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So, I play trombone during marching season, except right now my f attachment trigger trombone is in the shop. D: so that means i have to use the school's old yamaha when we go to chicago. ):but anyways, back to topic, during marching season, we go to our little sections to warm up before halftime and the trombone section have our own little group. we're the only section that is like a family and it's just hilarious. ^^ so anywys, before every halftime we would always go this. some section would just pray and then spit on the ground (aka flutes) but who cares, the trombones are awesome.
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waaayyy!~
I did a good deed!
Now I can destroy the world without worry. >x]
jkjk
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Just don't destroy the trombone players, and I'm content... or female trombone players. You can destroy the rest... well now. Don't destroy the first and second-chair trombone players and then I'll be content.
Otherwise I give you complete permission to destroy hicktown, USA; where I surely reside.
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Good news: One of our A-band trombone players was demoted to B-band. He didn't pay attention one bit.
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lol. i guess that means you're now first chair?
right?
right?
riiiiiight?
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No... I'm still second. It was the third chair that washed out.
And I'm guessing that also means that I'm the last chair of A-band. The first chair wouldn't get demoted.
He's stellar.
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oh darnnit.
oh well.
why was 3rd chair demoted?
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I know. : C.
Yup.
Because he didn't pay attention in class, didn't play when called upon, tried to strike up a conversation with everyone while we were playing or weren't. Didn't know but Bflat scale.... I don't know how he got in in the first place.
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lol. Sounds like the seniors in my class... HMM.. lol. Pity I still consider them my trombone family...
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Heh... we don't call eachother a trombone family, but we're all pigs. The senior's and the section leader are pigs, the sophomore's a hog, and me and another freshy are piglets.
But I'm usually called Smurfette by the seniors, not piglet. : P.
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lol. aww. xD
lessee.. we've got two seniors, and they're like.. the most perverted.
then there's three juniors who the BD hates and always causes mayhem. they call me their little sister. lol.
then there's me. the only sophomore.
and there's three freshmen and those guys are funny. two's in wrestling and one of them can even beat the seniors in westling. haha.
and we usually make the freshmen do like, pranks on other band members mainly becuase they volunteer for it. lol. once, when we had to tune up before halftime, we told one of them to go run around in the CG's circle, take one of their flags, wave it like an idiot, run around the place with it, give it abck to them, then do the chicken dance. he did it too. lol.
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Hmm... our senior's a perv. Completely. The Junior seems, like, really serious, but when you become second chair you realize that he is very strange. He came to band in dark glasses, a hood over his head, once; another time I'd look over there and he'd have this freaked out expression on his face for no apparent reason. The sophomore's a loser (and you have NO IDEA WHY you dated him). THe other freshman's obsessed with strange noises and is a complete and utter redneck!
I'm the butt of most of the group's crude comments, because they disgust sometimes, and I don't hide it; when our director was regalling us with the glamour of wearing deoderant, he said taht certain people needed the perks of the substance more than others. Everyone started to do the whole cough-name-cought thing, calling the name of this really smelly tuba player, and then out of nowhere, my section leader calls out my name, and the rest joined in.
I'm still called "smelly!" But I don't smell!
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lol. this is how my band director calls someone out.
"A flute player really sucks. I'm not going to say any names but his initials are John Doe*"
**insert a real name here. lol.
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Heh... they'll just yell at us straight out if we don't do something right.
Or embarass us.
"Can you play that two-times louder than Steven?*"
Me: *shakes head no*
Mr. C: "I bet you can talk two-times louder than Steven!*"
Me: (is know for ALWAYS being really loud... even my keychains can be heard down the hall) *turns red, nods hesitantly yes*
"Then play louder. You can do the glissando, so do it loud!"
*Steven being my section leader.
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Awww... D:
Our BD says the same stupid jokes over and over again like "You guys sound like you're a three legged donkey in a four legged race" or "When the trombones sound like car horns going off in the parking lot, then you suck" or "I know it's hard for you people since most of you have an IQ of 100 points less than I do, but MAN! THINK!!!" and even more. Cuz he's stupid.
But when our BD gets angry, he gets really angry. He doesn't turn red.he truns purple and he starts throwing chairs when that happens... It's pretty scary.
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No.
Our band director isn't all that funny, but he tries to be. Our assistant band-director, Mr. C. is the funny one... and he doesn't try to be.
And that sounds cool, supervillian band directors!
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lol... not when he throws a chair at YOU. xD
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That would dampen the appeal considerably. : C.
