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ive got the new strings on my bass! they sound pretty different but i really like them already and I'm super excited

#rbing over here to talk about music things :)

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can’t have seasonal affective disorder if i say that winter isn’t real it was just invented by Big Vivaldi to sell all four of his seasons

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Frankenstein motif, played by yours truly :)

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All band kids are going to super hell for gay crimes!!!

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i've decided this blog is now where i'll post whatever music opinions i have and let my 10 followers decide if it's popular or not

#Constance speaks #whatever i'll use all my usual tags here as well

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and here we have it folks! swing style Fur Elise, curtesy of my marching band, specifically the guitarist

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favourite song ur playing rn? (in any of the orchestras and jazz band)

hmmmm... that's difficult. up until yesterday, i probably would have said our marching band show music! (easy, and sometimes boring in rehearsal, but a lot of fun to perform it/do a full run!) but since yesterday was our state competition and now the season's over, i'm technically not playing it anymore!

for school orchestra and jazz band, i'm kinda in a place between playing stuff. like we just had concerts a couple weeks ago and are still narrowing down what we'll actually be playing for the next concert (a lot of the things we've read in jazz band have been a lot of fun though, orchestra... not as much)

which sort of narrows it all down to the after-school philharmonic, and of those songs, my favorites are Serenade for Strings M. 1 (original) and New World Symphony M. 4 (strings arrangement) both by Dvorak (the only composer i respect tbh /hj) Serenade isn't always as fun, but there are a lot of parts of it I really like! over the summer i got to play the original New World Symphony (M. 1), and compared to that, the strings-only arrangement is not as much fun (esp to rehearse) but when we play through it all, i still like it a lot!

in general, none of the stuff i'm playing now is hard. like. not at all. in groups like this now, i basically just judge a piece not on if it's hard or challenging to play, but whether or not its boring to play, even while running through the whole thing. the ones aren't that are the ones i like

#that was a very long response and probably not very coherent #sorry abt that #but its a peek into my musician life rn! #marching band ended so i get 6 hours of my week back now #i turned in my all state orch audition so now i just wait to see if i get in this time #pit orch for my schools musical should be starting up pretty soon tho #and at that point. that stuff would probably become my favorite to play #Constance answers #asks #<- i cannot remember if i've gotten any asks on this blog before so i'm just gonna use this tagging system anyway

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Conductors be like "I know a place" and take you back to that same f-ing rehearsal measure that you've been working on for 40 minutes now.

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I have like 10 followers on this blog but i thought I’d let y’all know

Horn player: hey [teacher]? I think there's something wrong with my instrument. Whenever I try to play it just makes this noise *Never Gonna Give You Up begins playing on speakers*

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my top 10 composers!!

carefully chosen and developed over many months

1. Dvorák- obviously, zero competition, go listen to my playlist for him it slaps.

2. Debussy- honestly this french boi knew what he was doing!! slowly moved up my list but he deserves to be here!!

3. Tchaikovsky- such romance, such love, all around beauty

4. Brahms- his chamber music is on another level (auditioning with his 2nd symphony was not fun tho)

5. Stravinsky- ok I know I hate on some of the newer guys but my man strav can get it, firebird is sexcccc

6. Rachmaninoff- god that piano concerto- you know the one, I’m in love

7. Mahler- this dude drank big brain juice, his symphonies are fire every time

8. Shostakovich- such suffering turned into such beauty, you can really taste that pain and I love it

9. Ravel- basically go listen to the second movement of his string quartet, that’s all

10. Chopin- his stuff is actual art, I sleep to his music every night

#dvorak is one of the first orchestra composers who actually knew how to write a bass part #so he's at the top of my list too #his symphony from the new world had the best bass part i have every played #*ever #i said what i sad

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if you're a bassist you're hot i don't make the rules

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ok so orchestra camp:

there were a lot of orchestras, and i was in the most advanced one. more than that, i was SECOND CHAIR bassist, behind someone who has basically been playing since birth (chair order kinda equals your level in playing based on your audition, the best is first chair and so on, but most of us were pretty evenly matched in that group anyway. the other bassists were all awesome!)

we played 3 songs, Fantasia (by Ralph Vaughan Williams), Symphony Number 5(/9) from the New World (Dvorak), and an arrangement of songs from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

they were all AWESOME to play, and sounded so cool, but i'm mostly gonna talk about Fantasia

so if you know this song, it's meant to be performed by two orchestras (or 1 1/2 orchestras). i was in Orchestra 2. i was the only bassist in orchestra 2. everything i played was a solo, pretty much (the program even listed my name as a soloist because of that, even though i should have been listed as in orchestra 2)

uhh that's all i can think about to say for right now but if people want to ask me about it i would love it!

