Katelyn

Flute/Music Education Major/20

[five-flats]

flute thing: when you can’t be bothered to play a fast passage properly so you cheat with trill fingerlings

[elly-fant]

wait what? but trill fingerings are way more complicated and you have to remember them?!

[a-fluter]

I recently took a couple of wind orchestra prices to my teacher and she was like lmao why do full fingerings and miss half the notes when you can overblow by a fifth or octave and it definitely makes life easier once I remember them

[ktflute-blog]

I completely forgot about this blog. 😅 Good lord let’s try this again.

[solarine]

Things Musicians do When They Play a Wrong Note

A bit of music humour for those of us who have played instruments or sang in a choral ensemble. I assure readers that all of these are accurate, having spent the last 17+ years of my life around these people. :)

First Violins: Screw up your face and pluck your strings as if making sure they are in tune.

Second Violins: What wrong note?

Violists: Adjust the placement of the viola on your shoulder, or else completely retune your instrument, no matter how bad the timing is.

Cellists: Make a big show of tightening/loosening your bow hair, or stop playing entirely. Ask the conductor to retune your instrument.

Bassists: Oh, what, were we supposed to play there?

Clarinetists/saxophonists: Check the placement of your keys; when further wrong notes are played (or if discovered that all keys are present), make a show of checking your reed for cracks or fiddling around with the ligature.

Oboists/Bassoonists/English Hornists: Take your reed off, take your reed knife out, and “trim” your reed.

Trumpeters: What do you mean, “wrong note?” We were right - the rest of the orchestra was playing the wrong notes.

Trombonists: Don’t notice the wrong notes - there’s too many of them to choose from.

French Hornists: Adjust your mouthpiece and 37 different pieces of your instrument.

Tuba Players: Play even louder in hopes that will make up for the wrong note, therefore drowning out the rest of the orchestra.

Euphonium/Baritone Players: Oh, well, life goes on.

All Brass Players: Blow through your instrument, making sure it didn’t get too cold during the 3 beats of rest; always good is taking out your cleaning cloth and pulling all the nasty stuff out of your instrument and dumping it on the floor. The audience is now too grossed out to notice the wrong notes.

Flautists: Stare blankly at your flute for a moment, then pull out a bit. If still wrong, pull out even more and hope that did the trick.

Percussionists: Giggle and joke about it with the rest of your section; miss your next cue and giggle again, causing the conductor to stop the entire rest of the orchestra.

Guitarists: Hey, man, I $%#&ed up…let’s go back to the beginning (even if 2 lines from the end of the piece, as you have no clue where you were in the first place).

Accordionists: Who cares? The rest of the people vacated the room long before the wrong note.

Sopranos: Fake a coughing fit or give a dirty look to the soprano next to you.

Altos: (grumbling) Why fix it? Nobody will notice anyways, right?

Tenors: Crack a joke, apologise to the conductor, and get on with your life.

Basses: You’re singing so low that they’ll all swoon even if the note is wrong

[clevergirl]

I am astounded by the accuracy

[official-saxophones]

What do you mean by “check if all the keys are present” ???? They don’t just fall off mid rehearsal

[ktflute-blog]

Practiced in a school practice room for about an hour today. I prefer the acoustics in my room but when you have a busy class schedule there is no other option. day 2/100

[musicforyourplants]

[boy-matt-deactivated20181204]

*slams reblog*

[ariesaav]

Klezmer dolphins.

[willcub-deactivated20180521]

I don’t know that I’ve reblogged anything faster in my entire tumblr life.  

[deadwithoutdata]

The one dancing and flailing at the end

[ktflute-blog]

For day 1/100 for one hundred days of practice, I decided to move my music in front of my window for some added inspiration! Also I'm currently working on Berbiguier #3

[dschalcoda]

When there is no tempo indicated in the score and every recording you find is a different tempo too

[ktflute-blog]

Me in theory: I hate everything

Me in theory: Why is that chord what it is

Me in theory: I'm so confused

Me in theory: "music theory interests me" I said

Me in theory: Lies

Me in theory: Insert anger here

Me in theory: I knew I should have been an English major

[classicalcarp-deactivated201805]

dear self: just fucking practice omg

[keyofcsharpminor]

go practice scales

[violapianolife-blog]

You ever get those days when you’re practicing and everything is going perfect? Like your tone is crystal clear, you’re full of energy, you’re making loads of progress and you’re confident about your musical career?

Yeah me neither.

[composing-prompts]

Compose a piece based on the funniest Tinder profile you can find in the next 24 hours.

[slut-for-space]

When you’re sightreading a piece and suddenly it gets 10x harder

[stereobrick]

Illustrated catalogue / C. Bruno & Son, C. Bruno, Jr., sole proprietor - 1890

[fugue-shit-up]

Sometimes the last thing you want to do when you get home, is practice, but with a rehearsal space this beautiful, it makes it really easy.

[classical-crap]

If y’all ever need motivation to practice just listen to some music of your instrument of someone that’s like 38485885588558x better than you and you will be instantly motivated

very true

[practise-room]

just make sure they arent younger than you

[violalife]

hey y’all, i’m still alive - just incredibly busy. music things have been great. school things have been great. social life is getting there. i’m pretty content right now. hope you all are having a wonderful day/week/month/year <3