A helpful guide created by an unqualified individual. Now that you can read sheet music why not use your newly-found skills to play the theme from this video? bit.ly/2cAcj5W
me, but I play an instrument where it's hard to even get notes, so it took me around three years to fully get the jokes, while learning on my free time some theory and in the little bit I can get in lessons.
“if you’re reading this it’s already too late” literally can almost hear my chorus teacher yelling at us when we didn’t get suddenly loud at the exact right time
As a violinist myself I have to pay attention to my breathing sometimes. Especially if I’m practicing one of Paganini’s caprices. Don’t hold your breath. Steady breathing with minimal inflection to your muscles and chest
Fun Fact: for a little while, I played in a very serious band with high expectations and a director who didn't like joking around very much. So imagine our surprise when, one day, while holding a fermata, he just put down his arms and walked out of the room. No kidding, we just kept holding the notes until he came back.
As a flute, we had to figure out where the best places to write those in during the parts where breathing became a privilege, as another flute in this comment section put it lol. Honestly that was the most difficult part about playing flute, figuring out when it was okay to breathe when the director stopped telling us
@@pencils7351 I'm a HS flute player right now. We had a piece a month ago where there was no good place to breathe and it was really obvious whenever you did. If you didn't stagger breathe and sneak back in it sounded so bad.
@@madeleinewalker838 I only ended up doing one year of HS band (me and one of the directors that year had a mutual dislike for each other), so four in total. I remember those times we had to stagger breaths, those pieces were so hard to get right, especially when it's like three pages long and you have to remember which part is when you stagger. I haven't been in band for 3 and a half years now, but i still play occasionally for fun, i played happy birthday for an online friend over discord recently Edit: fixed my math lol, got my "time since last band class" wrong
For strings its "keep your bow as slow as you can, then reset as quickly as you can. But remember, no matter how quick you do it, it will never be fast enough"
i recently had a nightmare experience with the coda's so i never related to something at that high of a level. My MUSIC TEACHER literally couldn't figure it out for a solid 15 mins.
Or you're a percussionist like me, awkwardly miscount a very long rest, and play the GIGANTIC CYMBAL CRASH three measures early. I've done that before. Several times.
“This is only fun when playing the Trombone… This is the only fun thing about playing the Trombone.” As a trombonist I have never been more offended by something so true
Tricky Sam Nanton sounds? Weird robot fart sounds, Charlie Brown’s teacher, New Orleans style tailgate, Eddie Palmieri style trombone chorus? Don’t believe the lies! Trombones are awesome, keep playing people!!! And this video is also awesome
“In case you forget to breathe.” Band director: Ignore the breath mark in this part. Don’t breathe there. Move it forward two measures. Also band director: Why are you all running out of breath in this part all of a sudden?
Don't you love it when the band director can play ALL the other instruments except the one you play but continues to complain about how you're supposed play
The “by a 12-year old” bit will always forever make me laugh for a week straight every time I think about it And we all know the classic “demisemihemidemisemiquaver” which will never not be hysterical to say aloud and that’s a fact
@@maddie_1122 cut time, it's half of common time, 2/2, half note gets the beat, two beats in a measure, so a whole note in common time is 4 four counts it is two in cut, half note 1, quarter note 1/8th eight note 1/16 sixteenth note is 1/32, and so on, so everything is halfed and it sucks, unless the composer is really good at his job
No one: My sheet music: so we're in 2/4, and now we're in 3/4 for a measure before going back to 2/4, then we go back to 3/4, then we go to 4/4 and it will be like that for a while, and then we go back to 2/4-
@@LMDProductionsOfficial I felt that, I'm now playing more difficult music and its real great with its key signature changes and time changes...gotta love music-
@@isdrakon9802 they are simple to know. but what I am saying is when you get a new piece you have to look to find out where it is. and go get me started on a coda in between a page flip
*Storytime listen up* So my school requires a written test for band (which is dumb). As a loophole my band director usually says "Write your name on the top of the paper. Now turn it in". And as long as you wrote your name on the top of the paper, you passed the written test (We still did play tests and stuff if wasn't to pass the class). But this year, he decided to do something different. He passed out a small piece of paper to everyone in the class and said to wrote any question about music you can think of. He would compile all of them into a written test for us to take. But there was a twist- if we wrote a question that no one in the room knew the answer to, we wouldn't have to take the test, and we'd get a 100. My question was "What is the name of the 256th note". Needless to say no one knew the answer. Not even the band director. So I guess this video was genuinely helpful lol
@@Ismael-kc3ry I guess I got lucky, I started playing guitar when I was a teenager and my favorite bands played some weird shit, so with absolutely 0 knowledge of any theory whatsoever, I learned how to play odd time signatures and didn't know there was anything weird about them until.... years later lol
1:01 This is just another tip, but if you play a Demisemihemidemisemiquaver, the rule is that if you hear the note when you play it, you’ve played it for too long.
As a high school trombonist I can confirm that that is the only thing fun about playing trombone. Other than that you don’t really need to tune it. You just shorten or lengthen the slide till it sounds good.
