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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
justwatching
Chopin watched his student play his composition The kid freaked out when a string broke. Chopin said "FUCK YEAH! You get it!" (paraphrasing)
Trickstasama
SatanSeal
That meme about the music levels made me realize why I hesitate to speak about my music tastes to normal people... somewhere in 5 and ∞ XD
HaveAKnifeDay
Had one of those 24 fortes as a percussionist. Best thing was it was on a gong part. Pretty much use the mallet like a baseball bat.
ducklingsuck
I am by no means a musician, but I know enough to slightly talk about music and this is golden.
mollyisthenameofmybicycle
Anyone who hasn't seen ppp or pppp hasn't played a lot of music
aesopcity
Modes make so much more sense now.
pandatwee
ffff: Fortissississimo...
CrazyGuyOnABike
tagmomg
I mean IIRC he wrote it because he loved how performances change slightly depending on venue, so it's not unlikely. (assuming he's alive)
Kuma429
What if your ringtone is actual music what happens then?
bigbabyjesusicantwait
Fun fact: violins and violas are the same size, it's just that violists' heads are much smaller than those of violinists.
mimicracra
It's very rare to see posts about music memes. As a musician, thank you <3
HypersonicHero
As an actual rocket scientist. I have never heard the phrase "it's not music theory."
Behola
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NanoSwarmer
Well, it's not rocket science.
omegafurfag
Gabber is love, Gabber is life.
excepttheoneswhoaredead
Coolest part about playing oboe is making the reeds. And carrying a wicked sharp knife
EXTERM1NATE
14 years of practicing piano made me enjoy very much that dump. I knew it would serve me right someday !!
gauntletw
Any composer who writes more than three f's or p's at once is a hack. Any musician whose reaction is "how about I don't play" is also a hack
thewookiemonster789978
Mahler, Tchaikovsky etc etc... it's all relative, if you've used mf, f, ff and fff and you want it louder what else is next?
SprungLake
Because of the different levels of music picture, I looked up a video of every Tool song at once. It's terrifying
Sluaghadhan
Oh God why
CrumpledDonut
Dude that sounds amazing
SprungLake
It's not. https://youtu.be/8z3oEDhnH3g
CrumpledDonut
You are right, I stand corrected lol
bucketofsarcasm
I don't even play an instrument I have no idea why I'm here
ilovebees
I take my guitar to get restrung because I'm lazy as fuck and I also have them clean it and give it a look over, adjust the truss rod, etc.
ilovebees
No shame in not doing it yourself if you have the money and inclination to get it done somewhere else.
Ruhig
Apparently my musical tastes make me "that guy/disattached from social dogma". :/
EmmyHearts
What's the deal with the 4'33 one
ZashchishchayushchiysyaOsushchestvitelLzhesvidetelstva
For lazier folks, the 4'33 piece is 4 minutes 33 seconds of silence. Moern art.
Orein
Don't forget the very important fact that it is in three movements, and each one is very carefully timed.
Nineteenletterslong
And to be the music nerd, it's technically the sound of all ambient noise in the place that it is being "performed"
ConvertsToBananas
4.0 feet is approx. 6.86 Bananas. (beep boop ima bot)
Behola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
Ruhig
Trolling in musical form.
YogiDatBear
Damn you! The Alto clef is a valued member of the musical community!!
thepunnypenguin
There are dozens of us! Which is why we will always have a job :D
ChristopherKostyshyn
I regret to inform you that without a staff, that is just a C Clef, not an alto clef.
MrArthurRadley
Solid dump. You had me at Aeolians.
FullmetalEngineer
#14 https://youtu.be/nj6R38p_MaM
serakaida
As a science experiment that's pretty cool.
OnlyHereForTheDankMemes
This one time at band camp...
subparsubpoena
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FuzzyX
you stuck a flute up your...
iantollewellyn
[ C O L O S S A L F O G H O R N N O I S E ] #TEAMTUBA
TubaFunkRyRoast
*RRRRRRRHUMPH!!*
blainavarro98
#teamtuba
Daviszz
I dont even understand much about music but that line alone made my brother think i was retarded, because i was laughing so hard
BunnyGoesHopHop
I did my rounds with the clarinet family. When I played contrabass, I sat next to the tubas and trombone players. Y'all on drugs.
iantollewellyn
We learned it by watching you.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Yo tuba players unite!
MadMyrick
Let's goooooo
Haribobarlow
We need more of these!!! MOAR.
aimeethedrummer
JamieSmyth
Hell yeah! I miss my music nerd days
Worpend
As a musician who needs to brush up on his theory a little bit, I actually have never seen that symbol "used by aliens" anywhere... Explain?
ChristopherKostyshyn
It's a C Clef, not just an alto clef. You see it in choral music, and violas, cellos, basses, bassoons, and trombones use it frequently.
CrazyGuyOnABike
Alto clef. I've only seen it used for choral parts.
farish
it's mostly used for violas
DarkNinja2462
The clef used by bigger-violin players
igotthesepantsonsale
Alto clef
FallingApple
Expanding here, used almost exclusively for violas. Source: b̶u̶t̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶o̶r̶c̶h̶e̶s̶t̶r̶a̶ ̶j̶o̶k̶e̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ violist.
Worpend
Makes more sense now. I've only had to dive into the world of bass clef and treble clef; never explored being that. Isn't there a 4th clef?
Worpend
After quick research I found I was mistaken. For some reason I thought I've heard the idea of there being a "Soprano Clef." Bamboozled again
Behola
I believe the alto clef can move on the sheet depending on the instrument.
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
C-clef is the name of the design, because it marks C. If you put it bang in the middle, it's called alto clef.
itsrealtomedammit316
I may be wrong but I always thought dynamics were relative to the piece. So fff and p could theoretically be the "same" in different pieces.
vampyrita
You're not wrong. Piano in Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque" and piano in a Sousa march are two different pianos. (dynamics here, not instruments)
vampyrita
Piano isn't always 90 decibels or anything. Different dynamics are relative to each other (mf is a little louder than piano, ff is a lot)...
vampyrita
And then you apply that scale (pp to ff usually) to whatever piece you're playing - style, instrumentation, and context always matter.
Behola
Dynamics definitely aren't relative to the piece. They're guidelines to help the musicians to figure out the loudness of the piece.
Behola
Note lengths are relative to the tempo though.
ChristopherKostyshyn
You definitely over-generalised it. My orchestral and wind quintet pianos are very, VERY different, and with good reason.
CrocAMileInMyShoes
Dynamics are relative to whoever wrote the piece in my opinion. You have to infer what they meant by the dynamic and just try and fit with
CrocAMileInMyShoes
The piece. I am a percussionist though, so my point of view may be a little different
itsrealtomedammit316
Gotcha. I guess I just wondered if there was a set scale for dynamics. So could one musician's forte be equivalent to another's fortissimo?
kargul
It's not so much the "loudness of the piece" as it is how your part fits in. Percussionists see pppp and ffff all the time.
Behola
You can say that the loudness differs from instrument to instrument, but in an ensemble the loudness has to be the same.
Behola
If you're a solo instrument it can differ a lot from musicican to musician though, since the music is much more open to interpretation.