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

[@catsgopurreco2830]

dont worry they are just playing silent night

[@Gacha_Ella1]

Mg lol

[@unfairbasss1186]

LMFAO

[@That.Girl.Lynnzey]

LMAO

[@The_Birmingham_Association]

For all the songs of the concert?

[@godofthegame496]

lol

[@smbmp15]

My director would of been like,"YALL BETTER STOP PLAYING WITH ME!"

[@sj_.andres]

Literally

[@Tennisgurllover]

Same fr

[@chriskrausesmovie]

yall

[@mushroomperson3296]

Mine would probably quit

[@GK_cant_Art]

More like y’all better *start* playing with me

[@Gracie.wacie_425]

This is rlly funny lmao but I think they are just warming up 😂

[@cierroberson7263]

Hii

[@arimauseth3385]

Our director would start laughing and then make us restart

[@IdiotJaz]

😂 mine would give us a death stare if we did this to her

[@Certified-flow]

Give me your band director-

[@CosmeticsMadeByAngel]

My chior would be so mad if we all stopped singing

[@Yourelocalgay]

900th like

[@Urfavblondesadie]

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)

[@williamcullenjnr26]

The deaf kid: this song is fire

[@henrystickmin7066]

@The guiding light r/woooooooooosh

[@yolaurifrias6027]

That’s messed up😂

[@trgyfhgnt3]

@@henrystickmin7066 that's not a woooosh moment

[@williamcullenjnr26]

@@kem_mm youre a clown

[@cosney_schemes2782]

@@trgyfhgnt3It is actually it’s a joke and they don’t seem to get it

[@brayden9369]

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.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Ah, is that the one that ends in silence?

[@onedirectionapart]

We played this at our last orch concert as a joke lol

[@Lord_Medieval_Pizza]

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.

[@Jadyn___]

Ehhhh which is debatable 🤣

[@lanahw2499]

Do you know where to find sheet music of it? It seems very heard to learn

[@JTS_P]

Better than if only one person played

[@thepinkelephant2520]

@half-randomjackfr bro

[@Fishchair]

​@@thepinkelephant2520nah the one kid who did played would be a infinite better musician then all of them combined

[@lxvius]

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.

[@AppleShineWC]

This isn’t the actual concert lmao, this is a warmup people do.

[@AppleShineWC]

@iyanabarber You really believe that? You’re stupid.

[@reece_.]

​@iyanabarber ever heard of people adding fake subtitles for clout?

[@ChristianQuintana_-]

i never knew this tbh we never did that

[@gwenmloveskpopandmore]

@@ChristianQuintana_-it’s cuz it didn’t start til GenZ era

[@gwenmloveskpopandmore]

@@ChristianQuintana_- some do some don’t actually

[@averyw28]

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.

[@op9713]

⁠@@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”.

[@op9713]

@@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.

[@flakdat]

​@@krisvyxx Say you dont play an instrument without saying you dont play an instrument

[@Skye-be7or]

@@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 :)

[@op9713]

@@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.

[@GK_cant_Art]

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.

[@GK_cant_Art]

@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.

[@boundary2580]

@iyanabarberthis was not all night. Anyone whose ever performed music can see what this is.

[@Jakraff-oi3wc]

Yeah so many gullible morons immediately believe anything that they see on the internet. Kind of sad.

[@keshacow]

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.

[@GK_cant_Art]

@@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.

[@WadeWiggins2005]

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.

[@SolventBirb]

Literally my chorus class

[@Blue_foxley]

this isn't about chorus

[@adiktadoalamusika]

@@Blue_foxley☝️🤓

[@Blue_foxley]

@@adiktadoalamusika 🪞

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

​@@Blue_foxley Who is the fairest one of all

[@Bipisthebestname]

as a percussionist, they are doing a pre check or like a practice drill but they are silent. they will play, just have to wait.

