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 Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:14 pm
In one of our songs, the melody is in the trumpets and flutes. The bass clarinet and first clarinet (i'm second) have this extremely annoying repetitive line, and it was marked piano. So, the basses were playing it about fortissimo, and they were just blaring.
Our BD walked to the board, and wrote:
ffffff = vry lowd
ff = knd uh lowd
mf = nt mch lowd
p = sft
pppppp = vry uber sft
and he was narrating in a squeaky voice. It was great. xD
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:25 pm
One time our trumpets were playing really out of tune so our director said "Holy key signature, Batman!"
And once during marching band practice, the drum magor forgot her whistle so she asked the Directors if she could use his. Joking around, he said, "but then I'll get cuties" and then the other director said "O well, hers aren't as bad as Mrs. Long cutties." (Mrs. Long is our other director and wasnt there)
He whispered it but the microphone was still on so we all heard it. sweatdrop
Then another time, Mrs. Long was telling us to do the song over again and she said "Flags, that's looking better" and then she whisphered "But you still look like crap" and once again, we heard it over the microphone. rolleyes
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:16 pm
my band teacher is a lunatic! she tells people she bought the school's Eden: Nemisis twin 250 Watt tube bass combo for $1,600! i saw it at guitar center for $500 freekin!
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:51 pm
my freshman year at band camp, our band director was trying to make us put more "oompf" in this shimmy shimmy move. sadly, her attempts weren't working very well, so she got frustrated and yelled "Come ON! PUT YOUR HOOCHIE-COOCHIE IN THE BOOGIE-WOOGIE!!!" everyone started cracking up. XD
also...
this year, my band director was yelling at us for playing Paul McCartney's song "Live and Let Die" badly. previously, she had told us how much she loved Paul and how much she wanted us to do well on this song. trying to get us to play better, she said "I'm fantasizing about Paul McCartney up here! Get it right this time!"
the band's reaction: ".....HAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA"
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:55 pm
Well, this one time, Mr. G was doing Play as a section check offs for something that was due a while back and he gets to the saxophones and asks if they'd done 6.2 yet, and they said"no" and so he sort of sits there on the podium for a minute, a then says"that's really funny"-He's so mean to them, gonk but only cause he loves them... heart xd sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:30 pm
We were working on Up on a housetop today. The trumpets sounded horrible. Mr. A tells them "if santa could hear that he wouldn't leave his house." They tried again and he said "Well at least we got him out to the drive way."
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:48 pm
Ok, so our nutty drummer was going insane with the crash cymbals again. Smithy turns to me and goes: "Alanna, can I borrow your shoe? I want to throw it at Evan."
He likes to throw his magic pen at Evan.
Then there's all his corny "The Handel of my coffee cup Baroque. I have to send it away, and I don't know when I'll get it Bach."
Once, he discovered what a joy it is to play the trombone. "Wow, this instrument, like, has a whole new meaning to me. It's all... slidey. Slidey slidey."
And on last year's band trip, he tried to speak french. Our french teacher was also supervising the trip and was trying to steal his bread. He says, over the tour bus's loudspeaker: "Ne toosh pa le pan."
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:34 pm
hmmm... One of our new band teachers, Mr.O, says a lot of funny stuff. :3
Like... when a kid was showing him his iPod, he burst out, "I-pizzle!"
Then, when he stood on a chair to get the saxes to play louder, a couple flutists couldn't see the chair and thought he was floating. Then he said, "Well, of course. I do want to be pope someday, don't I?"
That was funny. xd
Then our other band director dropped his kid on the way to the podium... Ha. xD!!
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:50 pm
my band director has an obsession with food related metaphors. just fyi...
This year during the final push of our show, we are playing America in a big block form. The first time we
tried it was about 8 o'clock on a monday night with only three parking lot lights. MJ (our head BD) yells at us as we march toward the tower, "NO YOURE LIKE A HUGE JELLO MOLD!"
in the tuba section, there are 6 expirenced players and 4 others gone tuba for marching. during a sectional, MJ came to help us. we had a really non tuba-y sound. he said we needed to be chocolate, deep, dark and delishious (sp?).
concert band last year, we had to be pie - yummy and smooth, and then the judges will eat us up!
MJ likes fridays. One time there were a bunch of bandies in the band hall in the morning and he just walked in and started pulling his shirt off and yelling, "IT'S FRIDAY!" then he walked into his office like nothing happened.
More to come of MJ and Co.!
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:46 pm
Once my band director was trying to say "Short" and "Long" and she accidentally merged the two words into a bad word which I will not say, but it was funny.
And my band director also has an obsession with food related metaphors, as well as weird ways to describe things, such as telling us to sound like a light saber and then going "woosh!"
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:19 pm
This just proves our BD has a sick mind.
"And then they had a few sextets back then, NOT what you're thinking~ Yes, I'm sure the Greeks are rolling in their coffins. Heehee, we made them say SEX!"
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:27 pm
der der der....u know of carlos mancia...our bd is strict and retarted
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:46 pm
my band director slept in the top compartments on them charter buses while he was in drum corps.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:04 pm
Loading Please Wait my band director slept in the top compartments on them charter buses while he was in drum corps. OMG. Like where people stuff their bags??!?!?! eek
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:00 pm
One day our band director was totally jumping off the walls, totally hyper. And she was like: "I wonder why I am so hyper, maybe its the coffee. I'll go get some more." IT doesn't sound that funny, but you really needed to be there.
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