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Scenario 1 --> A few weeks ago, my friends and I were sitting at our lunch table, and right outta the blue Nat goes, "I'm gonna ask Mr. D if I can play piccolo next year!" So naturally I was like scream 'cuz I've been talking about how I WANT TO PLAY THE PICCOLO next year for, literally, the past three months. But after school I went and asked him and he said yeah, if I'm first chair next year (WHICH I WILL BE because I'm the highest-chaired seventh grade flute in honor band).

Scenario 2 --> And then today Nat says, "should I buy a piccolo?" I was just thinking, have I not gotten it through your head that it's MY rightful place to play picc? gonk

And by the way, it seriously really is my rightful place because I've been working my butt off since fifth grade just to be sure that I land that position. Also, we're the only seventh graders in honor band. She's seventh [last] chair (and has been almost all year, except for one time when she got sixth because one girl wasn't at school on the test day) and I'm third chair. So I think that I deserve it more, unless she beats me next year. Which, in that case, she can feel free to play piccolo.

Yeah... just had to get that outta my system. Comments on my big wall of text? 4laugh

Iknoright? mrgreen

...Why cant there be two piccolos? 0_o?
we have like three in my band, it just makes it easier to hear the flutes, which was good cuz they had melody in most of our show.
also, whos to say that your friend wasn't working hard to?
we have last chair people who work their buts off, even more than the section leaders. just sayin.

and if they want to buy a piccolo and play, don't get mad at them! thats just discouraging a fellow musician who wants to learn, and that is just lame. if you really are such a good player, you need to learn to encourage your section instead of just making sure they know how good you are. seriously!
If you dont and become first chair (section leader) your section will hate you. and you will have no control over your section and it will be your fault. stare

keep being greedy and self centered, see where it gets you.

1: There can't be two piccolos because we're middle school and it would be HORRIBLY out of tune.

2: I never said she doesn't work her butt off. Stop putting words in my mouth. She obviously does work her butt off, since she's in honor band as a seventh grader as well. But I obviously work my butt off harder than her because I am third chair.

3: I was discouraging her from buying a picc because it'll be a waste of money if she doesn't get first chair, since we only ever have one piccolo.

4: I know what a section leader is. Don't think that seventh grader is synonymous with stupid.

5: This was a rant so I can get my feelings out so neither Nat nor my section hates me.

6: Keep being so judgmental and see where that gets ya.

mrgreen

We only have four flutes in my band and they trade off for piccolo for certain music, mainly pep band. They're almost never out of tune either, even when three of them play the piccolo and one play the flute or all of them play piccolo. My band is pretty strict on tuning though.

Though, for my band I've been a little mad considering that the other two clarinet players (yeah, there's only three clarinets too) make no effort whatsoever and are really terrible yet they get all the harder and better parts. My teacher is like "well, you have to share!" Though, it has gotten better lately ... just had to rant too. lol.

that must suck