I put The Fall by Love joy over the Hermitcraft cutscene and omg
Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it”
Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.
To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.
On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.
I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…
Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.
The lengths we go for music.
Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.
One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”
And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:
[stifled giggling]
[reeeeeeally deep breath]
[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]
The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.
In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”
FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.
This is the best band post
Everyone else go home
Julius IdontgivaFucik
More like Julius Fuckit

Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share
I haven’t been in band for years but this made me laugh so hard
I haven’t seen this post in ages and I’m dying of laughter
I didn’t think it could get better after The Foghorn Tuba Story, but it did. It got better. Bless you, MusicTumblr.
as far as I can translate it, the German notes at the octuple forte mean something roughly like “You want the instrument to cough… this is not for wimps”
this man was a menace
Yeah I need to join another brass band
Getting Tuba feels.
My favorite band post
my bf rarely uses his free art privileges but he really wanted me to draw concept art bull and who am i to ignore his desperate, pathetic plea
hulloooo i’m back! sorry to disappear, i got suddenly pulled away for some family business stuff. super busy and didn’t have my computer or tablet, bleh bleh. here’s that comic i was working on though!
i wasn’t quite as eloquent as donnie when i spoke my first words, but i did immediately just start speaking full sentences. i don’t remember the transition or the day, but i would pay good money to remember their reactions.
lady of the c®astle
a completly meaningless design headcanon of mine is that Cleos more rotten skin tends to separate from the rest of her body and she has to put it back with stitches. it doesnt hurt her at all, but she does this to look nicer and not scare other people to death
me 🤝 donnie: being completely normal about the theory of evolution
(based on a conversation me and my sister had after the showed me the song What the World Needs from Ride the Cyclone. what is not pictured is my totally rational and justified lecture i proceeded to give her on evolution and natural selection which Donnie also 100% gave to Leo)


































