A/N: This is a silly list that me and some of my friends wrote. We're three fifths of our percussion section at school. We have lots of fun, playing stiff and laughing at our head of music. I've found lots of lists about band stuff in general, but decided that there ought to be one for percussion only, as the only experience in band I've had is as a percussionist. Everything on this list has happened to us.
You know you're a percussion band geek when…
You hang out for that one time a week you have permission to beat the crap out of things
You can't read music, but wouldn't quit the band for anything
You try to sleep on the xylophone during Presentation Night
You're told to play quieter on things like crash cymbals, but louder on things like the timpani
You have fun threatening to hit people with mallets/tambourines/crash cymbals
You are capable of unscrewing and dropping a suspended cymbal, without realising what you were doing
You drop the crash cymbals by pushing the stand, and the roll out because they're round…
You join the band not being able to read music, and two years later, you still can't read music
You love the xylophone but can't play it due to being unable to read music…
You stalk your conductor to see his new moustache
You play the timpani out of tune, but don't care
You ignore the band when they're playing a piece of music that doesn't involve percussion
You get jealous seeing someone else using the school's percussion gear
You think of the school's percussion gear as your own
You name the timpani Tim and Annie
You spend a year complaining about dodgy mallets, but still use them when you get new ones
People call you 'cymbal girl'
You talk non-stop about percussion to people who don't care
The timpani part from 'The Pines of Rome' gets stick in your head
You listen to music just to point out the percussion instruments
Before you joined the band you couldn't tell the difference between a snare drum and a bass drum, and now you kick yourself for being so stupid
You make jokes to do with percussion
You name your market stall Noissucrep
You make shirts with Noissucrep written on them
You want all your instruments printed on the back of your band jacket, not just 'percussion'
You fold pieces of music up into smecksy/smexy hats
The conductor gives you a name to do with your instrument (e.g Timps, Glock, or if you're me, Flossy.)
You think it would be sort of funny to drop the crash cymbals during the two minute silence at the Anzac Day service
You get overly excited at the prospect of sitting behind the timpani
You believe that the band could not function without you
You hurt your wrist and your first reaction is, "It'd better be better by the time next band practise comes around."
You consider yourself to be a metronome
A/N: If you have any more percussion experiences that could be added to this list, feel free to send a message.