Ok so I fucking love my band teacher
Our school district is weird so every class has to teach math (ew gross). But itâs band so... we play the entire time? My teacherâs method for getting around this bs rule? Confuse the hell out of the principal. What follows is a summary of their conversation, according to my teacher:
Teacher: Great. So, is there anything else?
Principal: One last thing, how do you work math into your curriculum?
(I should add, that as a typical American high school, we are completely centered around football literally no one gives a shit about the arts. My band made it to NATIONALS last year and the announcement we got was: â(teacherâs name) brought a /team/ of band students to nationals.â And that was it. So basically, the principal knows pretty much nothing about band. Anyways, continuing with this story..)
Teacher: Well, you see we have the typical 4/4 time, which when subdivided into eighth notes gets you 2/4 time, or if youâre feeling the mood 4/8 time. Sometimes if you want, there is a special time we use for special occasions such as waltzâ called 3/6 time, where it is counted in 2 and written in 6. (As he is saying all this he is writing random crap on the board, scribbles and a bunch of notes and numbers and is confusing the hell out of the principal) So! Thatâs the first part of the math we do in class. Would you like to hear more?
Principal: No.. no thatâs enough. Thank you for your time.