Musical Academia Feels
holding hands as you listen to the piece you're about to learn
warm blankets at a marching festival
making them put up the maracas because the hook in the percussion closet is too high up and also you just want an excuse to be in the percussion closet with them
concert black concert black concert black concert black concert black concert black
"wow i've been a percussionist for six years and my final band concert send off is a triangle hit in Holst's Second Suite"
"wow i've been a classically trained percussionist for 20 years and i also have a phd in percussion and my legacy is a triangle hit"
"dude who the f u c k decided that writing sheet music for drumset in concert arrangements of showboat tunes was a good idea?"
VIBRAPHONE VIBRAPHONE VIBRAPHONE
finding sheet music crumbled up in obscure places
standing in the copying room with them silently making copies of 7 trumpet parts, 3 alto sax parts, a french horn part, a piano part for the vibraphone, a tuba part for the bass trombone all for something like I Left My Heart in San Francisco or Corner Pocket or something like that
wondering how legal these copies are
sleeping in the backseat of the bus
