NOT MY BAND I’m in Jenks Middle School and they DONT SOUND LIKE THIS don’t think all of them do because our 8th grade middle school band SOUNDS GOOD I swear search it up
Bro I’m an Alto Sax player and I constantly have to tell the kid next to me to shut up, he’s always too loud bro, even in sleigh ride I had to pause at a rest section to try and get him to be quieter 😭
at least its better than my band class, our band just doesn't play the song and its so embarrassing. and there's always that one kid who squeaks every every note of our songs 😭
I was a middle school band director for 19 years, and the joy I felt working with those kids warms my heart today. Good for the conductor for being a good sport. I was merciless in kidding around with my students, but now and then they nailed me so hard, and I deserved everything they had to dish out. What a great job!
If you didn’t have that sense of joy working with that age group you’d be on the FBI’s most wanted list! Or the kids would make your life miserable. If you’re a good sport, they’ll do anything for you. My daughter had an amazing band director for grades 7-9 & it was so positive that she took it in grades 10 & 11. She wanted to continue but it required two hours every day in grade 12 & she wasn’t that serious about it. She played bass clarinet & if the second hand ones weren’t $6000 she’d have one. I’m glad you look fondly at those years, you may not know how many of the students you impacted, so thank you for loving those kids.
Sounds like one of the best jobs in the world. As a former teacher myself, I can say that it is so rewarding watching young people grow, as we help them to understand the tools they will need to make it in the world. I was not a music teacher, but I was a music student in high school. We had such a fun time at band rehearsals and I believe we bonded as a team even more than the kids on sports' teams. Thank you for your contribution to young minds.
@bonnieralston1706 It really is a special connection. If you ask football players to play again after 10 years of little to no experience after high school, I'm sure it wouldn't turn out well. Ask the same of band students and from my experience, it's like many of us never stepped away (14 years since marching and just marched an alumni show in September)
@@matthewmoore8270 You are right. I was in a concert band is high school, not a marching band. We had a band reunion 40 years after graduation and many hadn't played their instrument since. We were together with our music director, who was then in his 80s and we could still all play. I was amazed that I remembered the fingering on the clarinet.
Love this. More than 50 years ago, in senior band, we had the kind of connection with our teacher to screw around in practice, stay in tune yet put our own personal stamp on the piece. During a performance though, it was all business. Twenty years later, my son was also in band. Although he was born with Down syndrome, he was born with a year for music. He was able to participate in band, with an aide to assist. Long story short - that ended up being me. His instrument of choice was the alto sax - an instrument I played decades earlier. He did have some tutoring for a year prior to joining the band and his teacher was a member of the Powder Blues - look them up. My son didn’t learn how to read music, just how to get a good sound out of his instrument… as well as a cool blues arpeggio. I’ll never forget the look on the faces of 60 young beginner band members and one teacher - as the cacophony of first time sounds subsided, my son blue a perfect blues lick, 61 jaws dropped and I thought to myself “the next few years are going to be fun!”. Band in school is extremely important - it gives confidence to those who may have little, provides an opportunity to level the playing field between student and teacher and, sometimes, changes attitudes and opinions about what is truly possible.
@@JacobAMcmillan Where I live student teaching would be practice teaching. Being a student learning to teach and currently placed in a school, with the regular teacher supervising as you take the kids for some lessons.
@@_emu_that’s just how teachers in training talk about stuff lol Student teaching is when they go out to teach as college students. That’s just the word for that.
Oh, those percussionists! They are their own good, ornery breed and you just never know what they will think of doing next! My son was one. He is going to be turning 40 this summer. He STILL keeps me grinning and shaking my head at the same time!
I have been teaching instrumental music to kids since 1990, and my percussionists always find away to brighten my day with laughter 😂!!! Bless each and everyone of you and every child I have been blessed 😇 to teach and laugh with.
