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@Emi-Has-a-Screw-Loose
Get the heckles over here.
The band homies strive for best played music. We must unite and share our experiences.

@ShadeStar

So this would be like the 'better' band right? I'm asking because in my school we call the concert band the one with the weaker players while symphonic band has the best players and more challenging pieces.

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hm no concert band kinda sucks rn lmao

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? I’m confused but we see concert band as challenge music, our school usually allows people to switch from marching instruments as well. I just wanted to have a chat similar to the Marching Band chat. Since marching band is over for a lot of band buddies.

@ShadeStar

Ahh, we just run things differently at our school. It's chill I'll stick around.

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Also true, concert band sucks. We have some very painful songs. Rip flutes and trumpets. They sound like they’re suffering. Some notes I can’t be fast enough to switch so I stand there like an idiot and think, forget where I am and ask my stand partner where we are in the middle of playing.

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@Pickles group

So this would be like the 'better' band right? I'm asking because in my school we call the concert band the one with the weaker players while symphonic band has the best players and more challenging pieces.

Us too, but we call it wind ensemble

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So this would be like the 'better' band right? I'm asking because in my school we call the concert band the one with the weaker players while symphonic band has the best players and more challenging pieces.

Us too, but we call it wind ensemble

It’s the whole band, we’re so big that we can’t all be excluded. Except for guard, some join the choir.

@ShadeStar

Yeah we have a big enough band that after marching season we split into two. Half go to concert, the band that gets to play Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen, and the other half go to symphonic. Or as I like to call it, play for your goddamn life.

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@Pickles group

For us, everyone in marching band has to be in sit down band, except guard. And we all audition at the end of the year to find out our seats for the next year. Apparently no one likes either band. we've had sectionals every two days since we got Christmas music and no one will let me lead even though I'm first chair……

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@Pickles group

But there are people in indoor band that aren't in marching band

@Wry_Wyvern

So this would be like the 'better' band right? I'm asking because in my school we call the concert band the one with the weaker players while symphonic band has the best players and more challenging pieces.

I think they're just referring to any and all fancy sit-down bands (sometimes known as concert/curricular band).

@Wry_Wyvern

Rip marching season but at least now I can actually focus on my main instrument.

So this would be like the 'better' band right? I'm asking because in my school we call the concert band the one with the weaker players while symphonic band has the best players and more challenging pieces.

I think they're just referring to any and all fancy sit-down bands (sometimes known as concert/curricular band).

I dunno. We have jazz, marching, concert, and symphonic band. With Symphonic being the highest… So I guess I'm in all of them???

@ShadeStar

Yeah, it's the same here.

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@Pickles group

So what do the rest of you guys play? I know emi plays flute (flute buds) and I think Kylee plays clarinet? No clue about the rest of you, though

@ShadeStar

I also play flute for band and piano for jazz

I play the murder instrument, flute. Mainly. I also do backup oboe. Or oboi as we call it. And ze piano.

@Wry_Wyvern

I play the french horn

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@Pickles group

Yee so many flutes. I guess we're just the superior creative instrument

@ShadeStar

We are :)

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we need to put down our flutes and let other useless people experience it for once

please tell me you have a small group of flutists who just don’t do anything

Today we were practicing something for concert season and there was a split in the parts. We have two rows of flutes, and there was a split in the music, so the second row was first and the first row played second (I’m in the second row).

I swear

I swear to god and my entire life

I was the only one playing the flute one part bc it was up the octave.

Last year I was last chair and I’m sitting there outplaying about nine people

@ShadeStar

Yes. That. We have that too. It's called concert band.

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Ok but with them it’s literally all the time and I’m so sick and tired of it

one of them during marching season was playing a piccolo, and when I was near them in the field show (I was mostly with the clarinets cus I was a point and number things)

I couldn’t hear her at all

anyway that’s my rant so

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@Pickles group

We got that too. Hate em. Most of them are gone now, but we have shudders nevermind

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AAAAHHHHH

i wish that was past tense i wish that was past tense i wish that was past tense i wish that was past tense i wish that was past tense

i hate them

@ShadeStar

See we have a large portion of the band that just stick with it to go on the Florida trip down to Disney. Literally.

Last year a bunch of junior football players joined and one of them doesn't play, but I'm pretty sure he's going down to Florida with the band this year.

(May I also note one of these said football players got chosen to be a drum major over more qualified members of the band… I'm still upset.)

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WHAT

omg I wanna do drum major and if that happens to me i swear to god I’ll throw a boot

@ShadeStar

It happened. He was chosen on the first day of school when the second half of the drum majors got announced. The first 'official' drum major thing he's going to do is Florida. I was so mad then and I'm still mad now.

We have like six drum majors and plenty of other applicants and you picked him? I understand not picking the one and best french horn player. I understand not picking juniors. But him? You pick him over all of that.

I'm fine with the rest of them, it's just him.

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man i’m pissed off for you, that’s a whole lot of shit right there

damn