#marching band stories

[the-realest-spot-conlon]

I'm doing an introduction to my blog bc I've gained a lot of new followers recently so here we go

Nicknames: Hops, Spottie

Fav color: red and black

Fav musicals: Newsies, Funny Girl, West Side Story, Dear Evan Hansen, In the Heights, Chicago, Falsettos, Waitress

Fav character: Sprace

Fav Canon ship: Nico and Will from pjo

Fav non Canon ship: Sprace

Fav Theater songs: Brooklyn's Here, Requiem, When He Sees Me, Breathe,Cool, Jet Song, Dont Rain on My Parade, Cell Block Tango.

Eye Color: Grey and Blue (it changes)

Hair Color: Blonde

Height: 5'2 unfortunately

Tw for my blog: I cuss a lot and am really unhinged so be warned ig

Future Career: Broadway Actress and Writer

Current after-school activities: Theater, Band, Choir, piano lessons, GATE, NJHS.

Favorite books: The Inheritance Games

#newsies #spot conlon #92sies #racetrack higgins #sprace #jack kelly #davey jacobs #newsies incorrect quotes #west side story #in the heights #waitress #chicago #brooklyn #them brooklyn boys is big #tommy bracco #newsies broadway #marching band kid

[doctorwhoisadhd]

so wait, since i was just reminded of the recorder thing donna talked about in the giggle, i now have a question for uk ppl: do yall learn the recorder in school? like in a music class? and like how much do yall have music class over there?

#this is a very interesting topic for me as a music educator from the us #ik a guy from ireland and he said there was no music class in schools for him and like not the same country BUT same island #(as northern ireland. not the others in the uk but still) #and its so wild and fascinating music education is a fascinating field and the way we do it in the us seems to be largely vvv unique to us #for clarification on how things are different so ppl have a better idea on how to answer my question lol: #in the us music class is standard in elementary schools and most places have general music until abt 5th/6th grade (year 6/7) #(general music = basics- music games learn recorder SOME notation-reading; often classroom instruments eg boomwhackers claves maracas #orff instruments if you're lucky/from a school district that isnt poor. also some world music) #its less standardized after that and not every school will have music after middle school but concert bands and choirs are both huge here #choirs start right on the heels of general music classes (sometimes start earlier + students elect to be in choir instead of general music) #bands USUALLY start in 4th grade (year 5) but sometimes can be later 5th/6th (year 6/7) or even 7th (year 8) (WAY less common) #depends on the state generally 4th is most common i think (choirs start at around the same time i think so probs 4th but choir isnt my area #orchestras are weird bc theyre a lot less common but can commonly start younger bc of one of the big approaches to music ed (suzuki method) #so like maybe 3rd grade (year 4) maybe 4th w/ band (year 5) but i have a friend who teaches at a private school #& said they have 1st/2nd graders (year 2/3)!! orchestra is also not my area though #also marching bands: vv common! usually just in hs (starting 9th grade / year 10) bc it supports the football team at games #but starting in 8th grade (year 9) is also common (sometimes even 7th / year 8) #theres two different styles: collegiate/show band and competition. former is very rah rah pop music etc; competition is more abstract #show bands are clearly designed to entertain whereas competition is designed to be more impressive and tell a story #so more impact moments abstract shapes/lines on the field and has movements - opener ballad closer (fast-slow-fast)

[come-see-our-show]

Introducing…

MUSICAL MARCH MADNESS!!!

These are my top 16 favorite musicals, and I was really curious to see how you guys would rank all of them (Note: We are ranking the STAGE musicals, not the movies. If we were considering film adaptions, we would have West Side Story, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, and Tick Tick Boom. LOVE the movies, not the stage shows. This can be any production). Each round will last 1 week. Please don’t just vote, but reblog too!

Round 1:

Fiddler on the Roof vs. Cabaret

Company vs. Pippin

Falsettos vs. RENT

In the Heights vs. Spring Awakening

Legally Blonde vs. Next to Normal

Matilda vs. Come From Away

Twisted vs. The Trail to Oregon!

The Band’s Visit vs. SIX

#summer says stuff #musical march madness #fiddler on the roof #cabaret #company #pippin #falsettos #rent #in the heights #spring awakening #legally blonde the musical #next to normal #matilda the musical #come from away #twisted: the untold story of a royal vizier #the trail to oregon #the band’s visit #six the musical

[can-of-pringles]

How is this a reoccurring type for me...

#how? what? why?? #cardinal copia #james patrick march #the band ghost #ghost #ghost band #ahs hotel #american horror story

[lovebirdgames]

Nominate Band Camp Boyfriend for Steam Awards 2023, in the category of Outstanding Story-Rich Game!! Or Best Soundtrack! Or Best Game You Suck At! It's your life and you should do what you want!!!

