band camp was some rough times when I was in HS. junior year it hit 105 three days in a row. cabins with no A/C.
I didn't discover that for most high schools "band camp" just means two-a-days at the high school until after I graduated
boy, that was some nerdrage
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band-camp for us is a two week session at the very end of summer in which we spend 9 hours a day 6 days a week practicing and learning the show before the football season
before that we have summer band, which is an every other day thing for a month or so
then, during the marching season, we practice twice a week after school for 3 hours
also, we play at all the games, home and away, and there are usually competitions on the weekends
band-camp for us is a two week session at the very end of summer in which we spend 9 hours a day 6 days a week practicing and learning the show before the football season
before that we have summer band, which is an every other day thing for a month or so
then, during the marching season, we practice twice a week after school for 3 hours
also, we play at all the games, home and away, and there are usually competitions on the weekends
band-camp for us is a two week session at the very end of summer in which we spend 9 hours a day 6 days a week practicing and learning the show before the football season
before that we have summer band, which is an every other day thing for a month or so
then, during the marching season, we practice twice a week after school for 3 hours
also, we play at all the games, home and away, and there are usually competitions on the weekends
Yup
this is exactly what it's like for me
Holy hell, twice a week?
I remember leaving football practice and seeing them still practicing in the parking lot. This was Mon-thurs.
My high school was pretty cool though. There was no jock/band nerd bullshit. Hell, one of our offensive linemen was a tuba player. The only real dicks were the lacrosse players, and even then it was a select few.
Really wish our principal would have let us form a bowling team though.
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Tommy2Handswhat is this where am iRegistered Userregular
band-camp for us is a two week session at the very end of summer in which we spend 9 hours a day 6 days a week practicing and learning the show before the football season
before that we have summer band, which is an every other day thing for a month or so
then, during the marching season, we practice twice a week after school for 3 hours
also, we play at all the games, home and away, and there are usually competitions on the weekends
Yup
this is exactly what it's like for me
Holy hell, twice a week?
I remember leaving football practice and seeing them still practicing in the parking lot. This was Mon-thurs.
My high school was pretty cool though. There was no jock/band nerd bullshit. Hell, one of our offensive linemen was a tuba player. The only real dicks were the lacrosse players, and even then it was a select few.
Really wish our principal would have let us form a bowling team though.
man, you just gave me the best idea for a club
also, I'm friends with a lot of the football dudes, but a lot of them are douchebags, my friends included
if I could wake up tomorrow and be a virtuoso harp player that'd be fucking amazing
I am straight up intimidated whenever I see a harp being played, it looks like the most endlessly complex and elegant instrument ever
Those pedals are all kinds of confusing. I know how they work in theory, but I would absolutely shit myself if anyone asked me to even try learning how to actually play it.
Ya it has a lot, it's because of the pedals that you can do all the crazy glissandos on it. Like, you can really only gliss one scale on the piano, the C major scale (the white keys), but on the harp you can gliss pretty much any scale. Each note has a pedal attached to it that you can either put in the neutral position, the upper or lower position. If you put the 'C' pedal in the upper position than all of the C's become sharp, and if you put it in the lower position than all of them become flat. Since there's a pedal for all the notes you can make all sorts of crazy scales and then just run your finger up and down and bam, you've got yourself the background music for all cheesy TV flashbacks.
Ya it has a lot, it's because of the pedals that you can do all the crazy glissandos on it. Like, you can really only gliss one scale on the piano, the C major scale (the white keys), but on the harp you can gliss pretty much any scale. Each note has a pedal attached to it that you can either put in the neutral position, the upper or lower position. If you put the 'C' pedal in the upper position than all of the C's become sharp, and if you put it in the lower position than all of them become flat. Since there's a pedal for all the notes you can make all sorts of crazy scales and then just run your finger up and down and bam, you've got yourself the background music for all cheesy TV flashbacks.
edit: so ya by a lot I mean 7.
Oh, I thought harps were chromatic, are the strings C major for 4 octaves, edited by the pedals then? Because I am pretty sure the little harps, that you can carry and whatever are like 1 and a 1/3 octace chromatic
Ya you're right. Harp has groups of 7 strings, one for each note, which can be modified by the pedals. I'm not sure about little harps. And then there's the Jew's Harp, which is not Jewish, nor is it a harp.
Harp is sweet. A friend of mine up here is a harp major and showed me how it all worked one night. If it weren't for the color coded strings, reading music on that thing would be ridiculous.
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band camp was some rough times when I was in HS. junior year it hit 105 three days in a row. cabins with no A/C.
I didn't discover that for most high schools "band camp" just means two-a-days at the high school until after I graduated
boy, that was some nerdrage
3DS: 0447-9966-6178
before that we have summer band, which is an every other day thing for a month or so
then, during the marching season, we practice twice a week after school for 3 hours
also, we play at all the games, home and away, and there are usually competitions on the weekends
Yup
this is exactly what it's like for me
Holy hell, twice a week?
I remember leaving football practice and seeing them still practicing in the parking lot. This was Mon-thurs.
My high school was pretty cool though. There was no jock/band nerd bullshit. Hell, one of our offensive linemen was a tuba player. The only real dicks were the lacrosse players, and even then it was a select few.
Really wish our principal would have let us form a bowling team though.
man, you just gave me the best idea for a club
also, I'm friends with a lot of the football dudes, but a lot of them are douchebags, my friends included
still, it isn't as band as tv and movies show it
Those pedals are all kinds of confusing. I know how they work in theory, but I would absolutely shit myself if anyone asked me to even try learning how to actually play it.
Ya it has a lot, it's because of the pedals that you can do all the crazy glissandos on it. Like, you can really only gliss one scale on the piano, the C major scale (the white keys), but on the harp you can gliss pretty much any scale. Each note has a pedal attached to it that you can either put in the neutral position, the upper or lower position. If you put the 'C' pedal in the upper position than all of the C's become sharp, and if you put it in the lower position than all of them become flat. Since there's a pedal for all the notes you can make all sorts of crazy scales and then just run your finger up and down and bam, you've got yourself the background music for all cheesy TV flashbacks.
edit: so ya by a lot I mean 7.
Oh, I thought harps were chromatic, are the strings C major for 4 octaves, edited by the pedals then? Because I am pretty sure the little harps, that you can carry and whatever are like 1 and a 1/3 octace chromatic
chatted with my dad over the weekend
dude played all kinds of brass in high school
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these are fake french horns but I have played this score in a for real orchestra and it is awesome and the horns sound ridiculously bad ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_TrR2uH3T4