“Bonus points for bad intonation. Clarinets, I know you know what that means.” As someone who’s going on 17 years of clarinet, you are absolutely right! 😅😂
When my kids were in band, they performed harry potter one night. The band started playing and one of the clarinets was off. The band director stopped, apologized to the audience, then coached the student on how to properly play the part. The song began again, and someone else messed it up. The director apologized profusely to the audience. “This has never happened before. I don’t know why.” About that time a student walked up. “Here’s what the problem is. You are using the wrong baton.” Offered a box, then the band director pulled out the elder wand. Everybody cracked up. When things settled down, they played the piece flawlessly. Afterwards my son told me that the students pitched the idea to the band director just before the performance.
MY BAND DID THAT WITH STAR WARS! We gave the idea to him the day before the performance, and a percussionist walked off stage like they forgot something. They brought back a light-saber and the lights went fully off. He turned on the light-saber and we played star wars almost perfectly but it was amazing.
When it's an ensemble member's birthday, my current conductor tells us all to play happy birthday in whatever style and key we choose (which doesn't sound too far from this) and always conducts us with a massive grin on his face 😂
Is this just a thing with band directors? My band director would give us a “starting note” on the piano which was just a bad chord and have us sing as off key as possible. Top tier band humor I guess! 😂
@@Anonymous-mt1tv the funny thing is i play high every day and the only thing i got marked for on my solo and ensemble was i couldve been a little louder in the mix. but my defense is, our trumpet wasnt there, so the teacher had to play his part, and our teacher started on trumpet in 5th grade, so hes very loud lmfao.
I love watching those videos where orchestras prank their conductors with beautiful, clever, well-rehearsed "Happy Birthday"s. This might have surpassed them all.
Your band director took this pretty well, I have to say. He was only confused, never upset. One of my band directors while I was in school was a grumpy and mostly humorless older man who was given to snapping at the students when they displeased him, and I can only imagine what his reaction would have been had we been audacious enough to do this to him. We'd have all been given detention, I think.
My band director was a wonderful lady. Sometimes we would learn songs on our own (usually meme songs) and play them I stead of the scale for warm up to mess with her. She loved it.
Our main band director in Jr High (we had an assistant band director as well and he was chill af) would go into rages and literally throw music stands. He almost hit one of the flute players at least once. Poor girl was really shaken up. I can't even imagine what he would have done, but it probably would have ended with at least one injured student.
@@brucej.coluccio3101 Nope small town in Southern Indiana. I was wondering if it was the same person for a bit there too though NGL. Dude was... Something.
At uni, we played the French national anthem for our lecturer on his birthday. We were all sound engineers, and we were in a studio kitted out with some of the nicest outboard you can buy. So for our little twist, we put the anthem through tons of distortion and compression. It was the cringiest, yet also the warmest anthem I've ever heard. Oh, and we spelled his name out by turning on LEDs on the console. This thing had 72 channels with an EQ and compressor stage on each channel, so we had 70 channel strips to make it work. He was impressed and horrified. Good times. What I love about this video is, like us, they went to great technical length to ensure the cringiest outcome.
My band did this because two of our seniors had the same birthday and we happened to have pep band that day. My director quite literally said “just pick a key, hope for the best, squeaking gives it character”
This reminds me when I was in Brevard Music Camp in 1982, and the routine was to have somebody play Reveille on their trumpet to wake us up early each morning. Well, late in the summer, 4 trumpeters got together and decided to do a special version: The 4 of them playing spread out by intervals of a quarter tone, and SLOW to make sure that they got the parallel quarter tones properly coordinated. Now THAT was a wakeup call.
The best time to listen to this is at 3am in the morning when you can't fall asleep and trying not laugh out loud so you won't get any noise complaints 🤣
This is great! My band instructor, whenever a member of our band has a birthday, always tells us to pull out our mouthpieces and play IN THE DIRECTION of whoever's birthday it is. Sounds like a more high pitched version of this, plus some cracks when someone plays a little too hard
As a non-musician, can you try to explain what this would sound like? I understand the mouthpiece is probably a reed, but does... could this direct saliva/spit at them?
