___ ways to annoy your band director

[CrispysCage]

We have done all of these. Make up a false religion centered around your BD.

1. Come up with an obnoxious nickname for him (we called our last one the Godfrog) and make sure it appears in random places.

2. The band even constructed a Godfrog-Buddha which they kept in the freezer and they would leave their drillmasters there as offerings...

3. Go to his house and "decorate" his car with "religious" symbols of his omnipotency.

4. If someone makes a mistake in music or marching, call them a heretic or blasphemer if the band director is near. This also applies to people who quit band.

5. Make up words for your drum cadence about your BD using the nickname and get your whole section to sing it while marching onto the field.

6. Grovel and avert your eyes whenever he notices you mess up.

7. Find out his favorite fast food place (the Godfrog's was Carl's Jr.) and call it your "church". Insist that the entire band congregate there once a week.

8. Create religious art. We have one of the Godfrog standing like a saint in a stained glass window with a cymbal behind his head as opposed to a halo and batons with wings flying around him.

9. Make a list of commandments that teach people how a band nerd is supposed to act. (I'm not sure how many we have, but it's too many...)

10. Call any assistants he might have prophets, saints, holy messengers, or whatever you like. If anyone expresses dislike towards them (a common occurence) tell them they will go to Band Hell and go on to explain in great detail what that entails. Then write anonymous letters to your BD asking for their salvation.

Is that insane? Of course! I swear, the WHOLE BAND was in on this. When the Godfrog quit one week before band started, we decided he was the Anti-Godfrog.  

[Animated Pornstar]

CrispysCage

We have done all of these. Make up a false religion centered around your BD.

1. Come up with an obnoxious nickname for him (we called our last one the Godfrog) and make sure it appears in random places.

2. The band even constructed a Godfrog-Buddha which they kept in the freezer and they would leave their drillmasters there as offerings...

3. Go to his house and "decorate" his car with "religious" symbols of his omnipotency.

4. If someone makes a mistake in music or marching, call them a heretic or blasphemer if the band director is near. This also applies to people who quit band.

5. Make up words for your drum cadence about your BD using the nickname and get your whole section to sing it while marching onto the field.

6. Grovel and avert your eyes whenever he notices you mess up.

7. Find out his favorite fast food place (the Godfrog's was Carl's Jr.) and call it your "church". Insist that the entire band congregate there once a week.

8. Create religious art. We have one of the Godfrog standing like a saint in a stained glass window with a cymbal behind his head as opposed to a halo and batons with wings flying around him.

9. Make a list of commandments that teach people how a band nerd is supposed to act. (I'm not sure how many we have, but it's too many...)

10. Call any assistants he might have prophets, saints, holy messengers, or whatever you like. If anyone expresses dislike towards them (a common occurence) tell them they will go to Band Hell and go on to explain in great detail what that entails. Then write anonymous letters to your BD asking for their salvation.

Is that insane? Of course! I swear, the WHOLE BAND was in on this. When the Godfrog quit one week before band started, we decided he was the Anti-Godfrog.

I love it!! Me and a friend of mine are going to do that to our BD, but he's totally cool, and he'll probably love it....  

[MazokuNonnonon]

These are mostly marching band related and our band's done every one of them:
1. Eat in uniform (our director HATES it when we do that)
2. March or show up at a concert with a different instrument (one of my trumpet friends traded instruments with her sister and marched with a flute at UIL last year)
3. When checking sets while marching, argue with him/her when you're the only one wrong in the move. If they give you a lecture about how it's easier for one person to adjust to the set than the whole band adjust to one person, tell him/her it's not YOUR fault everyone else can't read their drill/coordinate chart
4. During warm-ups, play every note an octave higher or lower than written
5. Try to make the drum majors break attention by making faces and weird noises
6. Play all songs by ear at football games, NEVER use your music.
7. Forget your instrument before a major competition
8. Switch places with the person next to you during a drill and complain loudly that the next move is impossible for you after narrowly avoiding a collision with said person while checking sets. Argue that the director needs to get a new program to make drills. ("Well MY chart says this and THEIR chart says this. Are we playing bumper band during the show or what?")
9. Run through the band hall screaming like something just went horribly wrong. Then conveniently forget what you were yelling about when the director asks.
10. Make up random visuals that have NOTHING in common with the drill and get your whole section to do it. When asked to stop, don't and watch the rest of the band join in.
11. Make up nicknames for the drum majors and yell it loudly from across the field for no apparent reason while the director is explaining something.
12. Dance behind director's back while on the field, stop when they turn around to see why people are laughing.
13. Keep dancing in the stands after the drum cadences stop. Bonus points if sections start singing the cadences and the director just gives the band an exasperated glare.
14. March around the band while doing warm-ups. March past the point you were told to stop at while practicing marching off the field and keep going until the song is over.


