User:Simsilikesims/Band geek
You know you are a band geek when…[edit | edit source]
1. You make a list of band rituals and title it "You Know You're A Band Geek When...”
2. You look at your watch and you realize you're all walking at 120. You walk down the hall and you are perfectly instep with your friends or the people in front of you without ever knowing it (isn't abnormal). If someone is not, they fall behind or do a little foot shuffle to get in step. You accidentally start walking with your right foot, you have to skip to "get back in step", even when you’re walking alone because you always start off on the left foot.
3. You hear music and begin to mark time, even at a dance.
4. You can't walk and listen to music at the same time without marching to the beat.
5. You find yourself automatically rolling your feet when you walk and standing at a 45 when you stop, even if you're not in marching practice, even in the cafeteria so you don't spill your food.
6. You can measure 5 yards without a ruler- all you need is to count your steps while you're walking (yard lines).
7. You can’t walk and chew bubble gum, but you can march a perfect 8 per 5 with your eyes closed and always do it.
8. You know your circle of fifths by heart.
9. You have a favorite key signature.
10. You have a favorite time signature.
11. You spend more time at school or in the band room than you do at home (majorly).
12. You cry and kick the band room door when it is locked.
13. You eat lunch with all of the other band people, in the band room and usually dinner too.
14. if you spend 12+ hours at school 3 or more days a week
15. You get upset because they have to close the band room early.
16. You actually like the smell of the band room. You never realized there was a smell to the band room.
17. You spend more time in the band room than most people do in full time jobs.
18. You can be found before school, at lunch, during study hall, after school, even weekends occasionally, and over the summer down in front of the band room with all the other band members.
19. You spend more time in the band room than any other place at school.
20. If you go into the band room for at least one or more studies, even if you don't have one
21. If your teachers or substitutes have passes made for you to go to the band room if your not doing anything
22. You go to the band room when you cut class, and your band director doesn’t mind, in-fact, he’s happy you’re there.
23. Your meeting spot with friends is the band room, and they don’t have to ask anymore.
24. You honestly don't know what you would do if you couldn't hang out in front of the band room.
25. You spend more time in the band room then at your own house, it is your second home. It is your home if you've got it bad.
26. You consider yourself homeless when you get kicked out of the band room.
27. You used to have a non-band friend but you stopped hanging out with him because he kept harassing you about how much time you spend in the band room.
28. People want to contact you, so they call the band room.
29. Your parents no longer worry about where you are; if they want you, they call the band room, and they believe you when you say you were out all night practicing because you were.
30. A substitute has ever asked, "Is anyone in here in band?" -- And the whole class pointed at you, even though there were other people in band there.
31. You use the term "Low Brass" to describe anything disgusting.
32. You spend more time practicing than watching TV and talking on the phone put together.
33. You practice your trumpet while walking home.
34. You’d rather practice than read this list, or write it.
35. You practice on Christmas, your birthday, New Years Eve, Thanksgiving.
36. You bring your instrument with you on vacation so you can practice and actually do practice, it is a necessity.
37. You’ve ever practiced three or more hours non-stop.
38. You feel guilty when you go a whole day without practicing.
39. You don’t see anything abnormal or odd about practicing for three months for a twenty-five minute concert, for a five-minute piece.
40. You keep track of how long you practice, doesn’t everyone?
41. If you heard the word practice sheet with a bunch of other band members, you all start laughing
42. You've practiced so long, you use 2 practice sheets
43. People ask you what you want to do; you respond practice, and then they add, "Well, aside from the obvious."
44. You practice your instrument more than you talk to your dog.
45. You like practicing your instrument; you didn’t realize other people don’t.
46. People worry when they see you without an instrument.
47. Everyone you know swears that you must have some kind of oral fixation on your instrument.
48. You and your pals have memorized the entire repertoire for the year and can play your respective parts together...on kazoos.
49. Your philosophy is: "If you don't have your mouthpiece then what the heck is that noise coming out of your mouth?"
50. You’ve ever had an instrument-ectomy.
51. You refer to your instrument as "my baby."
52. You give your instrument a birthday party.
53. You’ve ever said, "If you hurt him/her, I will kill you," and were referring to your instrument, then realized how dangerous it was to leave your instrument with them & just took it with you.
54. You cry and hyperventilate when you find a crack in your clarinet and when people start talking about burning your clarinet for firewood.
55. You value your instrument more than life itself.
56. You fall over (carrying your instrument), smack your head on the concrete, and are more worried about your instrument than yourself.
57. People worry when they don’t see you polishing/holding/playing/talking to/kissing/hugging/admiring your instrument.
58. If a raging fire and/or tornado ripped through the area, the only thing you would care about was getting to your precious instrument.
59. You can’t live without your precious instrument.
60. You could care less if a random person punches you in the face (you wouldn't respond), but they lay a finger on your instrument and you’re ready to kick some ass (you'll fight to the death), luckily, you don’t have to worry about that, since EVERYONE knows better.
61. If you keep pictures of your instruments in different poses in your wallet.
62. You have an emotional attachment to your instrument(s).
63. All you can think about is getting a new instrument, or the new instrument you just got.
64. You get excited when people get new instruments.
65. If you have 2 instruments: one for home and one for school, or an okay one for marching season, and a good one for concert season
66. Play more than one instrument.
67. You switch instruments for marching season.
68. You play a different instrument in every group you're in.
69. You drool when you see professional quality instruments.
70. You like the smell of your instrument, in-fact, it’s quite comforting.
71. You decide that you want to learn every single band instrument before you graduate.
72. You can make sound out of all the instruments in the band, most of the sounds are good ones too!
73. You change instruments on the whim of your band director
74. If you’ve tried out every instrument in the band, regardless of who played it last
75. You think "SWEAT IS SEXY".
76. You think a national monument should be built honoring John Philip Sousa (JPS), better yet, they should just chip off one of those president heads and put it there.
77. If you knew that Sousa wrote 116 marches
78. If you ever wrote a life biography on John Sousa for anything.
79. If you are a horn player and are tired of all the offbeats in his songs.
80. The person that you idolize lived in the 16th or 17th century and is now "decomposing".
81. All your idols are dead. And have been for several centuries. Your favorite song is by someone who died over a hundred years ago.