My orchestra teacher showed us this and this one kid was like " teach us the demisemihemidemisemi quaver! " the teacher politely declined while the rest of the class was like noooooooo
@@loganm2924 umm a major second interval consists of a distance of one tone between two notes. A minor second only has a semitone of distance. So tecnically they're not the same.
@@blockyhour4224 Honestly, I could imagine that. The band I was playing in Tuesday night had to learn a cut time piece in in 4/4 first because they kept slowing down, and it was the snare’s fault. Lucky I played bass drum.
You could be a brass player playing Schubert's Unfinished. Just been doing that on the trombone - the trumpet section kept complaining I was picking my trombone up to play too quickly because they needed a cue and couldn't be bothered counting for that long.
My addition is: *shows fermata symbol* Hold this note until you literally run out of air, and then keep holding it while slowly dying of not having air
we were talking abt sixteenth notes and i asked my director abt the demisemihemidemisemiquaver and she said "i'll have to check the math on that" because i said it wrong
"counting to 5 has never been more difficult" I never actually learned to play in 5/4, when I used to do orchestra I just played quietly until the time changed back
*alto clef shows up* "There are also some more obscure clefs that you'll never be told about" *sad violin starts playing but it's on the viola* RIP all the violists
Musical Trash I play viola and violin but i can say it’s accurate, viola clef is just..... unnecessary. Why? Why a whole clef for one string lower than a violin???
The violas in my orchestra are bitter and call themselves 3rd violins to revolt. The conductor gave them the 2nd violin music once, they all realized it, but played it anyway resulting in the 3rd violin being born in our orchestra.
@@jasminefoxj You have to know how to use it. And first of all, it's not squeaky, you just haven't heard it right. Plus, the E string helps getting to way higher notes than you believe.
I was the only Clarinet when I played in my music class and I was carrying the group with the one and only trumpet, only the trumpet got recognition ;-;
CodeMariokids yeahhhh sounds about right😂 darn trumpets always being so loud We have an army of them where I’m from, and it lowkey sucks to be told to play louder cuz u can’t hear me over the trumpets😂
i have no idea how to read sheet music (was always an art kid rather than a band or theater kid) and this both makes sense and makes sheet music twice as a confusing as before. great video
0:44 Cracked me up XD "You can put them together to sound nice" and then plays semitone This is just hilarious. Perfect for experienced and non-experienced musicians.
@@fyzler8987 Its a time signature thing, C stands for common time, 4/4, which is the basic time signature where one quarter note equals one beat and there's four beats per measure, while a C with a line through it stands for cut time, which means you have to read notes as if they're half the value of what they normally are. For example, a quarter note (♩) would have to be read as en eighth note (♪) and so on across the whole board. Its normally used for fast songs as to avoid the clutter of using a bunch of sixteenth notes but honestly most of is would probably rather deal with those.
Ignore this Yay!! You're back from work!! I just had a lot going on today, I had camp, then a psychiatrist appointment, then an oboe lesson. Now I'm playing dnd and I'm just really tired hfhdhhf I hope your day went well :)
I watch this video probably a couple times a year because it never stops being funny and now I just used it to help me organize a speech on the same topic ❤️⭐️
I only realized on my second watch that the "note above A" for band tuning was written as A sharp, not Bb which is how it would actually be written in a band exercise XD
"This is easy. This is not." I love music and could not stop laughing for a solid 10-15 minutes. I wish I could show this to my music teacher but I just graduated, :(
i sent this to my mom as a joke cause she's a music teacher. she's a bit distracted teaching my brother theory and only listened to a few seconds of the video. she was like oh this will be good for helping him understand but i assured her she needed to watch the full video before being to keen on that assumption. after her watching the full video she admits that i have blessed her with the best video on the internet
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja he never said it was the first five seconds she could've watched after that. That or five seconds is an exaggeration and she really just glanced at it.
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja well she isn't exactly the youngest person in the world, she can't read tiny words on a bright screen, and her hearing isn't what it used to be, plus i said she was quite distracted. You need to chill out.
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja well yes she thought it would be great since she is an adorable bean, that trusts the internet to help her try and get her son to try and learn something else. instead of him sitting with a screen all day.
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja why should i waste my time talking to you, please enlighten me with your answer it really brings me joy to see people get mad about my so called"lie"
Sans' Secret Human Sister Hehe, it may seem like that at first. Once you get good at it, you'll be a complete expert in music. Hope it goes well for you!
"you can put them together to sound nice" Plays c and d flat Edit: damn 300+ likes! I've never gotten this many likes before, and all I did was quote the video
Kale Andrie fun thing about percussion is that you don't even need to play one note in all the piece to be useless. The triangle sheet of soul bossa nova is a brain kill 😱
Lauren Fabris you left percussion in 5th grade? If you actually work at it percussion is the best, also all the orchestra players in my school are a bunch of emo kids lol
This entire video is the essence of
“Never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with”
Same LMAO 😂😂😂😂😂😂
True that
"You go back and then... no"
sammmmmeeeeee
Tru
“You put them together to sound nice”
*Sacrilegious noise*
Violists who cannot relate be like
At this point I think the demisemihemidemisemiquaver is an inside joke between 20% of musicians
WIIFIGHT! Yup
It really is
@@MoofEMP not just the british
Lmao yeah
It really is
Lets give a moment of silence to the beginners who thought this would be helpful...
