Tristarenvy From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2265 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 612 times:
Are we talking High School Bands? College? Marching? Lab Band? What?
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TriStarEnvy From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2265 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 605 times:
Sure. If they are a kick ass (insert instrument) player, it's can happen.
My high school marching band was 200+ members, and there were some good freshmen.
When I was a "fish" in 1976, there was a huge influx of freshman. We had a tradition, when one is a senior, to come down and have the band play the school song, at the end of the last season game. When we all went down in 1980, it looked like about half the band was missing.
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LeanOfPeak From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 509 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 578 times:
It all depends on the band director. Some pretend you don't exist until you're a junior. Some will let you do it if your performance looks reliably better than the other options. Most fall somewhere in between.
I got to play a solo as a freshman during a marching band practice once. I think the idea was making sure there was a backup for the solo that lasted about a quarter the duration of the opener in case the senior who ordinarily did it got sick.
It's probably a little more common in jazz band, with more solos to go around and less people for them to go around to. I don't remember any solos freshman year, but there was what amounted to a feature fanfare because there was a song the director really wanted to do that called for some instrumentation that was unconventional for a jazz band.
Ffis34 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 318 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 565 times:
last year i had the trumpet solo, for the Seminole High School warhawks, i was a freshmen so yeah its possible, this is in the marching band for all you guys who like marching bands we performed at BOA atlanta super regionals we got like 4rd or something and BOA at the tropicana feild here in St. Pete FL we got second this year we are doing all the same competitions but we are also doing the Grand Nationals up in Indy in the RCA dome so i guess we are pretty good, but i hate band, Love to play hate the marching band
Brad
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AsstChiefMark From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (7 years 8 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 546 times:
I was first chair first trumpet back in 1977. I had to play Malagueña on a cold night during a football halftime show. What a goddamned pain in the chops!
Ffis34 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 318 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (7 years 8 months 20 hours ago) and read 524 times:
well i dont think solos should be given away to the senior because they may suck, but some say if you have been there 4 years or what ever the senoir gets is over freshmen or sm or jr whatever, i disagree they should be give to the person who can play it the best...
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Logan22L From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (7 years 8 months 19 hours ago) and read 510 times:
Back in 1977 when I was a Freshman in HS, I played clarinet in band. We only had one band, so Freshmen were a welcome addition. We had a really talented Freshman clarinetist who got all the solos, period. I had the opportunity as a Sophomore (after football season) to do a clarinet trio by Francois Couperin with him and another Sophomore. By the time I was a senior, there were too many clarinetists, and because I had "good rhythm" as our director said, I got to play bass drum for all the football games that year. Much cooler than clarinet, I'll say.
By then I had been playing guitar, electric bass for three years and getting into Jimi Hendrix, Cream, the Beatles, the Who, etc., so I had an image to uphold, y'understand?
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