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 Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:58 am
The other day my band director did two really funny things. We had a brass day, where the woodwinds would go somewhere and the brass would stay in the band room, and we had a quarter note that was accented then tied to an eight note. Our band director said that we needed to accent the first note and then let off the second note. Then he just started to shout " DIE! You hit the first note then you DIE!!" xd
Yesterday, the trombones had a part where they had to accent a half note, and the first trombone player couldn't do it. Your band director got his old trombone and tried to demonstrate it, but the trombone player still couldn't get it. Then, my band director came up to him and said "HUA!!" like a sumo wrestler, and kept doing it until the first trombone guy would accent the first part of the note. By that time, the whole class was laughing hysterically.
xd
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:12 pm
I tell you one story to tell you another.
At band camp, at the very end of our last practice, our band director was talking to us. All of a sudden, one of our drum majors just started yelling, "I've had it! I hate this! I just don't care anymore!" And he commenced to 'break' our Spirit Stick (It determines lunch schedules. It is the devil, because the pit will never win it. scream ) Everyone in the crowd gasps.
It is soon revealed that this was just another senior prank. Joey's acting was really bad, so this was fairly obvious xd
A few minutes later, the following speech ensued:
BD: Now, we're not stopping on the way back for food or to go to the bathroom or anything. You're just gonna have to hold it... Tie it in a knot or something.
(Everyone laughs hysterically)
BD: Well, I guess some of you (looks at Joey, the drum major) don't have anything to tie.
Band: Oooooooooooooooooh!
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:16 pm
KT_Sohma I tell you one story to tell you another. At band camp, at the very end of our last practice, our band director was talking to us. All of a sudden, one of our drum majors just started yelling, "I've had it! I hate this! I just don't care anymore!" And he commenced to 'break' our Spirit Stick (It determines lunch schedules. It is the devil, because the pit will never win it. scream ) Everyone in the crowd gasps. It is soon revealed that this was just another senior prank. Joey's acting was really bad, so this was fairly obvious xd A few minutes later, the following speech ensued: BD: Now, we're not stopping on the way back for food or to go to the bathroom or anything. You're just gonna have to hold it... Tie it in a knot or something. (Everyone laughs hysterically) BD: Well, I guess some of you (looks at Joey, the drum major) don't have anything to tie. Band: Oooooooooooooooooh! XD Kt- I remember that...except I thought Joey was being serious when he broke the poser spirit stick... redface
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:02 pm
the guard kept having problems with setting flags before the show during the last marching seasong...well at the morning practice that we had before a competition he said "if there is a girl without a flag on the field tonight then the girl responsible for setting her flag will clean my entire house!" we were at attention and he was liek "relax!" and everyone started laughing. yeeeah...
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:48 pm
...My band director has a severe issue with his eyebrow(s). Whenever he talks one(or both) will start twitching. Sometimes it'll get to the point where you can't look at him for fear of busting out laughing.
...During festival, when Mr. Manson was conducting, he got really excited and threw the baton straight up in the air....
...That also happened at pre-festival, and the first chair bass clarinet almost got stabbed in the eye...
...Mr. Manson was conducting one day, and Mr. Shumick comes up and out of the blue says: "Oh, by the way, Mr. Manson just got engaged." (that was more of a 'you had to be there' moment)
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:11 pm
I have another one.
Our BD is constantly shouting at the clarinets (which stink!!), telling them they're foreign. He said, "You all are very diverse! You're rushin' with roamin' fingers." He meant it like they're from Russia and Rome, but "roamin' fingers" didn't quite come out the way he wanted it to. Everyone stared at him for a moment. Finally, a percussionist said, "Umm... what do you mean by that?" and he said, "Well, their fingers are roaming, causeing wrong notes."
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:47 am
Our BD, who's really eccentric by the way, constantly yells at the saxophones "SUCK DON'T BLOW!" And to everyone in the band (whilst pushing air towards you) "Air is free. USE IT!"
And...that's about all I can think of...at the moment anyway.
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:58 am
Omg one day we were doing this move on the feild and it looked like this kindof a thing
X X
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X To X
And he said we had to pretend that we were the human shis-ka-bob it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny!
