Mine would demote us all to the lowest band and start explain to the audience how annoying we are ( he's still an amazing teacher just with high standards)
They’re probably playing 4’33 by John Cage. It’s literally 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. Cage’s theory was that all noises and sounds are music.
Bands will always play multiple songs, so this wouldn’t be an explanation. The person recording said this went on all night, meaning they played more than one song. So if even they did do this, it’s not and explanation.
For those who don’t know, they’re not all faking it. They’re fingering through the music to warm up without actually playing the song this isnt for before a concert, its durring the sight reading part of a festival. before students sight read/play the piece they go through it with the band director air playing it.
@iyanabarber and you have proof of her filming this all night? No. Because it’s just a few Second clip. In reality they’re only silently fingering the notes for a few seconds.
We dont do this, its not a warm up and we warm up before the concert downstairs. We dont warm up in front of a crowd and we dont warm up like this. This isnt even a form of warm up.
@@keshacow its for a festival my guy. theyre doing the sight reading portion where you finger through the music, then you play it. not sure if yall go to festival and sight read in middle school but you do after. depends on the school.
This happened to me bruh, last year no one else played during our section, I was so nervous I paused for a beat then just waited waited the measure to end, and kept going.
This is called “air playing” most the time they do this before they play the actually song, it’s a way to practice (slide positions, value combinations, etc.) without making any sound.
@@krisvyxxey’re moving fingers. As @strawlover mentioned earlier, this is called air playing. Air playing allows individuals to look at there sheet music one last time before having to perform. Additionally, it makes you aware of any broken keys on an instrument. It also benefits the director allowing them to practice conducting and such and feel it out before they perform. (No. directors don’t just hand out music and suddenly conduct the song without practicing.) Air playing is an effective form to prepare the band before playing at a concert regardless how much they practiced. Even top bands in the world do this. I can reassure that air playing isn’t “doing nothing”.
@@krisvyxxI’d also like to correct your theory of why people warm up in sports. People in football and other sports warm-up before each game because it is deemed as unhealthy to suddenly put your body through an entire fitness workout without any proper introduction prior to the game. It also lowers performance skills. It’s kind of like waking up from a long nap and expected to do a math test the very second you wake up. This can be used as an example to why bands warm-up. You don’t just go out playing songs without preparing your embouchure, practicing fingers (especially for a middle school band) and preparing to produce the necessary air required to put out a decent tone quality.
@@krisvyxx Lets face it they probably did not do this all night. It was probably just a joke by the videos creator but if not there is a few different things this could be. 1 A way to warm up. Just like how bands need to warm up with scales (since you probably dont know they do that so you can know early if you need to fix a reed, oil a valve, or tune) not playing is a technique used when you want to mark through the music without playing it. Which brings me to option 2. This could be their MPA or an assessment. A part of MPA is sight reading. Meaning you have to play a piece you have never seen before. The "rules" are you get 3-5 minutes to practice the piece without making noise through the instrument. So you go through the song once fingering the instrument and counting the measure or what ever your director taught you to do before playing the entire song hoping to god it goes well. hope this shuts your arguement down :)
@@krisvyxx Orchestra… makes sense. I want to be clear when I say that band and orchestra simply don’t compare in terms of warm-up. If a middle school student instrument is broken just minutes before practice for whatever reason it isn’t necessarily anyone fault. Its not the director nor the students fault and band instruments having issues/breaking just hours or minutes before a performance is actually much more common that you appear to think it is. Happened to me once at all-state and was devastated lol. Now about this teachers warm-up mechanisms… Annoying? Maybe. Tedious? Perhaps. But each director has different ways to prepare there students to have the best performance possible. Too you this may seem absurd but I feel as though it isn’t really a bad idea for beginner musicians. It gives them one last chance of looking at music and preparing before playing. The pervious reference to sports was referring to warm-ups by the band that includes breathing exercises, lip slurs, etc. The point of this reference was to show that football and band are similar and their warm-up behaviours can be compared. I’m also going to be honest. There really is no reason for you as an orchestra player to be debating about what’s necessary and unnecessary for a band too do. Your not in band and you certainly don’t play a wind instrument. Different techniques are needed to play such as great breathing, embouchure, and goodness especially for trombones slide positioning. In fact, one of the very few things an Ochestra and a band both have in common during warm-up is the process of tuning. It’s kept at that. So please like- keep an open-mind. I understand that you want to be heard but you have zero experience in being in a band. you’re giving input on wind instrument warm-ups but yet you haven’t been in a band OR played a wind instrument. C’mon man.
They are in sight reading session. They aren’t allowed to play before time and the director is taking them through an imaginary time where they think the music before they have one chance to start play and end the real music in front of the judge. This is a warmup teaching exercise for sight reading.
Actually this has happened to us begire because no one was ready and we all started laughing. But that was at a rehearsal not a concert, idk what this is
My director would be pissed, no livid if we pulled this stunt😅. He’s the kind of guy who is chill with practically anything but when he’s mad he is almost scary
This is called what my band directors call fingering through the song. Basically, the conductor gives the tempo and we finger through the positioning for each note. It’s a way to make sure you don’t accidentally play a wrong note.
There can be several theories for this. It could be John Cage's "4'33" which is complete silence. It is originally a piano piece, but could be used for ensembles.. Another theory is that they are showing the audience/parents how they practice by air playing. The focus is on the slide and finger position as well as quietly tapping the rhythm (percussion) on time. Educators are to encourage to show the hard work by sometimes showing how students sight read or practice and then introduce the concert rep they did all semester. Perhaps this is what happened?
Honestly considering that My band has a concert in a few weeks would normally be good right? Well about 2 months ago our band teacher and the color guard had an"affair" on school grounds and students caught them. It's been almost 2 months once we've played cause we've had subs.We may have to just airplay
When I was in middle school, I couldn't fake it. We had two trombone players, me and another guy. Me and the other guy practically had duets during every concert. We didn't have any euphoniums or tubas, so everytime a low brass specific part came up, we had to lock it
Every band who ever showed up at a studio with their instruments, only to be shown a microphone instead and told by their producer, "The session band is going to help us out today."
How talented these young musicians must be to take on 4’33 🤣🤣🤣 (those who dont know- “4’33” is a music piece that was composed with full bar rests for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and that was the whole piece”
There is actually a song where it's like 4 minutes long and it's just silence. My band director did that for one of her playing exams in college and got an A
That actually hilarious. I remember in my middle school concerts I would be super loud compared to other people because I’m the only one that really knew the part
I think there was just like 4 measures of a percussion/ exotic instrument solo in the beginning and they were sick or something so they just rolled with it
