20 Things All Marching Band Geeks Know To Be True
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20 Things All Marching Band Geeks Know To Be True

If you've ever been in marching band, you've had these experiences...

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20 Things All Marching Band Geeks Know To Be True
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Marching band geeks once, marching band geeks forever. No matter how much people hate on us, we know we're the real rock stars of the football field.

1. Marching band camp is actual death.

The football players can laugh at how five of us passed out in the past week, but they don't have to carry sousaphones around for eight hours.

2. You scoff when people say that they have patience, because they’ve probably never had to reset 50 times in a row before.

"Just one more time." Why lie to us at all? Why?

3. You subconsciously march in time if any music is playing.

Shit, not again. I swear it's not on purpose, it just sorta happens.

4. The marching band members are the real cheerleaders.


TBH, we know that no one watches the halftime show. But we take up half the crowd in the bleachers and we cheer and play louder than everyone else combined.

5. You have not known true pain unless you have played a brass instrument in below freezing temperatures.

This is an accurate depiction.

6. The amount of actual practicing that goes on in sectionals is...minimal.

7. The uniforms are perhaps not the most attractive, but you look rock in them anyway.

Plumes and marching shoes are the trendiest accessory.

8. You constantly hate on marching band, but get irrationally angry when non-marching band people hate on marching band.

9. There is no panic quite like the panic you experience when there's a huge tempo change and you fall behind for a moment.

10. You internally scream with joy when the conductor says that it’s stand music practice day.

11. Drill book tans are a thing.

12. You’re secretly happy when it rains too hard to go outside for practice.

13. There’s always that one move that makes you do some ridiculous lunges backwards halfway across the field in 10 counts.

With some struggle, you usually manage to make it.

14. Everyone jokes about wanting the football team to lose so you don’t have to perform anymore, but then everyone ends up crying when the season ends.

Well, now what do I do on Friday nights?

15. Falling during a show means you can never show your face in public again. Until Monday practice, at least.

16. Memorizing vocab words is nothing compared to having to memorize music and sets at the same time.

17. There is no achievement greater than hitting your spot in the right amount of counts the first time you run a set.

Smooth AF.

18. Dropping your hat down the bleachers will kill your soul a little each time.

Thank you again, kind band parent. I'm sorry again, kind band parent.

19. The gloves are no longer white at the end of the season.

They're probably toxic by November. At the end of the season, they barely even classify as gloves.

20. No matter what other people say about marching band, you’re proud of being in your band, or at the very least, feel better for having suffered through it!

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