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Posted By:  Magus Nov 20, 2004 - 10:50 am |       | It's actually quite scary how many of these are true. The One's that apply to me, with some of my comments attatched:
1. You hear music on the radio and you start marking time. (I was at a concert and they played a song that was our first movement in our show this year. I was not only marking time; I was taking my step offs and fingering along with the music)
2. You're walking behind someone and you're in step with them.
5. You don't mind changing clothes on the bus (see below). (Band Busses are nothing but low budget porn. What happens on a Marching Band Bus stays on a Marching Band Bus.)
6. You know how to change on the bus without revealing anything.
10. Being mauled by a drum is a normal part of life.
11. "Armed guard" means a girl with a pole, not a guy with a gun. (They are armed and dangerous!)
12. You remember sharps and flats more easily than you remember the name of the president.
14. You see your section more than you see your family. (My section IS my family)
18. Reeds taste good. (Especially Vandoren 3 1/2 Tenor Reeds) (Got Wood?)
19. You subconsciously start practicing with a pencil. (Hell, I've done it with nothing but thin air in front of me)
20. You roll step through the cafeteria so you don't spill your food. (Also known as "The Curse of Marching Band" )
22. The band room is your second home. It is your home if you've got it bad. (It really, really is)
23. You think a national monument should be built honoring John Philip Sousa. Hell, they should just chip off one of those president heads and put it there. (They forgot to mention one for John Williams!)
24. You've actually been to band camp and consider it the highlight of your summer. (Sad, isn't it?)
25. You recite the alphabet A through G then start back at A again.
27. Spit rags/swabbers don't gross you out (see above).
28. You carry cork grease in your pocket. (I also carry spare reeds in there as well)
0. 9/2 time scares the b'jeezus out of you, while dying a slow painful death in a pit of snakes doesn't. (You have NO idea how scary that would be to play)
31. Your philosophy is: "If you don't have your mouthpiece then what the heck is that noise coming out of your mouth?" (Sometimes it's: "What's that noise coming out of your mouthpiece" )
32. You and your pals have memorized the entire repertoire for the year and can play your respective parts together...on kazoos. (For the Year? I still have several songs from Symphonic Band 2-3 years ago, last year's band and all of my Jazz songs as well) (And Kazoo's make awsome Jazz solo insteruments!)
33. You hear a song on the radio and think: "Hey, this'd make a good pep band song." (Come on Eileen, La Bamba, Born to be Wild, Johnny B. Goode, In-A-Godda-Da-Vida, Tequila and We Are The Champions are just some that we NEED) (Iron Man, Quarter to Three, Cleavland Rocks, Centerfold, Peter Gunn, Walkin' On Sunshine, Batman and Mortal COmbat are the AWSOME songs we have)
34. You don't describe people by going "She's got brown hair, dark eyes, kind of tall..", but go "She's an alto sax."
36. You have a designated section in your closet dubbed "for concert attire". I have one for Jazz, Concert, Pep and Marchng Bands respectively)
37. You have a harness/neck strap tan line. Yes, yes I do.)
38. Pep band is the highlight of your week. That and Jazz Band)
39. You go around humming the last song you practiced, even if it's Bb major scale. (Sometimes I'll hum songs we haven't played for a week after band.)
40. A random person could punch you in the face and you wouldn't respond, but you'll fight to the death over who in your section gets to play the solo. (And I get to, too)
42. Your biggest crush was/is your drum major. (Actually, it was on a Basoon)
43. You go to parades that you are not in and make sure lines are straight, horn angles are parallel, and everyone is in step. I don't go so much as I... go)
44. You listen to the classical station and can name off songs that you remember playing in band. (I can even name songs that OTHER bands have played before)
45. You always start off on the left foot.
47. You've seen "Mr.Holland's Opus" 26 times. (Close, try a little higher, though) (You can tell that the marching band was tought by former military as they do not roll their steps and they lock their knees.)
48. Everybody in band fights like they're family. (Please, we ARE family)
49. When walking down the hall you are in step with your friends. If someone is not, they fall behind or do a little foot shuffle to get in step.
Do you see what a hopeless case I am now?
| Posted By: Magus Nov 20, 2004 - 11:05 am | |
I just found that there are 750 MORE! I'll post them each in sections of 100 and comment on them later, I don't want to post too many times in a row.
I think I'll save us all some time here and not post them all. You can read all of them for yourself here. Enjoy and feel free to comment here about them.
