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Some of these may only relate to my band

You see more sunrises than sunsets [ we practice for a couple hours before school starts at eight ]

You know what dinkles are.

The trombones have their own bus via destination [ They're on the bus to hell. . . ]

You can triple step backwards, forwards, up and down stairs and while running. [ perhaps that's just me. . . ]

The band dates the band.

There is always a neverending battle over who's better. The brass or woodwinds.

You can semi understand the saying " I used to have a life, then i joined marching band"

2) You find yourself traveling in herds of band geeks at all times of the day.

3) You and your friends will randomly begin singing the show tunes, any place, any time.

5) You find that you're walking on the same foot as your friends through the hallways.

7) You get upset when the football team is using OUR field.

9) During your spare time, you taught yourself a new instrument.

10) You get annoyed when people use the phrase 'This one time at band camp...', when they have never actually been to band camp.

11) You know that to survive band camp, you need to bring tons of Cup A Noodles.

12) When people call commands outside of band, you respond to them.

13) When you feel like relaxing, you go to parade rest.

14) You mark time to elevator music.

16) You argue with other teams that marching band is much more difficult than their sport.

17) When you see marching bands in movies, you get excited.

21) You know about band gossip before it actually happens.

22) You've sat in something while wearing your white pants.

25) When you talk to people outside of band, they have no idea what you're saying.

27) You realize that even the flutes hate the flutes.

28 You could do the same drill over for hours, and manage to do it worse than the time before.

33) You divide your day into 'classes before band', and 'classes after band'.

37) At competitions you know where the food stands are right away.

38 You laugh at other bands that still have to wear their uniforms.

39) Your have had a cheer-off with other bands.

40) Drill box annoys you to no end.

44) You know all the words to bohemian rhapsody (fowards and backwards)

51) You've been involved in the only dinner/dance in the world that isn't much of a dinner or dance, it's more of a long speech and award ceremony, yet every year you look foward to it thinking "hey, maybe well dance to more than 4 songs this year"

52) No matter how close or far away you live, you get to school for first period.

56) You've memorized the previous years show, even if you were'nt in the band yet

57) You have nightmares about 12 beat scales in which you crescendo and decrescendo

58 You don't watch ESPN, but you convieniently caught ESPN's Marching Band Drumcore championship, which is on once a year (lol relax, i know some of , including myself, actually do watch ESPN)

59) Peaks, Valleys, Dynamics, Attack, Duration, and Release are all things you understand but choose to constantly ignore

57)YOU TOOK TIME OUT OF YOUR LIFE TO WRITE OR READ THESE FACTS!!!






This relates to my band. ;o

lol. oh my, I'm only a freshman, but already I can relate to all of those.

Here's a couple more.

You know you're obsessed with MB when you..

Realize that even though MB takes up a lot of time, the concert season's busier... (You know, in my concert season there's All Region and district band, pep band, solo and esemble, lessons, drum line, winter guard, and the only thing in MB is.. MB. >_> )

You get mad at your cousin because she didn't do anything with marching band even though she's a freshmen, and swears to became a squad leader to boss her around the next year.

I think I'll tell my friends about the plotting of death to Dr. Beat. ;O

When you listen to music in your house and start marching to it...

When you go to parades (besides your own) just to see the band, and end up marching along side of them...

When several years later you hear a song you played while marching and start humming your part to it...

When you "air-conduct" to your own humming...

When you try to wear your band shoes as part of your outfit...

When you try to wear your uniform for Halloween...

meh... i dun graduated..but i still do some of these things..

me and my friend in band, as well as my fellow guardgirl, we do this too often. during a firedrill, you march in time with the beeps, no matter how small or big steps you have to take; always intime. then when you get to your spot outside, you stand at set (ok, most of you are calling it attention) while everyone around you isn't even in line.

or, you're sitting in the school library, looking down a row of computers, and get annoyed that their monitors are not in a straight line, a diagonal line, or a curve. theyre just there.

you take apart those stickers people put on their phones(you know, the ones wit all the little jewels or we?) and reshape them to say MB.

this is for the guard mostly...you can't stand when other groups are outside, with jackets, long pants, multiple layers, etc, and complain they're cold. its only fourty degrees, and you're fully clothed!

this was the funniest thing...your friend starts going out with someone who happens to have the same name as an instructor, and that's who you think it means. (ah, let's see...a--i go out with jason. s--the drum instructor?????? a--no...o.O)

that's all i have at this time...

You know the note of your school bell.
Canton: C
Plymouth: C
Salem: D

These are in Mello Key, I think they'd be F, F, G. Correct me if I'm wrong.

pretty much all of these apply to me and I'm a freshman=D also
..you've figured out other instruments' parts on your own instrument
..you make lists like these easily>_>
..you hate "the pit" but not every person in it
..the whole band give nicknames to certain sets(silent 16, lone ranger, drum solo) we actually had a part in our show this year that we called "faries on shrooms"
..you have at least 1 "death set" and are mad because they won't let you jazz run it
..the pit insists that they work just as hard as the band, but you still think they don't
..CLOSE, STEP, CLOSE!(LWE MB)
..you memorize runs in your band music to make them easier to play[i know i did]
..you know who's dating who and the exact second they break up
..you describe people by their instrument(you know, ___, the flute player?)
..you've heard the jokes "what's the difference between government bonds and trumpet players? Gov. bonds eventually mature and make money" and "how many flutes/guard girls does it take to screw in a light bulb? 1 after she learns that you DON'T use a hammer" but you still love those sections.
..you are angry when the stupid football team is using the field.
..you have had the urge to jump on the football coach and TAKE HIM DOWN!!
story time
one of the drum majors conducts in the back, and he heard the football coach yelling at one of the players and the coach was saying "YOU BETTER GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER OR YOU CAN GO JOIN THE MARCHING BAND OVER THERE" and from then on the whole band hated him=)

more
..your band director threatens to use the Dr. Beat in class if you don't quiet down, and it actually works! domokun twisted
..you count the hours that you've spent practicing(I think ours was 280 o_o) but you still don't complain
..you make deals like, you take out my lard line marker this time, and I'll take out yours next time
..you know the pitch of the bell(LWE Eb concert pitch)
..and one i think everyone will agree to, during marching season, you see the band more than your own family, and start to think of the band as your family=)

and I'm only a freshman rofl
there are definitely more

I LOVE MARCHING BAND!! heart heart heart heart