Music To My Ears

A space for those of us who run on making music. Three lovely people who run this blog: Michaela Abby Submit or Ask! Music is the medicine of the mind. -John A. Logan

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NO YOU CANT DO THAT

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Play us a tune Jazz Man

[drakatha]

theres a snake in my flute

[fuckyeahmusicnerds]

hey everyone, send all your love to tumblr user @doverjazzghost for making the amazon christmas stop!

so hashtag blessed <3

[fuckyeahmusicnerds]

I'm like 90% sure that Amazon Santa thing is a scam. I heard sketchy stuff about it

yes! thank you! we know! we’re getting multiple messages about this and i swear to y’all, we’re doing everything we can. passwords have been changed, etc- if you have any other ideas on how to stop it, please share!

[fuckyeahmusicnerds]

Hey, that thing about free Amazon gift cards you reblogged is a scam!

Thank you! We’re working on addressing it- we’ve been trying to get it to stop posting for like a week now. :(

[fuckyeahmusicnerds]

you account is hacked or something cause you keep posting amazon santa crap

Hi! We know! We’re trying to fix it- we can’t figure out why it won’t stop posting! Passwords have been changed. We sincerely apologize though. :(

[fuckyeahmusicnerds]

amazon santa is a scam

hey!! so sorry- don’t know what happened!! don’t remember clicking this at all :(

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Things overheard in the music building:

“1/4? Really? Who writes a measure of ¼. WHY would you write a measure of ¼?”  “Because fuck you that’s why.”  “I will literally trade you my sandwich for that practice room.”  “Dude you should eat your lunch.”  “I won’t be able to eat it if my teacher decapitates me for not practicing JUST TAKE IT.” “I always wanted to look inside the percussion room. It’s like Narnia, but noisier.”  “Satan created piccolos to punish the trumpets for their pride.”  “I’m thinking about dropping music history.”  “But why, don’t you need that class?” “Yes but half of it is non-music majors and two people were having a discussion about why there were hashtags at the beginning of the music.” “So my teacher convinced me to take the History of Rock and Roll over the Summer but it was an online course and he found the webcam filters and inevitably the first unit ended up being taught by a talking dinosaur on my webcam. This man teaches college theory.” “SHH. Don’t say the theory teacher’s name. He’s like Beetlejuice. If you say it three times he’ll appear behind you and fuck your shit up.” “I found out Mozart had a butt fetish and I’m never going to be able to stop calling him Mozfart.”  “If I see a drink within 100 feet of that Steinway I will track you down and beat you with my harpsichord.”  

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califlowerlife

[shawarmachameleon]

Yeah, I’m an excellent musician. I can play John Cage’s “4’33” flawlessly, from memory, and with my eyes closed.

[pianistical]

I can play it on any instrument. I can even play it on 3 instruments at once.

[kappasquirrel]

Is this… grand theft alto?

[youarenotaneggplant]

get out

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Fritz Schüller’s quarter tone clarinet.

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FUCK MY LESSON IS TOMORROW I HAVENT PRACTICED SHIT

ancient music major proverb (via exxhale-desire)

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i think that french horn is out of tune, it looks a little flat.

[mabled-blog]

#have you tried emptying the spit valve

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Am I laughing or crying

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tattoo done by Metamorphosis Tattoo in Broadripple, Indiana. 

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[accumulatio-artemis]

Listen/download: Höyük by The Rotten Burrows

in case you guys missed it, my friend riley and his band the rotten burrows made this incredible album and i’m listening to it now and it warms my heart and makes me feel new england feels.

while my favorite track is hsh, there’s a song called deweyhaus which is about the house we live in together and that is a beautiful thing.

[npr]

Musical training doesn’t just improve your ear for music, it also helps your ear for speech. That’s the takeaway from an unusual new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers found that kids who took music lessons for two years didn’t just get better at playing the trombone or violin. They found that playing music also helped kids’ brains process language.

This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Music

Photo credit: Annie Tritt for NPR