Marching Band

And all things music

[just-shower-thoughts]

Lisa Simpson plays the saxophone very well for a girl with only four fingers on each hand.

[gale-in-space-deactivated202409]

I’m

[fatherlyfeline]

[proboscidea-althaeifolia]

polish government has opened a website for ukrainians seeking safety and trying to cross the ukrainian-polish border:

ua.gov.pl

as of 13:10 polish time, it has been said as many people as possible will be let through the borders. they are also supposed to let through children who do not have passports, as to not divide families.

[feartheclarinets]

Hi so im a junior in college currently, just turned 21 and looking back on it 1. My life revolves around music. 2. Basically all of my college career has been during covid and basically shit in the long run so that being said: basically ive realized the highest point of my life thus far, was unfortunately, high school band. I could not have asked for a better experience there and sometimes get in my head and think that i rly peaked in a scrawny high school band. But my band was GOOD and we played HARD music and i was poppin and talking to the loml (lol rip that shit but here we are still <3) but i had everything I currently crave: i played daily in a SWINGIN jazz band with the best sax player I personally have ever had the blessing of performing with for 7years!!! I played the BEST music that was actually challenging with the best wind ens. Group ive ever had the pleasure of playing with. Not to talk shit about my current collegiate wind ens but the music we play is more tonal and focused on blending perfectly but in hs we played FUCKIN BANGERS like i can not even eXPLAIN!! I marched for 4 years, and it was THE BEST 4 yrs that band has ever had. Thinking of it that way, that music program had such an impact on me, and i invested and shaped so much of it just personally. I made MEMORIES there, not to say i havent in college but looking back to hs music? Couldnt have asked for more. And currently? I desire exactly what i had, that level of intensity just constantly. Yaa band is good now weve studied with professional musicians etc etc but the intensity and just push to be the fuckin best isnt there. Not that we dont try hard but, there was something about my hs music program that college music just cannot ever compare too and it makes me sad to think that I haven’t had that much fun playing my instruments in 3 yrs now. Yeah covidhas messed hard with the way we can do things so we dont die but i feel theres sooo much more this program could be if it was my hs program with the musical abilities we all have today. I miss it. I miss high school. First time ill admit that but shit was bussin and it hasnt bussed the same SINCE!! yes im living my own personal life rn exactly the way i want it but i crave what once was and dont know if ill ever get to do exactly that again

[i-lionheart]

the difference between band kids and choir kids, in a nutshell:

they are talking about the exact same trip.

[un-kn0wnn25]

Carol of the Bells played by basketballs

[mlcookies]

How lit is this lol

[prismatic-bell]

Please appreciate that those basketballs had to be inflated to different pressures to produce notes. Not only did they have to tune the balls, they had to figure out not when the balls should hit but when they should be dropped to hit at the appropriate time.

[symphonicseauxl]

So my senior recital went well! This is a clip from Prototype by Outkast.

[shes-petite]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[symphonicseauxl]

Wow the notes! Thank yall!!

[blvck-immaculate]

I ain’t even know you could do that with a violin

[symphonicseauxl]

That and more!!

[moonisneveralone]

The bass player is feeling it too

He’s like

[ur-so-saxy-aha]

It's amazing how much noise you can make on a saxophone without actually playing it

[weaver-z]

New school event called “chaos marching band,” where students are randomly assigned an instrument two minutes before the competition starts and the winning team is the one that plays something that most resembles an actual song. No prior experience or practice allowed.

[marchingband-memes]

The only valid tik tok is @drumcorpsinternational, change my mind

[ahumanbeena]

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

[isaacsapphire]

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

[pisceanpizza]

Yesssss

[brainbubblegum]

[anonymoustypewriter]

You know i just reblogged this but im reblogging again to say i keep looking at baby jesus with the lighter and cackling madly because i love this so much

[radioactivepeasant]

this makes me laugh every year

[schmoyoho]

All Star but it’s in a minor key so it makes you question life and realize the years start comin and they don’t stop comin

aka, the theme song to Shrek 9: Shrek’s Third Divorce

FEATURING THE AMAZING @allicatttx

[calysto1395]

i need a full version of this pls

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

Sis voice tho!

[bangdoot]

once in band I forgot the sheet music was double sided so I ended up going onto the next page while everyone else was on the back side of the first page and I finished like 20 bars early.

none of us realised because it was jazz

[yardsards]

pros of jazz: harder to realize when you’ve fucked up

cons of jazz: harder to realize when you’ve fucked up

[bismuth-209]

I used to do guitar, but I am dreadful at rhythm and reading sheet music, so I could be halfway when the rest was done with a two-pager. I just straight up didn’t hear it.

[8th-note-boulevard]

[8th-note-boulevard]