82. You get a history assignment to choose an important event of the 20th century, and instead of choosing one of the World Wars, or the Great Depression, you choose the big band swing era
83. You listen to the classical station and can name off songs that you remember playing in band.
84. You have to force yourself to pick between 91.5 and 105.1.
85. You listen for chord structure on the songs on the radio.
86. You think triplets are cool.
87. You know the actual length of a brass instrument when it's not all twisted up.
88. When someone asks you "how do you feel?" you respond "I feel good, oh I feel so good!!!”
89. You conduct to the songs that you hear in your head or on the radio.
90. You think of what instruments non-band people would play if they were in band.
91. When you go somewhere new, you try to guess what instrument everyone plays, even if it’s not a band-related event/place.
92. You actually notice the music in movies, and talk about it more than the actual movie.
93. You hear TV commercials/songs and you crank them up because you think they would be good marching/pep-band songs.
94. You guess the tempo of songs you listen to.
95. You try and figure out key and time changes of songs on the radio.
96. You understand the double meaning of "trombones know more positions".
97. You have a music stand in your bedroom.
98. Someone says stand, and you think they’re talking about something you put music on.
99. You have a metronome & a tuner next to your clock radio.
100. You know who Dr. Beat is.
101. If you've ever fallen asleep listening to a metronome
102. A metronome doesn’t hurt your ears anymore. (The metronome is my friend)
103. When you try to spell "BAND" in your alphabet soup.
104. You can eat, drink, and sleep in time.
105. You CAN understand what the drum major is saying.
106. You have a strange obsession with making fun of short ‘blonde’ people.
107. You use the band's special "good luck" handshake with all the other band people in your class before a test.
108. When you rush out to go buy the CD that your marching show is from.
109. You own at least 1 CD of a professional orchestra.
110. You play along with your band’s CD, for fun. You own a practice CD and you actually use that practice CD.
111. You’ve ever gone to a CD store looking for a CD of someone that plays your instrument. And more than half the CDs you own are of people who play the same instrument as you or band songs.
112. All the music you download is stuff you’ve played in band and/or classical music.
113. When you’re working on identifying tone you bring in a CD, of course it’s a solo by someone playing your instrument, a solo that you happen to have played in the past.
114. If you are actually considering buying a drum corps CD.
115. Your proud of the tan-line from your socks (oh yeah).
116. Your sock line will blind anyone - even if they’re wearing sunglasses and it’s pitch black outside.
117. You have a neck strap/harness tan line
118. You hang out in the "BAND" chat room. www.worldofpageantry.com.
119. Looking around your house you see various sheet music scattered all about.
120. You can play millions of pop tunes, but don’t know the words to any of them.
121. Music with lyrics begins to sound kind of strange to you.
122. If you find out the lyrics to your band songs and sing them all day long
123. You still have your band music from three years ago memorized.
124. You have a collection of all the sheet music you have ever gotten, since 5th grade, but of course you didn’t need to keep it because you have it all memorized.
125. You still have last year’s music memorized.
126. You still have all your music from every year you’ve been in band.
127. A bonfire means running out in the middle of the road to enflame music that was played to long.
128. You think it’s funny to hide someone’s music, but realize it’s suicidal to hide their instrument, but think that’s really funny too.
129. When you're bored in class you write out the music that's in your head on your notes.
130. You can play music for 4 hours at a time.
131. You complain the ESPN should have Drum Corps competitions broadcasted.
132. You annoy all your friends by singing your opener all day in class.
133. If you think your non-band friends are weird when they don't sing band songs with you.
134. While waiting for your computer to load you play drum cadences on the desk with your hands and hit the floor with your feet.
135. You have a favorite cadence.
136. If you know/can play every drum cadence by heart, can play it with a pencil, and are not a drummer.
137. If you can sing every drum cadence and don’t feel embarrassed while doing it.
138. if you mark time to the cadences that you make up while bored at work
139. if while during the parade you make up dances to the end of the cadences
140. You get a drum cadence stuck in your head all day.
141. During concert season you wish you where out on the field.
142. You fight over who's better, drum-line or anything.
143. You go around school bragging about what instrument you play.
144. You don’t try to hide the fact that you’re in band, in-fact, you tell people without them asking.
145. You take marching band seriously.
146. You make fun of the band director instead of other kids.
147. You go to football games just to listen to the marching band play. You tell football players to get off the band field.
148. Everyone wants to kill the other football team... and you want to kill the other band, and then decide it’s not worth it since your band is so much better anyway. You try to hurt the other band at a football game.
149. You know that the best part of a football game is halftime and people who think otherwise are weird.
150. You’ve been to fifty football games and don’t remember anything but the middle of them.
151. Everyone around you cheers about something a football player did and you go "Huh??" because you were too busy looking through your music.
152. If you’ve gone to every sporting event and never paid for one, and don’t realize others have to pay.
153. If the football team provides entertainment for the band concert
154. If you judge a school/football team by the size of the band
155. If you show up to a football game 2 hours early to get ready
156. Your band could kick the football team’s butt and that’s a well-known fact.
157. You get a piece of music to memorize for marching band and it takes you 15 minutes to memorize it, and you didn’t realize it takes other people longer, a lot longer.
158. You start to refer to football season as marching season; you always have, and never thought to call it something else.
159. You can hum, play, and sing your parts.
160. Marching in the rain is the funnest thing in the world - even if you have to jerk your shoe out of two inches of mud and nearly fall on your butt a few times.
161. Your band actually marches better in the rain.
162. You can’t pass a football field without smiling because it’s makes you think of band.
163. You wish daylight savings would occur at 3:00 p.m. instead of 2:00 a.m. - that way you’d get an extra hour of band practice!
164. You count down days until the next band event.
165. ...the months December, January, February, March, and April are of no importance to you.
166. the sound of your alarm clock brings back fond memories of band camp
167. Band camp is fun.
168. You know several styles of hair-do's to fit under your helmet.
169. You go to bed thinking about marching band.
170. You know whose uniform is who by their number.
171. Attention means feet together, stomach in, chest out, shoulders back, arms frozen, chin up…eyes with pride.
172. You get seriously insulted whenever someone says about how all the band does is "walk around", and spend at least an hour telling (actually yelling) them otherwise. Until they start to cry and say "Ok, ok! Just, please, let me go home!"
173. Even before you started the band, you would run to the local band room and march their sets with them, because it’s just plain fun. Anyone who thinks it isn’t fun must be from another planet. This means that a bunch of people must be from another planet.
174. You always go to football games and competitions and always will - even if your back is broken in fifteen different places.
