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A Short History of Marching Band Cults.

Why are we like this? Good question! Let's start in the beginning.

By the beginning, I mean middle school, by the way. Middle school - when you start embracing the fact that band is your life now and you cant escape it! All your friends have either left you or joined band because you dont have a life!

Then, high school rolls around. Most of middle school band wants their friends back at this point, so they abandon band and do, idk, cheerleading or smth for popularity!

Then there are the diehard band nerds. These people stay in band through high school. They, near the conclusion of band camp, are admitted into the Marching Band Cult.

A cult is extreme for this, you say? Ah, that's where you're wrong! We regularly worship our Marching Band Gods and pray that we dont face plant. We hold a sacrafice of one trumpet or flute player a year, as their sections are too crowded anyway. We bleed for band, especially when our instruments are wanted for attempted murder, but we love our children. Most of our instruments are named really weirdly. We have led the new ones into this trap.

The ones who esca- leave think that they made a mistake joining in the first place, but how wrong they are. As you join us, the attention whistle sounds, a circle forms in the background, you are home.

hello dearest band nerds that follow me. I have announcements to make.

firstly I have changed my name.

shanadoestrumpet -> shanaistired

both of these are still true. but i have gained a personality outside of being a band kid so here are the rest of my announcements.

you most likely follow me because i am a marching band blog. unfortunately i also made the mistake of making this my main so if I want to do anything ever people will see that I am a nerd. This doesn't bother me but i am enlightened and wish for more.

anyways! I have other personality traits now! I am a comedian and im funny and i dance and do theater and im a woman in stem.

I still do marching band!! But other things too. I'll be reblogging things that aren't band soon, and will be very annoying about it. I'll still post about band! But mostly other shit.

Anyways if you think I'm cool you can stick around, like, I'm funny and things, I swear. But im freeing myself from the band nerd chains I created years ago.

I love all of you and I thank you for following me as a humble band kid, but I am also letting you know this blog isn't staying the same. If you don't want to stick around that's cool also as well :) don't feel bad about unfollowing me !

That's all! Starting soon I'm gonna get real annoying! See yall later :D

am i ur fav tenor saxo

yes ur music is very nice people seem to like it. also u p cool

My ex-clarinetist brother has just picked up french horn, and within the span of two days he has broken the string on one on the valves.

Tfw you get self conscious bcuz you have to share a stand and your partner can see your music and what you have (havent) written on it

If I ever go deaf, I just want everyone to know that it was the group of 3 trumpets who sit behind me and blast into my ears to annoy me. Thank you.

OK new game. Use this website to see how common your first name is, and then put that number in the tags. 

EDIT: This isn’t my website, so I can’t say how accurate it is. It’s just a fun tool to play around with. Sorry if your name doesn’t show up! :[ 

Is there not Bb Tenor saxes????

The music of the tenor sax next to me pt 2

And again yes this is show music

So we were plotting one of our new shows, and I'm marching normally, but some of the flutes go up to this one other flute next to me in one set and asks why she has to cross 3 and a half yard lines.

3 AND A HALF YARD LINES. IN. 12. COUNTS.

So I did some math and that's about a 3.4 to 5 step if anyone was wondering.

And no matter how much all of the flutes (and mellos, who do the same thing) are struggling. It is hilarious to watch.

ITS LIKE THEYRE PRANCING ACROSS THE FIELD IT GREAT.

1. Steal some trumpet player's trumpet (or just get one, either works)

2. Find someone willing to teach you!! (A trumpet player might seem odd, but most actually want to teach somebody - probably to feel validated, but hey it works - and if none of them say yeah, then the director will help!)

3. be loUD or be disgraced by the section :)

I wanna learn trumpet but I don’t know how to go about learning it help