550 SW Hall Blvd in Beaverton. From OR 217, take Allen Blvd west to Hall Blvd. Turn right (north) on Hall Blvd for approx 0.2 mi; the Center is on the right. Map.
	Cedar Hills Recreation Center, 11640 SW Park Way in Beaverton. Take the Cedar Hills Blvd exit from US 26 and proceed south; turn right at SW Parkway (at traffic light), then left into the Rec Center parking lot. Use the north door entrance to reach the gym. Map.
	Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District Athletic Center, 50 NW 158th Avenue, Beaverton. From U.S. 26, take the Cornell Rd exit; turn on Cornell so that you're heading south of U.S. 26. At the traffic light, turn south on 158th Ave. The Center is a large complex on your left just before Walker Road (there is a Fred Meyer opposite it on the right). Map. We are at the Athletic Center (marked in pink, right in the middle of this site map; you can park in the red parking area near it).

	Sunset High School, 13840 NW Cornell Road. Take the Murray Road exit from US 26 and head north. Turn left (west) on Cornell Road at traffic light; school is a few blocks down on the left. Easiest entrance to the Choir Room is on the west side of the school. Map.

	Oregon Institute of Technology Gym, 7726 SE Harmony Road in Portland; click here for a map. Once you arrive at OIT, drive around the back of the building towards (but not as far as) the Swim Center. The entrance to the gym is about in the middle of the main building that faces Harmony Road.

	Lincoln High School. Yep, the same Lincoln High School where OMTAAMB rehearses. Note different room number, though.

	Centennial Middle School, 17650 SE Brooklyn Street, Gresham. From Division, go south on either 175th Place or 176th Place, then east (left) on Brooklyn. School is on the north (left) side of the street. Map.

	Hare Field, 1151 NE Grant St, Hillsboro. Head west on US 26. Take Cornelius Pass Rd exit; turn right (south) at end of exit ramp. Drive approx 0.7 mi; right (west) at traffic light at Cornell Road. Drive approx 3.6 mi; right on NE Grant St. (1 stoplight past the second 7-Eleven). Hare Field is a couple of blocks later on the right. Overview map; detail map.

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