NOT MY BAND I’m in Jenks Middle School and they DONT SOUND LIKE THIS don’t think all of them do because our 8th grade middle school band SOUNDS GOOD I swear search it up
Bro I’m an Alto Sax player and I constantly have to tell the kid next to me to shut up, he’s always too loud bro, even in sleigh ride I had to pause at a rest section to try and get him to be quieter 😭
I was a middle school band director for 19 years, and the joy I felt working with those kids warms my heart today. Good for the conductor for being a good sport. I was merciless in kidding around with my students, but now and then they nailed me so hard, and I deserved everything they had to dish out. What a great job!
If you didn’t have that sense of joy working with that age group you’d be on the FBI’s most wanted list! Or the kids would make your life miserable. If you’re a good sport, they’ll do anything for you. My daughter had an amazing band director for grades 7-9 & it was so positive that she took it in grades 10 & 11. She wanted to continue but it required two hours every day in grade 12 & she wasn’t that serious about it. She played bass clarinet & if the second hand ones weren’t $6000 she’d have one. I’m glad you look fondly at those years, you may not know how many of the students you impacted, so thank you for loving those kids.
Sounds like one of the best jobs in the world. As a former teacher myself, I can say that it is so rewarding watching young people grow, as we help them to understand the tools they will need to make it in the world. I was not a music teacher, but I was a music student in high school. We had such a fun time at band rehearsals and I believe we bonded as a team even more than the kids on sports' teams. Thank you for your contribution to young minds.
@bonnieralston1706 It really is a special connection. If you ask football players to play again after 10 years of little to no experience after high school, I'm sure it wouldn't turn out well. Ask the same of band students and from my experience, it's like many of us never stepped away (14 years since marching and just marched an alumni show in September)
@@matthewmoore8270 You are right. I was in a concert band is high school, not a marching band. We had a band reunion 40 years after graduation and many hadn't played their instrument since. We were together with our music director, who was then in his 80s and we could still all play. I was amazed that I remembered the fingering on the clarinet.
at least its better than my band class, our band just doesn't play the song and its so embarrassing. and there's always that one kid who squeaks every every note of our songs 😭
@@JacobAMcmillan Where I live student teaching would be practice teaching. Being a student learning to teach and currently placed in a school, with the regular teacher supervising as you take the kids for some lessons.
@@_emu_that’s just how teachers in training talk about stuff lol Student teaching is when they go out to teach as college students. That’s just the word for that.
Love this. More than 50 years ago, in senior band, we had the kind of connection with our teacher to screw around in practice, stay in tune yet put our own personal stamp on the piece. During a performance though, it was all business. Twenty years later, my son was also in band. Although he was born with Down syndrome, he was also born with an ear for music. He was able to participate in band, with an aide to assist. Long story short - that ended up being me. His instrument of choice was the alto sax - an instrument I played decades earlier. He did have some tutoring for a year prior to joining the band and his teacher was a member of the Powder Blues - look them up. My son didn’t learn how to read music, just how to get a good sound out of his instrument… as well as a cool blues arpeggio. I’ll never forget the look on the faces of 60 young beginner band members and one teacher - as the cacophony of first time sounds subsided, my son blue a perfect blues lick, 61 jaws dropped and I thought to myself “the next few years are going to be fun!”. Band in school is extremely important - it gives confidence to those who may have little, provides an opportunity to level the playing field between student and teacher and, sometimes, changes attitudes and opinions about what is truly possible.
Oh, those percussionists! They are their own good, ornery breed and you just never know what they will think of doing next! My son was one. He is going to be turning 40 this summer. He STILL keeps me grinning and shaking my head at the same time!
This is really impressive for a middle school band! My high school performed this piece every year and even then we had to work at it. I could hear the flutes get a little scared in the fast and high parts but they sound like they will get it. High notes smell fear so the more they practice the better it will get
They're also playing an easier arrangement of the original piece, which is good it's quite fast in the original.nI should know since my high-school also played this piece every year, lol
I’m sure the person filming this rehearsal was no indicator of what was about to happen. I’m sure the kids were totally expecting nothing out of the ordinary to happen, because I’m sure the school hires someone to film every band class every day with a cell phone….
I have been teaching instrumental music to kids since 1990, and my percussionists always find away to brighten my day with laughter 😂!!! Bless each and everyone of you and every child I have been blessed 😇 to teach and laugh with.
