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TheMike:
so i've been recruited to join marching band next year, but sadly i only play bass, guitar, and ukulele, so i need to learn a new instrument. the only instruments i've been instructed not to learn are string instruments and the saxophone since there a million sax and string players.

what instrument should i learn, and why? i know nothing on this subject, so please tell me what instruments there are that can be so much fun to play.  what instruments do you folks play, what is the learning cruve like on them?

KharBevNor:
...Why are you joining a marching band if you can't play a marching band instrument?

Er, those big drums.

Also, learn to, like, MARCH. I did CCF, I've lived in military barracks for a few days, and marched to breakfast at 6am every morning, and fuck if every marching band I have ever seen doesn't make me want to turn into an instant drill seargeant.

TheMike:
i already already have an ear, sense of melody, and if my string instrument ability proves anything it proves i have the ability to learn fast and stay disciplined.  i also really enjoy playing music, i want to expand my musical tools, and its more college app padding.

the fact is that i've already decided i'm going to do it, so i don't need anyone to try to dissuade me. and as i forgot to mention, there are also way too many drummers since back in elementary school when kids chose isntruments to learn they all chose drums thinking it was the coolest/easiest one.

greenMonkey:
I play trumpet, it'll be me first year in my school's marching band next year.  It sounds like you're pretty set on not playing percussion, so your only other real option is wind instruments.  Among these you've got woodwinds (sax, clarinet, and flute would be the ones typically found in a marching band) and brass (trumpet, trombone, mellophone [sort of like the marching version of a french horn] and sousaphone [tuba]).  Because I'm a brass player, I have to caution you that it takes time to build up the lip strength needed to play the instrument at a high level.  I personally would love to learn saxophone, but you've already said you don't want to play it.

Lines:
i started to learn mellophone and it wasn't that ard when you got the keys figured out. but then again, i sounded like a dying moose because i played violin, not mellophone. so if you're going for dying moose, pick mellophone.

there was an electric guitar in a band that came to one of the home games in high school. he just stood near the drum majors with an amp and played.

what about xylaphone or something? anything percussion related would probably be the easiest for you to pick up, just because you don't have to learn all the breathing stuff and keys and whatnot.

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