This is really impressive for a middle school band! My high school performed this piece every year and even then we had to work at it. I could hear the flutes get a little scared in the fast and high parts but they sound like they will get it. High notes smell fear so the more they practice the better it will get
They're also playing an easier arrangement of the original piece, which is good it's quite fast in the original.nI should know since my high-school also played this piece every year, lol
I’m sure the person filming this rehearsal was no indicator of what was about to happen. I’m sure the kids were totally expecting nothing out of the ordinary to happen, because I’m sure the school hires someone to film every band class every day with a cell phone….
I just played this song on mallets and slap stick this past December. I fought hard for that slap stick part. They would have had to rip those pieces of wood out of my bare hands to take it away from me. 😂 At least this group all got to share the experience.
I js wanted to share that as a sophomore, it is shocking that only 2 of the freshmen joining band can actually blow a saxophone mouthpiece--purely just for a normal concert F sound that is supposed to come out effortlessly.
im still shocked at the fact that one of our percussionists who is a freshman had to ask what "the weird dot above the quarter note" was. its insane how far behind freshman are from the sophomore level, I'm in both the JR senior band and freshman band because I'm fairly talented and the difference is insane.
That's actually insane. In my school, it's completely flipped; me and my three freshmen buddies are way better than the senior and junior in my section. I'm first chair-
@@FNBRVolts Wait, you had enough musicians for TWO bands? I lived in the L.A. area with over a thousand students in my high school and we could barely get 50 people to show up for band. I was fortunate to have a very persistent band teacher in elementary school (only three kids played from my graduating class there) who pushed me to keep playing. I missed out on a few sports performances "for the sake of the grade", but I enjoyed MOST of my time in band back then. It's just sad that so few kids were even interested to play an instrument past the required class in 4th grade back then. I guess they just don't understand how many free sporting events, particularly football and basketball, that being in band allowed them.
@@ChristopherJohnson-ei9ul realistically it should be combined. The one band has 30 students and the other 47. We can’t combine because the smaller of the two is far behind the other, I just have room in my schedule to play in both for the fun of it.
That is the kind of shenanigans that can only come from multiple rows of woodwinds and brass between you and the band director. Also reminds me when a family friend was resigning from her post with an orchestra during the lead up to the winter season and had the lone request of playing the slapstick in Sleigh Ride.
Any time I see a bassoon I respect them so much. It’s the second hardest instrument in the world and reeds cost $20 and the side of salt for me it’s broken 50% of the time I use it
My uncle used to play bassoon, and then he was cleaning it, and he scratched the inside, so it didn't play right any longer, so ge put it down and never played again.
This is enjoyable. Having played from 4th Grade through High School, these people all can read music, play their instruments and play together, and the humor of the percussionists is nice. Good progress.
Loved it! Sight-reading? Impressive. Good maintenance of tempo - wow, usually middle school bands seem to drag it. Kudos to the percussionists. Brought back great memories of middle school band in Michigan. More power to you, Mr. Middle School Band Director.
Very Nicely Done, EVERYONE! 😃 And yes, percussion was devious... but then again, as a percussionist, how can I not 😍 that section? Y'all are wonderful! Thank you for Christmas in early March! I love Christmas any time of year. Good job! Bravo! Bravo! Director? Your conducting skills are Mad Hot! Good on all y'alls! 💐🙏🏽❤🥰🤗
To everyone saying there are too many clarinets: My freshman band of ~100 kids had a section of close to 20 clarinets. We were invited to nationals. Yes, it’s part balance, but anything is possible :D
I would go listen to my grandkids music concerts each and everyone. I have 5 of them so I had seen a few. All different instruments and one marching at a Christmas parade in Seattle. I miss those times
Wasn't just the clarinets rushing... Watch the stick, kids! Or at least listen to the tubas and bassoons! Fortunately, they were only in serious danger of falling apart once, in the first verse...
