Band is Hell

Another [Marching] Band blog. Brook|age is just a whole note with a fermata and then a staccato| Clarinetist. Just let me play all the instruments. Original music is under #Brooks Music

[retired-trumpet-god]

[@chippedareed] I'm not a trumpet myself, but I saw the post (that might be old. I was browsing your top posts to catch up w bandlr) where you were in a deathset with colorguard and funnily enough, my bands trumpets have it too! Colorguard goes right through them with some visuals! Also at one point theres a flag .5 steps behind me, and then my block is completely surrounded by a circle of them! Good luck with all that!

Maybe a week or two? I’m flattered you liked my blog enough though! I actually have two deathsets with the same guard member and another one with two different guard members. It’s awesome.

Honestly the frequency with with trumpets get deathsets with guard you’d think our band director wants to take us out. Like two or three times a season someone will catch a trumpet with a flag and take the instrument with them.

[chippedareed]

Oh yikes!!! I wish ya luck dude, deathsets are horrible and take so long to coordinate right.

[dcivids]

2015 Drum Corps International Finals

2015 Carolina Crown “Inferno”: Symphony for Organ and Orchestra

[anonymous-flowey]

Practice

Any of you reading this.

Any single one of you.

You are a talented musician.

You are a brilliant person with so much potential

Foster that potential. Let it grow into something more beautiful than you could ever imagine.

Practice so you one day won’t close the door so people don’t hear you

Practice so you won’t be afraid to play at your family’s request

Practice to make the people around you proud

And most importantly, practice because you have so much potential when you chose this instrument. Things will get hard but work through it. Become a better musician, better person, and to make yourself proud of what you’ve become.

You’ve got this.

[classicalcarp-deactivated201805]

this is so important i stan this so hard

[drumcorpshero]

Hey, I've just started band camp again for my sophmore year, and I was wondering if you could drop some tips for jazz running? We tried learning it beforehand but I just couldn't do it and hurt my ankle reaaaally bad haha. If it helps the color guard instructor told us to jump/lunge forward to do it.

Your CG instructor is not far off at all! You are essentially lounging in step but you would want to complete the full forward marching technique your band does.

How my band did it was in three steps: extend your knee, then shin, then toe, in that order. And of course, make sure to keep your upper body posture uniform.

If anyone else has anything to add, feel free to!

[chippedareed]

Hey so, for any of you guys wondering about marching band statistics compared to sports teams (football, baseball.. etc)

Make sure to watch the facts at the bottom of the screen too. It really brings all of our problems to the light.

[you-had-me-at-c-sharp-major-jk]

We all have that one piece we think we can play

But when you try to play it

It’s like

‘Oh’

So you just give up for a year or five and wallow in self-despair

[bandkidsuggestion]

picture this: it’s late september, but the heat of the summer still echoes in the pinks and the oranges of the evening sky. we’re sitting at the top of the stands and pressing our faces against the chain-link fence and waving at the little people in the parking lot down below. the wind from up here brushes your hair against your eyelashes and carries away the distant sounds of the bands warming up in the fields behind the school. you cry out that you never want to grow up, and the rest of the section chimes in with hoots and hollers for the next group taking the field. i sit back against your legs and look up at the smiling eyes of a hundred kids. we’re at peace.

[chippedareed]

If I'm found dead tomorrow morning, the band did it.

[taki-sensei]

OMG HIBIKE EUPHONIUM GOT THIS SO ACCURATE. This is exactly how clarinets talk!! You talk with your reed in your mouth like a cigarette-smoking lady! You have to be a woodwind to get it lmao

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

Visit Original Link

has this been done

[showerthoughtsofficial]

Music is just wiggly air.

[pticorse]

[xxxnewstitch]

Bach: Jesus bleibet meine freude, BWV 147

[jturn]

how insanely satisfying

[theonlylivingboyinnewyork]

When you can’t afford 10 pounds a month for Spotify.

[virtualdbc]

The drum corps season might be over, but the season of Virtual DBC is just beginning…

Take a look at a quick preview for what will become of their 2017 program, Feast of Gold!

[chippedareed]

@god if you can hear me, please let me go see DCI Worlds in person this year. I beg of you.