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ya know i came here to learn how to read sheet music and got mind fucked
yeah this is funny but shouldn't be the first result when you search "how to read sheet music"
me, but I play an instrument where it's hard to even get notes, so it took me around three years to fully get the jokes, while learning on my free time some theory and in the little bit I can get in lessons.
"counting to 5 has never been more difficult", true, very true
Just remember the "Mission Impossible theme" and you'll be fine
I didn't think it was that difficult
i played a song on piano called macedonian pike dance. its 7/8 time oof
what does it mean tho
@@annaoop8336 3 pulses of 6/8 followed by 2 beats of something like 3/4 or 2/4
“if you’re reading this it’s already too late” literally can almost hear my chorus teacher yelling at us when we didn’t get suddenly loud at the exact right time
Repeat Sign: **exists**
The human: You thought it was over.
Me: Oh frick-
I think he said that because "Subito" in Italian means "Right away"
@@Kakkorin In Spanish it also is "Súbito" which means "sudden"
@@Ray.6406 yeah spanish is similar to italian but italian is the language of the music just like english is the language of the informatics
Dude same!
"Someone's playing the wrong note"
This has never been more true.
I'm normally that person.
Elizabeth Heath same ;-;
I don't get that one :(
@@matthewloughran73 same •~•
@@matthewloughran73 same 😭
"dont forget to breathe"
me, a violonist with anxiety: ty i forgot for a moment
Oof.
I’m just like you yay! New internet friend!
As a violinist myself I have to pay attention to my breathing sometimes. Especially if I’m practicing one of Paganini’s caprices. Don’t hold your breath. Steady breathing with minimal inflection to your muscles and chest
As a violinist I have never run into that problem 🙃
That is basically it. You forgot the Fermata, which is to hold as long as the dude with the stick wants you to or until it feels long enough
And if youre practicing at home... just play until u pass out or start to fall off the chair
I call it a Frittata
Fun Fact: for a little while, I played in a very serious band with high expectations and a director who didn't like joking around very much. So imagine our surprise when, one day, while holding a fermata, he just put down his arms and walked out of the room. No kidding, we just kept holding the notes until he came back.
True tho😂
the dude with the stick lmao
Coming from someone who can read sheet music...
This is very accurate- more accurate than my band teacher.
Oh whoops I messed up your 69 likes
TheCrazyDragonLady 2016 You dickbag
Especially the thing about cut time
Too true
So very true...
I read the thumbnail is “this video is not a joke. This is a genuine cry for help”
Wow
Same lol
I want your vision
Same
same
The breath mark isn't reminding you to breathe. It's telling you that you don't get to breathe until then
As a flute, we had to figure out where the best places to write those in during the parts where breathing became a privilege, as another flute in this comment section put it lol. Honestly that was the most difficult part about playing flute, figuring out when it was okay to breathe when the director stopped telling us
@@pencils7351 I'm a HS flute player right now. We had a piece a month ago where there was no good place to breathe and it was really obvious whenever you did. If you didn't stagger breathe and sneak back in it sounded so bad.
@@madeleinewalker838 I only ended up doing one year of HS band (me and one of the directors that year had a mutual dislike for each other), so four in total. I remember those times we had to stagger breaths, those pieces were so hard to get right, especially when it's like three pages long and you have to remember which part is when you stagger. I haven't been in band for 3 and a half years now, but i still play occasionally for fun, i played happy birthday for an online friend over discord recently
Edit: fixed my math lol, got my "time since last band class" wrong
For strings its "keep your bow as slow as you can, then reset as quickly as you can. But remember, no matter how quick you do it, it will never be fast enough"
PFFFFFF
the funny part is this is actually extremely accurate
666th like
except the trombone part...
@@spaceduster5494 Yeah, been playing for 6 years
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XxRoboticNerdxX 911 like
I died at the coda explanation
"So wait you go back? then...no, wait"
i recently had a nightmare experience with the coda's so i never related to something at that high of a level. My MUSIC TEACHER literally couldn't figure it out for a solid 15 mins.
Codas will forever confuse me 😂
Wait when did they say that
Sing in a choir, codas will make sense yet at the same time still confuse you even though you understand it.
Funny because i played a song with a coda in 6th grade and i cant remember what it is like 2 years later lmao
1:56 "Someone's playing the wrong note."
THIS IS THE MOST ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF PLAYING IN A GROUP.
Or you're a percussionist like me, awkwardly miscount a very long rest, and play the GIGANTIC CYMBAL CRASH three measures early.
I've done that before. Several times.
Hehe yep
I'm a clarinet, and we're in the front row. The low brass will mess up a lot sometimes, and this is literally what the clarinet section will do
Wh1t3An0nymou5 I've heard freight trains belching E major triads. I understand what you meant, nothing major.
You think that bands play the wrong note often
_dont join chior litterally no one's on the right note I stg_
“This is only fun when playing the Trombone… This is the only fun thing about playing the Trombone.”
