I am, but my teacher REALLY stinks. ALOT. Our previous Band teacher was awesome beyond description. Our curent one just gives us the most boring music I've ever EVER heard of. No body likes the pieces, and he doesn't help us play at all. He doesn't teach us anything. I'm in the worst band, which is supposed to be the second best, because all the beggining band members (never read music before or played anything, they start from the most basic things) go into Intermediate band while the people who've had at least 2 years of music go into Cadet Band (for 7th graders and few 8th graders). Yeah, my music life stinks. Anyway, I play the Clarinet, and Alto and Tenor Sax (Tenor Sax in band).

So what do you guys play? Since I'm new here, I'd like to know a bit about you :D

This is one of the reasons I picked Orchestra (Strings FTW!) the other is in a band it's pretty much chaos and the music is just not helping anyone learn of feel relevant in the music or chords.

I feel for you. I was in a nightmare of a band class last year. We got the worst music, and not a single person cared in there... Well except for me and a few people.

Right now I'm in my college's band and it's the best band I've ever been in.^_^

of course!
the band is pretty good, and everyone cares. we do lot's of gigs, so yeah.

Lucky :P Like I said, our previous band teacher was amazing. This one is REALLY boring and he we only get 30 minutes to play at the most, because for the other half of the period he's talking about a random thing. DX He assigns vocab words for crying out loud! Gosh I hate him alot, and I'm so glad I'm moving in the next month D: (actually I'm not. I'll have no friends and no band teacher at this new school DX)

Oh, that's a shame. (the moving and the band instructor thing...)

I really love my school and the band instructor there.
But my Jr. High teacher was way cooler.

I know how you feel. <_< Our school band sucks as well. The trombones always make farting sounds, the trumpets sound like crap, the string section always make screechy sounds, so many of the woodwinds squeak, and the flutes can't even play high notes. I miss last year! ;__; All the good band people graduated. -sniff-

For some reason the Brass section has always had a hard time. I've never played brass so I can't say they don't try (I can only assume that it is a hard instrument). Our flutes are quite good and the rest of the band is really good. We used to have this amazing percussionist last year, but she's in Concert band now. (If only I would've chose that instead of honors DX)

I'm in a semi-decent school band right now, it is kind of boring becuase our band teacher assigns us the most stupid songs ever. I mean we get stuff for our concert like Twinkle little stars, and marry had a little lamb. We asked her why we get all these kindergarten songs and she says the we can't handle more advanced songs yet, she also told us that we don't pay enough attention on the class to be able to learn new songs. That isn't what I think though, I think we are have the potential to learn more advanced songs and I think the reason that most of the students in band doesn't pay attention that much is becuase we get songs that are way easy. Though we are moving on to harder songs she sticks on one song for too long and it feels like we aren't progressing as fast or as far as we would like to. It is still a pretty good school band though considering it is just beggining band.
hearing the varsity band play made me feel so horrible becuase they get all these cool songs and we stick with little kid's song. :[

I am in the 2nd-highest ranked band of my high school, and it's a challenge, especially right now. (Try having to teach yourself fast tounging (sixteenth notes at a 168) on clarinet. >.<) We've played one of the hardest pieces in band repertoire (Suite Francaise- Darius Milhaud), and I wasn't expecting that. xP But, our band has trombones that play softly (unless they want to play loudly), and the Euphonium is never heard.

Our band is pretty good compared to all the schools near us. Our music is actually really interesting and fun, but it could be a little harder I expect. There is only one band at my school and it's still pretty small, but we have a few independent ensembles.

We asked her why we get all these kindergarten songs and she says the we can't handle more advanced songs yet, she also told us that we don't pay enough attention on the class to be able to learn new songs.

It's half your band's fault becuase it shows that you guys haven't proved to her yet that you guys can do something better. So try your hardest before complaining!

The other half is her's as well. She should know that the pieces your band is playing is utterly boring. My band teacher says that a person can skip one level if they're playing something they really want to play. Why? Because if you love what you're playing, don't you want to practice the piece more and more? =P

Don't you sometimes wish that all us music freaks in Ichigo's can somehow all get together and make a band... *dreams on*

Oh, that's a shame. (the moving and the band instructor thing...)