Do we have a snowball's chance in hell? NOPE! But that doesn't mean we still can't show up to hell!

Nominations are open! Why not take a minute out of your day to show a little love for the marching band that stole your heart?

Thank you so much in advance! We sincerely appreciate you! <3

#steam #steam game #steam nominations #best story #otome #otome game #marching band #steam awards #nominate us #indie game #visual novel

[oceanera12]

Battle Band

((My sister insisted I posted this and I cannot tell her no, SO--!))

I think this was something my sisters and I came up with years ago as an idea for a comedy comic or something. This was done in pure fun and I think any band kid can get a kick out of it.

Basically, it is a professional band/orchestra with weapons that at every concert they play at, these robbers drop from the ceiling and try and steal something. So the band fights them, usually stops them, then finishes their show without missing a beat.

The first time this happened, the band was using their instruments to fight them.

The flutes were used as swords with their owners crying and apologizing to their instrument for hurting them.

Clarinets threw reeds like throwing stars and have no idea how that actually hurt people but it did.

Drummers just use their drumsticks. When asked about how and why they are so calm when they break a stick they just say, "We break these all the time. We have A LOT of spares."

Trumpets blast anyone with sound. If anybody gets too close, they whack them.

Tubas are the barricades for the reed throwers. If anybody gets too close, they whack them.

Trombones use their sliders as swords and are actually quite proficient for how flimsy it is.

The Saxophones throw reeds as well, but also can use their instrument as a club.

The strings launch their bows like they are arrows. No one questions this because they are too scared to ask.

The piano player (and his assistant) are the best fighters in the band. However, neither of them fights unless it is going very, very poorly, for it is their job to play the battle music.

The director directs everyone and whacks people with his baton when they get too close. His baton has never broken and no one knows exactly what it is made of or how that is even possible.

The mallets are with the drummers, but they also do battle music

The piccolo player stands in the back and is the prison keeper. If anyone tries to leave, she deafens them.

After the fourth time they find themselves fighting during a band concert, the flutes get raipers because the owner of Felicity the Flute cannot handle using their flue as a sword.

The reed throwers also get wooden throwing stars, which has helped them tremendously. They once tried metal throwing stars but failed so badly that the piano player had to intervene

After that, everyone gets an upgrade. Saxophones get actual clubs, Trombones get swords, and the strings get bows and arrows (and crossbows, in the case of the Violas). Tubas now have actual shields.

The Tubas will play the Jaws theme if the piano players are "occupied."

The trumpets figure out they can use their trumpets like blow darts and use their music sheets as their spit wads. As such, they are required to memorize all of their music.

In the first battle, someone yelled, "Piano player, battle music!" Caught unprepared, the pianist launched into the Mario theme. They rolled with it, but by the time the flutes got their rapiers, he had a binder of music including: Mission Impossible Theme Pirates of the Caribbean Star Wars Soundtrack Avengers theme and many, many more!

(Side note: the Mario theme is now the favorite song of the band and what they close every show with)

The Bus driver and Stage Manager are the goalies on the side/backstage. If anyone tries to escape they kick them back into play.

The reason the piano player even has an assistant is because of that one time he had to get involved in a battle and there was no music. So a random member of the band (read probably a trumpet) went over and began to play Chopsticks. They don't talk about that time and Chopsticks is not banned from being played in the band.

The piano player is also ex-military, which explains a lot.

The only oboe's name is literally "Plot Convenience" and he answers every unanswerable question with his name. They know he fights because he can kick butt during band training (which they implemented after the 7th time they go caught in battle) but no one really knows how he fights. They are a little busy and no one really sees him long enough to nail it down.

For reasons (plot convenience) the bandits are always the same and we have decided it is the choir. No one knows it is the choir and the band actually enjoys the choir. However, the choir hates the band for reasons unknown (and even Plot Convenience doesn't have an answer for that one)

No one knows how these weapons even get into the concert. They have played at the White House and also fought there. No one knows where they were hiding any of the weapons including the band (Plot Convenience)

Eventually, they are hired by the government as spies.

("We are not spies!" "Then how did you get crossbows into the White House?" "....Are we spies? Did you all know this?" "Plot Co--" "SHUT UP, PLOT!"

Unfortunately, the piano player refuses to play on anything less than a baby grand so they are all kind of limited on where they play.

Every time a member or section goes down, there is a music cue alerting the rest of the band. (*drowning theme from Sonic the Hedgehog* "There went the director!")

