When music teachers say "one more time" they really mean your going to keep re-doing it until i feel you've improved. Ever heard this? "DON"T LOOK AT ME. the music isn't on MY forehead. Its on YOUR paper. *looks at paper* WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT YOUR PAPER? I"M UP HERE.
We were playing the accompaniment to a trombone concerto once in concert band (at the time it was without the soloists) and our conductor was singing the solo, and then to the tune of the solo started saying (will the clarinets follow the beat). He also calls you can't stop the beat from hairspray you can't follow the beat as the entire band aside from percussion has offbeats for the first few bars, he gave up and decided to just count us in and then walk off and sit down somewhere (he did it in the actual concert too).
I played the clarinet all throughout high school. My music teacher's favorite word? "Embouchure. Embouchure. EMBOUCHURE." Also "Look at me. Watch me. Eyes on me."
+Sasha Braus I played oboe in jr. high and my band teacher was always on the verge of a meltdown. Later I found out he died of a heart attack! poor guy....
Music Teacher: "Ok, we are going to play one more time through, I promise." *plays through the music* "Saxophone was too loud. Lets do it again." .... The moment you want to throw a pencil at someone but you don't have one with you.
Maaaybe e.e Im improving actually, But that was in the past, when I was months on the violin, almost six years ago, so that "Stop going so fast" thing it's not a problem now.
Honestly feel bad for my band director. so many kids are not made to do music. they don't have a good ear for music, they are practically tone deaf, and they can't follow directions.
I can work with tone deaf. I have trouble with those who *won't* follow directions. Discipline and motivation can help even a disadvantaged old beginner. Ego and stubbornness always destroy even a genius prodigy.
"GUYS SHUT UP!" "No, tenors, play SOFTER!! MICHAEL, SOFTER!" "See, the reason we're dragging... everone:'PIT!!!' Ok, now we're rushing because -everyone else: DRUMLINE!!!" "WATCH!!!!!!!!!" "WATCH THE STINKIN DRUM MAJOR, THEY'RE NOT UP THERE FLAPPING THEIR ARMS AROUND FOR NO REASON!" "Hey, trumpets..." "We'll move on once piccolos are tuned" "SHUT YOUR MOUTHS!" "SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND DO YOUR JOB!" "You had one job..." "No, like, HIT the timpani" just some of my personal favorites
a literal quote from my band teacher in the middle of a song teacher: *starts coughing really hard* kid sitting next to me: mr. a, you okay? (we all stopped playing) teacher: *cough* i'M pErFeCt kEeP pLaYiNg
Who else hears their teacher say "COUNT. COUNT EVERY TIME YOU PLAY YOU WILL GET BETTER!!!!" *plays without counting and teacher gets impressed* HAH you thought
my violin teacher: "sound less violiny and more trumpety." Not even kidding those are his exact word or "makes this more wooshy" and I'm just like ummmm okkk
After 13 years of teaching, I don't even bother asking how much practice was done during the week because I already know by the way the student is _walking_. "One more time," That's what I say! 😹 Michael Aaron method.
Exactly! I'm in percussion class. We started paradiddles the class after I saw this. And my teacher introduced it just about the exact same was as this video said it.
My life = Sit at the edge of your seat. Now, One more time. Altos, stop singing the soprano part! (I'm a soprano) You've had this music for a while now, you should have memorized it! Put your hands to your side. Guys, you don't sing that low!
I was in orchestra, viola last year but now im in color guard. when I listened i heard it in my teacher's voice he said every single thing in this so video, so accurate! :)
There's an awesome flute duet book entirely comprised of asymmetrical meter I used to sight read from in lessons with a teacher one summer. I WISH I KNEW THE NAME OF THAT BOOK - sorry. Yeah 15/16 is a thing.
some of my personal favorites from my choir teacher "look at your music not at me. I don't have the music tattooed on my face" "I almost liked it" "uh is for under the pitch, ah is for on top of the pitch" "this time in English" "then sing it that way!"
Ryan Girvin The thing is: I doubt if you went to this school they would even touch the topic of metal drumming, let alone rock or any genre that wasn't orchestral, classical, etc... which is why many people in the metal genre self-teach themselves.
Yeah rock on! Fuck musical theory and shit like that! Fuck teachers! What do they know! And most importantly, fuck technique! (in case it isn't obvious I am being sarcastic)
Ryan Girvin If you learn in advanced styles than you can just transfer your skills overs. They're not going to teach you double bass but that's not that hard to learn. What is hard to learn are advanced timings and techniques which they will teach you.
