There are certain operas where the trombones play the overture and then don't play again for an absurdly long time (like hours), such as Don Giovanni. From what I've been told, in those cases it's common practice for the trombone section to play the overture, leave the pit and go to the bar across the street, and then come back a few drinks later when they have to play again. German opera houses sometimes have a literal tunnel that goes directly from the pit to the bar lmao.
@@Finetales I've found myself wondering if maybe it would be a good idea to have an orchestra of multi-instrumentalists. That way, when an instrument isn't needed, they can play a different one.
Basoon is the side character who's super interesting and complex and well written but only gets like 47 seconds of screen time because the writers don't want to add him to the main circle
Bassoon is so underrated , I mess with composing classical music and as a violinist I tend to give us melody (duh) but I use the bassoon SO MUCH in my pieces because it has such a comforting or dark tone depending on how it’s used. I love its versatility!
fun fact. the more rests you have, the MORE important your part is, because there's more buildup to your part! at least, that's what they want you to think.
i realized this when i had a timpani part where i only had a 2 measure crescendo roll in like a 5-6 minute piece, and the conductor told me to go all out on that crescendo.
The worst is that it's possibly the most important, but you have to play it cold! That's rough! I say this as a string player! I would never want to have to play a crucial solo without being warmed up... I don't know how long a pre-concert tuning is going to last you if you're woodwind or brass. Maybe it's not as bad as I think it is, lol?
As a classical saxophone player, composers tell me I'm not important by not writing any pieces with saxophone. They say it doesn't blend well with an orchestra, but there is a clear difference in classical saxophone sound and jazz saxophone sound. Classical saxophone sound is literally designed to mimic other instruments and blends insanely well with the French horn. I'll stick with my 3 classical concertos for now though.
I play a French horn part in my school orchestra- I am a tenor saxophonist. My best friend who is also a tenor saxophonist is 1st trombone. In fact half of the trombone and French horn sections are saxophones.
@@mick9504 that's a school orchestra. A real orchestra will only hire a saxophone player part time for a small gig. There's no permanent saxophone player in the orchestra. I really wish there was though.
@@Cashimat Yeah I know it's why they put us in brass sections. I really wish there are saxophone sections in orchestras because it's something that I would love to do as a profession.
Lmao this is literally me. In all the orchestras that I attend, they don't want me playing piano (my primary instrument) so the only other alternative is sax. Except everyone's like 'FOR F*CK'S SAKE CAN YOU BE QUIET' 24/7 and saying how it doesn't blend in well. I can actually imitate quite a few woodwind and brass instruments (oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, and the likes) but tbh I'd rather do solo rep lmao. The amount of rests I used to get in one orchestra is similar to that of a percussionist :(
As a clarinetist, I wish I had just one piece with even half that many rests. Though I usually play in bands and not in orchestras so its a different world.
As a percussionist, it looked like you have quite a lot of material to play! Not sure how you call that tons of rest! 189 measures of rest is seen on the daily!
I'm sure I heard about a percussionist in a performance of Dvořák's 9th Symphony whose only responsibility was a single crash of the cymbals in the last movement... and then he wasn't concentrating and missed it. 😂
@@kelvinp.coleman563 I played that symphony last week, I was lucky enough to get the timpani. My buddy on the other hand got the second percussion part, including, and very limited to: scraping a coin over a cymbal once in a very specific place and rattling the triangle a couple times. You could see the depression on his face from the back of the concert hall…
@@gomask2189 Oh yeah, I forgot about the triangle in the Scherzo! ruclips.net/video/jOofzffyDSA/видео.html This seems to be the moment with the cymbals that we're both talking about. I mis-characterised it as a "crash", and I can see how the same effect would've been accomplished with a coin and a single cymbal, per your description. Also, I didn't quite tell the whole story above. The anecdote continues that the conductor never forgave the percussionist for missing that moment, and in a conversation with the conductor twenty years later, when somebody happened to mention the percussionist just in passing, and in a different context, the conductor suddenly looked very dark and serious, and asked, "Isn't he dead yet?" 😬😅 I wish I could remember the names of who was involved; I think the conductor was somebody pretty big and well-respected who worked with a lot of different orchestras over a long and illustrious career, so to remember one specific percussionist from one particular ensemble, by name, is a pretty strong grudge. 😂🤣
professional trumpet player in my area was famous for his copy of Car and Driver magazine on the stand. Myself, when I played the trumpet my first year in college, I once -- this is not a joke -- FELL ASLEEP ON STAGE during the second movement of the Beethoven violin concerto. Thank God the horns come in at the end and woke me up. And I don't snore.
Fellow Bassoonist named Dan here. I once had a 64-measure straight rest on Bassoon. Rehearsal for a month consisted of sitting there while the band teacher slowly descended into madness working the trumpet section’s part within that rest.