At this point, Plot Convenience just raises his hand whenever someone questions something that doesn't have an answer. The director then waves his baton and says, "Everyone on three. One, two three." Everyone: 'PLOT CONVENIENCE" Plot is so proud of these children, even though he has taught the entire band they don't exist.

The robbers always come from the ceiling. The one time they didn't come from the ceiling the band got mad sooooo

#band #band kids #marching band #orchestra #original story #comedy #don't take this seriously #it is a JOKE #choir #choir stuff #band jokes #battle band #3 2 1 FIGHT #flute #trombone #piano #tuba #drums #mallets #clarinet #saxophone #strings #cello #violin #viola #bass #oboe #trumpet #muscians #all my siblings were in band

[oediex]

"What if we call it Akina?"

My parents bought a robotic vacuum cleaner. They're getting on in age, so it's a good addition to the household. It and I met last week, so I asked what its name was. Turned out they'd just named it after our family name. Boring. "It needs a name," I said.

Today my dad says unprompted, "I think we need to give it a different name. Our last name is a bit stupid." My mum says it's fine, but I agree. I'm drawing a blank, though, until my dad suggests the perfect name.

"What if we call it Akina?"

I like to think he's been pondering on this for two weeks.

In the early 2000s, my parents bought a GPS system for the car. I dubbed her 'Akina'. She was named for an AI system in a space ship in the Yoko Tsuno comic album series that I'm still obsessed with twenty years later.

It stuck. When my parents were going anywhere new, we'd say, "Don't forget Akina." "Akina will guide you." "Where is Akina?" I was sad when new cars with built-in GPS systems replaced the old ones. I always kind of felt like she was my baby.

I've missed Akina. I'm glad she's back.

#yoko tsuno #Roger Leloup #bande dessinée #comic strip #belgian comics #robotic vacuum cleaner #elderly parents #parents #cleaning #writing #my writing #a story every day #16 march #2024 #naming your vacuum cleaner is a normal thing people do right #and oh yeah cars didn't used to have gps systems built in #do young people know this #like the 90s which was obviously before Akina was just holidays in Europe by car with one of my parents driving and the other one with maps #oh akina #I've missed my girl #I really want to send a letter to Roger Leloup to tell him about akina #the old one and the new one #he's 90 now but he's still writing and drawing #he needs to know how much of an impact he's had on my life #Yoko Tsuno was my feminist role model as a child and teen #I've read those comics countless times #Yoko was such a bit part of my childhood and my formative years

[cadybear420]

I know some guys can have naturally occurring musculature from less exercise and more healthy diet but this still seems so silly to me

#NGL I feel like if Aiden and Ajay had a more lean muscle build like Tom Sato that would make more sense #I can see Aiden being somewhat fit since he does marching band #And I can see both Aiden and Ajay having relatively healthy diets #But this still seems off to me LMAO #But you know how PB is #Even from their earlier days they've always been very allergic to any male bodytypes that aren't super muscular #Like where are the twink and femboy and chubby LIs #Not all of us like muscle men PB #we get some crumbs like caleb and thomas being smooth or ajay's and liam's hourglass shapes or tom being lean but it's not enough #choices stories you play #choices #choices game #choices stories we play #choices stories we play fandom #hss #choices hss #high school story #choices high school story #hss aiden #aiden zhou #high school story aiden #hss caleb #high school story caleb #caleb mitchell #hss ajay #ajay bhandari #high school story ajay #hss: class act #hss class act #high school story: class act

[lynsstrange]

Color guard/winter guard people, what is the worst injury you’ve ever sustained from it?

#my team has had every single one of these happen #it’s rough out here #me personally #my worst would probably be dropping my rifle on my toe after tossing a five #for context that’s 3/4 of the way to a high school gym’s ceiling #I was convinced my toe was broken for a week I was in so much pain every time I walked #I’ve had crazy stories though. girl on my team broke the same finger twice #another one got a concussion and bled all over her uniform during champs. one girl split her eyebrow open during warm up #and STILL performed ten minutes later with fresh stitches #my coach broke her toe right before a performance when she was in high school and had to be carried off the field #and that’s not all of it either #I’m not joking when I say shit gets WILDD #winter guard #color guard #guard #colorguard #winterguard #marching band #flag line #weapon line #Sabre #rifle #flag #polls #injuries #color guard poll

[warmglowofsurvival]

band practice

#josh dun #joshua dun #twenty one pilots #twentyonepilots #tyler joseph #band practice #instagram stories #band account #band account's instagram #march 15 #2023 #march '23 #march #spring #rehearsal #rehearsals #instagram #band's instagram #piano #piano shell #wood

