Marching Band

I meant to go the football game last night at my old school, just to see the marching band/color guard's halftime show (one of my friends on color guard choreagraphed the routines, so I REALLY wanted to see it...) but I couldn't 🙁

Band camp...last year when we did band camp before school started, it was VERY hot one day (about 95 degrees), sunny, and no wind whatsoever. I passed out 😖

We had a game yesterday.
And school hasn't even started, But I blew out my lips anyway.
One of the job hazards of being a Trumpet Screamer.

It's hot alright, it's scary when people pass out on the field! It's happened more than once! And I tried to play as loud as a clarinet player could last night. And what's with this having a game before school starts? Same thing happened to my cousin.

I nearly did during a parade once, it was horrible 😖

Which instruments do you all that played in bands used to play?

Wow! No one's ever done during a game! It can be tough with those big uniforms though! Did your director let you take your jackets off?

I was in color guard, so we didn't wear the actual marching uniforms (VERY hard for us to use our flags in those, they don't allow a lot of range of motion). The color guard uniforms were kinda cheerleader-like, but the material was really thick so they were very warm.

Clarinet.

God marching in daytime parades with those uniforms is hell in a woolen suit.

SM> what do you play? Playing as loud as a clarinet? comon, maybe if it was as loud as a trumpet i MIGHT be impressed. 😛

j/k

Hey! clarinets can blow! Not as loud as you Tpt but hey we make ourselves heard!

And I, being a flag girl, can beat up people with my flag! 😛

Sure.............
hehehe
I blew my lips out to the point on not being able to play last night, that was fun.

I almost had a splinter in my tongue from my reed! Yeah!

I played the trumpet in band from 6th grade to 10th grade. I am going to 12th grade this year, school actually starts tomorrow. I quit because of my social anxiety/phobia. I almost fainted during practice one year cause I constantly skip lunch, so we were practicing on the football field and i got real weak and i started seeing whitness and fuzzy stuff everywhere I looked and I could hardly pick up my trumpet. Another incidence is where we had this couple miles parade and I forgot my belt at home and my paints were falling down and they stayed up through out the whole parade until the end where we were walking through this area still marching but we were out of the main street and there was hardly anybody watching and I had to hold them up with my hand and hold my trumpet with one hand. The parade was basically over, so I was so relieved it happened then and not during the parade. I was so scared going into the parade cause I just knew they were going to fall, I don't know how they stayed up.

Wow, band was an adventure for you! Then again, it is for everyone! I almost fainted at one of the practices my freshman year, I'm a juinor now. I just got real dizzy and I was wobbling and I felt like I was gonna throw up! We were on the baseball field and I guess I just wasn't used to such intense pressure in the sun that long.

wow,
Our only adventure is killing the other band in band battles while out team looses.

my school doesnt have a marching band 🙁, but i play piano in the jazz band, and trumpet in the regular band, next year i can do marching band 🙂

thats cool though, Jazz band is really cool. I like it more than marching band

i can only do jazz band a third of the year tho, cause there are 2 other piano players, and the director only needs one, so she is giving us each third of a year 😬

that sucks!