Music Problems

[Baby Mario Bloops]

A thread dedicated to things that only musicians will understand.

For example, looking at practice rooms and knowing which one you like and which one you don't, even though no one can tell the difference physically.

Or when your instrument "pees" on you.

Or when you have your band pieces and they are all flat, but then you go play your solos/in an orchestra and they are all in sharp keys.

 

[Ray Trace]

I hate it when my trumpet gets too much water in it

 

[Mario4Ever]

Playing notes requiring me to cover the subholes on my ocarina is still a pain in the ass.

 

[DragonFreak]

I hate when you go into a music shop and they do not have the right type of reeds that you use. Frustrates the hell out of me.

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

I hate when you go into a music shop and they do not have the right type of reeds that you use. Frustrates the hell out of me.

Omg, when you have reeds in front of you, and you're basically labeling them in your head, pointing at each one, being like "only one good days. Terrible. Last resort. You'll be good for now..."

And they all look the same.

 

[DragonFreak]

I've totally done that. And what I mean about not the right type of reeds is the hardness. I use 3 reeds, but many, many times I go to get more, and they are sold out, so I resort to buying 2 1/2 reeds.

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

One thing I hate is when we're playing a passage, and it's like all whole notes or the simple melody the brass play, and we're just dealing with 32nd notes or even worse quintuplets and septuplets (I'm looking at you friggin Jurassic Park main theme).

Lol, those runs in high school and your band teacher simply looks the other way until the closer to concert.

Or when there is a solo mark on the sheet, and immediately your entire section immediately either nods saying that you/someone else got it, or already staring daggers at you/someone else, trying to figure out how to play the notes so that they can try steal the solo. Of course, that last part is probably just a Flute thing.

Speaking of which, Flutes being bitchy was a real thing at my school. The girl flutes I mean.

 

[DragonFreak]

The flutes at my school are the most well behaved, my sister being probably the best out of all of them.

 

[New Super Mario]

Saxophone spit coming out of the holes is just gross.

and when there is one key on a piano that sounds buggy and you purposely avoid it just so you don't have to hear it.

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

The flutes at my school are the most well behaved, my sister being probably the best out of all of them.

At my school, it was cutthroat for the solo. There was an audition, everyone would play for it.

I won basically all of them (except half of one because my flute was broken and the other because I was not there that day for a school event).

College is so much better though. All the flute players are so nice there, and they seem to throw things at me since I never really had private lessons, and still with a closed hole flute. One girl is taking me to Flute World and Flute Specialist soon, let me borrow her old open hole to get use to it, and then people let me borrow music and thumb placers to try them out...we're one big family. :P

Anyways, more of a piccolo problem, but...when you finally get one note in tune, and then you check another note, and it's super flat/sharp. Omg, friggin high E natural on a flute is basically the flute's worse note to try to play. And then having to bear hearing the "how to tune to piccs" joke after you've heard it 1,000 times already.

 

[DragonFreak]

The flutes at my school are the most well behaved, my sister being probably the best out of all of them.

At my school, it was cutthroat for the solo. There was an audition, everyone would play for it.

The flutes at my school all hate doing anything sort of solos. And it only gets cutthroat with the Trumpets. Of course, we only have a 40-student band.

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

The flutes at my school are the most well behaved, my sister being probably the best out of all of them.

At my school, it was cutthroat for the solo. There was an audition, everyone would play for it.

The flutes at my school all hate doing anything sort of solos. And it only gets cutthroat with the Trumpets. Of course, we only have a 40-student band.

Our Symphonic Band was like 50 people. It was like 12 Flutes, 11 Clarinets, 4 Altos (sax), 2 Tenors (sax), 1 Bari (sax), 1 Bass (clar), 1 Bassoon, 1 Contrabass (clar), 6 Trumpets, 4 F Horns, 4 Trombones, 2 Baritones, 2 Tubas, and then 4 percussionists. So 55. Our Concert Band had like 86 students or something like that, but some were symph band members learning other instruments/were top chair since they weren't in Symph band just to get solos.

Lol, I find that many stereotypes of musicians are pretty accurate. It's sad, but true.

Another band problem is when you get to school and you realize you left your instrument at home.

 

[Stargatedalek]

pressing all those button on my ds screen IN ORDER

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

pressing all those button on my ds screen IN ORDER

That's like learning a new instrument.

Except that instead of playing a wrong note, you just make a strange face and thy blowing harder thinking that it's your air flow and not your finger placement.

 

[DragonFreak]

Another band problem is when you get to school and you realize you left your instrument at home.

In my first three years of band, I did that five times a month. The past three years I did it once.

pressing all those button on my ds screen IN ORDER

I chuckled.

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

Not a playing problem, but in music theory/notation, having to deal with all the rules while writing music. (i.e. - Line an octave in length (unless it's above/below the staffs and then to the middle line), stems up from the space below the middle line down but stems down from the middle line above, and then when beaming 8ths and 16th and then having to change those rules based on the time signature and which note is farthest from the middle line (and if they are equal distance, just have it downwards), and making sure that they line up with the beat when you have more than one staff, and making sure that you remember accidentals and where to draw them and dealing with stacked notes in a chord and notes that face one way or another if they are only a second a part from each other, and the dots to make them dotted if neccessary whether to put them in the space above or right in front of them, etc.)

 

[Stargatedalek]

I left band because my grade 6 band teacher was rude and rather mean

it wasn't you can do better, he said things like you stink, why do you bother coming

and recently he got fired, so my high school doesn't have him (it would have otherwise) but it was too late to reapply for band

 

[SpinyMaster347]

everyone breathing at the same time even though theres no breath mark

 

[Nabber]

waking up one day to find out that your violin spontaneously lost all of its strings

...oh wait, that's just me

 

[Mario4Ever]

Someone take them as a means of punishing you or something?

 

[Nabber]

nah i just hadn't played in it a few months to the moisture got to it and the strings broke

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

At my old high school, we had our tops were the zipper was on back, so we would ask each other "can you do me?" I learned how to contort my arms so that I could do the uniform by myself, but when I'm in a rush, I just have others do it.

And we have had competitions where our band director told us we only had like 3 minutes to change and get to the warm-up area. Good times, good times...

 

[DragonFreak]

Band uniforms are so awkward. Sometimes I wonder how I can even walk, let alone march.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

Reed players (Clarinet, Saxophone, Oboe, etc.), don't you just love having a wet and nasty mouthpiece? Or when the reed is chipped?

 

[DragonFreak]

No I hate it. Everyone who has never played a reed instrument should feel better about themselves.