Oh dear. I need help. Would anyone care to talk brass bands with me?

[PeaMcLean]

I stopped playing in March. I now have three weeks to get to competition level. Someone had dropped out, band couldn't get a replacement, and I agreed to play.

First rehearsal tonight and I'm playing like I have a face full of jelly. How the hell am I going to get into shape in three weeks????

This is not good!

Can any one suggest any emergency exercises?

Or a good excuse?

Play every day, twice a day, more if you can manage it, to get into shape. Especially at first you may struggle to play for long, but little and often and you'll soon be back in the swing of things.

What do you play?

Only chance to practise is 7-8pm each evening.

Shoot me if you see me on MN at that time won't you?

Thankfully I'm only playing 2nd horn now, so not too bad, but it's for the national finals at Harrogate, so I'd like to do the job properly.

Done 30 minutes.

Two weeks 6 days to go.

Wisdom tooth hurts too much to play properly

Week and a half to go. Yikes.

We came third out of 19.

Chuffed.

hurray! well done
what do you play?

Ooh what section? Before the DC's came along I was in the fourth section winning band at the nationals it was a fab feeling. Miss the banding days a little bit, but it does take up a lot of time.

Only third section, but even so. We came second to last when we were last there LOL.

Tenor horn hapsty Very rock & roll, innit?

Which band then? I spent some years kicking around the third and fourth sections, but I was in a North Eastern band.

oh god very rock and roll
nothing wrong with a tenorhorn player imo
now the FRENCH horn players../...