8 & out

hey im juice and this is a sideblog dedicated to the music performing arts. i follow from @uss-hephaestus. don't be afraid to message/ask me if you would like to talk!

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

I can’t breathe

[brawltogethernow]

Best wishes to these people obviously but I’m WHEEZING at the concept of a standard horror plot starter but the stranded travelers are an entire fully equipped orchestra.

[dcivids]

The 2010 Cavaliers “Mad World”: Smile

[kristina100000]

[fallingtowers]

i could write this out as sheet music

[fallingtowers]

like this

[catcrumb]

george meowchael

[dcivids]

2016 Carolina Crown “Relentless”: Opening Impact 

[omg-horns]

Actual photo of me in rehearsal

[crabuncle]

poster design for class

[back-to-bassics]

My kink:

When publishers puT BAR NUMBERS AT THE START OF EVERY LINE SO I DONT HAVE TO SIT THERE FOR 20 MIN COUNTING LIKE IM IN PRIMARY SCHOOL AGAIN, IS IT REALLY THAT HARD JWPEPPER

[pleuvoire]

tag your opinion, chocolate combo opinion. list in the tags how you feel about the combination of chocolate and…..

mint

orange

strawberry

raspberry

peanut butter

[operamadchen-deactivated2020031]

Hello to all my fellow musicians out there! Please reblog or comment on this post with a life lesson you learned from studying music.

As a singer, I have learned that the things that look simple can often be the hardest to master.

☺️

Please tag a musician friend :) @babinicz

[babinicz]

Thank you!

As a musicologist, I've learned how much you can do, even if you're not a professional musician. Your researches can change a lot.

As a singer, I've learned that singing isn't "a natural thing so it should be easier than any other instrument". IT IS NOT!

(tags: @widevibratobitch @lavinesia-violin @elliefluteelephant @theotaku-pianist @scarletlich and anyone)

[scarletlich]

It’s never too late to start (or start again), and don’t worry too much about technique or details, just make sure you enjoy it first.

[elly-fant]

Anything is doable if you want it enough and

1. Get a good teacher

2. Do as you’re told

3. Work super hard and consistently, focussing on the things you’re told to work on, every day

gets startlingly good results

(never-picked-up-an-instrument to a distinction at “you need to pass this exam to be considered for conservatoire/national ensembles” standard (ABRSM grade 8) in four academic years).

Tagging @you-had-me-at-e-flat-major @izobee-studies @fandoms-and-flute @justanotherpiccplayer

[lavinesia-deactivated20230408]

Life lessons? Let me see:

Be honest & respectful (both to teachers and classmates).

Patience and Discipline.

Be applied and ambitious.

but DON'T BE HARD WITH YOURSELF! Then you won't like music (specially if it is the only thing that makes you happy).

Do what you're told to do.

Divide and Conquer.

Tagging: @musicallymike @mollyravioli @piano-flute @theotaku-pianist @jean--valswan

[band-parade-rest]

Every part is important and crucial to an ensemble! Playing 2nd or 3rd sometimes can be more difficult than 1st: in my experience, it might be in a weirder register with stranger harmonies. The number of the part doesn't matter. Don't let that bring you down! To have a strong sounding group, every part has to have a solid player for balance reasons.

[katbot]

[band-parade-rest]

cymbals appreciation post

because we’re not real instruments or that “anyone can play the cymbals”

also because we’re the only alive cymbal line in my school district. 

day one on the job? i couldn’t raise my arms after. cymbals aren’t light to the extent of holding them up for extended periods of time and crashing and such. if you don’t believe me, try doing scarecrows. not fun. mine weigh about 5 pounds each, but when you’re holding hi-hats for snares, it’s 10 pounds on one hand. do this while marching in time, backwards in parades. some cymbals weigh more, too, and they make them look so light. 

look at their toned arms, and the insane visuals they do. 

going along with “anyone can play the cymbals, its just like banging pots and pans together” but not. it isn’t. we tried teaching multiple people who were like “cymbals are so easy” the cadence with visuals and they couldn’t after a minute. 

ok but everyone in cymbal line has huge bruises on their arm and on their stomachs because they accidentally pinch themselves crashing, doing hi-hat snaps, and sliding. i have some near my underarm area from choking crashes too.

cymbals are amazing instruments. they are just as important as any other instrument in pit, drum line, and the band.

(^ hella rad video scv cymbal line video and insane visuals ^)

[band-parade-rest]

felt like i needed to revive this, the way things are going. i posted this my first year ever marching. now i'm marching cymbals in an PIO group and i could not be happier, and it's all thanks to these two metal plates

[everydaylouie]

chord personalities 🎼

[hothautbois]

Sight reading in an audition

Music: presto Me: *checks pulse for tempo*

[leitmotif7-deactivated20201014]

I felt that in my soul

[secondclarinet]

[c3rvida3]

Instruments are so expensive. I should get them for free for being annoying.

[c3rvida3]

“You just let me take this home, no questions asked, and I won’t play it in your garden at three in the morning, okay? Decline my generous offer, however, and I will make your life a living hell.”

[c3rvida3]

Eight-hundred dollars for a new keytar? No, thank you. I should just be allowed to have it, I think. I don’t have to justify myself to you.

[c3rvida3]

Obviously, I’m partially joking, but like… The fact that instruments are so obscenely inaccessible is a big problem for me.

The amount of friends I had in high school who dropped orchestra or band because they couldn’t afford to rent their instruments anymore? Gross!

The amount of kids who give up on music because their cheap ass instruments sound like shit and they think it’s a lack of talent? Gross!

I’m privileged enough to have people in my life with money who have given me accordions and cellos and keytars to dick around on, but like.

You can pry my ukuleles and melodicas and stylophones and venovas and shitty, ancient, duct-taped-together Casios from my cold, dead hands. “Oh, they’re quirky funnyman instruments.” Fuck you. They’re cheap, fun, and easy to learn.

A kid learning “All Star” on a fuckin’ thumb piano or whatever is still a kid getting into music. If that teenage girl wants to pluck out Twenty-One Pilot’s entire discography on her First Act ukulele from Walmart, that’s wonderful. I can play the Tetris theme on this $40 children’s accordion, and I fully intend to make that everyone else’s problem.

And you’re an elitist dickbag who under no circumstances cares about music if you think that doesn’t rule.

[cermittoots]

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