Things that make your band directors cringe: 1. -forgetting your instrument so you don’t have to play for the 50th time- leaving your instrument at home after practicing over the weekend
Oh my God, my band director is so sick of this, he takes away points everytime someone plays Careless Whisper or Meglovania. When he had us ready to a do a concert, we all broke up into Carless Whisper lol
Lol! Would totally be me! Learned about the Lick last year in jazz and played a snippet into my improv solo on clarinet in my junior year this year of college! It was awesome!!! It is da wae, da troof, and da life! Like Jesus Christ said he was to his disciples to spread the word of the ways of Music Theory and how it is important! (Oops! My theory professor rubbed off on me since he is such a funny person! Lol!)
So I was playing timpani and my finger slipped and while the stick hit the drum so did my finger and he did not like that so he stoped the song and yelled at me 😔
I once had a suspended cymbal part in a song, but the mallets were missing, so I improvised and used timpani mallets. Nearly missed my part. Ended up sounding like crap in the recording.
My band director showed me and my class this, and most of these are true. Mainly setting a clarinet on the ground like you did. My friend does that. And the other flute players in my band class always set their flute on their stands. I play a flute in band and even I don't do that.
Megan Shockey In my school. If you put a flute on a stand, your automatically a monster. Plus,one time this kid DID put his flute on the stand, and it fell.
Yeah I think he makes these vids for his students, as he also has a video on how to put stands away correctly I can still relate though, as my dad is a middle school music teacher and if I go to his school, I can see this stuff on a regular basis Very funny vids!
As a clarinetist, can confirm we are way grosser with spit because without a valve, it just drips out of the bell and there’s nothing we can do to contain it. We have to get very comfortable with our own and sometimes others' saliva as it gets *everywhere*
Actual quote from mine: "If you wanna get that high note, play it like your holding in a fart." And "If it isnt really bad, then imma be disappointed becuase of how many times you told me it is" in response to a band student who thought they got a bad haircut and tried to hide it...m also "I'm down to earth, not under the earth"
Ohh if you meet my band director she will give you a zero for the day if you play the wrong note, she told us to shut up once while we were practicing for our winter concert the next day
My buddy was a French horn player, and be switched to trumpet right as we went into second semester a couple years back. As the first chair in my band, I watched him as he just looked at the piece our director put on the stand and just... Fear. But he likes having quick empties though!
this one time we were rehearsing the day of our concert with everyone and that was the only time we where all together and i emptied my spit valve and this one clarinet practically threw up😂💀
😂😂😂😂😂 I’ve told my 5-8 graders that if they are caught doing the mouthpiece thing you did at the end I WILL NOT attempt to remove it when it gets stuck. I have 4 6th grade trombone players that ALL leave their instrument on their chair like that...I hate it. And percussion, well...I guess we could be grateful the percussion music was even in a binder! 😆😆😆😆 Keep making more, me and my students love them!!!
gryffndrgrl85 the percussion and bass players just leave their music on the amps at my school. I think my band teacher has given up after twenty years of teaching high school band 😅
I'm so sorry....I did NOT know it triggered you all. I do have a stand but I don't want to carry that with me all the time...my case has not pocket for it...so now i don't know what to do with it when I want a short break 😔
@@lourdesochoa4250 Like, put it on the ground. Lay it on the mouthpiece, the the tuning slide, and the Bell. Laying it on it's slide will eventually cause slide damage
Only cockroaches? When I taught band (I’m retired over 10 years now) it was also mice, rats, and one time even bats besides the cockroaches. I should have been teaching biology.
Funny thing about the destroyed sheet music and folder My band director actually liked when he saw that. His logic was that the more destroyed the folder is, the more we bring it home and practice and he wanted us to practice 😂 He'd say "if your folder and music are in great condition that means you never touch it!"
One time we were switching pieces and I was on a different part than the last one so we had to switch chairs. I play trumpet, and the trombones are right behind us. In addition, the trumpets are on short risers and the trombones are on tall risers, so they have to put their stands in between the two. Anyway, I ended up knocking down the stand while I was trying to get past them.
Me: okay I haven't been in band in over a decade so I probably can't relate... This video as soon as the messy folder is shown: does THIS bring you back??? Me, catatonically cringing: oh yeah.... Middle School was a trip
@@haleysvec2608 Ah, thank you. I'm a percussionist player (Triangle, crash cymbals and Snare Drum) always take the sticks and the metal stick with you. This is so you don't walk in on somebody playing and banging on the drum or triangle.
