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 Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:52 am
I get to deciede where people sit in my sections, I'm in charge! So if anythings unfair its my fault. lol
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:47 pm
I am very unfairly sat (or stood) in marching band. We just got a new director this year, and he just used the chairs from concert band last year. I was second chair in concert band, yet the first chair and I are on the completely same level. I admit I lost one challenge to him last year, but I have been practicing all summer and I got a teacher. But do I get a chance? No. I'm stuck as second trumpet without my new director even meeting me or hearing how I can play. emo Did I mention the first trumpet thinks way to highly of himself and ignores 80% of all dynamics, accents, or any other marking? It's all because I couldn't play as high as him. Seriously I could do everything else better, but when your a trumpet, all people care about is high notes...I.must.stop.ranting...
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:16 am
Hahahaha. Funny story.
My now-high school invites eight graders from the local middle schools to play with us for graduation. Well, I went ahead and showed up for the practice, & all the trumpet players were like, "OMG. A girl?! No way she's good." "Yeah, she's got to be horrible." "Why did she even show up?"
So, I'm sitting there, last chair, while the director goes through the sections, testing everybody to fit the eight graders in( why, I don't know). But, anyway, he gets to the trumpets, & of course starts with me. So I play the part he assigns us, & he didn't say anything. He just moved on to the guy next to me. When he finished playing, all the band director said was, "Stephen, get up. Elizabeth, get up. Switch places."
And that happened all the way up to the second chair. I got second at my high school in eight grade! Then, my band director pulls me aside after practice, & says, "The only reason you aren't first chair is because I don't want to piss Robert(first chair) off."
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:57 am
I drown in ashes you've enshrined.
Of blissful days long gone by.
Concealed behind my dying eyes.
This hell of anger and weary lies.
I am unfairly seated. I'm a junior clarinet, that has played in multiple honor bands, a jazz band, and symphonic band at my school. I go into band camp last week, assuming I'd play first part. I tick off the middle school band director who is there to help, and he auditions the clarinets for parts. I had a reed that I had been playing on for a few months, 2 or 3. It was really close to completely dying. I go into the audition. He makes me play from middle C to high C in half notes. My reed dies halfway up, and I squeak two times on A and B. I try to explain to him that that was the reason. He assumes that I'm lying, and he thinks I can't play and puts me on 2nd part. Now, a freshman is on 1st part, and I'm playing The Ants Go Marching In on some retarded key, that sounds horrible with the 1st part.
A frame of mind, a dismal soul.
My final womb, this flesh turned cold.
You held me down and let me bleed.
My love, it died, along with me.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:05 pm
Our BDs go by who they like the most and who won't stop damn wining about being placed under a lower classmen. >.<
So it maybe a little really unfair.
@Queenie: Thats a great story. XD
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:20 pm
kittyroseley Our BDs go by who they like the most and who won't stop damn wining about being placed under a lower classmen. >.<
So it maybe a little really unfair.
@Queenie: Thats a great story. XD maybe it's because the upperclassmen are too busy complaining that they don't get any better, while the younger guys are busy working their butts off?
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:36 pm
toco clarinet kittyroseley Our BDs go by who they like the most and who won't stop damn wining about being placed under a lower classmen. >.<
So it maybe a little really unfair.
@Queenie: Thats a great story. XD maybe it's because the upperclassmen are too busy complaining that they don't get any better, while the younger guys are busy working their butts off?
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:26 am
brokenxhalo There's only 5 people in my band, so we sit in a row. Flutes Clarienets Trumpet. That's the order we're seated in. There's only five people in your band!?! eek
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:31 am
Ours is completely fair. We have auditions for chair placement. We get scored out of 100. I don't know if anyone's actually gotten a perfect score, but I do know two former trumpets, and a former flute (I say former 'cuz they all graduated) who probably did.
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:40 pm
Well I don't think they do chair for marching band but when I was in eighth grade (last year) I was first chair for the altos out of four but you'd totally know I'd be first chair.
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:20 pm
In 6th and 7th grade i wasnt seated fairly cause i was better than the person infront me in 8th grade i was seated fairly though I was the only that could play above a d (i play trombone)
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