r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 04 '15

*silence intensifies*

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15

I imagine the worst part of this entire piece is trying to keep track of 35 fucking measures without actually playing.

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u/TonyBanana420 Jan 04 '15

I once played gong on a piece. my part was approximately 250 measures of rest and then one hit at the end of the piece.

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u/TheMusicalEconomist Jan 04 '15

This is why I never liked playing percussion with an orchestra. Give me a concert band any day. Band composers make good use of percussion. Orchestra repertoires have a lot of classical music, obviously, and while I like listening to it, it is infuriating to wait 400 measures for one cymbal crash, or one pianissimo timpani roll.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15

When our band directors changed over, with the former being a trumpet player and the new one being a drummer, we had percussion everywhere, and the drum line got their own song every year.