At my morning band rehearsals sometimes my friends reed doesn’t work right (she plays the Oboe) so sometimes you just hear: SQUEAK. Also last morning band rehearsal we had basically everyone who had a mouth piece (well really just low brass) they would take there mouth piece out and blow into it and then put there hand off and on it making a really funny sound😂 my morning band rehearsals are always funny
This is just like my band class we finally get it right and then at the very end someone ends up messing it up and we are all laughing and our band teacher is pretending to be mad but he thinks it’s funny too
This makes me miss being in a big band. My current school has like 70 students in total so our school band is small. (Beginning band currently has three people, me a percussionist, a saxophone player, and a flute player. Our trumpet player is on vacation but hopefully back soon, and in theory we might have a clarinet again in a month or so)
Whoa, does this bring back memories for a 73 year old! I played clarenet in middle school. High school didn't have a band, but I was in chorus. Music education is so important for a well rounded curriculum! I smiled through the whole video. Great job to the students and teacher!!! You sounded better than our band did! P.S. I was a middle school science teacher.
My band teachers so strict on music he made us play a song over and over until it was perfect, and that’s why we won the festivals of Music of middle school and high school bands, as a middle school band
I'm sure that what all the negative commentors really meant to say was something like, look at these kids trying to enrich their lives and bring joy to others with music, this is great.
My Junior High band was invited to an International Band competition in Mexico City when we were this age. I'm still waiting for the syncopated section. I loved playing Sleigh Ride with my band! Great memories, thank you!
Took me back to band class days, didn't know it at the time, but it was magical, so glad I was in band. This group did a good job and had a lot of fun with it.
reminds me of when it was the half day before christmas break and the band director said that for fun we would be practicing our songs, but we could go ANYWHERE on stage(we're a small school so the band doesn't have our own room to practice) and all of the prucussionists looked at each other and decided to stand DIRECTLY behind our band director I was on crash cymbals and was immedietly booted to the front of the group to stand obnoxiously close him he said he wouldn't go back on what he told us and everyone was laughing as percussion just blasted our parts right behind him
Oh, I really enjoyed that!! What I would have given to be in the middle school band. Our band was us standing behind the teacher singing while she played the piano! Great job kids!!!
As a band director, you are always stuck with what you get. It is one reason most bands often don't sound so good because the instruments are never balanced.
This represents every single Middle school band, as everybody just plays at the top of their lungs 😅
Nah, my middle school band doesn't do that.
Or at least the ones who have been in band for over a year or a quickly developing (like me).
HAHA
this is funny but untrue😂
@@j_o_s_h_tI’m in beginning band and my band teacher has high expectations for us. No blehs
NOT MY BAND I’m in Jenks Middle School and they DONT SOUND LIKE THIS don’t think all of them do because our 8th grade middle school band SOUNDS GOOD I swear search it up
No not mine. It may be only because I’m an 8th grader in honors band at Aledo, but we sound great and everyone is good at blending.
As a percussionist, i can confirm that im always feeling devious
Good job!!!
Same.
When we were feeling devious, we’d up the BPM slowly and see how long it took our band director to notice.
so true pal
Yes it’s our signature. Lol
7 slapsticks is actually crazy
Crazy awesome?
Aren’t they supposed to use it more like a whip? It makes a much louder sound that way so they wouldn’t need seven slapsticks.
needs more cowbell
AND they played in time together pretty well!!
@@tigercomet23 Yeah I was actually impressed. I guess the slap-stick kids aren't the most motivated kids? But they were really in sync!
I watched that one kid go off screen like "he's going to come back with an absolutely insane instrument idnt he"
You can actually hear the clarinets when it’s there turn to play😂😂 saxophone actually playing quietly go brrr😂😂
They are blasting their music so loudly 😒
I think theres one idk
coming from a clarinetist, that’s a lot of clarinetists, my school only has 3 lol
I hate to be this person but…
*their
Bro I’m an Alto Sax player and I constantly have to tell the kid next to me to shut up, he’s always too loud bro, even in sleigh ride I had to pause at a rest section to try and get him to be quieter 😭
I was half expecting percussion to come out with an airhorn for the final "neigh."
at least its better than my band class, our band just doesn't play the song and its so embarrassing. and there's always that one kid who squeaks every every note of our songs 😭
Fr bro 😭
Too true.
