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Exactly what the word implies. A band that marches, usually in formation, on a football field.
I have played Trumpet and Violin, I have been in jazz band, and I have watched my schools marching band practice. We have over 200 members and are near top in the country. (Fairmont Highschool). This being said I will begin my rant.
Marching Band takes skill and time and I respect it's members but it is NOWHERE near as demanding as football. I have heard the "8 hour practices in the 90 degree weather a month before school starts" stuff. Football is a year round sport. During the summer (the WHOLE summer), players practice in full pads sometimes more than twice a day, every day. Players take brutal hits and must always be on top of their assignments. If you have not played on a football team then you will not understand the vast knowledge of the game and mental/physical toughness it takes to be a football player. There are hundreds of plays and dozens of formations that every player is expected to know. The work football players do makes the Marching Band look laughable. Just face it Marching Band kids, you do not work harder than football kids. The only thing you have on football is that you can play instruments while marching in formation.
The truth hurts doesnt it?
This definition will have tons of thumbs down which just goes to show how every overzealous band member can't just admit that there ARE in fact people that work harder than them.
Mr. Marching Band Member: Oh my god, marching band was sooooo hard today! We had to practice for 8 hours in the 90 degree weather. One of our coaches got mad at us and made us run FIVE 20 YARD SPRINTS!
Mr. Football Player: Really? I had a hard day too. We had to be at the field at 6:00 a.m. for a 2 hour lifting and conditioning session. We came back at 12 and practiced for 3 hours in full pads. We put in 15 new plays and 3 new formations but our offensive linemen kept jumping off sides so our coaches made us run 100 yard sprints until we puked. Three of our players passed out from heat exhaustion. We had a one hour break and then had another practice session. Well, I better go, I have to get up at 5:45 tomorrow.
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people that play an instrument and walk, THIS IS NOT A SPORT
I'm in marching band i only walk and plat an instrument.
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The worst thing that ever happened to life.
aka: death
"I hate marching band so much it makes me want to puke"-Cassie
"Well we hate it so much that we want to die" -Meghan and Jackie
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Marching Band is where fat slobs or guys who are built like twigs go to blow air through metal and bitch about how hard their 10 yard sprints are. You are not an athlete, you are a performer.
Twig/Slob: Marching Band was so hard today, we had to blow air through metal for about an hour and we only got a two hour break.
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The place in school where all the losers who think their special because their in Band go to get "friends." They somehow hate band but still do it anyway even though they everyone hates them because all they talk about is band and nothing else.
Hey... did, did you know I'm in Marching Band?... yeah, pretty cool huh? Yeah? lets go on a date in the band classroom.
- marching band kids trying to get bitches
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1. A large group of people that are all family, but they all date each other.
2. They are ALL perverted. Every single one of them.
3. Just because the football players don't play at halftime, it doesn't mean they aren't in the band.
4. What happens on the band bus, stays on the band bus.
5. It's not just walking around...glide stepping, traversing, crabbing, you come try it.
6. The place where drummers backs will never be the same (especially if they are tenors or bass).
7. Your arms get tired of holding up that horn.
8. Attention or laps are punishment. I'd rather do laps.
9. Just one more time means at least 4 more.
10. Uniforms: sometimes comfortable, sometimes not. Hats: annoying. Poor tubas don't have to wear them.
11. The pit is hard. Even though they don't march, they still play.
12. Snare, tenors, bass, cymbals, marimba, suspended cymbal, cowbell, xylo, bells, chimes, claves, tamborine, etc.....every drummer has to know it all.
13. Trombones. They do it with a slide.
14. There are guys that play clarinet and flute. It's not just a girl thing.
15. There are girl drummers. It's not just a guy thing.
16. Drummers hit it because they like it.
17. This one time, at band camp....
18. Your band director talks perfectly normal, but when he yells, he does it with an accent.
20. The drum major is horrified when they get on the podium for the first time. It's a little scary up there.
21. Halftime IS gametime.
22. The band DOES pay attention to the football game. WE even have out own little cheers.
23. Those long bus rides are killer that's why if you're a girl you sit with a boy you like and snuggle up.
BAND TEN HUT! BAND HORNS UP! 1,2,3,4
FORWARD MARCH!
Dude, the marching band's new uniforms are awesome!
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