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 Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:21 pm
Ever had a time where you just felt it was too diffucult to play a certain piece, or memorizing something for marching band.
I did one time when i had to memorize the schools fight song I just started bawling.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:50 pm
I'mabout to have a meltdown right now because I don't have time to practice for my audition for Evansville and it's this saturday... crying
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:05 pm
Rgionals auditions my freshman year. Day of auditions i sightread the 3rd etude. I still made it though. I also had a meltdown this summer when i had to elarn the music for marchign season. i couldnt figure otuhow it went and I was section leader, meaning i had to teahc it to everyone else.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:04 pm
I've had a meltdown about how I couldn't stand the director sometime last year, but not really over a piece of music...
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:39 pm
for pep band (where the bands play in the stands for basketball and football) we are directed by a student, our BD plays with us. And the student is really pissy. at half time, we where supost to play, but they where doing free throws with people from the audience, he wanted to play, but our BD yelled at him to calm down. Eventually, he got really mad and literally got down and beat the ground with his fist several times. got up and yelled at the people. (they didn't hear, people where cheering to loud). I thought he was going to cry.
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:32 am
290Pika I've had a meltdown about how I couldn't stand the director sometime last year, but not really over a piece of music... Oh yeah, this has happened to me too. The moment she told me "I was no longer section leader" because i got a bad grade, my friends nearly had to pull me away to avoid death-by-clarinet. People-wise meltdowns, I've had quite a few with my section before my leadership was so rudely stripped away. They hardly ever lsitened to me. One particular sectional, the only one we had after school, was extremely bad, and i nearly left crying. First off, I was late by like a nanosecond because my last class had been off capmus across the street, and i had to walk back. A particular genius, I'll call her S, called me out on it, and it tok my courage not to punch her in the face(seeing as earlier that week, she showed up to a lunch sectional exactly 5mins before the bell rang) Well, i started telling them what to play, and as I start o talk, the second parts started playing, and S and the other first part started talking. I told them to stop. Thye looked at me an continued on. So i continued on as well. I counted them off, only one person played. I finally told them straight out to shut up and focus, an i got them silent til the countoff. Then, right as I reach "3", a second part starts playing a completely different song! Not with us, over my countoff. I stopped and glard at him. S got angry and said to ignore it, so i tried to. Her enxt comment went something along the lines of "i cant hear over ___ playing". Then a mental issues second part started whining about not working and walked out. S blamed me. The freshman asked for help, so I went back to help him, but then everyone started talkign really loud and i had to yell over them to explain things to him. When i start the countoff, S turns around and starts teahing him the part completely differently, not at all how it was supposed to be.I told her off, and she started yelling at me. I just ended it there and told them to go home. Later, the freshman(thank you oh loyal freshy) told me that the moment i left the room, they started talkign crap about me. He sill wont tell me exactly what they said...
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:52 pm
ClarinetGoddess 290Pika I've had a meltdown about how I couldn't stand the director sometime last year, but not really over a piece of music... Oh yeah, this has happened to me too. The moment she told me "I was no longer section leader" because i got a bad grade, my friends nearly had to pull me away to avoid death-by-clarinet. People-wise meltdowns, I've had quite a few with my section before my leadership was so rudely stripped away. They hardly ever lsitened to me. One particular sectional, the only one we had after school, was extremely bad, and i nearly left crying. First off, I was late by like a nanosecond because my last class had been off capmus across the street, and i had to walk back. A particular genius, I'll call her S, called me out on it, and it tok my courage not to punch her in the face(seeing as earlier that week, she showed up to a lunch sectional exactly 5mins before the bell rang) Well, i started telling them what to play, and as I start o talk, the second parts started playing, and S and the other first part started talking. I told them to stop. Thye looked at me an continued on. So i continued on as well. I counted them off, only one person played. I finally told them straight out to shut up and focus, an i got them silent til the countoff. Then, right as I reach "3", a second part starts playing a completely different song! Not with us, over my countoff. I stopped and glard at him. S got angry and said to ignore it, so i tried to. Her enxt comment went something along the lines of "i cant hear over ___ playing". Then a mental issues second part started whining about not working and walked out. S blamed me. The freshman asked for help, so I went back to help him, but then everyone started talkign really loud and i had to yell over them to explain things to him. When i start the countoff, S turns around and starts teahing him the part completely differently, not at all how it was supposed to be.I told her off, and she started yelling at me. I just ended it there and told them to go home. Later, the freshman(thank you oh loyal freshy) told me that the moment i left the room, they started talkign crap about me. He sill wont tell me exactly what they said... Jeez you just have alot of drama going on over where you are. Our band people wouldn't do that unless something bad happened. I live in a small city so we have to get along basically, but the bands people have their groups they practice in and since we've known eachother long enough we get along quite well. Plus I'm a freshmen so I listen to the upperclassmen most of the time.
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:08 pm
I had a hugh meltdown when a 6th grader used my mouth peice and baritone. I freaked out like crazy. It was bad...
