Mine would demote us all to the lowest band and start explain to the audience how annoying we are ( he's still an amazing teacher just with high standards)
They’re probably playing 4’33 by John Cage. It’s literally 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. Cage’s theory was that all noises and sounds are music.
Bands will always play multiple songs, so this wouldn’t be an explanation. The person recording said this went on all night, meaning they played more than one song. So if even they did do this, it’s not and explanation.
This is called “air playing” most the time they do this before they play the actually song, it’s a way to practice (slide positions, value combinations, etc.) without making any sound.
@@krisvyxxey’re moving fingers. As @strawlover mentioned earlier, this is called air playing. Air playing allows individuals to look at there sheet music one last time before having to perform. Additionally, it makes you aware of any broken keys on an instrument. It also benefits the director allowing them to practice conducting and such and feel it out before they perform. (No. directors don’t just hand out music and suddenly conduct the song without practicing.) Air playing is an effective form to prepare the band before playing at a concert regardless how much they practiced. Even top bands in the world do this. I can reassure that air playing isn’t “doing nothing”.
@@krisvyxxI’d also like to correct your theory of why people warm up in sports. People in football and other sports warm-up before each game because it is deemed as unhealthy to suddenly put your body through an entire fitness workout without any proper introduction prior to the game. It also lowers performance skills. It’s kind of like waking up from a long nap and expected to do a math test the very second you wake up. This can be used as an example to why bands warm-up. You don’t just go out playing songs without preparing your embouchure, practicing fingers (especially for a middle school band) and preparing to produce the necessary air required to put out a decent tone quality.
@@krisvyxx Lets face it they probably did not do this all night. It was probably just a joke by the videos creator but if not there is a few different things this could be. 1 A way to warm up. Just like how bands need to warm up with scales (since you probably dont know they do that so you can know early if you need to fix a reed, oil a valve, or tune) not playing is a technique used when you want to mark through the music without playing it. Which brings me to option 2. This could be their MPA or an assessment. A part of MPA is sight reading. Meaning you have to play a piece you have never seen before. The "rules" are you get 3-5 minutes to practice the piece without making noise through the instrument. So you go through the song once fingering the instrument and counting the measure or what ever your director taught you to do before playing the entire song hoping to god it goes well. hope this shuts your arguement down :)
@@krisvyxx Orchestra… makes sense. I want to be clear when I say that band and orchestra simply don’t compare in terms of warm-up. If a middle school student instrument is broken just minutes before practice for whatever reason it isn’t necessarily anyone fault. Its not the director nor the students fault and band instruments having issues/breaking just hours or minutes before a performance is actually much more common that you appear to think it is. Happened to me once at all-state and was devastated lol. Now about this teachers warm-up mechanisms… Annoying? Maybe. Tedious? Perhaps. But each director has different ways to prepare there students to have the best performance possible. Too you this may seem absurd but I feel as though it isn’t really a bad idea for beginner musicians. It gives them one last chance of looking at music and preparing before playing. The pervious reference to sports was referring to warm-ups by the band that includes breathing exercises, lip slurs, etc. The point of this reference was to show that football and band are similar and their warm-up behaviours can be compared. I’m also going to be honest. There really is no reason for you as an orchestra player to be debating about what’s necessary and unnecessary for a band too do. Your not in band and you certainly don’t play a wind instrument. Different techniques are needed to play such as great breathing, embouchure, and goodness especially for trombones slide positioning. In fact, one of the very few things an Ochestra and a band both have in common during warm-up is the process of tuning. It’s kept at that. So please like- keep an open-mind. I understand that you want to be heard but you have zero experience in being in a band. you’re giving input on wind instrument warm-ups but yet you haven’t been in a band OR played a wind instrument. C’mon man.
This happened to me bruh, last year no one else played during our section, I was so nervous I paused for a beat then just waited waited the measure to end, and kept going.
For those who don’t know, they’re not all faking it. They’re fingering through the music to warm up without actually playing the song this isnt for before a concert, its durring the sight reading part of a festival. before students sight read/play the piece they go through it with the band director air playing it.
