Baby Cellist

I guess you could call me a violist *finger guns* Started playing in Aug 2019. Follows from superfamousbouqetdragonworld

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Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso continuo in G-Major, RV 413, III. Allegro. Performed by Maurizio Naddeo, violoncello piccolo, and Fabio Biondi/Europa Galante on period instruments.

[an-ruraiocht]

Ballet, like opera, is wonderful because it is monstrous, the hyper-development of skills nobody needs, a twisting of human bodies and souls into impossible positions, the purchase of light with blood.

Irina Dumitrescu, "Swan, Late: The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet."

[classic-jenny]

[spectral-muse]

It’s so funny seeing teens on Reddit call the Mozart clarinet concerto easy. all the comments are always like “sure little guy. you keep believing that :).”

[nouralogical]

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Eternally Composed is an ongoing series of infinitely looping music compositions. Ink on paper, 9 x 12”

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[everythingfox]

He looks like an old light house keeper

[taraljc]

I would buy his frozen fish fingers

[drtanner]

The Trombone Champ soundtrack really makes this. :')

[radiofreederry]

Lol

[cavegirlpoems]

I cannot stop laughing at the idea that socialism ignores humanity’s highest spiritual ideal: owning yachts.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

I also love the idea that prisoners and slaves have perfectly fine lives where they basic needs are met, but they tragically lack yachts 😔

[lenskij]

what's y'all's favourite record of Schumann's cello concerto? drop me your recs!

[baby-cellist]

Not sure I have a favorite recording, but I love that concerto and haven't seen it live, so I'm very excited for you! Most recently I listened to it on Raphaela Gromes's album of romantic cello concertos.

[sharkfintrigued]

my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "thumb position" you'll be zonked out of your gourd

me: yeah whatever. i don't feel shit

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just played that on the wrong string

my cello teacher, pacing: the tenor clef is lying to us

[epilepticsaints]

[dysaniadisorder]

[ID: A music sheet filled with nothing but pauses. It is titled and subtitled; "Forgetting - Good fucking job, you forgot your instrument at home". The instructions above the bars read; "Awkwardly stare the audience in the eyes, silently". end ID]

[prokopetz]

Getting real sick of these "symphonic" arrangements of video game music where it's just great thumping bombast from start to finish. My dude, symphonies have movements. Where are the dynamics? Where's the fucking adagio? If it doesn't have a bit that sounds like fairies prancing, it's not a symphony.

[mf-dude]

[rainbowbarnacle]

[nikolai-rimsky-deactivated20230]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Magic Flute: Queen Of The Night.

[baby-cellist]

Wow this is so good!

[lowbrassdad]

some fun new year’s resolution ideas for musicians

practice chromatic scales with a tuner and a metronome

focus on your breathing. non-winds, you are not exempt. we all got lungs

become familiar with the repertoire of the french horn

play a piece that makes you want to overthrow the government. play a piece that makes you want to dance delicately atop a rose petal. explore the duality of man

stop beating yourself up over not being a child prodigy

start keeping snacks in your case for long practice sessions and boring rehearsals

don’t be afraid to sound bad while practicing

try believing in yourself for once

[tikkety-tok]

[pawprint3]

This is better than any snl sketch

[secondbeatsongs]

I really think that, similar to how looking at advertising and influencers and such for too long can be bad for your own self-image, listening only to professionally-recorded and produced songs can change how you view music as a whole, and that’s dangerous

guess what! you can sing! and I don’t mean like, “just try, I’m sure you’ll sound fine! :)” no, I mean that as a human being, as a creature on this earth, you can and should vibrate your vocal chords to make a variety of sounds, in whatever way makes you happy, no matter what the fuck it sounds like to anybody else

hey! nobody actually has a perfect voice! nobody sings the correct notes 100% of the time! almost every musical artist uses some form of pitch correction these days! and that’s okay, for the most part!

but if you can, please listen to people sing, just random average people. find some friends and sit in a circle and sing your favorite camp songs. tell bad jokes, and laugh together, and take turns singing whatever is in your soul! fuck, just start singing bohemian rhapsody somewhere, or piano man, and listen to everyone when they join in, and hear how different their voices all sound

music and singing aren’t just for people who can do it well enough to make money from it! you should sing whenever you have the chance, because you’re alive, and because you can, and you don’t need any better reason than that!

and before anyone jumps in with, “pfft, if you heard my voice, you wouldn’t want me to sing-” I’ve just got to say, like. listen.

listen.

I love music. you know I do; I run a music blog (well, insomuch as anything I make can be called “music”) and I listen to music all the time

but the best music I’ve ever heard in my entire goddamn life has come from regular people, not professional singers. people whose voices crack and who sometimes can’t hold a tune to save their lives, but who sing because they want to, because they know that music doesn’t belong just to people who can “make it” in the entertainment industry - it belongs to everybody.

that means you, too

and no matter if you’re bad at it - or if you think you’re bad at it - if you want to sing, you can! and if you want to listen to other people sing, you can find a way to do that, too

that’s all

[animatedamerican]

This right here? This is the entire ethos of filk as a community, and it’s one of the primary reasons I love it.

[grumpy-composer]

This also applies to professional opera singers and choirs and things, they’re so good at what they do, but that took years and no one expects you, a non professional to be perfect.

As music majors especially I think we all need to sing more. Instrumentalists and vocalists even. Sing casually. It’s good for us.

[tikkety-tok]

[prokopetz]

Hit play if you want to see a dude absolutely shred on a concertina.

[kbkarma]

Wow. It occurs to me that I have no idea how concertinas or any related instruments actually work.

[prokopetz]

Instruments of this class are basically elaborations upon the harmonica. They’re reed instruments with a separate reed for each note, played by selectively blocking or opening each reed’s air channel to sound different combinations of notes; in a harmonica, air flow is provided by the player’s breath while the lips and tongue direct it to particular channels, while in a concertina (and related instruments), air flow is provided by a bellows, and channels are activated by pressing buttons on the instrument’s faces.

[aeoliantectrix]

I kind of hate the implication from here that an organ is just a giant harmonica

[prokopetz]

Depends on the organ. Organs that sound exclusively via free reeds – known as reed organs, logically enough – can be considered as giant harmonicas; pipe organs, however, are more properly classified as mutant woodwind instruments. (Exactly what kind of mutant woodwind instrument depends on the pipe organ in question; there are several popular variants.)