The entire middle school band was fake “playing”!! #peteytvprof

Fingering before the concert for a warm-up! You can hear the keys/valves clicking

...at least, I hope that's the case. If not, my trust will be shattered lol

Yo fake it till you make my friend she got an award two years ago just for this at a banquet

dude the amount of anger that band director probably let out after concert

Yall this is fake I am also in band and was there they where looking at the notes and how to finger them it’s a warm up for beginners

I go to that school

It’s a warmup

no it’s air playing lmao mediocre bands do this to get extra practice in before a performance. imo all it does it show ur a terrible band usually 💀

They are just fingering the notes lol

In 6th grade orchestra we did this on purpose to mess with the audience. Man I miss orchestra, now I’m in marching band playing bass clarinet cos my school doesn’t have one 💀

Why would they air play on stage and not in their band room

This is so dumb that you can tell even the conductor had no experience

oh yeah you sold me fent behind walmart

And I thought my concert was great

Bro really answered the question “tell me how you don’t know anything about music without telling me you don’t know anything about music”

lol

Okay so probably don’t do this… certain band teachers have much experience, so that makes them aware of who’s not playing and who is. So if your in a band like this and everyone is playing but you’re not, the band director can probably know that by listening to everyone and figuring out you’re not playing. Also, my band director would have lost his SHIIIT.

High school trumpet/sax player here, we had a concert like a week or 2 ago and one of our songs was sleigh ride (which literally everyone but the freshman have played)... there was an entire 3 measures of almost silence because we only had a few weeks to practice before and after fall break and no one practiced

This is a warmup!? In my perspective I call this “Air-fixie-uppy”

Bro I was there it was at the beginning of this song

I mean everyone who plays an instrument does this lol including me a clarinetist

this why band is AASSSSSSSSSSSS

The director still trying to make them play

Conductor realized they weren't well enough prepared.

THATS MY SCHOOL BRO

Director must have gone cheap and bought the wrong sound of silence smh

Ok literally this is how our high schools varsity band is. The varsity orchestra which I hope to be in next year asked yesterday if band can rehearse sleigh ride with jem, and they said theyre not ready and i was like. ".... THE CONCERT IS NEXT THURSDAY" and then my friend said they wanted to rehearse Thursday. And I was "....ARE YOU FR??" and it's embarrassing for our varsity band because they have 4 directors and they're not ready while VARSITY ORCHESTRA HAS ONLY 1! 1 DIRECTOR AND THEYRE READY

....

Bro my director would actually curse at us

Yea because schools are only obsessed with what’s between you kids legs and how lgbtq they are!! Learning shit is over in public schools they pump out complete idiots at this point

This will happen one day to me

As a trombonist, this is very normal. This is called dry powering it is where we play without using sound to practice what we learned or played before the concert starts.

It's fake

Hope this don’t happen to me

One Band One Sound Fashoo! 😮‍💨💯

That’s not even Alston ridge middle

My director would be like:
Oh you guys never listen you never try is it because I’m a woman hmm if I were a man would you listen you know what I’m done with this concert
That’s why I quit band a while ago

This better have been a prank, otherwise, I, I, I just don’t know

This is fake the sound dosent match aswell as why would the director keep going? The timpani person is clearly hitting the drum aswell

They might have rests

I could see this happening in my band class

I go to this school lol, the director mrs dover left this year sadly

There can be several theories for this. It could be John Cage's "4'33" which is complete silence. It is originally a piano piece, but could be used for ensembles.. Another theory is that they are showing the audience/parents how they practice by air playing. The focus is on the slide and finger position as well as quietly tapping the rhythm (percussion) on time. Educators are to encourage to show the hard work by sometimes showing how students sight read or practice and then introduce the concert rep they did all semester. Perhaps this is what happened?

😂😂😂😂😂😂 me:

not a single wrong note....

It’s giving 4,33,

If that was I'd still somehow get told I was playing my trumpet too loud.

They probably have a rest you really think you know everything

the piece just starts with everyone playing 3 measures of rest for dramatic effect

you can hear the trumpet valves pushing down