As a trombonist I have never been more offended by something so true
hello fellow trombonist, i couldn’t agree more
same
I felt attacked, but only because he forgot something:
racecar noises
Tricky Sam Nanton sounds? Weird robot fart sounds, Charlie Brown’s teacher, New Orleans style tailgate, Eddie Palmieri style trombone chorus? Don’t believe the lies! Trombones are awesome, keep playing people!!!
And this video is also awesome
he's calling us out... But the glissando being straight and not wiggly is kinda cursed.
“This is a whole note. Sometimes it gets four beats. Sometimes it doesn’t”
Lmaooo
“In case you forget to breathe.”
Band director: Ignore the breath mark in this part. Don’t breathe there. Move it forward two measures.
Also band director: Why are you all running out of breath in this part all of a sudden?
Band directors don’t understand that KIDS HAVE SMALLER LUNGS
This is true
Why string orch is superior
S I L I C O N I 100% agree, I’ve been in both and I really miss orchestra
Don't you love it when the band director can play ALL the other instruments except the one you play but continues to complain about how you're supposed play
1:48 When your friend doesn't help on a group project
mood yes
“Friend”
Thought it was gonna be the 64 rest, pleasantly surprised
B dub It sucks😂
The “by a 12-year old” bit will always forever make me laugh for a week straight every time I think about it
And we all know the classic “demisemihemidemisemiquaver” which will never not be hysterical to say aloud and that’s a fact
You'll find that information very useful.
“This is easy, and this is not”
FACTS.
I know the first is common time but what's the second one?
Jacob the Propagandist cut time
@@maddie_1122 cut time, it's half of common time, 2/2, half note gets the beat, two beats in a measure, so a whole note in common time is 4 four counts it is two in cut, half note 1, quarter note 1/8th eight note 1/16 sixteenth note is 1/32, and so on, so everything is halfed and it sucks, unless the composer is really good at his job
Alison K True!! Cut time is the spawn of satan
if you think cut time isnt easy ur either a coward or u just started band. i said what i said
Ah yes I often forget to breathe when playing the drums I’ll just pass out randomly lol
🥁+(😧×0)=😪☠💀???????
this is my only equation for this... I honestly don't know.
As someone who plays piano, clarinet, and sings I often notice that I breathe before I come in on piano
@Pastrie Patroler Yes, I too pass out while playing the drums because I forget to breathe, FWP
Same
Lol
When you search "How to read sheet music" but you don't click on any genuine tutorial but click on this one first
I can relate.
Me who needed a lesson on how to read sheet music and somehow found this on my recommended:
I already know how to read sheet music but searched it up anyway just to watch this 😂😂
ruclips.net/video/Y8HeOA95UzQ/видео.html
Literally me
As a person whos been reading sheet music for 8 years, I really needed this.
"If you're reading this, it's already too late." LMAO
What does it mean
@@maltvinegar436 Quickly or Suddenly. Usually suddenly
so you go back when... no, wait
@@chaedr7694 *doodloodloodloodloodloodlo--*
“Hey, what instrument do you play?”
“Weird flute”
Hello Satan.
thanks satan
hello xd
"Put them together to make them sound nice"
*My ears are bleeding*
Electric Boi • 43 years ago That was one of the best jokes!
Boi i thought your comment was actually posted 43 years ago
@@WillieValdehuezaMunar same lol
Giov hahahahaha
My eyes were wide when i saw *43* *years* *ago*
They had us in the first half not gonna lie.
No one:
My sheet music: so we're in 2/4, and now we're in 3/4 for a measure before going back to 2/4, then we go back to 3/4, then we go to 4/4 and it will be like that for a while, and then we go back to 2/4-
i find it better to just ignore it and go with how it sounds
Try 6/8 into 7/8 into 5/8 into 2\4 into 12\8 and back to 6/8.
yes ive done that and yes i died
Try 6/8 into 7/8 into 5/8 into 2\4 into 12\8 and back to 6/8.
yes ive done that and yes i died
@@LMDProductionsOfficial I felt that, I'm now playing more difficult music and its real great with its key signature changes and time changes...gotta love music-
@@bassyxgrelle8659 **Bradley Knight intensifies**
I have never spiritually connected to something more than ‘So you go back when... no, wait.’
I learned how to do that thing ages ago, it's rather easy to remember after playing the peice of music oh 15 hundred times
@@isdrakon9802 then you get a new piece. and have to play detective just to find where it is
@@lilybelden9405 I've played over ten pieces with the coda, I recognize those symbols as easy as flats and sharps
@@isdrakon9802 they are simple to know. but what I am saying is when you get a new piece you have to look to find out where it is. and go get me started on a coda in between a page flip
@@lilybelden9405 I understand that, I tend to just say stuff in my language. Few people understand what I'm ever saying
*Storytime listen up*
So my school requires a written test for band (which is dumb). As a loophole my band director usually says "Write your name on the top of the paper. Now turn it in". And as long as you wrote your name on the top of the paper, you passed the written test (We still did play tests and stuff if wasn't to pass the class). But this year, he decided to do something different. He passed out a small piece of paper to everyone in the class and said to wrote any question about music you can think of. He would compile all of them into a written test for us to take. But there was a twist- if we wrote a question that no one in the room knew the answer to, we wouldn't have to take the test, and we'd get a 100. My question was "What is the name of the 256th note". Needless to say no one knew the answer. Not even the band director. So I guess this video was genuinely helpful lol
Hazel Fitz lol.
