I really like that marimba.
I know this guy and those are the mallets I borrow from my drum tech, WEEIIIIRRDDD
(Source: rudibass, via fyeahbandkids)
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You know you’re in a high school or university music ensemble when…hearing this song makes you want to stab yourself repeatedly and leave your stand partner the horrible fate of having to play the entire time.
How this song makes me feel when I have to play it:
I’ve never played this song in my life haha.
Me: :D Hey this must be a terrible stand tune or some ridiculous overdone show piece or something!
Me as soon as I heard the first note: :I Fuck.
This is to everyone whose band director closely resembles that famous someone (and to my percussion instructor, who looks ALMOST EXACTLY like Hawkeye from the Avengers)
My teacher looks like david spade lulz
afcarlos asked: Thank you:) I agree. It's a bad habit I tend to do-.- I was nervous as well. I need a way to stop that. Any tips on that?
Basically just remember what you need to work on while you’re practicing or performing, usually it’s just muscle memory and you need to work that off. As anyone would say, practice makes perfect :D Also, my drill instructor tells us “Never rehearse the mistakes, always find something to fix” so if you see that you are habitually doing it over and over again, you must’ve rehearsed a mistake too much, now you need to practice getting the basic things correct. Find some slurring warmups, which would work on breathing AND not breaking the slur for the prep before a high note. Or write your own! it works best if you have it on the same button combo, usually we go Open - 2 - 1 - 1/2 and back up doing partial changes at various tempos, I found that to be helpful with higher notes when you’re doing quick licks like in Rhapsody
So yesterday we won 2nd place in our first competition only losing by one point.
I&E performers came out on top :D We all practically won 1st place
I beasted my Timpani solo even though I bullshit the entire thing, the judges only had an issue with the timpani pitch but other than that, great man! :DDD