#maybe the people following THIS BLOG will care #if you don't know #@you-are-constance is my main

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A medley of songs from the Jekyll & Hyde musical, arranged by yours truly.

Includes excerpts from This Is the Moment, Take Me As I Am, and Someone Like You

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as i've now performed in all sorts of different music groups (performed as in: i had three concerts this past week alone), i have a bit of insight to each type and man i'm emotional

it got long. it's under a cut if you want to read it

Orchestra: my home. it was my last concert with the teacher that i've had for the past 4 years. i could write an entire essay on this teacher alone. sure, the music isn't always as interesting to play, and it doesn't always sound as cool as other groups might, but it's still my home. and this teacher has made it so much more than it would have been otherwise. this teacher encouraged me to join other groups (he had me join his most advanced orchestra even though i couldn't attend any of the class rehearsals because it wasn't even in my school) and he was the one who got me to audition for all-state (and i actually made it in) and was so determined to get me to join another group (that i'll discuss later) that he told me twice and THEN got the band teacher (who also leads that group) to tell me to join. orchestra isn't always the most fun to play in (and the people in the group aren't always the best), but it's a comfort

Jazz Band: i was the youngest person to join this group (when i first joined about two years ago) because the teacher wanted me in there so badly, and I gotta say, it was worth every morning of pulling myself out of bed and skipping breakfast because it was too early to eat. our group was so much fun to play with. every rhythm section i've played with has been so much fun. i hardly got to know the first one (but they were still lots of fun) the second one made me realize that percussionists are literally my favorite people, and the last one solidified that. my part of the music we play in here is usually really easy and pretty boring if it was just me, but when it all comes together, it's just wonderful to play.

Band (regular band): I never played with this group much, but i did perform with them this past week (bc the songs they were playing had bass parts), and the songs are just so much FUN. mostly they were pretty easy, though the key signatures were tough (5 flats is not acceptable okay), but these songs were just so enjoyable that i didn't care that i had less than a week to learn 5 of them.

Symphony Orchestra (idk what even to call it. the group where band and orchestra are combined): i can't even articulate just how cool it was to be in a group like this. this was the group that my band director leads, and my orchestra teacher was so determined to get me to join, and honestly, it was so worth it. orchestra and band are both cool and fun to play in, but this... this group was something else entirely. the things we could do with all these types of instruments (even if we had no flutes half the time), it was just indescribable. we played a medley of Les Mis that was probably my favorite thing to play of any music group this whole school year (and I've been in 8 or 9 different groups this school year, so that's saying a lot). people always joke about the feud between orchestra and band kids, and sure, it's there (it was there a lot in the first rehearsal) but once we got to actually playing together? we were a team. all of us. and it was magical.

yeah i'm just emotional over my music groups that i've played in. 3 concerts in a week is tough anyway but these were my last concerts. these groups are over now. sure, i still have a couple weeks of classes left, but after that, i'll never play with these same groups again. i'm just... missing them, already.

#all i do on this blog is rb my main blogs posts about music #but anyway have another one

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Instruments according to the viola

Violin: runty, scratchy, mean, arrogant, assholish, obnoxious, conceited, evil, ugly, wimpy, shrimpy, pimpy, pimply, simplistic, show-offish viola wannabe

Viola: Jesus’ voicebox

Cello: jumbo viola

Bass: giant low thing- can never hear

Trumpet: lOuD aNd OBnOxiOuS i cAn’t hEAr MySelF pLaY

Clarinet: band violin???

French horn: shiny drunk snakes

Trombone: sliiiiiiiiiide

Tuba: shiny giant low thing- can never hear

Euphonium: ???

Saxophone: why do they get all the solos

Oboe: tuny thing

Bassoon: jumbo tuny thing

Flute: ok I guess but like never in tune

Piccolo: for the love of God shut up

Drums: even more annoying than a metronome

Piano: nothing more than an accompanist

Harp: pretty but too big and too many strings

Conductor: God

#tw swearing