Well done
how can i listen up if im reading this
Hazel Fitz 50 ways to like this comment. How satisfying. Actually, what’s the 50th note?
KawaiiKittyCatND 93 There isn't one. It'd probably be some sort of dotted note, because it always goes by 4's. (Except half and whole)
"This is easy. This is not."
I *felt* that.
9/8 is such a fun time signature
7/4
@@Ismael-kc3ry
I guess I got lucky, I started playing guitar when I was a teenager and my favorite bands played some weird shit, so with absolutely 0 knowledge of any theory whatsoever, I learned how to play odd time signatures and didn't know there was anything weird about them until.... years later lol
@@Hellion6325 ha that’s awesome. Listening and learning is the best way to learn music tbh
@@leonardocimarosa9772 11/8
“You can put notes together to make them sound nice”
*literally the sound of purgatory*
Musicians: I relate
Triangle player: Look man, I only got one job
Make sure that if you are the triangle player that you breath, no amount of breathing is excessive on triangle
@@jaketozer6495 And also remember that some people get paid to play only one note in an entire concert
😂
Jake Tozer we have a piece with so little percussion we have two triangles
do u know how hard it is to count for 367 measures and not miss ur queue
1:01
This is just another tip, but if you play a Demisemihemidemisemiquaver, the rule is that if you hear the note when you play it, you’ve played it for too long.
Unless you're playing at the speed of 5 bpm
Doctor Strange
DEMISEMIHEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER
IVE COME TO BARGAINNN
Well dats stupid
@Doctor Strange how long did it take u to copy down that word?
Or in the words of our dear friend, Julian Cianciolo, *D O N T E V E N B O T H E R*
As a musician, I can 100% confirm all of this
Potions_Master
As a highschool band kid, I can also confirm this as pretty much accurate
Potions_Master SAME
As a high school trombonist I can confirm that that is the only thing fun about playing trombone. Other than that you don’t really need to tune it. You just shorten or lengthen the slide till it sounds good.
Same here
Potions_Master Same here
My orchestra teacher showed us this and this one kid was like " teach us the demisemihemidemisemi quaver! "
the teacher politely declined while the rest of the class was like noooooooo
“Counting to five has never been this hard.”
Stravinsky: *laughs in 13/8*
Brubek: *shrugs his shoulders*
Ganondorf: laughs in 23/16
Laughing in 49/5
Stop flexing on me like that, I feel stupid
...wait...there's 13/8?...**whatdoesthatevenmean**
“Put them together to sound nice”
*[MINOR 2ND INTERVAL INTENSIFIES]*
@@loganm2924 umm a major second interval consists of a distance of one tone between two notes. A minor second only has a semitone of distance. So tecnically they're not the same.
@@loganm2924 what instrument u play? Drum? Lol I've never even heard the term FLAT second
Looks like somebody removed their wrong reply
"Someone's playing the wrong note"
That hits way too close to home
Jazz band trumpets (middle school)-even with the same music, someone ALWAYS is playing the wrong note.
Can relate
*shows common time*
“This is easy.”
*shows cut time*
“This is not.”
As someone who had to play something in cut time, I agree. THAT WAS VERY HARD.
One time my band director made us play a cut time piece we were learning in 4/4 time and it was the most horrific thing I've ever heard
@@blockyhour4224 Honestly, I could imagine that. The band I was playing in Tuesday night had to learn a cut time piece in in 4/4 first because they kept slowing down, and it was the snare’s fault. Lucky I played bass drum.
@@kc_games8787 lol
Cut time is the bane of my existence
“This video is a joke. Do not watch for genuine help.”
*this sign can’t stop me cause I can’t read*
Electro_blob his friend read it to him and then typed that comment for him
Hello I'm Jared I'm 19 and I never friccking learned how to read
@@angi4912 NOO I was gonna say thatttttt
Can't read sheet music amarite
@Electro_blob r/wooosh
The 64 bar rest:
"You are a percussionist."
Im triggered
Its true though. When you play those unimportant instruments in concert band. There's only like one time you play in the whole piece.
You could be a brass player playing Schubert's Unfinished. Just been doing that on the trombone - the trumpet section kept complaining I was picking my trombone up to play too quickly because they needed a cue and couldn't be bothered counting for that long.
Or the piccolo player!
Or a tubist. Guess the piece:
Tacet
7 long notes, 40 bars rest, key change, 55 bars rest, key change, 19 bars rest, 7 more long notes, 4 bars rest.
Tacet
Tacet.
"Counting to five has never been this hard"
Ganondorf: *laughs in 23/16, 17/16, and then 23/16 again*
TheRedstoneBlaze no thanks
Why, just is there a contest on how to make music as freaking confusing as possible?
*shaking in terrified violin*
TheRedstoneBlaze Who hurt you?
*Laughs in 64 1*
My addition is:
*shows fermata symbol* Hold this note until you literally run out of air, and then keep holding it while slowly dying of not having air
“you put them together to sound nice”
*a u g m e n t e d u n i s o n*
Maya :D Technically it would actually be a minor second, but they’re enharmonic so whatever.