I sit in front of the trumpets and French horns, and the class was decently quiet until I hear what sounds like liquid splattering on the carpet for a good 30 seconds. I look back and see a literal waterfall being emptied out of the spit valve; ONTO THE FLOOR 😭
I assume you're either a flute player or a clarinet player, I could be wrong on both but, since my school doesn't have carpet, I always empty my French Horn valves in the trash so spit won't go anywhere. I feel like it is unsanitary when emptying spit on the ground. ;-;
When i go for my (private) trombone lesson, the instructor tell me to just empty on the carpeted floor in the small room in the music store, which he also does.
Demon. You should have never crossed paths with the band kids. How dare you step foot into holy grounds without proper judgement at first. How dare you...
One time when I was in 7th grade, I was attempting to carry my tuba (in its case) to my seat and ended up knocking over four stands and rearranging the chairs.
You're supposed to take the flute apart (There's 4 parts, I think. I don't play flute but this is how all concert band instruments work, they all have at least 2 parts), then you put the parts in the case in their respective places, close the case and put the case, with the flute inside, in the locker. You don't just plop your instument in your locker on its own. Ever.
Oh thanks. I wouldn’t know because I’m my school we don’t have lockers, we just have music room where we keep the instruments. Also I don’t play flute.
Please upload more. I watched this a while back ago, just didn’t comment. *I watch all your videos the day they come out, an they’re always amazing. I can always provide ideas*
Once in my concert band, we were playing Pirates of the Caribbean and one of my band mates knocked their stand off. We still had our stand so I tried to use my foot to shift our stand for them. Then I accidentally tipped ours. My other band mate who was sharing with me put her flute down and tried to pick up the stand while I kept playing for the flutes since everyone except me was busy with the stands. (There was only 4 of us, me, my stand mate, and the other two flutists who had their stand knocked out in the first place). Everyone one in the band held it together. Barely. Including me. After the piece we burst out laughing for about the rest of the lesson. Including our teachers. Concert bands are always fun.
This is making me cringe And I'm only at the beginning I haven't even seen the trombone stuff yet...if there is any... Edit: ffs I do that all the time with my trombone...well shit
Does our band teacher really hate when us trumpets hit our mouth pieces to the beat of the percussionists? Edit: I’m kidding I know he doesn’t like that 😂
This is the kind of video I wish I had so I could should my band director while I was still in HS... I can relate to two things in this video; (1) The trombone on the chair thing and (2) the thing at the end. The trombone thing I learned quickly not to do as soon as I left MS since I got yelled at by the Upperclassmen in my section. The thing at the end is something that almost everyone tries once to see what it actually does (the downside is when it gets stuck in your instrument (which didn't happen to me luckily) and your director is like "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SEE I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO IT!!!")
1:50 AHHHHHHHHH THE DEADLY MOUTH PIECE BOP NO STTOP TORTURING MY SOUL!!!!!!! Dear beginning trumpeters PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!😣😣😣😣😣😣 Edit: do a day in the life of a marching band student!!!!
that part at the end- it reminds me if the first day of band when the trumpets were specifically told not to pat their mouth piece down but one of them got stuck anyway lmaoo
I am indeed guilty of playing with my flute... I regret it so much because I hit it really hard on the back of our band chair and on of the keys got bent. 😭
i do all that stuff with my flute 💀💀 be spinning it around like it’s a whole like saber lmfao. and when she says “point to measure blah blah” i use my flute to point 😭
I played bass when band was still a thing in my school. Every time my teacher stood at the front we would instantly play one of the songs we were learning for fun and because we liked her. My school is cheap so they got rid of my favourite class and now everyone is forced to do PAA against their wills. I don’t want to build a bridge out of the popsicle sticks we steal from the elementary trash cans.
im guilty of most of these with my clarinet but you forgot the trumpet players that randomly play a note as loud as possible everyday. Ahh gotta love sitting my the trumpets & percussion
In 4th grade I used a clarinet as a spear and my band director yelled at me. 5 seconds later I started using it as a rocket launcher and he got even more pissed cuz I thought he meant I was restricted from using it as one specific weapon and not others
Oh my gosh, these are so true. Even as a middle school percussionist I witness all these cringes and flaws. I even recognise my own cringes. Love from Elkhart Indiana❤
Sometimes my director will tell the percussion to stop playing and have the rest of the band or whatever just play I'm not in percussion but I can imagine
Lol! Honestly I still leave my clarinet standing without a holder to this day when I gotta go do something quickly. Man this was close to my base. Thankfully I do use an instrument holder for my oboe. Yet I know that putting an instrument on the stand is bad. Got told off several times! Hahaha!
