Does anyone else dislike the time when seating time comes around? :P I always get so nervous... I usually get in one of the top 5 chairs for my string orchestra class (out of like 30 violinists), but I wish I could get 1st... I got it once, but then the teacher told me it was "a mistake" and made us reseat, thus making me 3rd chair. :( We're seating again when school gets back in sessions, on Bach's "Fugue in G Minor"... I'm going to practice it so much until it's perfect. :)

1st chair violinist? Isn't that reserved for the best performer or famous guests? In any case, just continue to practice hard (getting 3rd is still pretty great), and someday you will be the best, and you will get that seat. ;)

I'm usually 3rd outta my class, not bad but not good either X_X

I was usually last or 2nd or 3rd to last chair in a group of about 15 for my section... i think i suck haha

It never really mattered to me since I'm a woodwind. There's usually only one person per part and almost all of the parts are just as good as any other, you only want first chair to get all the solos.

Yay, I'm first chair!!! but I do believe that everybody should have a fair share in the part dividing.

Their is a live-long tradition at my school that first chair always get's the solo's, first part, and anything specal to go along with it.

I believe that parts should be evenly divided, solos giving to those whom play it the best, and everything being a mutual (sp?) agreement.

:EDIT:

Yay, I was promoted in marching band; Now I'm "Field Sargent (sp?)"

Haha, I hate solos. Maybe that's why I'm third chair :D

We had auditions for this upcoming school year in May. I got Second chair clarinet in Symphonic Band ^_^ (second band...We have four bands)

and in Jazz I'll probably keep my spot. First Tenor in Second Jazz...

I've always been the 2nd chair Violin in our orchestra.. only when the concertmaster is absent do I temporarily become 1st chair Violin and concertmaster :heh:

What Orchestra are you in Zero?

some orchestra here in BC

Zero, every time you say B.C., I t hink you mean Boulder City (my home town). :P It's scary because we have an orchestra here, too, which I'm part of. :P

I had 4th chair for months. Occasionally I'd hop around the first four chairs, but luckily not at the wrong times. My teacher gives the first part to the first four chairs at most. Now, since it's summer, I'm practicing for a spot in CODA band.

its a rather large wind band, im first desk second chair flute

hehe 2nd chair flute here...i ALWAYS get second...o_O i would actually prefer to be last anyway cuz then no on sits next to me and i dont fell all scrunched like my flute is gonna hit the person next to me lol :lol:

when i played saxaphone i got put on second (and there were only 4 saxaphones) and the whole class got soOoO mad at the teacher because the guy he put on first was HORRIBLE and he couldnt read music...but the teacher said i couldnt be on first because i was a freshman that year :blink:

My friend is last. his name is Vincent Ou-Yang and he's a fat pig who's actually quite healthy. I don't think that made any sense so...his AIM is solbadguy3000 if anyone wants to laugh at him. JK