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 Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:42 am
I think tapping helps to keep tempo when you're performing in concert band. But when you're marching...you might trip and fall if you tap. So in my opinion, I think it's helpful to tap your feet, but only when you're sitting in a chair and playing.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:46 am
If you can do it quietly and subtly, then no. It's not bad at all. However, I am fully aware that foot tapping doesn't work when you're in heels...or clunky shoes. Tapping your toes works better.
Be happy you didn't have my mother's band director...they were regularly called "Candy Asses" and that was on his good days.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:39 pm
My band director actually makes us tap our feet, and sometimes even clap the beat o_O
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:48 pm
Tapping of the foot happens whether it's subconscious or on purpose. It doesn't make you any less of a musician-in fact, it makes you a better one because you'll always be on time. Stuff like clapping, snapping fingers, tapping feet, or whisper tonguing are all ways to get better at rhythms and keeping time. Go feet!
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:54 pm
Vampia-Rougette Tapping of the foot happens whether it's subconscious or on purpose. It doesn't make you any less of a musician-in fact, it makes you a better one because you'll always be on time. Stuff like clapping, snapping fingers, tapping feet, or whisper tonguing are all ways to get better at rhythms and keeping time. Go feet! I definitely agree. Though my French Horn teacher doesn't. She says I sway when I tap my foot. Though I always tap when we're doing a march, since all the French Horns ever have is oom-PAH oom-PAH! Though we're just playing the PAHs.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:28 pm
Sometimes it can be distracting if people overdo it.
Ha ha I always wondered
do more of you tap with your heel
or with your toes? xD
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:10 pm
my band director hates it when we dont tap our foot. actually, a lot of us get in trouble for not tapping our foot.
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:11 pm
xoemohugsxo my band director hates it when we dont tap our foot. actually, a lot of us get in trouble for not tapping our foot. My old band teacher was like that but this year my new band teacher told us not to tap our feet because apparently we rush the music...
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:37 pm
uh no way i do that sometimes too.
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:23 pm
/our/ directors taught us how to keep time like that. It works really well, as long as you don't tap too loudly.
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:24 pm
KarmaKitty Sometimes it can be distracting if people overdo it. Ha ha I always wondered do more of you tap with your heel or with your toes? xD Hmm.. both! xd I also do this wierd thing with my leg.. While playing my bassoon, I subconsciously wrap it around my chair.. o.O
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:15 pm
in middle school, that's how we learned to keep the beat; but i can't do it anymore. when i hit troublesome spots in the music for me, i just make sure i'm on the right beat by looking at the conductor. if i tap my foot, i get off..suprisingly enough. :]
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:21 pm
Well, as long as you don't tap and it's not to the beat...
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:37 pm
None of my directors taught me how to keep time like that because they wanted us(my band) to pay more attention to them, and the stage we play on is collapsible metal and makes noises when we tap, even though it is padded with carpet. The lack of tapping my foot has not helped me with fife and drum corps though-- it took me year to get used to walking to a beat and staying in step, let alone all of the fancy stuff we have to do such as obliques and wheels...
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:50 pm
I always tap my foot- i'm a guitarist and a drummer. I tend to get off-rythem really easily if i don't. I tap my foot even if i'm just listening to music.
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