175. It doesn’t hurt if a trombone/flag/etc. smacks you on the head anymore - you’re too used to it.
176. You wish you owned a band.
177. Walking without lifting your toes feels weird to you; therefore you never do it.
178. You never wear jewelry or fingernail polish - you’d just have to remove it for football games/competition anyway.
179. You think that the dances your band director makes you do are so cool, no matter how stupid they really are. But, of course, they’re never stupid because they’re part of being in band.
180. You often do these "cool" dances in the hall because they’re so ... "cool."
181. The presence of a marching band is major for criteria for deciding which college you go to.
182. You’ve formed a trio of clarinets that play "heart and soul" at football games.
183. When you consider band baseball or band football a real sport
184. If you have ever fallen up a hill while running to make marching practice in time.
185. If you have invented your own language of drum sounds.
186. If you actually like people forcing you to march at odd hours of the day.
187. If you cheer in excitement when your band director gets new stand tunes to play.
188. If you own more than one tape from state marching finals
189. If you go into the Marines to be in the band.
190. If you have that nasty bump/callous thing on your right thumb from playing the clarinet.
191. If you know exactly who is blowing the whistle to start the cadence.
192. If you take your Frisbee to have something to do while you wait.
193. If you know who is improving the cadence on the quints.
194. If you actually know the school's fight song all the way through.
195. If you can hum your victory song with everybody in harmony.
196. If all three of your drum majors are on the same beat.
197. If marching a 12 count set at a 4 to 5 pace backwards doesn't scare you.
198. If you can learn three solos in three days because the soloist is on varsity football.
199. If you've ever dropped a stick while marching in a show.
200. If you've ever been hit be a stick while marching in a show.
201. If when you march backwards you expect to get hit with a weapon of the color guard.
202. you almost got impaled on a color guard saber ...
203. If you’ve been hit by a color guard flag more than once.
204. If you know what a Mellophone is.
205. If you’re playing and can't be heard you play louder so no matter what part you have is the loudest (half notes @ ffff.).
206. If you love and crave drill downs.
207. If you know what a rear left oblique is.
208. If you've ever marched a rear left oblique.
209. if you think another band's commands are wrong because they're different
210. If you've tried to make another band mess up by concentrating on them with bad thoughts.
211. If you and your friends make up salutes in your spare time then get together to share them.
212. If you see no sexual innuendo in "get your horn up".
213. If you have ever heard "hit it harder" and knew they were talking about the percussion.
214. If you bring out the podium and have ever loosened the screws so the DM would fall and the director would choose you as the DM. if you've ever done that then gotten on the podium to show a friend how much better you are.
215. You go to football game because you perform at them.
216. The phrase, "This one time at band camp..." brings back memories
217. Have more spirit than the football team.
218. You own a pair of Drill Masters.
219. Someone blows a whistle and your head automatically snaps up.
220. You remember scales better than your parents’ names.
221. You remember flats and sharps better than your name or the president.
222. You like wearing your uniform; you didn’t realize other people don’t.
223. You go trick-or-treating in your band uniform, you think that’s a cool idea, but you wouldn’t since it might get hurt and you’re friends with the uniform manager, so, you know, that might be bad.
224. Your favorite colors are the colors on your uniform.
225. You steal one of the band’s old marching uniforms because they’re going to throw them away, and you think they’re just too cool for that.
226. You jump up and down when you find out your band is getting new uniforms, or you get emotional because you miss the old uniforms.
227. You wear your uniform to class after taking pictures, because you’re too lazy to take it off, or because you think it’d be really cool.
228. You wear your marching shoes to school.
229. You wear your marching shoes to places other than school, also not involving band, and not just to break them in.
230. If your band uniform is a wind breaker and a T-shirt
231. Your uniform actually fits
232. You can put on you uniform in less than 10 minutes
233. You actually take the time to put away your uniform and use hangers
234. The uniforms turn you on; the uniforms are sexy.
235. You can actually keep your white gloves white.
236. If 75% of your shirts have the word "band" on them
237. If you’ve ever paid $10 for a T-shirt.
238. You wear band shirts to school and not because it’s required.
239. You have a different band shirt (more than one, too, from different places) one for every day of the week, and you actually wear them because you think they’re cool.
240. You think your band shirt is "pretty" "hip" or "stylish" and you constantly wear it in public.
241. You have all the band shirts you’ve ever gotten in the back of your closet and wouldn’t give them up for anything.
242. You start to spell Band with a capital B.
243. You try to write "bad" but it comes out "band" and you’ve ever misread "bad" or "bond" as "band".
244. You had to reread the last one to make sure it was three different words.
245. You have the strong compulsion to write `band` instead of `and`.
246. You mean to write "unicorn" but instead your write "uniform".
247. You automatically assumed that by "uniform" I meant "band uniform."
248. If you never worry about finding a seat at a school function.
249. You can stand absolutely still, staring at the wall, for 15 minutes straight
250. You feel more comfortable standing at attention than anything else. Standing is more natural than sitting.
251. You’re used to how weird drummers are; you didn’t realize drummers are weird.
252. Backwards marching no longer reminds you of ballet; backwards marching never reminded you of ballet.
253. You have dreams about band.
254. You think marching practice should be longer & there are way too many water breaks.
255. You call your group/squad to attention during water breaks.
256. You’ve ever said, "I’m sorry, what was that?" to a trumpet or marching horn player. (That takes more than just nerdiness, that takes guts and a very reliable set of earplugs.)
257. You’ve ever marched an entire field show in your living room. (Playing along with the CD from memory, of course)
258. You form a mini-block/stand-in-drum-major and step to Taco Bell, and actually do what he orders you to.
259. You think Saturday competitions are more fun than getting presents on Christmas.
260. A lyre is a fashion must.
261. If you know two definitions for the word "lyre"
262. You consider your set/drill book a fashion accessory.
263. You consider your neck strap a fashion accessory
264. You make up sets for your favorite songs.
265. You begin to think those funny hats you wear when marching are kind of cool and you wished you owned one.
266. You know what a shako is and insist on calling them that
267. "Armed guard,” means a person with a flagpole, not a guy with a gun
268. Marching over someone who is unconscious from being slapped by a flag doesn’t faze you anymore.
269. You think marching in a parade is fun and didn’t realize other people don’t.
270. You’re in a wide-open space and involuntarily/purposely start marching your show.
271. You actually believe the band director when he/she says, "Ok, one more time!”
272. You purposely fail a required course so you can stay in marching band just one year longer.
273. After marching a parade with half a reed while wearing cardboard shoes, you want to kill the members who have coach buses and don’t win anything and still complain.
