What was DS's music teacher thinking???

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This is not a teacher bashing thread.. its really not.

DS's music teacher is fantastic. DS isn't very good at music but he loves the lessons and was really missing them.

They were all sent home with recorders at the start of lockdown... fair enough I thought until today when his lovely music teacher who usually just records a video took it into his head to set up a zoom music lesson... 15, 7 year olds all playing the recorder mainly badly.. at once.. out of synch.. through Zoom. It was one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

The poor man sounded quite broken by the end of it, but I think the DCs all had great fun. What was he thinking!!

He’s doing it in revenge. He’s been reading MN. We’re all in on it, it’s a Union thing - next week, it’s the violin.You have been warned.

The man is a hero, but an insane one.
I bet there's a class of parents cursing him

@19lottie82 Latency.

Everybody's connection/upload speed is different, plus if they are listening to somebody else to get the timing, the count in will come at a slightly different time.

You'd get (even if the kids had any sense of timing)

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

But with the first to play B playing A before all of the Bs had finished.

Latency's a right bastard. Mere milliseconds can make it go from 'Oh, I'm playing along and it sounds great' to 'stop this abhorrent echoing'

Comefrom, my oldest DD said the same. Apparently they have a special app for their string ensemble and will all be expected to submit their ensemble part for some kind of final assembly .

The conductor of her orchestra has stated that he will listen to them individually this weekend. DD is practising like crazy.

Thank Christ he's not learning to play the bagpipes!

I go with him being a sadist, making sure parents suffer in lockdown. He undoubtedly had zoom on mute, maniacally laughing at the thought of the pain he’s put you parents through.

Well done, that man - from a fellow teacher who has failed to compete with his truly evil genius.

Ami, they are trying to do individual violin lessons over zoom at our schools. I think the teachers are absolute heroes.

The violin teacher for my DS is so incredibly happy that oldest DD is turning his violin prior to the lesson. Apparently Most of the violins are all badly out of tune and it is impossible to tell if the fingers are in the right place or not

I'm highly impressed with how aggressive the Beavers are with their mute all button to ensure Zoom meetings aren't total carnage.

I complained to the governors (well I whined in a governors meeting) about the music teacher teaching my 7 year old how to play Baby Shark on the fucking recorder. Everyone agreed that it was cruel and unusual punishment to make me listen to THAT SONG mangled on THAT INSTRUMENT OF SATAN by a 7 year old.

At least my dyspraxic child hasn't quite mastered which way up the recorder goes a lot of the time which keeps the volume levels right down!

What a hero 👍🏻

Sending him a 🍺

I think that's the loveliest thing I have read today. What a lovely teacher. m

Effinell I bet each child has been sent home with an different percussion instrument and a zoom concert is being anticipated

How did this happen — I thought Zoom only allowed one "speaker" (in this case player) at any one time and the others are muted. (?)

Love this ! Thank you OP for a good laugh thread!
I am a recorder survivor, not only my own DC but neighbours' kids audible...
The ma should be applauded or knighted /what a hero!

Sounds really fun! it must have been a great time for children. And definitely for the teacher.

AuroraBore when all the microphones are on Zoom picks up the loudest.

So if a group of children are playing it will move to whoever is playing the loudest, regardless of note, pitch or anything else really.

Lockdown legend that man.

At the beginning of the year DS1's teacher sent them home with a tin whistle (which he promptly lost, so I bought 3 more). Within a month, she seems to have decided it was too much and the music homework petered off :)

oh god, i remember going to a recorder concert at my kids school when they were little. Hideous. I was quite upset by the end of it

Having taught recorders for 20 plus years to primary children, I actually think this teacher deserves a medal!

DS's (11) music teacher sometimes asks the class to sing while he plays the accompaniment...but he always asks them to mute so it's not a screeching Zoom chorus.

Right now, they're working in groups writing their own songs...DS and his friend are rapping, their lyrics and delivery are hysterical!

Sounds brilliant!

I bet he had it on mute at his end 😂

Brilliant teacher. Utterly deserving of copious quantities of alcohol.

I'm secondary trained but now doing 2 afternoons of primary. Last year I did some whole class recorder teaching because I have grade 1 so thought that made me an expert (I'm really a lower strings player). After half a term I had a revelation and am now a lesson ahead of the kids on the ukulele. We didn't send any home (thank God).

However, I teach my main instrument privately and have 4 students still doing online lessons, mostly via Teams. I can't play along with them because I don't have space near the router and our internet is crap. I have come to the conclusion that laptop speakers are definitely not designed for the lower registers. It's most disconcerting when the fingers are doing one thing and the sound is something utterly different. And it's so much harder than being in the same rooms as them! I have recorded some backing tracks for those who still want to take an exam so they can play along to them and I can just listen. Otherwise the latency is just rubbish.

That made me laugh so much. Well done that man and you for posting something positive about teachers 👌

Wow very brave :)