WEST SIDE STORY RULES!!!!!!!!!!(but beauty and the beast is better)im not technically in band, im thinking a/b rocking out w/ the jazz band if i can figure out how to weasel out of spanish II w/out my teacher murdering me (fiery red will get this)right now im a band groupie. good times...
| Posted By: Magus Nov 20, 2004 - 12:53 pm | | That's close enough. You'd have to drop El Español dos? At my school Jazz Band is is an extracurricular activity, only the regular bands (Freshman, Concert, Symphonic and Wind Symphony) are co-curricular.
"The bands nerds of the world will unite and rise up against the Tyranny of the Jocks!"
The fact that I'm in tennis notwithstanding. I attend Jockport High.
lol what a name...jazz band meets pd. 6, which is when ive got el espanol del shog. (a shog is what you get when you mix a sheep and a dog, our teacher has a huge stuffed one sitting on top of her cabinet thingy)but im not sure a/b joining, because my sources say that the marching band (of which all or most of my friends are a part) is the sworn enemy of the jazz band. so who knows...plus i wouldn't be allowed to go on the band trip, but fiery red's gonna smuggle me onto the bus, ill hide in the bathroom until we get on the road, then ill come out and smoothly pretend im in the band...mwahaha...
| Posted By: Magus Nov 21, 2004 - 06:17 am | | Really? Sworn enemy? Most the people in Jazz band around here are like me, Band Nerds to the Extreme. They're not only in regular, jazz, and marching bands, but also any bandrelated activity they can join and find.
Our first Jazz band meets from 3:15 - 5:00 on Mondays and Wednesdays. The second, which includes myself, meets from the same time, but on Teusdays and Thursdays.
But we don't meet this Thursday, THANKfully.
But I get out of the first half of school Teusday and all of it on Wednesday! We, the marching band, are touring all of the Jr. High's to recruit people to our cause.
Marching band enemy of jazz band? WTF? In my band, marching band is mandatory, and jazz band is just a little concert at the end of the year that a few of us join voluntarily.
Oh, man, Magus... You really ARE a band nerd. I'm not half as bad as you. But at least you have cause to be a band nerd - you've got a huge band that's way better than mine, and you're good. The band nerds in my band are just nerds and nothing else. 
2. You're walking behind someone and you're in step with them............ no ••••, everyone does that.
4. All your friends are in band............ Well, er, yeah... I guess. Except for the German exchange student that was here last year, but she was never a close friend.
5. You don't mind changing clothes on the bus........... Well, I do, but I change on the bus anyway. 
6. You know how to change on the bus without revealing anything............ Pfft, only if I've got a long shirt on. I usually wear shorts anyway, unless I forget them.
7. People ask you about your social life and you say "Oh you mean my flute?" .................... Hahaha... sounds like a girl in my band.
9. You practice your instrument more than you talk to your dog................ considering I don't have a dog...
12. You remember sharps and flats more easily than you remember the name of the president................ What's that supposed to mean?
13. You've named your instrument................... no, but my captain has. Dork!
14. You see your section more than you see your family........................ Well, considering I'm the only one in my section... But in my old section, yes. Except that my brother's in band, too (and two of my other classes), so maybe equal.
15. Everyone wants to kill the other football team...and you want to kill the other band.............. Actually, quite the opposite. I was rooting for the other team and band the whole season until the last two games, the two we won. Man, that sucked at Region Band tryouts, the day after marching season ended. I realized as I was walking away that the last school leaving was the Trojans, my favorite because they have awesome uniforms (haha)... And I said "Go Trojans!" but none of them heard me. 
16. You have dreams about selling band candy.............. No, but a couple nights ago, I did have this bizarre dream. The end involved sitting in stands with another band listening to a trumpet play a solo in this lovely Christmas song. Can you ••••••• believe that I can write beautiful music in my sleep but not when I'm awake?! I wanted to write the music down after I woke up, but I had to jump up and catch the bus and ended up forgetting it.
18. Reeds taste good................ eh, not really. They taste strange, to put it simply.
19. You subconsciously start practicing with a pencil................. Pfft, a pencil would just get in the way. Try it!
22. The band room is your second home................ unfortunately.
23. You think a national monument should be built honoring John Philip Sousa. Hell, they should just chip off one of those president heads and put it there.................... Sousa sucks.
24. You've actually been to band camp and consider it the highlight of your summer................... Well, it's not like I ever get to do anything else besides that during the summer besides stay home and work on my novel and study languages.
29. You know what a shako is and insist on calling them that, threatening to kick anyone who dares to call them 'hats'................ what the hell is a shako?
30. 9/2 time scares the b'jeezus out of you, while dying a slow painful death in a pit of snakes doesn't........................ don't think I've ever played 9/2 time. I think I've only played 9/8.
