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 Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:18 pm
Oh ouch, we got our new mallets last friday,a nd they are goergeous i would die if they broke. We got loads of them though so it wouldnt matter much.
We have spent almsot 10k this year, and our new band director has spent almsot 2k on us. !!!! So awsome though.
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:25 pm
Well, it was a birch mallet...and it was new last year, technically...
We're getting new mallets for pit this year, but still. They're gonna be dead by the end of the season.
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Who is Puffer Fish Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:26 pm
1glovebub T i f a Well, from the short time that I've been in pit, I've noticed that it's the only section that can pretty much stand however they want. The winds and color guard typically get told when they're not standing "correctly." Yah i wish, im in Pit, and our tech checks our feet to see if they are correct.
I'm about halfway through my season and they still haven't commented on feet positioning in the pit. XD Then again, it's not like any of us are standing in a strange manner. I'm just used to the whole 10 and 2 thing from marching and having to stand like that all the time.
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:28 pm
Oh, I got another one. Only in pit does half of the section know how to knit and do it during breaks. I should be learning how to soon from the girls that know how.
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:12 pm
Only in drumline can you pretend to cut off peoples heads with cymbals.
Only in drumline can you put new heads on a drum then play frisbee with the old heads.
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:22 am
Only in pit can you have an excuse to sit down at band camp. xD
Only in pit you get to stay inside the first week of band camp while they learn sets and stuff.
And, only in pit can you be nearly run over by the band and not have it be a problem...unless they actually DO run you down because they want the popsicles...XD
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:23 pm
only in (my) drum line can you say " get your diddles clean" and not be referring to a sex organ
you can say " get chopping" or "get your chops up" and not be referring to a knife ot meat
you can yell random things when your BD is talking and he'll go off of it
(ex- we sang the mario theme song and he considered it for a candence)
only in percussion can you say "That's Bullshit!!" only because it's the name of a cadence
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:47 pm
the percution section is the only section that music changes DRASTICLY, it totally sux, we are the angriest, but happiest section, which is sometimes good...i like being in the drum line cuz, we have the most fun, and that's enough said...
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:48 pm
also, we allways say the drum line is the sexiest part of the marching band, and one time i said "YEAH, WE'RE BANGIN' " and our section leader couldn't stop laughing
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:50 am
The percussion teacher doesn't speak english he speakes drum. He doesn't tell us meassure to start from, he just sorta sings the part and says, "Start there." (But he's is/was in the blue devils.)
On the way to the football games we have 2 busses, we have named them, the band-o bus and the drummer bus. (Plus thier friends and girlfriends.)
They also sit too much during concert band. (I'm guilty of this too.)
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:40 pm
Loom I don't know about any other percussion section, but ours has the ability to (sort of) understand "Gary-speech"-- that is, the unique language spoken only by a percussion instructer. It goes something like this: "Snares, now you part is like a, 'Ratatata-Tattatta! Bockitybockitybock bock Cho!' And then right about.... 'Crash! Crash, cymbals!'" *hangs head in shame* Cymbals:O.o ... CRASH! Yup... my wind friends call it "LJ speak" (our perc instructor is Mike Littlejohn, aka "OCD Mike LJ"... long story)
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:49 pm
Only in the drumline can you get away with calling an added part of the show "Letter 12" instead of "the four twelves in the closer" or "twelve count single time"... I'm in the pit, so all of the drill-speak confuzzles me... practically need a translator, so I just ask my wind friends, "where is that?" Then they sing off some part of their music, and I'm all like, "Gotcha!!"
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:00 pm
only in the percussion section can you nail a giant Mexican in the forehead with a bass mallet and get away with it.
(One of the tenner players did that cuz he was leaving far to early. she didn't mean to hit him tho.)
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:25 pm
Haha!
Only in the percussion section can your director ask you to hit yourself in the head with your instrument...(the drumsticks) and have it be carried out!
XDDDD
That was an odd day...moreso for the guy who was smacking himself with them. HAHAHAH
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:31 pm
we go up in the practice rooms and goof off to an extreme level... like once Sheldon was climbing throught the vents, man it would have been hilarious if the BD came up at that moment.
theres a drywall and we throw all these thing at it and try to get them stuck in... for instance we throw our drumstick or we throw different parts of trophies that've been taken apart and a whole bunch of different items that we find in the boxes up there. hilarious.
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