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 Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:55 pm
My band director always says before every competiton "Ok guys lets put a smile on, like my great smile" and he just grins, everyone just laughs to make him feel good it was funny at 1st but now its just disturbing
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:56 pm
Gosh, I can't remember all the Abel-isms.... 'eh, i'll just put some for now....
"You guys keep flucka-fluckin'!" ~ whenever someone messes up a part
"And I hate kids..." or "And you're talking......" ~ randomly throughout class
~Blackie~
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:06 am
my band teacher:
In symphonic: "Drummers! That double-f is supposed to be your volume, not your grade!"
When we are marching: "The cheerleaders are like horsecrap. Don't step around them, step on them." (we're not to move for the opposing cheerleaders during football)
In symphonic: "If you chew your gum, you will choke, and i will be the one who gives you CPR!" (everyone spits out gum)
A story we heard when on a trip, some people were in a pineapple fight and it almost hit our teacher's wife: "Hey! Normally the pineapple would go in your mouth and out the other end-if you would like some help reversing that process, let me know!"
rofl rofl rofl
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:07 am
one time my jazz teacher was mad at the barry sax player and he said "you have to hit the balls just right" and everyone started laughing...i still dont know what he really ment xp
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:04 pm
One time, my band director was trying to make the trombones play...bouncy i guess. So his analogy was, "imagine you're bouncing a basketball...don't make it stop, dribble"
And later, in the middle of the song, he yelled out loud, "BOUNCE THOSE BALLS BOYS!!!"
Yeah...Mr. Freelands a dork.
heart ,
Eve
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:06 pm
One time, my band director was trying to make the trombones play...bouncy i guess. So his analogy was, "imagine you're bouncing a basketball...don't make it stop, dribble"
And later, in the middle of the song, he yelled out loud, "BOUNCE THOSE BALLS BOYS!!!"
Yeah...Mr. Freelands a dork.
heart ,
Eve
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:21 pm
My BD , Mr. B, told my whole class one day the following:
"If you can't get this one part right then you all should be hit with a wet noodle"
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:58 pm
We got this new trombone, and I REALLY wanted to play it, because mine was so old and rusted. I pretty much begged him, and then went on my hands and knees and said "It's turning green!" He then respondid "Well, that's only because it's not clean." It wouldn't have been so funny if it weren't for the fact that our section leader went "He's saying you're dirty!" In a voice so quiet only I could hear.
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:48 pm
my director, miss. Power, has broken so many bitans...its really funny tho because they alwayse break when she get's mad at the drum section...there was this one time when she was condicting at a music festival and one of the drumers broke one of their stix and she got mad when she was yelling at him because he didn't have a spare set of stix and she broke her batan and she was all "oh no, i don't have a spare" and then all of us were laughing at her because she had just finished saying that you should alwayse hace a spare whatever on you all the time....it was really funny at the time.
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:02 am
Drowyit My BD , Mr. B, told my whole class one day the following:
"If you can't get this one part right then you all should be hit with a wet noodle" wtf??
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:53 am
Just last week at our Monday night practice he was getting annoyed at people talking, so he went off on this tangent about how yelling at us isn't in his job description...yadda (though it should be.) So he ended up saying at the end:
"I LOVE to mortifyingly embarrass you. You just KEEP talking, and I'll tell you to get up, pack away your horn, and GET OUT. Come on. Let me embarrass you."
He said that happily, but firmly, with a rather forced grin on his face...I love him for that. xd xd There's also his infamous, loudspeaker screaming. And...
"Any STUPID judge--and there's a lot of them out there--could see that line isn't even a line!"
"It's got to be circumsifrical!"
"BRASS!!" <----was said at band camp last year, over loud speaker, and I was one of the clarinets standing right next to it. xp
"Aaron Horner, get that hat turned around NOW." <---on Senior Night this last year, my section leader wore his hat backwards, and BD caught him in the act in the second movement, and took his megaphone and called out right in the middle of the show. eek
Here's something I'd like to add: This isn't exactly funny in the um...ha ha sense...but when you look at my BD and you see him directing us, you wouldn't really expect his speeches to be powerful. I almost cried once before the finals at Contest of Champions. gonk (I wasn't the only one. ninja ) The thing is, it's "funny" because those speeches are at odds with his personality. ninja
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:57 am
We were practicing our march (this was in 8th grade) and our band director told 2nd trumpets to be more aggresive. I was a little too aggresive and blasted. He stopped the whole band to wipe the front of his shirt and tell me not that aggresively. It was hilarious! (if it doesn't seem that funny, you had to have been there.)
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:18 pm
mr A was starting to give a lecture about how we should stop talking so much, btu before he could get even two sentences in, our baritone section called out
"shut up before you find yourself in detention wondering why you're so dumb"
sicne he had said that to a student the year ebfore.
i have more, but i can't remember...
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:50 pm
It wasn't excatly a saying, but he told the flutes to tune themselves. He acted it out, and he curled his hands, moving them up and down. Try and imagine it.
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:12 pm
Here's a couple good ones:
H.S. band director got really ticked at the trumpets for not being able to play an F#. So, in front of all sixty-plus band members, this is what happened:
B.D. "Don't you know how to play F#!? You take your middle finger and push down the middle valve!"
B.D. gives demonstration, and in the process, flips off the entire ensemble!
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Not quite entirely the director's fault on this one, but he did leave a nice set up. The music librarian at Western Illinois was retiring at the end of my freshman year. One of the students suggested that on the last day the librarian was working there, the director should go into her office and deliver 25 years worth of yelling in one day.
B.D. "Oh, I can't do that. Rita's a saint."
As if on cue, a tuba player shouts out "Bernard!"
It was fifteen minutes before another note was played.
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