Just a reminder: Your bad days only hold as much weight as your good days. By the same token, your good days hold just as much weight as your bad days. Neither one defines you as more or less of a musician. The fact that you had a bad day does NOT make you a bad musician.
ive said it before and ill say it again: astrological signs, meyers briggs, uquiz tests; all fake bullshit that have nothing to do with someones personality. but the instrument you played in highschool band/orchestra? that shit’s realer than math. youre branded for life. i may not be able to guess which instrument you played but as soon as you tell me itll IMMEDIATELY make sense
Alexis Adler had just graduated from Barnard College in New York City with a degree in biology when she fell for a charming artist four years her junior. His name was Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The two moved in together later that year, into a sixth-floor walk-up with about 400 square feet of living space located on East 12th Street in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood. The rent, wildly, was $80 a month, affordable enough for Basquiat to support himself by selling sweatshirts on the street. The couple spent about a year in the apartment, a passionate and creatively fertile time that Adler chronicled meticulously with her camera. (read more)
ive said it before and ill say it again: astrological signs, meyers briggs, uquiz tests; all fake bullshit that have nothing to do with someones personality. but the instrument you played in highschool band/orchestra? that shit’s realer than math. youre branded for life. i may not be able to guess which instrument you played but as soon as you tell me itll IMMEDIATELY make sense
ive said it before and ill say it again: astrological signs, meyers briggs, uquiz tests; all fake bullshit that have nothing to do with someones personality. but the instrument you played in highschool band/orchestra? that shit’s realer than math. youre branded for life. i may not be able to guess which instrument you played but as soon as you tell me itll IMMEDIATELY make sense
I don’t understand how people quit or don’t like band. It’s literally one of the best things that’s ever happened to me, and it hurts that my friends are leaving.
It may seem stupid that I’m getting so emotional about something that I still have so many years, and so many opportunities still, as freshman year is ending.
I’m going to be a section leader next year and it scares me that I might forget how to have fun and let loose in band, especially when so many of my friends are leaving it next year.
I just want to make the most of it while I’m here, and it’s hard to think a whole year went by like that.
There’s two things that my band director says before every game, when we’re lining up in parade block and it’s something that I think everyone should hear.
What makes a band successful? Every single person does their absolute best, all the time.
Remember who you are, remember who you represent, remember who you want to be.
And some of you may take it as just some stupid band thing, but you have to look past your section, past the band, past the people around you in order to really believe it. You have to look at yourself and tell yourself who you are and who you want to be to make it come true, to do your absolute best all the time.
And this may be why band is so important to me but it really is a family, as stupid as that may sound.
Basset Horn, ca. 1820 Grenser & Wiesner (Dresden, Germany)
-Materials: Body: Boxwood • Parts: Ivory, brass -Length: ~118.5 cm -Other Notes: In E-Flat. The basset horn is part of the clarinet family and closest in range to the alto clarinet. It’s not related to any brass families despite the given name.
As a marching band tech, I’ve gotten a lot of excuses for why someone isn’t wearing sunscreen during rehearsal. Under the cut, I address some of them! Please, please wear your sunscreen! Since our bodies are strong and young, it’s easy to forget that they need to be taken care of. If you’re perfecting your roll step to avoid rolling an ankle, you should also be applying sunscreen to avoid skin cancer!
Plus, sunburns hurt, and that pain can make people more irritable even if they don’t notice it. This won’t help when you’re hungry, tired, hot, and trying to learn dots! Contribute to your band’s success by taking care of yourself so you can be 100% there during rehearsal! (Plus, PLUS, you’re all really talented and ilu so be safe!!)
“Don’t worry, I just tan over my burns!” - One burn every two years triples your chance of skin cancer–it’s not worth the risk! You’re still burning! [source]
“I have dark skin! I won’t burn.” - Even lovely, melanin-rich skin can burn! It may take longer, but the consequences are the same. [source]
“I don’t like how sunscreen feels–it’s gross!” - I know! I am sorry, I hate it too. To get around this, try putting on a little less OR using a sunscreen designed not to feel greasy. [Here is a bunch!] Just because we think it’s gross doesn’t mean the sun will be kind to us. ): A little discomfort now is worth protecting your future!
“I like the tan!” - You can tan without burning! Here’s a [cosmopolitan article] that explains how.
