OMG! That's exactly what I said lol. I get more of a workout in marching band than in P.E., especially since I carried at 15lbs instrument (I'm a small person...
One time after a parade in our city, we were walking to a bank's parking lot where the busses were parked. One of our bass drummers didn't see the cement...
That's great! On Saturday, the band went up to Maine for some anniversary parade. I heard the band did well, but there were problems with the buses and the...
i think the only "tragedy" we had last year was on of our Euphonium fell during the jazz run at Region. I dont know exactly what happened, but she fell on her...
thast cool that you guys scored as high as you did, but how can you go to a competition with only half of your show learned? Was it an invitaitional from...
yeah we do so much work in marching band. Band Council and squad leaders are always doing victory laps after practice, and we do like 5-10 sets of sweeps...
i hear ya, that was the worst part about being 4th bass, i couldnt see the ground or things in front of me. When I fell, one of my friends who was playing...
Speaking of mouth pieces, last year there was a mishap in the sax section. In a part of the drill there is a line of saxes, and another line of saxes in the...
In our band, we didn't have to do all the physical exercise stuff, but we had enough exercise from the drill itself since all our shows have fast tempos, and...
I was kinda clumsy senior year compared to the other years lol. I didn't fall at competitions or performances (thank goodness), but I did trip during band...
ha-i wish we didn't have to do exercise in my former marching band. we ran laps, did stretches, jumping jacks, arm circles,etc. every single day. I guess it...
We simply don't have time to do all that physical stuff, and have reheasal. Sometimes the 1:15-1:30 minutes after school isn't enough, but the director...
our practices went from 4:30 pm -6:30 pm or if people are messing around during warm ups we add extra time to the end. On Monday-Thursday they have practice,...
Last night I went to the game, to see the band of course! Surprisingly my school won 23-0. Anyway, the band did a much better job on the fieldshow. It's so...
we don't have dress rehearsals before a competition. we just have our sucky normal rehearsals where they pick the worst possible schedule. like, wednesday...
i'm pretty clumsy too. last year, i was going backwards and i was going so fast, i tripped over my foot and landed right on my butt. then there was this hole...
Band was D block for me. Orchestra and Jazz Band were C block. The only time we had band in the morning were for weekend rehearsals, during school vacation and...
Tomorrow the band has its first competition of the season at Billerica, MA. It's about 2 hours away from here I guess. They're leaving school at 3:30pm and are...
I don't know if there are any members of the bands that were at the Plano East Marching Festival last night, but if you are here, you all did a great job....
Well that Billerica competition happened on bad weather. It was supposed to be held in that town's middle school field. But it rained all day and the day...
hey, uhhh... i'm john and as i'm sure you've guessed, i'm a drummer. my band is Random Thought and well, i'm advertising for my group thiny so i could have...
Well today was the annual Musictown Festival. It was a nice day... only that it was freezing when the wind blew lol. The morning were the fieldshows, and my...
When I was at the Musictown Festival on Sunday, my middle school band director was there. He was saying that I would like the new director at the highschool if...
in our school they start off just playing rhythms on snare and doing simple mallet excersizes in elementary. Drumset in taught outside of school by private...
Learning to play set is taught privately out of school too. We also do the exercises and rhythm stuff at lessons. What I meant, is how wind & string players...
