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 Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:26 pm
Does every band have a perfect mello section? I'm pretty sure that's the stereotype for them, that they're perfect. I mean, my BD is a pastor, and he treats those girls like gods. He doesn't hesitate to listen to any of their opinions or thoughts.
On that train of thought do you guys have a shitty section too? (baritones, baritones, baritones.)
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:31 pm
Nahh.. not really. We have a small mello section. And the only one we ever really listen to is the oldest, Clay, who's only a sophomore.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:18 am
our mello player is sooo annoying
she always thinks she's right about absolutely everything but she NEVER is
and she's always counting out loud while we march to keep us in step, but she always counts out of time!
most of the band wants to punch her after every practice lol
and to think next year i'm running against her for drum major...
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:34 am
Our mellophones are usually right, they just sound terrible. Same with concert band...sort of. XD
The freshmen mellos are godly though. One wrote out Sandstorm for a stand tune, it was unanimously approved by EVERYONE. : D
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:17 pm
AHEM I AM A BARITONE PLAYER AND WE ARE LIKE THE BEST SECTION IN THE BAND KTHX! lulz.
There are 11 of us and we over power the 30 trombones.
Our mellos are pretty kick a** too, and like only a quarter of them play horn. The rest are like assorted misfits like harp and piano majors.
But yeah, mellos pretty much are amazing. We had Silverado arranged for our band and the mello part is ridiculous, they are gonna have fun.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:30 pm
nope. not at all. 2 freshmen kinda suck and the other is . . . she's to boycrazy. their section leader's good though. (p.s. there's 4 of them)
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:32 pm
svalur our mello player is sooo annoying
she always thinks she's right about absolutely everything but she NEVER is
and she's always counting out loud while we march to keep us in step, but she always counts out of time!
most of the band wants to punch her after every practice lol
and to think next year i'm running against her for drum major... that sounds EXACTLY like one of our flutes! One of my friends is going against her field commnader too
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:48 pm
Hmmmm. I almost want to say that we're the opposite. It's kind of like a joke in our band that Rees (our band director) will never compliment the horns. But that is probably because they have the section with the most people who have switched instruments. Generally we have at least 5 of them in the horn section because there aren't enough at the beginning of the season so they switch during band camp.
And...I don't think we have any "bad" sections. Pretty much every section kicks butt. The trumpets do have toruble staying set and are usually the last section to come to attention when we're called to "set" but other than that I don't think we have too much trouble. At least not with any section. Just individuals within sections and they get their act together pretty quickly.
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:42 pm
We have 3 mellos, all learning it for the first time this year. They aren't bad for their first year, but they also aren't good. I know at least one isn't doing horn for concert. I'm curious to see how that switch goes. Horn to basoon. Oh yeah, and this is the first time I will have a basoon in my band(love them. My grandpa's fav instrument.) And then one is a trumpet switch and the other, well, I'm not exactly sure what she played originally question She switches every year.
our worst section would probably be trumpets or percussion. Trumpets not because they play too loud like most do. No, ours play too quietly. rolleyes My BD calls it plastic wrap over the bell. He says it sounds like they put a piece of plastic wrap on the bell of their trumpets and so sound wasn't coming out. Not usual to tell a section of about 10-15 trumpets to play louder.
One fo the main probs with percussion is they don't know thei music and play too loud. Most of the time they are in the front of our band, and so they are always being told to play quieter when closer. I don't blame them personally though. It seems a bit difficult to do dynamics on percussion. And the pit tends to have troubles with the rus they stole from the woodwindsXD Oh, did I mention pit stole our parts? Yup. Our music and drill arranger cut out some measures(especially for woodwinds, though nobody plays in the perc feature except 4 measures and 3 notesXD) and put them as pit parts. And what I just said about our perc feature, Hoedown, is not exaggerated. We literally play 4 measure(A 16 count move.) which is only 2 notes in a repeated rythm, and then the last 3 eighth notes(same note) Now all we need is the percussion to clean up their part of the music and it will be fine, but for now it can make us or break us.
Not to sound llike I'm bragging(forgot the real word. I keep thinking conceided), but our woodwinds are pretty good this year. We are playing a chorale where it is basically woodwinds, mostly flutes and clarinets, at the very beginning for 20 counts. We keep getting compliments about it from judges. Our BD keeps saying not many bands would try something like it, because it is slightly dangerous, with it being so unprotected. Like, in normal music if you make a mistake, it isn't heard nearly as easily as if you make a mistake with quiet, woodwind music. Luckily it is only about 3 sets, so it isn't long enough to completely kill us.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:16 pm
Tubariffic AHEM I AM A BARITONE PLAYER AND WE ARE LIKE THE BEST SECTION IN THE BAND KTHX! lulz. There are 11 of us and we over power the 30 trombones. Our mellos are pretty kick a** too, and like only a quarter of them play horn. The rest are like assorted misfits like harp and piano majors. But yeah, mellos pretty much are amazing. We had Silverado arranged for our band and the mello part is ridiculous, they are gonna have fun. I used to be a baritone player. I switched back to trombone because the baritones were so bad, and I didn't want to be associated with them. I might play it next year, since we'll probably have more good trombones next year.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:07 pm
We haven't had a good mellophone section in 25 years. Not going to well anymore.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:45 pm
We only have one mello, but he's pretty darn good.
Our band only has 12 people in it.
Our crappy section happens to be drumline. Cocky and can't keep a tempo.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:11 pm
I Am One...
I Don't Think He Listens To ONLY Me Like A God...
I Think He Does That With All Section Leaders.
We Have A Small Mello Section, Of 4 People.
There Really Annoying Though
Try Being In The Section And You'll Believe Me
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:16 pm
For us it would have to be our trumpets.
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:11 pm
Lol..Only Baritone sadly..well one of ours is! LOL! We only have 2 Mellos but one's senior and one's a sophmore..Freshman baritone! Boo ya!
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