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Well techiniaclly I'm a techer aide. They just call it office aide.

Lol, stfu.

Haha for sure. And yeah offide aide is aweosme. Pretty much a free period.

Yayy

Yeah dude. I LOVE it. Have you?

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I do! Lol.

Haha, thanks. I get on everyday during my office aide period now.

I remember when me and Jake used to get on and post crazy stuff everyday, haha. And post w h o r e in the off topic section during my 8th persiod class. WHERE AER YOU JAKE?! And I remember ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago I used to be pretty good freinds on here with Megan and Marco. But they forgot about me

I havn't talked to him in FOREVER!

I have a duet with a flute in our second song

I totally agree with this dude (or girl ). Alot of 4A and 5A gets don't get what it's like being in a program where you don't have over 50 people alot of the time. My band has about 36 and we march 8th GRADERS and up. If we didn't we'd have less than 20 people on the field. Many other highschools in my region do the same. We don't have the luxery of having 100+ and getting to choose our best players to put on the field or in our "wind ensemble". We have to work with what we've got, which isn't alot. We also don't have the kind of staff big schools do. We have ONE director that works with every band 6th, 7th, and highschool. And in schools like MINE, people just aren't motived in band. Most of them are in it cause there friends are, or cause they heard it's a blow off class or just so they can get a free ride to every football game. I know there is many small ATSSB schools that play extremely well, but there's just no comparison when you compare them to the top 4 and 5A schools. Now this doesn't mean we can' t be good players individually. At the band camps I go to every year I'm always up in the top bands with the big school kids. You just to have the will and drive without there being much motivation or help, but even then it's still a major disadvantage. That's why we compete with kids our size. Most kids in schools like this can't even afford the gas to drive to the nearest city (which for me is over an hour and a half away) to get private lessons for somone, much less the actual price of them. And most parents here wouldn't do it anyway just because they don't see band as something being worth it, but that's mostly cause we have a very unsuccesful program. They were even talking about cutting the music program all together a few years ago, and I know schools around us that have had that actually happen. I don't wanna sound like I"m ranting and making this big sob story, but I just wanted to let y'all know what it's like. Basically the small schools are at a major disadvantage. But that's why compete with eachother and not big schools. Disbanning the ATSSB wouldn't be fair. The kids I know in the ATSSB state band (and tha'ts quite a few) have never had lessons before in there life and they don't come from the best bands in Texas. They get there from there drive and own motivation alone, which I think is really cool. I'm not dissing the TMEA band in ANYWAY. But lets face it, unless you're just freakisly amazing, everyone in that band has some kind of private lesson help, and usuasly come from good programs that have motivated them to do well from the begning. It's just how it is. Sorry that was so looong.

I havn't been in awhile. Seems like it's gotten a bit more active.

Ugh I know right? Almost every single on of our teachers gave us one of those yesterday. Anyway, my first day (yesterday) was great! This is going to be the best year by FAR! My schedual is really easy, and I have lots of cool people in classes, which never happens: Psychology- This seems like it's going to be a really interesting class, but I know it won't be too hard... it's tought by a coach. Band- Sucks. Goverment- Another class taught by a coach. Peace of cake. English 4- I'm not to crazy about this new teacher. We started reading "Frankenstean" the first day, and it's kinda alright so far. Choir- Bleh. Cool people, that's about it. Office Aide- Free class, which is where I'm at right now. Athletics- Cross country/track/tennis practice (for me) depending on the season. It's the hottest effing part of the day.

AWESOME.

Awesome! Glad we did it justice. I really wish we got a recording of that concert, but LMC never sells them. I know they make them though. Someone put it on youtube, but it's not to good of quality. You can't hear the awesome sax parts

YAY he's on here! I was in the top band at Longhorn music camp and he so came to hear us play. We loved your song by the way. It was tons of fun to play.

If anyone's looking for some really awesome ones for next Summer, I'd HIGHLY recomend HPU leadership camp (In Brownwood) and LMC (at UT) and WTAMU's band camp (the only two week band camp in Texas).

Anyone here go to LMC this year?

Noticed that I'm no longer a trumpet player, lol. (I play alto sax FULL TIME now. I used to play trumpet for marching season and alto for concert)

I'm starting to miss it now. But it seems to get less fun every year. That mostly has to do with people though. I still love it either way, but I miss how it used to be.

I didn't try out for next year since it's my senior year. But being one this year was great.

Good luck everyone

Likes to post in the off-topic section!

Where's his question?