3 Out of 5 Sax Players Crave Death

Welcome to a music blog ran by a Alto Saxophone that YOUR band director hates, my name is Travis, welcome to chili's

[saxoparent]

Hey guys I must ask you all thoughts on ISOs like the honest thoughts not just the one based on what your band director told you feel free to rb or send in a ask abt Said thoughts I wanna dicuss

[saxoparent]

I might be returning as I just bought a quirky alto sax

Someone welded on her it's fine she's just quirky

[saxoparent]

She is home I already knew she was an iso (admittedly Im poor as fuck she was 150 ok )but she works and sounds pretty good and can stay in tune so she is mlady and is now my own personal saxophone but being the 4th I've ever played

[saxoparent]

I might be returning as I just bought a quirky alto sax

Someone welded on her it's fine she's just quirky

[saxoparent]

Now that I'm older I really wish I could really write a paper on how unhealthy the band mentality can be in high school

Like it can really dig a horribly unhealthy mentality in some spaces and possibly cause harm upon yourself and graduating can really put it into perspective

[saxoparent]

Sorry for out of no where serious convo it's just your saxoparents had a big think these days!

[saxoparent]

Now that I'm older I really wish I could really write a paper on how unhealthy the band mentality can be in high school

Like it can really dig a horribly unhealthy mentality in some spaces and possibly cause harm upon yourself and graduating can really put it into perspective

[saxoparent]

I have been graduated for over a year but I will likely try to obtain a saxophone again as I currently don't own one

[benedictervention-deactivated20]

MUSIC ASKS these are actually pretty fucking hard but why not

1:A song you like with a color in the title

2:A song you like with a number in the title

3:A song that reminds you of summertime

4:A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

6:A song that makes you want to dance

7:A song to drive to

8:A song about drugs or alcohol

9:A song that makes you happy

10:A song that makes you sad

11:A song that you never get tired of

12:A song from your preteen years

13:One of your favorite 80’s songs

14:A song that you would love played at your wedding

15:A song that is a cover by another artist

16:One of your favorite classical songs

17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

18:A song from the year that you were born

19:A song that makes you think about life

20:A song that has many meanings to you

21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

22:A song that moves you forward

23:A song that you think everybody should listen to

24:A song by a band you wish were still together

25:A song by an artist no longer living

26:A song that makes you want to fall in love

27:A song that breaks your heart

28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love

29:A song that you remember from your childhood

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

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[maplebungus-deactivated20221118]

this post has been a wild ride for me

[saxoparent]

Hi I've graduated actually quite awhile ago unfortunately I haven't been able to get ahold of a saxophone rn I really want to keep playing but my living situation is very complicated! Keep playing and I'm glad some of you still enjoy my older posts !!

[saxoparent]

Can accordion tumblr give me some help this was inherited from my grandma

[saxoparent]

Senior me plays music freshman me would of hated I have a penchant for the challenge

[composerinprogress]

a work in progress for piano & strings

what do you think?

[be-gay-take-naps]

Wow this is beautiful! It has a such a magical, floaty feel to it that I really love!

[architectofimagination]

^ couldn't agree more, exactly how I felt it

[wellillbedamned]

Please listen to this sax solo that came from the goddamn veggietales larryboy soundtrack

[ironwoman359]

VeggieTales always goes hard with the music, man

[phantomchaosfangirl]

Don’t sleep on one the underrated BOP of a villain song.

[bobacupcake]

bite this rosins

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

Okay this kinda fucks

[queenelvendork]

By theokandel on tiktok

[housecatincarnate]

[musicalmelody22]

Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it” 

Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect. 

[fororchestra]

To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.

On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.

[corruptbucky]

I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…

[justtkeepcalmm-deactivated20250]

Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.

The lengths we go for music.

[lady-gorthaur]

Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.

[elsajeni]

One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.

[minguskingus]

This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

[oxboold-deactivated20180729]

Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this

which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that

[prokopetz]

Who does that?

This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.

[vivelafat]

Julius IdontgivaFucik

[septemberbells]

More like Julius Fuckit

[sushinfood]

Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share

[dcivids]

2009 Holy Name Cadets “West Side Story: Conflict and Resolution”: Ballad.