About
I'm that freaking awesome Band
Geek Jock you just WISH you knew!
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You know you're a band geek when...
(* applies to me.)
1. *You really hope these will apply to you, because you really want to be considered an official band geek. (No need to read any further, although you probably will, because you are definitely an official band geek!)
2. *You keep a musical dictionary and/or metronome close at hand.
3. *You don't need a musical dictionary and/or metronome close at hand.
4. *You have your closest music store's number in your cell phone.
5. *You don't own a iPod, but you own more than 3 instruments.
6. *Your favorite store of all time is your music store.
7. *Someone asks you about your social life, you immediatly say, "Oh, you mean Band?"
8. *Your favorite CD is some of the music your band has played.
9. *Your favorite song is a song your band has played.
10. *You make up a list of "You know you're a band geek when...".
11. *Your e-mail has your instrument in it.
12. *Your screen name has your instrument in it.
13. *You would rather risk a broken bone or worse than to damage your instrument.
14. *You don't get defensive when someone looks in your purse, but you do when someone grabs a hold of your instrument case.
15. *You have your band's songs on your CD/MP3 player.
16. *You can immediaty start counting in 120 time.
17. *You can actually keep a steady tempo.
18. *You have read the band bible.
19. *You have even heard about the band bible.
20. *You have printed out the band bible and posted it in your band room.
21. *You play more than two instruments.
22. *You pride yourself on playing as many instruments as you possibly can.
23. *Your profile page is dedicated to band/music.
24. *You have googled, "Ways to annoy your band director," "You know you're a band geek when...," or something that's just musically strange like that.
25. *You know two or more band directors' e-mails.
26. *You have learned an instrument by yourself.
27. *You still know how to play that instrument.
28. *You had actually taught yourself correctly.
29. *You help other people that play your instrument.
30. *You help other people that play a different instrument than yours.
31. You have made it to All-State band.
32. *You hear music and you start conducting/making time.
33. *You try to conduct like your band director and you can perfectly.
34. *You try to guess the tempo of songs you hear.
35. *You point out dynamics and key changes on the radio.
36. *You named your instrument.
37. *You are in the band room at your school more than anywhere else.
38. *You can sightread.
39. *You subconsciously start practicing with a pencil.
40. *Letters past G aren't important.
41. *You actually get the jokes on this list.
42. *You only date musicians.
43. *Getting an A in band makes you happier than getting an A in Math, English, and History combined.
44. *Your band director has already put an A in your report card for your final grade, even though you're not even done with the first semester.
45. *You are honored to be bestowed the title of "The Biggest Band Geek in Your School."
46. You have actually called your band director "Dad."
47. *You spend more time in the band room than you do in your bedroom.
48. *You consider band practice a social event.
49. *You aren't scared of Dr. Beat.
50. *You can still hear Dr. Beat, after 2 weeks of not seeing it.
51. *You think reeds taste good.
52. *You think drummers make sense.
53. *You ask for black socks for christmas.
54. *You actually got that last one. (Come on, people!)
55. *You list your band director as an emergency contact.
56. *When your school has a practice fire drill, you say you need to go to the band room, since that's where you'd be in a real fire.
57. *You dream about band.
58. *You dream about band a lot.
59. *You have devoted a website to band.
60. *Your band director is always right.
61. *You wish you can go to band camp all summer.
62. *You hang out in the band room before, during, and after school.
63. *You don't complain about 6/4 time.
64. *Band is your absolute favorite class.
65. *People might start to worry if they see you without your instrument.
66. You know your band director's phone number. (How can I if he won't give it to me?!)
67. *You don't get grossed out when you see other people's spit on the carpet.
68. *You start humming music from band.
69. *If you feel sick, you don't go home until after band class.
70. *You still and always will find "Sax-a-ma-PHONE!" entertaining.
71. *Tuning out the trumpets and/or flutes is second nature to you.
72. *You have ever responded to your non-band friend's puzzled looks with, "Sorry, it's a band thing."
73. *You have ever told a band joke to non-band members, and spent time explaining it, and now they won't even talk to you.
74. *You've broken into the band room at least once.
75. *You can't get into the band room, so you have absolutely no idea where to go.
76. *You get paranoid when your band director is absent.
77. *You get paranoid if you brought your instrument to school and you're not playing it that day.
78. *You get paranoid about anything band-releated.
79. *You use your band locker as your regular locker, and you haven't touched your regular locker in at least a month.
80. *Whenever you (if you do) skip class, you go directly to the band room.
81. *You can actually get permission from another teacher to go to the band room during his/her class at least once a week.
82. *You want to get out of another class to go to the band room at least once a week, and will spend your entire class period devising a plan or a persuading speech.
83. *Whenever you are with other band members, you all start humming your parts in your band music.
