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So in band we do this thing called breathing gym which is supposed to help your tone quality and whatever...so all you do is take deep breaths and release. But you have to breathe the proper way( from your diaphram) for it to work. SO if you take in deep breaths for about 30 minutes or sooo you should start feeling dizzy or u can just pass out. So yeah...we do that in band and our band director just watches us and starts laughing as we all fall unconscious one by one...[evil director lol xD]

So according to my bd, when he first got to our school, about 5 or 6 years ago, the band was only about 30 members, and crap. They had n director for a year or two, so there were discipline problems, nobody knew how to play, and only a few people cared. To tell you how bad it was: When my bd first got there, the school admin had the choir director 'keep an eye on him' to make sure he was alright. Sincerely. Funny part about that: they stopped asking after the second dayXD Yup, my bd is that awesome. He whipped those 30 people into shape real quick, and now our band is nearly 80 members, and one of the top 10 in the state.


Not during band, but it involves band:

So in english class we were required to write a short story using pieces of paper we pulled from a bucket. We had four pieces: one with a name, one with a date, one with a senario, and one with a location. Well, we were in groups of 3, which worked perfectly because I was with the only two othr band kids in the class.
Well our pieces were: Name: Alex(female), time: 1915, location: hotel, scenario: She didn't have her phoneXD So leave it to the band kids to make it band related.
Our story involved Alex, the two other band kids, our band trip to Disneyland, the year 2055(where it began), our BD, and a time traveling cookie. I'll give you pretty much what happened. imagine the first part in a hotel room.
Josh: I wish we could have our phones.
Alex: Me too. Mr. may(bd) is so annoying, not letting us have them.
BD(appearing at the door): I heard that!
Marshall: Uh, hi Mr. may...
BD: Can I come in?
Josh: you pretty much are already...
BD: Want a cookie?
Marshall: What kind?
BD: Just eat the cookie!
Josh: But theres only one!
BD: Share!
(So we eat the cookie. We appear in front of a sign on a dirt mound.)
Alex: What just happened?
(josh turns aroudn to see a little kid.)
Josh: Hey kid, what year is it?
Kid: 1915. I'm mike May(bd). I'm 12, and I want to be a band director some day!
Everyone: 1915?! But I don't have my phone!
So in our story, creepy time traveling cookie bd was 160 years oldXD We had to presetnt it, so the class just looked at us like "Huh?" Which made us laugh harder.

Hahah, omigosh. I have too many band stories to pick from, but I guess I'll pick the most recent one. This is hilarious.

So, Matt (a trombone player) held his trombone straight to his, erm, crotch, and yelled "I have a tromboner!" Everyone bursted into laughter and some girls covered their eyes. rofl And then he slid his trombone slide back and forth.... We all knew that he went way too far. xd


=u= eheheheh.... tromboner. Good thing our BD wasn't there. gonk

So our school was hosting soem kind fo orchestra thing, I'm not sure what it was. Well, all our chairs and stands were needed on the stage, so we were left without anything to sit on o put our music on, so we played this weird trivia game. We were in 3 teams of random people. 1 person for each team went up to the white board at the same time and the bd asked them a question. First one to write or dra the answer on the board got a point for their team. i have 4 stories from this particular day.

1: the first group consisted of two sophomores and a freshman. The freshman was the kid who can't read music and is trying out for dm. So, the bd told them to draw a sixteenth rest. Keep in mind we have a poster of different music terms, including sixteenth rests, right next to the white board. Well, the 'genius' freshman draws a dotted half note. BWe were all like "really?" Myteam, team 3, gets the point. Our bd tells the freshman to tryagain. he draws what looks like a lollipop with a tumor...

2: This group was two seniors and a sophomore. The question was where is pearl harbor located. This is when we found out band kids can't spell Hawaii, except maybe 3. Every single person up there(except for the sophomore, who wrote California for some reason) spelt it Hawii. The senior from my team next put hawie. we are all just sitting there, laughing our heads off. Finally, our bd gives up and shows them. the teams who had gotten hawii both got a point though

3: On my turn, it was all sophomores. Our question was who sided with the americans in the revolutionary war. Everyone else is arguing with the bd saying they never studied the revolutionary war. Meanwhile, I'm getting the point because I knew it was the FrenchXD

4: This time it was all freshman. One of them, the team 2 kid, goes to my church and is from Canada. well, my bd decides to test the kid's knowledge of his country. he asks them what kind of leaf is on the canadian flag. The kid is now called Mapple. He added an extra P to maple. Ad he erased it at first, but as our bd was coming up to give him the point, he readded the extra p. Because of his rewriting my team stole the point.

I think my team was frst. We had a lot fo smart kids.

I keep forgetting to tell you guys what happened at our last concert!

so, concert(intermediate) band was first, then Wind ensemble(advanced). Well, in concert I am 'first chair" so i am sitting at the edge right next to the bd's podium.
Well, we are playing a grade 1.5 version of jupiter(it was annoying to play. love the song, hate the version) and there was a breath mark and then a clarinet feature.
Well, brilliant BD decides to breath with us, and so he is leaning over my stand to look at all of the clarients, and he breaths in, and then out really hard, knocking all of my music off the stand. So the girl next to me, also in wind ensemble as well, is trying not to laug, trying to decide if she is going to help me or not, and I'm frantically trying to stop my music from scattering across the stage. i managed to catch it all before it ended up on the floor, but it took forever to get it to stay onthe stand. i came in again more then halfway through the song. My bd just lips sorry, though his face got a tiny bit red(i'm sure mine looked like a cherry)
Do you realize how hard it is to keep music from falling with a clarinet in your hand? Or how embarassing it is to nearly loose all your music and try and save it in the middle of a concert, with everyone laughing(yes, they started laughing at me>.>) at you?

Which is a total redo of the festival a week before, bvut I wasn't alone then. There was a weird gust from the roof, who knows where it was coming from, but it did not want our music on the stands. Everyone had to play catch the music at least once at the festival. I ended up tilting my stand up nearly to the point I couldn't read it before it stayed...

I have had braces now for over 5 months I am pretty sure. I just got rubber bands about a month ago and I wear the reguarly like I am supposed too. Well, in band one day, I was having a pretty awful day to begin with. My alarm didn't go off at the right time. I hit my head on the table when I was bending down to pick up my i-Pod I dropped. I had to run to get the bus because she had passed mine already and was waiting on my neighbor to come out.

So, in band that day, we were playing our instruments and just out of the blue while I was playing, one of my rubber bands snapped and went in my horn. *laughs* It managed to go through to opening at the top of my mouthpiece and reed. Of course I had to tell my BD what happened and she couldn't help but laugh and I did as well. Thank God that it did actually fall out of the horn itself because I found it on the floor when I went back to my seat. *laughs again* You gotta love braces.

Also, when I play, I can feel the rubber bands in my mouth vibrate when I play the register key and low G and E : P

OMg this story has followed me lol it's still funny... and emotionally scarring burning_eyes Because I have a trombone playing friend who's named Matt and would most likely do that... STILL BURNS AAUUGGHH burning_eyes