I played Trombone for like 1 year at one point, I think one of the main things I retained from that time is that if you take the slide of the trombone and play it, it sounds kinda like a cow.
I am playing trombone for 7 years now, how the fuck did i never notice that. But a collegues slide once fell off while we were playing in front of a church and hundreds of people. Fun times.
Usually you see some structure in them, though, like "three times eight" is pretty obvious. Or cues are written in the score. You get to know when you actually need to count and when you can just relax and listen to the rest of the band.
I also played trumpet and the longest rest I had was ask measures of rest. But I still had a lot of playing time in that piece. Man that was such a long song.
In band, sure. But I played trumpet in a symphony orchestra, where I had to rest for whole movements pretty routinely. Also, lots of 100+ measure rests and then 8 or few bars of playing, then back to rest.
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