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 Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:01 pm
At all our football games Flutes stand in front of Trumpets. My cousin plays Trumpet and I play Flute. The flute section was using our flutes as flags copying the colorguard. My footjoint broke off and flew inside my cousins trumpet it was funny.
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 7:46 pm
xXRainListenerXx One word: Battle Playing in the stands and marching during half time are the best times ever. Especially if its against a rival school, and that rival just happens to have stolen some of our songs...thats when we fight back, and yes we always win. ^ ^. Both drumlines compete against one another, and the rest of us dances. I agree, playing with rival bands is the best. (we have a rival who stole our fight song too!) Provided you win, of course. My all-time favorite moment in band is when we went to an away game against our bitter rivals, and blew them out of the water with our halftime show. As we marched on the field, the whole stadium (which was like 90,000 people) was booing, of course. As we marched off...about an even mixture of boos and cheers. Can't ask for more than that! :9 There were even fans of the opposing team coming up to us and saying, "Wow, your band is so much better than ours" and stuff. The funny part is, that rival band came to our stadium the next year and did, like, the same show. lolwat. We play together with our more friendly rivals too. Last game this season, the two bands ended up having a dance-off to Bad Romance, haha.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 10:48 am
I have two::
1.) Every time my band, The Amherst Marching Comets (WOO!), go to a competition, after we finish performing, we sit in the back bleachers with all the other bands that have performed already. And we start cheering our band cheers we do at football games. It's hilarious, because some of the other bands go along with the cheers that involve other bands, like this:
Our band: "We have spirit, yes we do!
We've got spirit, how 'bout you?!"
Then they're supposed to reply the same thing, and it goes back and forth.
2.) Every time after an away football game, people in the back of my bus always start rapping. They made up this song, and each person has a lyric. It's hilarious to listen to, and the whole bus sings the refrain.
It goes something like this::
Refrain:
Piggy bank, piggy bank (OH!)
Piggy bank, piggy bank (Don't touch my,)
Piggy bank, piggy bank (OH!)
Piggy piggy piggy piggy piggy piggy bank!
(Then one of the lyrics)::
I was walking down town and I saw a store,
A store that I've never ever seen before,
I saw an item that I wanted to buy,
So I went home and broke open my...
((Then it goes back to the refrain. ))
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:21 pm
Oh man, there's a long list.
Well, for starters, we're one big family (there's about 170 members in band, and yet we all for the most part, know each other. At least our names)
We all adore our band director and band staff. The brass instructor really knows how to connect to us, and knows how to tease us without getting us all butthurt 4laugh
The feeling of victory...of knowing that the band did a great job...it's just unexplainable. I love it!
We know how to make that last hour of the long tuesday rehearsals (from 3 to 7) go by fast. Oh man, the baritones and trumpets are just a bunch of goofballs. The mellos and trombones generally are sticks in the mud who just watch from a distance, though one of them sometimes joins in. But anyway, the baritone section leader (my band uncle) loves to torment us (as in his section). But hey, he does it out of love. I remember, there was this time a trumpet player was cussing me out cause HE ran into me. I was really close to crying (mostly cause i was all hormonal and s**t), and finally Erik (sL) was like "Hey! Don't cuss at my underclasswoman!" (I was the only underclassmen this year). I was all like "Aw thanks~" It made me feel good that he called me his underclasswoman x3
Band cheers. Erik and Suzy (spirit leaders) are quite the team. At football games, Erik didn't want to do cheers before halftime. So when Suzy tried to get his attention, he would just stand up, look at her, say hi and wave. XD
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:30 am
oh! when my band director brought his 2 year old daughter to a football game it was just so cute~! :3 she started banging on the drums with a stick, she just loved it!
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:42 pm
redheadsrule13 oh! when my band director brought his 2 year old daughter to a football game it was just so cute~! :3 she started banging on the drums with a stick, she just loved it! My old director always brought his littel 2 year old daughter lol. everyone loved her. Sh would dance when we would start playign and clap and laugh when we cheered. One time she tried to climb the dm's podium. two years ago we had a tenor sax player who ahd a little brother abotu 2. He tried to play her sax once and got a pretty good sound out. it was cute. -Band camp. nuff said.
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:21 pm
drumline cadence off...trinity catholic and the good old raider band...band dancing+drumline cadencing=good friendship of bands...trinity catholic won by a landslide though...but it was beast...
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:35 pm
At the end of a song we played, my DM kept conducting as hard as he could, and at the very end, he shook his hand out, and his gauntlet flew off and hit a trumpet player in the face. It was parents night at the school, where everybody's parents came to see our performance.
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:24 am
My favorite moment of marching band is always the feeling you get when you just finished the show. That last drum beat and movement and it resonates with you. Then the audience cheers for you and you realize I did it! It always made me want to cry when I came off of the feild when I felt that. It was wierd though, I always felt like I was in a movie, and life sort of felt like it was in slow-motion. It was cool!
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:36 pm
I've always loved the feeling of performing a show.
As you march onfield, its as if time is going in slow motion. You hear the crowd cheer, feel their eyes on you with the stadium lights shining off the shiny parts of your uniform.
Then you start the show. It seems like the first note takes forever to come. You just stand there watching the dms, secretly scanning the crowd to find friends. I can remember evey face of every person who has ever watched the show intensly. like photos that only exist in my brain.
As you march the show, it feels like slow motion, yet it goes as fast as super speed.
Before you even realize you are performing, its over, and the crod is roaring. Just that feeling of accomplishment and loss; the show is over far too soon, but you know it went well.
And then the crowd dances as you amrch off the field to the fight song.
It brings a feeling of unity with the audience you just dont get with concert band. I love it.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:53 am
dancing during the cadence during parades.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:05 am
We have a friendly rival band and one of thier freshmen died of a tumor, so we did a tribute to her. The band played with us and practiced with us that friday, and we played Amazing Grace, our pride show tributing 9/11, and Hey baby, the girl's favorite song. When I got of the field, I saw people from the band crying and it made me sad but at the same time happy; a band is a band and everyone sticks together. We did our fanfare and we all danced and then we performed our shows.
Being in band has made me realize that pain definitely does make people (and bands) stronger.
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:18 pm
My last football game got cancelled because of the weather too. We couldn't just show up and sing though - since the entire game was cancelled.
Instead, pretty much everyone showed up at my house for an unofficial practice for our first competition. Since some of us couldn't get our instruments, we just sang and marched around my backyard. It was so much fun. <3
My director actually called my house to tell us to get out of the rain after he found out what we were doing over facebook haha.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:43 pm
Driving 20 miles to my school for a half time show, then having to drive back because it got canceled.
Not Half-time shows. The field gets drenched in water and sweat, and not to mention cleats.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:59 am
When after the most stressful day, including the death of a football player, PSAT's, and monsoon winds bringing intense freezing winds, we still score a 75 and get second.
Not to mention that because of counseling, we didn't start practice until 1:30-2:00pm, with our departure at 4:00, and our buses were late, so we didn't get to warm up very much and didn't have time for basics.
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