I Cant Change The Music, IDK What I Did, It Broke

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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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. 

fororchestra

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.

dean-and-his-pie

I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…

justtkeepcalmm

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.

gunslingerannie

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.

elsajeni

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.

grellholmes

This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

officialdeadparrot

Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this

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which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

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that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that

prokopetz

Who does that?

This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.

vivelafat

Julius IdontgivaFucik

justamerplwithabox

More like Julius Fuckit

sushinfood

Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share

haha-leigh

I haven’t been in band for years but this made me laugh so hard

hergeekiness

I haven’t seen this post in ages and I’m dying of laughter

tobinlaughing

I didn’t think it could get better after The Foghorn Tuba Story, but it did. It got better. Bless you, MusicTumblr.

cumaeansibyl

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

it-was-justified

Yeah I need to join another brass band

kierongillen

Getting Tuba feels.

sadmac356

My favorite band post

beannary
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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.

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beannary

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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)