84. *You have proven your band director wrong.
85. *You knew something your band director did not, and it was music-related!
86. *You have been witness to a fallen xylophone, marimba, etc.
87. *You refer to "dull" people as "drummers."
88. *You actually understood that last one
89. All of your friends are in band, or you made them join.
90. *You have non-band friends who are considered "Honorary Band Geeks."
91. *You are inspiring your younger sibling(s) to take up an instrument.
92. *You are inspiring younger sibling(s) to not take up an instrument (because they see how obsessed you are).
93. *You go to a reunion, and receive at least one remark of, "Oh, I remember you! You were in Band!"
94. You've had a "trombone-ectomy." (:shudder
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95. *You're alone and you suffocate because no one's telling you to breathe.
96. *You don't describe people by saying "She's got brown hair, blue eyes..." But say, "She plays trumpet!"
97. More people call you "the Band Geek" than your first name. (sadly, I don't fall into that category, but I'm working on it!)
98. *You consider your band director one of your closest friends.
99. *You have made a list of "You know you're a band geek when...".
100. *You apply to more than 50% of this list.
101. *You have been in trouble because of your metronome.
102. *When you're bored, you try to imagine what instrument non-bandies would play.
103. *You can tune a piccolo.
104. *You can tune beginning band trumpets.
105. *You have more music than your notes and textbooks combined.
106. *You spend more time practicing your instrument than doing homework.
107. *You make an effort to say goodbye to your band director every school day.
108. *You've been around your band director so much, he's actually found out your pet peeves and does his very best to annoy you.
109. *You've invented a new acronym for the order of flats and/or sharps.
110. *Forget fingernails on a chalkboard: Out-of-tune flutes make you cringe.
111. *The out-of-tune flutes see you cringe, stop playing, and start laughing.
112. *You are a flute, and you see someone cringe while you're out of tune, and you start laughing.
113. *You've ever tried to play two wind instruments at once.
114. *You've succeeded with playing two wind instruments at once.
115. *You've played an instrument that's older than you are.
116. *You make fun of people who constantly play on Ricos. (Vandoren all the way!)
117. *The song "seventy-six trombones" annoys you because you just wish your band was big enough to be able to have seventy-six trombones.
118. *You arrange your band to sing happy birthday for your band director, on his birthday, when class starts. (Aww...)
119. *You wait outside every morning for the band director to arive.
120. *You come to find that the band director actually arrives earlier than you do, and just wants to annoy you by waiting to open the band room doors.
121. *After school, you have a race to the band room with fellow bandies.
122. *You're reading this now instead of doing a major project due tomorrow you haven't even started on yet.
(For those who don't have a marching band at your school
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123. *You've suggested having a marching band in your school many, many, many times to your director.
124. *You know what key every instrument is in in your band.
125. *You hate Drum Corps for only one reason: You are a woodwind.
126. *You actually got that last joke.
127. *You go to a performance, and even though you don't know the song the musicians are playing, you know exactly when they mess up.
128. *If I say, "One-ee-and-a, two-ee-and-a," you can draw a picture of it.
129. *You've gotten at least half the band mad at you for referring to slow people as "drummers." (because their friends are percussionists.)
130. *Conversations don't get interesting until the topic of band comes about.
131. *You have fear of getting braces because you don't know if you'll be able to play your instrument.
132. You can play any tune with your mouthpiece alone.
133. *When your friends writes out a dong in "da da daaaaaa," you know exactly what song they're talking about.
134. *You've stayed after school soley for the ability to play percussion equipment without getting yelled at.
135. *You know how to lilt to jazz music.
136. *Forget air guitar: you play air trombone.
137. *Forget air trombone: you play air french horn.
138. *Forget air french horn: you play air drums.
139. ***SERIOUSLY FORGET AIR DRUMS: you play air FLUTE!
140. *You have nearly gotten beaten to death by the section of instrument you've tried to "air" to.
141. You are still kicking yourself because you had missed the only day when the flutes were perfectly in tune. (OH! I WAS THERE!)
142. *During silent reading time, you've tried to persuade your teacher to let you read your sheet music.
143. *Your band director is not only your director, but your counselor, advisor, and shoulder-to-lean-on (not to mention one of your role models!).
144. *You know that the cigarette paper and dollar bills that woodwinds keep in their instrument cases have nothing to do with illegal activity.
145. *You have conversations about this list with your friends.
146. *You complain about people that can't sing, dance, or just follow a rhythm.
147. *You don't get confused when you try to spell the word "rhythm."
148. *When reading this list, you find some good ideas and think, "I'm going to try them tomorrow!"
149. *Your most inspiring moment ever is a band moment.
150. *You have read all of these and now your eyes are majorly strained.
151. *People call you a f*****t and you don't mind. (f*****t(o) is german for bassoon!)
