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o captain, my captain

listening to professional musicians who play your instrument is a double-edged sword bc you want to listen to world-class players to grasp what the ideal is and what you should strive for in terms of sound and to appreciate true mastery of the instrument but it also has the power to make you feel like a piece of garbage cosplaying as a musician

faredisfare-blog

Les Compositeurs Russes: Borodine, Moussorgski, Tchaïkovski; Rimski-Korsakov, Scriabine, Rachmaninov; Stravinski, Prokofiev, Chostakovitch

anxietyproblem

dellianarose

Yea really.

musictheoryaugmented

I hope you’re a publisher

because this story is BOOK-length. #Schenkerian

peelingmandarins

if only classical music wasn’t 15 minutes long for each piece and didn’t have titles like piano concerto no. 2 in E minor op. 27 V : aglio olio peperoncino waluigi

iplaythebassoon

Things I’ve Heard At Band Part 4 (I think)

“grace notes have no value”

“I value them”

B.d.: “That’s something I like to call an 1800s funky silence.”

B.d.: *addressing woodwinds* “You’re all *screams* but in reality you’re trying to be a harp.”

“GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR LATIN HYMNS”

“I soaked my reed in Dr Pepper.” *blows reed* “DeLiCiOuS”

“What are you, some kind of 19th century French piano expert?”

*to the tune of Circle Of Life* “IT’S A CIIIRCLEEE OF LIESS”

“This is a seductive ballad” *starts screaming*

*picks up phone* “wait what” *puts phone down* “he said my solo was bad and hung up???”

“go crawl into a hole and eat a pancake and maybe you’ll calm down”

“let me mourn the death of my reed in peace!!”

annoyingaltosaxophone

Guess who didn’t practice enough this decade!!!

annoyingaltosaxophone

haha.... no but really 👀

shit-my-music-professors-say

4th grader: *rubs drum head*

4th grader: is this a tortilla

sailingthroughthestars

The Instruments as Stock Images

Trumpet:

Trombone, tuba:

Horn, euphonium:

Flute, clarinet:

Percussion:

Oboe, piccolo:

Sax, bassoon:

thescientificviolist

me and the boys practicing

bangdoot

I watched this for 30 seconds waiting for some picture to load and then realised and thought “wow that’s accurate”

flutesncurls

Welcome to music school

Where tendonitis seems to be more infectious than the common cold

mendelssohn-kin

I love being a classical musician because you get to play all this beautiful music and pour your heart into it, but also because the hardest I’ve ever laughed was when I wrote “oop” after a pianississimo so it read “pppoop”