@@CynnabunFaith For woodwinds, it would be the entire mouthpiece, so the reed + what it's attached to. For brass, it's just the bell shaped part that you play out of. As for spit, depends on if they just started playing. If they've been playing for a while, absolutely. And Jessica is correct lol, it would sound like a bunch of ducks/geese with some squeals in there too
"What's up guys, this is _your_ daily dose of Internet. Today we see a wind symphony playing a prank on their teacher for his birthday!" (Sorry I'm late, I couldn't resist lmao)
Its was super impressive that everyone was off key just right to sound like a, for lack of a better term, "sad clown on his birthday", and nail it too. Movie producers pay big money to convey moods like that.
Reminded of when I was an underclassman and my high school pep band pranked the band director in the intermission before the varsity home basketball game. We had a standard opening list for the first three songs; a few conspirators decided we were going to open with the surf-rock "California Sun" not ordinarily in the pre-game set & which starts on a similar 4-count to whatever the first song was, and went around whispering the change to the band members. Being on tenor sax, I was front row at the right end of the bleachers because of how my instrument needed to hang down beside me, so I got to see up close the director be surprised then gesture like "well, for heaven's sake keep playing"!
The absolute dischord that rang out after that little intro was just perfection. I was dying. "We're going to pretend like we're normal" lol band kids aren't normal lol. Normal is for the jocks. Normal is boring. This was great. If my highschool band experience had been even remotely this fun, I probably would have kept up my instrument.
This is just 100% delightful. I love everyone's excitement as they prepared it, and I love a prank that is truly funny and doesn't harm anyone. And as a full-on music geek, tritones are just so much FUN! Several years ago my birthday fell during a tour, and a few of my colleagues sang happy birthday to me in organum a perfect tritone apart. It was my only birthday request. Thank you for sharing this with us!
We pranked our beloved band teacher, Terry Grove, from time to time (Federal Way H S 1969-1971) and he was always a good sport. We formed up near his house one New Years morning and marched to him playing the school fight song. After a concert, some of us hid in a spot until everyone left. Then we filled his office with wadded up newspapers. There were other pranks as well. We were a happy little family those years.
we would play a really annoying swing version of happy birthday in my jazz ensemble. it got to the point where people wouldn’t say it was their birthday because it was so agonizing😂
This takes me back to messing with my High School Band teacher. There’s a dedicated insta meme page for him now. Anyway the person holding the cam has a super genuine looking smile, I feel like you’re really good at making friends
When I studied acting, we had a teacher/director that worked with us for 2 years, and everytime he left the room or the theater and he came back, we sang happy birthday to him LOL every freaking time, without fail.
We used to do that in my orchestra, whenever it was someone's birthday, the conductor would tell us a starting note and then all hell would break loose. It was great
This was life-changing. I suddenly decided to get out of bed with tears. My lower legs are completely paralyzed, yet when I came to a stand, I walked over to my laptop. I sat down, all while listening to this, and placed an application in for Harvard. And the next thing I knew, I was accepted. Fast forward a few seconds, I became a world-famous trombone player. So thank you, I am moved. This is life-changing.
It always amuses me how different people react to this. I've seen the whole spectrum from hilarity to outright anger and indignation. The band has fun no matter what!
This was a running gag at my school where our band teacher, anytime someone had a birthday, we would play random notes to the rhythm of happy birthday.
That didnt sound like a happy birthday to me. Maybe a depressed birthday or a clinically insane birthday, but not a happy one
That’s what a tri-tone does. It was a joke! Fool.
@@poppyrowland1385 dont call me no fool u demented blobfish
Clinically insane describes High School bands quite well.
That's because tritone's are dissonant. Aka "The devil's interval"
The operative words in the title are “pranked” and “tri-tone”.
Them doing this is an accurate representation of how it sounds when people sing happy birthday together
Yep. Second ugliest song in the world, and this version fits it perfectly!