274. If, after enduring one season of marching band, you come back for more.
275. If you’ve ever played a cadence with a fire truck
276. If you gave the fire truck a solo.
277. If you’ve ever tripped because you were busy keeping your chin up.
278. If you know better than to blow on a full stomach.
279. You’re alone and you suffocate because no one’s telling you to breathe.
280. If you carry a huge backpack on football game days to lug around your uniform and marching shoes.
281. If, on football game days, you find yourself eating fast food for a quick dinner before loading the bus. 282. If you show up wearing dress pants and uniform top to a football game. 283. If at football games you actually get in your own spot for the pre-game show. 284. In your spare time, you dream about being the most perfect drum player/trumpet player or whatever you are. 285. You actually look forward to roughing it at band camp every summer and consider it the highlight of your summer. 286. You think band camp is fun. You didn’t realize other people don’t. You wish you could go to band camp all summer. 287. You would rather die than miss practice or a day of band camp. 288. You count down the days remaining until band camp, and cheer when it finally comes. 289. If you spend summer vacation thinking about band camp. 290. You met more than three of your closest friends at band camp. 291. Even the people at band camp tell you you’re too much of a band nerd. 292. You cry when you have to go home at the end of band camp. 293. Your marching band has sleepovers during band camp. (Wouldn’t that be cool?) 294. You’ve ever been to a non-school affiliated summer band camp, and had fun, and didn’t realize that was weird. 295. You wish you were going to two consecutive band camps; you are going to two consecutive band camps. 296. If you've wasted a week in summer going to "band camp". 297. You make your own comic strip about band camp! Check out Tales from Band Camp! 298. You’ve made a band documentary; you think that’s a good idea. 299. You make up your own version of the Bible and call it The Band Bible. 300. You’ve considered writing a book about your experiences in band. 301. You have written a book about your experiences in band 302. You spend your summer organizing band camp for next year because your band doesn’t have a director yet. 303. You remember this one time, at band camp... 304. You’ve ever started a sentence with, “There was this one time at band camp...” without realizing it. 305. You relate with the band nerds in the movie American Pie it is funny and offensive. 306. You go to parades that you are not in and make sure lines are straight, horn angles are parallel, and everyone is on step. 307. You take comfort in the sound a baton makes banging against a podium. 308. Your fondest memories of high school are from being in the band. 309. Your best achievements have included becoming first chair and section leader of more than one section. 310. You see your section more than your family; you didn’t realize this was strange. 311. If you refer to inter-section conflicts as "sibling rivalry" because everybody in band fights like they're family. 312. If you think of your section as your brothers and sisters, and you have been adopted by other sections. 313. You say `we` and `us`, and everyone automatically assumes you’re referring to the band. 314. Not seeing your family/friends for a whole week doesn’t seem to faze you. 315. You can pick out all the different parts in any song.... And name the instruments that play them. 316. You proudly show off your trumpet mute collection. 317. If you’ve ever used your trumpet mute to plunge a toilet. 318. You’ve managed to build a beachside hut using your old reeds. 319. You can tell the age of your reed by tasting it. 320. You spend more time on your reeds than you do on homework. 321. You like the way reed taste; you didn’t realize other people don’t. 322. Your read budget is higher than your food budget. 323. You noticed I spelled "reed" wrong & it annoyed you. 324. You just know there’s a secret evil reed conspiracy. 325. If you know how many reeds are in your case, but not how many brothers and sisters you have. 326. You get a car for Christmas and you’re disappointed -- you asked for reeds. 327. If you think "sucking on wood" is not a sexually explicit term 328. You’re getting a new mouthpiece/ligature for your birthday and you’re excited about it! 329. You constantly sing old band tunes three or four years after graduating. 330. You go back to your old high school to help with summer band practices. 331. You graduated four years ago, but all the freshmen still seem to know who you are. 332. You `band` with your friends instead of `bond`. 333. You make/share band jokes in a class where there are no other band people. Then try to explain, get exasperated, and have to say, "It’s a band thing.”. 334. If you tolerate band jokes about your instrument from your director 335. If you really like all those band jokes and get mad when non-band people don't understand 336. Those stupid "band humor" jokes are the funniest things you ever heard 337. If you’ve ever written band jokes while waiting to go on. 338. You’re really hoping the stuff on this list will be applicable because you really want to be a band nerd. (No need to read any further; you’re definitely a band nerd, but you still will because you love band so much) 339. You list your band director as an emergency contact. 340. You list your band director as a reference on job applications. 341. You’ve been inside your director’s car. 342. Your band director has ever complimented you. 343. You’ve ever been compared to your drum major, your band director, and took it as a compliment. 344. You take lessons from your band director. 345. You don’t take double tonguing as a dirty joke, in-fact, you still don’t get it. 346. All your friends are in band, because you made them join. 347. On a flute and clarinet duet, you don’t need microphones to be heard. 348. You actually get instrument jokes, without realizing they’re jokes. 349. People have commented on how much you look like your instrument. 350. You know someone’s personality by what instrument they play. 351. You can play more than one instrument well, not counting your primary made in different keys. 352. You understand more Italian than English. 353. You memorize music better than vocab words. 354. You drop your AP class because you’re afraid it’ll take away too much time from band activities. 355. You get your yearbook, and the first thing you do is count how many people you knew last year: 356. The second thing you do is count how many band pictures there are in the yearbook. 357. You also count how many pictures of band people there are in the yearbook. Then you complain that sports get half the yearbook and the band only gets two pages, and then you strongly and seriously consider joining yearbook staff next year to get more band pictures in. 358. You’re writing a list of "You Know You’re A Band Nerd When" in your English class, on the back of your test. 359. you draw drill sets on your homework 360. You get excited because "glissandos" is one of your vocab words, and you, of course, use the opening to Rhapsody in Blue in your example sentence. 361. You’ve devoted pages to band on your website; your entire site is about band. 362. You’re proud because out of all the pages on your website, this one takes up the most space. 363. Your email address/screen name has band related theme in it, and your password has to do with your instrument. 364. Your e-mail is always packed with band info. 365. You’ve emailed this list to everyone--including your band director. 366. Your band director is on your e-mail/ buddy list. 367. Your computer background is of either your instrument or music-themed. 368. All of your away messages on IM conclude that you’re practicing or doing band related stuff. 