Top Ten Types of Band/Orchestra Students

I've never played an instrument, but I was at a concert and a violin was completely out of tune and it annoyed me for the next 45 minutes

No matter how much they practice, they will always forget what key they are in as soon as they start playing.

Every band/orchestra class has that one student who is a million times better than everyone else, owns a several thousand dollar instrument, and has taken private lessons since they were a fetus in their mother's womb.

Are you loosing track of where you are supposed to be playing? Well hopefully you are sitting behind the type of person that counts by exaggeratedly tapping their foot, nodding their head, or dancing in their seat.

As soon as they get a single note wrong, they stop playing out of frustration. When they are given a mildly difficult assignment, they whine. Why do they do this? Well, it depends. Some people are just like this, whilst for other older students it may be a side effect of senioritis.

This person always misses their queue, either because they are talking with a friend, are on their phone, or are staring off into space. They also play while the director is talking, and they never notice when the director tries to change the tempo, time, or volume.

Even if you are playing a moderately slow piece in 4/4 with lots of quarter and half notes, this person will still find some way to loose count and play 3 beats behind everyone else.

Always stay alert if one of these guys are in your class. You never know when you might get a chair pulled out from under you.

This person always plays loud and clear with a beautiful tone, even though they are the 4th chair violist or something like that.

My class has a violinist who does this. We're tuning our instruments, getting ready to play some Bach, when all of the sudden this guy starts playing the USSR national anthem or Megalovania or something else along those lines.

That person is my favorite person ever