33. You hear a song on the radio and think: "Hey, this'd make a good pep band song.".................. No, I think "Hey this'd make a good spring concert song. LOTR!"
34. You don't describe people by going "She's got brown hair, dark eyes, kind of tall..", but go "She's an alto sax." ...................... Hey, man, that's me! I'm an alto sax. 
35. Your conductor is your hero....................... HELL, no.
36. You have a designated section in your closet dubbed "for concert attire".................... Me? Concert attire? I just throw on whatever looks the least like school clothes, which is probably just something black and sweaty.
37. You have a harness/neck strap tan line................... Last I checked, oui.
39. You go around humming the last song you practiced, even if it's Bb major scale................. Guilty.
40. A random person could punch you in the face and you wouldn't respond, but you'll fight to the death over who in your section gets to play the solo................................. Probably. No, I go by chair. If I'm first, I'm playing the solo. Otherwise, I insist that the chair above me goes.
41. Someone yells out "Hey, Saxophone Girl!" and you respond............................ Guilty.
42. Your biggest crush was/is your drum major....................... Ha. In 7th grade, long before he was drum major, he asked me suddenly when the bell rang: "Will you go out with me?" I just stared at him, and then he said: "No, I'm just kidding." I kind of liked him at the time. Haha... but now he hasn't grown up much and remains a dork, so NO. My biggest and only real crush was on a very short trumpet.
45. You always start off on the left foot................. Yeah, I noticed that one day. Dunno if I didn't already do that before marching band.
47. You've seen "Mr.Holland's Opus" 26 times................................. nah, only about four times.
48. Everybody in band fights like they're family.............................. pretty much.
49. When walking down the hall you are in step with your friends. If someone is not, they fall behind or do a little foot shuffle to get in step............................ Nah, we only did that once, and I don't think it was in the hall. I blame the fish.
| Posted By: Magus Nov 24, 2004 - 06:07 pm | | They brought in another Tenor in our Jazz Band. But I'm still at the top. 
We just took our tour of the little schools. We got out of the last two days of school before Thanksgiving Vacation. YAY!
As you can tell, I'm on a wasting-time spree.
You're still first chair? Keep bragging... I know you'll never run out of things to brag about.
At Region Band, we played a song called "On the Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss" or whatever his name was... I love that song, but my friend hates it. Luckily, I didn't even have to persuade my director to have us play it in the spring... He'd already chosen that. Mwahaha... She'll have to suffer!
| Posted By: Magus Nov 24, 2004 - 06:48 pm | | The closest thing to that that I played was Prspect: Hymn for a Band. It's that one song that you hear all the time in cartoon sunrises. I liked it.
| Posted By: Magus Nov 29, 2004 - 12:00 pm | | Pep Band starts today. We have one of our only two practices today. After that we play at games on Fridays.
But we have two other tenors, and only one pep band book between the three. We're going to have to make another one or something! Because it's just not going to work this way.
| Posted By: Magus Dec 12, 2004 - 03:48 pm | | I just had my concert last week, among other chaos. It was a good holiday concert. One of our alto saxes jammed their finger really bad and couldn't play. He accidently dropped some ice that he was using to reduce the swelling at the bottom of the green room, where our band stayed for prep which is ironically pure white, stairs. One of our flutes slipped and badly twisted her ankle.
And then there was no Jazz Band the day after because the director had to go to a wake she had just found out about the day of the concert.
And I just saw my sister's awsome holiday concert over the weekend.
| Posted By: Magus Dec 14, 2004 - 03:58 pm | | YAY!!! TOMARROW IS BAND DOUGHNUT DAY!!!!!
They bring in a good TEN DOZEN doughnuts per band and we eat to our heart's content. And, being in the last band, we get all the leftovers from the other three bands as well!
hey, i was watching buffy the vampire slayer this morning (it's my soap opera) and i heard an awesome band quote: (i don't remember it exactly, but here's the gist of it):
"Buffy: we have a marching jazz band?
Oz: yeah, but since jazz is improvizational, it kinda defeats the purpose. you have people improvising when they march, and walking into floats...chaos, really.
Willow: that's just Oz being Oz
Oz: yeah, i do that a lot. like, all the time."
i dunno, i heard it and i thought "SV band board thing!" and then i thought: "Oh crap im gonna be late for school and i can't wear my chucks or my feet'll freeze!" (in case any of you are wondering, which i doubt, i did wear my chucks, and my feet did freeze.) i know our school doesn't have a marching jazz band, does anybody else's? cause Oz has a point, it would get pretty chaotic...hmmm....
| Posted By: Magus Dec 15, 2004 - 02:51 pm | |
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