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One of the things I absolutely hated when I was in band class was the girls who just didn't practice as hard as those of us flautists in the first row (there were 10 of us, 5 in front, 5 in back) and acted like the teacher was playing favorites and got really spiteful and bitter. There was this one gal that I remember who sat in 1st chair when everybody was just starting out, but when we had our exam she got bumped to the back row and never made it out. She would always challenge the 5th chair girl, but she would never practice outside of class so she always flubbed the song and squeaked like a dork. Then, because she'd screw up constantly, she wouldn't get moved up to 5th chair, and that day after class some new, spiteful rumor would be running around school about the girl who beat her. Pathetic!

One of the other things that really got me going was when the choir class next door took our music stands. They had these huge tables in there with little miniature lecterns that could be moved around to anywhere they were needed and were PERFECT for holding sheet music, but they never used them! Grr! crying

As for all of the people who mentioned hating when people talked while the BD was talking or working with another section... I'm terribly sorry for you. That got nipped in the bud the first day with us! Our BD said, "If you can't shut up while I'm talking, I'll talk at you through a megaphone while you run the PE field's track. If I have to do that, you all get F's for participation the entire week." Nobody dared make noise after that!

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GAH!

My BD is my pet peeve.

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"Ten weeks until Festival! We need to get in gear!"
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Three weeks later, we've played our 4 songs twice each.
Why?
He's always absent.
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It's so annoying....

- when Tori randomly comes up behing me and burps in my ear...... okay, so it mostly happens at lunch but she's our percussionist/french horn

-when it's only sprinkling outside and the clarinets start SCREAMING about how its down pouring and then we can't go out to march

-when percussion decides to stop in a different spot everytime we march the show.... stare ....i have to march through them and twirl without hitting them.... stare .... and our BD never says anything..... burning_eyes

-when you date another bandie so your captain/section leader/whatever makes up every possible excuse to keep you constantly busy

what bugs me

is when people mistake my TROMBONE for a TRUMPET and i have to tell them just how wrong they are but i got a laugh telling my fellow trombones about it and now i have more reasons to make fun of my mom thats right after playing the trombone for 4 years she mistook it for a trumpet but has yet to mistake my sisters flute for something else

in second band i am the only trombone but since we lack stands(stupid clarinets dont share) i have to share with a baritone player and if i put my music on the stand and then have to go do something she will move my music off the stand and onto my chair and tell me that i left it on the chair when i know she moved it

the percussion doing homework when were getting ready to do a song

people who think that they are the best in their section when they arent even 3rd chair or a crappy 8th grader saying that they are better than all of us in the high school

the trumpets always getting corrected for the same part everyday taking up most of the period when every other section just takes a few minutes when we have to get fixed and after that we get it and dont need to get fixed on it again and the trumpets have to get fixed the most too

playing by myself in class cause i suck then and thats how we have to play off but when we play in a group i totally rock and sometimes play better than people who are chairs ahead of me

the talking bugs me too but sometimes i do too when i actually get to sit next to one of my best friends and something really interesting happened (however that can't happen now cause my friends are in first band and im not)

oh and when my BD gives us music where we have a bunch of rests like 22 measures and its in a time sig that we usually dont do like 3 4 cause i usually end up losing count then actually any multimeasure rests do that to me after they pass 6 measures but im getting better at keeping count so that i dont miss the various solos that my BD has decided to give me for some weird reason

I hate when the french horns a) talk too much that it turns our band director, Ms. Alison, into her green/purple monster (that's what she calls it when she gets mean) and b) don't know how to play their parts and turn Ms. Alison into her green/purple monster. They are funny, though. One of them is really stupid (I really don't know how she got into top band, she can't play her part!) and she said something once and Ms. Alison said, "Kim, we need to get some bleach because your hair's not nearly blonde enough." It was so funny because it just sort of slipped out. Mr. Yee was laughing his a** off!

the flute player I sat next to last year couldn't play. like at all. and she always made the most obnoxious, loud, stupid mistakes, and every time she did, the BD and the upper classmen flutes would turn around and look at us to see who made the mistake. they couldn't really tell who did it, and I spent a lot of the first of the year saying "it wasn't me!"
...then seating auditions came along. biggrin