I'm guilty of slamming that every time i sit down at a piano
The Piano Cult the first thing I do when I sit down at a keyboard is play Goner by Twenty One Pilots to let everyone know how depressed I am 😂😂
@@aydenzabelle The Piano Cult feels empathy for you. If you wish to be initiated in our cult call us. Here's our number: 9-1-1
That’s a minor 2nd, because otherwise the two notes would be on the same line
This is the kind of stuff that will earn you subscriptions.
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Def got my sub.
The Theorist I'm late. But whoa. It's you. Love your videos dude.
agreed, subbed
The Theorist
come on man
When you said “oolooloolooloo”, as an ex viola player, i felt that
can you explain?
@@arizonagreenbee String tremolo
@@tuipaopao thanks, I'm a euhponist/saxophonist haha
screw Viola, Cello better
@@amybouse2261 screw you viola is the best of orchestra strings
6 years ago and I still regularly return to this video. It never gets less funny
The *"Demisemihemidemisemiquaver"*
...
*Spot on* 👌
Yee
You can tell it was his eighth take
You’ll find this information very useful
we were talking abt sixteenth notes and i asked my director abt the demisemihemidemisemiquaver and she said "i'll have to check the math on that" because i said it wrong
Or, the demisemihemidemisemihemidemisemiquaver
0:43 "you can put them together to sound nice" *the literal sound of death*
Jonathan Reinstein two notes together with a minor second interval...“put them together to SoUNd niCE”😂
Dissonance at its finest...
Tritones says hi
@@MewSeeko yep
Hey that’s _sarcasm_ for you
"this is only fun when you play trombone"
"this is also the only fun thing about playing trombone"
No no he's completely right
"you can put them together to sound nice"
*plays a minor second*
a minor second is the same as a major second I believe. What he really played was an augmented first
Rush.2112 i’m just gonna assume you’re joking?
It's not an augmented first, unfortunately. Since it's not two notes on the same line it's a second.
mreh.
Yeah. . . Ummmmmmm. . . Nice?
Diminished second.....
"If you put them together, they sound nice." **death**
2:13
It says boo I just realized 👀
-"You can put them together to sound nice"
>Plays a minor second interval
Best part of the video
The chord after “to sound nice” kills me every time
"counting to 5 has never been more difficult" I never actually learned to play in 5/4, when I used to do orchestra I just played quietly until the time changed back
Darion hahahaha ha ha!
I do not blame you! I did the same!
All you have to do is 1m of 3/4 then one of 2/4.
What does it even stand for? Like i never played with sheets ever in my life
5 beats per measure
4 (as in a quarter note gets 1 beat)
I read "This video is not a joke. Watch for genuine help"
Renee of CA i did too for a sec,i had to reread
Yep... As an amateur this comment section has been quite informative.
Oh Hey It's Just Renee sameee
Lol same!
Oh Hey It's Just Renee YEAH SAME! I HAD TO READ IT THREE TIMES
*YES BUT CAN YOU PLAY THE DEMISEMIHEMIDEMISEMIQUAVERS*
**veeeeerrrryyyy long Reverse whole note plays**
That would be 1×10^-100000000000000000000 seconds
In a slow enough tempo
Ewart Smith that wouldn't make much of a difference like at all😂
I just did and I think It was so fast it made a black hole in my yard
This was surprisingly accurate for a joke video. Well done.
"You can out them together to sound nice."
*plays the literal most absurd second interval to ever exist*
Akayxia oooouuuu idkhbtfm
Akayxia The most *beautiful, you meant xD
IDKHBTFM-
*ahem* sorry
You could also do the "Devils accord" which is in the case,literally horrible to hear
@@Someone-wj1lf or put a foot on the piano
"Or a demisemihemidemisemiquaver. You later find that information very useful." one of the best parts
*alto clef shows up*
"There are also some more obscure clefs that you'll never be told about"
*sad violin starts playing but it's on the viola*
RIP all the violists
Madeleine Kamondi got an indirect critical hit from that roast. I'm a bassist but WOW
Musical Trash I play viola and violin but i can say it’s accurate, viola clef is just..... unnecessary. Why? Why a whole clef for one string lower than a violin???
@@allietheartist1883 Cello can use it, bassoon very rarely uses it, and there are some other strange instruments that use it.
The violas in my orchestra are bitter and call themselves 3rd violins to revolt.
The conductor gave them the 2nd violin music once, they all realized it, but played it anyway resulting in the 3rd violin being born in our orchestra.
@@oliver_fast Occasionally cellos use alto clef, but mostly bass and tenor.
Was in an orchestra.
Can confirm, very accurate.
“Put notes together to sound nice” *kitchen nightmares violin noise plays*
Ah yes the soothing sounds of the depths of hell.
how about viola noises. they sound a lot worse
Sherryl Richey at least they don’t have that gross squeaky e string 🤢
Sherryl Richey yo stop hatin on violas lol
@@jasminefoxj You have to know how to use it. And first of all, it's not squeaky, you just haven't heard it right. Plus, the E string helps getting to way higher notes than you believe.