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aww. the trombones in my school are like.. extremely loud and rowdy so our BD always yell at them. there's this one part in the trio where they have the up beats and they're never playing it right. it's pretty sad...
and other than the drumline, they're the most rowdiest and loudest section ever and the section our BD yells at the most.The Drumline is the one that is stupid enough to break someone's leg when being stupid.. but they RARELY get yelled at...
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Gah...we're working on our pieces for competition, and it is getting SO repetitive! The trombone never get to play, he's always working on parts when we rest.
And the part's trombone do get to play are never nitpicked and worked on, so we're only added in so the director can see if it sounds all pretty together, so me and the other trombone in A-band just sit around or wait impatiently for our part, only to have us cut of one count in.... it's aggravating.
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that's not fun):
there's this one part in the trio where the trombones have the upbeats and we have to keep playing that section over and over again because the trombones can't play the upbeats!!! it's sad actually. lol. the trombones are the loudest, rowdiest, and the one that gets yelled at the most. like in concert season, whenever i have a solo (i play the bassoon concert season) the trombones would always sing my part out loud to annoy me. and when there's rests, they would all count out loud just to be stupid. lol.
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It's usually the second and fight strains that issue me; trios are pretty easy for me... but we stopped working on marches in general to work on our three peices:
"Circus Days"
"Willows of Winter"
"Rhapsody From the Low Countries"
Willows in cool, but way boring, too many rests; circus days isn't boring, but the glisses and double tounging confuse me as it seems I missed the day they taught that in class. Well, I know how to gliss, but it's Bflat to C in fifth to first and then there's a fourth to first gliss a count after, then it rests for like two measures... and I'm rambling... Rhapsody's just... Rhapsody.
It's better than Hebrides though... all of them are. Thank gawd.
Hmmm... I'm sure if I played bassoon (which I wouldn't.. too many buttons, I'd have an attack.. and my lips can't work a reed, there's that) I'm sure my section would enjoy singing my parts and driving me batty.
They're all insane.
Today, my section leader asked me to slap him... twice.
And he wouldn't let up until I did.
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If that's not a rant, I don't know what is!
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lol. nah. it's not a rant. you need to work on it a bit more. rants tend ot be like.. several paragraphs long. lol.
we're playing:
Crosley March
Out of Darkness
The Witch and The Saint
The crosley march is the one with the trio and they kept messing up in. it's pretty sad becuase i have the melody in the trio and the BD would work on the trombones on the trio when their part is the background music. D:
out of darkness. i dunno what our BD was thinking. it's fun to sight read, but once you really start playng it it's like.. wtf. this sucks. seriously. the song is rediculously easy and repetitive. it as a lot of action and so there's the fun, but it's just.. blah. it's seriously way too easy. it doesn't deserve to be grade 5 at all.
the witch and the saint is the best song we're playing. i love it. it is soo beautiful. this one time we were just going over it on in a rehearsal and we played it so beautful that one time that i nearly wanted to cry becuase that song is soo sad. have you ever seen the play Wicked or read the book? that's what it reminds me of. it's so sad and beautiful. if you haven't then it's the background story of the wizard of oz about the wicked witch od the west. it's really really really sad. because elphaba (the wicked witch of the west) isn't really a bad person at all. no one really gave her a chance and her best friend was glinda (the good witch). but anyways, i'm getting off topic.
lol. why did he tell you to slap him? that's just weird.
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I know.. but in my head there was SO much more that I didn't type up and when I pressed 'send' I was all like, wtf? Did I write half of that?
It felt like a rant.
The director never works on the trombones. : (.
The most repetitive song I've ever had to play was 'Zulu Lunchbag,' it repeats the same four measures, like eleven times I think.
I've never seen Wicked, but I want to. I love musicals.
Because he was tired or something. It was just strange.
He's just strange.
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lol. xD ok.
you should watch wicked. it's like.. one of the best musicals ever!
and so is avenue q.
lol
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*shrugs* I'm strange.
I want to... I've listened to the songs and they're amazing.
He's strange. *shrugs*
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lol.
yea. but strange isn't bad at all. strange is awesome.
lol. our BD isn't here becuase he went to south georgia to judge sight reading for festival, so today we had a sub. it's funny becuase the junior trombones and the trumpet section stole the trombone section leader's car keys and had a joy ride on it... again. (they stole it many times before) luckily, unlike the last time, no one was hurt. just yelled at by the section leader. lol.
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Strange /is/ good.