@iyanabarber and you have proof of her filming this all night? No. Because it’s just a few Second clip. In reality they’re only silently fingering the notes for a few seconds.
We dont do this, its not a warm up and we warm up before the concert downstairs. We dont warm up in front of a crowd and we dont warm up like this. This isnt even a form of warm up.
@@keshacow its for a festival my guy. theyre doing the sight reading portion where you finger through the music, then you play it. not sure if yall go to festival and sight read in middle school but you do after. depends on the school.
They are in sight reading session. They aren’t allowed to play before time and the director is taking them through an imaginary time where they think the music before they have one chance to start play and end the real music in front of the judge. This is a warmup teaching exercise for sight reading.
Actually this has happened to us begire because no one was ready and we all started laughing. But that was at a rehearsal not a concert, idk what this is
This is called what my band directors call fingering through the song. Basically, the conductor gives the tempo and we finger through the positioning for each note. It’s a way to make sure you don’t accidentally play a wrong note.
My director would be pissed, no livid if we pulled this stunt😅. He’s the kind of guy who is chill with practically anything but when he’s mad he is almost scary
Honestly considering that My band has a concert in a few weeks would normally be good right? Well about 2 months ago our band teacher and the color guard had an"affair" on school grounds and students caught them. It's been almost 2 months once we've played cause we've had subs.We may have to just airplay
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
Tapping feet is used in smaller bands, but once the band gets bigger, everyone's tapping isn't synced up and you get off beat. What I said wouldn't apply to this band, but something to keep note.
Looks like band adjudication, section leaders get 4 minutes to go over a new song with section, given to them blind. Then the Director gets 4 minutes to do a run thru. NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO PLAY A NOTE! Many ensembles will breathe their parts though. Then they go for realz. Someone probably already explained this, but truth is less fun
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?
When I was in middle school, I couldn't fake it. We had two trombone players, me and another guy. Me and the other guy practically had duets during every concert. We didn't have any euphoniums or tubas, so everytime a low brass specific part came up, we had to lock it
"It's sight reading." As a musician wtf. Why are they sight reading during a concert. This doesn't make any sense. They're not sight reading or anything like that
Bro… it’s called airing Airing is when you blow into your instrument but not blowing hard enough to play, we do this a practice before we play something🤠
Omg my band teacher tells us to "fake it" then asks if the clarinets did. None of them did, but the trumpets were rly loud. Sorry for the story, this video us hilarious
There is actually a song where it's like 4 minutes long and it's just silence. My band director did that for one of her playing exams in college and got an A
How talented these young musicians must be to take on 4’33 🤣🤣🤣 (those who dont know- “4’33” is a music piece that was composed with full bar rests for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and that was the whole piece”
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dont worry they are just playing silent night
Mg lol
LMFAO
LMAO
For all the songs of the concert?
lol
My director would of been like,"YALL BETTER STOP PLAYING WITH ME!"
Literally
Same fr
yall
Mine would probably quit
More like y’all better *start* playing with me
The deaf kid: this song is fire
@The guiding light r/woooooooooosh
That’s messed up😂
@@henrystickmin7066 that's not a woooosh moment
@@dark8301 youre a clown
@@trgyfhgnt3It is actually it’s a joke and they don’t seem to get it
Our director would start laughing and then make us restart
😂
mine would give us a death stare if we did this to her
Give me your band director-
My chior would be so mad if we all stopped singing
900th like
Mine would demote us all to the lowest band and start explain to the audience how annoying we are ( he's still an amazing teacher just with high standards)
They’re probably playing 4’33 by John Cage. It’s literally 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. Cage’s theory was that all noises and sounds are music.
Ah, is that the one that ends in silence?
We played this at our last orch concert as a joke lol
Bands will always play multiple songs, so this wouldn’t be an explanation. The person recording said this went on all night, meaning they played more than one song. So if even they did do this, it’s not and explanation.
Ehhhh which is debatable 🤣
Do you know where to find sheet music of it? It seems very heard to learn
This is called “air playing” most the time they do this before they play the actually song, it’s a way to practice (slide positions, value combinations, etc.) without making any sound.
