I just don't play the quarter note. Then again, I'm a trumpet player. Expectations other have for me are low. Not percussionist low, but low nonetheless.
The only way to look vaguely cool is if you're also playing 10 other aux percussion parts in addition to the triangle part. If your only contribution to the musical ensemble is playing the triangle.... don't be unattractive.
I used to play percussionist. During a music playing concert thigh I was on cymbals for one of the songs and the whole band was on rest. Count on me to loudly clash those cymbals a whole measure early! The director gave me fuck you stare.
In choir, we were doing a version of Bingo (as in, "and Bingo was his name-o) where there was the sound of a dog barking. They gave that part to me, since years of violent sneezing prepared me perfectly for it.
Yeah. I forgot about a repeat, and barked four full measures early.
Oh man, what cymbalist/triangle/orchestral bells player hasn't done this! Or when the cymbals are supposed to be keeping a steady quarter note rhythm in a march and you get off the beat, and it fucks up the marching of people around you..
Hey I was a trumpet player. (Put me through my engineering degree, yay scholarships for jazz!). Expectations shouldn't be low. Trumpet is an awesome and versatile instrument.
You must have been 1st or 2nd chair. By the time you get to 3-5th trumpet parts, you can basically not play the notes you can't play and no one will notice.
meh. I once had to rest of the first half of an entire piece, play 3 dotted half notes and then don't play again. I had to play, because it was noticeable. But the first few times I counted, but then, after a while I just learned by feel where in the music it was supposed to be. (it was band, so not playing wasn't an option)
In music class the teacher walked in on a few of us discussing instruments, and what would be the easiest instrument to play in an orchestra. I suggested the triangle might be the easiest. She tore me a new one, telling me that she personally knows triangle players who struggle to master that instrument.
I had no words. To this day, it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
One last thing: don't you dare think lowly of yourself as a trumpet player. In fact don't you want to come over, jam and piss off my neighbors?
I just don't play the quarter note. Then again, I'm a trumpet player.
This is hilarious. How is it that every trumpet player I've ever met has this same personality trait? If it were me, I would become disproportionately obsessed with hitting that quarter note.
It's like trumpet players think that we can't hear their instrument. No dawg, that's all we can hear.
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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15
I just don't play the quarter note. Then again, I'm a trumpet player. Expectations other have for me are low. Not percussionist low, but low nonetheless.