forum Band Kids?

Started March 21, 2018 by Deleted user

tune

That is amazing and you are now my idol. How did you convince them to give you guys that kind of money?

We threatened to move to another school, and play for them, and then they didn't want to have to recruit another team…

That is how I won.

Nice, that wouldn't really work for band though, there's too many of us for us to threaten to move schools so… and they already had to deal with my section enough this year with what happened over our trumpet sweatshirts…

It kinda would work, threaten to move schools and take the instruments. Then, instead of them laughing. They will realize that they would have to buy more instruments, and these would have to be brand new… that would make them really mad.

What happened with the trumpet sweatshirts? I am a flute player, and we joke around about how we want to plot against each other to get the best spot in the flute section. I don't think that they were joking about plotting about wrecking each other…

We put something on the sweatshirts that out band director didn't approve of even though we got them approved by administration and that's all we had to do to get to order/keep them. He got upset and took them away, we complained to admin and said we either wanted our sweatshirts back or our money back. We only got them back because admin didn't want to pay over $400 for the sweatshirts.

OOOOOFFFFFFFFF.

Yeah, they weren't too happy with us, but we had the whole band on our side so that helped. Everyone agreed that it was super unfair and that we should get them back XD

That's good. That you got your sweatshirts back.

Our school had indoor drumline shirts that said RIP (school name) indoor drumline because it was the last year that it was going to be around. Then all the stuff happened with the school shootings, and one day a kid walked in school with the shirt on and had his arms crossed over indoor drumline, so it just said RIP (school name) and the admin freaked out… It was funny because all the indoor drumline kids were questioned, until they showed him what the shirt said in entirety…

Oh no! Did they get to keep the shirts tho? Our's said "(school name) Trumpets 17-18" on the front with a picture of an olympic wreath around a trumpet. On the back it said "I'd hit that!" with a picture of the really high note at the end of our chords.

Yes. They got to keep the shirts. Pffftttt. Flutes can hit higher notes than that any day…

lol, I'm sure XD. What made it even funnier tho was that the note was the D above the staff that we like to call "Mega-D" because there's low D below the staff, high D on the staff, and then Mega-D above the staff. But nobody can read ledger lines unless they're in band/orchestra/choir so that automatically cuts out about 1/4th of the school that don't understand the reference, so in all reality, the sweatshirts weren't that bad XD

low brass had shirts that said low brass kicks (picture of a donkey) on the (picture of grass).
they also had shirts with the Sweet n Low logo with the with the word 'brass' underneath

Our flute section had shirts that said "Flutles and Company" on them with a picture of noodles on top of a flute. Nobody really understands why though XD but I like the low brass's shirts from your school @CorbinB3 those sound cool :D

Dang, you guys have fancy schools.

Not really. If we want shirts or sweatshirts, we have to fundraise for them…

Yeah, the band/show choir/orchestra have to fundraise for everything. If we want new uniforms, or instruments, or stands (because ours are crappy and need to be replaced, over half of them are either unusable or in really bad condition.) we have to fundraise for them and that takes a long time. Despite what schools say about trying to encourage the arts, we are still struggling because the schools still don't give those programs any money.

When the schools say they encourage the arts, and don't give any money to the programs to grow…

Right? XD

Becomes a dragon and burns down place in rage…

WE NEED THE MONEY MORE THAN THE FOOTBALL TEAM!!!!!

EXACTLY!!!! MY SCHOOL'S FOOTBALL TEAM DOESN'T EVEN WIN ANYTHING!!!! THE ARTS PROGRAMS ARE THE ONLY PARTS OF SCHOOL THAT WIN ANYTHING!!!!

It is sad that the admin refuse to believe that we are better…

Especially when we have so many awards/trophies/ribbons sitting in the basement, collecting dust, because admin would rather display the football team's trophy from 15 years ago because they haven't won anything since.

OOOOFFFFFFFFF….. SO TRUE THOUGH……

For them it is like a holy relic. If their precious football trophy was broken, they would give an arm and a leg to fix it. If a band trophy got broken, they would just laugh, say it was a piece of junk, and that it was trash anyway…

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUE!!!!!!!! If one of our trophies broke they'd just look at us and laugh, "So, you've got others. They all look exactly the same." or they'd say, "So, fix it with your own money. We don't have enough money in the budget to pay to fix that thing."

It kills them to acknowledge something the band did, but if the football team loses 50 to 1, we are certainly going to hear that they tried their hardest, and they were valiantly playing a supergood team. (The team would be just average, but to them it would look like they got their stuff together because our team doesn't.)