<p>any college band geeks out there? what school and instrument? why did u join a college marching band? </p>
<p>ill be in the pride of west virginia next year, the mountaineer marching band of wvu, playing trombone. i joined for many reasons but mainly cuz i cant imagine myself not being in band lol</p>
<p>I kind of want to do marching band, mainly because I don’t want to give up the clarinet and all of the hours I’ve put into it, but my dad thinks that between that, adjusting to college, and having a job (for work study) that it’ll be too much for me, so we’ll see. I haven’t decided yet. I’ve never actually done marching band before, because my high school’s so tiny. I would love to just stick with concert band, but the college I’m going to only offers it’s lowest band in the spring and there’s probably no way I could get into their second or first band, because that would be competing against music majors and grad students. =/</p>
<p>^You can always just practice on your own or take private lessons. I hated marching band in high school (sorry, but it’s just not very musical at all) and currently attend a LAC that does not have a concert band, so I just take lessons and practice whenever I have free time.</p>
<p>i hope it works out for you augirl! marching band can be time consuming but in high school i found it was worth it. i hate to be cheesy, but it gave me friends and memories that will last a lifetime lol. and if you need help convincing your dad, tell him it will help you make friends at your new college! thats one reason im doing it.</p>
<p>I did marching band my junior year of high school. We won a silver medal at the state competition. The next year I didn’t do it, and they didn’t even place. I was in the pit orchestra. I tried out for drumline but didn’t make it. So, I ended up playing marimba. </p>
<p>My college doesn’t have a marching band, and I don’t think I would do it anyway if it did. I still play drums though. I do jazz band.</p>
<p>I did marching band all throughout high school… i realize now in college that a majority of my friends came from marching band. As much as we might groan and moan about long practices, we bonded because we spent a lot of time together. To tell you the truth, i really missed marching band this year, but going to a small LAC, I wouldn’t dream of doing marching band here.
However, i am transferring to Ohio University, and i have already signed up to join to OU Marching 110, one of the best college bands around. I’m beyond excited!</p>
<p>dantheman91 thats so cool i love ohio university’s band!</p>
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<p>Not much fun in that. I enjoy performing in an ensemble. Solos/practicing/lessons have never been my thing. Actually, I’ve never taken Clarinet lessons… but whenever I took piano lessons, I didn’t enjoy it much. I enjoy concert music and playing with others. =/</p>
<p>heh. My high school band won Grand Champion in a festival this weekend. Our high school in its entirety has about 120 students. One of the bands we beat had about 200 students. So their band was literally almost twice as large as our high school… and we still came on top. We were pretty freaking stoked. (My band only has about 30 kids. haha)</p>
<p>A high school band of 200 students? Unless they’re all near-prodigious, those numbers will never sound very good lol. My high school had the top wind ensemble in the state and there were never more than 45 students in it.</p>
<p>I would still recommend taking lessons. One can not really progress as quickly or as far as possible without lessons; I certainly wouldn’t be able to play any of the music I can now without saxophone lessons. I also started on piano and didn’t care much for lessons, but I’ve always enjoyed my saxophone lessons.</p>
<p>^They had five or six different groups there. They just happened to have about 200 students from their music program there.</p>
<p>Yeah… Lessons are good… but I don’t really have the money for them and I don’t see the point in investing that much money in them if music will never be more than just a hobby. I enjoy playing, but I’ve never been extremely anxious to improve greatly. It’s just a fun side of my life.</p>