369. All of your conversations eventually get around to the subject of band, unless you started them, because then they’re already about band. 370. You’ve ever scared someone *in* or *out* of being in band, because you’re so weird. 371. You can finish other band members` sentences. 372. Your instrument(s) has a name/nickname according to personality, and more than three people know it. 373. Your instrument doesn’t have a name, but you have a whole philosophy about how naming it would limit its diversity and ability to grow and adapt. 374. You have a nick name for your director and they don't mind. 375. You know how many people are in the band, in each section, and their names. 376. You refer to people by section/instrument, not name. 377. You don't describe people by going "She's got brown hair, dark eyes, kind of tall... but go "She's an alto sax." 378. Someone yells out "Hey Tuba boy!" and you respond. 379. You give people band-related nicknames, and then laugh when you’re the only one who gets it. 380. You have a band-related nickname, more than one. 381. Making a line is your biggest accomplishment of the day. 382. When people ask how things are going you always work in something about the band. 383. People ask about your social life and you say, "Oh, you mean my instrument?" "Oh, band is great!" 384. People ask about your social life and you say, "Are you going to be at the pep band on Friday?" 385. You know how to play pep band tunes but don't know the lyrics to any of them. 386. If you refer to the pep-band song as "Bump-bump” 387. Pep band is the highlight of your week. 388. You try to convince the incoming freshman that pep bands are really fun because you think they’re really fun and think they’re snooty because they roll their eyes and say they have too many things to do. 389. You’re the only person who shows up to a pep band. 390. You’ve never sat with your class at rallies because you’re always with the band; the only reason you attend rallies anyway is to play with the band. 391. Your band director, drum majors, section leader, band captains, and drill instructors are all on your speed dial or why have them on speed dial when you have them all memorized anyway? 392. If you know all the info on the band phone list by heart. 393. If you have band phone list in the house somewhere. 394. All of your rides home are from band people, bonus point if it’s your drum major, captain, director, or section leader. 395. You no longer think it’s weird to be refered to as a number on a drill sheet, in-fact, you never did, come to think of it; you think it’s pretty cool to be refered to as "M1". 396. Your favorite thing to do is practice. 397. Your second favorite thing to do is read band jokes. 398. Your third favorite is marching practice. 399. You send funny music pages to all the musicians you know, plus the non-musicians you know. 400. You think it’s cute to teach your dog to bark the schools fight song while the band plays it. 401. You can automatically recite the first 7(8) letters of the alphabet, and you can’t remember the other 19 (18). 402. You talk more about band than anything else. 403. You’ve done the really cool drum major back bend where their hat touches the ground (or at least attempted to) 404. You relate everything to band. 405. You can relate any close reading to band and still have it make sense. 406. Everywhere you go reminds you of something that happened in band. 407. You have an involuntary foot tapping to any music. 408. You know more people in band than in your graduating class. 409. You’ve ever been hysteric over a piece of music. 410. You played Bourgeois` Serenade, then walked around all day trying to figure out how his wife walked down the aisle in 11/8 & 13/8 time, and found a way that worked without looking dumb keeping the left foot on one. 411. 9/2 time scares the b'jeezus out of you, while dying a slow painful death in a pit of snakes doesn't. 412. You really do love octave jumps. 413. Your car automatically goes to the parking spot nearest the band room, what car? With all the money you spend for band stuff, how can you afford a car with no time for a job? 414. You look forward to rehearsal, and didn’t realize this was weird. 415. You want your parent to become a band parent. 416. You mistake the band parents for your own parents. 417. If your mom lets your friends call her mommy. 418. If you talk to your band parents on the phone. 419. If your band director or band parents walk you down the field on Senior night 420. You constantly practice fingerings, as a relaxation technique, without realizing it. 421. You’re sitting in class and begin practicing fingering on your pencil. 422. That last sentence didn’t sound dirty to you. 423. People who aren’t in band stare at you funny when you say you’ve been studying your fingering chart. 424. People who aren’t in band don’t stare at you funny when you say you’ve been studying your fingering chart -- you’ve already told them, it’s a band thing. 425. When you hear your favorite songs from band you can't help but do the fingering for the notes with the song. 426. You don't know the melody of a song because you only remember the part you played in band. 427. Not so unlike singers, you go around singing/humming the last song you practiced, and you subconsciously finger along as you walk, even if it's Bb major scale. 428. If you don’t laugh when you hear the word "flugelhorn" 429. You no longer think that the oboe and bassoon are weird instruments. 430. "Oboe" is one of your favorite words, `because it sounds so fun. I mean, think about it - oboe. Oh-bow. 431. If you refer to the bassoon "that thing" or the “bass duck”. 432. You’ve ever invented a musical term that your band actually uses. 433. "Band" makes up most of your vocabulary. In fact, band is the only word in your vocabulary. Well, other than marching commands. 434. You pay more attention to your instrument than your pets. 435. You actually know how to fix your embouchure. 436. You miss more days of school for band than for illnesses, even when you’re ill you show up to band. 437. You skip school to go to band rehearsal 438. You’ve ever given up your entire lunchtime to practice and didn’t think it was odd. You think after school/lunchtime sectionals are fun, after-all, you are the person who organizes them. 439. You’ve ever made all state. 440. You ran for band council, you’re on band council/leadership. 441. You celebrate your band “pod” in math when you all got on leadership team. 442. You have been to leadership camp. 443. You’ve been depressed for a week about an audition, even though you got in. 444. Your favorite piece is something you played in band at a summer camp you voluntarily attended. 445. You know your instrument’s serial number. 446. You’ve book-marked band pages in your web browser, your favorite website is a band page dedicated to your instrument. 447. You’ve cut out every single article that featured your band in it, featuring other bands in it and not just your favorite band, in-fact, any band. 448. You don’t have tea parties; you have band banquets. You can’t wait until the band banquet. You’d choose the band banquet over senior ball any day. You actually understood why people got their awards at the band banquet. 449. Your biology project is your mouthpiece. 450. You have to glue together a skeleton in biology, so you name him Bob & draw a clarinet in his hand. 451. You confuse ligatures with ligaments in biology. 452. When you choose a topic for a project in other classes, its always with music 453. You find ways to use your instrument in non-band classes 454. For your English class, you write an award winning poem called Ode to Oboes. 455. In English essays you have to make sure you remove all musical terms before turning them in... "At the fine of the novel..." 456. You can’t laugh at your friend for liking guys` calves because you like guys with good tone quality. 