@@krisvyxxey’re moving fingers. As @strawlover mentioned earlier, this is called air playing. Air playing allows individuals to look at there sheet music one last time before having to perform. Additionally, it makes you aware of any broken keys on an instrument.
It also benefits the director allowing them to practice conducting and such and feel it out before they perform. (No. directors don’t just hand out music and suddenly conduct the song without practicing.)
Air playing is an effective form to prepare the band before playing at a concert regardless how much they practiced. Even top bands in the world do this. I can reassure that air playing isn’t “doing nothing”.
@@krisvyxxI’d also like to correct your theory of why people warm up in sports. People in football and other sports warm-up before each game because it is deemed as unhealthy to suddenly put your body through an entire fitness workout without any proper introduction prior to the game. It also lowers performance skills. It’s kind of like waking up from a long nap and expected to do a math test the very second you wake up.
This can be used as an example to why bands warm-up. You don’t just go out playing songs without preparing your embouchure, practicing fingers (especially for a middle school band) and preparing to produce the necessary air required to put out a decent tone quality.
@@krisvyxx Say you dont play an instrument without saying you dont play an instrument
@@krisvyxx Lets face it they probably did not do this all night. It was probably just a joke by the videos creator but if not there is a few different things this could be. 1 A way to warm up. Just like how bands need to warm up with scales (since you probably dont know they do that so you can know early if you need to fix a reed, oil a valve, or tune) not playing is a technique used when you want to mark through the music without playing it. Which brings me to option 2. This could be their MPA or an assessment. A part of MPA is sight reading. Meaning you have to play a piece you have never seen before. The "rules" are you get 3-5 minutes to practice the piece without making noise through the instrument. So you go through the song once fingering the instrument and counting the measure or what ever your director taught you to do before playing the entire song hoping to god it goes well. hope this shuts your arguement down :)
@@krisvyxx Orchestra… makes sense. I want to be clear when I say that band and orchestra simply don’t compare in terms of warm-up. If a middle school student instrument is broken just minutes before practice for whatever reason it isn’t necessarily anyone fault. Its not the director nor the students fault and band instruments having issues/breaking just hours or minutes before a performance is actually much more common that you appear to think it is. Happened to me once at all-state and was devastated lol. Now about this teachers warm-up mechanisms… Annoying? Maybe. Tedious? Perhaps. But each director has different ways to prepare there students to have the best performance possible. Too you this may seem absurd but I feel as though it isn’t really a bad idea for beginner musicians. It gives them one last chance of looking at music and preparing before playing.
The pervious reference to sports was referring to warm-ups by the band that includes breathing exercises, lip slurs, etc. The point of this reference was to show that football and band are similar and their warm-up behaviours can be compared.
I’m also going to be honest. There really is no reason for you as an orchestra player to be debating about what’s necessary and unnecessary for a band too do. Your not in band and you certainly don’t play a wind instrument. Different techniques are needed to play such as great breathing, embouchure, and goodness especially for trombones slide positioning. In fact, one of the very few things an Ochestra and a band both have in common during warm-up is the process of tuning. It’s kept at that.
So please like- keep an open-mind. I understand that you want to be heard but you have zero experience in being in a band. you’re giving input on wind instrument warm-ups but yet you haven’t been in a band OR played a wind instrument. C’mon man.
Better than if only one person played
@half-randomjackfr bro
@@thepinkelephant2520nah the one kid who did played would be a infinite better musician then all of them combined
This happened to me bruh, last year no one else played during our section, I was so nervous I paused for a beat then just waited waited the measure to end, and kept going.
For those who don’t know, they’re not all faking it. They’re fingering through the music to warm up without actually playing the song
this isnt for before a concert, its durring the sight reading part of a festival. before students sight read/play the piece they go through it with the band director air playing it.
@iyanabarber and you have proof of her filming this all night? No. Because it’s just a few Second clip. In reality they’re only silently fingering the notes for a few seconds.
@iyanabarberthis was not all night. Anyone whose ever performed music can see what this is.
Yeah so many gullible morons immediately believe anything that they see on the internet. Kind of sad.
We dont do this, its not a warm up and we warm up before the concert downstairs. We dont warm up in front of a crowd and we dont warm up like this. This isnt even a form of warm up.