I really love my school and the band instructor there.
But my Jr. High teacher was way cooler.

haha mine too, but this one is pretty cool too. The one i had in jr. high was WAY better though.:lol:

Don't you sometimes wish that all us music freaks in Ichigo's can somehow all get together and make a band... *dreams on*

We tried doing that once XD Can't remember if the piece ever actually got recorded. *goes searching*

http://forums.ichigos.com/showthread.php?t=2345

there it is :D *sigh* is it worrying i found it by going through the posts of someone I know was in that thread who hasn't posted for a while? I think I know the people/threads on this forum waaaay too well XD

>_> nu. I'm not, my school district doesn't really have a strings department, so I was subtly forced into private lessons.
But!, I am the rehearsal pianist for my school's production of RSC's Wizard of Oz, and I play Piano II in the orchestra, so I'm involved....enough.

The rehearsal score makes my brain itch, though. >.<! Not only is it godforsakenly difficult to play with people who don't know how to listen to tempo and like to speed up (the music alone is hard enough), the score is hand written. I hate handwritten music, ie. my reasons for quitting not joining Jazz Band.

Yeah, I used to LOVE band in middle school, and now I'm just like.... bleh. I don't like the music at all anymore, even though I'm in the highest band in my school, and my teacher isn't the greatest either. I started full orchestra this year, after school (I play flute) and I think its a ton better than band. I'm going to stick with orchestra. ^_^ The sad thing is that if you're a wind player you are required to be in band to play in the full orchestra. <_<

yo, im the pit captain in my schools drumline, marching band, and concert band. our band directors pretty cool and im influencing him to make our winterline show have "alones" from aqua timez as one of the pieces.

I play Trombone in our School's Varsity, and I'm going to stick it out until the end of the year; I really quite hate it. I'm lucky, though, that I can still be the pianist in Jazz I (top jazz band) still.

I'm in my school's orchestra. Honestly I don't think I'd cut it for band. Crappy lungs, eh, but, oh well. Hate the easy music, but, well, I get it down pretty fast. Got Most Improved Player freshman year (I'm a junior now) 'cause no one could compete with my dedication :heh: (I guess 2-3+ hours of practicing is a lot). Now I'm pretty bored but, helping out the younger ones in my orchestra is a nice reward for still being in second violin (Probably because I'm a bit of a strong player). A kid who was in chamber for 3 years got moved to intermediate/begginer's, same period as me 'cause of his schedule, so I'm not the only one who's not being challenged. Any fellow orchestra players in here? Keep seeing a lot of band stuff.

Yeah, I'm in my Schools band.

1st Chair Trombonist in Concert Band.
1st Chair Trombonist in Marching Band.
1st Chair Trombonist in Jazz Band.

And yes, for those of you under the impression that Trombone is a fun instrument...You are sadly mistaken.

Yeah, I'm in my Schools band.

1st Chair Trombonist in Concert Band.
1st Chair Trombonist in Marching Band.
1st Chair Trombonist in Jazz Band.

And yes, for those of you under the impression that Trombone is a fun instrument...You are sadly mistaken.

It's even better when you've learned to "master" it in a year, on a crappy school trombone from the 70s; and then take 1st chair with a head-cold. *Sarcastic*

Haha. I haven't mastered it yet. I know enough to be the best in the county. But I'm spectacular at it.

I'm first Trombone in our marching band (out of two...). Do some of you really have more than one band??? We have one with 27 members (15 horns)

My high school had three bands along with a marching band and jazz band.

We had a lot of people.:lol:

That's incredible... how do you remember everyone? Wait, HOW MANY BUSES DO YOU NEED???

Lol the different bands probably do different gigs...

I'm in the Symphonic band at my Junior High [ 8th grade top band]

My band director claims we have the most potential out of any class he's taught but I'm not entirely sure if he's just saying that to raise our moral because its contest season :\ We're also one of the smallest he's ever taught because they decided to leave most of the kids in the Concert band [2nd to top]

Alto Sax Last chair Ftw!! [Exactly I'm now second by luck. I play first part because the First chair guy missed a very important concert. We have 3 saxes. Ones tenor but he counts when we do chair test.]

Yup. I'm in my school's band.

Our school has two levels of band (Symphonic and Wind, Wind being the better one), a marching band, and a Jazz band.