457. You use band as a synonym for life. 458. You can’t wait for school to start because you want to go to band. 459. You go shopping for a birthday card for a family member whose birthday is the next day, and you wind up buying one for your director whose birthday is at least 9 months away. 460. You’ve actually been amused enough to read this far in one sitting. 461. The best compliment of your life is, "Were you in the Wind Symphony at all-state?" 462. You’ve ever liked someone purely because of their talent as a musician. 463. You’ve ever gotten angry because you found out this really great musician from all-state isn’t going to be a music major, but is going to some Christian college instead, which is cool & all, but how could he not be a music major when he’s so wonderful!?! 464. You’ve memorized your high school band’s philosophy and you actually believe in it. 465. You get frustrated with your high school band director because sometimes he doesn’t take the music serious enough. 466. You keep in touch with your middle school band director. 467. You get random calls over the summer from bands-men you don’t even know asking you when band camp is & where to buy marching shoes & does the band director have our trio music yet. 468. You go to the Corn Festival (Or whatever your little town has) just to hear the jazz band perform. 469. You’ve ever screamed for your favorite performer at a classical or jazz concert. (Yeah, it’s really rude at a classical concert, but who doesn’t cheer at jazz concerts?) 470. When your calendar has more band stuff on it than your whole family does for their entire lives. (But band is my life) 471. Your favorite memories have something to do with band. 472. All your teachers know what instrument you play and realize that band comes before school. 473. You constantly say "Louis Armstrong" when talking about space exploration. 474. Your mom buys you a napkin holder and you get excited--because it has a treble clef on it. 475. You see notes and clefs everywhere you look, even if they’re not really there. 476. You know what the real name of "railroad tracks" is. 477. You call in sick to school so you can spend the whole day in the band room. 478. You take band nerd quizzes to prove your nerdiness, and go back to change the answers so that you get the most band nerdy results, or have never had to change the answers to get the most band nerdy results. 479. You feel useless when you’re not doing something band related, even though you did have a three hour rehearsal today. 480. You get upset when someone didn’t know you were in band. 481. You drop choir to be in a second band. 482. You join choir because you think it might improve your pitch. 483. You have a sub, so you run to the band room and get a note from the band director excusing you from class so you can hang out in the band room. 484. You complain because there are five choirs and only four bands. 485. You look up band terms ("Mozart", "glissando", "allegro") in the dictionary/encyclopedia for fun, even though you already know what they mean... 486. You accidentally call your band director dad. 487. You wish your band director were your dad. 488. Your band director responds when you call him dad. 489. You have your friends in two categories: band friends and non-band friends, then you eliminate the second category, realizing there’s no one in it. 490. You cancel a date with your girlfriend because you have a competition that Saturday. (which wouldn't happen anyway, because...your girlfriend is in the band 491. Your crush is always someone in band. Having a crush on someone outside of band is just plain weird. 492. If you’ve gone out with all members of the opposite sex within the band. 493. Every guy/girl you're interested in is in the band 494. The only people you have ever dated or are dating is in band. 495. You've dated everyone in the band and now wonder if you're ever going to have another date 496. You marry that special someone in your band 497. You find that being in the band is a great way to pick up chicks 498. You hear a song on the radio and it only takes you a minute to figure out how to play it on your instrument. 499. Some non-band people actually understand you when you start talking to them like that (you do it so freaking much). 500. You can’t empty your pockets without finding screw drivers, valve oil, cork grease... even if you never use any of it. 501. Band isn’t just an extracurricular activity; it’s a way of life. 502. You relate to this stuff. 503. You goal is to someday be able to play every instrument known to man and then make some new ones so you can play those, too. 504. You’ve wanted to meet the guy whose name is on your instrument case so you can thank them for making your instrument. 505. You wish your name was the name of your instrument. 506. A day just isn’t complete without holding your instrument, and when it has to be repaired, and you can’t hold it, you go into serious withdrawal. 507. You become depressed when your instrument is being repaired. 508. Electrical tape is the universal tool for instrument repair. 509. You constantly dress to your row (in the classroom) to make sure your desk is in line. 510. Whenever a teacher calls on you to answer a question, and you don’t know the answer, you say "Band?" No one laughs at you for that anymore, because it happens so dang it much. The reason it happens so dang it much is because you don’t have time to study, you have to make sure you’re playing every note for band perfectly, and marching the set for it perfectly. 511. Piccolos really don’t seem that loud to you anymore. 512. You don’t shudder when flutes play without being tuned first. OR, your flute section actually sounds good without being tuned, because they’ve been in band too long, too. 513. Anyone who makes fun of the band in front of you walks away with a sore butt. 514. The statement "there is life beyond band" holds no meaning for you. 515. When you not only guess but, know the tempo to all your favorite songs, even the ones you hate. 516. You actually enjoy it when your band director sings your part to you. 517. You think the band sings better than the choir does. The band really does sing better than the choir does. 518. Your parents had to tie you up and pry your instrument out of your hands because you practice too much. 519. You talk to your instrument, and tell it your problems. You seriously believe it will answer you. 520. You know and believe that without the brass the band would be nothing. 521. You like being in places with egotistical trumpet players; you didn’t realize this was weird, because you didn’t realize they were egotistical. 522. You think it’s funny to write on a trumpet with a dry erase marker. 523. You steal band yard signs and post them all over your director’s yard. 524. Forking is considered a sport. 525. You get the director to call to the front office posing as your dad so you can go home and get your instrument. 526. Your friends can’t talk about sports with you because you start shrieking about band being a sport too. 527. You fight for a sports locker saying, "Band is too a sport!" along with the cheerleaders. 528. Instead of worrying about college applications when you’re a junior, you worry about whether or not you’ll be nominated for drum major. 529. You plan to steal your band bag. 530. Your friends form a high school band fraternity/sorority (is that legal?). 531. If your non-band friends think you’re in the Mafia 532. You join a drum corps for MORE band! 533. You cry when you "age out" of DCI; if you even know what DCI stands for. 534. You’re the under-appreciated one in your section, but you’ll show them when you make DCI and WIN the world championships. 535. You consider your plume a fashion statement. 536. You think your plume is alive, even though you refer to it as a dead chicken. 537. You drive over an hour out of your way, just to drop by your band director’s house and say hi. 538. You sleep march instead of sleepwalk. 539. You bake cookies for your band director when they have a bad day. 540. You know who bakes what so you make sure you get some. 541. You don’t know your left and right anymore. 