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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:34 pm
"I must be sick!" - My BD
I lol'd so hard.
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:31 am
One of my favorite quotes --and also most recent because my memory doesn't go back very far-- was when my band director was showing us minor keys. First he played "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and then played it in minor key. Then he said something along the lines of "See, now it's 'Mary Had A Little Lamb Who Had a Seizure and Died'." Gotta love band directors.
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Who is Puffer Fish Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:43 pm
Hartmetz: You know, I've lived in Oklahoma and Kansas, and taught in Missouri, Florida, and here. And this is the only place I've found that people actively SHUN band. It's like "Does it involve throwing a ball, do people get hurt? No? Then I'm not going and YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!" Here's a tip, everyone: People not from Northern Virginia actually LIKE concerts. We could go anywhere for a trip and play and it'd be great. Except here. I don't know what it is with you people and hurting each other... Alex: *pretends to whack Walker in the head with a drumstick* Hartmetz: Exactly.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:16 pm
I have a really bad memory of all of the things my band directors say, but heres a few:
We had a student teacher for a really long time (around marching band season and after it was over) and when he helped with the concert band sometimes he'd be really hyper. He start us off without warning and be bouncing on the podium. One day, just randomly, he just said "Sorry, I've had too much coffee." Not too funny, but it was at the moment XD
On our practice closest to Halloween, the colorguard had got to wear costumes ( band didn't D: ) and one of the girls dressed up as Pikachu. I can't remember what my director said, but he pointed out the girl after a run of a few sets.
During concert band, we were having a bad playing day and kept acting up. BD- "I'm going to act like you guys and not direct you. You'll have to act for yourselves." So we played our piece with our BD staning on the podium hunched over with his hands in his pockets, with a "I don't care face." We actually played really good, and when we were done, he said: "That kinda backfired! Maybe I should just wear jeans and a T-Shirt everyday."
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:11 pm
Couple of days ago, the symphonic band sat down in our assigned seats for a surprise on our band director Mr. Ellis. He walks in and sees everyone sitting down and he says,"Oh my lord everyone sitting down",then he acts like he just had a heart attack and falls over on a near by desk. Trez our barry-sax player, he is colored, and he says,"I got dibs on his wallet." Mr. Ellis got up and said,"Nuh, you are not getting my wallet."
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:38 pm
1.wow i havnt been on in a while. 0_0 2. Last week at Districts our guest conductor told our horn section to stop being "horny" and sound more woodwindy. We were all just like.......uuuuuuuuh........xD
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:11 pm
We're currently playing a piece by Richard Saucedo, Flight of the Thunderbird. The first time we played, the band director said, without thinking, "My sauce smells better than your sauce do!"
Yeah, my band is perverted. lol
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:27 pm
My band teacher kind of makes fun of student's (you know, jokingly, in a way that makes every body laugh.) But it's what he did one time that was so funny.
So, appearently, Swanny (His neckname) Is afraid of moths. One kid in jazz band said, Swanny was playing the piano in the middle of a song, when a moth flies in front of his face. Swanny freaks out, jump's up, in the middle of the sound. In my band class, the moth returned. And, he was derecting us. We where in the middle of a song, when the moth flew by him. he cut us off, grabbed a music book and chased the moth around the room, trying to kill it. But the moth got up really high on the wall and Swanny returned to his podium, head bowed in defeat. The moth didn't move for a long, long time. It was on to Swanny.
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:29 pm
Swanny is very, very violent with his baton. He hit's it agains this music stand really hard, and every one he has had broke. From wood, to plasic. no he has one reinforced with graphite. When he is like mad or disapointed with us, Swanny takes his baton in his hand and holds him hand up to his head. Making him look like a unicorn. So every one calls him Swanicorn now. Hee Hee.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:16 pm
"Now remember to measure your numbers and note your fingers"
lol gotta love band camp!
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:44 pm
We have this part in our music I think it's called March of the Scafold and we're playing it when he makes us stop and he's telling us this, "Okay be very quiet then super loud," after he said that he demenstrated without an instrument and did this, " bawh, BAWH!!!" he yelled silently then like yelled everybody was laughing and asking if he would do it again, and of course he did.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:04 pm
Okay here is two things my director has done at least in the past month or so 1. Most of our percussionist or idiots (I'm sorry if you are a percussionist I don't mean to insult you) anyway one of them didn't know how to hold the sleigh bell correctly, so our director was pretending to hold the bells and let's just say his demonstration did not look quite right -.-
2. The other thing was we were practicing music and our director wanted the horns and the saxophone and a few other section a part F (one of those letter pieces, not numbered) and any way he said "F, you guys" and pointed to the sections then a second later he realized how wrong that cam out, then well died laughing
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:08 pm
My music/band teacher, Mr.Whitman was once conducting us. Suddenly, he just stopped. Our tuba player, Mason, asked him what was wrong. Whitman just got up from his seat, walked into his office and came back with a lightsabar. He then hit me and the other flute players on the head, and conducted with it. Ahhh, good times~
Oh, and he taught us the history of Venice, Italy before class. XD
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:55 pm
Yesterday, we had to do long tones (it's when you have to play each note for about 8-10 beats in one breath each.), then after a while everyone got all red and purple except for the percussionists, and the BD said, "C'mon! Push it! Push it! More! Harder! Push Harder!! Almost there! C'mon!" I really couldn't help but laugh. >.<
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:36 am
my band director calls hard runs "bears" quotes: "blow hard or blow home!" "brass! you guys have to be sneaky! like shiny spies!"
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