@@Carmoax_Officalwhy you blurting out random kids
@@christianberry3031 im not- they all have issues. I can probably name my whole band class 💀
@@Carmoax_Offical yeah but those names have no meaning to us. Like why would that matter?
I was a middle school band director for 19 years, and the joy I felt working with those kids warms my heart today. Good for the conductor for being a good sport. I was merciless in kidding around with my students, but now and then they nailed me so hard, and I deserved everything they had to dish out. What a great job!
If you didn’t have that sense of joy working with that age group you’d be on the FBI’s most wanted list! Or the kids would make your life miserable. If you’re a good sport, they’ll do anything for you.
My daughter had an amazing band director for grades 7-9 & it was so positive that she took it in grades 10 & 11. She wanted to continue but it required two hours every day in grade 12 & she wasn’t that serious about it. She played bass clarinet & if the second hand ones weren’t $6000 she’d have one.
I’m glad you look fondly at those years, you may not know how many of the students you impacted, so thank you for loving those kids.
Research has shown that music is a bridge to a good mind.
Sounds like one of the best jobs in the world. As a former teacher myself, I can say that it is so rewarding watching young people grow, as we help them to understand the tools they will need to make it in the world. I was not a music teacher, but I was a music student in high school. We had such a fun time at band rehearsals and I believe we bonded as a team even more than the kids on sports' teams. Thank you for your contribution to young minds.
@bonnieralston1706 It really is a special connection. If you ask football players to play again after 10 years of little to no experience after high school, I'm sure it wouldn't turn out well. Ask the same of band students and from my experience, it's like many of us never stepped away (14 years since marching and just marched an alumni show in September)
@@matthewmoore8270 You are right. I was in a concert band is high school, not a marching band. We had a band reunion 40 years after graduation and many hadn't played their instrument since. We were together with our music director, who was then in his 80s and we could still all play. I was amazed that I remembered the fingering on the clarinet.
see, this is why i'm in percussion. its fun and we piss people off most of the time
Like your additude !
lol
@@sharonyost3807ok buddy
Love this. More than 50 years ago, in senior band, we had the kind of connection with our teacher to screw around in practice, stay in tune yet put our own personal stamp on the piece. During a performance though, it was all business. Twenty years later, my son was also in band. Although he was born with Down syndrome, he was born with a year for music. He was able to participate in band, with an aide to assist. Long story short - that ended up being me. His instrument of choice was the alto sax - an instrument I played decades earlier. He did have some tutoring for a year prior to joining the band and his teacher was a member of the Powder Blues - look them up. My son didn’t learn how to read music, just how to get a good sound out of his instrument… as well as a cool blues arpeggio.
I’ll never forget the look on the faces of 60 young beginner band members and one teacher - as the cacophony of first time sounds subsided, my son blue a perfect blues lick, 61 jaws dropped and I thought to myself “the next few years are going to be fun!”.
Band in school is extremely important - it gives confidence to those who may have little, provides an opportunity to level the playing field between student and teacher and, sometimes, changes attitudes and opinions about what is truly possible.
Yes! Music blends souls together with sounds that vibrate in their souls. What a blessing for you and your son!
As someone who is currently student teaching at a middle school, I love everything about this.
how are you a student but you also you teach there
@@_emu_ he is "student teaching" so he is teaching the students haha
@@JacobAMcmillan that’s a weird way to write it…
@@JacobAMcmillan
Where I live student teaching would be practice teaching. Being a student learning to teach and currently placed in a school, with the regular teacher supervising as you take the kids for some lessons.
@@_emu_that’s just how teachers in training talk about stuff lol
Student teaching is when they go out to teach as college students. That’s just the word for that.
the giant slapstick caught me off guard-
The choreographed jumps were hilarious!
