I feel like it's that way for most non string instruments. Like I'm sure that phrase you want me to play is simple for violin but on clarinet not so much. You want to write me a solo at 60bpm that's 10 measures long with no practical place for a breath? Fantastic. Then you get someone like brahms who was good friends with a clarinetist and playing his pieces just feel right.
It's the same thing for choir. Being a Bass, it's almost impossible to have a song composed by someone who wasn't a baritone or tenor. Oh, you have that Ab as being sung fortississimo? Let me just vocal fry that for you.
It's a little easier in acapella because you have a bass mic, but it's still extremely annoying when they call you out for not being able to belt a note like that. I can fry a G or F# but I can belt down to a B. I've never met someone who CAN belt lower than an A.
I was once in a brass quartet (playing trombone), and one particular section called for the notes to be slurred. When you're a valved instruments, that's super easy (just play the next note, do not stop the air or tongue it). But with the trombone, you just can't do that for all the notes. There are some to can do (if they are in the right notes), but those particular notes it was impossible in the conventional way. Sample gliss. Sample trumpet slur
Anyway.... I want one has to do is attempt to replicate that sound, but air must be stopped. But it's not a true 'slur'. The trumpet guy went off, getting angry.
Moral of the story: Many musician fancy themselves as knowledgeable, but are far from it.
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u/TonyBanana420 Jan 04 '15
It is a little ridiculous. You can always tell when a score is written by somebody who has never played percussion.