"Like a solo, but everyone gets credit."
Me, a French horn player: You guys are getting credit?
Isaac Dupras I feel your pain
Only French horn in my entire band
yaaaaaayyyy😭 dying inside
I was the only Clarinet when I played in my music class and I was carrying the group with the one and only trumpet, only the trumpet got recognition ;-;
CodeMariokids yeahhhh sounds about right😂 darn trumpets always being so loud
We have an army of them where I’m from, and it lowkey sucks to be told to play louder cuz u can’t hear me over the trumpets😂
When I was a saxophone player in band I feel like everyone was fighting on who got credit with how loud we are were lol
Violists: What's credit?
flutes: *waiting for 64 measures of rest* “at least i get paid.”
person on triangles: “wait y’all get paid?!”
If only I ever had more than 8 bars of rest in a song
Pff
(cries in second violin)
heck Yeah
I once played triangle exactly NINE TIMES in ONE SONG!!!.....I may have a bias against triangle 😶
i have no idea how to read sheet music (was always an art kid rather than a band or theater kid) and this both makes sense and makes sheet music twice as a confusing as before. great video
Codas are basically just the time travel of music.
Ivypool of ThunderClan Nahhh, repeats are time travel, codas are alternate dimensions...
Good sir, you've just proved the black hole theory.
They’re sight reading train wrecks
*things have never been clearer*
they're thrown in there to test your eyesight and see who can find them in time
0:44 Cracked me up XD
"You can put them together to sound nice"
and then plays semitone
This is just hilarious. Perfect for experienced and non-experienced musicians.
That ending actually sounds like the beginning of "That Mosquito!" by American-Australian composer Mary Mageau.
I died when I heard that
Agreed. The timing of that and the other blink-and-you'll-miss-it jokes was superb.
I died when I heard this whole thing. This is exactly the kind of comedy-in-learning that sends me to my knees with laughter.
yea, it is a fantastic video for someone who's passionate about music
As a musician who has been playing for over a decade,
I find this quite accurate.
I absolutely lost it at "this is easy, This Is Not"
Isaac Loftin explain plz
@@fyzler8987 Its a time signature thing, C stands for common time, 4/4, which is the basic time signature where one quarter note equals one beat and there's four beats per measure, while a C with a line through it stands for cut time, which means you have to read notes as if they're half the value of what they normally are. For example, a quarter note (♩) would have to be read as en eighth note (♪) and so on across the whole board. Its normally used for fast songs as to avoid the clutter of using a bunch of sixteenth notes but honestly most of is would probably rather deal with those.
Isaac Loftin oof
Isaac Loftin this whole video made me lose it. Specifically that one, play loud, then don’t, and bestof all: your very unimportant
Ignore this
Yay!! You're back from work!! I just had a lot going on today, I had camp, then a psychiatrist appointment, then an oboe lesson. Now I'm playing dnd and I'm just really tired hfhdhhf I hope your day went well :)
5/4 time pops up. "Counting to five has not been harder."
So
Flipping
True.
JinxTheGeek unless you work for Saruman the White and hear his theme song over and over
True
Just picked up my sheet music for my choir, and the damn song goes from 3/4 to 4/4 to 3/4 to 4/4 to 5/4 and back to 3/4 again.
Rip me
Nathan Lang rip
Nathan Lang musescore.com/user/21146471/scores/4310316
You'd love this
I watch this video probably a couple times a year because it never stops being funny and now I just used it to help me organize a speech on the same topic ❤️⭐️
"This tells you when to breathe. In case you forget to breathe..."
Sam Raymond 101th like
Same, I play flute, there's not usually a lot of good times to breath, and most of the air doesn't even go IN it, it just passes over. 🤣😂😭
Doesn't work for stringed instruments - hah!
I breathe way less than when is healthy
The “You thought it was over” hit me right where it hurts
I only realized on my second watch that the "note above A" for band tuning was written as A sharp, not Bb which is how it would actually be written in a band exercise XD
Everybody gangsta
*'till the DEMISEMIHEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER comes in*
*sad flute noises*
Everybody gangsta till the symbol with like a dozen fs rolls on your sheet music
Noice 666
I mean it does stand for 256th note
I love how you took the time to spell it out.
*8 measure rest*
"You’re unimportant."
*64 measure rest*
"You’re very unimportant."
Life of a percussionist
The flutes might as well not even show up
It's mostly auxiliary, or things like the tipani because snare and base play a lot
I'm not a percussionist but in our band, we played an entire song in which the only percussion instrument used was a wind chime for one measure.
@@kevinkevin9525 sounds normal for auxiliary. Not so much for the entire section
When the trumpets get a soli and it’s been 37 measures since the tubas played.
Story of my life.
This has been posted on our band google classroom MULTIPLE times and I NEVER get sick of it
0:16 "more obscure clefts that you'll never be told about" *looks over at viola from high school sitting collecting dust and sheds a tear*
i play the viola..
I play viola. This is truth
jabadahut50 Currently playing viola and I wanted to _die_
I’m a member of the violin master race you plebs
Whats do violas and law have in common?
Everybody's happy when the case is closed. (jk love violas, just love viola jokes too.)
