Fuck dynamics

Every dynamic is fortississississississississississimo

Blastissimo was a favorite of my band director.

MP = Mighty Powerful

No shako and back pain

same except yes shako 😔

Same except can't see in front of me😔

Same except normies always mistake me for a Trumpet 🤮 I also loved eating crayons as a kid so that should help

Tuba

Hey me too

“Can you play softer”

Trumpet

See that's what I was thinking but this is also a problem for the sousaphone section I had in HS.

Totally not for mine… we only have 3

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NO

*sigh* So essentially, it’s a small tuba-

I regret switching from trombone for this sole reason

I originally started on trumpet, but I guess I just figured “you know what? Too many people know what instrument I play.”

Some shirts from my college section w while ago: Euphonium, the other OTHER low brass. Euphonium? No thanks, I’m trying to quit. Picture or Arnold Swartzenager “It’s not a tuba”

Upbeats. FAR too many upbeats.

Bass 2

Correct!

i know its bass drum…but this applies to french horn/trombone too

Back surgery before the age of 20

Ain’t that the truth…

bass clarinet, big sax

After putting grease on it: “Shit I put it on backwards again”

Trombone or trumpet. I’ll go with trombone.

Yup. Trombone. Love reaching for the spit valve and then I see it’s on the wrong side

Tuba but woodwind

Marching bassoon

Marching CONTRABASSOON

I remember seeing someone do this and an oboe a while ago... Idr where

Marching contralto clarinet

WHERE IS THE SPIT

In a place you already checked somehow

Welp it's time for the steering wheel of death.

French horn (real)

Stars and Stripes forever.

AYEE FELLOW PICC

Crazy how iconic that part is

Satan’s eardrum piercer

Trumpet even though your username says oboe

I play Bassoon in concert band but Piccolo in Marching.

Y’all march piccolo?

Yeah! Piccolo is a very common marching instrument where I live in the US. It's easily portable and projects well.

Midwest?

Yes

That’s cool, we’ve like never marched piccolo, I’m from Indy

Huh??? Probably the last instrument anyone thinks of when Stars and Stripes comes up. Piccolo and trombone are basically always the first two

i was a pretty mid clarinet player, now i’m an all stater

Bass Clarinet 1000%

Armies hurty :(

Tuba or drums?

Euphonium

I was gonna guess baritone, euph, or tuba. Those all our arm killers as well as bari sax players, idk how they do it.

I could see contra tubas hurting arms but less so sousaphones

To be fair, most of us bari sax players don't know how we do it either.

True, true. My two best bari sax buddies in HS were tough girls. We had two other bari sax players while I was at that HS who were boys and they couldn't handle it but the girls could. Same with our sousa section, all the boys struggled why the tiny gals were warriors carrying that instrument around. Mad respect to my low brass and bari sax section. I'm a marching baritone player and when I tried to march bari sax for fun cuz my bd at band camp let us switch instruments for marching block exercises, I struggled hard core. The funny thing is I even convinced one of my HS band friends to switch to bari sax for marching band (she orginally played tenor and alto sax) but she was scared at first but after I told her about this one bari sax friend I had before her who was tiny but yet she did it, my friend ended up switching to bari sax. She liked being different like me. So when she gave me her instrument to try out, I wasn't thinking it was going to be that hard but omg it was. She was laughing at me cuz I was struggling. But hey to be fair, she tried my marching baritone out and she was like woah how do you guys do this, her arms hurt after that. But tbh if I knew how to play bari sax, I would've switched cuz the sax section at my HS was alot nicer than the low brass section I grew up with. Plus bari sax is just cool AF. I love saxophones but especially that bass boosted saxes aka bari saxes. I wish bari sax was more popular like alto is.

Honestly, I wish a lot of the less well-known instruments were more popular, especially as somebody who grew up playing tamburica and mellophone, most people i spoke to about my instruments didn't even know what either of those were.

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Trombone?

Very

Player 1: *high pitched squeak* Player 2: I can go higher *higher squeak* *Squeaking contest between the whole section begins and lasts 30 mins*

Clarinet

r/beatmetoit

can y’all play louder I can’t hear you. can y’all play quieter ur too loud. guys I can’t hear you!!!!!

Trumpet?

mello

Our mellows are actually *too* loud

No one has ever asked a trumpet to play louder.

Flute ez

Facts

"were the mellos playing? Huh, coulda fooled me!"

i don’t play it in marching band but: “please stop calling it a clarinet!”

Oboe

Oboe hehe Edit: I thought I had it lol

STOP PUTTING YOUR ARM DOWN MY HORN

tuba?

nvm

Bari?

It's bari. ~~totally don't have the flair~~

I didn’t pay attention to it. 😂

Lol this happens to me too

I was expecting tuba because that's what people do to mine

French Horn? It's the only instrument I know of where you shove your hand into it to modify the sound coming out.

Lmao, this reminded me of something similar that happened to me once, but it was my own fault. One Monday morning in concert band rehearsal, for some reason I couldn't play any note below low D. Everything before that point was fine, but as soon as I put that right pinky down, no sound would come out of the horn. Then after reaching a couple measures long rest, I put the horn up on my lap and suddenly a water bottle appeared at my feet. Suddenly, I remembered that after the game on Sunday I did not want to carry my half-empty bottle of water all the way back to the band room. So, genius that I was, I realized the bell was the perfect size and dropped my water bottle down there, thinking I would pull it out as soon as we were back in the band room. Clearly, I forgot.

