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 Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:37 am
~a book on the history of the life of my line~
Chapter 1 - Honors Band ---- Morning Practice
well, i was the only drummer from my city selected, and there were six of us from our district there. well, there were 5 guys and a girl. four of us (well, three others besides me) during the march we played got the idea to do the "squat thing." you know, where you go down the line ^v^v (<---- like that). well, the director saw us doing that. none of us knew each other before that day, so he asked us the greatest question ever. "do all of you percussionists think alike?" we all looked at each other, looked at him, looked at each other again, looked at him again and said in perfect unison "pretty much."
chapter 2 coming soon!
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:10 pm
well our teacher calls all the drummers dummers so once we were all being "retarded" and i through a stik across the room and my friend made the bass drum fall over without touching it so now we say "were not retarded we just have problems! sweatdrop "
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:21 pm
oh and amazingly im not an only girl im my "family" there are 2 more and 1 guy we always pic on him becuse he suks
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:19 pm
some snares came into the band room asking for some extra dreadlocks (the kind you use to play a drum with), and our auxillary person replied by asking, "you mean the hair?" XD
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:13 pm
Well, our pit section gets music learned really fast at the beginning of the season and since our marchers have trouble learning their sets sometimes, (lots of times you should see how much time they spend on learning a straight line...), we have plenty of time to do whatever. So there's this guy that comes, every year mind you, to our practices and stands and watches the band. He didn't go to our school or have a kid in band, sounds creepy doesn't? He even comes when it's cold outside! He's a dedicated watcher i guess. But anyway, one time we, (everyone in my section), were standing there staring at this guy while the marchers were working on sets, and our 2 BDs came over and asked about this guy. The one director, Mr. Ainscough (we call him Mr. A) made this really creepy looking face, held his hand out in front of him, palm up, and said 'want some candy little girl?' it was really funny, and then the one girl in our section, Maley, kept doing it for every practice afterwards, and i couldn't stop laughing.
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:29 pm
well, i'm not technically a band percussionist, but i'm one of the closest to one outside of the section in my band. i do play percussion, tho... but anyways... i date a percussionist, and he's been on cymbals for 3 years. he is better than alot of the ppl that got higher parts. in short, the directors play favorites. and the ones that get higher parts happen to be the ones not taking lessons with this one teacher (who i'm taking lessons with too). on top of that, the cymbol players always get to play "gofer" to the rest of the line. does anybody elses band have that problem, or is it just mine??
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:04 pm
i'm not in percussion, but i help percussionists count rhythms and i carry snare drums in from the bus and i sit with the tenors at football games because we have the main part in a pep band song and i'm the best trombone player at my school and the only one at football games, because my second chair plays football. me and the tenors play loud so the whole stadium can hear
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:24 pm
okay well it was at reglons(sp) and a judge just moved in me way and *bam* i hit him and he fell the tennor next to me tripped over the judge and we got points 4 him tripping
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:24 pm
Imagine a six foot man on a tractor (our director) going about two miles an hour causing the manliest people in the band (drumline) to go running and shouting.
It's amazing what a shouting band director can do while on a tractor...'specially ours. xDD
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:52 pm
OKAY, so My school does this Mid tour thing where we go to the elemtary schools and play. So, we decides King Elm was the bad luck school. Someone broke the Bells and they collapsed in the gym, so we had to ducktape them to play. Then, they fell again and our playing basically sucked. Not only that, but later on, my other percussion buddy were Playing the Timps, and she hit the head of one so hard, the mallet bounced right out of her hand and hit my head. so I hurted really bad. And just today my other percussion friend was sad because his beloved drumset was cheating on him with Fedrick Douglas.
Welcome to Janitell XD
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:04 pm
before i started in band i was in this play. I was a fake drum player. i would carry the drum on stage and pretand to hit it while the real drumer played.
at the end we came back out to bow. we had to hold hamnd while we bowed so my neak hust alto cause of the strap. well one preformance i was bowing and the strap broke. i caut it but it looked ridiculous!
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:36 pm
This is a story about a retard in fall semester cymbals. We were planing to to warm-up, but half the bases weren't there and neither were any of the quads.
The idiot, being an ignorite boy he was, said, to the assistant instructor. "If I was on base, the drumline would be way better. I could march better too..." That got my blood boiling to off the charts.
I was about to cuss him out, like I have been doing so many times durnign the past month and months to come. However, before I was about to attack, the assistant instructor charged.
"(Retard)! If you can't even march on cymbals, what makes you think you can march base! I want you to sh*t *p! Never talk about that again!" The low cymbal was about to rebuttle, but the superrior wouldn't let him speak. "Do not talk! Do not speak! Not EVER!"
I laughed so hard, as the rest of the drumline that was there, that half of us fell on our a**'s laughing. The idiot stayed silent for the rest of the 10 minutes until the oters arrived.
The idiot was forever, and will be forever, a retard...
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:22 pm
alright, so me and my friend were screwing around during practice last year (horrible year i mean seriously) anyway, we were throwing sticks up against one of the buildings in our school and catching them. my bass drum mallet totally slipped outta my hand and flew to the top of the roof. SO EMBARRASING! my drum captain totally chewed me out, lol. domokun
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:47 pm
Our drumline instructor said that one of our snare players looked like an old lady when she was trying to hype. >.<
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:59 am
Let's see..... I've broken 1 marimba mallet, 1 vibe mallet and 2 gong mallets, one of which flew across the gym when I went to hit the gong. I've also dropped a set of chimes on my foot (the gigantic ones).
Once to get our drumline's attention, our 1st snare yelled "SEX!!!" and when we all looked at him he said "Now that I have your attention, we're going to the middle school to practice." Everyone was cracking up.
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