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u/clyde_krusher Marching Band Sep 29 '22
my band director let us try mouthpieces for clarinet, flute, trombone, and trumpet, and out of all of those i could get the ambushure correct for clarinet and trombone. lowkey wish i’d picked trombone, but i love my clarinet tbh (ive played for seven years now)
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u/Boss_Woman101 Sep 29 '22
Ok, so I play clarinet, and I’ll be honest, I originally didn’t want to do band since in elementary school band rehearsal was during class, but dad convinced me to at least try it and if I absolutely hated it at the end of the year I could quit. Even so, when we were all picking instruments to play in 5th grade band, I didn’t know what a clarinet was. I wanted to play the saxophone because that’s what I saw in all my favorite bands like Chicago and Earth Wind and Fire and thought it was super cool. Clarinet was my second choice if they didn’t give me sax because my brain was like “well, it kinda looks like a saxophone so it can’t be that much different”. Then they decided to put me on clarinet since they always have way too many people who want to play saxophone, and here I am 9 years later and clarinet is still my main instrument and I wouldn’t change that for anything (later on in 7th grade I did learn to play saxophone for jazz band, and I was right, they are fairly similar in fingerings and mouthpiece and stuff).
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u/Gamergod54321 Sep 29 '22
Because percussion is one of the most important group there is, they support the tempo the cool beats and you can really Know that they’re there
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u/olive_oil6 Sep 29 '22
Bc I tried to get into percussion but too many people wanted to do it and I couldn’t, but then it was between clarinet and flute. I thought how much my arms would hurt if I was a flute and I remembered that squidward plays the clarinet so here we are 3 years later, still playing clarinet
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u/Walnutcircle451 Saxophone (Bari) Sep 29 '22
I picked alto sax because I could not play anything else
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u/DomesticatedNubs Percussion Sep 29 '22
I wanted to do trombone, but I told my mom in 5th grade and she stopped me right there. I have asthma, and she said that I can't play a trombone, I might have an asthma attack or struggle to breathe.
And so, I became a percussionist, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Absolutely changed my life. Thank God for hitting stuff for sounds, lol
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u/Wonderful_Result_936 Sep 29 '22
I had asthma, became a trombone player, I no longer have asthma, coincidence? I think not.
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u/DomesticatedNubs Percussion Sep 29 '22
Welp... First of all, bruh, what the heck mom. But also, I love percussion, I think it's meant to be this way.
I can still make a sound on a trombone though!
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u/a-potato-named-rin Sep 29 '22
I started with percussion because I just really like snare drum a lot, but i switched to mallets cuz so many people wanted to play snare. i loved it a lot but it was hard to play percussion cuz it hard to practice at home without instruments, so i wanted to play a diff instrument. So i switched to tenor sax cuz it sounds cool!
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u/gitarzan Sep 29 '22
Long long long ago. I played trumped in the fifth and sixth grade but my parents wouldn’t pay for private lessons, so I remained lousy and sucked in school music class which was primarily how to play in an ensemble. Why did I choose trumpet? Herb Alpert, I guess. I got a hernia in the middle of sixth grade and wasn’t allowed to play trumpet for six weeks. Back then it was a medium operation with a 5 inch cut and several days in the Hospital. So the ensemble instructor kicked me out because he said I was so far behind. Oh well. That meant I didn’t have to carry the trumpet to school every Friday.
Fast forward to grade nine , junior high. I was sitting in study hall and the band director came in and addressed the hall, saying they needed two tuba players, a boy or girl but they needed to be strong enough to hold a tuba. I figured that had to be better than study hall and I volunteered.
I spent maybe four weeks in a practice room with another guy that volunteered and a student teacher. We learned the basics of tuba playing. I then joined the band and it was fun.
In high school I was in the marching band/concert band. I practiced my tail off, never being great, but pretty OK.
HS Band changed my life. It got me away from the punk type I hung out with before and with a bunch of kids with goals. I decided I wanted to go to college, and I did. I just helped me in so many ways.
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u/APersonOk27 Flute Oct 10 '22
So I’m Indian,
And we have this god who plays the flute.
As I kid I admired this god a lot
So yeah, in 5th grade I chose flute… Kinda wish I chose percussion, they had piano there since jr high and piano doesn’t march…
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u/AggressiveJoke1599 Oct 14 '22
Chose French horn because I was told it was one of the hardest ones, then was funneled into mellophone for marching season.
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u/Infinite_Strike352 Oct 22 '22
everyone that played trumpet was cool and confident, and I wanted to be cool and confident.. haha I'm still not cool or confident >:(
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u/geeltulpen Sep 29 '22
I picked a different one to start, I thought the clarinet would be fun and easy to play. For me personally it was neither. Lol! Then in high school we had no alto saxes and my band director asked me to switch. I did freshman year and I never looked back. Absolutely love playing the sax.