All Things Instrumental

Pictures of Instruments Wonderful Videos Amazing audios You can always ask for musical advice I'm just a girl who is learning any instrument she can

[badassdemonsword-deactivated202]

wild brass instruments running free in a field eating quater notes, which is the grass on music planet

[radiation]

Huge pet peeve in video games is when you can’t hold your breath underwater for very long or it takes a good while to regain your breath above water. Unrealistic. Like my condolences to the devs for your lack of breath support but that just could not be me…

[fortidogi]

are you a frog or perhaps a turtle

[radiation]

i am a Saxophone player

[blizzardofjj]

12,000 people harmonizing Hey Jude at Pentatonix concert in Des moines

[ginnabelle]

Incredible! Gives me hope that there could be peace on earth

[heygingergirl]

Serious goosebumps

[fiddleabout]

#okay when they all got loud i choked up#i am not immune to the harmony of the masses

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

therapist: the semihemidemisemiquaver isn’t real, it can’t hurt you

the semihemidemisemiquaver:

[love-to-love-puppies]

Can someone who speaks sheet music translate for me?

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

fast

[mccoys-killer-queen]

I’m sorry but every time I see this post I’ve wanted to add this video and I can’t hold back anymore

[wolfwarrior142]

That video was hilarious while also making me realize that after having a few years of being taught how to play the piano as a kid and being in band for all 3 years of middle school (first year flute, other 2 years were alto sax), I have no fucking idea how to properly read sheet music.

[unkutraww-deactivated20230426]

Each one teach one…

Louis Armstrong with some neighborhood kids

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Any goth bassists? The Duke Double Bass Company in Frankfurt, Germany made a bat bass. 

Look at the cute little bat on the back.

This would be so cool to play. It would really stand out.

https://duke-bass.jimdofree.com/?

[lakemojave]

You don't like tumpet? 🎺? bwaaa?

[delicious-dream-before-the-storm]

When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen …

[francesca-feasts]

@hieronymus-bush … although I’m not sure what you’ll think of it 😆

[hieronymus-bush]

Holy hell. He has amazing technique AND he didn’t just transcribe the piece to piano, he essentially composed classical music (and honestly some neo-classical, lol) based on the melody. Plus, he kind of looks like Freddie.

[muchymozzarella]

People in the 1800s would've gone apeshit over this in the concert halls

[emeraldbirdcollector]

Reblogging to watch later...

[clarinetnerd17]

Do I…. Do I use my instrument for this?

[durnesque-esque]

I mean, it’d be 10,000x funnier if the clarinet player assigned just stood up and started screaming.

[o-kurwa]

[theunvanquishedzims]

#i mean. bro #i hate to break this to you but #you are in fact good at the small amount of piano ur playing #it is not fake

Dude taught himself to compose and calls it fake

“Just string it together in any order, the more random it is the more complex it’ll sound" improvising music on the fly was one of Mozart’s party tricks

Not saying this guy is Mozart but he’s smart and clever and talented and way, way underappreciating himself

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[coolthingoftheday]

The Sea Organ is an experimental musical instrument that is located in Zadar, Croatia. Beneath the white marble steps, a series of tubes create a system that could be described as a large piano. When the waves or the wind flow through the holes, they interact with the organ to create random harmonic sounds. (Source)

You can listen to the sounds that the Sea Organ produces here.

[weirdmageddon]

the way my jaw dropped at this bit

[changelingsrule]

Toby: So I wrote a bunch of music for the computer to play. Its going to be epic since the computer can handle so many crazy parts. Orcistra: We’re going to play this. Toby: Ummm...

[mrevaunit42]

Every band member ever: Music that was clearly composed by someone who doesn’t know how human fingers work? yeah alright, let me warm up. 

[stars-for-thought]

I need this

Like the full concert or a copy of the audio I can download

[stars-for-thought]

Oh look, I found it!

https://youtu.be/2vHERvHx26A

[official-lucifers-child]

new favourite thing to listen to: literally exactly what i’ve been looking for my entire life

[cerothenull]

Music Producer Alex Moukala did a whole video on just why this is so impressive

[goconn-deactivated20230304-deac]

At the 1998 Grammy Awards, Pavarotti was too ill to sing Nessun Dorma. Aretha Franklin filled in on 20 minutes notice.  This is the result.

[kcsplace]

Not only was the performance done on 20 minutes notice, she had no rehearsal and simply heard Pavarotti’s rehearsal once on a goddamn tape player and just listened, nodded and said she could do it. the most famous opera song in the world, on one of the biggest nights for music in the world, no rehearsal, and she just went out and did it.

that’s talent

[hrefnasenna]

WHERE IS THE REST I NEED IT.

