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 Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:44 pm
Sometimes Mr. Lakatos (our bd) will say it sounds like we're drunk and we're playing [he usually says this to trumpets sweatdrop ]. He also calls this making love to the song. WTF??
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:47 pm
(why do trumpets alwsay get a bad rep.)
ummm someone couldnt get a note one (always clarients or bass clarients) she always says. "put your mouth on the mouthpeice and blow" i think thats the oldest thing, but still its funny
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:15 pm
Not so much what he how he said it.
He was counting us off and this kid comes in with really loud death metal playing on his ipod. Well, while counting us off he did the surfer fingers thing when the guy turned his back. we all burst out laughing,and the flautist who had the solo was laughing too hard to paly. It took 5 mins to calm down enough to get a decent start on the song.
Then he was teaching the people auditioning for drum major the new way to conduct, and he was showing us how to do decrescendos. Well, he explained it to us by saying we ned to splat our least favorite person on the invisible phonebooth wall and smeer them across the sideXD
Thhen he showed us how not to do it. He told us not to straighten our wrists. As he demonstrated:
"this(does it right) tells people to be quiet. This(striaghtens wrist) offends people." And yes, it looked like the nazi saluteXD
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:54 pm
Our volunteer assistant director is hilarious sometimes. Sometimes. The following is just corny...
Skyelar: *describes the big community yard sale the band participates in* So uh yeah, guys, bring in stuff so we can sell it. Flyers are gonna be up front, pick some up on your way out. 8D
Mr. Hasko: OOH. Can I bring in my yard? I think we could get some good cash for that...
Everyone: lol, wow. xD
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Who is Puffer Fish Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:59 pm
So today dng rehearsal my bd was trying to get tubas to play a note with i think it was bari sax. Well, it was supposed to be accented and short. So of course all three tubas are off by diffeent counts and they all fart out the note really bad.
BD: I guess somebody had viva burito before they camer to shcool
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:16 pm
One day.... my band teacher wa getting p.o.ed @ the baritones for messing up in theis one section. It was mainly this one guy that kept on making the mitsake. My teacher said, "If you make a mistake one more time, i will throw this dirty wet sponge @ you." So of course, the baritone player didnt believemy teacher, and he pruposely played it wrong. Out of nowhere, i get all soaked from a flying sponge above my head....... and BAM! The sponge landed in the bell of the baritone and got water all throughout the entire horn! Needless to say, theat kid never came to another band practice again. xd
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:01 am
I told our BD that I had to leave practice early for a doctor's appointment and he asked me "What? Are you pregnant again?" I just stared at him and then cracked up laughing.
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:44 pm
Our bd was tryingt to get the trombones and tubas to play belltones today. It started out with him making fun of the trombones and nearly ringing our eardrums out wiht his demonstrations. Then one of the tbones decided to randomly change notes, so he says:
"Why did you change notes? Trying to pull somethingon me, like when a kid changes the subject when getting yelled atby their parent?"
Then, he moved onto the senior tuba. The senior tuba player really messed up the note, making it sound really wavy soemhowXD So, our bd comments on it.
"What was that? Chubacka farting?"
Then he makes the chubacka noise a couple times and then lifts his leg up while doing it.
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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:06 pm
We were going to Florida when we got held up in traffic because a robbery and when we got back the bd told us that not only did the robber jump off a bridge but he missed the water
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:10 am
My band gets a lot of interns, so this one in particular a halarious joke, which doesn't happen too often because our interns are always serious.
(Excuse my spelling errors, I've been staying up late writing music for my section for our end of the year concert... sweatdrop )
So Mr. Davall was saying that we (my band) had progressed so much since when he first came, and we was getting ready to direct, so we put up our instraments then he decides better and started talking.
"You know, everyone thinks bad on the symphonic band, like you're only the "Middle Band" and you don't deserve to play hard music. See, Symphonic band is like the redheaded step-child---"
He got cut off because everyone was laughing so hard, then he looks directly at me and a look of humiliation comes across his face, while I'm laughing my head off. "I didn't mean it! I'm sorry!!" He said. See it's a known fact in my band that I'm adopted. I'm also a redhead. And from there to today, at least one of my friends has been calling me "The redheaded Step-Child" and we burst out laughing.
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:58 pm
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed,
but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance...
Mr. LaPlante, our Band Director, was specifically listening to the flute section while we were playing. (Normally, they clash and it makes you want to throw up. I'm not kidding.) He was listening intently, and they nailed the part in the song. Mr. LaPlante just straightened his back and said in an almost bewildered whisper, "Wow." We all started to laugh. Except for the flutes, of course.
Another time is when one of our Freshman Trumpet Players was not paying attention to the key signature, where he kept missing the C#. Finally, LaPlante just picks up the stapler on his stand and chucks it at the kid, yelling a some sort of guttural yell. He missed, but it was funny as hell.
... In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years
of democracy and peace, what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
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Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 3:27 pm
So we had heritage festivals in anaheim last week. Well, the clarients completely skipped two big entrances at the beginning of the first song. Then during the second song the clarients and alto saxes had a simultaneous part that was already kinda hard,a nd comes out of a really loud held note by the rest of the band. When we came in on that part, we were off to a point where it was more of a call and response. We were listenign to the taspe and first our bd yells out(when clarients didn't come in):
"Forget you were performing clarients?"
and then:
"Still confuzzled about what happened in the first song clarinets?"
And yes, he said confuzzledXD
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Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 4:18 pm
Every year theres a band day at UMASS amherst, and before we got off the bus, the percussion section leader yells out, asking if the percussion (Leader or teacher, I guess would be the term) If he would tell the bus to "Not be that guy", he begged and begged him until he finally told us as we were getting off the bus. Later on, the band day coordinator wrapped up his speech by telling us to 'not be that guy'. Our whole group = rofl
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Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 4:36 pm
we were playing the planet Suits. we where ging to play Venus:the bringer of peace. the last timewepalyed,I failed epically at my solo, and everyone didn' do so hot, so before we played it he said, "Alright guys. Make it pretty and peaceful. It's not Venus's time of the month." everyone lost it, and he had to wait about 5 minutes before everyone could put their insterments back up and actually play. it totally made my morning.
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 1:33 pm
I was helping out one day and my director wouldn't stop cracking percussion jokes while talking to a bass trombonist, so I couldn't resist.
Hartmetz: Hey, what do you do with a trombonist who sucks? Give him two sticks and put him in the back.
Turner: Ahah.
Hartmetz: And the percussionist who sucks gets a stick taken away and is put at the front.
Turner: LOL.
Me: Yeah, but what do you do with a sucky conductor? Take away the stick and put them in charge of the choral department.
Hartmetz: LOL. I don't know how chorus kids follow *our choir conductor* at all...
Me: Case in point. biggrin
Hartmetz: *sees Ben texting* Ben, put that away.
*later*
Hartmetz: *sees him texting again* BEN. I SAID TO PUT THAT AWAY.
*later again*
Hartmetz: *sees someone else texting* Phil, put that away. What, are you texting Ben?
Michael: I'm sexting Ben!
Everyone: LMAO.
So lucky H didn't hear him, lol...
Hartmetz: PERCUSSION. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
Ben: H, they're percussion. Speak slower.
Hartmetz: *talks slower, they respond*
*later*
Hartmetz: TRUMPETS. Do you understand?
Me: Hartmetz, they're trumpets. You've got to slow down so they can understand.
Hartmetz: Oh, right.
Yay for unnoticed war against my best friend. xD
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