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Post by flutesbringit on Oct 16, 2007 20:46:47 GMT -5
Well, I didn't run into a prop, but, I did trip over a manhole.
At Powderpuff (for those of you who don't know, it's when the girls get to play football, and some guys cheerlead, lol), I was carrying my friend's snare drum back up to the school. For some odd reason, we have manholes around the football field, and there just happened to be one in my path. My right foot tripped over it, sending my left foot INTO the snare drum. Now, there's a lovely purple bruise just above my knee cap. My friend was RIGHT there, of course, and just bust out in laughter.
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minos
Band Geek
What's the football team doing on our field?!
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Post by minos on Oct 17, 2007 20:55:19 GMT -5
Oh my god... I am like THE embarrassing band nerd, so I shall entertain with only a few of my moments: 1. Freshman year at band camp I jazz-ran straight into bass drum 4. Don't ask me how I didn't see it. And I do mean the actual drum. So, as the resounding BOOM made everyone whirl around, I was busy rebounding right into a tuba. By the time I was set right on my feet, everyone was positively dying of laughter. 2. At a particularly muddy football game, I slipped in a mud puddle, and it literally ate my shoe. I had to go half-barefoot in the freezing cold. Embarrassing was attempting to explain it to my BDs. 3. A freshman who couldn't stay in step (and has thankfully quit band since) stepped on my during our daily run, and I totally went down. I run at the front middle of the block, which meant that I couldn't roll out of the way... there were like twenty people behind me... who had to jump over me... screaming... and I just curled up on the ground with my hands over my head. Finally I got to stand up once everyone was past, but I'd fallen face-down, so I had track rash from my stomach, all the way down my hips and my knees because my shorts sort of slid down. And, of course, everyone knew it was me they had jumped over, so I still get made fun of. 4. Embarassing for our last year's DM. Early morning practice, he's running from the back of the field to the front... he LEAPS up onto the smaller podium... which apparently is wet with dew... and slides straight off. Our head DM just had to stop us because we were all laughing too hard to march. 5. Embarrassing for one of my friends. We were coming out of a contest stadium after listening to the results for finals. Of course, we made it, so we were all feeling pretty good about ourselves. On our way to go get back in uniform, we passed the buses of a band we're really tight with, and Stephen's all "Way to go, guys! Good job!" He, uh, thought they made finals. They all just look at him, and his girlfriend's like, "Stephen... they didn't make it..." He pretty much melted into the ground.
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sakura11irving
Band Nerd
I <3 anime, manga, video games, and band.
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Post by sakura11irving on Oct 18, 2007 7:09:12 GMT -5
Ok, in my state, there is this really hardcore band named Pomona. They had won State title since who know's when. But last year, they FINALLY got second. So, as I was celebrating in the parking lot (this was my freshman year), a senior yelled at me, "Sakura! Don't talk about Pomona when they're walking right by us!" I immediately shut my mouth, and felt really bad about "dissing" Pomona in front of their band...
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Post by peaceloveoboe on Oct 18, 2007 17:02:09 GMT -5
ok, this is a mix of my two loves, band and stage crew... last year we preformed "anything Goes" for our spring musical. there is this one point when the main character takes off his disguise and thows it off stage, sadly, it got messed up and he ended up thowing his hat into the pit orchestra...straight into a tuba... During my school's run of Man of LaMancha, we had the greatest number of things fall into the pit ever. A well, a bucket, a whip...yeah, the whip caused a break in the part where the entire auditorium is SILENT and there's an OBOE SOLO...yeah. I had to stop and give it to the girl going up the ladder...but my bd nearly killed me for that. But it was all ok, since when the pianist and bd came up out of the pit to be recognized, they were wearing hard hats
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Post by carlysnareperson on Nov 3, 2007 12:44:36 GMT -5
My right foot tripped over it, sending my left foot INTO the snare drum. Now, there's a lovely purple bruise just above my knee cap. Ohhhhhhh. You have no idea how many bruises I've gotten from my drum. My freshman year, I seriously looked like I was getting abused. Most of the entire front parts of my thighs had just this mass of bruises. It was horrible, I didn't even want to wear shorts. It was because my harness was too long for my torso, and the little knobs to set it on were in the wrong spots. This year wasn't as bad, but I did get a few super intense bruises. And now for an embarrassing, seriously awkward turtle moment. The other night on Halloween, my best friends (who are of course in band with me) and I had the brilliant idea of going to my BD's house to trick or treat. I know the street he lives on, and we checked the phone book for his address. It's relatively close to my house. So we show up. And he answers the door, and just looks at us with this half-smile-half-ohmygodyouguysican'tbelieveyoucametomyhouse face. And we all laughed and he gave us a crapload of candy, and it was weird. Like....seeing each other in our natural habitat sort of thing... The best part was him telling the entire band about a "dream" he had, where he answered the door and saw the most witch, ballerina, and princess (our costumes) and then went to sleep with a smile on his face. Nobody but us four knew wth he was talking about, so we just laughed while the rest of the band was like.....okay?
