Dude same every time we accidentally hit the wind chimes while we’re putting stuff away, everyone just comes and tries to touch it. Same with the marimba.
MyNameJeff Sometimes i literally get BD permission to practice marimba, and yet get crap from no less than every passing percussionist just cuz I play trumpet 😭
Dexter Letterman in in lower brass and because we don’t have a lot of melodies My director always stops right when we’re about to come in and I hate it lmao
Ex-band director here... There has never been, in the history of videos, a truer rendition of the life of a middle school tuba player! Keep up the good work!!!
Michael Davis yeah woodwind directors suck, I have one who is literally named Caron said like Karen, wtf why would spell it like that, but the wood winds at my school are pretty cool
@@Sle3plessNights I mean its not super easy to learn. I took band for four years and I still cant play it like I should. In my opinion, no, its not the hardest instument to learn. But it is in the top 5 hardest intruments to learn😁
@@icouldntthinkofanamexoxo9199 I've been playing for four years too, and I'm teaching my friend how to play as well. She can play a b flat scale and she's only played for a week, the sound is just slightly airy. But I get it, some things that may be easy to some can be more difficult for others 👌
LMao, That takes me back just a few years. I’m a 64-year-old professional Tuba player in Basel Switzerland and grew up playing tuba in Annandale Virginia. I can tell you that it’s not much different for me today as it was back then! This video really hit the spot!
me before class: *plays with granite blocks, snare drums, that big drum thing, and whatever percussion instruments* Percussionists: Stop playing with them unless you're a percussionist. me :C
I can relate to almost all of this, like the “patience” and the “few notes after a rest”. My tuba case has wheels, though. And, yes, we’re super immature.
@@foolishstrudel2689 As a tuba player out of college and playing in a local symphony I'd say its not much different. The only difference is that you stop counting the long rests and just wait for the musical cue
In my band class, the low brass section always get excited when we play Seven Nation Army it a song called Autumn Fanfare. Those are the only songs they have the melody to 😂
I sit in front a tuba player and they would blow so loud that eventually I’ll be on deaf- Ngl playing the tuba was my second option but I got to play the Clarinet instead :p
I play flute and when you are in the second row, you have to sit right in front of the trumpets so you have the high pitched sound of the flute and the loud trumpet players right behind you. I'm surprised I didn't go deaf after my first couple of months back there before I got moved up
Been playing tuba for nearly 5 years, and this might be the truest thing on the planet. The fart and laugh was totally the most relatable thing though. Happens on a daily basis.
Haha.....I knew after seeing this that you TRULY are a middle school band teacher! Great videos! Good luck over there....I am trying to do the same thing in Montana.
When I was in middle school, we had one tuba player for three years. He was about the shortest kid in the band - this kid was definitely under four feet. For some reason our director really wanted us to have the lowest sound possible, so we had him use the absolute largest tuba we could find. I just remember this tiny little kid with his big ol' tuba stand to hold his instrument, having to bring the stand to every performance or festival... and it makes me chuckle a bit.
Nah I’m in middle school but my teacher picked quite a few music pieces that had me (the tuba) in it more and there’s only one piece she said she didn’t really like which was “March of the Irish guards” because the trombones play the melody but I play the harmony so she said that she wished the music piece was basically the same as trombone but mine sounds good
As a middle school tuba player, this is the most relatable video I have ever seen (aside from the giggling at measure 69 or touching the percussion instruments and stuff like that, but that’s just me lol.)
When I was in beginning band we were playing this one piece that had 18 measures of rest for most of the band except for flutes, clarinets, saxophone, and I'm pretty sure percussion and one of the low brass players said that they had enough time to make sandwiches for the entire class and he would still have time to be back before he has to play again.
And then when you get to college they expect you to be able to play really difficult stuff when you've been playing long notes and quarter notes for years 🙃
As a tuba player I am going to quote lauryn hill on this one, “ strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.” 😂😂😂
One of our tuba players got his mouthpiece stuck, so the band director was trying to get it pulled for months. The director ended up going to a music conference and mentioned the mouthpiece in front of a large room of people and came back from the conference to find that the mouthpiece had been fine for months.
