<p>I looked in the forums and didn't notice any for band geeks, maybe i overlooked it but i just decided to make one.</p>
<p>So here it is. Anyone that is in band Marching band or Concert band post on here. Tell your class and your instrument. Also whether you do concert band, marching band, or both!</p>
<p>I'm Class of 2014 and I play the flute! I'm in both bands.</p>
<p>Come on fellow band geeks lets unite lol.</p>
<p>Class of 2013, Alto Sax player here. In the Wind Ensemble (higher level concert band), Jazz Band, and Marching Band. And Orchestra, since we have like french horns so they need altos to play french horn parts. XD
But yeah, band is a good time. The uniforms are stylish.</p>
<p>Class of 2012! I play picc in marching band, flute in concert band, tenor sax in jazz band, and flute, picc, and alto sax in pit orchestra. I also play piano for fun. Band is basically my life.</p>
<p>Our school has a freshmen band and then the wind enesemble so i’m in the wind ensemble. We don’t have jazz band or orchestra. I was in jazz band in middle school though! </p>
<p>@fastneutrino: Our uniforms are blehh!! we’re getting new plumes though so they’ll be the only thing stylish about our uniform. </p>
<p>@manders93: i took piano lessons for a while but had to stop. I just mess around with it sometimes now though. I wish i could play multiple instruments but i can only play flute.</p>
<p>Our uniforms have sequins… everyone’s mad jealous. XD</p>
<p>Hi ! I am a bandmom. I have so enjoyed being involved with band for four years. My daughter plays flute and piccolo in marching band and concert. She is graduating this year. I will so miss going to competitions every weekend and feeding all the kids. Love band kids; you are GREAT!!! My daughter is playing in college, so I will be at a few football games and concerts.</p>
<p>I’m a theatre geek checking in to say you guys are awesome and I wish I had musical talent, and also if you’re a girl band geek you’re probably really beautiful and awesome, at least all of the ones I’ve met are. </p>
<p>K, bye.</p>
<p>I wanted to be a band geek playing tenor sax. But then this guy in marching band broke four saxes. Now I’m an orch dork.</p>
<p>Class of '14.</p>
<p>I do pit in marching band and piano in jazz band.</p>
<p>Class of 16!
Bassoon, flute, clarinet, and hoping to learn saxamaphone this summer!
Boh, of course!</p>
<p>Class of 2013! I play clarinet and I do both Marching and Concert Band. :)</p>
<p>Class of 2013… What don’t I play? Tenors for marching band, drumset for jazz band, basically everything percussion related for concert bands. We did a percussion ensemble for Solo and Ensemble this year, I played the lead marimba part for that. Oh and I do drum corps, so I travel around the country in a marching band all summer.</p>
<p>^I play tenors as well. Class of 2012. I don’t do Drum Corps unfortunately because I always have something going on in the summer.</p>
<p>Class of 2013; clarinet player (=</p>
<p>OMG I’m sooo excited. Today is our Spring Concert. It’s going to be so sad. We have a song that we play at the end every year it’s called Loch Lomond and it’s the senior exit song. So if you go listen to it after the flute and clarinet solo seniors start getting up to leave, not at the same time but one by one up until the end. It’s so sad to watch them leave the stage. </p>
<p>We have a pretty hard program this yr.
Second Suite in F (only playing the first two movements)
New York 1927 (i’m in love with the 2nd part the blues section)
Foundry (a really new song came out last year and we’re the first ones in our county to play it)
Loch Lomond</p>
<p>After our concert our year is basically over. We have a band banquet which is pretty much a big get together of the band students and our instructors and we have fun. We have a really nice bandroom and our gym is connected to it so we’ll have food set up in there and play different games. then in the bandroom we’ll have game stations set up to the smartboard it’s soo much fun. </p>
<p>I really recommend doing this it’s a great way for everyone to come together one last time, so if you don’t ask your teacher about it.
We give our teach $5 to cover the cost of the food and it’s cook out style food. </p>
<p>After that we have two events. A smaller group which is mostly first and second chair from each instrument has to perform at the IB graduation thingy mostly nice chorales and stuff like that. Then one of our former members is the mascot for a local baseball team and his manager asked us to come play for one of their games and that’s on June 8. So it’ll be our last time playing stand tunes together before the seniors leave.</p>
<p>also our teacher has come up with our show. he won’t tell us the details because he likes to keep us in suspense, but i most definietly can’t wait to find out. Band camp starts in August! 3 months and my favorite season of the year will be back.
MARCHING BAND SEASON!!!</p>
<p>Sorry this is soo long but i haven’t been on in forever. So if anyone want to comment about some of the things their band is doing to wrap up the year or your marching show for next year. please post</p>
<p>@mum4college
that is so cool that your daughter plays the same thing as me. I can’t play piccolo though it sounds like a dying walrus. </p>
<p>i don’t know what i’m going to do when i graduate. I’m still contemplating marching band in college. I don’t know if i want to make that type of commitment plus i really want to go chill at the games with my friends, it’s the only thing i don’t like about marching band now. you’re obligated to go to at least all of the home games, and when you go you can’t mingle with other people outside of the band. </p>
<p>I would really miss the sense of family though. All of the great memories and crazy things that happen. It’s the great thing about band and what really helped me as a freshmen. Before school even starts you know at least several people and helps you transition in better. </p>
<p>I’ll most definitely try and do wind ensemble in college though. I couldn’t not play my flute. I can’t see never playing it again. I’m way too much of a bandgeek (:</p>
<p>Our band teacher made a great point in class. We all come from different cliques and do many different things. Some people would never know that we’re in band, and you probably would’ve never talked to some of the people that you know if they weren’t in band. </p>
<p>but no matter what you do when we come to class we all come together and play our music and we all become one. no one else in the school can do what we do. and for however long that show or concert or even class is we are all coming together for one purpose and that’s what you connect over.</p>
<p>I thought that was really cool and completely true. I wish the best for you and your daughter and that she has fun being in college band.</p>
<p>@bandgeek96 I LOVE Holst and Mackey!! Lucky you. </p>
<p>Rising senior, class of 2013!! I play saxophone. I main alto saxophone, but I’ve done tenor and Bari in hi or bands, and I’ve played soprano in quartet. I made 1st chair Bari sax at all-state this year, got to play AWESOME music like Children’s March and Angels in the Architecture (BEST SONG EVER). At district I play alto–3rd chair sophomore year, 2nd chair this year. NMSU also does their own honor band. Last year I made 1st chair tenor second band, and this 2nd chair tenor first band. Got to play CARMINA BURANA!!!</p>
<p>Marching band, I only marched one year as a sophomore, then I became Drum Major as a junior, as I’ll be Head DM next year!! Our show theme for next year is HORROR–Toccata and Fugue in D minor → Thriller → Night On Bald Mountain → Funeral March. </p>
<p>What did you guys play for contest? We did Incantation and Dance, Moravian Folk Rhapsody, and The Trombone King. Not quite up to what we played last year… Of Sailors and Whales, Variations on a Korean Folk Song, and Fairest of the Fair.</p>
<p>Yes! The only French Horn player on so far 
I was in concert band and orchestra, but I was loaning my horn and it got complicated so at the moment I don’t actually have an instrument 
Class of '15</p>
<p>I was in band in Middle School. I hate the repetitiveness of it however, and quit upon entering HS. But I USED to play trumpet and I’ve taught myself piano.</p>
<p>@ukgirl23 yes, I’m the second French horn! Class of '16 and both bands.
@bandgeek96 our band played foundry this year too. It was so hard to learn but was ultimately worth it. Gosh it sounds cool.</p>