That is the kind of shenanigans that can only come from multiple rows of woodwinds and brass between you and the band director. Also reminds me when a family friend was resigning from her post with an orchestra during the lead up to the winter season and had the lone request of playing the slapstick in Sleigh Ride.
I just played this song on mallets and slap stick this past December. I fought hard for that slap stick part. They would have had to rip those pieces of wood out of my bare hands to take it away from me. 😂 At least this group all got to share the experience.
I js wanted to share that as a sophomore, it is shocking that only 2 of the freshmen joining band can actually blow a saxophone mouthpiece--purely just for a normal concert F sound that is supposed to come out effortlessly.
im still shocked at the fact that one of our percussionists who is a freshman had to ask what "the weird dot above the quarter note" was. its insane how far behind freshman are from the sophomore level, I'm in both the JR senior band and freshman band because I'm fairly talented and the difference is insane.
That's actually insane. In my school, it's completely flipped; me and my three freshmen buddies are way better than the senior and junior in my section. I'm first chair-
@@FNBRVolts Wait, you had enough musicians for TWO bands? I lived in the L.A. area with over a thousand students in my high school and we could barely get 50 people to show up for band. I was fortunate to have a very persistent band teacher in elementary school (only three kids played from my graduating class there) who pushed me to keep playing. I missed out on a few sports performances "for the sake of the grade", but I enjoyed MOST of my time in band back then. It's just sad that so few kids were even interested to play an instrument past the required class in 4th grade back then. I guess they just don't understand how many free sporting events, particularly football and basketball, that being in band allowed them.
@@ChristopherJohnson-ei9ul realistically it should be combined. The one band has 30 students and the other 47. We can’t combine because the smaller of the two is far behind the other, I just have room in my schedule to play in both for the fun of it.
Any time I see a bassoon I respect them so much. It’s the second hardest instrument in the world and reeds cost $20 and the side of salt for me it’s broken 50% of the time I use it
My uncle used to play bassoon, and then he was cleaning it, and he scratched the inside, so it didn't play right any longer, so ge put it down and never played again.
This is enjoyable. Having played from 4th Grade through High School, these people all can read music, play their instruments and play together, and the humor of the percussionists is nice. Good progress.
Loved it! Sight-reading? Impressive. Good maintenance of tempo - wow, usually middle school bands seem to drag it. Kudos to the percussionists. Brought back great memories of middle school band in Michigan. More power to you, Mr. Middle School Band Director.
Wasn't just the clarinets rushing... Watch the stick, kids! Or at least listen to the tubas and bassoons! Fortunately, they were only in serious danger of falling apart once, in the first verse...
I would go listen to my grandkids music concerts each and everyone. I have 5 of them so I had seen a few. All different instruments and one marching at a Christmas parade in Seattle. I miss those times
Very Nicely Done, EVERYONE! 😃 And yes, percussion was devious... but then again, as a percussionist, how can I not 😍 that section? Y'all are wonderful! Thank you for Christmas in early March! I love Christmas any time of year. Good job! Bravo! Bravo! Director? Your conducting skills are Mad Hot! Good on all y'alls! 💐🙏🏽❤🥰🤗
Whoa, does this bring back memories for a 73 year old! I played clarenet in middle school. High school didn't have a band, but I was in chorus. Music education is so important for a well rounded curriculum! I smiled through the whole video. Great job to the students and teacher!!! You sounded better than our band did! P.S. I was a middle school science teacher.
To everyone saying there are too many clarinets: My freshman band of ~100 kids had a section of close to 20 clarinets. We were invited to nationals. Yes, it’s part balance, but anything is possible :D
Took me back to band class days, didn't know it at the time, but it was magical, so glad I was in band. This group did a good job and had a lot of fun with it.
I'm sure that what all the negative commentors really meant to say was something like, look at these kids trying to enrich their lives and bring joy to others with music, this is great.
This makes me miss being in a big band. My current school has like 70 students in total so our school band is small. (Beginning band currently has three people, me a percussionist, a saxophone player, and a flute player. Our trumpet player is on vacation but hopefully back soon, and in theory we might have a clarinet again in a month or so)
My Junior High band was invited to an International Band competition in Mexico City when we were this age. I'm still waiting for the syncopated section. I loved playing Sleigh Ride with my band! Great memories, thank you!
My band teachers so strict on music he made us play a song over and over until it was perfect, and that’s why we won the festivals of Music of middle school and high school bands, as a middle school band