I'm 1st chair Oboe & English Horn in Wind.
And 1st Chair Alto Saxophone in Marching band.

Our Symphonic band has like. 15 or 20 people. Wind has 45 people. Jazz has roughly 15, but it's the hardest "band" to get into. (Our director loves jazz). And our marching band has +100 people. : D

I hate being in Wind when we near Districts (Our competition). When we came back from Winter break, we were handed +20 pieces to sightread....Yeah. Pretty insane. @______@

I hate being in Wind when we near Districts (Our competition). When we came back from Winter break, we were handed +20 pieces to sightread....Yeah. Pretty insane. @______@

Eck.
I remember back in the day ( which...was actually a Wednesday ^^; ) when I played Clarinet in "Theater Orchestra" (Yeah, I've only ever played showtunes for school...gee. I suck) and we had to sightread ridiculous audition peices.

I think that's why I actually stopped playing...aha. I've never been that great of a sightreader, but I guess I'm coming along.

My band instructer were yelling at a [Inserts the name of a smaller tuba thing] becuase he couldn't hit a low and high note. He just learned those new notes too :\ I broke my oboe reed. . . . AGAIN! God dangit! I am tired of these reeds, so expensive and yet, breaks so easily. Good thing my school gets a 70% Discount on reeds and we also get free repairs so it's all good.

Yeah, I'm with the band.

I'm in (what I consider to be) the lowest of the three bands. Jr. High has (White, Red, and Concert). The band director always tells me "Red and White are the same" but I don't belive him. We get terrible music and at the Christmas Concert Red and Concert bands got awesome music. Jr. High also has a Pep Band and Jazz Band (No Orchesta :cry: ), but I'm not in either (I'm told they're rather boring, plus Clarinet can't be in Jazz Band). Now Sr. High is so much better they have three bands as well Symphonic Band (lowest band), Concert band (middle band), and Wind Ensemble (highest band) and Jazz Ensemble, an awesome Pep Band (they play at sports games), and I think they have a Marching band, but no Orchestra either and that sucks!

:heh: I'm jealous of all the first chairs out there

:\ Back to the practice room I go

I'm not in band.

I wanted to be, but it would be hard to go to band practice and do all the events. Plus my flute teacher said that band might not be the best place.

Now i'm thinking towards Orchestra, hopefully I can do that this year <3

wow...I'm 4th clarinet, but I'm only in 7th and the first 3 chairs take LESSONS, I got up to first chair by piano lessons ^_^ Trust me, if you can play piano, reading notes and stuff will be VERY easy.

wow...I'm 4th clarinet, but I'm only in 7th and the first 3 chairs take LESSONS, I got up to first chair by piano lessons ^_^ Trust me, if you can play piano, reading notes and stuff will be VERY easy.

:shifty: Infact...it was so easy...that I didn't bother practicing at home my first year :shifty:

im in the orchestra, and my strings teacher actually got us some modern music to play (Green Day, Boulevard of Broken dreams) and it was really awesome!My teacher played the electric bass guitar, and the 8th grade has the jazz band with them. The Band played Charlie Brown, which i liked >.> . I play Violin BTW 3rd chair in 7th, out of the whole Middle school, im 6th chair.

Percussion section leader! Yay! My band teacher is really fun. He's away a lot of the time because he's in the music business. He goes and helps all those big bands like MCR or the Goo Goo Dolls set up on stage and he runs sound equipment for them. In high school, my band teacher is going to suck. Let's just hope he's gone by next year.

that would be sssooo cool...

im in my school's stage band
MUST wake up at 7 in the morning!!!
*yawns*

Used to be in the highschool marching/symphonic band, but the director was kind of a nut... Currently not in any bands, just play whatever music I hear and like at home.

I'm in my school's jazz band. There are a lack of people, however, this year the jazz band has a full rhythm section, guitar, bass, and piano. Unfortunately, we have only three others, a saxist (who sometimes plays the clarinet), and two flutes. Doc, the instructor, plays brass, but lately he just sits and conducts us, or plays bass when our bassist fails to show. It'd really be great though if we had a trumpet and trombone. I'd trade in the two flutes for that.

I'll trade you my baritone and altosax for your guitar and bass? I'll even throw in a little kid that's moderately trained at the triangle.

