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Hey,
I was just updating my nation's prefix, and I started to wonder:
Are me and my cousin the only band geeks here? It's just a question... Really, who else is a band geek/nerd? Alumni welcome too!!!

ZOMG I'm a band geek too! What instrument do you play? I'm a flute-player, and I'm a sophomore. Do you do BOA? How far do you normally travel? :D Another band geek! :fluffle:

I am a band nerd not a geek.

Anyway, I played trombone all three years of middle school and all four years of high school. Still playing in college, though I'm majoring on upright bass.

Sadly, my high school didn't have a band, so I didn't have the opportunity to be a band geek. I am, however, about as hardcore a choir geek as you are ever likely to meet. :)

Yeah, I was a vocalist in a rock band for a couple of years. Good times.

*Twirls around on one foot*

Someone actually responded???

OMG!!! AYER!!!

I'm a snare drummer...Marching band, drumset in Jazz Band, Symphonic band...I DO IT ALL!

I'm really looking forward to the Cleveland Trip in May...

Excellent times to be had!

*Twirls around on one foot*

Someone actually responded???

OMG!!! AYER!!!

I'm a snare drummer...Marching band, drumset in Jazz Band, Symphonic band...I DO IT ALL!

I'm really looking forward to the Cleveland Trip in May...

Excellent times to be had!

Awesome! I'm only in Marching band, but I might do Symphonic next year :D

I went up to Maryland this year, twas awesome.

I was in band...trumpet section leader. Since I was a trumpet, I could not be called a "geek", but instead "God".

Oh yeah, marching bass clarinets ftw!

"Roll your feet! Square your shoulders!"

Cool...

My band geek bretheren join me now...

:)

I am a band nerd not a geek.

Anyway, I played trombone all three years of middle school and all four years of high school. Still playing in college, though I'm majoring on upright bass.

ME TOO! Except I don't play now. I'm a total band geek! :D Or was

My friend is in choir...

He's a guy, and nobody believes him.

Jesus Christ, do you Yanks not have bands, as in bands, which play lame-arse rock music and have nerds in them or something?

Oh yeah, total band geek here -> French Horn :D

I found these, do this make me a band geek. Also, the Southern songs are directed at you Yootopia.:p

(Bonnie Blue Flag)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yc8MBIrqqzE&feature=related

(A rebels who hates Yankees and likes to curse)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=q-iaqQ-mryg&feature=related

My one friend plays french horn...

She's a little...how can I say this politely...

Odd...

Another friend who plays the trumpet wore this shirt today...

It had a bass clef staff and a treble clef staff, and both had a rest with a fermata. Underneath it, it said,"Everyone Shut Up!"

I thought it was hilarious...

Any more band T-shirts?

I found these, do this make me a band geek. Also, the Southern songs are directed at you Yootopia.:p
I don't hate Yankees, sondern Yanks. :p

i'm not really, but my cousin is

When U know you've been in band 2 long!