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:18 am
We were at sight reading for Pre-UIL. Everyone had finished passing out music to their sections...cept the trombones... My band director was smiling... and waiting..... and then he finally goes "you know it would be easier if Kyle would just take the music all out and pass it down the row, instead of all of you opening and closing the folders to each person.." a little while later he goes "their still at it..." finally after they passed the music out we started the muisic and all, and at the end, my band director goes "Put your music like pg 1 pg2 pg1 pg2 and so on, so that tomorrow it'll be easier for the next group...and hopefully the next group of trombones" and then he goes" im gonna work with the trombones during full rehersal so they will know how to pass out their music, since its SO VITAL!!!
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:26 am
My band director didnt say this but its funny anyways. The tubas were playing really loudly and they werent supposed to. my director goes to the 7th grade tuba..NOTE: (7th graders always get the blame...i should konw) "My part say pianissimo..and your playing forte! and Tyler goes "Um...but my part says "p p" LOL everyone burts out laughing. my director looks at him for a sec and bangs his head on his stand. Poor guy, it seemed like he really didnt know! blaugh
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:40 pm
one day during band camp, our woodwind instructer(we had a huge staff. there was an instructer for every section, the assistant directer and direc tor. +others)was teaching us and he told us a saying to get us motivated"you have to give those juges your musical middle finger saying:mine is bigger than yours!" we kept reapeating it ever since.
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:11 pm
We were having an all brass section *ugh* at band camp and i this one guy i guess he was the volleteer brass teach or somthing and we were doing the second movment which was all preety and stuff and we were playing it to marchy so anthiny, the first trombone says "guys to play this you have to be sad, pretend its your birth day and ur 5 and ur dad got u a new puppy and u played with that puppy all day and u loved it to death and that night ur dad ran him over as you guys where playining in the front yard and said 'too bad'"
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:38 pm
Mr.Zamperini was discussing making our movements look "snappy". So I quote..
Mr.Z: When Kate (drum major) says "Band Ten-HUT!" you EXPLODE to attention! THERE IS NOTHING COOLER THAN 200 KIDS EXPLODING!!
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:49 pm
ok well this one time i was talking in band to one of my good friends named nikki. i had just gotten bak from swimming and i had mud on my pants. at this time my band teacher had taped a sign to the clock saying band in the best time of the day. i wne to look at my watch while talking to nikki and mrs.lowe my teacher screams alison and nikki out for ten minutes. so got up laughed and bowed in front of the band and walked out!!!!! i hate my band teacher so i am still very bad in band like i will talk and try to get on her nerves and stuff and she just gives me the look and i continue! well its not as funny in writing but it was really funny in really funny in real life! blaugh
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:19 pm
We were coming home from Woodland Hills (heated rivalry that kinda died down when we started kicking their asses..) which is a bus ride of MAYBE 20 minutes in heavy traffic. Our band parents give us cookies and water (horrible mixture, but you learn to love it), and my friend JT went kind of crazy with water and drank ALOT of water. So, we're sitting in traffic, trying to get home from the football game, and suddenly JT has to pee... REALLY bad. So, his friend Dave hands him a pop bottle and tells JT just to use that since we won't be back at the school for a while. After a few weird looks, JT takes it (he IS desperate) and attempts to put it to good use, but nothing happens. Josh calls my friend (at the time, we date now) to go to the back of the bus and make a water droplet sound - hopefully to spur poor little JT on. About this time, he's looking like he's in PAIN almost. Nothing happens! Evan does tons of water droplets, and nothing happens! JT hangs in there for about 10 minutes, slowly inching his way closer and closer to the front of bus. We FINALLY get back, and he runs everyone down to get his sax off the instrument bus, and BOLTS into the woods near the high school. I don't think anybody saw him for a good long time...
The other best story is when we were at the Gateway Judged Exhibition (we haven't competed since we've had issues with band directors, so this was easing us into the competition scene). We're sitting there, and our most despised enemy (Kiski Area Marching Band) comes onto the field, doing some show called "Incantations". So, it's very middle-eastern/India themed. Joe Gula sits there, and begins muslim jokes when the colorguard kneels down to change flags. And I quote "LOOK AT 'EM! THEY'RE PRAISING ALLAH!!!" "ALALALALALALALALLLAH!" "Jesus WHO? We praise Allah!!!!" and "If you have any problems with my praising, take it to the FDA - the Federal Department of ALLAH!!!" That was also the birth of "Dave's Weiner Problems" (since he always has to pee like a racehorse)
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