Oh, those percussionists! They are their own good, ornery breed and you just never know what they will think of doing next! My son was one. He is going to be turning 40 this summer. He STILL keeps me grinning and shaking my head at the same time!
You know that’s gonna be one of their favorite memories from middle school
As a percussionist i can agree with everything 👍 👌
I have been teaching instrumental music to kids since 1990, and my percussionists always find away to brighten my day with laughter 😂!!! Bless each and everyone of you and every child I have been blessed 😇 to teach and laugh with.
This is literally slapstick comedy 😂
This is really impressive for a middle school band! My high school performed this piece every year and even then we had to work at it. I could hear the flutes get a little scared in the fast and high parts but they sound like they will get it. High notes smell fear so the more they practice the better it will get
They're also playing an easier arrangement of the original piece, which is good it's quite fast in the original.nI should know since my high-school also played this piece every year, lol
"high notes smell fear" 😆🤣🤣😂
So P E R F E C T L Y described!!
"I could hear the flutes" that's not something you can say of a good chunk of middle school bands
That should be “Sleigh Ride but the percussion is Genius”
Seriously.
The person with the sleigh bells needs to be put on watch list for that technique
As someone who played sleigh bells for this song, I second this
O. M. G. That’s is hilariously clever! Well done, percussion 🥁 Section
I’m sure the person filming this rehearsal was no indicator of what was about to happen. I’m sure the kids were totally expecting nothing out of the ordinary to happen, because I’m sure the school hires someone to film every band class every day with a cell phone….
0:20 love the oboe player jist jamming here
wait that's actually funny
why do all bands have one oboe
@@Creeper_Chronicles I don't know I'm the only oboe in my school band and it makes me sad
The only Oboe in my school is in Jazz Band :
I used to be an oboe player, there was 4 of us, but compared to the trumpets, it was nothing 😂
Back in middle school our clapper guy would get a running start and jump up during the performance of sleigh ride. Audience loved it.
I just played this song on mallets and slap stick this past December. I fought hard for that slap stick part. They would have had to rip those pieces of wood out of my bare hands to take it away from me. 😂 At least this group all got to share the experience.
I js wanted to share that as a sophomore, it is shocking that only 2 of the freshmen joining band can actually blow a saxophone mouthpiece--purely just for a normal concert F sound that is supposed to come out effortlessly.
im still shocked at the fact that one of our percussionists who is a freshman had to ask what "the weird dot above the quarter note" was. its insane how far behind freshman are from the sophomore level, I'm in both the JR senior band and freshman band because I'm fairly talented and the difference is insane.
That's actually insane. In my school, it's completely flipped; me and my three freshmen buddies are way better than the senior and junior in my section. I'm first chair-
@@FNBRVolts Wait, you had enough musicians for TWO bands? I lived in the L.A. area with over a thousand students in my high school and we could barely get 50 people to show up for band. I was fortunate to have a very persistent band teacher in elementary school (only three kids played from my graduating class there) who pushed me to keep playing. I missed out on a few sports performances "for the sake of the grade", but I enjoyed MOST of my time in band back then. It's just sad that so few kids were even interested to play an instrument past the required class in 4th grade back then. I guess they just don't understand how many free sporting events, particularly football and basketball, that being in band allowed them.
@@dauntless_kitten There are band members, and there are musicians. Congrats on being a musician!
@@ChristopherJohnson-ei9ul realistically it should be combined. The one band has 30 students and the other 47. We can’t combine because the smaller of the two is far behind the other, I just have room in my schedule to play in both for the fun of it.
That is the kind of shenanigans that can only come from multiple rows of woodwinds and brass between you and the band director.
Also reminds me when a family friend was resigning from her post with an orchestra during the lead up to the winter season and had the lone request of playing the slapstick in Sleigh Ride.