[hrefnasenna]

More backstory: she’d performed Nessun Dorma at another event two days before, but got asked to take Pavarotti’s slot and basically instantly accepted— WHICH HAPPENED AFTER THE SHOW HAD ALREADY STARTED. (The producer didn’t hear he wasn’t coming until about 1:50 before he was supposed to be onstage.) She got a recording of Pavarotti practicing, and got to sit with his conductor and rehearse until it was time for her performance (the originally scheduled one) and for a bit of time afterwards. She didn’t know that there was a 30-strong backing choir or 50-piece orchestra till she saw it on her way down. What a queen.

Link: An interview with the producer of the show.

And the rest of the performance: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aArVxjh_s7I

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[gypsy-that-i-was]

If you listen, her tapping very much adds to the music.

[lizzy52955]

Love this💗💗💗💗💗

[froggybangbang]

That’s Emma O'Sullivan! She’s a famous tap dancer (all-Ireland champion) and you can see her often if you walk the streets of Galway, dancing in the street!

[sraithpics]

I’d just like to add (for non Irish people especially) that she isn’t actually a tap dancer but a sean nós dancer. Sean nós is a traditional Irish dance (sean nós means “the old way”) but it isn’t the same as the mainstream Irish dance which people would be familiar with. In mainstream Irish dance the dancers have carefully choreographed routines that need to be learned and replicated and keep a rigid upright position at all times. They either wear soft shoes which make no sound or hard shoes which make a tap sound which are worn for different types of dances. People can also usually recognise Irish dance pretty easily at a glance due to the extravagant colourful costumes, white “poodle” socks, white undershorts and heavy wigs and make up that the dancers wear at competitions.

Sean nós is a totally different type of dance separate to this mainstream “Irish dance”. It is a much more loose and free type of dance where the dancers always wear hard shoes since the sound of the feet is very important. There are a few basic moves (the “shuffle, shuffle stamp”, the “heel and toe” and the “slide and shuffle” being the basic foundation steps) but once you have the basics you can combine steps, free style and even make your own steps. You can move your hands and arms to the music unlike in mainstream Irish dance too. Sean nós is often seen as the sexier Irish dance as the dancers are allowed much greater hip and general body movement and can laugh and interact with the audience as they move. There are no particular costume rules for sean nós competitons. Unlike Irish dance, people can really wear whatever but the norm is comfortable and simple dresses or skirts or trouser/top combinations made up from whatever the dancer chooses from their own wardrobes, a huge contrast to the heavy Irish dance costumes and the expense and pageantry associated with them. Part of the appeal of sean nós is that it has not been commercialised and commodified to the degree that Irish dance has and has a much more casual and fun feel to it in contrast to the strict routines and costume norms of Irish dance.

The most skilled sean nós dancers are able to dance a “barrel dance” where they dance at high speed on top of a barrel without knocking it over. It usually takes years to get to this level of skill so people normally start on the ground and then work their way up from a quarter barrel to a half barrel until they can dance on the top of a full one. This is Emma again doing a barrel dance on a half barrel:

Another sean nós dance is Damhsa na Scuibanna “The Brush Dance” where dancers pass a brush between their legs at speed. The still images don’t really do it justice so here’s a clip of three members of the Cunningham family dancers performing it: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3Z8qG7AKo

It’s important that people call it by its correct name of sean nós or damhsa ar an sean nós rather than just “tap dance” as it’s an important part of our cultural heritage and a type of dance that is barely known about outside of Ireland. Sean nós had almost fallen into total obscurity outside of small pockets of rural Ireland until dancers like  Emma O Sullivan and the Cunningham family dancers repopularised it in the early 2010s through their acclaimed performances and TV appearances as well as their classes for children to keep the tradition going into the next generation. Sean nós is still threatened with falling back into obscurity, if you search online most of the popular videos and photos of it are from about nine years ago during this revival and it’s still largely a rural, West of Ireland phenomenon which even people from within Ireland don’t really know about. Calling it by it’s correct name helps to keep it alive and allows new people to find out about it.

[duine-aiteach]

Just to add that sean nós is pronounced as “shan no-ss”. Sean in Irish means old and doesn’t become Seán (Shawn) without the fáda on the A, though many Seáns don’t use a fáda especially outside of Ireland.

[rumman]

patti and dolly harmonizing to an acrylic nail beat

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