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I hate songs were i go 20+ bars without playing a damn thing

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Callibretto

PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:07 am


It gets annoying and if you are not ULTRA precise, you come off wrong and screw everyone up...
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:41 am


much truth is spoken here.

TehOnezorz


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:23 pm


Agreed.

Every year we play this one song where I play like, one measure on xylophone, rest for about 64, then play the melody on bells. Then there's like 18 measures of rest before the song ends. I don't even play more than about 28 measures that entire song.

But it's easy to tell when I'm supposed to play. xD
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:39 pm


HERE HERE!

grey-monotony


Kobayashi Haruka

PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:34 pm


true. XD
i come in wrong a lot when i'm not playing for a while before. ><
PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:44 am


20 messures seems nothing compared to a song I have.

23 measures rest
rit.
8 measure rest,
repeat the 8
then dead serious 40 messures of rest. Litterally it says 40 on the page.
then 8 measures rest
repeat the 8
then another 23 and then finally a 32 measure rest.

Then there is atchually still time left in the song for me to play.
Caue then I go for x amout of measure then I gots a solo.

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Padfoot_Prongs_BP

PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:14 pm


(caution: i'm a percussionist. i'm takign a percussion standpoint here). I KNOW!!!! what is it with most concert band composers and hating percussion! it's an important part of the band! percussion almost NEVER gets the good parts!
PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:56 pm


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:23 pm


I have a really bad one, where I have 60 measures of rest before I even start, then I have to play 6 different instruments (all within the span of 2 measures), then I have another 10 measures of rest, Then I have a Set part, then another 10 measures of rest, then the 6 instr. part already mentioned, and finally after another 20 measures of rest a cymbal crash...
PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:28 pm


i feel your pain. i just had a song where i had 7-14-2-3-3-3-3-2-3-8-8-4-10-9-8-6-10-16-12-8-16-12-...so on and so forth...i'm too lazy to type the rest of the rests, but you know what i'm getting at.

grey-monotony


nekoangel13

PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:04 pm


I know exactly what you mean! most of the time when our conducter gose over a peice of music he focuses on the part where there is no percussion at all. Some days we go throgh an intare rehersal with out playing a note.
It so annoying! stressed
PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:25 pm


hell yea  

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KatannaSan

PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:37 pm


Well, with me, if there's a big bar of rest, we put in visuals....

But other than that, yeah, they pretty much suck unless you're a bad marcher or player....
PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:26 pm


When my BD was in college...his band played a song that was like maybe 13 mins long or something...and he had 1 cymbal crash in the whole entire song and he missed it... xd

MrowNOM


foxxykitty27

PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:34 pm


I know! In this one song we're playing I have rest for over 100 measures!
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