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For those already established as band dorks.

1. You walk to any beat you hear without thinking.
2. You automatically fall in step with the person closest to you.
3. You randomly start humming music from band.
4. The people around you begin humming their respective parts to said music.
5. You have ever been to a DCI show.
6. You know what USBA is, and don't like it.
7. You think the band has more right to the football field than the football team.
8. When someone yells the call for attention, you assume attention, without thinking, no matter where you are.
9. You have less than 5 friends who aren't band dorks.
10. You can still play show music from 3 years ago.
11. You still know the drill from 3 years ago.
12. You know what a mellaphone is.
13. You know the difference between a tuba and a sousaphone.
14. You've taken more than one band class in one year.
15. You get mad when you hear another band playing your band's music, even if you did that show a long time ago.

If you've ever measured a distance by marching it.

17. You know how to spell mellaphone.

18. And Sousaphone...

Eh, so I can't spell... :D

you know the difference between a roll step, a high step, and whatever the fuck the University of Southern California band is supposed to be doing.

Your entire consumption of illegal drugs is limited to the tuba section's special juice and the drumline's special brownies.

You go to your spot because you want the band to do well OR you stay with the form because you want the band to suck.

Despite a lack of evidence, you just know that the guy in pageantry is gay, but you can't figure out why he would thus join a section where 92% of the people are girls.

You try to think of a way to ask why they teach you right face, about face, left face, and as you were, even though those drills are never used in field shows or parades.

You don't find anything odd or amusing when you see a 100 pound tuba girl standing next to a 300 pound flute boy.

You know that marching band is a sport.

You don't want to know what the other people in band are hiding in their uniforms.

You especially don't want the other people in band to know what you're hiding in your uniform

you know the difference between a roll step, a high step, and whatever the fuck the University of Southern California band is supposed to be doing.

It's called driving it, damn it. And it owns that gliding shit from DCI.

You know how to play more than one band instrument.
You understand why bari sax is the coolest.
You are willing to argue whether or not bari sax is coolest.
You know what "drum major" means.
You know who Stephen Melillo is.
You know what a Melillo crescendo is.
You can judge a person's personality by their instrument and marching abilities.
You've ever taunted the rookies while they're at attention.
You didn't break attention when you were the rookie being taunted.
You know how to count 9/8 time.
You still have your rookie shirt from three years ago.
You've worn your rookie shirt from three years ago recently.
You cry when you see instruments getting banged up, even on TV.
You've ever wanted to be a section leader just so you could stand at trail-arms instead of port-arms.

This crazy shit does not exist in Britain.

You understand why bari sax is the coolest.

Rock On.

How about, "You eat lunch in the band room every day, with all the other band geeks."?

I've got that one, along with quite a few others. And I'm just a freshman.

Oh, and also: "An upperclassman adopts you as 'their freshman' and you like the idea."

Don't know if that's a widespread thing, but my band does it.

Alto is a close second though.

Trombone's a bitch to march with though. Especially if you don't have a Yamaha horn, becuase that's the only thing lyres are made to fit.

How about, "You eat lunch in the band room every day, with all the other band geeks."?

I've got that one, along with quite a few others. And I'm just a freshman.

Oh, and also: "An upperclassman adopts you as 'their freshman' and you like the idea."

Don't know if that's a widespread thing, but my band does it.
Yep, we do that too. I think i've adopted a freshie, but I haven't decided yet...he is a mellaphone, after all...
Yeah, we can't eat lunch in the band room, first because it's carpeted and nice and stuff, and because our school is stupid like that. But, I spend every morning sitting in the band room.


You care that your director's wife is pregnant.
You understand all of the implecations of "band is a big family."
You were made aware of websites like ratemypoo.com by seniors in band.
You were the freshman that found out the hard way.
You aspire to take your band director's job.
Both your best friend and your worst enemy is from band.
You have plotted to kill "Mr. Gock Block"

You roll step and hace while you walk when not at band.

Those were the days... I was Drum Major for all four years of high school and will never forget all the memories...

Thanks to all who posted these and allowed me to look back...

Good times...

Those were the days... I was Drum Major for all four years of high school and will never forget all the memories...

Thanks to all who posted these and allowed me to look back...

Good times...
Anytime. Please post some of your own!

But wow, Drum Major all four years? A freshie as a drum major!?!? It's unheard of! 'Least, for us it is.

Trombone's a bitch to march with though. Especially if you don't have a Yamaha horn, becuase that's the only thing lyres are made to fit.

Lyres are for the weak. Memorize your music.

Go bari saxes!

They REALLY suck to march with though...

This is sad that I relate to all this...Especially the fact two years ago we played Stormworks for concert season...

