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 Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:19 pm
Wow, that seniority system seems really weird, mipcy. confused We usually determine our seats by playing tests and such. :3 ('Course, when I was a flute, I always got like last chair. >>; I shouldn't be talking.)
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:02 pm
mipcy playing piccolo means I do what I want. I hear that, lol. Picc. power! mipcy By the way, do any of you guys give lessons? I start teaching next week and I don't know what I should be teaching them. The way I taught lessons last year totally sucked.... Well, everyone needs different things but.... Most of the people who I gave lessons to had some tone issues so we tackled that first by making them play long tones and loosen their embouchres. It really depends on the person though. If you can think of specific things you want to fix though, I could probably give you some teaching advice.
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:04 pm
I've only been playing for about 5 years. Anyway, last night was awesome. We had a football game and I really didn't want to go, and when I left play practice, it was raining!! May said it was the first time that had happened in his six years of teaching at my school. The band wound up going to the football field and singing the national anthem instead. It was so awesome! I kinda wish it would happen more often.
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:41 pm
OMG! yesterday was our homecoming Parade which counts for half our grade in band. yesterday had to be the day my Piccolo freaked out on me. One of my pads fell out and to get it to play I had to do the worst thing imaginable for a flute/piccolo player! I had to use a peice of gum to fix it sweatdrop stressed gonk . Well after I got the pad stuck in it's proper place I had another disaster! One of my other pads swelled up with water!!! I had to use a safety pin to squish some of the water out. i managed to get it playing but now I have to take it into the shop and hope they can get replacement pads by next week's game!
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:46 pm
Keltzy I've only been playing for about 5 years. Anyway, last night was awesome. We had a football game and I really didn't want to go, and when I left play practice, it was raining!! May said it was the first time that had happened in his six years of teaching at my school. The band wound up going to the football field and singing the national anthem instead. It was so awesome! I kinda wish it would happen more often. Heh, we had a football game on Friday, and it was POURING the entire time. Luckily, we don't march, we just sit in the bleachers and play, and there's an overhang over the bleachers. Like I said to my friend, I have never been so grateful for an overhang in my entire life.
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:53 pm
Thanks for the advice....and yeah, as the piccolo player, I get to do what I want....I'm sure I could do what I want anyway.....
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:54 pm
Anyone mind if I rant for awhile? I'm so close to dropping band it's not funny!! As people might know, my director hates second flutes (which I fall into the category of.) Long story short, I wound up crying for half the period. How someone cannot notice a girl sitting almost in the exact middle of the classroom sobbing with the girl next to her consoling her is beyond me. If he had even glanced at us, he would've known something was wrong, but he didn't even seem to realize that I was upset. Then, the disney land trip I've been looking foward to since sixth grade (I'm a sophmore now) seems like it won't be in my future. Sure, the band is going, but we have to gather $1000 by June. We don't even make that much in a month. The only thing keeping me in band is my love for playing the flute, which I could play once a week in symphony with slightly more boring pieces. I don't want to drop band, but I do at the same time. I'm so pissed right now. I just wanna cry. . .
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:13 pm
That's so sad, I'm so sorry.
You have to come up with $1000 on your own? wow, on my school trips we do fundraising, the whole band helps pay.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:35 pm
*hugs Keltzy* That's really bad. I'm so sorry. And they won't even give you financial aid or fundraising or ANYTHING? >.< That really sucks... I'm sorry. We're going to Hawaii in May, and it's $1180 per person, but we have fundraising/financial aid - for instance, I only have to raise $900 through fundraising/by myself, and the other $280 my BD can get for me through music boosters and the like. I would think they'd at least do fundraising....
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:21 pm
Aww, Keltzy *showers you with candy and hugs* that's horrible that your BD hates second flutes. Eeck, you have to raise all that by yourself? Geesh. Tha's alot. We have to raise money, as well as pay for our band trips. (Our major band trip isn't this year, it's in two years, since they do it every 4 years) (But I haven't heard anything about that yet... maybe we'll find out tomorrow... we didn't have band today. Naal claims so....)
Hmm, well, good luck!!
Miangel: So lucky, you guys get to go to Hawaii all we get to do is go to Virginia Beach...
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:59 pm
XD We're going to Hawaii because my BD (who just turned 24; she's awesome) wants to go and figures she might as well bring the band. ^^;; I like the idea; works for ME. We're going to be there five and a half days, and we're only playing on two of them. The rest of the time it's tanning, a luau, etc. ^^ Should be great.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:05 pm
Thanks guys. Hawaii, that's nifty. Well, today was more insane than excessively sad. Hmm. We got a new piece call Bugle something-or-other (that's not its real name) Trumpets have an awesome part. The rest of us spend most of our time resting. So sad. Aww well.
I have a friend who is second chair in the symphonic band. The sad thing is: she got a "D" on the playing test that put her there. Then again, it could be 'cause she was in Wind Ensemble last year. Just a thought.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:30 pm
Is it Bugler's Holiday? We played that in middle school, and that was the first song that came to mind when you mentioned that. Cool trumpet part while the rest of us sit around and do nothing, pretty much.
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:43 pm
Let the flute thread live!....again.....oh well, nobody was talking at the moment so I shall step in! I'm sad because I have to miss the homecoming football game and dance....*sigh* I love playing pep band music! And I sympathize with Tala, whose poor flute, Geoff, was losted crying ..stupid repair people.....Come back to us Geoff! I'm done ranting now...somebody else's turn! domokun whee
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:51 pm
@Miangle: Lucky, sounds similar to our band trip, we're only playing one or two of the days, I'm not sure, but we're going to the beach one day and we're going to be on a gameshow another, which sounds exciting, I heart Maria (the BD's wife) who planned it all.
I discovered my BD likes me and lets me play first flute, but I sit last chair, so I can sit with my oboe friend. So I am special and stuff.
Update on Geoff: They have found him, now they need to get him back to the original store... >.O I hope to have him back Monday
Other news: I stole one of the mallet's dou-rags, yay. *wears it*
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