Drumline - Blog Posts

today.

Many things have happened. 1. I am working on the comic I hinted at. Part one may be uploaded soonish. 2. This happened yesterday but we got the entire Drumline class to yawn for like 5 minutes straight. 3. The Drumline is going to a basketball game tomorrow to play sideline and Major thinks it would be funny if everyone brought shirts in both teams colors so we could just switch sides mid game. 4. I had a funny idea for a meme that I will make.

"Trumpet players are just frustrated percussionists."

-Our High Brass director

I made another one of these

tag yourself I'm chaotic neutral

Hey you. Yes you. You reading this. Go practice ♡♡♡

I feel like now would be a good time to inform you all that I do not speak bass clef

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.

Marching Quotes #3

"You guys sound like a wet, soggy potato chip."

"Why are the sousas all twerking with their sousas around their waists?"

"You all like soggy potato chips?"

"I like soup!"

"Is squad zero people the people who dont have their instruments?"

"You're going to eggplant arent you."

"I want a peach."

"Hold me back, sir."

"I'm moist."

"Look out for the puddle of suffering."

"mY sOcKs aRe dAMp"

"I RAN AND IT WAS A MISTAKE."

"The puddle is suffering, death is going inside and still walking in water because it's in your shoes."

"I want to kermit go home."

"(Trumpet) LOOKS LIKE AN ANTELOPE"

"We must discuss those two's removal from the trumpet party."

"You have to be a big tittie"

"WE NEED TO GO TO W A R"

"WhY are you a bIRd?"

Marching Quotes #2

"Its a weed cookie!"

"I am magenta and therefore I dont exist."

"I. AM. A. SHRUB."

"Oh god, they're forming a circle."

"Its crop top season!"

"I ate a small child. I'm not sorry."

"Theres pot brownies by the trumpet tree!"

"Cooking class contraband - you cant bring in premade cookies"

“You haven’t tried either and therefore you are nothing.”

“AAAAHHH MY FAMILY!” -Alumni

“Give us the tinfoil, we’re making a wall.”

"I can see the shit stain on the back of your pants."

"Hippity hoppity, all of your family is now my property."

"CHOO CHOO!"

"Band directors dont eat."

"WHAT ARE YOU AN ANIMAL?!"

"You're actually f**king Jesus!"

Marching Quotes #1

"Do you think if I just stood in the road a car would hit me?"

"Why is there a frog on your head"

"We look like a cult."

"We are a cult."

"Could you please take the frog off of your head its distracting everyone."

"Its suns out guns out bois."

"Ooh you looking extra thicc today"

"JOIN THE ARMY"

"I was twirling and your locker was in my way!"

"Wow that sounds like jazz band!"

"Your trumpet is a dad."

"I hate my section almost as much as I hate myself."

"That's not funky fresh. It's the opposite of funky fresh... not funky fresh."

"Let's switch trumpets"

"IS THAT A PHONE?"

"I definitely played all of those notes correctly."

Serious question. What is the best instrument?

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.