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 Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:21 am
i am only 14 and have been playing tuba for 5 or 6 years and just finished my first marching band season and i figured out tht i can play the loudest and play the longest...i smoke, i have bad lungs, i have a bad heart, i have a bad back, and i have asthma...i am the smallest and the youngest tuba player in my section of five which has another 8th grader a freshmen and two seniors the one senior has been playing for 9 years and he gets all the credit because he is the oldest...i am the only one playing most of the time and i never get credit for playing...i always get yelled at for not playing...the seniors always get the credit because they are the biggest...i try to tell me BD's tht i am the only one playing but they dont believe me...o and i am only 100 pounds just throwing tht in there
Wat should i do to get reconized and get more credit?
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:03 pm
You smoke and your 14? Wouldn't that make you a 8th grader?.. That's really young, you know.
Anyway, for health reasons, please try to quit. I wouldn't want to see you get hurt.
Maybe try to.. Play ALOT ALOT louder than that other guy, so you'll be heard.
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:26 am
Harsh Marsh You smoke and your 14? Wouldn't that make you a 8th grader?.. That's really young, you know. Anyway, for health reasons, please try to quit. I wouldn't want to see you get hurt. Maybe try to.. Play ALOT ALOT louder than that other guy, so you'll be heard. ya so wat i am in eight grade who cares i am the only one playing and my BD walks around to see who is playing and he found out the senior didnt play and i still dont get the credit
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:28 pm
sazachie Harsh Marsh You smoke and your 14? Wouldn't that make you a 8th grader?.. That's really young, you know. Anyway, for health reasons, please try to quit. I wouldn't want to see you get hurt. Maybe try to.. Play ALOT ALOT louder than that other guy, so you'll be heard. ya so wat i am in eight grade who cares i am the only one playing and my BD walks around to see who is playing and he found out the senior didnt play and i still dont get the credit Okay, I'm just saying, it's not healthy.. But okay. Maybe talk to him/her? Maybe you can ask them and see what you might need to improve on.
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:41 pm
 Health:Stop smoking!!~ Or no Tuba :<
Being Better:It does not matter if he's louder,just make the notes come out right,also what we do if we get mad at another tuba/sousa/bari sax/ player is we steal their mouthpiece and hide it in our boob pockets....but then we give it back..cause we cant stand bein mean to our friendwds smile
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:08 pm
NOOBISH D I N O S A U R sazachie Harsh Marsh You smoke and your 14? Wouldn't that make you a 8th grader?.. That's really young, you know. Anyway, for health reasons, please try to quit. I wouldn't want to see you get hurt. Maybe try to.. Play ALOT ALOT louder than that other guy, so you'll be heard. ya so wat i am in eight grade who cares i am the only one playing and my BD walks around to see who is playing and he found out the senior didnt play and i still dont get the credit Okay, I'm just saying, it's not healthy.. But okay. Maybe talk to him/her? Maybe you can ask them and see what you might need to improve on. u dnt get it do u?.....I AM THE ONLY ONE PLAYING
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:20 am
sazachie NOOBISH D I N O S A U R sazachie Harsh Marsh You smoke and your 14? Wouldn't that make you a 8th grader?.. That's really young, you know. Anyway, for health reasons, please try to quit. I wouldn't want to see you get hurt. Maybe try to.. Play ALOT ALOT louder than that other guy, so you'll be heard. ya so wat i am in eight grade who cares i am the only one playing and my BD walks around to see who is playing and he found out the senior didnt play and i still dont get the credit Okay, I'm just saying, it's not healthy.. But okay. Maybe talk to him/her? Maybe you can ask them and see what you might need to improve on. u dnt get it do u?.....I AM THE ONLY ONE PLAYING Yes, I understand, I never said you didn't play. I just said maybe you should ask your BD if you need to improve on something.
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:01 pm
smoking with asthma?? wow. well kudos to you for playing sousaphone and being the best and smallest- im not the best in my group im second loudest out of 3 and im the smallest too for now. if i were you i'd try to quit smoking because of the long term effects it can have on your body but keep up the good work on your tuba!