@@jb6712 what's the first ugliest?
@@user-lp7fc4iq3u 11 year old girls singing literally any song
No - in fact when you average people singing together it sounds better.
Ive belonged to a choir and it makes uneasy that no group can ever stay in tone after the second “happy birthday” of the song lyrics 😅
“Bonus points for bad intonation. Clarinets, I know you know what that means.” As someone who’s going on 17 years of clarinet, you are absolutely right! 😅😂
as a bassist, what does it mean?
I wanna know too!
the extremely high pitch noises
@@xedgelord75x65 squeaking and bad embouchure
@@xedgelord75x65 probably means that you sound like squidward
When my kids were in band, they performed harry potter one night. The band started playing and one of the clarinets was off. The band director stopped, apologized to the audience, then coached the student on how to properly play the part.
The song began again, and someone else messed it up. The director apologized profusely to the audience. “This has never happened before. I don’t know why.”
About that time a student walked up. “Here’s what the problem is. You are using the wrong baton.” Offered a box, then the band director pulled out the elder wand.
Everybody cracked up. When things settled down, they played the piece flawlessly.
Afterwards my son told me that the students pitched the idea to the band director just before the performance.
✨GENIUS✨
That's awesome!!! 👏😀😁
That’s such a good idea!
That would have been awesome to see 😂
MY BAND DID THAT WITH STAR WARS! We gave the idea to him the day before the performance, and a percussionist walked off stage like they forgot something. They brought back a light-saber and the lights went fully off. He turned on the light-saber and we played star wars almost perfectly but it was amazing.
When it's an ensemble member's birthday, my current conductor tells us all to play happy birthday in whatever style and key we choose (which doesn't sound too far from this) and always conducts us with a massive grin on his face 😂
my hs director did this too!! good times hahaha
We all sing happy birthday, but just say the birthday part
[Happy] BIRTHDAY [to you. Happy] BIRTHDAY etc...
Is this just a thing with band directors? My band director would give us a “starting note” on the piano which was just a bad chord and have us sing as off key as possible. Top tier band humor I guess! 😂
Yeah, ours was "pick your favourite note to start on"
our teacher does something similar. since we're a string orchestra: "pick you favorite note to start on. one finger, one string, no cheating!"
Teacher: How many tri tones did you play?
Students: All of them.
oh -- I thought it was "try" tones ;-) (jk)
@@aBachwardsfellow well... some of them were... 😉
this is the most disconcordant villain version of happy birthday i have ever heard & i love it 😂
Unfortunately, for most birthday parties, it is not intentional.
The only problem is that they were all in time.
Lmao the trombones glissing into every note really sells it
yes!
As my band director says to them… stop sounding drunk!
the touch of genius
@@Anonymous-mt1tv the funny thing is i play high every day and the only thing i got marked for on my solo and ensemble was i couldve been a little louder in the mix. but my defense is, our trumpet wasnt there, so the teacher had to play his part, and our teacher started on trumpet in 5th grade, so hes very loud lmfao.
I love watching those videos where orchestras prank their conductors with beautiful, clever, well-rehearsed "Happy Birthday"s. This might have surpassed them all.
Shows their love, and appreciation to the director.
Your band director took this pretty well, I have to say. He was only confused, never upset.
One of my band directors while I was in school was a grumpy and mostly humorless older man who was given to snapping at the students when they displeased him, and I can only imagine what his reaction would have been had we been audacious enough to do this to him. We'd have all been given detention, I think.
Oh no 🤣 I’m glad this wasn’t him then
My band director was a wonderful lady. Sometimes we would learn songs on our own (usually meme songs) and play them I stead of the scale for warm up to mess with her. She loved it.
Our main band director in Jr High (we had an assistant band director as well and he was chill af) would go into rages and literally throw music stands.
He almost hit one of the flute players at least once. Poor girl was really shaken up.
I can't even imagine what he would have done, but it probably would have ended with at least one injured student.
@@chaossmith3864 was it in a small town in upstate NY?
