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 Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 5:54 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:48 am
CSI_Ruby_Red_15 "The pit may be unimportant to you, but we don't have it easy either. We drag our instruments around and have to stand in the blazing sun waiting to play, while you get to at least move. Plus, at least your section as more than one person playing a part. If one of us is gone, we have no way to replace that part."
I love that and considering what I have already told ya'll yeah It's hard for us to cover all the parts.
I laughed at my instructor right at the end of this school year cause one of the guys is going to a different school, I'm taking a break from band, and the other girl is going to do color guard, so all he has to use in his pit this coming year is 7th graders, (no offense to you 7th graders on here,) and he wants to do a show with at least 3 pit solos, as in chimes, bells, and cymbal solos. I told him he is going to have fun dealing with teaching them all that stuff.
Oh well for him, not my problem, I'm free for a year. I plan on enjoying at least one year of football and basketball before I graduate and there is always my senior year to go back to. Plus it's my honey's last year of football and I want to be able to cheer him on instead of listening for the next song we're playing and not being able to see him after the game cause he is already gone after i get all the equipment put up.
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:06 am
This season is going to be awesome. Minus the music (we're playing Wicked music). We have two section leaders for the percussion section. My bf is the pit section leader. In our band, the pit does almost everything involving moving instruments, props, drum major's ladders, and other extras. If something is missing or something goes wrong, we get blamed... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:41 pm
in things like winter percussion, where there's just pit and battery, without the pit, it just sounds like a bunch of crashes and booms. just noise. pit can stand without battery and sound good, battery can not sound good without pit.
Go marimba!
even though i only play for winter season.
it still rocks
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:12 pm
This past marching band...oh my god.
We epically failed as a band but as a pit we were decent. Sometimes our mallet players (myself included) were the only things holding the melody together during rehearsal. My director still doesn't know how we managed that. xD
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:51 am
I just joined the pit in my school. I had to quit guard for the season due to an injury, so I'm one of only three people in the pit and one of two girls in the entire percussion section.
The other two people in the put are nice though =D And for this show, I get to play the concert bass drum.
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:45 am
Pit's the icing on the cake. The band just doesn't sound the same without them. Even though I play marimba, I still love it when I get to hook up a cymbal rig to my frame. 3nodding
I was going to try out for battery, I think, my sophomore year, but I opted to stay where I love~
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:21 pm
Yep. Pit is definitely one of the most important sections (right after battery because of tempo) and a band just wouldn't be complete without it. I'm the section leader of an eight member pit and I love it. The rest of the band actually think that pit is awesome, though, because they actually understand that we have the hardest music, the heaviest instruments, and work from the middle of May to the end of December. My section is wonderful (minus one person because he's sexist) and I wouldn't trade them if I was asked to. They like and trust me as a section leader and come to me with their problems... Section leaders in our band are chosen not only for their talent, but also for their people skills because alot of our members have emotional and mental issues outside of band that are messing up their lives, so we have to have responsible, level-headed people as leaders. The rest of the band thinks of pit as their lifeline, because they can't really isten to the battery that well for tempo, so they listen for the melody instead... So yeah! Without pit, most bands would fall apart and/or not have a completed sound that is crucial for compettitions.
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:07 pm
On the subject of 'the band doesn't sound complete without us': My dad's band when he was in school didn't have a pit. Apparently a lot of bands don't. Which I find ridiculous.
And sometimes people in bands that have them don't know what 'pit' is! gonk
It sucks talking to my friends in other bands and they're like '...what's pit? o.o'
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:55 pm
Rawr
"We are the head of the band mafia."
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:01 pm
love pit sooo much and we do make an impacet im the timini player but i wanna be a tenner soooo bad dont hate me
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:39 pm
Jeremy_Butters xp I hear ya lots of hings to carry but little time to do it. At least we got like 15 min to set up. Lucky, I have three minutes! two ppl in auxiliary, including me, and we have two carts and a gong, (our bass drum sits on a cart)
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:35 pm
Pit it, like, the ultimate section. We don't have to march, we get to chuck mallets at people, we pretty much guide the entire band durring rests, we never have to tune, and so much more! I love pit! But I do hate lugging the Marima up stairs. That royally sucks. One time (at band camp! mrgreen Just kidding.), we were going to compition and we stayed at a school with no ramp leading to the football field... So we had to bring up every pit instrument. Those were some friggin' long stairs! The Marimba and Vibes were the worst. Stupid pedal kept coming off... sweatdrop
But, yeah, pit's awesome!
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:08 pm
Yeah, pit is pretty awesome. I did two years of winter percussion and one year of street percussion. Both for pit. Those were my seventh and eighth grade years. Now I'm a freshman and I got forced off my flute into pit. Even though there was only 3 flutes and 7 pit members. When I left, our band director decided to cancel the flute section because there wasn't enough people. He was going to cancel it anyway though. So I guess it's a good thing I did pit. We needed more low brass so the two other flutes got switched to sousaphone and baritone. I feel bad for them. I enjoy pit more than I used to now. I have a whole new respect for it's members. Especially the ones that do field shows. They work so hard. So yeah I miss my flute, but I feel honored to be part of a group that works so hard.
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:31 pm
like my junior year i had a solo on the marching show on the xylo it was from the nightmare before x mas and i played it who else could do that no one because pit is NUMBA 1
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