when the Band Director gets…

Thank you @Triworks for this wonderful video of a band director getting upset during rehearsal

#bandkids #windensemble #music

[D-KAL-KDZ]

Band Director: PHONES AWAY!!!
Me: But I’m tuning-
Band Director: It is…Acceptable.

[nei-]

your band director asks nicely? mine just yells and/or tells the people to pack up/gives the class a lecture.

[A_Baguette_]

I got my name written on the joke board for putting up my hand with great urgency and asking "What about saxophones?"

[CrazyGamerDude]

I love our band director really, whenever he takes up a students phone he always goes to the camera and takes a goofy selfie

[cuzreezunz]

And this is why my band director bought actual tuners so people wouldn’t use “I’m tuning” as an excuse for snapping

[yowo]

Tbh I'm in a symphonic orchestra and it happens very often that the winds have to do nothing because the strings are messing things up so we're on our phones quite a lot.
Our 1st flute brings a book with her and starts reading as soon as the strings have to rehearse anything separately 😂 The brass is often also neglected in classical pieces so yeah, we're just vibing in the back.

[Mob-tqgv]

My band director told us the story of how he broke and old clarinet over his knee as a April fools prank 🤣.

[amir_off_Break]

Not us in the background with phones on stands😂😂😂

[JonathanTheTrombonist]

We leave phones in our cases and that's it. It's because we actually like band rehersals

[Jrbloom-dv]

my band director just goes like, "you have a call? can u accept it, i wanna say something."
receives call
"AHN NYEONG HA SE YO"
that happened once, but ye, hes just cool with it

[mushroomperson]

Those people are lucky to have that kind of band director. Mine is leniant the first time but the second and third he will get mad. The key to having people listen to you I would say is respect and/or authority in an audible way because people will pay attention to someone they shouldn't disrespect unless they truly do not care

[NotCommunist]

i’m surprised a random guy didn’t jump the band director and get a brand new saxophone

[reece_.]

You'd never catch my band director being this chill

[Dynamo--B]

Oh I have a story for this
My freshman year of highschool, and since we have a school with about 2400 kids there are a lot of kids in music and performing arts. My school has multiple levels of band and orchestra I was playing 2nd violin at this time. The teachers like to gather the chamber orchestra and advanced orchestras along with the jazz band and wind ensemble to do a symphony. We were planning/practicing as a very large group for a consort the day. It is also important to note there were some kids skipping class in the auditorium that day. As we are playing the orchestra teacher stops the music and asks one of the students in the seats in front of the stage to turn off the volume on their phone. Keep in mind the orchestra teacher is best described as a fluffy Irishmem and just a very nice guy. With that in mind after he told the student to turn off their phone we resumed playing. About 15 minutes later we stopped again and he asked nicely again then we resumed playing. About 10 minutes later he silently stops the symphony. He swiftly walked over to the student and in a tone no was ready to ask the student for their phone. Keep in mind that during all of this the whole symphony was pen drop quiet. He took the kids phone and walked up to stand and we resumed playing with the hairs on the backs our necks still standing up. I have never seen him do anything like it since and I hope to never have to.
At the end of the day in the chamber orchestra he said he never meant it to be that sharp but it was an in the moment act instead as he was very stressed. So yea people don't have your phones out or you may make the nice teacher mad.
(Ps: sorry for the wall of words)

[henny]

don’t blame him. bro asked a billion times to put their phones away. luckily at my high school, everyone is scared of our band director so they don’t even bother to have a phone out 😅

[jonahziggy]

Bro if a band teacher of all teachers did that smh haha, dudes absolute nut

[Randm-gUy.]

My band director threw phones in the trash in front of everyone when nobody claimed it

[kamrin]

I'm not in high school yet so we can't have phones anyway but when he tells us to do something and we don't he's like "ok I'll wait 👀 " he was in the army for 10 years and I'm shocked he hasn't yelled at us yet
He had asked a few people to pack up before but not many
He's really nice and I bet one day he'll break and yell at us

[hydraa]

"Nic put the DAMN phone away I Will NOT ask you again"

[Just_lazuli]

I hope he pays for that. This a nice sue material