BRO HOW MANY CLARINETS IS THAT
more than my school with 3 about to be 2
@@jasonsnow7577 mine has 15
Yes
frrrr mine has 3 too (i’m one of them)
I have 3
At our concert where we had to sightread this we had like 5 people playing the slapsticks
Any time I see a bassoon I respect them so much. It’s the second hardest instrument in the world and reeds cost $20 and the side of salt for me it’s broken 50% of the time I use it
My uncle used to play bassoon, and then he was cleaning it, and he scratched the inside, so it didn't play right any longer, so ge put it down and never played again.
This is enjoyable. Having played from 4th Grade through High School, these people all can read music, play their instruments and play together, and the humor of the percussionists is nice. Good progress.
Takes me back to 1974. Good times.
The shenanigans happen in chorus, too! I remember the pranks we pulled in high school chorus 55 years ago!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
I sit next to this boy as an alto sax and he yells at me every time I get the dynamic wrong 😅
Awesome they put a lot of time and effort into this great song of Christmas time. Makes you smile… loved it
Brings back painful memories of my time in band.
Loved it! Sight-reading? Impressive. Good maintenance of tempo - wow, usually middle school bands seem to drag it. Kudos to the percussionists. Brought back great memories of middle school band in Michigan. More power to you, Mr. Middle School Band Director.
7 slapsticks and my skl dosent have one 😭
Very Nicely Done, EVERYONE! 😃 And yes, percussion was devious... but then again, as a percussionist, how can I not 😍 that section? Y'all are wonderful! Thank you for Christmas in early March! I love Christmas any time of year. Good job! Bravo! Bravo! Director? Your conducting skills are Mad Hot! Good on all y'alls! 💐🙏🏽❤🥰🤗
To everyone saying there are too many clarinets:
My freshman band of ~100 kids had a section of close to 20 clarinets. We were invited to nationals. Yes, it’s part balance, but anything is possible :D
I would go listen to my grandkids music concerts each and everyone. I have 5 of them so I had seen a few. All different instruments and one marching at a Christmas parade in Seattle. I miss those times
God bless every music teacher. Shout-out to Paul Smith, Miami Palmetto High.
Frank Desby, John Marshall High School, Los Angeles, CA.
Fun fact: the horse neighing sound at the end of the song is played on a trumpet
As an alumni band geek, this video brought back memories & made me happy.
I love the arbitrary tempo changes and the clarinets rushing.
Wasn't just the clarinets rushing... Watch the stick, kids! Or at least listen to the tubas and bassoons! Fortunately, they were only in serious danger of falling apart once, in the first verse...
This makes me so nostalgic for the percussion shenanigans we would pull in middle school and high school band 🥲
As a percussionist way back when jr hi 67- 70.
That 2x4 slap at the end hopefully was also on stage. That was classic.
I absolutely loved band practice in school. These kids are pretty good. I hope some of them decide to go further with their music.
At my morning band rehearsals sometimes my friends reed doesn’t work right (she plays the Oboe) so sometimes you just hear: SQUEAK. Also last morning band rehearsal we had basically everyone who had a mouth piece (well really just low brass) they would take there mouth piece out and blow into it and then put there hand off and on it making a really funny sound😂 my morning band rehearsals are always funny
So funny, that's the percussion section, they all act like that. Great memories.
The devious smile😂
i love seeing someone play sleigh bells that way. thats the best way to play them, not the supid way most people are taught.
needs the temple blocks for the full effect tbh
I’m nearing 70 and I remember playing this in my junior high school band winter concert. Great job, for their teacher, memories are being made.
Sure brings back memories. We played that song in band way back in the 70’s.
Perfect slapstick timing...until the end 😂
I saw the pov of a girl in that band and it ended w JONAH
It's great to see them having fun and the band director letting them be kids and have fun
That was just wonderful! ♥️👏 I felt like I got to go to a concert for free! Just lovely! ♥️ Thank you!
It feels like it's Christmas season once again.
I loved band so much. I was a percussionist. Thanks for a nostalgic video.
The percussion are the only ones who don't look bored to death .
