band geeks united part 2 Options

[Aoiro]

Band is so fun!
I just play the piano and flute though.
But I haven't been in band in so long.
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[*tweeak*]

Woohoo, the band thread is back!

We just started playing concert pieces, since they finally caught on that we were bored of marching music, since we've been playing since July, but that means we have to play from the method book too now, which I loathe.

We got our whole show on the field minus the last 4 sats. Haven't actually played the closer marching yet, though

OUr exhibition is on monday, the other half of the county's is tonight

[*mishyerr*]

i'm in colorguard. but i love the band oh-so-dearly, and the directors, too. <3

from Clements Highschool ... our band PWNS :) the first in our district to make state finals, last year. ^_^

[*tweeak*]

Sectionals today. sdklihdisthikhg. I have 3 tests tomorrow- NO TIME for a five and a half hour rehearsal

good thing I can do math. More like a 4 hour rehearsal. BUT STILL.

[sm0kinm0nky]

We had our first football game last week.


We have our second this friday and a competition on saturday!


I play bari sax now for marching band.

I'll go for wind ensemble (honors band) when i'm a junior

[eloizhere48]

Band is Fun!! I started in 5th and continued from there until 8th.In 8th i was in AU so i didnt play the flute, but i played it in Marching Band when i was in 7th. Then 9th grade I was in Concert Band, but the sophomore year I didnt want to be in it anymore. Im in Show Choir now!

[Gigi]

THERE ARE RECORDINGS ONLINE BUT PEOPLE SIMPLY REFUSE TO LISTEN TO THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah. And during rehearsal one day, a trombone player got up in the middle of the director's sentence and said: "You can just ask the other trombone players why I'm leaving." And sort of. Slammed the door.

It was sorta freaky.

[Miss Criss]

I'm taking a semester off so I haven't truly experienced college band quite yet. I'm still taking lessons with the teacher.

I'm quite nervous for the spring semester. =/

[*mishyerr*]

Practice got canceled due to Hurricane Rita

:/

[*tweeak*]

Had double band today. I was so tired during the first half (normal class period) that I couldn't even play my warm ups correctly, let alone the piece, even though I can usually play it quite well. Fortunately, I woke up during the second half, so I was actually playing well when the BD came and sat next to me to play AGAIN (always bu me. always. can he not ever go bother someone else?) He then went to go conduct, because apparently the assistant wasn't doing a sufficient job today, and while I was free, I also cound't show him that I don't suck all the time, only in the mornings.

He walked over and said some relly obviously simple spanish words, and the girl next to me said "wow, he must have had like 6 cups of coffee this morning." thnen, a few minutes later he walked by and said "is it hot in here, or have I had 7 cups of coffee?" the sad thing was that he probably actually had

Then he went on to make another one of the F# lesssons, which is essentially just an excuse to sit there and stick his middle finger up at us. It went nicely with "See, doesn't she just look like she wants to kick some white person ass?"

It's been the while since he last experimented with 'how many things i can say that should get me fired.' It was nice, and reminiscent of freshman year

Exhibition Monday. OUr old assistand BD is judging us (he also happened to show up to our practice thrusday with his fiancee, which distracted everyone and made our last run throughs really bad. I ran into the drumline)

[Cwlplover]

BAND!!! Whooo! It rules so much! I'm in guard...There's only SIX guard members in our band...It's crazy. We do tall flags, streamers, swingflags, 8 ft flags, and a dance. I love it! It's just...yeah.

We have a competition Saturday at Bowdon, Georgia. I hope we get first in class...That would just be awesome!!! I'm so excited!

I'm actually a rookie...This is my first year in band, but I plan to have a good two more years before I graduate high school! :D

[*tweeak*]

You're from Georgia?? What band?

[sm0kinm0nky]

Marching Band Practice today was fine we got to leave early.
I almost got ran over by the trombones.
Sectionals in the morning tommrow -_-, then our raindate peprally.



Hahahah we get to play Hey Song and Tomahawk Chop for our bleacher features

[*tweeak*]

I didn't have practice today, but the drumline did. They had pratice every single day + Sunday this week. We only go Tuesday and Thursday. BUT WE KNOW THE WHOLE SHOW (and we can play half the closer marching now, too)

[*RiC3xBoy*]

Intersting, so Nikki has a marchingbandplanet.com account....

Side Note: Hearing a lot about Lassiter....intersting, I would love to see them perform some day.

[*tweeak*]

heh, do you? I almost got myself banned from there

You really would like to see Lassiter. They're f**king amazing. I'm so glad we're competing at their school again this year. That's where Suzzette (brownsugar08) goes, by the way. She marches, too.

[*RiC3xBoy*]

Yea, my account is SubFusion, but I dont post, just lurk around lol. So Suzzette goes there huh? Very Intersting...cool, they did the Rose Bowl Parade last year, we did it in 2003

[*tweeak*]

Oh. You should post. I'm really unpopular there, because I stirred up shit and wound up getting people from cb to go practically spam bomb them All that over my spelling out the word "hell" ...

Yeah, Suzzette does go to Lassiter, so I may see her in October

[*RiC3xBoy*]

I wish we could be in BOA, but it would be way to expensive....sigh.

[*tweeak*]

Yeah, I don't think our BD cares enough to do BOA. He's never even mentioned it as a consideration. We only go to competitions we can't win unless something miraculous happens, because it builds character or something. Last year we won our last competition, and that's the one we're not going back to- not the one at which we got skrewed over.

[Miss Criss]

Intersting, so Nikki has a marchingbandplanet.com account....

Side Note: Hearing a lot about Lassiter....intersting, I would love to see them perform some day.

I used to post there but I could never get into it (I was the Pink_Clarinetist). I was much more into drummajors.com, although I don't know why.

And Nicki, my band director in high school was the same way. It really sucked because we had some very talented players with a lot of potential and he just...didn't care. *sigh*

[*tweeak*]

Kris, there's really no need to read the last 6 pages if you're not in band. It mostly just chatter. This has practically turned into a diary of what interesting has gone on in your band

Yeah, it is hard to get into. Had I not found a couple people who live in my state to talk to, I would have quit long ago

Really? Mine isn't that bad, and we have some strong players, but despite not going to BOA, we do go to the toughest invitationals around. We're pretty good, but we're not BOA good, so it's ok.

[Miss Criss]

Well, my band was good but our director never pushed us because he didn't care.


Hmmm....is anybody else doing college band-- or planning to, at least? Any music majors?

[*tweeak*]

Oh, I see. It's not like that for us. He cares, he just cares less this year than usual

[Miss Criss]

Oh. My director just cared more for concert season, hahhaa. We were an excellent concert band.