50 ways to tell you've been involved with the music/ theater dept

50 ways to tell you've been involved with the music/ theater dept. too long.

By Marie

You hang out in the school's lighting booth just to "hang"

You love the smell of flax

You love the smell of the marching band bus

You no longer notice the smell of the marching band bus

You know where everything belongs in the road box EVEN after everything has been taken out of it with out direction from any of the tech direc.

You understand the techies inside jokes

You earn a techie nickname

you fight with the tech direc. And end up in paint/ flax/ water/ any tech mess

You understand the saxes

you understand the tubas

you understand the pit

you understand the trumpets

you understand the t-bones

you understand the drumline

you understand the clarinets

you understand the flutes

Your instruments/ equipment all have their own names

you laugh with the director (band or otherwise) and not at them

you know what key some random song is without even looking at the sheet music

you can comprehend what the band director is actually attempting to say(and your not in band!)

You can sing all the parts for a song that you don't even sing

your marching band thinks their better cheerleaders than the squad

your marching band are better cheerleaders than the squad

people start joining your marching band in cheers and disregard the squad completely

you know how to play an instrument perfectly that you never took lessons in

you start arguing about transpositions for a song that you don't even play

you can still march your entire first show (work and all)

you love the smell of your marching band uniform

all of your friends (who aren't in music) understand what your talking about

you remember what prop was used in which show since your freshman year

you remember not only the names of your guard equipment but also that of all your other guard members

you know not only how to tune your instrument but also everyone else's

you start giving the drum major, band director, choir director, orchestra conductor constructive critasizim

you start considering becoming a music major

when you get asked to go to a game on Friday night and you tell them that you'll meet them the second half

when you can play every pep tune by heart

when the guard has a routine for every pep tune

when you know all of the gaurds routines for the pep tunes

when glitter is found in every crevice of your visible body due to your marching show

when you decide your going to be a music major

when you start to think that dinkles are "cool"

when dinkle day is the best day of the entire school year

when you're at school from 8am- 6pm everyday in AUGUST

when you know what the widowmaker is

when you start considering becoming a teacher added onto your music major

when your remember every scale and their transpositions for every instrument

when your told that you instrument doesn't matter and is only backup

when your on a first name basis with your director

when your not only on a first name basis with your director but all of them in your district

finally when you decide to combine the two majors you want into one and do the craziest thing in the world. BECOME A BAND DIRECTOR!!