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:21 pm
I've had to deal with multiple melt-downs, but I've never experienced one. I caught one of the percussionists trying to skewer a spectator because he stabbed a hole in the snare, yes the guy had it coming, but the way the little drummer boy was headed would've just ruined his sticks. A girl in the clarinet section cried after every marching show because it was too hard for her. Me, a couple other clarinetists, and the band director all did our best to calm her down and help make marching easier for her. And then there were the literal melt-downs. Twelve kids, including me, had all suffered a heat stroke during summer band camp. We're not weak! It was like, 90-something degrees out almost every day! You try marching for three hours straight while blowing into instruments on turf that actually makes the temperature rise by three to five degrees with zero breaks except the short time in between sets or when the band director is working with a single section. It's f*cking hard!
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:34 am
I've come close to a melt down, but not over music. I had a drummer pick up a trumpet and try to play it. He walked over to me (a flute) and BLASTED it in my ear. My first reaction was to shove the trumpet where the sun doesn't shine...but I didn't. I just sat there.
I've caused a few melt downs because of being section leader. The girl that wanted section leader refused to listen to me or even take suggestions if they were from me. If they came from anyone else she LOVED the idea. BD let me hand out pieces as I see fit so I started giving her second pieces (even though she should have been getting firsts)..she changed instruments and left my section. Win/win.
I witnessed one music-related melt down. Trumpet player trying for first chair couldn't hit an upper-range consistently. When he was finally asked to sit down and let the next person try he threw his music stand across the room.
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:02 pm
dolofonos daimonas I've had to deal with multiple melt-downs, but I've never experienced one. I caught one of the percussionists trying to skewer a spectator because he stabbed a hole in the snare, yes the guy had it coming, but the way the little drummer boy was headed would've just ruined his sticks. A girl in the clarinet section cried after every marching show because it was too hard for her. Me, a couple other clarinetists, and the band director all did our best to calm her down and help make marching easier for her. And then there were the literal melt-downs. Twelve kids, including me, had all suffered a heat stroke during summer band camp. We're not weak! It was like, 90-something degrees out almost every day! You try marching for three hours straight while blowing into instruments on turf that actually makes the temperature rise by three to five degrees with zero breaks except the short time in between sets or when the band director is working with a single section. It's f*cking hard! My band wins meltdown wise. We had about 5 people a day pass out or almost pass out because of heat this summer at band camp. To help, we had 5 hour otudoor rhearsals and the director(idiotic choir director) "forgot" we needed water breaks at elast every hour. Add that it was around 110 every day, and its a disaster waiting to happen. At one point, it was so hot, and so many people were dropping, the principle came and made us march inside the gym. We were quite grateful for that
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:10 pm
melt downs happen, and usually the easiest thing to memorize is the fight song.
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:45 pm
When learning to play the bassoon, I initially had issues with intunation (meaning, with an electric tuner, the pin wasn't perfectly lining up with the pitch I wanted, though looking back, it was actually really close). I completely had a mental breakdown, and started bawling my eyes out. Luckily, I was home alone at the time. XD
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:31 pm
ClarinetGoddess dolofonos daimonas I've had to deal with multiple melt-downs, but I've never experienced one. I caught one of the percussionists trying to skewer a spectator because he stabbed a hole in the snare, yes the guy had it coming, but the way the little drummer boy was headed would've just ruined his sticks. A girl in the clarinet section cried after every marching show because it was too hard for her. Me, a couple other clarinetists, and the band director all did our best to calm her down and help make marching easier for her. And then there were the literal melt-downs. Twelve kids, including me, had all suffered a heat stroke during summer band camp. We're not weak! It was like, 90-something degrees out almost every day! You try marching for three hours straight while blowing into instruments on turf that actually makes the temperature rise by three to five degrees with zero breaks except the short time in between sets or when the band director is working with a single section. It's f*cking hard! My band wins meltdown wise. We had about 5 people a day pass out or almost pass out because of heat this summer at band camp. To help, we had 5 hour otudoor rhearsals and the director(idiotic choir director) "forgot" we needed water breaks at elast every hour. Add that it was around 110 every day, and its a disaster waiting to happen. At one point, it was so hot, and so many people were dropping, the principle came and made us march inside the gym. We were quite grateful for that Wow that's bad, worst than what happen last year for my first year of marching band. I had 9 hour rehersals for a week during the summer, which was hot,(about 90 something degrees), I almost passed out from it, but I sucked it up, even though my friend told me to sit out it wasn't super bad. I'm not saying it wasn't hard or anything, but I found it somewhat diffucult marching in constant sunlight, and the heat. I got really bad sunburns from it. Our BD was a big help since he's funny kept everyone in a good mood, and he had us do scavenger hunts, and took us tubing, and canoeing down a river. It was fun seeign as it was my first time, and we only do it for two months out of the year up here.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:33 pm
Magician_Ki melt downs happen, and usually the easiest thing to memorize is the fight song. yeah I was over tired, when this happened, but also I find it easier to memorize the music we have to march to for some reason. idk that's how i am.
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