I was a middle school teacher, and I am laughing and giving a thumbs up to those kids! Made my day!
This is just like my band class we finally get it right and then at the very end someone ends up messing it up and we are all laughing and our band teacher is pretending to be mad but he thinks it’s funny too
Hilarious. Great to see kids making music and having fun. Percussion is the best fun!
Brings back sooooo many memories!😂
Love it! What a great teacher and band. 💕
This makes me miss being in a big band. My current school has like 70 students in total so our school band is small. (Beginning band currently has three people, me a percussionist, a saxophone player, and a flute player. Our trumpet player is on vacation but hopefully back soon, and in theory we might have a clarinet again in a month or so)
Made me want to cry. My kids are adults now and i sure miss going to their band concerts 😢
Whoa, does this bring back memories for a 73 year old! I played clarenet in middle school. High school didn't have a band, but I was in chorus. Music education is so important for a well rounded curriculum! I smiled through the whole video. Great job to the students and teacher!!! You sounded better than our band did! P.S. I was a middle school science teacher.
Clarinet
That's hilarious. Great to see everyone having fun while playing music.
Great to see youngsters enjoying their music.
Literal slap stick comedy. 😂 Love it!
My band teachers so strict on music he made us play a song over and over until it was perfect, and that’s why we won the festivals of Music of middle school and high school bands, as a middle school band
Terrific! CLAP. Especially Jonah! CLAP
Thanks......brings back great memories!
Reminds me soooo much of when I was a founder member of the Bedfordshire Youth Concert Band! The fun we had...
My oldest son is a band director and I have been a band member since 1970. Glad to see nothing has changed.
Great band! Great performace! Good job director!
That was so funny and cute! Good job, Mr. Band Director and all of your band members!
I'm sure that what all the negative commentors really meant to say was something like, look at these kids trying to enrich their lives and bring joy to others with music, this is great.
Percussion is always mischievous, and devious, and that’s coming from a percussionist.
Being a junior high school band director has got to be some kind of hell on earth.
My Junior High band was invited to an International Band competition in Mexico City when we were this age. I'm still waiting for the syncopated section. I loved playing Sleigh Ride with my band! Great memories, thank you!
Nice playing! Loved percussion - looks like so much fun but a lot of patience needed.
As a former slapstick percussionist I applaud this and give a bow to the entire group!
Took me back to band class days, didn't know it at the time, but it was magical, so glad I was in band. This group did a good job and had a lot of fun with it.
I truly miss school band classes. 6 years for me. Saxophone 🎷 and cymbals for one year during marching band time. Life was good back in the day.
Awesome . Love it. So wonderful and fun. May Our Heavenly Father bless you and all your loved ones for bringing such joy . Hilarious at the end.😂
These kids are really good, "deviousness" and all. Bravo! 😊👏👏👏
I am a middle school teacher and this made me laugh! I live this kind of stuff on a daily basis. You just have to grin and bear it!
Lol! Brings memory back from HS chorus alumni 🎉❤
Good job kids
reminds me of when it was the half day before christmas break and the band director said that for fun we would be practicing our songs, but we could go ANYWHERE on stage(we're a small school so the band doesn't have our own room to practice) and all of the prucussionists looked at each other and decided to stand DIRECTLY behind our band director
I was on crash cymbals and was immedietly booted to the front of the group to stand obnoxiously close him
he said he wouldn't go back on what he told us and everyone was laughing as percussion just blasted our parts right behind him
Oh, I really enjoyed that!! What I would have given to be in the middle school band. Our band was us standing behind the teacher singing while she played the piano! Great job kids!!!
Love these students ❤ 😂 creativity at its best!
You got to love it!
But never have I seen so many clarinets in one room 😂
As a band director, you are always stuck with what you get. It is one reason most bands often don't sound so good because the instruments are never balanced.
Good job, that was always one of my favorite parts to play. 🧨
The beginning switch from the regular key scared me
I love this so much.