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Post by kahlen on Nov 3, 2007 21:11:54 GMT -5
My Dinkle flew off my right foot during a competition. OK, so in our last movement, when I'm marching with the brass, there's a part where we make an ark before going backwards towards the back of the field. I'm at the end of the ark, so I have to hustle to get to my spot. I was going back so fast that the heel of my shoe got tucked under my foot. I kept marching because I thought I could keep it on as long as I kept my feet kinda low. Well, that worked until I had to go backwards again. The next thing I know, my shoes flies off. No one ever told me what you're supposed to do in this situation, so I shoved my foot back into my shoe and I ran back to my spot like a maniac. There was another part where we went backwards, but it miraculously didn't come off again.
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Schoolspirit
Band Nerd
Marching Band, Concert Band, Pep Band, 2 Jazz Bands... :P
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Post by Schoolspirit on Nov 15, 2007 22:05:28 GMT -5
This one time, in 7th grade, I think, I was getting ready to do a sectional. It was super quiet in the band hall, and I wasn't really paying attention to what I was doing. I started to empty out my spit valve, and suddenly my trombone lets out the hugest noise possible, because I accidentally played a note :S. Everyone looked and started laughing
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Post by tracciadiarmonia on Nov 21, 2007 19:02:30 GMT -5
here's one i forgot from freshman year
It was right after a competition, and we were all just standing around while we waited to turn in our uniforms. Well i got into the line early so thankfully i was just sitting in the band room. As i'm talking to my friend, another friend of mine comes up and shanks me in front of 3 guy seniors and a couple juniors. I was pretty mortified.
This one isn't really embarressing, but it was pretty funny for us.
My best friends are property managers, so i always help them out with a couple of my other friends. The pit had ditched all their stuff atthe truck, so we were loading that thing for an hour trying to get all the props, flags, and instruments in, along with the plane. Well the wheel broke for the plane duringthe run through that morning, so a parent had to go and bring another one. So my friends' dad tells us "alright guys we have to go to the other side of the school to get the part, so i want you to stay inside the truck and hold everything down. And like idiots we said yes. So here we are riding in the back of a uhaul truck, and then it stops. We're sitting there for a couple minutes so my friend ryan thinks we're in the parking lot, so we pull up the door. So we find out that we're in the middle of a street in major traffic. All the faces in the cars behind us became wide eyed in terror, so we of course are freaking out screaming at eachother while trying to not fall otu of the truck laughing "CLOSE THE DOOR CLOSE THE DOOR! OMGGGG LOOK AT THEIR FACES CLOSE IT!"
needless to say, although we could've gotten in huge trouble, it was one of the most hilarious things ever.
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Post by shortbaritone on Nov 24, 2007 18:24:28 GMT -5
hehe i love embarassing moments... i remember one my freshman year: it had poured rain the night before reherseal and so the field was really muddy. I was marching backwards, and then forwards and it was a fast temp and i face planted. And i had a crush on the b-tone SL (i was a flute...meh...) and he laughed at me. I am really short and so people find joy in watching me try to take really big steps. And also using my head as an arm rest. Comparing me to the BD who is only an inch taller, calling me munchkin, and laughing at me because my baritone is "big". Psh. The contras are almost as big as me! During the summer our band took a trip to Pasadena California for anyone who could afford to pay to watch DCI Finals (yay Go Phantom!) and there is this kid i have a crush on who is about a foot taller than me, and we went to the beach and he burrowed his legs down in the sand so we stood about eye level, and so i went to get a Funnel Cake, and came back and he was even deeper. So he decided to get out, and so i decided i wanted to get in the hole and see how much shorter i could get, and so i ran (with my funnel cake still) and jumped in the hole, completely biffed it and lost my funnel cake. The sax SL still ate it, but i was embarssed in front of all the Gradiated Seniors that came. hehe! I am sure there will be embarassing playing moments to come because i am the only Euphonium who made Wind Ensemble...AH scary!