@@keshacow its for a festival my guy. theyre doing the sight reading portion where you finger through the music, then you play it. not sure if yall go to festival and sight read in middle school but you do after. depends on the school.
This isn’t the actual concert lmao, this is a warmup people do.
@iyanabarber
You really believe that? You’re stupid.
@iyanabarber ever heard of people adding fake subtitles for clout?
i never knew this tbh we never did that
@@ChristianQuintana_-it’s cuz it didn’t start til GenZ era
@@ChristianQuintana_- some do some don’t actually
Literally my chorus class
this isn't about chorus
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@@adiktadoalamusika 🪞
@@Blue_foxley Who is the fairest one of all
This is either a warm up or they are sight reading the music before playing
This is rlly funny lmao but I think they are just warming up 😂
They are in sight reading session. They aren’t allowed to play before time and the director is taking them through an imaginary time where they think the music before they have one chance to start play and end the real music in front of the judge. This is a warmup teaching exercise for sight reading.
Nah they're just playing John Cage
Haha
Bruh do you not know what practice is
They are sight reading, no need to post this, support the students..
Bro they are sight reading
My director would have left then and there
Mine too
Actually this has happened to us begire because no one was ready and we all started laughing. But that was at a rehearsal not a concert, idk what this is
That’s called sight reading😊
They were air toning this is fake af.
Don't worry they were playing my favorite song...
OXYGEN
A year later.... Mom im famous!!! Finally!!!!!!!
not the "mom i'm famous"
@@ItsDuoailo swear
@@jyfire1175 lol
My choir director would not let that pass ima tell you that 💀
i think you turned off the sound
Yes
You can hear the drum
Nah the background noise
yeah, he added in background noise when they start playing bc you start hearing all of these sounds that weren't present before the conductor started
Definitely.
theyre just playing 4:33
Omg that’s what I thought too. glad I’m not the only music nerd here
@@brayden9369 What is 4:33??
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Its a piece by John Cage which is essentially just silence the entire time
@iyanabarberproof?
Yes they were practicing its called AIR PLAYING!
This is called what my band directors call fingering through the song. Basically, the conductor gives the tempo and we finger through the positioning for each note. It’s a way to make sure you don’t accidentally play a wrong note.
Nah the director just needed to warm up
I call this piece "anxiety"
💀
It's just silence, but it keeps getting faster
this is stressing me out
this piece is really scary
😬😬😬😬
My director would be pissed, no livid if we pulled this stunt😅. He’s the kind of guy who is chill with practically anything but when he’s mad he is almost scary
They probably had rest in their music
Must have been 122 measures of rests💀
low brass orchestra be like
Nah I think it’s air and position
@@some_random_merc Fr
@McCheezershigh brass is best bro
Nah they were play the piece “433” it’s a band piece that’s 4:33 of silence
They teaching Cage in school bands now?
What’s an awesome performance he had on stage at school so cute😂
There simply fingering there music to practice we would have to do that at MPA so we wouldn’t get disqualified
@iyanabarber you do realize lying is a thing, right? its called clout chasing. trust the commentor a lil more
jhon cage
My director would have closed the curtains and yelled at us
OMG 😭
Honestly considering that My band has a concert in a few weeks would normally be good right? Well about 2 months ago our band teacher and the color guard had an"affair" on school grounds and students caught them. It's been almost 2 months once we've played cause we've had subs.We may have to just airplay
My director wouldve quit on spot and tell us we are worthless 😅
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IM CRYING RN 😭
My director and us wouldve started laughing its happened before. But at rehearsals not at a concert
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
That’s my school 💀
For anyone who’s not in band you use your foot to count a beat and I think they are not playing yet
Bro. I’m in band and she def gave them the downbeat so they could start
Dude we tap our while we play, I don’t know bout your school 💀
@@MexicanWeeb no cuz we tap our feet too but the inductee gave them the downbeat
@@frvrmelon6842 didn’t mean to direct it to you dude, my bad-
Tapping feet is used in smaller bands, but once the band gets bigger, everyone's tapping isn't synced up and you get off beat. What I said wouldn't apply to this band, but something to keep note.