@@brucej.coluccio3101 Nope small town in Southern Indiana.
I was wondering if it was the same person for a bit there too though NGL. Dude was... Something.
I believe this is what they played every year at Stravinsky’s birthday party. Amazing you were able to play it on accident
was JUST looking for a stravinsky comment 😅
Hah, nothing about this was by accident, it was a full on attack.
So freaking true
Underrated comment. ❤
At uni, we played the French national anthem for our lecturer on his birthday. We were all sound engineers, and we were in a studio kitted out with some of the nicest outboard you can buy. So for our little twist, we put the anthem through tons of distortion and compression. It was the cringiest, yet also the warmest anthem I've ever heard.
Oh, and we spelled his name out by turning on LEDs on the console. This thing had 72 channels with an EQ and compressor stage on each channel, so we had 70 channel strips to make it work.
He was impressed and horrified. Good times.
What I love about this video is, like us, they went to great technical length to ensure the cringiest outcome.
Would have loved to hear it.
when non-musical friends try to sing you happy birthday together :
How my family sings happy birthday:
When the entire population of your high school cafeteria during lunch sings happy birthday:
I always beg them not to sing it.
My band did this because two of our seniors had the same birthday and we happened to have pep band that day. My director quite literally said “just pick a key, hope for the best, squeaking gives it character”
It takes A LOT of talent to mess up intentionally. This is amazing lol
it literally does not
that is not remotely true
Depending the situation, it might. Not here
It doesn’t take talent but for everyone to play badly together like this and it go pretty well is quite impressive
Wow, half of the people playing in one key while the half play in another. So difficult
This reminds me when I was in Brevard Music Camp in 1982, and the routine was to have somebody play Reveille on their trumpet to wake us up early each morning. Well, late in the summer, 4 trumpeters got together and decided to do a special version: The 4 of them playing spread out by intervals of a quarter tone, and SLOW to make sure that they got the parallel quarter tones properly coordinated. Now THAT was a wakeup call.
I want to hear that now 😂
That's just cruel.
@@Joshua-jk1om You think THAT'S cruel? Imagine if it had been four VIOLINS playing a quarter step apart!
@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio OH YEAH?! VIOLAS... enough said really...
@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio that's just me whenever I play with my teacher
The trombone gliss absolutely killed me
Can't believe your orchestra managed to accurately portray what it's like to hear people sing Happy Birthday at you lmao
The best time to listen to this is at 3am in the morning when you can't fall asleep and trying not laugh out loud so you won't get any noise complaints 🤣
Why are you calling me out?
I commend you 😭
Literally watching this 3am right after coming from our rehearsal studio lol
This is great! My band instructor, whenever a member of our band has a birthday, always tells us to pull out our mouthpieces and play IN THE DIRECTION of whoever's birthday it is. Sounds like a more high pitched version of this, plus some cracks when someone plays a little too hard
As a non-musician, can you try to explain what this would sound like? I understand the mouthpiece is probably a reed, but does... could this direct saliva/spit at them?
@@CynnabunFaith if you’re close by, maybe? But it mainly sounds like a hoard of angry geese
@@CynnabunFaith For woodwinds, it would be the entire mouthpiece, so the reed + what it's attached to. For brass, it's just the bell shaped part that you play out of. As for spit, depends on if they just started playing. If they've been playing for a while, absolutely.
And Jessica is correct lol, it would sound like a bunch of ducks/geese with some squeals in there too
We did this every time it was someone’s birthday in marching band and every time it was “alright everyone pick your favorite key” lmao
That SURELY results in it being played only in C major
@Barry Homeowner As a bassoon I likely would've picked F major =p
@@barryhomeowner9293 Surprisingly no, most people did C in their respective key. So it was always a mess haha
thats not happy birthday thats just birthday
✨Birthday to you✨
"It is your birthday." Except no it is not.
This deserves to be on daily dose of internet
You have no idea what Joy this comment brought me
"What's up guys, this is _your_ daily dose of Internet. Today we see a wind symphony playing a prank on their teacher for his birthday!"