1. When you hear music and start marking time.
2. When you walk in step with the person in front of you.
3. When you try to guess the tempo of your favorite song.
4. When all of your friends are in band.
5. When you don't mind changing clothes on the bus.
6. When you point out key changes and dynamics while listening to the radio.
7. When you like wearing your uniform.
8. When every guy/girl you're interested in is in the band.
9. When people ask you about your social life and you say, "Oh, you mean my flute/trumpet/drum/etc.?"
10. When you consider your drill book a fashion accessory.
11. When you've had a "trombone-ectomy."
12. When you practice your instrument more than you talk to your dog.
13. When being mauled by a drum is a normal part of life.
14. When people worry when they see you without your instrument.
15. When "armed guard" means a girl with a pole instead of a guy with a gun.
16. When band camp is FUN.
17. When you respond to "band kid."
18. When someone says the word "box" and you automatically put your head up.
19. When you remember flats and sharps more easily than your name.
20. When you dress the lunch line and urge others to do the same.
21. When you're alone and you suffocate because there's no one telling you to breathe.
22. When slides feel normal.
23. When your instrument has a name.
24. When you remember your instrument's birthday and forget your mom's.
25. When making a line is your biggest accomplishment of the day.
26. When marching backwards no longer reminds you of ballet.
27. When you give your instrument a birthday party.
28. When you can make brown shoes look white.
29. When your uniform fits.
30. When black feathers become a fashion "do."
31. When you see your section more than you see your family.
32. When everyone wants to kill the other football team...and you want to kill the other band.
33. When you think evening practices should last a half-hour longer.
34. When you accidentally call you band director "Dad”
35. When you CAN sight-read.
36. When you can put your uniform on in less than 10 minutes.
37. When reeds taste good.
38. When you think your plume is alive.
39. When marking time is your favorite form of exercise.
40. When you have a neck strap/harness tan line.
41. When you subconsciously start practicing with a pencil.
42. When numbers past 8 aren't important.
43. When you're more opinionated about the Madison Scouts/Phantom Regiment rivalry than Clinton's politics.
44. When you roll-step through the cafeteria so you don't spill your lunch.
45. When you'd rather practice than read this list.
46. When letters past G aren't important.
47. When everybody fights like family.
48. When you root for the other football team to lessen the time of your season.
49. When you know everybody else's personal business.
50. When you've practiced so long, the color guard is together.
51. When you have no more secrets.
52. When you don't try to hide the fact that you're in band.
53. When you subconsciously start humming your music.
54. When you know not only your own part, but everyone else's too.
55. When you eat lunch with all of the other band people.
56. When you start to eat lunch in the band room.
57. When you can tell who's in the bathroom by looking at their sneakers under the stall.
58. When you resort to humming your band music to fall asleep.
59. When wide-open spaces stir up and urge to march your show.
60. When you have a pin from every competition you've been to.
61. When you friends that aren't in marching band create a group called "non-marchers."
62. When you have 2 instruments junky one
for marching band and a good one for concert band.
63. When dreams of marching are constantly in your head.
64. When you can't go to the movies on weekends with your friends.
65. When you don't see your parents on the weekends.
66. When your free time is spent on homework.
67. When the drummers actually start to make sense.
68. When you wear your band shirt in public.
69. When you have your friends call you to attention before you walk anywhere.
70. When your furniture is dented from banging drumsticks on it.
71. When you remember friends by chair number instead of name.
72. When you don't remember your boy/girlfriend's birthday, but you remember everything from your opener from your sophomore year.
73. When every time you drive by somewhere, you remember a band competition.
74. When you remember the number of every pizza place around a competition.
75. When you can make this list longer.
76. When you get the jokes on this list.

Found this on the Internet.

I'm an ex-high school band geek, playing when college permits. I play the tuba.

Saxophone player. My senior year in high school 3/7ths of my classes were band of some sort.

I majored in music for a while but only got as far as an AA before I switched majors.

Sadly, my high school didn't have a band, so I didn't have the opportunity to be a band geek. I am, however, about as hardcore a choir geek as you are ever likely to meet. :) I am an extreme choir geek. I usually don't admit it till you get to know me well. :p :)

If you want to see what happens when three band geeks get together and make a completely idiotic video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MZAKoNc1Xag

I played clarinet. Not only was I a major band nerd (spent my lunch hours in the band room, after schools, spares, went back after I graduated just to sit and listen, was chosen to give the speech for our graduated band group, etc.), but the people I hung out with her all band nerds - including the boy I'd eventually date for three years. Fact is, I met him in band, as well as my best friend, and the people with whom I would share the rest of highschool/my post-graduating days so far. My life changed so drastically because of band... I'd honestly be a completely different person if I hadn't picked up that clarinet.

Whose name is, by the by, Lucy. All the cool kids name their instruments.

Whose name is, by the by, Lucy. All the cool kids name their instruments.


I named my car. Does that at least qualify me as half way cool kid? :p


and op, i was never in band, sadly enough. I wanted to play in the orchestra, but the teacher never got back around to talking to me about it. That was in 6th grade. Ruined me for life, probably. Oh well, I play drums on the side now, so screw the Cello!

Hey,
I was just updating my nation's prefix, and I started to wonder:
Are me and my cousin the only band geeks here? It's just a question... Really, who else is a band geek/nerd? Alumni welcome too!!!

Former band geek here... Trombone, Barritone, Euphonium, and Tuba primarily...