EVEN PERCUSSION BRO 😭😭😭
Crazy 💀
It might be airplaying, I'm a trumpet and we do this thing before concerts were we just practice our fingering
If this is "silent 4'33" composition which composed by John Cage, then this group is correct.
My band director would’ve of made us drop 100 on the spot in front of everybody
Nonono, guys theyre playing ✨️4'33✨️
So the whole place went all night without saying a single thing abt how none of them are playing any music?
Bro why would you lie like this, Their doing a warm up no way would a school pull someone like that I've seen this happen
Yeah no my director would have killed us if we did this
They were just playing 4:33, by John Cage
You guys know this is fake right?
No that’s a thing some bands do at the beginning for warm up wait they only blow air and toung
It's called air playing, you blow the wind in the instruments but not enough to make a sound so it's just practice
Nah bro, they are just playing 4'33
John Cage
Dw its js 4:30- john cage
I GO TO SCHOOL THEREEE
Are you in band
Pov: the director is deaf and forgot her hearing aids
Don’t fucking talk abt Ms lane like that she’s my band director and she is not deaf there’s a thing called air playing
I’d feel bad for the kids in the end, I couldn’t turn my head, definitely being stared down the most
I think they didn’t know how to make noise on there instruments and just made ✨AIiR✨
Looks like band adjudication, section leaders get 4 minutes to go over a new song with section, given to them blind. Then the Director gets 4 minutes to do a run thru. NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO PLAY A NOTE! Many ensembles will breathe their parts though. Then they go for realz.
Someone probably already explained this, but truth is less fun
Also it's called airplaying
Banger I think it’s called:
They’re just getting ready to start the song
They could be sight reading?? If it’s an MPA or judged concert 🤷♀️
I agree bailey
OMG! The shock & embarrassment of conducting and no one plays anything. This can't be real!?!
This is fake
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?
When I was in middle school, I couldn't fake it. We had two trombone players, me and another guy. Me and the other guy practically had duets during every concert. We didn't have any euphoniums or tubas, so everytime a low brass specific part came up, we had to lock it
"It's sight reading."
As a musician wtf. Why are they sight reading during a concert. This doesn't make any sense. They're not sight reading or anything like that
This is definitely John Cage 😂🤣💀
My director would probably just walk off the stage and never come back 💀
Bro… it’s called airing
Airing is when you blow into your instrument but not blowing hard enough to play, we do this a practice before we play something🤠
4'33" by john cage went out well
Lol
There just tapping along with the metronome
You can literally see they are counting rests. Ever heard of a "rest" in music?
Omg my band teacher tells us to "fake it" then asks if the clarinets did. None of them did, but the trumpets were rly loud. Sorry for the story, this video us hilarious
There is actually a song where it's like 4 minutes long and it's just silence. My band director did that for one of her playing exams in college and got an A
some songs have like 32 measures of rests soooooo
They were playing 433 by John Cage
it’s hours of silence-
Dang this happened to me to lol
its just john cage
How talented these young musicians must be to take on 4’33 🤣🤣🤣 (those who dont know- “4’33” is a music piece that was composed with full bar rests for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and that was the whole piece”
It’s called being on air I’m in band
Their just playing John cages 4’33 seconds.
I think this is at my middle school lol
There is no way that they did the old “Fake it till you make it” 💀
It's called air playing I know because I'm in band and I just started in 6th grade
I am pretty sure they are tizzling (which means they just blow air and don’t make a noise to review)
Yeah sort of like fingering along.
This isnt a concert btw. The light are on and the showlights are off, plus theyre not all in uniform.
Do you still have to clap
My director wouldve died if we did this: first in a serious way, then in a laughing way
Middle school rendition of 4’33 by John cage
Here are my questions. Was this some type of protest for whatever reason? Or, was this teacher fired the next day?
What’s the POINT?!? Is this Anthony Wayne Jr High?
Ooohhohohoo, from the top! Lol
dont worry they're just playing Cage's "4:33"
Guys you can see the drummers in the back moving, this isnt the original audio
Or maybe there just holding because it’s the beginning of the song