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If you would like to join the tumblr/online saxophone ensemble please take this Google form!

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I'm proud to be labeled 'Band Geek' and 'Orchestra Dork'

I’m happy that, when I whip out sheet music in public, the majority of the people around me can’t understand what the random dots of ink on the paper are, what beauty the random marks; gibberish to them, creates. It’s my, and other musicians, little magic secret. I have this…awkward pride that I am able to understand something that so many people are missing out on.

I find it amusing, that when I have my istrument with me in public, strangers ask “oh is that a guitar? Trumpet? Tuba? Piccolo?”

They know nothing. They really know nothing……and I can’t believe I used to be like that once.

What I find sad, is that when I went up to my 12 year old cousin last week who is just entering middle school and said, “You should join band!”

She replied with, “Ew that’s for losers.”

This kind of hit me in the face, because I’ve forgotten about those stupid stereotypes since I’ve been in love with band for so long.

I think it’s ok to not know much about music. I think it’s ok to not understand it.

But I don’t think it’s ok….. To think that that the connotation of ‘nerd,’ ‘dork’ and ‘geek’ are bad. So bad that being a ‘nerd’ = being a loser. I remember my 11 year old self used to think that, in the back of my mind. “I don’t want to be sorted in with the nerds.”

But why did I think, that being a nerd, or a musician was bad?

How on earth did joining band becoming something ‘the cool kids’ not want to do?

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what each work of music is called in their relative genres

Pop: "Song"/"Beats"/etc.

Classical: "Piece"/"Symphony"/"Concerto"/etc.

Opera: "Overture"/"Aria"/etc.

Jazz: "Standards"/"Tune"/"Charts"/etc.

Me: "terrible failure"/"take me out of my misery"/etc.

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Director: It's marked as fortissimo

1st Chair Trombone: Fortississimo, there's three 'f's

Director: There's no such thing. Fortissimo is the loudest you can play with good sound. Any more 'f's are just excessive and quite frankly unnecessary.

3rd Chair: Is he calling John Philip Sousa a liar?

Bass Trombone: *whispering to 4th chair* Blastissimo, then?

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Sometimes, when my hair is actually swooped up to the side, I get startled by my own forehead. “Oh, my goodness, I forgot you were still up there…” #NationalSelfieDay

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i find it hilarious when ur the quiet/introverted kid and the teacher always sends ppl who are too talkative in class next to you bc they know you wont talk like

bad and naughty children get put with the Silent Man to atone for their crimes

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James Rhodes - Is that not worth exploring?

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last night i had a stress dream about my metronome

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date a girl who says “chord IV” and “chord V” instead of “sub” and “dom”

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*finishes 3 hour long movie*

who am i

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Just do it. Just eat an entire tuba. Just chop it up into bite sized pieces and place it in your mouth and eat the whole thing. J u S T f UCKinG

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priorities

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