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Wow. I haven't been on in forever. We had our concert, and we didn't do that bad. 'Cept on our second song, our last note was a high B-natural and I played it B-flat. Then the other second flute played A-flat instead of A-natural. But otherwise we were good.

Hmm, our symphonic band is made of mostly freshman a few sophomores, maybe a junior, and three seniors (two of them dropped to symphonic 'cause they were pissed at May.) Wind is made of two freshman and a lot of others. There's about 20 of us, but we still have a tuba, two obi, two french horns, a bassoon, and a bari sax. Yay!!

Speaking of tuba-girl, today we dressed up for Halloween, and tuba-girl seems to find herself hot as a guy, so she drew some facial hair, and was a man. The scary part was, she looked like Legalos in Lord of the Rings (if you didn't want to meet him in a dark alley).

eek Absolutely NOT! IF it's an honors band how the hell did they make it in there in the first place if they don't even know the fingerings for their instrument?? I mean, come on! do they just let anyone who asks into ur honors band?

You taught urself how to play Tenor? wow. you got skillz. I hate trying to play reed instruments. xd i can get some notes out, and then i can even play some short songs, like mary had a little lamb whee and then the next day its like the thing wont even work for me.

Have any of you guys had 4 people collapse at one competition before?

Yeah, that's basically what happens. Honors band is so small that our BD basically lets anyone into it (like I said, we've got about 27 people). The only exception is freshman - she rarely lets freshman join it (there's only two this year, a percussionist and an alto sax, both of which we kinda needed). Other than that, just about anyone can join. And then she complains when we suck. Gah. I love my BD, but sometimes she makes me wonder....

But yes, I taught myself tenor. 3nodding I was so glad I listened in fifth grade when they taught how to put reeds on.... XD

We were at a marching band competition, and we ate breakfast at about 8 in the morning, went to a competition, and then ate at about 4 in the afternoom. We then proceeded to continue to the second competition of the day. Now, you must remember that we were prepared for cold weather, and most of us were wearing long pants (not me, for once!) and multiple shirts (I'm guilty of that one). It was quite a bit warmer than we expected, we didn't get a chance to get water before we went on, and during warm-ups, one of our baritones dropped. Then, after we performed, one minute, I was standing there, the next minute, I was sprawled on the ground, with one of our parents there. Then the rest of the band moved into the stands, and one of the pit members went down. She did the same thing I did. Then, a few minutes later, her sister went down.

They think that we were too hot, dehydrated, and had had too big of a meal too soon before we performed. Luckily, everyone's okay now, and the football/swimteam coach gets to deal with two of us now. And we're just about through with marching band. We have one more football game to make an appearance at, and the playoffs, then parades. Oh, joy. Luckily, concert band is our main objective now.

The picc.s are one of the few sections in our band that only had like three sectionals this year. One of them was just because we had a general woodwind sectional and another one was because we wanted to go over the dance routine so we could get best dancing section. smile Anyways, I think its because there are only two freshmen in our section and both of us actually do work, lol.

I think that we may finally be about to resolve our flute problem with playing tests, but I think that all of the frustration would dissappear if I were to simply play picc and oboe with our single, lonley oboe....she needs help, but is getting better.