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 Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:11 am
So drumline and pit have a few little tricks we do up in the stands at games. Like Derek, one of the snare drummers, plays a line from one of our cadences, slams his left stick down on the rim, throws it into the air by hitting one end of the slammed stick with the right hand stick, and catches it.
So it's like "Ba-dum-bum *Hit* *WHEE!* *Catch*"
But one night, while we were sitting up in the stands, he didn't catch it. Instead it bounced off his hand and hit me right in the face. And then it fell into the one place where it's chained off under the bleachers. I had to go down and get it.
And drumline and low brass line up and do suicides while we're waiting to march. And pit, trumpets, and clarinets line up and do the booty dance behind the suicidees.
Did you know that the Oscar Meyer bologna song can be sung in accordance to the rhythm of suicides? It's amazing.
And then Liz, a brass player, locked Derek in her locker while we were waiting to go to pep band. It's one of those really big ones. And she and someone else went off to get food and he was stuck in there for some time.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:05 pm
The School Guy Wild-childs- This year during one of our marching show our band had to make a rotating cross that even in practise was bad but we did it anyway. After the show we asked people how whe did and they kept saying that they couldn't tell what we were tring to make. The next day when we watched the video, we found out we assidentally made a swastika. opps. sweatdrop holy s**t! u prolly got docked right? It was at a fb game, our marching band doesn't do marching competitions
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:33 pm
During a Basketball game it was what we call 'Wig Weekend'. We were told we all had to wear a funny wig. One of the DM wore one and on the bad end of a bet apparently was forced to have the male DM do her makeup. As he had 5 sisters he didnt do such a bad job but the colors were attrocious. A little girl looked at her and started crying.
During the same BB game the DM's called out that we were to play 'Fight Song' which is our HS theme song. Anyway I didnt hear so I asked my friend sitting next to me. She replyed. I heard 'Fight Thong' As we were all getting out our music, the entire Clarinet and Trumpet section heard us.
On the way back from a competition my friend and I split a Blizard. As we were already hyped on Anti-carsick pills the results were not pretty. In the end 2 spoons were broken and one was crisend 'Stumpy'.
My friends Clarinet was dropped from the top of the bleachers. There was no damage at all. It landed on the bell so not even the reed was broken. The gravel didnt even scratch it.
On a side note, Hedgehogs and Band Directers are only to be combinded in the vacinity of a digital camera.
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:45 pm
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I gots one. =D
So last year, (different school) I was friends with this guy named Matt who was friends with my brother since he was a freshman. This was my freshman year so I only just gotten to know him that year. So anyway... he started this thing early in the year that only he and Farris (my brother) knew about, before we became good friends. It was called the book of secrets... and this was essentially just started out as a couple doodles and comics he did inside his school issued planner. And he made a couple comics about our shenanigans in band such as that annoying freshman girl who stalked my brother yadda yadda.
So I became interested and asked to see it. Matt later pledged that when he graduated, he would pass along to me all his worldly knowledges about marching band, and of course the book of secrets. Now just for the fun of it, he decided he would add in a couple of "candidates" so he could take advantage of them.
Here's how the situation worked; Each candidate would be awarded a "star" recorded in the back of the book for every time they had pleased Matt-senpai. I.e. doing favors for him, bringing him cookies, contributing to the book, etc. There were two other candidates besides me, Gabby and Colton. They were both Clarinets... Gabby was just plain annoying and Colton was a jerk, unbeknownst to me at the time but I would later find him to be quite the troublemaker.
Matt told me that he would pass all of his knowledge and the book to me anyway, and he was using the other "candidates" as his lemmings. So the year continued on, into concert season, and until later in the year, the book wasn't seriously competed for.
Until, one day, Matt decided to make a sort of mock-audition slash competition thing for the book. Each "candidate" would carry the book for an entire week and have a set of pages in which to doodle while the book was in their possession. I took the utmost care to keep the book secret and safe, and for that week I studied the doodles and comics I hadn't glanced at before. It was a truly amazing thing and my love for this book grew and grew. I knew this would be a treasured memory of mine from high school. I diligently filled my pages with doodles and ramblings and sticky note animations.