542. You’ve had a "duct tape" experience. 543. Slides feel normal. 544. You use your chap stick and cork-grease interchangeably. 545. You major in music and use your high school band director as a model. 546. You’re the band director’s favorite student. 547. if your band director is your mentor/hero 548. People who you have never met refer to you as "that band girl/guy” 549. You try to make reservations for the entire band at Denny’s, and get frustrated when they won’t let you. You all go to Denny’s anyway. If you’ve ever gone to Denny’s at 2:00 AM, after returning from a concert. 550. You have "I love band" or "Band is cool" written on everything. 551. You have a designated section in your closet for "concert attire". 552. You write, "Band" on a Nerds box and hang it in band land. 553. You want to put your instrument on a pedestal but you’re afraid it will fall and break. 554. "On time" is late, and "early" is on time... so you show up fifteen minutes earlier than "early" so that you can be early. 555. You go out to dinner (with all your band-nerdy friends), and when you notice your director having dinner a few tables over, you call the waiter over and tell them it’s his birthday, even though it isn’t. 556. People tell you to shut up because you’re "making them look like band-fags." 557. If you’re proud to be called one; you proudly declare yourself a band geek. 558. You respond to band geek, and you’re proud of it. 559. Someone behind you says "band geek" and you turn around; being a band geek is a good thing. 560. You write "band geek" on everything you own - even your underwear. 561. If you walk around humming marches 562. If you know the guys at the music store by name. . 563. You can’t walk into a music store without sighing happily because its like you just walked into heaven. 564. You consider owning a music store someday and calling it "Heaven." 565. If you find yourself being constantly late to everything. 566. If you’ve ever used the excuse, "Sorry, I have band that night" 567. If you’ve ever slept in the band room. 568. If you’ve ever slept in the same room with band members. 569. If you see/call your director more often than your parents. 570. If, when you leave when school gets out, your parents ask you why you’re home so early. 571. If you polish your instrument more than your car. 572. When you clean your instrument more than yourself. 573. If the phrase "stand partner" doesn’t evoke sexual images in your mind. 574. If you know the difference between a sousaphone and a tuba, and a euphonium and a baritone. 575. If you’ve ever used the phrase, "It’s okay, I’m in the band". 576. If you know the difference between a percussionist and a drummer (is there a difference?). 577. If you’ve ever been called a drummer and felt insulted. 578. The percussion section creates an ensemble using plumbing equipment. 579. If you think you are cool when you hear a song on the radio and know how to play parts of it. 580. If whenever you hear a song on the radio, you start tapping the tempo with your feet 581. If you’ve ever written your own song parts 582. If you’ve ever thrown a random object at rehearsal 583. If you think three-quarters of a mile is a short walk 584. If you do an "about face" to turn around for a while after a parade 585. If you subdivide while talking 586. If you’ve ever tripped over the timpani's more then once 587. If you think two hours in a bus is a short trip 588. Bus rides are fun. 589. When 4 hour bus trips seem like 5 minutes, and an eight hour ride doesn't seem that long you really like these cramped trips. 590. If you cheer when your bus has a bathroom 591. If you’ve been touched on the knee by another band member of the same sex on purpose 592. If telling someone they blow as a compliment 593. If you've ever been mauled a large instrument 594. If you’ve been told to make your instrument sound like a barnyard animal 595. If you are able to use a mute to sound like a cow 596. If you can identify any instrument by its case 597. If you can identify an instrument by its clang when it hits the floor 598. If you know where every single dent in your instrument came from 599. If you cringe when you hear the words "pomp" and "circumstance" in the same sentence 600. If mention of the word "solo" makes your heart drop down into your stomach 601. If you know the sax solos in jazz band are easy 602. If you’ve ever played a solo on sax and hit a high note to "be cool" 603. If you or someone you know has ever lost a baritone sax 604. if you think those big tuba/drum lockers are a good place to sit 605. You hang out in instrument storage for fun 606. You climb up the cubbies and sit there to think 607. If you have ever had a sectional on-top of the cubbies 608. You are way too protective of your cubbyhole. 609. You try and trick people into going in the instrument lockers to see if they fit. 610. You know whose instrument locker is whose. 611. If you carry your schoolbooks in your instrument case (is that even possible with your instrument in it?) 612. If you’re proud of having a band letter on your letterman’s jacket 613. If a band letter is the only letter you have on your letterman’s jacket 614. If you have more than one pin on your band letter 615. If you’ve ever seen a valve trombone 616. If the director has thrown his baton at you more than once or given you an evil stare. 617. If all the band members know your parents on a first-name basis 618. If people refer to your parents as Mr./Mrs. your dad/mom 619. If you’re not disgusted by pools of spit all over the ground 620. Spit rags/swabs don't gross you out. 621. Seeing trumpet players empty their spit valves doesn’t gross you out anymore. 622. If you’ve played the concert B-flat scale in over 90 variations 623. If "rushing" and "dragging" are technical terms to you 624. If rest doesn’t mean, "take a break" 625. If the word "festival" doesn’t necessarily mean "party" 626. If you can tell the difference between a duck call and a clarinet or saxophone mouthpiece 627. If you know what sound a cymbal makes when hit against someone’s forehead 628. If you don’t think gongs are oriental 629. If your hobbies are: band. 630. If you’ve ever used your instrument as a machine gun 631. If you start describing incidents from band parties to your psychiatrist. 632. If you've created a band just to play low rider and super Mario 633. If all holidays mean you'll be spending the day following a bunch of horses down some street 634. If your principal quits asking you for a hall pass and instead tells you where to find the rest of the band. 635. If you've lost over 20% of your hearing from sitting in front of trumpets 636. If your boss never schedules you for a Tuesday or Wednesday night between August and October. 637. If you find yourself checking to see if the bands in the Macy's Parade are in step 638. If you've been in the Macy's Parade 639. If your neighbors cry when they see you carrying any small box towards their house 640. Your dogs wince when they see you pull out your clarinet, because they know what that means. 641. If your parents have ever said, "just tell me how much the whole box is, I'll end up buying them in the end anyway." 642. If you've ever responded to your other friends' puzzled looks with, "sorry, it's a band thing." 643. If you think your non-band friends have something wrong with them 644. You begin to enjoy waking up at 5 am on Saturday mornings for competitions. 645. If you actually like going to band at 6:30 in the morning 646. You don’t mind getting up at 3:30 in the morning to go play an audition in the middle of nowhere, in-fact, you enjoy it. 647. If you just can't bring yourself to wear white socks with any type of black shoes 648. If you judge a school by how good their band plays 649. If you wear your tux shoes to a dance. 650. If you have worn your whole tux to a dance. 651. If you celebrate when you get new songs. 