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 Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:26 pm
I had a band director who was all over the place all the time and would forget what they had done a few seconds later. They also had no control over us. I've always wondered if others have had weird band directors, too (especially disoriented ones).
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:13 am
Ohhhh god don't get me started on weird band directors.....
Our assistant band director, Mr. Schade..... while he may be an amazing musician, he can be one pompus a**. He takes every chance to make fun of us (jokingly of course), then makes us run basics at like 160 bpm gonk
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:55 pm
I had a middle school band director who was a very great brass player, but there was a couple of bad things.
1. He was super religious. He would say this when we messed up, "'And thou shall not miss a note' seriously, it's in there." sweatdrop
2. He only liked those who took band VERY seriously. I used to not be too into band untill da middle of da seventh grade, but if you were bad, he would sometimes throw u out and stick you in........no, not in his a** eek , but in a practice room for as long as you were terrible. stressed
3. And Finally, he was constantly trying to get rid of MY trumpet. He would tell me it stood out too much. It was a silver Cecilia. He wanted me to switch it for an old golden cornet like everybody else. He never got to switch it, but my Cicilia (my very 1st trumpet) was sold by my aunt without me really knowing it. crying However, it was replaced by a super expert trumpet. I got a Silver Bach Stradivarious No. 87 for $2,249.45. Yes ppl, I remembered da price......... 4laugh
rofl rofl rofl rofl scream
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:18 pm
I still have one. But he's the best ever!
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:21 am
Weird Band Directors? Well, mine certainly qualifies.
Firstly, he's obsessed witht he Simpsons. We have life size cardboard cutouts of the Simpson Family that we take with us to eevery basketball game. He nearly blew a gasket we he thought that one had been stolen (it was actually in a storage locker and he just forgot about it)
He also reads quantum physics textbooks in his spare time and gives us lectures during class. 0_o
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:38 am
Our weirdest band director is Mr. Fincher. His office is filled with strange little trinkets, one of my favorites is the animation cel from Batman: The Animated Series (surprise! it's the Joker). He is obsessed with Apple products and likes to listen to electronica and out-there singers like Bjork. He once hyped this terrible Sci-fi original movie called "Titanic Squid vs. Giant Shark."
Most people in band are convinced he is gay. I think the most concrete evidence is that he once attempted to gauge his ears (but they healed up now), and he kept pointing to his right ear (right is wrong). I think he only had it on his right ear too.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:10 pm
Band would not be the same without our chaotic Mr. Hartmetz.
His analogies make no sense, and he tries so hard to make us good. I don't even know if he sleeps during the marching season, seriously.
He says the most random things and nobody else really gets them.
For example, from today: "You tubas sound like a big sledgehammer! You've got to drive the nail, your part, home into the...base of the music!"
It's like...lolwut?
After being a section leader for two years though, it doesn't really feel like he's that crazy anymore. He's just...normal. And awesome. And although we all hate him from time to time, I wouldn't have it any other way. : D
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:42 pm
When my dad was in high school he played the trumpet. Well he had this band teacher who would throw stuff at you if you played the wrong note, or mouthed off, or what have you. Needless to say my dad didn't stick with band.
My band teacher on the other hand, was just really hyper and awesome. She got remarried, and I remember everyone teasing her about being "pregnant" turns out she was. Actually, she was pregnant pretty much the whole time I was in band. eek
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:12 am
my first BD, mr. R was quite odd. He would...
1. spontainiously come to school wearing tight jeans from time to time.
2. pretend to be gangster on occasion "sit down....yo..." then randomly throw in with a really nerdy voice "perhaps we could go chilling in my crib sometime."
3. he was somehwat ADHD
4. he liked to roll his R's at me randomly, wich sounded quite creepy (It was because I can't roll my R's and you'll here me attempting it quite often)
5. he was obsessed with thinks like indiana jones and loony tunes. he had us play "barber of seville" just so that he would have a reason to watch The Looney Tunes' "Rabbit of Seville" in class. Also, when the ne Indiana Jones movie was coming out, he got really excited and was got us "Raiders March" but he wouldn't give it to us or let us know what the new peice was untill the day the movie was premeiring in the theatres. He went to see the first ever showing of it at midnight that night and bought the lego indiana jones game once THAT came out. ( *chuckles* We bought him an Indiana Jones Mr. Potato head as a goodbye present when he left us...)
everyone was convinced he was gay, and his cowboy costume for halloween, and his pastel-y pink dress shirt, tight jeans and baby blue sweaters he had didn't help him in the matter. But he was married to a woman, so yeah.
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:22 am
my second band teacher was weird in an ackward sort of way. He was she schools resident first aider and so he didn't really understand the concept of "people feel ackward when you touch them" it wasn't innapropriate touching, just akward... He also got really excited over odd things like if you were a new student, or if you wanted to switch to a new instrument. ( I find that odd because every other band teacher I've ever had fights with you to stick to one thing)
he dissapeared halfway throughout the schoolyear and we still don't really know what happened to him.
and my third/final BD, Mr. H... He:
1. lives in his brothers basement.
2. can't catch something passed to him from three feet away
3. laughs when the class groans about apeice because apparently "that's the noise dead bodies make when you move them"
4. recently broke up with his, like, 19 year old girlfriend.
5. works out at the cities university because he doesn't like to work out in normal gyms due to the buff people watching you. and he likes the view at the university. ( and by the view, he means the pretty college girls)
Of course none of these band directers are anything compared to my english teacher, but lets not get carried away with my odd teachers, kay?
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:41 pm
HAD one I HAVE one!! Mr. Phillips is crazy, but u would be too if u were the band director for the whole school district.
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:52 am
She was telling us to sfzp or whatever it is, sphortzando pianos. Where you play really loud, then get quiet, and she asked for a crescendo after them.
And after a bad one, she said, "ooh! that one was poopy!" and then she stuck her butt out and waved her arms around it, (You know, as if to wave away the stink) and then she was like, "poop poop poopy" No one could stop laughing.
Also, one time she had a plastic horn in her hand, (that make the rubber duck noises) and she said, "Do you guys need a horn back there." They said yes, so she threw the horn across the band room, and the entire band and it landed in the percussion section with a large, "CRASH." Then she said, "Hey! You're supposed to catch that!"
Oh ya, and she's known for throwing the baton at you if she gets annoyed.
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:52 pm
My middle school BD's name was Mr. Whitman and I remember that he had three bad habits.
1) He enjoyed the word 'Um'
2) He spat and needless to say, every flute that had him may have remnants of his spit in their eye, myself included.
3) Every year, he elected his personal 'Coffee Boy' to go and refill his coffee whenever he needed it, even if it meant running out of class to do it.
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:54 pm
biggrin
my current directors!
Ms. K apparently was struck by lightning years ago while standing on her pedestal in marching band.
she hears every sound and tells us to listen more. (no i hear the AC and clocks ticking when i'm trying to watch TV sad )
and apparently i'm better off marching clarinet when i've been playing flute for 5 years and never played a clarinet in my life (other than a bass clarinet which i did the year before)
smile
I love band
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:56 pm
i hate how my BD tries to funny
when he laughs it seems so fake xD
then when everyone starts laughing with him he cuts us off and says
okay its not funny anymore
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