Sadly, I was not so lucky. Because later in the runnings, and Matt being as forgetful and lazy as he was, left the books unattended. I say bookS because I later found out, he had 3 more of these books of secrets! Except they were just sketchbooks of some of his best and most amazing artistry. Being the troublemaker he is, COLTON decided to take the books and scan them to the internet! What does the word "secret" mean to you, fool? So we got pretty mad, and they would only agree to give them back if Matt agreed to pass on the book to Gabby. They thought it was unfair for me to get the book just because I can't draw as well as Gabby could. I say sucks to that. We come up with a plan to get them to give it back. It was horrible, but we had to lie and tell them that Matt was going to keep his books and not give them to anyone.
He still intended for me to be his padawan, as he called me. So, just for the sake of tl;dr, Matt ended up giving the books to Gabby. Only because I was moving out of state. He though I couldn't carry on his legacy very well at a different school. I miss the fun times we had in band class... sneaking into the theater and running around on the stage. They were fun times, and I still aspire to carry on his legacy, as he once said. Although I didn't receive the books, I did get to learn talents and tips from the master himself, and I got the only thing to remember him by; the strip of fabric he ripped off the interior of some guy's car that he wore around his wrist each day just because it looked cool. So in faith of his legacy, I wear is around my wrist each day too in remembrance of my freshman year at Coronado.
Sad story. emo
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:59 pm
This happened today at the game, My friend Chase plays Bass Drum 1 and when he hit the head in the opener he busted it. He was hitting it he said and then it snapped and he was like "OH SNAP!" he also has to do like an 8 count solo in the beginning of our temporary closer.
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:06 pm
This year my band wasn't so motivated to march (mainly all the goof offs). So my band director made a bet with us. "If you get in the top 10 in our next marching contest, and get straight 1s at regional, I'll march with you all down to the stadium, in uniform, and play all the pep music with you at the following football game." Guess what band got 9th place and straight 1s? blaugh
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:36 pm
So, we were at an away game, and we were all really cramped together. From the drumline up, it was clarients, flutes and then trumpets. well, us poor clarinets were so close to the drums that we could barely see and kept getting hit by their sticks.
Well, one girl was standing next to a freshman bass drum. the bass was palyign our fight song, but he is one of the strognest players. suddenly, he hits the rim, hits the girl's clarinet, hits the middle of the drum, and snap, his stick breaks, goes flying and lands on the dm's podium. Dm was just like "WTF?!" and stared at it the rest of the song. all fo us were laughing so hard we couldn't play. afterwords, the bd picks it up, examines it, and raises his eyebrow to the dums. We all point to the freshman bass drum, who is looking at his stick like ?= We were alls till alughing.
Then, a bit later in the game, one of the freshman flutes accidentally sat on our german exchange student's flute, and the flute fell. Luckily, it only had a small dent in it, which didn't affect the sound. One thing is for sure, she will always remeber usXD
at another game, one of the playoffs ones where we were at a different school because our stadium lights were broken, our mascot and one of our dms pulled two lightsabers out of nowhere. During Darth Vader, they were saber fighting. Then our dm knocked the mascots lightsaber down, and it hit our bdXD
At most of the playoffs games, the mascot would randomly come over and start dancing with the two dms that weren't conducting at the time(both were new dms this year, the third was more serious and had been dm for a while)
During a rehearsal, the guard were trying to do a cool rainbow throw thing, where they all threw their flags in front of one of the podiums and the flags were supposed to make an arc. Well, the bd and guard isntructor were watching to see how they could improve it. Guard instructer=behind the poium, bd=in front of podium. All you see is a bunch of flags shootign at our bd like arrows, and he gets hit in the arm and in the headXD Talk about revenge.
At our first festival of the year, UofA band day, we were at a practice field doing some short runthroughs before we went on. Well,t here was a part in our chorale where i was marching nexxt to one fo the bari saxes, and a guard girl cut through us with her flag, doing a spin, and one wrong step, and we were headlessXD or at least, hatless. Well, some graduates from last year who were freshman at the UofA started laughing during this part, claiming that "that was new." and "I've enever seen that happen before." Well, I'm wondering what they are talking about. Well, after the move our bd has us go to a different part of the show. I turn around to see the bari sax picking up his plume, and the guard girl laughing he head off. Apparently, she had hit his plume and knocked it off his hat.
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