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PhantomStrad
Newbie
The Phantom of the Trumpet Section
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Post by PhantomStrad on Dec 13, 2007 21:40:03 GMT -5
this ones pretty nasty. just like a week ago I think, people started noticing that the Band Room was smelling pretty nasty...like feet and fungus. eventually it got so bad that me and a couple of my friends started looking for the source before band class. The smell was coming from the lockers. we couldnt figure out wich one though. At first I thought it was our SL's locker, because she had these socks in there and when I stood next to it, I could smell it. The socks were removed and thrown away but that still diddnt take away the smell. Eventually we figured out it was coming from my locker. Apparently, I had forgotten to remove my thermos from my locker one day and it stayed in there with rotting Hot Chocolate inside for at least 2 weeks. we had to throw it out because we coulnt clean it out. They havent let me live it down since, but hey, it was hilarious.
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Post by fluteplayer08 on Dec 14, 2007 13:55:36 GMT -5
When we were at the end of the Christmas parade in town the BD cut us off but I keep playing Jingle Bells!
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Post by Horn man on Dec 14, 2007 22:50:50 GMT -5
well, me and a female horn player have a funny thing we do. I say "what do you get when you look at a horn player?" *both of us do sexy poses* female horn player "you get horny!" and when we were doing it one time we realized that our BD's son (who helps out with visuals and stuff) was jsut staring at us, and jsut walked away, and we all just cracked up.
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Post by hchswiregrasshorn on Dec 20, 2007 23:33:34 GMT -5
This one's from marching season this year.
We had a part in our show where the basses form a line about 12 steps from the front line. After they play their little feature, the mellophones RUN in-between them and "take over" their feature. Keep in mind that we not only have to run in front of them, but we have to go right because the trumpets come over right after we take over. Seeing three people running between the basses on the 50 yard line at the front of the field catches your eye pretty good, doesn't it?
Well... one game the grass was unexpectedly wet, I ran too fast, and took the curve a little too sharp. My left foot slipped and I landed on my knees...on the 50 yard line. I tried to get up by using my leg muscles so I wouldn't take longer to get up. That didn't work. So I used my hands to help me up and I got in line and play. I fell on count three on the measure before we came in. I managed to come in on beat four on our first measure.
It was hilarious because when we're done with our feature, I get to shake hands with my section and act cool (It was the party scene when the trumpets had the melody). After it happened, my cousin and I laughed our butts off. It was hard to come back in because we only had three measure to hang out (this happened to be the only multi-measure rest we had the entire show because our band director added 40 measures of trumpet/trombone parts that needed support).
Oh yea, I forgot to mention that this was my last game I would march in high school.
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Clariиәrd ♫
Band Nerd
Mmmmm....clarinet tastiness. :)
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Post by Clariиәrd ♫ on Dec 29, 2007 13:09:17 GMT -5
We'd been working on the gallop part of the William Tell Overture in band for only 3 days, and our band director decides to record us so we could listen to our progress. Ok, first off, half of the low brass section along with other various people were site reading because they'd been gone for student counsil for the food drive we just had, second, our bd was having us play it really fast already, and third, the first clarinet and I were playing the solo clarinet part which we obviously don't have very well yet, especially the part where we have almost a full page of straight 16ths going crazy all over the place! Well, here we are recording along, la de da de da, and we're playing one of the easiest and most exposed parts where there's (geez, it's hard to explain music sometimes) the quieter part that goes 16-16-8, 16-16-8, 16-16-8-8-8, 16-16-8, 16-16-8, 16-16-8-8-8....etc. and then there's the loud explosion of notes and then it goes back quiet, well, the first clarinet and I came in too early and didn't realize it, because we were a measure past the loud part already, and then the band comes suddenly with the loud part when we're already way past that!!! When we finished the song and listend to the recording, it stood out soooooo much cuz us first two clarinets were playing so loud, and it sounded sooo bad!! Then, with the fast part, we sounded good on the recording, but little did anyone know, for the most part, we just played random notes really really fast!!
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Post by Horn man on Dec 29, 2007 13:20:49 GMT -5
This one happened last year and I have completely forgotten about it until now. So i noticed that a lot of my slides were REALLY dirty, so i took them home to clean them. The next day at band, when my BD told me to play my part alone, I couldn't. After a few minutes of trying, I realized that I had put 2 of my tuning slides in the wrong place.
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