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How to be a band director!
1. After the flute section has a LONG rest that they've been trying so hard to count in their heads for, cut off when the flutes take their huge breath to play the first note they had since 40 beats ago.
2. Use the term "Let's just make sure it wasn't luck" very often. In your world, it will mean "I love torturing these kids to do it the right way more than once!"
3. Use the lovely device "Dr.Beat". Connect it to the big speakers, turn up the volume, and the students will have the tempo 120 beating in their head for the rest of the week.
4. Play a brass instrument. All band teachers play a brass instrument. It's especially enjoyable when the flutes or clarinets don't know an important trill fingering.
5. You are always right. Unless you are conducting a band.
6. When the band isn't doing something right, you need to remember that your baton isn't just for counting beats.
7. Hope to death that no one invents a way for a metronome to take a bow.
8. Don't conduct what the band is supposed to play, conduct what they're about to play
Ways to annoy your band director!
1. Ask, "Why didn't I get the solo?" constantly.
2. Play forte, all the time!
3. Continue playing for 5 measures after the teacher cuts you off.
4. Arrive for your playing test with the wrong instrument.
5. Forget your music.
6. Forget your instrument.
7. Chew gum!
8. When you have to play piano, play forte.
9. When you have to play forte, play piano.
10. Constantly ask to challenge those ahead of you.
11. During a scale test, play the first couple notes right then a wrong note, ask to start over, and do this repeatedly.
12. Tune to the wrong note.
13. Hide the teacher's scores
14. Play an octave higher than what it's written to be.
15. Ask, "Why didn't I get first chair?" constantly.
1. After the flute section has a LONG rest that they've been trying so hard to count in their heads for, cut off when the flutes take their huge breath to play the first note they had since 40 beats ago.
2. Use the term "Let's just make sure it wasn't luck" very often. In your world, it will mean "I love torturing these kids to do it the right way more than once!"
3. Use the lovely device "Dr.Beat". Connect it to the big speakers, turn up the volume, and the students will have the tempo 120 beating in their head for the rest of the week.
4. Play a brass instrument. All band teachers play a brass instrument. It's especially enjoyable when the flutes or clarinets don't know an important trill fingering.
5. You are always right. Unless you are conducting a band.
6. When the band isn't doing something right, you need to remember that your baton isn't just for counting beats.
7. Hope to death that no one invents a way for a metronome to take a bow.
8. Don't conduct what the band is supposed to play, conduct what they're about to play
Ways to annoy your band director!
1. Ask, "Why didn't I get the solo?" constantly.
2. Play forte, all the time!
3. Continue playing for 5 measures after the teacher cuts you off.
4. Arrive for your playing test with the wrong instrument.
5. Forget your music.
6. Forget your instrument.
7. Chew gum!
8. When you have to play piano, play forte.
9. When you have to play forte, play piano.
10. Constantly ask to challenge those ahead of you.
11. During a scale test, play the first couple notes right then a wrong note, ask to start over, and do this repeatedly.
12. Tune to the wrong note.
13. Hide the teacher's scores
14. Play an octave higher than what it's written to be.
15. Ask, "Why didn't I get first chair?" constantly.