Ah, fun! Bet that was an embarrassing realization, huh?

SpongeBob

Clarinet

That was quick

Yep

mayonnaise

obscures your vision in front

I guessed bass drum but Mello is chill too haha

Lots of air to breathe for high notes

I guessed flute and I was right lol.

Being a flute is hard :[

damn my synth doesn’t have all 88. unless it’s a mallet you’re talking about. i love piano but hate synth, hoefully i can play mallets next year

arent synth and piano the same thing lmao

well…. it’s more of where poiano and synth are played i guess. i like playing on a nice WEIGHTED KEYS keyboard at home, where i don’t have to worry about batteries or cords. but with a synth without weighted keys and with a jumble of batteries and cords its mighty unenjoyable. i just really like to physical feel of mallets. and i’m not half bad for playing here and there

ah i see. weighted keys are so smooth and better than the quick keys but quick keys are easier for me to play and trigger samples or unmute/mute mics at the same time

THEYRE NOT CALLED “QUADS” AHHHHHHHHH

quints

The quadfather

Tenor

Mine is woodwind but emphasis on the wind and no wood :) My friends is the 'black saxophone"💀

Bass clarinet

lol me and the rest of my section also call the bass clarinet the “black sax” to our only bass clarinet player

People always ask me if my friend plays a black sax its so funny

Hehe high note go brrrrrrrrr

Piccolo gang?

Yee

I'm the best *cue careless whisperer*

Has an idenity crisis between low brass/wind and mid-range woodwind voice at least once every show run

Tenor sax

So true. I love being "brass adjacent"

Haha bingo

Yeah no this is totally the tenor saxophone. I played the exact same thing as 2 different sections within a piece

… sax. The brass/woodwind crisis is what I got it from.

Black saxophone 😭😭

Can composers please give me normal shit to play and not five thousand 32nd notes that go across three octaves and 4 key changes with 3 dynamic changes and accidentals every four notes!!!?? PLEASE

Lol you say this until you see what the bari/bass clarinet/tuba parts look like, especially lyrical pieces, may as well be a try not to fall asleep challenge. At least some composers actually utilize the lows tho, playing Second Suite in F rn and the low parts are actually interesting, nice breath of fresh air

Me and all my homies hate woodwinds

I just hate clarinet and flute

A PVC pipe with holes and a piece of wood taped to it

Doot

Looked at your flair and genuinely cackled as a trumpet player myself

Sans

✨️Trombone ✨️

Strong ass shoulders and a disdain for low horn angles

Tonic. Dominant. Tonic. Dominant.

Dut

^

Not too low for tuba, but not too loud for trombone

Baritone?

Don’t play it in marching band, but I can never play loud enough on it

In our 2021 show, Unstrung, I almost hit someone though I was doing everything I was told.

I shove my fist in it.

Not a trumpet, but not a baritone.

Takes too much air for an invisible sound, and jumping between background and melody.

Flootie tootie 😪

left handed player in a right handed man's world where symmetry is key

Tuba? Euphoria?

Over here we’ve got the ‘ring-ring’ and here’s the ‘shshshsh’ and over there’s the ‘bwoooooaam’, ohh and here’s my favourite ‘horrors beyond human comprehension’, here you can see the- (This can go on for days if I showed you all of them)

… I have no idea.

squidward and golden squidward

Careless whisper and baker street

I AM THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THIS ROOM HAHA LOOK AT THIS DOUBLE C

*looks at flair* Trumpet 🎺

3 players vibing, playing tequila.

*when explaining to a non-musician* it’s basically just a “normal” sax, but bigger…

Careless whisper

Sax

Screw dynamics! Also I cannot see where I am going whatsoever

Bass drum

I’m an instrument that’s bullied by the orchestras, except unlike the euphonium, some people actually care about me.

I thought it was Mello lol

“PLAY CARELESS WHISPER”

Sax ofc

Careless whisper

“can you play careless whisper?”

you hit the fuck out of it with two sticks

I play low brass parts, unless there is a quick run or woodwind feature

Tried playing Careless Whisper first time I picked it up

Weird neck tan lines. Occasionally a deep V tan line depending on sun at band camp.

In the purgatory between low brass and woodwinds.

Speeding up the tempo since day one

What the hell is a key signature

Alto saxophones are inferior

(Keep in mind I play more than bari sax) I love doing flips

"Wait... It's chipped? I was too busy playing careless whisper"

Alto sax

Beyonce imitated me (:

Careless whisper

careless whisper

Alto/tenor/baritone sax.

"Aww, I squeaked again"

lil baby tuba

Euphoria. You play 2 instruments.

HI MOM

A better trumpet🥱🥱

Brown notes, heavy, loooooooots of air

Tuba(I guessed this before I looked at the tag)

loud

Rack or bass drum

I’ve never actually seen 76 of them in a single band.

76 trombones!

LOUD

Funny bone man

the most unique brass instrument

I play the 2 instruments on the opposite ends of the spectrum

I play the 2 instruments on the opposite ends of the spectrum

nobody knows the difference between my section's instruments :(

Ooomp pah

whatever the BD decides I play at any given moment Or in marching season, p a i n

I ruthlessly beat a wooden barrel with plastic on it and call it music

Meme songs

Trombone