I TOTALLY agree. Orchestra these days are sooooooooo so boring. Band is pretty awesome these days. We get all the good loud songs. Unlike orchestra.robodude wrote:No you killed them all
Band is at least 10 times better!
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good loud songs? wow......one of the greatest things about music is its ablilty to be diverse, orchestras can cover all aspects of this with great sucess. Band has a hard time covering being quiet and playing fast, two key aspects to playing well (not to mention band insturments don't have nearly as much of a range as orchestra insturments do which I suppose is why band has more instruments). Just because its loud, doens't make it good, in fact things being loud often makes them sound worse, you hear mistakes really easily.tclme_elmo wrote:I TOTALLY agree. Orchestra these days are sooooooooo so boring. Band is pretty awesome these days. We get all the good loud songs. Unlike orchestra.robodude wrote:No you killed them all
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orchestra is pretty cool... band geeks just don't understand >_<
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Being loud is the best part of band! 


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"How do you get two oboists to play in tune?robodude wrote:Yah! I agree COMPLETELY with tcle_me!
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Hey that's mean!! (But quite frankly, it's true for my band...ufortunately...)binary010101 wrote:"How do you get two oboists to play in tune?robodude wrote:Yah! I agree COMPLETELY with tcle_me!
What's the difference between violist in the middle of the road and a squirle in the middle of the road?
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I'm the only one in my band...
Its cool cause in the parts of songs where it stands out, I sound AWSOME!
Its cool cause in the parts of songs where it stands out, I sound AWSOME!

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I've been playing violin for 8 years and I play Violin I in my school orchestra.
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Although obviously people either like band or orchestra better, there is one thing that someone who plays a string instrument misses out on: Jazz band. Being in band (marching and symphonic later in the year), an out of school orchestra, and jazz band, jazz band is probably the most fun. This is closely followed by marching band, and strings can't be in that either.
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