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Grassble
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Tell me what kind of instrument you play and what songs you know? I play the drums but I don't know any songs.

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Freakenstein
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I play trombone. I am not a tromboner. i'm a trombonist.


Yes, because all trombone players blow into a boner :P It's music humor and a good one at that

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Alright so, great year for District Solo and Ensemble! For those that don't know how the score goes, you basically warm up your piece by yourself if you have a solo, and with your team if you have an ensemble. Once your time is up you must go to the judging room to be judged by judges (:P) and play your music for the judge.

Points are as follows. 9.0 to 13.5 = gold 14.0 to 22 = silver, 23-30 = bronze, aaand 31+ = participation, aka fail. Basically, the less points you have, the better you did in those categories. There are nine of them, and they each go from 1 point to 5 points and can go in-between to .5's. These categories range from tone quality, rhythm being succinct, dynamics, presentation, musicianship, things like that.

So, here's what my team and I got, as well as what I got in my solo:

Ensemble: 9.5/45 = near-perfect gold

This one was fairly easy, all ensembles are compared to solos. This one basically has parts going in at many different times and the main difficulty why it was considered group one was that you needed to keep a steady time. This is hard in this piece, since every one has different melody parts coming in at different times. Some play off others, some play by themselves while we fill in, and sometimes we all play the same melody and basically do rounds. All in this one song, and it took 3 full minutes to play. Rhythmically, it wasn't hard, but the overall piece was challenging.

Solo - 12/45 = low gold rating

Remember how I said that dodectuplets are fun? Sarcastically yes, but they are a giant B word to play. It was an Irish piece exclusive to french horns; it was filled with triplets, 32nd notes, sextuplets, and dodectuplets. You know what really P-worded me off? The piece makes you decrescendo as your range gets higher and crescendos as your range gets lower. There were some instances in which I went back and forth between treble clef and bass clef, because the notes went so low.

So all in all, I blew that song, but I still got a gold. Not how I really wanted it to go, but that's what State Solo and Ensemble is for. 2 weeks of extra practice to buff out those dammed dodectuplets....

Also a bit of humor: our baritone player showed up in shorts and our trumpet player played with his pants unzipped. They both showed up together and I was like "...FML..."
kuraikane
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Congratulations!
That system is different from ours though. For us the higher you get the better you're rated. Also, they're rated with numbers, 1 being the best. Also, for us, we don't go to state individually, we go as the whole school.
For soloists, we have to sing the minor and major scales and a major triad and either a minor, augmented, or diminished triad.

Wow, you're song sounds difficult. Decrescendo as the notes go higher? That takes some major breath control!

Freakenstein
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This is why I almost got a silver rating. Good thing the judge wasn't so anal about everything being so fundamental... >_>

For us the higher you get the better you're rated. Also, they're rated with numbers, 1 being the best.


Uhm... how can that be? 1 being highest, and the higher numbers = better score? XD

Also, for us, we don't go to state individually, we go as the whole school.


So it's a school band contest instead of an ensemble? Lol our school can't do group I for state... Our freaking percussionists don't know a quarter note from a quarter... The highest we've gone as a band is group II, and that was bad enough... Good thing that wasn't included in the contest.
Freakenstein
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Awesome. Yet another homonym that needs to be uncensored... X)

So to re-post that... "Good thing the judge wasn't so perfect about everything being so fundamental".

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It's actually good for learning, and tablature has been around for thousands of years, far before our current system of notation. however, every guitarist should learn to read music. it definitely is a lot better than tabs.


I play the guitar as well, and I've always had a question about tab. How do you translate something like this:

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into standard notation? It is important if you are trying to write a power chord. It is just something I have always wondered.
Freakenstein
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Another said there would be a mark whether it was one beat, two beats, half beats, rests, yadda. Power chords are like having three notes on top of each other on the same beat.

Observe:

http://www.guitarnoise.com/images/articles/584/3.jpg

bacobit
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I cant even read standerd notation D=

Freakenstein
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If you can read tabs, then look: See how the notes line up? The notes on the top bar (the one with the funny symbol called the treble clef), align with the notes on the bottom bar (the one that says tab). This is basically a translator to show what power chords would be in both music languages. Also a good warm-up when I grabbed the image, it looks like.

bacobit
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I hate palm muting I can never get it right

Freakenstein
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Oh, is that what the PM at the top is? I dunno what that is, I is not familiar with teh guitar speek.

bacobit
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Freakenstein what intstrument do you play?

Freakenstein
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French Horn for 7 years, trumpet for 4 (jazz band), and baritone B.C. if the director needs more bass power. So yeah, basically anything brass is manageable, though woodwind is a different story. I can only manage to play tenor sax, and that takes a bit of effort.

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pianooo

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I play the upright bass, the one you play with a bow. I am also learning to play bass guitar.

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For me, i played violin for 1 year in 6th grade and trumpet for 3 years including in 6,7,8th grade. But my main instrument is guitar. Played it on my own for 6th and 7, then didn't play for a whole year. Now I am back playing for 9th and 10th

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