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Have you ever gotten mad at something about music or have an annoying band mate or your teacher is just being serphulmakoo(Zer-Full-mu coo/to be making no sense or being ana {insert word here}) post here.

I suppose one thing I find particularly obnoxious is when you're told to switch parts due to a lapse in the score study. Here's an example;

I was originally supposed to play the 1st Euphonium part (yes, such a thing exists) for David Maslanka's 4th Symphony (if you haven't heard it, do so; it is a fantastic piece), but my conductor discovered that we needed a harpist. Now, the harp has many exposed spots in the score, so having one is important; however, given the school setting, we didn't own a harp, so we used a keyboard. The only other keyboardist in the band played with me on the Euphonium (though on the 2nd part), so we were told to trade.

syncopated notes >__>

Our conductor is...caustic. =_= He makes everyone play on their own, and as reasonable as that is considering how high-standard we are, he sometimes asks for the near-impossible. And pretty much everyone is terrified of him because he can also send you out for playing a few wrong notes in a bad mood. He doesn't hold back either.
But I guess that's how you get to the top. Our main choir got a silver medal in an international festival because of him.

i hate when the director blames a whole section for sucking, when it's only a few people. stare
first parts know what we're doing.. but we frequently have to remind second and third parts how to play certain notes, how to count, what dynamic markings mean..
ugh. it's pathetic. if you're a junior in high school, you should know what a Bb is by now!

I hate it when one part in the section is playing everythign correct, but the other parts in the section are not and they all get to play while we have to sit and listen to them and try and help them figure it out because nobody in my section practices except me.
This happens a lot. First parts tend to know what they are doing, even if the other two never practice, but second and thirds are clueless imbeciles that should practice but never do and then complain they can't play the music and expect us to spoonfeed them the music.

I also hate when you deserve the first part but the other imbeciles give you second because they think its too boring for them to play, when they can't play the first part and you can play it by just sightreading

-I'm annoyingly higher level then the other clarients, but the other junior and the only good sophomore insist ont aking first parts and dont give me the opption. I only ever get first parts when its practically the same thing as every other part, but I get bored playign second and thirds because I'm always ever the only one who knows what to play. Our band music is already horridly easy for me, but at least first parts have runs and high notes that I can spend at least a few minutes figuring out. It leaves me with nothing bettr to do during practice then scales(Good news is, because i spend 2-3 hours a day practicing as habit, I know my major scales by memory, and am working on minor scales)

I hate it when a piece has 8va above the majority of the notes. Honestly, I don't understand why they just can't write the notes up an octave. And I hate getting yelled at for not following the tempo and not knowing how to fix it. Or if I totally think I am but I'm apparently not following the tempo...