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 Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:55 pm
My Director always quotes Fredrick Fennell (spelled wrong i know) so the entire band knows about 5 quotes by heart. So he turnes to the section in question...
BD: So what does Mr. Fennell say about mistakes??
Section: ::groan:: 'Don't repeate your mistakes they become a disease, use your pencil'
BD: There, so use your pencil. NOW!
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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:06 am
My director has a hearing problem, so this one event pops into mind...
My Freind: Hey Mr. Shelly! What page did you want us to go to?
Director: No I don't need any coffee...
eek
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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:51 am
Our band director once told our trumpet section that they were supposed to be loud and egotistical. Lol. It's even funnier since she plays the trumpet.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:56 pm
trombone_chica Our band director once told our trumpet section that they were supposed to be loud and egotistical. Lol. It's even funnier since she plays the trumpet.
The other day my band teacher called me into her office to talk, and she locked one of the band student's gifts to her in her bathroom!! XD She said she was gonna strangle me if she ever heard anyone else talking about it...>.> Oh man i hope i dont get busted for telling my friend XD
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:43 am
The other day we were playing this jazz piece and when it came to the solo section he told us all to rest, so we did and he decided to sing out the would-be solo-line everyone was just like....wtf..?. Then once my guard instructor was trying to tell us to have our mouths shaped like O's and look like we're having fun and instead she said "Use your ho mouths"
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:51 am
We only have three tubas in our band class, including me, and we were practicing a piece of music for concert festivle. When we finshed the song, by band director was telling each section what to do differently. When he came to the tubas, he said "tubas, you can always play louder", and then he put his hand by his mouth, like to wisper, but he then said " but if all the tubas were PLAYING then we wouldn't have this problem" Since I'm first chair, and I play very loud, all my friends were telling me sarcasticly that I should play louder.
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:45 am
Lol...My band teacher was talking to the 'saxamaphone' section, and he's like, "Saxamaphones, get the crapo out of your mouth before the monkeys cut off your toes."
Then, there was the time when Nicki had to borrow a reed, and Mr. "P" said, "Okay Nicki..I'll borrow you a reed, but you have to give me a dollar fifty tomorrow or I'll cut off your big toe with a hacksaw."
Those are my stories xD
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:02 am
Daikentoss My director has a hearing problem, so this one event pops into mind... My Freind: Hey Mr. Shelly! What page did you want us to go to? Director: No I don't need any coffee... eek Wow. That director seems a lot like me already.
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:04 am
My Band Teacher LOVES analogies, one of them is about making a sandwich.
We were playing The Trail West and we kept on repeating this one part, and Mr. Snell, everytime would fix something, but the next time we would play it we would skrew something else up so he said:
To play a good piece, is like making a good hamburger. But everytime we do this someone will forget the pickles, then He(mr.Snell) would tell that person to put the pickles in, then when we made the hamburger again someone forgot the mustard...and so on.
Another analogie is from Jazz Band when we wern't playing the second part of a piece the same stylistic way as we did the first, the analogie for this was that you are giftwrapping and the people there show you how to gift wrap with the green paper, well....ten min. later a lady comes up and wants a gift wrapped with red paper and you don't know what to do.
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:30 am
our band director is great.
There are two flutes in our band, one is me, he other is this korean girl who HATES green, so of course, the BD calles her Greeney.
This one time, the BD was conducting with a pencil. When he started us off for a piece, the pencil flew ut of his hand and into the bell of one of the tubas! The BD says, "Uhhh..I ment to do that! Naw, I couldn't do that again if I tried."
The oter BD was harping on the flutes for something(this was way back in beginning band) and this one girl slumps back in her chair with her flute resting against her cheek. the flute falls a bit, and her earring gets caught between the lip plate and the main part of the headjont. The girl starts SCREAMING and the BD is like, "Wow, new fashon statement?"
Also, once we had a sub for band who specialized in subbing for bands who conducted with his TONGUE!
This is more of a story, but here goes: I don't know if it's the same with all bands, but all of the bands have problems with the ubas and percussion being too slow, it's just a fact of life for us. This one time we were playing something and the band director cuts us of and is like, "No, no, no. Percussion, you're going too slow! Tubas, you too, you're slowing down the whole band!" Therewere murmers throughout the band of "of course." etc. The BD starts us again, then cuts us off saying, "band, you're slowing down the percusson! They and the Tubas are going the right tempo! Follow them." In unison, the entire band gasps.
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:38 am
Also, this one time the BD was late for the Winter consert rehersal. When asked why, he glares at the tuba section and says,"Somehow, every tuba player managed to forget to wear black socks." He had to go home and bring up black socks for the tuba players to wear!
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:34 pm
My band director was getting really mad at us for marching out of time in band camp last year, so the assistant goes, "You are the boss of your feet!" That's been our motto since then. Another great assistant-director-band-camp quote was when we were all just screwing up (nobody but the percussion on purpose). She grabbed the long-ranger and shouted "everybody just GET BETTER!" (Also a band motto)
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:28 pm
our band director is new and his old band was incredible. they got supiriors and stuff. all the bands i've been in havent, i cant even spell it-lol) and he told us how they would do sectionals even over the phone so it was phone sectionals! lol i guess you had to be there....lol eek redface
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:19 am
"Altos and tenors, from eight before one-nineteen. That's one-eighteen."
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:57 am
Hey, my band teacher is awesome. Plays tromebone, is 25 years old and is into vidoe games and movies. The only teacher in my school that will promote daydreaming. He once said that he pictured his old teacher saying,"Take it! Strike me down with it! Only then you will know the true power of the Dark Side."
He's also into 80s music. 3nodding
That was our marching band show.
-Jump by Van halen
-Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi
-Take on me by Aha
-Mr. Roboto by Styx
And our pepband stuff that we did on the sidelines included, "Another one Bite the Dust" "My Sherona" "You Can call me Dan" "Indiana Jones"
He, if you fall asleep in class will elt his baton at you. xd
He's letting us play Final Fantasy Music for our Spring Concert.
-One Winged Angel
-FFX, Far From Home
-A colaberated battle production
-Cid's Theme
-Hyme of the Faith/Final Summoning
He's the Coolest Band Teacher I know
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