u/Fickle_Ad35

I started playing the trumpet near the end of fall my freshman year and I am ending my junior year right now. In April last year I started playing the French horn for concert band because we didn't have one. The lead trumpet, we'll call him G, was then the only 1st trumpet after that.

We are both in the Jazz band as well where I still play the trumpet. Next year I am switching back to main the trumpet again because I am going to go to the Army Band after high school when I graduate and he's mad about it. We used to kind of be friends. We would talk everyday but never outside of school. But needless to say, in a recent concert and he had a solo in one of the Jazz pieces that we played but then we eventually split in and I had the first half.

However during the concert, I had played my part almost perfectly. I don't know if he just had a bad chop day or what but he just could not hit any of the correct notes during the solo. He claimed to have been fine with me having half of the solo but after the concert I started talking to a friend who is in the choir who G is also friends with. My friend that I was talking with was saying that G had been talking mad shit about me behind my back saying things along the words of, "I should have never agreed to split the solo", "He's gonna sell the entire band next year" "He's not even that good", Terrible things like that about me. He had been playing the trumpet since 8th grade so he has a whole year of time against me yet I am still almost just as good as him.

The band director that we have this year is new and so she glazes the crap out of him because he's just the first trumpet. Last month, G went to All-State for the trumpet and he was the only one in the band ensemble to have gone (he was the only one to audition) and so he just has been the most annoying person constantly bragging about it. I couldn't audition for All-State because I was in the school Musical at the time and showings were during the All-State concerts.

But yeah, anyways, just needed to vent a little bit cause we were like kind of close and just to hear that he was saying that stuff even though he was the one to mess up during pretty much the whole concert that just happened.