[casuallysassymagazine]

Trying to get people to join marching band like 

[thatoneset-deactivated20190205]

“No!”

“Tryyyy ittttt”

“Nooooo” said everyone again, a little bit quieter this time.

So the Drum Major went to the Band Director, and made it law that everyone in Band must practice the religion of Marching Band.

[thatoneset-deactivated20190205]

Drum Major Audition Update! Number HOLY CRAP

So today was my last training before auditions tomorrow… IM SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!

Today went SUPER WELL! We went over everything, and that included field commanding. I’m terrified of field commanding. I’m not joking: last rehearsal I almost had a panic attack when we had to do it. It was the only thing I was scared of messing up in my audition.

So when we did field commanding, we set up in a block on one side of the room and one of us would go to the other side of the room and stand on a chair. One of the Drum Majors would give the person on the chair instructions to say and then everyone in the block would have to do it.

When I stepped up on that chair… My heart was beating so wildly I had no clue what BPM it was even close to. My Drum Major came up and gave me the instructions. I still remembered them right now I was so hyper aware.

I did my thing without having a panic attack, which was awesome. The only time spent waiting was the time I waited for them to quiet down, which was about two seconds.

And when I said “standby” after check and adjust… The two Drum Majors there were honestly in shock. There sat there for at least a solid second before the one who gave me the instructions said “Honestly, I’m impressed”.

I IMPRESSED A DRUM MAJOR IN THE THING IN TERRIFIED OF!

I had no criticism… I could not be any more proud of myself.

I CANT WAIT TO AUDITION TOMORROW!!

[chippedareed]

Good luck man! I’m terrified enough of sudden attention and playing and Im trying for SL! Let me know if you get Drum Major and I’ll totally whip up a coolio drawing for ya!

Also congrats!!!!! Stress is an absolute killer and I’m so happy that you made it through that! (And that they shut up within two seconds,, hah.)

[thatoneset-deactivated20190205]

Good luck for Section Leader! And holy crap a drawing??? That makes me wanna be Drum Major even more!

And dude I hate sudden attention too. Hope you do good on your audition! It’d be awesome if you get SL

[chippedareed]

Yeah totally!!! It takes a lot of work to lead the entire band, AND a lotta courage to even try! Hell yeah id draw somethin for ya!!!

And yEAH ITS P MUCH MEMORIZING TWO MAJOR SCALES AND AN INTERVIEW BUT ID HECK IT UP! Thank you so much though!!! Im kinda nervous because our BD marched with The Cadets!!

[thatoneset-deactivated20190205]

Drum Major Audition Update! Number HOLY CRAP

So today was my last training before auditions tomorrow… IM SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!

Today went SUPER WELL! We went over everything, and that included field commanding. I’m terrified of field commanding. I’m not joking: last rehearsal I almost had a panic attack when we had to do it. It was the only thing I was scared of messing up in my audition.

So when we did field commanding, we set up in a block on one side of the room and one of us would go to the other side of the room and stand on a chair. One of the Drum Majors would give the person on the chair instructions to say and then everyone in the block would have to do it.

When I stepped up on that chair… My heart was beating so wildly I had no clue what BPM it was even close to. My Drum Major came up and gave me the instructions. I still remembered them right now I was so hyper aware.

I did my thing without having a panic attack, which was awesome. The only time spent waiting was the time I waited for them to quiet down, which was about two seconds.

And when I said “standby” after check and adjust… The two Drum Majors there were honestly in shock. There sat there for at least a solid second before the one who gave me the instructions said “Honestly, I’m impressed”.

I IMPRESSED A DRUM MAJOR IN THE THING IN TERRIFIED OF!

I had no criticism… I could not be any more proud of myself.

I CANT WAIT TO AUDITION TOMORROW!!

[chippedareed]

Good luck man! I'm terrified enough of sudden attention and playing and Im trying for SL! Let me know if you get Drum Major and I'll totally whip up a coolio drawing for ya!

Also congrats!!!!! Stress is an absolute killer and I'm so happy that you made it through that! (And that they shut up within two seconds,, hah.)

[casuallysassymagazine]

Trying to get people to join marching band like