You forgot the most important symbol!
"Tacet" means "you are an orchestral bass trombonist"
...or a percussionist.
Or fifth trumpet. Trust me, I know.
Or a piccolo
trueeeeeeee
Especially one of the battery ;-;
(baaaass druuuuuum)
"This is easy. This is not." I love music and could not stop laughing for a solid 10-15 minutes. I wish I could show this to my music teacher but I just graduated, :(
we watched it and i broke out in laughter when the 256th note came in.
Do you know what a subito is? I have forgot
@@xerozoo suddenly
Omg same!
I’m not a huge music person so I don’t get it can someone maybe explain?
Before I was a musician I got none of the jokes
now I absolutely love this video
"Play loud, play louder, don't even bother"
Me, a trumpet player: *Are you challenging me?*
it's all fun and games till the trumpets have a soli
Can confirm.
NO NO I AM NOT PLS DONT PLAY LOUDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You do not challenge the almighty ones
...
My strings teacher said that she once played in an orchestra where the trumpet player had 7 F's on his music.
This video deserves to be recognized right alongside History of Japan.
woodfur00
tRUTH
The entire history of the world I guess
(hi karkat)
THIS IS BASICALLY BILL WURTZ BUT MUSIC
It's in recommendations so it's about to
The more years I play an instrument the more accurate this feels
This genuinely gave me a reason to live though....
Morgan Lemons your profile picture is the only thing I need to live. It’s john lemon... agh
Lemon Senpai please notice me
Same here
we meet again, morgan
Jesus Christ, i see you *EVERY WHERE*
“You’re *very* unimportant. “
The person on crash cymbals:
“At least I’m getting paid”
same
So true😂
Two set?
well at least your telling the truth🤣
Are they, though? XD
Nothing makes you feel like a nerd more than laughing at this
What about knowing all the things that he said we didn't know? (For the record, I never focused on theory so don't even get the "c" jokes)
3rd El Tercero 440 is A
@@ericolens3 well he did mention instruments that dont play exactly what is written on the page, and its actually 440hz=A
Yepp
@@doppled 440 Hz is a sort of a standard, but symphony orchestras nowadays play at 442 or something close to that...
Instructions unclear, I now play the trombone from inside my stomach
Your PFP matches this so well
TheSongDistorter 🤔
Is it possible to learn this art?
I love his explanations at the end.
1:30 Play loud and then don't. Play loud, and then...don't 😂😂😂 somehow, he made perfect sense.
i sent this to my mom as a joke cause she's a music teacher. she's a bit distracted teaching my brother theory and only listened to a few seconds of the video. she was like oh this will be good for helping him understand but i assured her she needed to watch the full video before being to keen on that assumption.
after her watching the full video she admits that i have blessed her with the best video on the internet
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja he never said it was the first five seconds she could've watched after that. That or five seconds is an exaggeration and she really just glanced at it.
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja well she isn't exactly the youngest person in the world, she can't read tiny words on a bright screen, and her hearing isn't what it used to be, plus i said she was quite distracted. You need to chill out.
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja well yes she thought it would be great since she is an adorable bean, that trusts the internet to help her try and get her son to try and learn something else. instead of him sitting with a screen all day.
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja ok,dude seriously you need to chill.It is really none of your business whether they lied or not.
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja why should i waste my time talking to you, please enlighten me with your answer it really brings me joy to see people get mad about my so called"lie"
This is easy
This is not
That sums it up pretty well
Waffle's Games and Music yup.
definitely true
Honestly
Sans' Secret Human Sister Hehe, it may seem like that at first. Once you get good at it, you'll be a complete expert in music. Hope it goes well for you!
And marching it is a pain in the ass!
"you can put them together to sound nice"
Plays c and d flat
Edit: damn 300+ likes! I've never gotten this many likes before, and all I did was quote the video
They call that jazz
It also spells out boo
I'm laughing my arse off
The last five seconds of this video are the best ten minutes of my life...
Let that sink in...
Kingchris195 CRIIIINGE, that split my ears!
I already knew how to read music, but I was interested how someone would explain it in a couple minutes. Was not disappointed.
I still laugh at "You're unimportant. You're, *very* unimportant."
I think it should be "You're unimportant. You're a Tuba player"
WhiteTreeRightful *triangle player *woodblock player *glockenspiel player *every percussion instrument except for snare and bass drum
That was my music when I had to play the triangle in 5th grade. Probably why I left band for orchestra.
Kale Andrie fun thing about percussion is that you don't even need to play one note in all the piece to be useless.
The triangle sheet of soul bossa nova is a brain kill 😱
Lauren Fabris you left percussion in 5th grade? If you actually work at it percussion is the best, also all the orchestra players in my school are a bunch of emo kids lol
"Put them together to sound nice" *plays a minor second*
_that is so dissonant_
the irony
no no
INSTANTLY PLAYS THEM OVER AND OVER
Um... woosh?
my daughter now plays this on her piano EVERY day
“You thought it was over” THE ACCURACY THO
"this is only fun while playing trombone"
string instruments too cuz u can slide ur finger
True, but on fretted instruments like guitar that would just sound goofy.
especially on piano...