the ragtag orchestra

From the creator of @myflawedschool This is what happens when you put 40 musicians who forgot to practice in a room together ~ summitions open By @thenerdthatlivesat221bonnaboo

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I'm taking a break from Tumblr, but I will be back

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Going to take a quick social media detox, I'll be back soon

05/12/2020

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My cat keeps trying to climb up onto my cello while it's lying in it's case. I keep catching her in the act and yelling at her. She gets down and once I get back to what I was doing she does it again. She's only stared doing thhis a few days ago. I feel like she'll probably break my cello and it's especially bad since it's a rental.

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The first teacher I went to taught me to hold my cello bow like a violin too! My hands were super sore and I looked it up, turns out it was completely wrong! Then I found out that my teacher didn't know how to play the cello, only the violin >:(

At this point I just really dont care how I hold my bow 😂

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Just noticed today that the tuner I've been using is highly inaccurate. My uke has been way to high and now I've got to re-record all my my songs on my band lab. I think my cello is fine though

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Some random cellist: You smell like a baby

Me: *turns around* are you talking to me?

Her: yes

Me: what do you mean by you smell like a baby?

Her: I mean that you smell like a baby

Me: and is that a good thing...

Her: yes because I like the smell of babies

Me: okay...

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I love how my last private teacher thought the reason I played everything that was a half note and longer too slow and rushed every note that was an eighth or slower was because I liked the sound of the longer notes, when it was clearly because I didn't know how to count.

I went to four teachers before her and none of them thought how to count. I only would sort of count a fraction of the notes. One of my teachers just said that the half notes are long and didn't teach the counting. One of my teachers had me use a metronome, but didn't tell me how to count. My conductor, who taught me some lessons, didn't teach us how to count (she does the 6th-12th orchestras) and kind of assumed we'd know.

I got to skip the 6th orchestra and go straight to 7th because I was already playing, so I didn't do orchestra in 7th grade. Before I rejoined I had to spend two weeks or so binge learning counting so I didn't make a fool of myself in front of my grade (they all pretty much know I should be at their level or above). That shouldn't happen.

I also love how my teachers did teach proper cello placement and the conductor showed me. Thanks to them, she showed me twice (I was taking lessons and I was showed the uncomfortable way so I had to do that. I also told the conductor the second time) in front of 40 kids. My orchestra includes: two violin prodigies (one is really cocky and the other is really nice) one of which I used to have a crush on before I realised he was clearly gay, six friends, two other people I used to have crushes on, and my crush...

I also love how the teacher I went to the longest taught my the French VIOLIN bow hold. I play cello and I've only been able to fix the tilt. I still play with the French violin bow hold... I'm glad I'm going to be majoring in political science and film.

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Pumped Up Kicks (Medieval Style)

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl40J5YMmcI

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This sounds like the soundtrack to the ending of an action series where the main character achieves their goal of restoring peace in the land or something and then goes to the top of a hill to watch the sun rise as a narrator briefly summarises the series

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Part One of Me Complaining About my Cello

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Fuck, I forgot to practice

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Thanks for almost 60 followers

I just started this account not too long ago

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I know this meme old, but I had too

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My orchestra teacher thinks it's ok to have all of the 8-12th grade orchestra members on a video chat all at the same time. She wants us all to do it. She wants about 60 people in a in the same Google Meet. How would that even work?

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Here's some TwoSet Violin fan art!

The photo quality is better when you click on it

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Here's my art I posted to my main account

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Am I the only one who hates SmartMusic. It never grades me right.

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Conductor: Let's have the violas and the seconds play those three measures again.

The cello and the first sections: Ugh! 🙄

The violas and seconds: *Start playing the same three measures that they've been playing since the beginning of the class*

The cellos and the firsts: *boredly starring out into space*

Me: *is half asleep*

Me: *Looks over at my two friends sharing a stand in the firsts*

The pretty girl: *is half asleep*

The pretty boy: *is sleeping with his arms wrapped around his violin like it's a teddy bear*

Me: *thinking* Aww he's so cute; but can we please start playing! We've been sitting here during this whole class waiting for these people to learn three measures they should already know how to play. Oh my God, it's not a very hard part and the firsts and cellos can play it fine, why can't they?