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 Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:33 pm
Okay, so our show was called Forged Creations this year, and the woodwinds come in during the end of the opener [The Anvil of Crome]. *ahem* Anyway, we play during the ballad [Salvation Is Craeted], and after that we have this part before the closure [[dunno what to call it]] that was called Eruption, that this one kid was playing on an ellectric guitar [[he helped out with the pit]]. He had to have his guitar plugged in of course, and the mic and all... well...
it didn't work. And in that movement, we are 'robots', and we get up [[because we're kinda kneling]] on a certain time after he starts the 'triplets', and get to our next point before he bends his last note down. When he would do that, we would have our hand up and we'd kinda bend down a little and then our drum major would start stright for the closure [[Temprated Steel (I wanna upload that from Limewire)]].
We all kind of paniced when we didn't hear him playing, so we just stayed on the ground, wondering what to do. And then, all of a sudden, Mr. Miller [[one of the dirrectors]] yells, "Robots, GO!!" so we did our thing, and then went on with the rest.
The pit doesn't really act like robots that much because well, they don't move of course [[except the battery]], so on the bus [[I was on the only co-ed bus, and it had the pit on it]] the pit kept saying "robots, GO!!" and they started making a song out of it with that one song "A Bay Bay".
It's funny.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:50 pm
My most embarrassing moment. Hmm. Well, my freshmen year during band camp I went inside for a few minutes while everyone was still outside setting drill. When I got back, we were starting over from the beginning. And usually there was an upperclassmen girl in front of me who I followed but she wasn't there that day, so I was leading, like, EVERYONE, and while I was inside they had learned a new set without telling me where I was supposed to go. So, I had no idea where to go when we got to that point, my friend behind me was like, "GO! UR SUPPOSED TO MEET UP W/ THE DRUM LINE! GOGOGO!!!" So I practically ran in that direction, since I was causing traffic problems behind me, and not realizing it was supposed to be a curve... And, yeah, it was a disaster, most everyone just stopped in confusion. My BD hadn't really realized I'd missed the placing of the set and was like, "...train wreck. guess we need to set it again." >.> Very embarrassing indeed.
Another time we were practicing marching out for festival, and my friend behind me stepped on my shoe and it came off. I had no idea what to do, and just picked it up and carried with me till I had the chance to put it back on. 0.o Yeah, didn't occur to me at the time to just step out of line and put it back on. All the rest of the flutes were laughing at me
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:28 am
My school band was doing a recording thing with Disney in May, and we were playing Firebird H.A.G.S. from Fantasia 2000 (The one with the little nature girl and the part where the volcano becomes the eagle bird thing and starts destroying things). So we rehearsed it twice, and we did great on it. Then during the actual recording, I played an extra note, and it was left on the recording... It was embarrassing. But it was the same note over and over, so I just kind of got lazy and spaced (I know, bad. :c) I still get made fun of for it. xD
Our band does this marching competition called the Blue Shoe Award (A week or two into band camp) where each section shows off how well they can take commands, and stuff like that. Well, it was the trumpets turn to go up, so they went up, and the squad leader called them to attention. He went to attention, and as he did that, his pants fell down. So through the whole competition thing, he was marching while trying to hold up his pants. It was hilarious. xD
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:19 am
I have on more than one occassion torn a hole in the left cheek of my pants.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:32 am
My freshman year in HS we did Pandora's Box;well in the first movement we did a HUGE moshpit circle thing and I was very close to another tuba player,well during the pit we had to do a quick horn flash and at a comp we did but *CLANG* our bells hit >.<
And worse was..the judge was right there.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:43 am
During halftime we had just finished our show and scrambled into to were we spelled CeHS on the field. Colorguard takes the lower half the "H" and drum line takes the upper half. The band started to play smoke on the water, well during that song I have to twirl the flag behind myself with one hand. In the middle on twirling the flag slipped under my skirt and bloomers and I ended up mooning all of drum line. Of course being made up of mostly guys they started to whistle.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:28 am
Well...My moment isn't really embarrassing but its the only thing I got to offer.
My value to my trumpet with getting stuck, so i went to oils it but when I tried I couldn't unscrew it. I asked my fellow trumpet but he couldn't either. So, I had to go to my band director and shew had to use pliers to unscrew it.
I miss that trumpet...the sauntering started to come apart because it was so old, so I couldn't use it anymore.Now I have to use a stupid school trumpet. my parents are being lazy butts and won't take it to Hensons cry
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:13 am
forgat the scales for tryouts
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:31 am
My most embarrasing moment i band? Well, i have a lot of those. But i think my most emmbarasing moment (and most painfull) was when I was going to sit down (i already had my neckstrap on and attacjed to my tenor saxaphone) and the bell hit a music stand, making the mouthpiece wack my eye >.> It hurt really bad. and then everyone started laughing at me.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:39 am
Oh, god, I've had a few of those... XD
In my grade 9 band class last year, we were playing Pirates Of The Carribean. The Teacher's Assistant was going to be conducting us for that peice. One day my band teacher gets him to work with the woodwinds while the brass went outside to play. Then vice versa. When it was the woodwinds turn to go outside, we were playing Duck Duck Goose. I didn't thik I'd get to be "Goose" for one round because normally I barely get picked when we play these kind of games... Then all of a sudden I get tapped on the shoulder and I hear "GOOSE!" And without thinking and forgetting my band teacher was watching I yell out "HOLY s**t!!" and stand up. It was loud too... My band teacher heard it. Fortunately he wasn't mad... But he did take out his camera and snapped a picture as I was laughing hysterically from embarrassment.
Another one was when In Community Youth Band, which is for Grade 10-Uniersity students (but I joined in Grade 8.) My band teacher decides to prepare us for the next song, since we were exhausted.....
By having us make massage trains in each row.... I still have nightmares...
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:17 am
ZOMG I remember one..last year my Senior secton leader wore jeans under his uniform trousers but rolled them up..well during the performance right in front of me they unrolled and u could see them!Later we listened to the tape and a judge saw them too >.<
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:29 am
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:37 am
We still talk about this one:
Our freshman year we played a version of jingle bells in which the trumpet section began the phrase and the rest of the band finished it 2 measures later. Right before the trumpets came in, there was supposed to be 10 measures of straight jingle bells. Well, we only had 2 trumpets, and let's just say they were very...giggly. During the Christmas CONCERT, they started laughing during the jingle bell section...and couldn't stop. We couldn't go on until they did their part, and so 10 measures of jingle bells turned into 30.
Our director quit at the end of the year. biggrin Haha.
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:47 am
my funny moment was when at practice, freshman year, when some idiot didnt pay attention and tripped and fell on his butt in my sousa bell!!!
and the weird thing was that it wasnt dented at all!! blaugh
the thing was that he was marching backwards to his spot!?!
omg i was so embarrassed that my sousa was nicknamed the "Commodaphone". i still feel sorry for the sax who did it though sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:09 am
We were marching at our homecoming parade and the streets were super small. I tripped over my flag and ran into a person on the side walk.
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