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Post by bassclarinetdude19 on May 19, 2007 11:16:13 GMT -5
When all of the clarinets and bass clarinets at my school were having an audition to see what band you would be in, my BD was very strict on making no sound during the auditions. Right after he stopped talking, and someone started playing their chromatic scale, I accidently dropped my bass clarinet, and it slammed into my stand, making a huge BANG!!! I was so embarressed, and everyone was staring at me.
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Post by bassclarinetdude19 on May 19, 2007 11:35:41 GMT -5
Anyone else???
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Post by andante on May 19, 2007 12:20:35 GMT -5
The other day we had a part where everyone had a beat of rest- I had a solo. lmao
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Post by orangepolarbear on May 22, 2007 22:36:05 GMT -5
When I was a sophomore in high school, we did a kid-themed contest show. In our opening, we started off in small pods of three or four, then we all started to run around and do kid-like things. My pod chose to skip close to our second spots, merge for a bit with another pod near us, and play ring around the rosy. There was one practice when we skipped over to the spot, and I grabbed the hands of the other pod members, and turned to start running in the circle. My legs wiped out from underneath me, and I found myself lying on my back on the ground. The other pod members almost peed themselves laughing. It was, however, a nice little inside joke in our group for the remainder of the season.
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Post by ~*Not~a~Stalker~* on May 24, 2007 20:06:03 GMT -5
Oooo...At camp last yeah, break was over, and the DM was counting down from 20 ....we were all running...and...there is a big hole right in fromt of the feild...I fell in ...wow. Luckily it was on grass.xD It was pretty funny...I didn't even get in trouble for being late.
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Post by mthsbandrocks on May 24, 2007 20:19:00 GMT -5
Our BD was lecturing us for about 10 minutes about how not to play in the rest during warm-ups because it reflects how your preformance will be. So then we started playing again and guess who played in the rest! ME! WOOOO! Go me! So then we got yelled at some more. I think he knew it was me because he kept on looking over at me during the second lecture. The good part is during the songs he would blame my mistakes on the senior sitting by me. But warm-ups were all my fault. :\
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Post by lightningflute2010 on May 25, 2007 12:31:31 GMT -5
Back in marching season, we were learning a new set, and it was raining outside. Well, in our set, we were in three triangles, each moving in seperate directions, and I had to march backward at one point, and I slipped in the mud and was nearly trampled on by the tuba section leader. ;D
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Post by cutiefluty on May 26, 2007 0:44:30 GMT -5
one time at a football game i thought the dirtores were calling us to auction and i said "HIT" really load and most of the drumline looked at me. (i was right behind them and some of them are cute too)
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Post by tootflute on May 26, 2007 13:53:01 GMT -5
Um, well, during rehearsal one time, a tenor sax player stood up and yelled, "Hey! According to Facebook, *me* and *alto sax* are an item! Just thought everyone should know!!" My older brother just kind of glared at *alto sax*. It was great.
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Post by lightningflute2010 on May 26, 2007 16:34:13 GMT -5
^ Hah. My friend Julie yelled at me from across the stands during a football game to ask me if I liked one of the guys in the trumpet section. Which I do, by the way. But it was embarassing nonetheless.
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Post by friskylurker on May 27, 2007 12:01:45 GMT -5
this wasn't embarassing for me... especially since i wasnt there. but it's hilarious none-the-less. so my oboe friend in concert 4 was apparently texting during class, and he has very scandalous conversations via text messages. so our student teacher confiscated his phone, and told him if it got a reply, he was going to read it to the class. and he got a reply... so teh student teacher looked at it..... (it was apparently VERY scandalous, said my friend) and just shut the phone. apparently his face was hilarious. so yeah. i'll bet whatever band gets him next year never ever gets a cellphone confiscated.
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Post by oboehorn77 on May 27, 2007 13:03:01 GMT -5
^ I can just see that happening to some people I know... wow. I'm thinking of a time in pit orchestra, where we have reed books which have the parts for several differant instruments. The assumption is that in real life we'd be doubling (ok, maybe I don't mean "real life" but... proffesionally of whatever I don't know). So in Music Man, Reed II is oboe, english horn and clarinet. The other oboist and I weren't playing the clarinet part, the someone was supposed to be. At one practice though it definately wasn't being played so the other oboist started tapping the stand to the rhythm of the unplayed clarinet part. The crappy stand started falling forward, so me, being the genious that I am tried to kick it back. (Kick it! ) So, shockingly, it fell backwards and everything fell off and all that good stuff.
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Post by trombonemeister on May 27, 2007 14:11:24 GMT -5
My band director sometimes tells us to close our eyes when she gives us instructions during basics. This one time she told us to close our eyes and then told us to march forward 8 and then halt. Simple, right? There was one problem- I didn't realize that we could open our eyes. so I started marching with my eyes closed. oops. I ran into the kid next to me, and he started laughing. It was so embarrassing! yeah...that was bad.
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Post by orangepolarbear on May 27, 2007 20:40:41 GMT -5
I just remembered another one. When I was a senior in high school, I was field commander. Sometimes when we would be practicing page-to-page with counts, our BD would have the band count in a different language...French, Spanish, pick-your-own, whatever. It helped break up the monotony of those practices. One time, during one of the songs I was lead FC for, our BD told the band to count in Spanish. As I began to count off, he stopped me and said, "Oh, if they're counting in Spanish, you should too!" He was joking, but the entire band cheered. So, I started over and said, "Uno, dos, uno, dos, quatro....go..." The band started cracking up laughing, as did my fellow FC and my BD and myself. No one would let that one little slip-up go for the rest of the year. Even at the band hayride a bit after Halloween, our BD teased me about it. It was funny, though, I'll give everyone that.
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Post by carlysnareperson on May 27, 2007 20:55:52 GMT -5
I dropped a stick during a football game performance. It honestly wasn't THAT bad, but I felt horrible.
This didn't happen to me, but it is an infamous story in Drumline. My friend who plays 4th bass drum was walking and she hit a tree with her drum. Exactly a year later, same competition, same tree.... she ran into it again. She's also tripped over the DM platform and almost broken her ankle. I have to be glad I don't play bass and I can see where I'm going.
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