[@tinykitt9ers]

My choir director would not let that pass ima tell you that 💀

[@alexprice1443]

This is either a warm up or they are sight reading the music before playing

[@sofiaandersen4320]

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

[@mouhiazeck]

Nah they're just playing John Cage

[@mylesweber2014]

Haha

[@alexaguilar7117]

My director would have left then and there

[@keshacow]

Mine too

[@keshacow]

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

[@Sparkle-q5s]

I think they're at, or preparing for a band festival. They are given so many minutes to look through a piece before they sight-read play it

[@HACPOA-13]

That’s called sight reading😊

[@go_away-2000]

my entire band would never come back from school the next day

[@melongaming2009]

My director would probably just walk off the stage and never come back 💀

[@H.Charleigh]

My director would have took each one of our instruments and beat us with it

[@Anna-banana710]

My director wouldve died if we did this: first in a serious way, then in a laughing way

[@kaitlynnbryan-cn6vw]

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

[@Adamthecoolguy123]

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

[@AfternoonNightmare]

I think they didn’t know how to make noise on there instruments and just made ✨AIiR✨

[@jordene-ml3]

my director would've yelled at us then and there

[@YourLocalPanthersFan21]

Bro they are sight reading

[@kennardsmithwatson4192]

The show must go on 😂 The band learned their lesson lmao

[@mailoveskatz]

as a band kid with a strict teacher, if this happened to us we would’ve been dead the next day 💀💀💀😭😭😭

[@karsinbennett]

That is called “Air Band” 😂

[@DevonMcDonald1]

This is definitely John Cage 😂🤣💀

[@Goofy42646]

Every musicians worst nightmare

[@yourboiFluff]

Nah the director just needed to warm up

[@Matcha_Loca]

They are sight reading, no need to post this, support the students..

[@xanplays3015]

They said “nah I don’t want to play” 😂😂😂

[@johnnynguyen5371]

Im glad I'm in an amazing band program 😭😭😭

[@XESTYRBX]

Bro took silent night fr😭🙏

[@AngeliqueT.M]

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?

[@XxChief472xX]

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.

[@レゴシ]

This is a warm up we do it in class all the time

[@mwm48]

They were air toning this is fake af.

[@ZekeGaytan]

POV the students what all I’m doing is my music was all rest

[@CR3AMPLAYZ0]

Pov: the director is deaf and forgot her hearing aids

[@EssieMann-j7m]

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

[@Cool_Beans7828]

EVEN PERCUSSION BRO 😭😭😭

[@0m3ga23]

Crazy 💀

[@Rand0mWeirdo]

Nonono, guys theyre playing ✨️4'33✨️

[@Kaylie_925]

They’re just getting ready to start the song

[@randomnessonyt]

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

[@dawnnagle5936]

What’s an awesome performance he had on stage at school so cute😂

[@MinaHatesBees]

My director wouldve quit on spot and tell us we are worthless 😅

[@Bismark-Cat]

rolli und rita!

[@ilovepicklessssssss]

REAALLLL

[@MinaHatesBees]

@@Bismark-Catyessssss!!😊

[@Ava_ur_mum]

IM CRYING RN 😭

[@keshacow]

My director and us wouldve started laughing its happened before. But at rehearsals not at a concert

[@Miss.Nightsofficial]

i play trumpet and my Christmas concert we play jingle bells it went pretty good

[@leekongleong1606]

"It's beyond human hearing." -A Capella Vox

[@LML-x4n]

My band director would KILL us

[@skybluemarshall]

Every band who ever showed up at a studio with their instruments, only to be shown a microphone instead and told by their producer, "The session band is going to help us out today."

[@Shortyshine1337]

You can tell by first chair flutes posture. Their playing the stage floor a lovely tune :)

[@Madam_Wingss]

Ooohhohohoo, from the top! Lol

[@yuliusanthonysitinjak958]

If this is "silent 4'33" composition which composed by John Cage, then this group is correct.

[@_nameless_2607]

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

[@Barbra-y7o]

My director would have closed the curtains and yelled at us

[@Ava_ur_mum]

OMG 😭

[@TheCoolestThomasEver]

its called windbanding. they practice the notes while breathing next to their tone hole to practice the song

[@S0AP_official]

Im guilty of fake playing when my face starts to hurt or i cant breathe 🥲

[@Lorenzo-hn1pr]

Finally!!! I could sit through this no problem!!🎉😂

[@hawks-wings]

ngl the fact that the band director was still conducting is so fucking funny

[@Thetastycookies7]

My director would probably just tell us to pack up our things with a disappointed smile.