652. If you think OPAH! is a real word 653. If you think the cowbell is the coolest instrument out there 654. If you know Stars and Stripes by heart 655. If you still don’t know the Star Spangled Banner, but play it by ear on the field. You improvise well…and often. 656. If all of your free time is spent either in band practice, performance, or practicing. 657. If you find yourself wondering what the M's stand for in Tri-M 658. If you swear in band, just to go eat breakfast 659. If you get aggravated when a non-band member calls your sax or trombone a flute. 660. If you can play the B flat scale on 3 instruments 661. If you know what a fugue is 662. If you take out your instrument more then twice in a summer. 663. If you think the conductor is a better drummer then your normal drummers. 664. If you've tried to show up 30 minutes early for band rehearsal to get enough time to "warm up" 665. If your a drummer and have ever lost something 666. If you take pride in the work you do in loading the truck 667. If you get mad when a new band parent comes along and messes up your "system" of loading the truck 668. If they have to professionally clean the band room floor more than once in order to make a noticeable difference 669. If you think it is a time to celebrate when they professionally clean the band room carpet 670. If the highlight of your entire year is a band trip over 500 miles away. 671. When your band trip fund is paid in full by the third month 672. You miss class to go on a band trip 673. You've been to a band party. 674. Your stories always take place on a band trip 675. f the hotel employee's call out sick when they know your band is coming 676. If your instrument is the most expensive thing you own 677. If you have more money invested in your instruments than in your car 678. You don't mind changing clothes on the bus, in-fact, you actually enjoy it. 679. If you don't mind changing clothes anywhere 680. You know how to change on the bus without revealing anything. 681. You can change into your marching band uniform in under 5 minutes on a crowded bus 682. When you start screaming random things at band rehearsal 683. When there is dead silence and you start to hum a band song. 684. You start to always wear black socks, and you own more than one pair of black socks. 685. When you CAN actually sight-read 686. you subconsciously start practicing tapping a drum beat with your pencil 687. When letters past G (H) aren't important; you recite the alphabet A through G (H) then start back at A again. 688. You don't try to hide that fact that you're in band 689. You know not only your own part, but also everyone else's 690. Instead of an 8x10 school picture, on your mantel is a poster size picture of the band 691. You find a series of notes that annoy everyone in the band 692. If the tubas can get the whole band playing 693. You think of what life would be like if you weren’t in band and begin to cry. 694. You have perfect pitch 695. You don't think flautists have a slight attitude problem 696. You think pianist is the greatest word 697. You no longer think drummers have a serious chronic playing illness 698. You've been witness to a fallen xylophone, and were the one who lied to your director about why it was missing pieces. 699. When you never wonder if you belong in band or not...you just know it is your place to be. 700. If first, second, and third position don’t have sexual connotations to you. 701. If you can think of 77 ways to use a drumstick and none are perverted. 702. If playing your instrument is the only thing keeping you awake. 703. If you know whom P.D.Q. Bach is and enjoy playing a piece by him. 704. if the other members of last year's pit orchestra run from the room singing when you sing the most annoying song from the musical. 705. if you can immediately identify the new people on the afternoon shift at your favorite fast food restaurant because they don't know your order, or evening rehearsal schedule 706. if you actually passed the Music Theory final/mid-term 707. if you've ever hung out a bus window to get the phone number of another band geek 708. You have dents in your furniture from hitting it with drumsticks or spit stains from emptying your valve. 709. You have formed a kick-line or danced in the band room. 710. If you have ever heard a teacher say that they were learning about music from your assistant marching band director, and started laughing because they are a history teacher and don’t know much about music. You probably know more about music then him. Then the teacher wants to know what is so funny; all you can do is smile. 711. Skipped band and stayed in the band room. 712. You know that Blue Juice isn't a drink. 713. You've made money off the band director. 714. Pizza and pop are its own food group. 715. You and your friends can devour several pizzas in under 5 minutes. 716. You play cards every chance you get, poker with Smarties. 717. You know what has been on the floor yet you eat on it anyway. 718. You have your own spit stain on the band room floor. 719. When even the orchestra kids think you're weird. 720. You are in band/marching band. 721. You have few friends outside of band. 722. In academic classes you sit with band geeks. 723. Play in more than one band. More than 2 bands. More than 3 bands. 724. Band class is a form of entertainment. 725. Watching old band videos is another form of entertainment. 726. You regularly go to Universities to have your band embarrassed. 727. You know how to properly raid a Burger King. 728. You are sick of Burger King for life. 729. You went into the band directors office and they told you to shut the door (been there too many times). 730. When you spend more time in the directors office than they do. 731. You have medals hanging in your instrument case. 732. Your class ring has 2 band logos on it. 733. You know the names of all the percussion instruments and you aren't a percussionist. 734. You have a rival band in your town. And you've beat them many times in competition!!!!! If you have ever said: 735. “Make sure you dry clean your instruments." 736. "I'm a Fascist!" "That fascist bastard." 737. "Sometimes I just want to gouge your eyes out." 738. "First hour what!? I can't hear you." 739. "It's all good." 740. "We couldn't find anything to blackmail you with." 741. "I know I'm not very good and I respect that!" 742. "I'm losing my flock of sheep." 743. "I made that brownie...and the one next to it..." 744. "My big squeak machine." 745. "Hey I want my pants back; I left my pants in his car."" 746. “Take care of your fricken underwear!" 747. "We got lost." 748. "I actually made it to rehearsal." 749. "We should all wear sequins!" 750. "Umm... how about no." 751. "The flute section sounds like a bunch of pansies." 752. "You need to move in motion." 753. "I dropped my bari in the water and it shrunk." 754. "Does any one know where my trash can went, it's missing." 755. "Driving with seniors is fun." 756. "Damn trumpet players!" 757. "Do I look like a people person?" 758. "Sound like a horn? You mean you want us to stick our hands in our bell and play wrong notes!" 759. "Uggggg!" 760. "Yay for band!" 761. "I'm playing all of the notes, just not in the right order." 762. "Percussionist I'm gonna cut you hands off and stick them up your nose...and else where..." 763. "My mouthpiece is gross; I think it's growing plants."
764. You understand everything on this list! 765. You actually read this and yell out "AND PROUD OF IT!!!” 766. You get half/all the jokes on this list, and aren’t offended by them, because you didn’t realize they were jokes. 767. You use this list as a checklist. 768. You’re so inspired by this list, that you’ve decided to go make your own. 769. You spend your time adding more signs you've been in band too long to this list 770. You can relate to more than half of the things on this list 771. You actually made it through this whole list! 772. I must be a band geek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!