[pallases]

oh boy

#sophomore year of hs i miss you… #sorry im oooking thru old wp smb chapters rn (was on my ipad trying to figure out what to draw to get used to the program and was like oh #redrawing old digital art that i made on my computer way then sounds like a good place to start and that’s where i have most of it stored) #*way back then #and wound up reading old comments and threads and. god i really had so much love in my heart for those people. SO so much. i miss them and #miss who i was with them and i miss having that connection w Anyone online or irl i miss having people to just completely goof off with and #create stories with and i miss having the time to do those things. and i talked abt band so much i miss how much i genuinely adored it #college marching band just isn’t the same environment #i especially miss two people in particular and knowing whatever i revealed abt myself they would just love me all the more for it and vice #versa. and so on and so forth. :/ #personal

[quibbs126]

Maybe they should have Marshmallow Cookie come in during the next Kingdom update, since Macaron came in last year and they’re sort of classified as holiday Cookies in Ovenbreak

#sorry I’ve just been playing Macaron in Ovenbreak for the Bonus Missions and I was thinking of this #gotta have the marching band yuri #but yeah that could make for a nice little side story #there’d probably be a main story going on with the holiday update #since from what I understand the previous holiday updates have had at least 2 stories at a time #anyways what was I saying? #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #marshmallow cookie #macaron cookie #random stuff

[my-burner-cell]

Anyways uhhh yeah my marching band experience was kinda shit. (rant under the cut)

Ngl felt like I was in a toxic relationship whenever I think about my time in marching band/colorguard. Like on god I thought it was normal for our directors to just break the law constantly. My directors would just force us out in 100+ degree heat and not give us water breaks. They’d have us rehearse for way longer than was legal. Had us practice through the rain with lightning only miles away from us and our metal sousaphones plus the guards’ flag poles. Idk endangering the health and safety of the students was just the norm. Then my directors would literally be so manipulative towards us if we complained about our treatment. They’d always say shit like “well you can’t really complain cuz other bands work their students so much harder, so you should be grateful.” They would guilt trip students, who were sitting out after throwing up, about how they weren’t taking the work seriously.

And I think the worst part of the situation was the fact we were pretty good as a band so it created this toxic cycle of “what we’re doing is getting results so we should continue doing it cuz it’s working.” Honestly it’s probably more telling when my non-band friends would ask why I don’t just quit after I explain the inhumane shit being done to us band kids, cuz I would always respond saying that I loved performing too much to quit/being labeled as a traitor sucks/what would I do without band.

Also transphobia (kinda a given in high school but still) it wasn’t ever overtly hostile but I’ve experienced way too many trans micro aggressions for it to be anything else. The way my guard director refused to use my preferred pronouns or name. Forcing me and other trans kids to put our deadname on our stuff, even though there were other students who put their nicknames on the same things. Having me and this other nb dress in the uniform that aligned with what she perceived as our gender and claimed it’s for uniformity. Like this woman has marched with dci groups and been in color/winterguard, sports that attract a lot of queer ppl, for most of her life and yet the blatant disrespect towards her trans students.

Now don’t get me wrong I still love the sport. I still go out to marching comps when I can, especially since one of my younger sibling’s is marching rn. I enjoy watching dci and dissecting what I did and didn’t like about certain shows. I sometimes even try to keep up with the happenings of my alma mater. But idk it’s just- there’s a lot of baggage from my time in marching band/colorguard.

#technically a vent #marching band #colorguard #tw transphobia #other band kids pls share your fucked up band stories #this barely scratches the surface of all the nonsense i went through #i left band awhile ago but some of this stuff still makes me angry

[chocolatewoosh]

He’s just a Little Guy!

#Kaileys Art #Marching Band Toy OC #Wasn't sure if I should make him Big Size or if he should be Real small but him being tiny is adorable to imagine.. #Traversing a house fulla Stuff to get somewhere is an outright Adventure and plus this gives me Toy Story vibes. Hell yeas

[lovebirdgames]

The Planets Suite

I never did mention that we matched each boy to a planet.

#band camp boyfriend #the planets #otome #romance #story time #marching band #holst #teaser

[discocandles]

Another funny bit in depictions of high school, especially in 2000s movies is when they want to have background marching band kids. Bc they put them in the uniforms, as though anyone be who's been in marching band for longer than a week only wears those uniforms when they absolutely had to, at least in my experience.

In my experience, if you were eager to put on the uniform after freshman year, we'd look at you a little odd.

#oh yeah I was a marching band kid. I doubt anyone is surprised #2000s movies #not another Cinderella story #marching band #If you see this and know what else to tag pls let me know... #one note wonder