152. *You get bored in a class, so you start composing a variation of your band songs.
153. *You notice the school bell is out of tune.
154. Your license plate says "BNDGK"
155. *You know band directors from other schools.
156. *You threaten to move out if your younger sibling EVER takes up the same instrument(s) you play.
157. *If anyone needs you, they know where to go or send a note: THE BAND ROOM, DUH!
158. *You visit music websites to get ideas for your own.
159. *Any grade lower than a 95% in band seems low to you.
160. *You ask for a detention in band just so you can stay longer.
161. *You clean up the band room for fun.
162. *Your behavior is almost always excused when you say, "I'm with the band!"
163. *You own a t-shirt that says "I'm with the Band!"
164. *You've seen your band director hit someone with their baton, or their pen (a total makeshift baton).
165. You eat lunch in the band room
166. *You can't eat lunch in the band room, because your band director locks the doors in the band room during lunch.
167. *Your band director locks the doors to the band room during lunch because of YOU.
168. *You get annoyed because your windsheild wipers aren't in time with the radio.
169. *You "band" with your friends instead of "bond" with friends.
170. *You got that last one.
171. *When drummers make sense to you.
172. *No one else is as committed as you in band, and everyone knows it.
173. *You can find your way around the band room and know where everything is WAY BETTER than you know your way around your own house/room.
174. *You've been assigned projects in class, and think, "Okay, how can I incorporate music into this?"
175. *Friends have ditched you because you won't shut the heck up about band.
176. *You record your band director's speeches, for further use.
177. *You don't even try to pay attention in other classes sometimes, but whenever the teacher says something that reminds you of band, your head snaps up so fast, you almost twist your neck.
178. *Your idea of a recliner is a black music posture chair.
179. *You see your fellow bandies more than your siblings, and your director more than your parents.
180. *You can speak more than 20 words in Latin, French, Italian, and German.
181. *You call a room a "dead room" and people there start freaking out.
182. *You get exited when your band finally gets a fancy new tuner.
183. *Your siblings know what your part sounds like, and corrects you when you mess up, because they've heard it so many times from you practicing.
184. *You can clap, sing, and sizzle almost any part put in front of you.
185. *You memorize your music for fun.
186. *You have an insurance policy on your instrument.
187. *The janitor has nothing to clean in the band room, because you've been in there so long that day, and you've already cleaned it.
188. *Your pets go into a different room when they see you open your instrument case.
189. *You know the difference between a french horn and a mellophone.
190. *Your insrument has its own insurance policy.
191. *You get a rush when your band director tunes the band off of you.
192. *You know what IDRS stands for. (Google it!)
193. *Once more does not, in fact, mean once more.
194. *You've asked your band director to adopt you.
195. *You think band should be a graduation requirement.
196. *You've used phrases like, "I'm a fermata... Hold me."
197. *You've tried to fit in a tuba case.
198. *You know whether or not you can, in fact, fit into a tuba case.
199. *Your band director has kicked you out of the band room at night, claiming "he wanted to go to sleep."
200. *You must go out and buy new concert shoes, because you just totally wore them out. (Go out and buy those darn shoes now!)
201. *You annoy your friends because you try to practice while on the phone.
202. *You have a favorite key/time sinature.
203. *You like wearing your uniform.
204. *You proudly declare yourself a Band Geek.
205. *You always capitalize the word "Band."
206. *You can measure 5 yards without a ruler.
207. *You take your instrument home everyday even though you know you can't play it that night.
208. *It's raining so you wrap your case up with your sweater (or in this case, a disposeable poncho you keep in your case for this very reason) to keep the humidity out.
209. *You know the instrument capacity of your parents' cars.
210. *Your only peer pressure is to STOP being this Band-Obsessed.
211. *Your Band Director calls you a Band Geek.
212. *You can't wait for Band Camp.
213. *Your Band Director says he/she was more of a Band Geek than he/she was.
214. *Double Tounging doesn't sound dirty.
215. *Your Band Director let you take the Festival Judges' tapes home with you.
216. *You tell time in measures.
217. *"Band room" and "Home" are synonyms.
218. *You think the Band sings better than the chorus.
219. *Your Band does sing better than the chorus.
220. *You know and believe that "Woodwinds kick Brass."
221. *You just can't make yourself wear white socks with black shoes.
222. *You can relate everything in life to Band.
223. *You know someone's personality by what instrument they play.
224. *You have a corner of your room devoted entirely to Band.
225. *You walk into the Band hall/room and sniff the air, because you enjoy the smell of Band.
226. *You listen to songs without words.
227. *You're watching a movie and you lose trak of the plot because you're trying to listen to the music.
228. *Telling someone "you blow" is a compliment.
229. *You think a tuba locker is a great place to sit.