[@dylanjmatthews]

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”

[@keshacow]

This isnt a concert btw. The light are on and the showlights are off, plus theyre not all in uniform.

[@mattmustin1860]

They all practiced and did great. My daughter was one of them.

[@space_cherub]

My band director would laugh, turn around, and bow lmao

[@juliannakramer7594]

Guys its called 4'33 by John Cage!

[@eivind105]

Conductor realized they weren't well enough prepared.

[@blaise632]

Guys you can see the drummers in the back moving, this isnt the original audio

[@Skolljarn]

This is a warmup. I’ve done this before, I’m a clarinetist, and we warm up by doing the fingerings and going “tssk” into the mouthpiece to make a veeeeeery quiet note so we can make sure we’ve got the notes right. All woodwinds and brass should be able to do it. Drum lines have a harder time warming up tho, I think I’ve seen ours drum it with their fingers to warmup then the sticks to perform

[@TJB24]

One Band One Sound Fashoo! 😮‍💨💯

[@jameswilson1453]

Performing John Cage at a middle school level is craaazy

[@mortified8855]

it’s hours of silence-

[@IconicWalmartBag]

Dude, if you synced with everyone else in my band class and didn’t get caught, you would be considered lucky 💀

[@gigachad2437]

I call this piece "anxiety"

[@Cookieclickinglegacy]

💀

[@goobilygoober]

It's just silence, but it keeps getting faster

[@splashykoy11]

this is stressing me out

[@happypercussionist1]

this piece is really scary

[@Ava_ur_mum]

😬😬😬😬

[@theuraniumeater6554]

i think you turned off the sound

[@dishsoap6998]

Yes

[@klamup]

You can hear the drum

[@Linusmiddendorf13]

Nah the background noise

[@personperson2319]

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

[@mouhiazeck]

Definitely.

[@Cantaloupe_Beetle]

Bro is smoother than my brain 🔥🔥🔥

[@michaelholbrook9645]

OMG! The shock & embarrassment of conducting and no one plays anything. This can't be real!?!

[@wavey.9147]

My band director would’ve of made us drop 100 on the spot in front of everybody

[@Jerry-td8yn]

If we did that, our band teacher would die from a stroke.

[@Crochet_liz]

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🤠

[@NoneYa-ip1it]

That actually hilarious. I remember in my middle school concerts I would be super loud compared to other people because I’m the only one that really knew the part

[@Justafluteplayer]

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”

[@leosamontesdad]

Wow that’s some amazing pianississississississimo

[@damian928]

Violinist here, We do the same thing in orchestra but for us it’s shadow bowing. It’s basically just a way for students to practice and prep before actually playing the music prepared. See it as a quick run before the big moment.

[@MadmanJack08]

This is the comment section I would expect to see from a bunch of band kids

[@jacobxgaming1221]

It's called air playing, you blow the wind in the instruments but not enough to make a sound so it's just practice

[@unclejimsticklebarn1656]

This is why we need Terence fletcher

[@garrettblackard9853]

They were playing 433 by John Cage

[@Wkfjejcjdndjcjcjej]

It might be airplaying, I'm a trumpet and we do this thing before concerts were we just practice our fingering

[@Ezquiiz]

They probably had rest in their music

[@dorkistarzzz]

Must have been 122 measures of rests💀

[@some_random_merc]

low brass orchestra be like

[@Zerohru]

Nah I think it’s air and position

[@Dyzexity]

@@some_random_merc Fr

[@furiousfarter]

@McCheezershigh brass is best bro

[@ScottSpenceNoneTheRicher]

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

[@sawyer_chill]

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

[@NACHO_CHEESE-M2]

So the whole place went all night without saying a single thing abt how none of them are playing any music?

[@bestybesty101]

And the band is incredible

[@EpicBloxxer]

That’s the best piano I heard - My orchestra teacher

[@EpicBloxxer]

Piano as in dynamics

[@get_nubn]

Yes they were practicing its called AIR PLAYING!