Band According to me:

Disclaimer: I don't own our band. There is no way.

Disclaimer some more: This was inspired by the story by Otakubandie7, who hopefully won't kill me for doing this, because I deffinetly don't know that person, I was just inspired.

I wanted to write about how what band is at my school because even though a lot of it is similar, there is sooo much stuff that's different.

Disclaimer: (one last time, I swear): I don't own our band, they all own themselves. I don't even own my instrument, it's my aunt's, dagnabbit, and I'm still mad that I don't own it. I do own myself and my little embarassing moment...

Dedicated to our old director who was way cool.

Now, on with the fic!

Band is:

by Ariana

Band is...

Meeting a whole bunch of new people, all of whom are going to whine about how annoying everything about band is and love it anyway

Quoting your director

Arguing about who played the solo best

Not sucking at festival

Katie being a klutz at festival

Kevin being a klutz at festival

Going to find a vending machine at festival and following a trumpet player back only to get lost

Half the band knowing the director's cell phone number

Texting the director on the bus

Calling the director from your bus on the way to festival and asking him where the one he's on is

Getting a 1 at festival and screaming like nutcases

Yelling out the bus windows at every random person that you just got a 1 at festival

Getting a 2 at festival, being dissapointed because you were better than that but being proud after listening to the director talk about how great you were

Band dorks ruling the world

Watching Moulin Rouge on free days and getting told by the director to "shut up, we're trying to watch Nicole Kidman die here!"

Getting weird lectures about the "angry short guy in your head" and keeping the tempo

Listening to your director quote Star Wars at every moment

Having your director threaten to make your best friend sing if the band doesn't shut up

Almost crying when you find out your director is quitting

Trying to get him to change his mind

Getting mad at him when he won't

Accepting the fact that he's leaving anyway and giving him a goodbye present

Wanting to smack someone who says the band sucks

Trying to teach your cousin to play your instrument

Comming up with dorky nicknames for the director

The director comming up with dorky nicknames for you

Falling off your chair in the middle of rehearsal and making the entire band laugh

Comming up with a stupid excuse for falling off your chair and making the director laugh

Taking a "nice deep Darth Vader breath"

Making fun of your director to his face

Your director making fun of you to your face

Discussing the latest episode of Will and Grace with your director and best friend

Calling your self the ute section instead of flute section because the f was left off on the music

Having lighsabre fights with the person next to you with your flutes

Getting hit in the nose with a flute

Getting told "messure 58 one more time" and knowing that there is no way it's just going to be one more time

Hearing the trumpet line at the begining fifty million times and memorizint THAT instead of your music

Decieding unanimously that the trumpets are horrible at that beginging trumpet part

Having lists of every weird quote your director says

Accidentally whacking someone in the head with your instrument

Wanting to whack Ali in the head when she says, "this one time at band camp..."

Freaking out when your flute plays a A the same as a B flat the week before festival

Freaking out again when the director can't fix it and you have to take it to the shop the WEEK BEFORE FESTIVAL

Almost having a heart attack when it comes back from the shop the day before festival and is still broken

Almost hugging Cassy when she can fix it when the director and the shop dude couldn't

Dropping your instrument in the warm up room at festival and not being able to play

Just faking it when you lose your music

Throwing out all the old junk and finding a box full of old marching band hats which you then preceed to wear in class

Trying to bribe your director with gum

Playing "Imagine" eight or nine times with Andrew conducting so the director can play drums

The director playing drums on the last version of "Imagine" and rushing the tempo

Being one of the only people to be able to keep up with his tempo

Begging him to play that version at the concert

Telling him you'll give him gum if he does

Saying "basically" when he goes, "so I ruin my career and you give me GUM?"

Going "freakin' sweet!" when you get told the band gets a new band room and gets out of the stupid trailer

Sitting on the edge of your chair with you feet flat on the floor, sitting up straight and holding your instrument the right way

Not playing like the "Larry the Cable Guy" band

Playing in the libray the first day because you don't have a band room any more

Playing in the library to do warmups for the concert because the band trailer is stupid

Ducking every time the director picks something up because he always drops things

Jumping when the director accidentally throws a tuner at you and the whole band stares

Being proud to be a band geek

Playing Star Wars especially because it's cool

Kelly being in love with the Grinch (just kidding)

The director telling jokes before festival and concerts

Inside jokes

Quoting at the director

The director misquoting "Luke, where is your father?"

Star Wars

Learning confidence

Pep band

Pep rallies

Yelling "purple profanity" under the bleachers for no good reason

Watching the director entertain his kids at basketball games

The director having to take his kids home leaving you with the weird replacement

The weird replacement directing and going, "one, two.." and sitting back down

Playing anyway

Not spazzing

No tests

Writing your name on a piece of paper for your final

Making new friends

Making fun of the freshman but loving them anyway

Demonstrating karate on the perverts

Missing it all over the summer

Dreading senior year because you'll have to leave

Decieding it won't be any fun after your director is gone

Telling him he has to come back sometime to say hi or else

Being told not to play so loud and doing it anyway

Having pride in your section

Having nicknames for everyone

And so much more stuff than this...

There is so much more stuff that I haven't covered. I hope to in another chapter, but I have to quit now because this chair is stupid and I have to go do some stuff like clean my room and laundry...yay:sarcasm:

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