No Harm In Seeing If I Can Get A Doot Doot

so this morning i was playing with the slow-mo mode on my phone, hoping to get a majestic vid of a bumblebee taking off

but instead i found this dumbfuck

My woodwind captain is very similar and her nickname last year was dizzy because she kept having to sit out so please take care of your body

I've eaten half a thing of altoids today and my body is saying no, but the little Mint Gremlin inside craves the crunchy little mint chunks

They're so yummy

I love it when two marching bands have the same stand tune and they start playing it faster or louder as a challenge to the other band

It’s probably a mix of having practiced it a million times before, the anonymity of being in a large group of people who are all wearing the same thing, and knowing that your fellow band people have your back.

Idk what it is about marching band that takes away my anxiety. Like, I’ll be terrified to do anything in front of any amount of people. But halftime shows? Concerts? Why does my anxiety not mind them but then make me too nervous to read in class???

I’ve realized that the two things I’ve been doing consistently now that school is out have been: reading and being excited for marching band.

I HAVE other things I’m doing this summer aside from band but my brain has decided that I should be excited band camp not going to the beach with family or drama camp noooo BAND

Coming home from assessment and we got STRAIGHT ONES BABYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

Correction: duo dies

Two days.

Must have on my blog

No dying ever actually. Become immortal.

held on til may. now what

You learn how they tick so then you can press buttons like how we bully our band director about the hole he put in the ceiling while tossing cup mutes to the trumpets shortly after we were back in the new room after the school got remodeled. We just point up at the hole every time he tosses something in class and he says he’s planning on getting on a ladder to use white marker or something since he thinks it’s a smudge or something while we’re all pretty sure it’s an actual hole.

the thing nobody here really talks about is how easily students can read their director, particularly if the director is considered good.

Because band students spend so long trying to learn all the visual cues during a concert that every single quirk and oddity of the director gets filed away for later use.

Half of rehearsal time is spent privately figuring out that a raised eyebrow in a certain direction means that the band is slowing down unintentionally, or figuring out that wide eyes means someone done fucked up.

Taking this out of rehearsal means that you eventually learn that an eyebrow twitch means the director is getting annoyed by another person and needs leadership to come up with a problem to save him. A half smile means “good job”, but a half smile plus a raised eyebrow means “hah I’m teasing you about this for the rest of your life here”.

Idk something about how every ensemble, no matter how big, will always know what their doctor is feeling with a quick glance At least, if the director is good