I'd never actually heard the term "band geek" until after high school. This may have been because about 40% of my high school was in band. I played the euphonium, baritone and violin (not band, but whatever).

The term "band geek" doesn't exist over here (Or if it does, I've never heard it!) But yes, I was in a brass band [Not a marching one though] throughout Primary + Secondary school, college and now University. I started on the cornet, moved to soprano cornet, back to cornet, then to the BBb bass (which most of you probably know as the tuba)

Although I'm in the uni brass band atm, I'm playing shit, 'cos I do no practise at all!

I'd never actually heard the term "band geek" until after high school. This may have been because about 40% of my high school was in band. I played the euphonium, baritone and violin (not band, but whatever).

Ditto. I was one of 550 in my high school band. Needless to say, it was pretty cramped on the field during marching season.

I played the alto sax through grade school. I was the drum major of the marching band my junior year (and, as it happens, my last year) of high school.

I created a college marching band from the ground up. I was drum major and assistant director for two years.

I also dabbled in drum corps, played soprano horn. Had to quit that when my girlfriend, who had gotten me in, turned psycho and tried to kill me. The corps took her side.

i consider myself a preband geek, as i will become one next year. And due to the fact that my friend went into the band room today, stole my violin and hid it in the guys bathroom and said that if i did not come and eat, he'd tell the councellor i was anorexic, because I haven't eaten lunch in several months. My other friend brought it back, because I'd go crazy without it.:headbang: And then brought me cookies.:D

Played the baritone in public school and high school. I currently play bass, guitar and keyboards in a part time rock band.

Ditto. I was one of 550 in my high school band. Needless to say, it was pretty cramped on the field during marching season.

We only had about 70 in my marching band

Ditto. I was one of 550 in my high school band. Needless to say, it was pretty cramped on the field during marching season.

550?! Holy crap!

My band is like, 90. :eek:

550?! Holy crap!

My band is like, 90. :eek:

Yeah. Each band had approx. 100 people: freshman band, sophomore band, symphonic band, advanced band and honor band. Marching band was mandatory, so that meant all 500+ on the field at one time. It wasn't as bad as it sounds though, really. :p

Yeah. Each band had approx. 100 people: freshman band, sophomore band, symphonic band, advanced band and honor band. Marching band was mandatory, so that meant all 500+ on the field at one time. It wasn't as bad as it sounds though, really. :p

The only band class in my school where it was mandatory to be in the marching band was "Wind Ensemble"... our HS marching band was between 150-200 per year (including Color Guard/Rifles)....

Also, to expand on my various "primary" instruments on a per year basis...

7th-9th Grade (Junior High): Trombone in Marching, Jazz and Concert...
10th Grade: Trombone in Jazz and Wind Ensemble/Concert, Baritone in Marching
11th Grade: Trombone in Jazz, Baritone in Marching(Field Show), Tuba in Marching(Parade), Euphonium in Wind Ensemble, Tuba in Concert Band... (This was the year I used up the most per person cargo space on band-trips....)
12th Grade: Trombone in Jazz, Tuba in Marching, Contrabass Tuba (aka BBb Tuba) in Concert Band and Wind Ensemble...

Note: Concert Band was composed of all of Wind Ensemble + All Advanced Band band members... Would play at certain @ school events.... Wind Ensemble was a "competing" band class... And would take part in performance competitions elsewhere...

Woot! Robert E. Lee Band, 99-03. Go Vols!

I'm a band geek!

7th-8th Grade: Started trumpet and switched to trombone at the start of 7th. Beginning Band-Concert Band

9th Grade: Symphonic Band+Jazz Band which was introduced that year as a before school activity.

10th-12th: Concert Band+Compulsory Pepe Band From Football Season-Basketball Season. By my 12th Grade Basketball Pep Band was on a tryout basis. Failed every tryout for symphonic band.

No my high school hasn't had a marching band in 30 years. It's on the verge of resurrection though.

I saw my second cousin yesterday (he's 2) who can talk very simply, and was recruiting him as a band geek. I told him to say different names of instruments. When I told him to say euphonium, he said mephonium like the part that is eu/you like it was a pronoun.

:D:D:D

Singer/guitar player/keyboardist.
Songwriter, meh.
On occasion it's all-consuming, on other occasion i ignore it just about completely.