Requiring middle school students to have only one of two brand instruments is ridiculous.
Where'd you get that pencil? Not a Tigonderoga #2? Very bad.
Spiral notebook, you got that at Walmart?….oh, no. No. Tell your parents they have to get all your supplies at either Staples or Target or you will receive an incomplete on your report card.
There was a lost albino Dalmatian in our neighborhood.
Good thing I spotted it.
I am. Two girls and a boy! Love em all!
What state would you say DOES represent the whole country, Newell Post?
Isn’t it great that we have 50 entirely different states, none of which represents the country in and of themselves?
This is a favorite female singer of mine from Norway. She may be one of the most popular singers over there, but virtually unknown here in the US. A beautiful pure crystal clear voice, she did some of the singing on the soundtrack for Titanic and never had her name mentioned...
@Dr-GO said in Hello! Welcome to TB, who are you?:
Washington DC is trying to be 51.
Oh, so sorry.
Number one, Washington is already taken.
Number two, Area 51 too.
@Kehaulani said in A little humour:
I don't know what this has with "Humor", but since we're on the subject of TSA - in my travels, I've been met with both horrible conditions and people, and easy ones. To me, it generally had to do with location. I.e., TSA in New York as abdominal and rude while TSA in Honolulu was fine.
I just don’t have the stomach for those abdominal TSA agents
@Newell-Post there are attachments that can be installed. Like a dog whistle. No one but your dog will hear it, but it will produce some monster high notes.
@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:
I apologize in advance if this post should have been placed under “Pedagogy”, perhaps under “James Stamp” or “Medical Concerns” subcategory “Hernias”. I was going through some files I had saved 2 years ago and found this one. I don’t recall where it came from. It could have been from TM or some other site. Never the less, I thought that the lessons that could be learned were so worthwhile that it should be resurrected in spite of the hernia risk.
My approach when playing with new people. Warm up as though I am the last chair third trumpet in the middle school band. It scares everyone just as much, but then it’s all gravy after they hear me really play like a fourth chair second trumpet in the middle school band.
I am thinking of writing a book called “Gullible's Travels”.
I think I have sufficient material now.
It would be the sequel to “The Blonde's Book of Common Sense”
@Bob-Pixley said in A little humour:
Official "sporting event" national anthem arrangement. Due to space constraints, only the first page is displayed...
The only correction I would make is that it started a little too high. Should have started about two or three steps down to allow for the total lack of any range whatsoever. That would be my only slight adjustment.
Let me add a clarification of my original intent of this post:
My reasons for bemoaning the deviation from the setlist is selfish, lazy, and not generally looking to improve the workings and practices of my band.
I just want a smaller amount of music to carry to the gig without the looming possibility, more probability of one or more surprise entries added to the setlist. On the spot. I do have an iPad, and I put as much music as I can on it, but as some of you have shared, it has it's glitches, not to mention my ineptness at navigating ForScore and those things that seem to come easier to others as well. I think it might be just a small trade off to what I have been doing...
Here's another admission on my part: it isn't really that hard for me to carry my whole book and a separate small gig play list folder and keep the big book near my chair for those additions. I can really do that. People run marathons and triathlons and feats of great physical strength. Also, the percussionists have to bring many pieces of equipment, and tuba players have their tubas.....I do not, so I guess I can suck it up and be a big boy now.
Woman in the stands, watching her son's first half time performance with the marching band: Look at my Bobbie! He's the only one going in the right direction and everyone else is out of step!
This is a twofold post. I wanted to share this YouTube video of a former Elementary music student of my Wife's, who taught here in Hillsborough for 40 years. He's all grown up now and a professional Horn Player. He did this 6 part video of his own arrangement. It is rather amazing and jaw dropping, if you ask me. Stay with it. It definitely gets better and better! Now the other thing, I would love to see something like this from a few brave players here, either alone or combined together. What he did. That technology would seem to work, no?
Here's the link:
I don’t have any trouble with seeing the conductor. It’s more of a problem that I have to look.
Back in the 80s at work I overheard two women talking in the accounting office. The one sitting at her desk was quite amply built, to put it nicely, and one of her top buttons gave up trying to hold back the tide, so to speak. She said to the other woman, "June is busting out all over, I guess", to which the other one said, "what’s the other ones name?"
Not actually a joke. I was there. It did happen.
I claim no expertise in this subject, but maybe a lot of experience and observation. Let’s get that out of the way first.
First, let me say I am not a particularly good sight reader. I have gotten better through osmosis, maybe because I sit next to people who are, so it elevates me to some degree. It seems to me that some of the great sight readers might have a strong aptitude for math. See the opening remark: it is my observation and experience over the years, not fact or scientific study. They have the numbers and fractions right there in their heads, constantly ticking off like a computer. Easy stuff for them.
My problem with sight reading, I think, stemmed from my relying too much on my ear. I’d hear it the first time through and know how it went, rhythmically and the tune was in the vault already, so, once again I escaped really having to figure it out on my own.
So am I way off base or is there some validity to this?
A little different thing. This is the pasture right behind our son and daughter in law's home in South Carolina. Our 2 yr old granddaughter loves to feed them apple slices and carrots!