I'll post again if any of the band nerds at my school can think of any. ^-^  

[[Aelfwyn]]

Back when I was in firth grade, my BD let the kids that showed up that day(we had study when we didnt have band and I showed up ever day) play around with all the percussion stuff. Of corse we were all winds. He got really mad at us for using wrong mallet, hitting tamboring with a mallet, ect.. That may be one reason he hates me... crying  

[uhlectrikk!]

Best way is to say that your conductor can't conduct, and when he/she says to you that you couldn't do much better or something along the lines of that, go up there and show him that you CAN in fact conduct better than him/her.  

[Ellias]

Throw hackysacks in band hall
Bring in loads of pizza and refuse to share
Chew gum in the band hall
Chew gum on the turf
Bring candy during concert season
Eat candy in middle of rehersal
Leave cell phone on vibrate and then leave it on the stand, knowing someone will message
Play an octave lower or higher than your supposed to
Ask him exactly why he isn't married
Go trick or treating in your uniform
Show up on his doorstep in your uniform
Eat in your uniform  

[redskinnedeagle]

Do a scale playing quiz, screw up, curse (literally curse.. don't be like darn! be like crap! or s**t! or drop the f bomb... it's really funny) then go "i mean... um.. G?" playing the G not saying it... or whatever note you screwed up on... of cousre don't do this if your BD always has a stick up his/her a**.. then it's not really all that fun

come back 5 minutes later than you are supposed to when you are playing at a game... nut not if you are supposed to play on the field, just when you are playing pep band music  

[x_chibi_love_x]

When you are resting during a song, start cunducting really badly and off.  

[[.Pudding.Teh.Dork.]]

1. Chew gum before class even starts.
2. Say I have a question. then say 'Oh I forget.'
3. Keep moving seats and say 'That person is bothering me.' And do that every seat you go to.
4. Just sit there and not play while the rest of the band is playing.
5. Babling
6. Make fun of your band director (which I would never do because Mr. D is awesome!)
 

[Rexian]

the way me and my friends annoy the band directer is to play one note at a time when hes talking then when he/she stops you stop then when he/she starts again you do it again...  

[[Aelfwyn]]

ForsakenShadow

...Better yet, correct him on EVERYTHING he says, when he says start on measure 33, say Do you mean the pickup in 32? or if he says

play you're "G" at measure 116, answer him saying "Sir it's not a G, its an A. I'll guarante you'll see some worthwhile results.

Once our percussion played I believe a roll at the end of a song and our BD said it wasn't in his score(or what his thing with all the peoples music is) They argued back and forth until my BD just said not to play it. He always has to be right...
 

[ihaveshoes]

Mello-phony

well...what we have done...

~We've played the wrong song on purpose to make him mad...
~Said our counts in Spanish
~Start dancing while at attention
~At the end of a song, hang over and play your own beautiful solo.
~Be super late, and say, "Hey! I showed up!"
~Valve oil fights near the pit equipment

there are so many more...

oh not the pit stuff oh man that is so sad dont ruin the pit stuff  

[macdougle]

i just talk while hes talkn lol  

[Ikalos]

Hmmm...actually, it's just the trumpet section that cause problems...especially 2nd band...(me and my buckos)...we just play by memory, play with one hand, or something else. Our BD's just controlling so if we make small mistakes he'll go crazy. It kinda depends. We're a good band that enjoys saying we're the best (only because we ARE the best) and we know that we can only do that with our BD's help. Needless to say, if you do the can-can in the stands during a cadence he'll kill you. whee now that's fun.  

[frozenpenguin421]

tell them you like their shirt. you get weird looks.