230. *The word "Festival" doesn't necessarily mean "Party."
231. *You've ever been at school for over 12 hours.
232. *You've ever been called a drummer and felt insulted.
233. *You know the difference between a sousaphone and a tuba, or a french horn and a mellophone.
234. *You know the difference between a percussionist and a drummer.
235. *You go to the Band Field to watch football games.
236. *You can play music by ear.
237. *Your metronome (not your cell phone) goes off during class.
238. *Your science teacher used your metronome as a torture device for little 7th graders.
239. *Your read budget is higher than your food budget.
240. *You noticed I spelled "reed" wrong and it annoyed you.
241. *This one time at [Penny's] Band Camp you and your friends had every single salt and pepper container changed by dinner because of a prank you pulled at lunch in the cafeteria.
242. *You think Band Camp is fun.
243. *Every guy/girl you're interested in is in Band.
244. *You accidentally misspelled your name, but you never mess up the Circle of Fifths.
245. *You're the moderator of your Band's website.
246. *You think it's funny to hide someone's music, but realize it's suicidal to hide someone's instrument.
247. *You've named your instrument.
248. *You think your instrument has a personality.
249. *You don't want to give your instrument a name because you think it would limit it's personality.
250. *You've had someone personally try to help you with a social life because they think you're too Band-Obsessed. (Thank you, Joey and Kira)
251. *You own a Band shirt, and not just because it's required.
252. *You've admitted that your Band Director is always right. (Boy, was that a stupid thing to say. Lol)
253. *You have to define words in your English class, and use Band examples to help you understand.
254. *You wish you could go to Band Camp all summer.
255. *You've roll-stepped so you don't spill your lunch.
256. *You've ever been hysteric over a piece of music.
257. *Your meeting spot is in the Band room, and your friends don't even have to ask anymore.
258. *You want your mom to become a Band Mommy.
259. *You refer to football season as Marching Season.
260. *You have a permanent dent in your bottom lip.
261. *Your favorite website isn't Band-related, but it's Band-related to you in some way.
262. *Your favorite website is a Band-related website.
263. *Instead of writing "and" you accidentally write "Band."
264. *You've been compared to your Band Director and you took it as a compliment.
265. *You love octave jumps.
266. *You use "Band" as a synonym for "Life."
267. *You actually miss having seven-hour rehearsal days.
268. *You know what a Picardy Third is.
269. *You've spent over an hour looking up showtimes for the Disney movie "Totally in Tune" because you heard it was about Band.
270. *You watch "Class of 3000" because it's about a Band Director and his students.
271. *You've seen "Mr. Holland's Opus" many, many times.
272. *You see/talk to your Band Director on a weekly basis during the summer.
273. *The best compliment you've ever received was from your Band Director talking about you before he gave you the Director's Award.
274. *You're proud because of all of the pages on your website, this one is by far the longest.
275. *Whenever you walk up to your (non-Band) teacher's desk, he/she either says, "Write yourself a pass to the Band room and I'll sign it," or "You can't go to the Band room today. Sit down."
276. *You've ever slept in the Band room.
277. *You constantly mention "Louis Armstrong" when talking about space exploration.
278. *Even the people at Band Camp tell you you're too much of a nerd.
279. *You can name everyone in your Band from memory, and spell their names right.
280. *You consider yourself homeless when you get kicked out of the Band room.
281. *You bring your instrument on vacation with you. (Sadly, I couldn't fit the case in my suitcase to bring to Cozumel, but it's going to Pittsburgh!)
282. *Someone behind you says "Band Geek" and you turn around.
283. *(along with the "accidentally calling your Band Director Dad" one,) You wish your Band Director actually was your dad sometimes.
284. *You walk with your friends and you're in step. (Courtesy of Alex)
285. *Coke reminds you of Band.
286. *Seeing trumpet players empty their spit valves doesn't gross you out anymore.
287. *You think what life without Band would be and you begin to cry.
288. *You can't walk into a music store without sighing happily. You've just walked into heaven.
289. *You wanted to meet the guy whose name is on your instrument and case.
290. *A day just isn't complete without holding your instrument.
291. *(If you play flute) You can play four different Bb's, all of the same octave7
292. *Someone disses Band and you comeback saying, "You just WISH you were in Band!"
293. *You eagerly count the days until school starts just so you can be playing in Band again.
294. *You cry when you find out your Band Drector is changing schools.
295. *Your response to "You have no life," is, "I DO have a life! BAND is my life!"
296. *You think DCI is way cooler than football.
297. *You're cleaning your room and find your old music and stop everything to practice it.
298. *You have fallen asleep clutching your instrument.
299. *Your metronome gets you into more trouble than your cell phone does.
300. *You have used your intrument as a mirror.
I APPLY TO 97% OF THIS LIST!!!
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