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| Synth |
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7% |
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| Vibes |
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14% |
[ 2 ] |
| Marimba |
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35% |
[ 5 ] |
| Bells |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Rack (gong, egg shaker, Susp. cymb. etc.) |
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7% |
[ 1 ] |
| Timpini |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Other |
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35% |
[ 5 ] |
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 Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:01 pm
Idk why, but I play the synthesizer (piano) in the band and I've noticed that everyone thinks that the pit is just the lazy part of the band because we don't march and stuff.
It just gets me PO sometimes that the rest of them think that they are better just because they march or that they play a wind instrument or something.
They call us lazy, but I mean, we're the ones that have to haul/load most of the props/tarps and move our instruments on time and stuff (and that stuff can get heavy), and we still play more notes than they do.
so my question to you all is, is that the same for you at your schools? does the rest of the band look down on you because you're a part of the pit?
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:40 pm
During marching season I feel that way sometimes since I feel like I'm the only one working my butt off playing my part right,and when people from other sections say were lazy I tell them "we carry heavy instruments you carry one and march what's your excuse?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:27 pm
I used to be in color guard, but due to an injury, I decided to learn music and join the pit so I could still be in Band. I gained a new appreciation for the pit from spending a season with them. We did well with getting our music memorized, and I even learned how to play the bells a little bit.
And it definitely was a pain for four of us, one being temporarily disabled (me) to haul a big marimba, a xylophone, a vibraphone, a bell set, a concert bass drum, a tam tam (gong), AND three timpani all the way to our practice field and back, only to play three measures and then stop and wait forever while the rest of the band fixed their spots. Cleaning drill was useless to us.
So now I understand that the ones marching have a really tough time (cleaning drill is tedious and necessary, and the actual marching is pretty difficult. I had legs of steel after my first season marching) but being in pit is a lot of waiting around, and that's why everyone thinks the pit is lazy. Not that we can really do anything else. And it may not even have occurred to the rest of the band that we didn't even ask to be there. I didn't want to be there because I would have rather been spinning. The other three were only there because: one was a freshman and she's a small thing, but she plays mallets really well. But there's a 90% chance that she'll be on the smallest bass drum in the drum line next year; one is in my grade, and he isn't able to carry the smallest bass, but he's an amazing mallet player, the best one we have in the band, and the show this year was mostly percussion; the third wasn't responsible enough to be on the drum line. She was always late for rehearsals and sometimes skipped class. So my point is that none of us really wanted to be there, but it was better for the band that we were.
And that's my rant. If I get back to color guard for next year, I'm never insulting the pit again.
By the way, as for instruments, I played pretty much everything. I had two songs with timpani parts, and then I'd run over to the concert bass and gong, and then I'd do a few dings on the triangle, and I did have a part with a clapper thing (during the song "Hoedown" we actually had a whip, but it was for show; I made the whipping sound), but my specialty was the suspended cymbal. And I did a few notes on the glockenspiel during the ballad.
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:09 pm
OHHH YES! Everyone who marches in my high schools band always says that the pit has it so easy, but I mean we have a time limit to unload and reload things and then when we leave the field, we have to move fast without running, and the instruments get really heavy and hard to push on a field and track. I mean big deal, they march on a field, we have to look at each other to communicate, look up at the box to show the judges emotion, watch the drum major and be able to hit the right notes without looking down that much. Oh and we also have to do visuals and be able to concentrate on not using arm and be able to play the right dynamics. It makes me so annoyed when they say that we don't do anything when we actually have a lot of responsibilities that they wouldn't know about unless they were in it
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:26 pm
The Lady In Darkness During marching season I feel that way sometimes since I feel like I'm the only one working my butt off playing my part right,and when people from other sections say were lazy I tell them "we carry heavy instruments you carry one and march what's your excuse?" shut up you thing hahah jk jk i feel the same way arent we in the same band
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:27 pm
sakisensei The Lady In Darkness During marching season I feel that way sometimes since I feel like I'm the only one working my butt off playing my part right,and when people from other sections say were lazy I tell them "we carry heavy instruments you carry one and march what's your excuse?" shut up you thing hahah jk jk i feel the same way arent we in the same band yea but you graduated
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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:09 pm
Yea we have people say pits just there. But we hold the melody we r just as important espaccaly in winter percussion. how great would just drums sound? then add the pit and u get great music not just banging anyone can hit drum it takes skill to play marimba xylo vibes! pit take more then the battery sorry drummers = /
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:42 pm
What they don't realize about pit is that while they get to spend a whole season LEARNING their music pretty much, we have to have it learned and memorized by the end of summer.
We're expected to KNOW what we're doing when we get on the field.
Also, standing around for sometimes hours and getting to play a few notes in that time because the trumpets can't get it together sucks. Horribly.
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:54 pm
I love our pit. They're really good (they have their problems, but every secion does), and they practice a lot. It bothers me when they complain about being tired, though. xd Even though standing is tiring, I really don't wanna hear it when I've been practically running across a field for three or more hours.
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:52 pm
My friends that march think that we are the most laziest bums. If only they could understand that our music is harder, we load and push things all the time(we have this hill at my school that we have to get marimbas up and down ugh), oh we play like 5000 more notes than them, without us there goes like 2/3s of the show, and we have to listen back to moving people we cannot even see(ears aren't faced that way). Oh and we're awesome, marimba forever! 3nodding
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 9:51 pm
Terra of the Lilies I love our pit. They're really good (they have their problems, but every secion does), and they practice a lot. It bothers me when they complain about being tired, though. xd Even though standing is tiring, I really don't wanna hear it when I've been practically running across a field for three or more hours. Well I understand that you guys have to do all that running and marching, but, well I don't know about other people's schools, but my schools marching band does like 20 times more running than our hornline and battery. We always either learn our music faster or get our music after everyone else, so we end up running....and running.....and running.... It's crazy. Everyone is like "we marched the drill like 10 times."I just kinda want to yell at them and say "so what?!?! We freakin took like 2 laps around the entire school, ran the inside perimeter of the school, ran the field, ran down to the gas station, and then ran the inside of the school like 3 more times!" sorry, but at our school. Pit really does do way more than the rest of the band.
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