I'm personally a self taught guitarist and I never missed out on "fundamentals and rudiments" even though I'm mainly only into metal (or at least when I first started out playing that's all I played because it is all I wanted to) and it actually probably helped me more than just taking lessons. I was determined and focused when I got to play what I wanted and everything was very technically challenging. The thing about metal is that unless you're playing stereo typical metalcore or whatever is that it takes from all different music styles. You learn classical techniques, jazz techniques, blues techniques, etc. Especially around 1-2 years of experience I got into this weird niche of technical/progressive death metal which is heavily classically and jazz involved and technically demanding and requiring you to put together multiple techniques etc. and that greatly influenced and helped my playing. But from there of course I got into regular classical music (I often take inspiration from classical and now I've started to take piano lessons and become classically trained) as well as many other jazz styles. It just depends how you self teach. Obviously not everyone who teaches themselves is going to know what they're doing wrong and what bad habits they're forming etc. and they might be hindering themselves by learning maybe a certain genre or certain part in a genre of music that keeps them from learning techniques etc. but that doesn't mean being self taught can "only get you so far". Plenty of musicians far better than those taught started off self taught.
"That was good. Now play it like you're a musician." "You have to read the music." "Look at me, not at the paper." "A tall vowel!" My high school chorus experience in a nutshell.
As a bass player, my teacher is like: "A better shift would be from 2nd to 4th then back to 1st and then 9th position instead of all of it in 1st position."
Dy Ray Sighz I understand I play violin and my teacher will be like "let's make it interesting how about from 1st to 5th then back on an awkward 2nd position to a 4th that's lying in the middle of the fingerboard... no I understand it can all be played in 1st position but this is more fun" *violin screeches*
at my school for a warm up we have to be like "my mother make me mash my mini m and m's on a monday morning. OHHH AHHH" and then sing that up a few octives
I have to feel slightly sorry for Music teachers. Basically I think Musicians are born, not made. You either have a "feel" for it and develop pitch hearing and timing, or you don't. Also music tutoring is a very personal, intimate thing and trying to teach 30 kids at once is an exercise in frustration, at best.So doubly-sorry to school teachers. Trying to teach someone who is tone deaf and/or has no sense of rythm to play music is a bit like trying to teach someone who is short how to reach something on a high shelf - doesn't matter how much much time and effort you put in..They're never going to be good at it.... I'm in that catagory - like music, enjoy mucking about with it, spent a lot of time on it... Unfortunately have no ability at it. Don't know if that's genetics, or a lack of exposure to music at a young age or what. But there it is. Well, i'm good at other things musicians might not be - so, ce'st la vie. I can see the frustration and bemusement on their faces when they don't understand how someone cannot do something so totally basic as telling the difference between THIS note and THAT note, or hold the drumsticks like THIS, not like THAT. Often the only person more frustrated by this than the teacher is the student.
+Rapscallion2009 I agree more w/you than with Max. I taught guitar for awhile, and 90% of the students gave up lessons, because they just didn't have the motivation. So you have to tweak your lesson and just teach them the few songs they want to play. The more serious students want to know everything, and they are very gratifying to teach.
Teaching someone music is actually really fun i did it once with a girl that used to be in band and had forgoten alot of the notes and i actually made her remember them again and even teached her new ones but she was kinda bored because i forced her to learn them but we were bored so we tryed it
"Pet the kitty." for playing soft/ pretty music. "If you think you're playing loud, you're not. Play louder." Group 2A band... -_- "Drummers, you're slowing us down!" So true. The next week: "Hey drummers, watch out, you're getting a little ahead of us there."
Christ, there's this sub that comes in sometimes and she's the one that has you play the first few measures then cuts you off to tell you "Oh dear you're just playing so well and so beautifully and you can feel the music and you're in tune and-"
I have two music teachers and I want to send this to both but I still want to learn those damned instruments, even with "Okay, one more time, perfectly everything at 15/16"
Band director: read the music, will you? Give it a thought! You're all singittomes. (??) Sing-it-to-me, sing-it-to-me, sing-it-to-me ... you're not reading and playing what's on the page!!! Then there's the times he took a fit (usually at the french horns) and threw his baton at them like he was playing mumbly peg. This guy was right, but he was DANGEROUS.
two things, one, what is a paradiddle? and two, my director always says," one more time..." then we do it a thousand times more, especially during marching season.
My violin teacher said this to her chinese student yesterday: "Hey bring some chinese sheet music for her she needs more technique. Now do this again and stop feeling."
When your doing the Memorial day Parade and your in marching band: Teacher: PERCUSSION IF YOU KEEP SPEADING UP THE TEMPO THE BAND IS GOING TO *H A T E* YOU WHEN WE MARCH-