Unfortunately, my highschool does not have a band program. But when I was in middle school, I was in symphonic. I was 3rd chair saxophone... ehh, I made first chair once. Since my mother was the band directer, she tested me the hardest. I practically had to play perfect to get moved up a chair.
Ehh...I don't really miss band. Don't get me wrong, I love playing my saxophone and making music, but I don't like being forced to do something I love. I want to do it because I want to, not because mom needs to impress some random fat people at UIL....

Im in my school's Marching Band During the Fall, and Symphonic Band during the Spring and summer. Also my school has 2 Jazz bands (Jazz 'A' and Jazz 'B') that play year round. Im in jazz 'B'. Its the lower of the two , but it is still fun. ^-^ Also, I really like the music we're playing in symphonic band. We're playing Bouree(Bach), Fortress(Tichelli), Alliance(Clark), and Mars,Venus and Jupiter(Houst).

Marching Band: Mellophone
Symphonic Band: Trombone, 1st seat
Jazz Band: Trombone, 1st seat

Wow I feel horribly sorry for everyone with horrible bands, that really sucks. I think my school is very lucky our music department it funded well. I play the bassoon in my concert band and I just started this year. Meaning I have only had about half a year experience compared to everyone else in my band who has 2 years of experience. But...I guess I am still good enough becuz I made it into a area honor band. I auditioned and got through. And I still don't know if it is because I play bassoon or if I was really that good. And I have two really good band directors. This year they chose out a song that high schools play and I am in 7th grade. So they are really pushing us, and we do have a very good band. Last year when we went to a band contest, our band got the second highest rating, and we were in 6th grade, it was a real honor.

gah! i wish i was...
seriously if i could turn back time and go back to highschool... id leave to go to a private school that has a lot of focus and encouragement in music...
man! my school did jack!
but yes.. school band would have been awesome!
my friend had ot join another schools band lol

We don't have a band at my school, though there are alot of musicians here that have failed going to the esthetic high school. I'm one of those failers... I didn't have good enough grades AND they didn't want me to play 'cause... I dunno... Maybe because I could have gotten into that school using my mother if I really wanted to. (though I'd feel like I would had cheated myself a place and if the others in the music section would known I wouldn't live a happy life...
Anyway... I went off-topic. No, we don't have a school band. I wish we had. I mean, we have a choir (I can't sing that much anymore), lotsa school-made rockbands (I can't play the flute in none of those ones), even a musical-orchestra (I'm not allowed to enter that one, because I'm not having the course "young stage"), but nothing I can enter... It's really the worst...

I was in my schools band from grade 7-12, but now that i've graduated, i've been told to stay at home and practice. lol.

It's not that school bands are boring, but it really depends on the teacher.

Basically, my teacher hates half of the class because... well, it's too long to explain. But it's really not fun when you have a bad teacher.

Im not although i wouldn't want to be in it. Its pretty disgraceful.

Yup. Percussion, of all things. Well, I suppose the piano is technically a percussion instrument, but that shouldn't count. We only have two music classes - band and choir - and there's no way anyone would let me sing (nor do I actually want to) so I'm in band with a boatload of freshmen incapable of listening to anything. Including themselves, or they would know how horrible they sound. (see: trumpets...).

Schools here don't have as much focus on band and such as they seem to do in the US. I'm actually lucky (debatable) to be in a school that has anything resembling musical education. (yeah... education... ) I've learnt more about music from listening to anime soundtracks than from band "class" :D

I used to be in middle school and high school ( plays trumpet) but i graduated . I was also in winter percussion and played the xylophone or bells. I play at home now when i get the chance. My band teacher was awesome . He always made band fun . ^^
I miss band TT.TT

Okay so my school is REALLY small and crappy. The band is alright though. The director is awesome. He explains things really well. We have one flute and you can't hear her and she can't hit the high notes. There are two clarinet players, one of them being me, I'm (not to be egotistical) probably the best person in the band. The other clarinet play is always flat and can't even get over the break. There are two alto saxaphones. One of them is my friend and he's pretty good. But the other one is always squeeking and doing stupid stuff during warmups. We have one good trumpet player out of three. Contrary to the stereotype, you can't hear either of the trombones. But the tuba player is good. Then we have three percussionists who speed up, can't get there rhythms, and only want to bang really hard on the drumset. We don't even have a string section.