Lies My Band Director Told Me

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, this article is for some of the hardest-working teachers out there – music teachers! Thank you for enduring all the squeaks, scratchy bowings, loud trumpets, and forgotten mutes!

• “One more time!”
• “You would make a great bassoonist/alto clarinetist/other auxiliary instrumentalist nobody else wants to play!”
• “Rehearsal will only be two hours!”
• “Just because you’re in band doesn’t make you a band geek!”
• “Band camp is really fun!”
• “It’s not that fast!”
• “More piccolo!”
• “We won’t practice outside if it rains.”

If you are a music teacher, how many of these have you said (or what other small fibs do you tell your students)?