That is so wierd! We had subs today too!
I have no idea where they were though.
That poor trombone section leader. He must have so much to deal with!
I know trombones are hard to handle... as I'm in their number!
Today my backpack, lunchbox, and trombone were all stolen and hidden from me, so I had to scurry about looking for them while the baritones and trumpets looked on. It SO wasn't cool.
And then when I /finally/ got my trombone back, a sax snatched it and held it above my head. SO not fun.
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lol. she was crying because she got in trouble with her mom the last time they stole her car. plus someone got hurt the last time they did it.
awww.. they do that to people too. like.. one the drumline thought it would be funny to hide eachother's mallets and screws and it was reallyed F'd up because they forgot where they hid it... and the trombones and trumpets would steal mouthpieces and hide them. especially during pep band. I've learned to always carry my mouthpieces in my pockets. lol.
and they do that to a sax player ALL the time. even the freshmen picks on her. she's one of those people everyone picks on, but they all love her. lol. she's the only color guard in symphonic band too... well, not counting our drum major, but she had to stop being color guard captian becuase.. well, she's the drum major.
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The trombones (myself included) make a sport out of taking apart a trombone in all it's pieces and hiding them about the band hall. Sometimes just one at a time, but mostly it's every removable part... including the tiny slide-lock. The most common piece is, of course, the mouthpieces as you're accustomed.
Yes, being a drum major would get in the way of being color guard captain. *nods sagely*
Poor saxiphone girl, though... I know what it feels like to be picked on by everyone.
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yea.. we even predicted that when she's a senior,
she'll STILL be picked on.
which is probably what will happen.
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I /know/ I'll be picked on until I get out of Hancock.
Which, if I'm lucky, will be my junior year when I go to this boarding school for intelligent and gifted students. Still... I'm going to miss marching if I do get in. But they have a brilliant orchestra there.
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aww... lol. I go to an IB school already, so I needn't worry about the stuff.
and it just so happens that my class will be the first IB graduating class in the school
so we're the guniea pigs.
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The school I'm planning on.. well, I'm sure how long it's been about; but there's definately been several classes before.
Some of the picture-things that show off the graduating classes... well, the hair's so big it doesn't fit in the oval frame. *shakes head*
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lol. woows. yesh.. . that's quite a lot of classes.
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It is a lot of classes... but it's a really awesome school that only takes 120 or so students in every class, and it's only getting better year after year!
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wait.. as in one class has 120 students in it at one time?!
:0
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NO! As in the graduating class.
IE: Class of 2011 or something.
Each classroom has fifteen or less students.
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lol. ok. i was gonna say... xD
if there's only 120 people in each graduating class.. that's a small school..
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I know... But I like it better that way.
My old school had a small class and I learned so much better there... but now I'm in a class of four-hundred and can never ask questions or do anything interesting unless it's with the band.
We were fitted for dresses today, for Competitions and stuff... and they are yuck. I mean, ew... I'd rather wear the tux's the guys get to wear.
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lol. our band uniforms are tux. x]
but it would be nice to wear a dress sometimes.
my school is small, not that small though..my class is a class of 300 something.
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These are just for Concert Competition... they're like black shapeless shifts that belt below the chest area. And they're school-owned.
And I think we have to wear school-owned black high-heels with them... ermm.. I'll wear the Marching Band Uniform, but I don't think I can wear these.
Even though I know I have to.
I dislike wearing dresses.
300 would be better than 400.. I mean, honestly, I live in hick town, but they can find 399 rednecks to surround me with. It's bad.
And that's just the freshmen.
There's three other classes to contend with. And yet, with such a large student body our band is smallish.
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lol. me too. i live in like.. well, not really, but i still live in a redneck county. lol. pretty sad. when my lit teacher is making fun of us, she puts on a redneck accent. T.T
some schools do wear their marching uniform as their concert uniforms. it's mainly the poorer schools, but some schools have the kinds of marching uniforms where you can take the outer jackets out and it still looks uniformal. which is sooo not fair. D:<
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If you take off our jackets, we look like farmers... as in overalls.
It's eww.....
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lol. us too.
it doesn't help that
most of us have
farmer's tans...
D:
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Ew... farmers tans!
But it's perfectly acceptable to have a band camp tan though, yesh, perfectly normal.
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lol. seriously.
my last year's drum major showed us her foot once.
she's black so when we saw her feet it was like.. pale when compared to the rest of her.
and she said "this is what 4 years of band camp does to you."
haha... oh joy.
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