Marching Band

^ 😂 True. Really high overalls with a really small jacket, both very hot and uncomfortable.....Plus the hat, along with the chicken d*ck (that's what we call our plume). 😂

I'm in marching band. I play flute. 😮 This is only my first year (freshman....yeah, I know. Don't make fun.) in marching band. So far, it's awesome...except for the 3 out of 5 school days practicing marching after school for two-three hours in the extreme heat with no wind whatsoever, then there's games practically every Friday, which are still extremely hot no matter how dark it gets, so the only day we get off is Monday. Fun, I tell ya. 🙄 Being a freshman, I haven't been to any competitions yet...We have our first in three weeks. 😛

But what really sucked is football season started a few weeks early this year, so we had to get our whole half time routine down by the first week of school, which means we had eight days of band camp (five of which I missed cause my dad made me go to Florida with him...I actually WANTED to stay for band camp, if you believe it. But I couldn't...eh...) plus three after school practices before our first game....We ended up not being able to march, though, cause of the mud...

Our first few half time shows have been pretty good...I completely screwed up two days ago at our last game, though...I dunno what happened. I kept getting distracted by I don't know what and I kept forgetting my moves and everything. 😬 Not exactly a good thing haha.

But, yeah, our theme this year is Pirates of the Caribbean. 💃 It sounds awesome. And other than the brass, everyone's doing a really great job with the marching and everything....Our brass section is kind of slow....Seriously... The woodwinds and percussion are way ahead of them so far....Because of the brass, we've only gotten the moves to our first song and half of the second song done...The flutes and clarinets already know the rest of the moves for the second song, but our damn director won't let us go ahead and practice what we don't know instead of going over the same things over and over and over again. 😠 But he's agreed to let the band decide on the moves for the third song instead of him and the assistant band director. That's gonna be cool....I hope. 😬

Our band doesn't really have themes for our half time show. Pirates of the Carribean sounds cool! We just got new uniforms like last year, they look better, but yeah it's still hot! But it's fun!

Our first festival/competition for this year is on homecoming, which is awful because I was going to go for the first time this year! The first few times we did our routines this year we sucked, but we get better every game. And, our school just played our lifetime rivals and beat them for the third year in a row! Also, our band was better than theirs...they kinda just stood there.

I'm not in the band but I'm in the guard. We just got back from Battle of the Bands last night and got a pretty good score. Our show this year is 'Shaker music' , eh...it sucks. We don't get to go to Homecoming either because its the say day as ACC's.

I cant be in marching band this year, but the band went and marcher for us eighth graders during school, it was so cold, but they are really good. i think the marching band director guy said their theme this year was mulan rouge

Oh man, i miss marching band.. I was in Flags w/ Silver Stardust. It was so much fun. The one thing i miss most tho is makie time w/ band... such wonderful bonding, as well as oversharing, moments. You can nver underestimate the humor of a bus load half naked high schoolers..

ooooooo btw!! my marching band went to states on saturday and won in there division!!! My school is now Michigan's Flight 3 champions 🙂

Originally posted by PandoraMomo
Oh man, i miss marching band.. I was in Flags w/ Silver Stardust. It was so much fun. The one thing i miss most tho is makie time w/ band... such wonderful bonding, as well as oversharing, moments. You can nver underestimate the humor of a bus load half naked high schoolers..

Haha, nakie time...something I will never forget...just like you kicking me in the head during flags practice...and me nearly passing out that one day and scaring the hell out of Linda...oh, fun times 😄 I miss it too, when we were at the homecoming game I was sooo tempted to steal someone's flag.

I'm in Marching Band, although I don't play an instrument. I'm Colorguard/Majorette. I love it so much it's to bad this is my last yr though

Colorguard rocks 👆

Our school doesn't have a marching band, but even if it did, I wouldn't be able to play in it, because all the marching would 'break my reed' 😠

Originally posted by Xtremechik2
I'm in Marching Band, although I don't play an instrument. I'm Colorguard/Majorette. I love it so much it's to bad this is my last yr though

Originally posted by PandoraMomo
OMG, it is so hard to leave that behind. everytime i see one of my old girls on the field i wanna run out there and perform w/ them, even at work, i always end up twirling brooms or celery..

😂 celery?

I always end up twirling brooms at home...I miss flags so much...

Originally posted by Silver Stardust
😂 celery?

I always end up twirling brooms at home...I miss flags so much...

Not me.I can even play anything.I try and I suck at it.Anyway if you were in a marching band at my school you would be picked on and called a geek.
It is safer to hid.I know it is terrible but the popular kids are the snobest kids in the world.And they pretty much rule the school!JM This acouse was back in middle school!
It is now the senors that rule the school!

Im in marching band. We went to the Lester Oaks parade last sat, and got second place! We also have to play tonight at our last home football game against sultana tonight.

OMG! We just got back from our first game in the play-offs... and lost! I was half sad and half happy. One of the seniors, one of our drum majors was about to cry! I know I'm gonna be in tears next year, I almost felt like crying a little tonight and then I'll be a senior next year! I mean just thinking about no more:

"Karn Evil 9"
"And When I Die"
Drum Solo: " Sir Lancelot"
or "1928 A.D. Rockin' the Paradise"

Yeah, so it's the end of the season for us. But we'll see each other in the Christmas Parade and maybe the Inaugural Parade if we get invited in the Spring 😉 😕