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:22 am
tubagirl 1 smoking with asthma?? wow. well kudos to you for playing sousaphone and being the best and smallest- im not the best in my group im second loudest out of 3 and im the smallest too for now. if i were you i'd try to quit smoking because of the long term effects it can have on your body but keep up the good work on your tuba! ha thnx but i am still gonna smoke becuase there r high schoolers tht have been smoking since they were 8 and they r fine still
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:29 pm
Be patient. Your recognition will come, most liking when you yourself are a senior. Just keep trying your hardest, and I wouldn't advise undermining what everyone else is doing. Sure, you may be the only one playing, but being rude and telling the band director will make you seem like a bit of a jerk. Don't act conceited (I'm not saying that you are doing so, just try and make sure it doesn't turn out that way) because you have all these health problems. It will make you highly disliked because people will think you're trying to get sympathy.
And smoking? Not the best way to get credit for playing well. Health problems associated with smoking probably won't develop in the ten years from eight years old to the end of high school. Wait until you're much older, and then you probably will regret smoking this young (almost everyone I know does that when they get older).
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:29 pm
Er, I'm going to go ahead and agree with everyone else in this thread: quit smoking. It's definitely not going to improve your asthma or your general physical condition. Smoking may not affect you NOW, but it will when you get older (all three of my grandparents that smoked died or are dying of lung complications, and my adult friends that quit earlier in life still have their smoker's cough). Bad lungs also tend to complicate playing an instrument that requires a lot of wind, i.e. the sousaphone.
Moving on from that... if your directors don't believe you, just stop playing one day and see what they say. If they say nothing, do it again the next day. Don't let yourself be burdened by your entire section. Playing with the strength of FIVE tubas is ridiculous in and of itself. If you get bitched at AGAIN, just keep doing it. Don't let it affect you.
Good luck, kid.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:37 am
Eccentric Chica Er, I'm going to go ahead and agree with everyone else in this thread: quit smoking. It's definitely not going to improve your asthma or your general physical condition. Smoking may not affect you NOW, but it will when you get older (all three of my grandparents that smoked died or are dying of lung complications, and my adult friends that quit earlier in life still have their smoker's cough). Bad lungs also tend to complicate playing an instrument that requires a lot of wind, i.e. the sousaphone. Moving on from that... if your directors don't believe you, just stop playing one day and see what they say. If they say nothing, do it again the next day. Don't let yourself be burdened by your entire section. Playing with the strength of FIVE tubas is ridiculous in and of itself. If you get bitched at AGAIN, just keep doing it. Don't let it affect you. Good luck, kid. ok i did tht and there was no tuba and i was the one who got yelled at
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:34 am
Why would you get yelled at if the band director doesn't believe that you're the only one playing? The sections leaders and those seniors should be the ones getting yelled at. Okay, if that's what happened, then I would say you need to talk to your band director. Tell him/her that you tried not playing for once, and the resulting factor...That it's not your fault, and the BD needs to get it together and tell those other tubas to do some actually work. Something like that. But try to be nice about it.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:10 pm
Band directors...they can't see an inch beyond their podium. Seriously. They didn't realized that the kid who doesn't play was taking the only decend French horn from my sister and making her play on a tin can.
Stp smkng nd ur vwls wll cm bck. Srsly. (No offense)
Well....be glad your not at my school because here the tubas are all girls and they dance.
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:48 pm
sazachie tubagirl 1 smoking with asthma?? wow. well kudos to you for playing sousaphone and being the best and smallest- im not the best in my group im second loudest out of 3 and im the smallest too for now. if i were you i'd try to quit smoking because of the long term effects it can have on your body but keep up the good work on your tuba! ha thnx but i am still gonna smoke becuase there r high schoolers tht have been smoking since they were 8 and they r fine still
How many of them have bad lungs and hearts?
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