yup... I'm a fellow band geek.... I've been involved with music since I was 3 ish.... I have been playing flute for 9 years now, piano for 7 years, and piccilo for 2 years. Umm, lets see.... marching band, concert band, pep band, musical pit band.... and basically when anyone asks me to play.

Woot Woot,

6 year trombone player here and Still going

But No I never went to band camp, and No I never played in a marching band

Ehh.. Concert/Jazz band only bands for me

I've been playing the trombone since sixth grade, so this is my sixth year in band. I'm in symphonic band, jazz band, marching band in the fall, the orchestra pit (on the rare occasions we produce musicals), and the Roanoke Youth Symphony Orchestra. Oh... and I guess all-county, all-district, and all-state too.

Is anyone else in Virginia getting stressed about the district festivals?? We've lost about half of our preparation time due to snow....

not me

Re: So who's in band?
 

"one time in band camp, I had a trumpet shoved up my..."

Sorry bout that, I've been playing percussion for 7 years now

Play the clarinet. 5 years. Great fun... Played Lincolnshire Posey by Grainger and now playing Southern Harmony by Grantham. Good stuff :D Oh and i've been playing the piano for 11, 12 years. Even better fun. :D

Singing or FIRST?
 

I'm not in band, but I am a part of my school's choir. I started off as a first soprano and I got demoted to second this year to place all the new sophomores our teacher recruited. Grr to the newbies... Ah wells, harmony is alway prettier than the melody. :p

But, the horrible thing is that I have my choir competition this Saturday, the weekend of the Sacramento Regional in the early afternoon during the elimination rounds and I'm a driver! *cries* I'm required to go or else my grade drops. How shameful to get a B in choir. Guess I'm not driving for this event. *sighs*

At least the venue is less than 10 min away from the concert hall. The judges are just going to have to ignore the fact that I may have a streak of grease on my face or something that evidently shows where I have been prior. Hrm... our group picture is going to look interesting, I think my suddenly red dyed tips go well with our black dresses.:ahh:

well, now I'm more of a choirnerd than a bandgeek. I used to be in the top of the colorguard in marching band (making me a bandgeek)...did flags, and sabres primarily. Was learnin some rifle stuff too..but not a lot. So anyway, I also started up playing the French Horn, but my mom made me stop because she didn't like it. oh well. Too bad they don't need me on the piano in band or i'd so be in.
Still love colorguard even though I couldn't actually do it this year. (will be marching with them at Disney when we go though).

i play guitar, flute , piano and in my band i play bass.
im the bass girl

lol!

I can play the harmonica, however, there aren't very many people looking for a harmonicist to play in their bands (sigh).

I've been wondering about this for a long time...
What does being a bandgeek and um...basically...er...a FIRST geek...make me? A FIRSTbandgeek? :p :confused:

I've played the clarinet for I geuss 4 years now... And I love marching band, concert band, jazz band... good stuff...
Though I'm getting worse because I don't practice during FIRST season =) And band camp is like the secfond best thing ever (after robotics)... hmmm... i think that's all my bandoish stuff...

I'm not in the band.. rather, the orchestra! mu haw haw haw...

cough cough, anyways, yeah I like playing w/ the band at school.. it's a neat experience... I just wish some of our band player's would take our music more seriously :rolleyes:

Oh yeah, I play the violin.. or fiddle.. depending on the kind of music I'm playing..

Dorkestra!!!

We had such a good tour this weekend. At the award ceremonies there were 6 directors and 17 trophies. Our conductor was the shortest one, but he got 7 out of the 17. Oh yeah! And our jazz band got the highest score they had ever given out. We all got superiors. w00t!

I'm not in band but I'm certainly in love with it. But I love playing my violin.

i'm not band (i feel so alone) but I am in choir. I sing baritone and/or tenor 2.

i USED to play the flute, and the piano...

haha, ohwell. at least I don't hafta carry anything around. ;)