(Sorry I'm late, I couldn't resist lmao)
this gave me so much joy- i miss my band days of community chaos
Band classes just have this wonderful energy that no other subject can match
Most harmonious and fast-paced rendition of happy birthday to ever be recorded.
Its was super impressive that everyone was off key just right to sound like a, for lack of a better term, "sad clown on his birthday", and nail it too. Movie producers pay big money to convey moods like that.
I taught academic subjects at an arts school for many years. The music majors were always some of the sharpest, hardest working and fun kids.
Reminded of when I was an underclassman and my high school pep band pranked the band director in the intermission before the varsity home basketball game. We had a standard opening list for the first three songs; a few conspirators decided we were going to open with the surf-rock "California Sun" not ordinarily in the pre-game set & which starts on a similar 4-count to whatever the first song was, and went around whispering the change to the band members. Being on tenor sax, I was front row at the right end of the bleachers because of how my instrument needed to hang down beside me, so I got to see up close the director be surprised then gesture like "well, for heaven's sake keep playing"!
I love how the trumpets are being trumpets and playing as high as humanly possible.
as a person who use to do precrussion in school. I had to deal with all of the brass while playing snare or bass drum
As the piccolo trumpet player in this video, that was the goal.
The absolute dischord that rang out after that little intro was just perfection. I was dying.
"We're going to pretend like we're normal" lol band kids aren't normal lol. Normal is for the jocks. Normal is boring.
This was great. If my highschool band experience had been even remotely this fun, I probably would have kept up my instrument.
Dude this is the most accurate thing to all the singing in all the birthday parties I've ever been to.
I would've been delighted with that rendition on any birthday I've ever had.
This is just 100% delightful. I love everyone's excitement as they prepared it, and I love a prank that is truly funny and doesn't harm anyone. And as a full-on music geek, tritones are just so much FUN!
Several years ago my birthday fell during a tour, and a few of my colleagues sang happy birthday to me in organum a perfect tritone apart. It was my only birthday request.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
We pranked our beloved band teacher, Terry Grove, from time to time (Federal Way H S 1969-1971) and he was always a good sport. We formed up near his house one New Years morning and marched to him playing the school fight song. After a concert, some of us hid in a spot until everyone left. Then we filled his office with wadded up newspapers. There were other pranks as well. We were a happy little family those years.
I strive for that level of chaos.
I really like whoever was squeeking. Adds a lot of flavor to the song.
we would play a really annoying swing version of happy birthday in my jazz ensemble. it got to the point where people wouldn’t say it was their birthday because it was so agonizing😂
The level of musicianship has really improved since I was in high school.
This takes me back to messing with my High School Band teacher. There’s a dedicated insta meme page for him now. Anyway the person holding the cam has a super genuine looking smile, I feel like you’re really good at making friends
Pfhsjdbscvsb you’re too kind ❤
This is all that happens in band. And it's hilarious when the teacher comes in to see/hear it.
I had a choir member who used to do that, trying to catch the note by surprise. By the time he found it, we were one and a half bars further on.
Love the bassoonist excitedly waving energy, like, woah somebody finally noticed the bassoon section!!1
Me, the waving bassoonist: 🥹
Reminds me of when I was in a steel drum ensemble and we pranked the teacher by playing under the sea instead of what we were supposed to be playing
Genius!
When I studied acting, we had a teacher/director that worked with us for 2 years, and everytime he left the room or the theater and he came back, we sang happy birthday to him LOL every freaking time, without fail.
I love this. Gorgeous cacophony.
Excellent phrasing
2:50 a trombone snuck in bolero thinking nobody would notice lol
Even when well-lubricated P.D.Q. Bach was never able to produce something quite like this. Nicely done.
This is the first mention of him in these comments. I wasn't expecting it, but I should have. Hail, fellow aficionado!
The teacher didn’t appreciate that nearly enough. I would’ve been laughing my head off 😂
This is like a regular singing of a happy birthday song at any birthday party but with instruments!