You tell freshman that their plumes are on backwards.
You fell for that same trick when you were a freshman.
You know that two piccolos are far too many.

You still think that stuffing freshmen into instrument storage lockers shouldn't be considered hazing.

You refer to people by their freshman nickname.

You know more than 5 derogatory terms for freshmen.

You can tell the difference between each drumline cadence.

You know that the Trumpet section can outplay the entire rest of the band.

Anytime. Please post some of your own!

But wow, Drum Major all four years? A freshie as a drum major!?!? It's unheard of! 'Least, for us it is.

I've been packing all day and am too tired to think. :)

Yes. Our band was 8-12 since our school was so small, so I was able to be a Drum Major from 9-12. I beat out an upcoming junior and senior for the position and no one even thought about trying to take me on after that. I could conduct and read scores like no one's business. When I quit after the last season (when concert band started) to study Sociology (what I study now), people were crying and calling my house harassing my parents to force me to re-join the band. We had a total of three teachers over those five years, and the politics killed me. In the last two years, we had two seperate teachers and the one my junior year left because the band listened to me and not him. I'm sorry, but I didn't like him calling my bandmates, "stupid, classless idiots" for doing a cheer. The last guy wanted to cut the Learning Disability kids and would make fun of them. I just couldn't take it anymore. I had the band under my wing, but the head of the band boosters, the color guard teacher, and the music teacher were ripping apart everything I created. I couldn't hold on... I couldn't go any more...

Yes, I miss music. I am currently a Sociology major and a Social & Industrial Communications major, which is a duel major in itself (three majors in one... yes, I'm crazy). Honestly, I love Sociology and I think I loved the social interaction and mini "society" band created more than the music... in some ways... However, nothing beat conducting a very powerful masterpiece and receiving a standing ovation at a band show. Performing is what I miss, but life is a stage and I have discovered how to play the game, taking many of the lessons I learned in those four years and applying them to life.

You still think that stuffing freshmen into instrument storage lockers shouldn't be considered hazing.

You refer to people by their freshman nickname.

You know more than 5 derogatory terms for freshmen.

You can tell the difference between each drumline cadence.

You know that the Trumpet section can outplay the entire rest of the band.

Damn right.

Damn right.

Meh, saxes are better anyway. So is low brass.
That's the best part of playing bari sax...I can go with either section.


You've ever hated the pit for not marching.
You've ever wasted 20 hours on a bus trip, one way, for band.
You get goosebumps because of the music.
You've ever cried because a song was so good.
You've ever cried because a song was so bad.
You know how incredible it is that a band got a 5 in everything. (not us, but my band director saw it once).

man I am so close to being a band dork!

You know your a band geek when your in a all brass band and you play a woodwind


thats my band's motto, but I play drums

Meh, saxes are better anyway. So is low brass.
That's the best part of playing bari sax...I can go with either section.

You can't sit with us, you're made of brass!
You can't sit with us, you play with reeds!

No, you can't go either way. Saxophones are the rejects of the band. ^_^

You can't sit with us, you're made of brass!
You can't sit with us, you play with reeds!

No, you can't go either way. Saxophones are the rejects of the band. ^_^

Or,
Hey, sit with us, you sound like a tuba...
Hey, sit with us, you're a saxaphone...
Hey, sit with us, you're a woodwind...

In any case, if we are the rejects, it's cuz we're too cool for them anyway :cool:

You make a puppet for the sole purpose of having a Band Geeks region...

If you've got a puppet, and you're a band geek: "Band Geeks"

Or,
Hey, sit with us, you sound like a tuba...
Hey, sit with us, you're a saxaphone...
Hey, sit with us, you're a woodwind...

In any case, if we are the rejects, it's cuz we're too cool for them anyway :cool:

*lol* I've never heard that version. But yeah, keep trying.

And if I'm not being enough of an asshole for you to tell, I'm a trumpet player.

Makes sense...percussion is worse, though. And the pit is kinda stuck up. Flutes are ditsy, saxes are lazy, trumpets are "cool" as in they're not but they think they are, clarinets are the most geeky of the bunch, low brass is the clowns.

You know you're a band geek when you stereotype as above ;)

When you think people pay $6 to come to the football games just to see the band play at half time.

When you have free car washes to pay for your trip to Florida

Everyone needs to know how to spell mellOphone. No doubt.

Hear that?

MellOphone!

mellophone

When you think people pay $6 to come to the football games just to see the band play at half time.

The funny thing is, that's true at my school.

meeeeeeellooooophoooooneee....

The funny thing is, that's true at my school.
Most definitely true for us. Our football team sucks...

Though, they did beat this one highschool that was undefeated for four years...next we lost to the other worst team in the area :(

The band, now, we were undefeated last year...except for the Orange Bowl, which doesn't count...