It's so beautiful!! Best rendition of Happy Birthday EVER!!!
LOL! It sounded like the instrumental equivalent of a bunch of folks singing "Happy Birthday" in a restaurant, each in their own key. 😀
As a band kid I really wish my band teacher was like that but *noooo*
The coolest thing he's done is planned and not gone through with a flash mob.
Pff 😂
That was the most dramatically engaging birthday I've ever heard.
"if you mess up it's better" lmaooo
The fact that they didn't even get the date right is the cherry on top
"Hello, teacher. Have a birthday."
Oh the lovely band humor. This makes me miss band in high school.
They're showing their teacher that he's much needed!😂
I love everything about this.
Slightly freaked out by how much I enjoyed that, um, piece.
Great job, Students. I thought it was a Great Idea and caught the Teacher completely off guard. 😬👍🙏
KP was my band director at FLA in the 90’s, so this is awesome!
depicts accurately how my plans are in reality because they don't match what I expected
Mood
I have to say the warm up was the funniest! Especially the clarinets squeaking.
Absolute LEGENDS, every one of you!
The percussionist running in the back is so relatable as a percussionist myself you have no idea 😭
We used to do that in my orchestra, whenever it was someone's birthday, the conductor would tell us a starting note and then all hell would break loose. It was great
"If you mess it up, it's better"
The making of a jazz pianist.
Absolutely brilliant. Nice job guys.
LOL Mr. P’s reactions are priceless!! You guys got him good!
Everytime I play my clarinet it basically sounds liket this band....
(This is a compliment)
This was life-changing. I suddenly decided to get out of bed with tears. My lower legs are completely paralyzed, yet when I came to a stand, I walked over to my laptop. I sat down, all while listening to this, and placed an application in for Harvard. And the next thing I knew, I was accepted. Fast forward a few seconds, I became a world-famous trombone player. So thank you, I am moved. This is life-changing.
We always go out of our way to impress our favorite music teachers! Job well done!
I used to work at an office where we sang happy birthday to people like this. After a while, it evolved into a dirge.
that clarinet is seriously doing olympic hurdles over those ledger lines (this is so me)
Speechless at the beauty of this performance.
It always amuses me how different people react to this. I've seen the whole spectrum from hilarity to outright anger and indignation. The band has fun no matter what!
This was a running gag at my school where our band teacher, anytime someone had a birthday, we would play random notes to the rhythm of happy birthday.
"Here's what we're going to do now. We're gonna pretend we're normal"
Me talking to myself in the mirror before heading out
The entire instrumental sounds like all of my classmates singing happy birthday, but the instrumental's slightly better lol
As a fellow percussionist and band member, thank you for sharing this.
His face was priceless hahahahaha. He was like " The heck is this?!" 😂😂😂
Oh, you found the key people sing it in at parties! LOL
That was awesome and got the reaction it deserved
I love the very clear “womp womp” at 2:50 it very succinctly summarizes this whole video
Damn. This makes me miss school band 😓some of the best times of my childhood
Oh my gosh, that was so bad it was hillarious! Well done! 😂😂😂😭🤧🤣🤣🤣🙏❤️❤️👏👏👏😁 Love from Norway! ❤️
I love how much skill is involved to play extra bad
A funny coincidence that TH-cam offered me this video to watch - on my birthday!
happy birthday!
@@sainaro2335 Thank you!
Yesss!! 🎉
At least its in time
Lol at least there were a few standards in place
If ur a band kid ur automatically not normal its part of the job😂😂😂
It isn't discordant, it's _avant-garde_
Charles Ives. Beautiful.
OMG! That was egregious, and perfect!! So beautifully discordant! I LOVED IT!!! 😂😂
This is how my Orchestra sounds when we play Happy Birthday for real.
Sounds like my high school band warm up
I especially like the sarcastic comical slurring of the trombones thrown in there...
Ahhhhh on my bday of all days. I love it!
I’m gonna make sure that gets played at my funeral
Invite me
I like how it sounds just as good as if they sang it