In college I used to bring books, homework, and a switch to rehearsal because the brass spent most of the time shoved in the back corner doing 31 flavors of nothing.
This is what playing trombone in orchestra is like. Then you miss your only 2 bars of the piece because the other trombone player you were watching to see when to come in was watching you to see when to come in
The sounds of the vacuum sound exactly the same as the wind machine in some recordings of Daphnis - not sure if that was intended but very good joke if it was, made me laugh
True for MANY instruments especially for bassoon and French horn. I don't know how many times I ask my conductor/French horn teacher to give me the notes of others because I'm bored and they are way to quiet
Yeah I always feel bad for you guys in my band. In one piece I’m doing, low brass has off-beat 8th notes with on-beat sax 8th notes, for literally like 15 measures
the way composers tell violists that they're not important is by giving them rests and random spiccato eighth notes and weird harmonies and calling it a day and it's absolutely ✨ w o n d e r f u l ✨
I’m a trumpet(you’d expect this not to happen to a trumpet) and I have like a 22 measure rest and then I’ll play for like five and have a 20 measure rest. This Christmas music gettin crazy
I knew a bass clarinet player that would just play the melody with the people that played it instead of counting his rests, he was my idol and now I do the same with my bari saxophone until i get yelled at,,
In these songs, sometimes you do fall asleep because you’re already tired, and the conductor is focusing on other sections. It’s so easy to nod off in these pieces I swear I will happen again and I’m sorry😭
I play baritone sax and marching cymbals. Pieces constantly have to be written for me in bands (orchestra and marching) and I played 26 beats during a song that had 68 bars lmao
ah yes when you have 24 bars of rest in one time signature followed by 30ish in the next or 4 bars of rest while everything is played really really slowly
Too true, when I was in pit orchestra there was something like 125 measures of rest and I actually fell asleep during the song lol I didn’t miss my cue which was surprising
At least you get a part. I played piccolo in highschool, and some scores didn't even include piccolo, not even a (piccolo) on the flute sheet. I've also had a sheet where I simply did not play anything in the first half of the song (which incidentally was longer than the second half); I think it was about 180-200 measures of rest, but it's been over 20 years ago so I don't remember exactly how long it was.
If composers ever think you aren't important, hit them with the one-two of "Oh yeah? I wonder who chose to lead their life waving a stick at qualified musicians...", always works.
Composers don’t always conduct :) and if you think you’re so important why aren’t you playing solo concerti? If you’re willfully playing in an ensemble of 40-60 musicians, you clearly aren’t that important by yourself. :)))
@@andrewfortmusic yep! i actually agree, that a band is strong when its together. just posted this comment to make a joke, actually gave this to my conducter, framed style for his birthday "waving a stick in front of children. i love my job." and felt it applied here loool
@@peepandstitch I’m glad we can all joke about music and musicians! I mean it’s at least a little strange that I choose on a daily basis to put dots and lines on paper to tell people how to make the air wiggly haha!
Conductors usually start as musicians in any one of the major instrument types (brass, woodwind, string) and work their way to the top of the orchestra. Conductors are basically all qualified musicians.
When my composition teacher was an undergrad, he didn't like a particular sax player in the jazz band. So he wrote a piece where the sax part had a note in the first bar, and the last, with only rests in between.
As a bari sax player who had to play some if the bassoon parts because my Hugh school did not have one , I quite like the basson and try yo give it decent parts on pieces/arrangements I do
When rehearsal is spent focusing entirely on passages you don't play in and you're just sitting there like "genuinely why'd you ask me to show up today, can I go work on audition music/solos/fuckin scales or some shit in a practice room"
im the second oboist in an orchestra and there's this one piece where i thought i had a lot to play but for some reason they just wrote out a lot of cues by the first oboist, English horn and violins so in the end i did about as much as the bassoons lol
Dang… I hope you at least find the harp part in Daphnis et Chloe interesting! If I recall correctly, at the beginning, you have harmonics to strengthen the notes of the strings as they enter in stacked fifths. There’s also a harp solo in Ravel’s piano concerto in G!
I had been part of my school's orchestra for 2 years at some point. If I got to play that much, I probably wouldn't have quit (that and if I hadn't been the only harp)
I wish I could remember the piece but In university we played a song where all us trumpets had like 150 or 200 measures of rest and then only played the last note of the song with everyone else.
As a clarinet player, I cannot relate. One time my music had like 10 measures of rest so I complained that I felt like I was turning into a percussionist.
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My bassoon teacher told me that one time in college, the brass section was tacet for an entire symphony so they made waffles during the concert
There are certain operas where the trombones play the overture and then don't play again for an absurdly long time (like hours), such as Don Giovanni. From what I've been told, in those cases it's common practice for the trombone section to play the overture, leave the pit and go to the bar across the street, and then come back a few drinks later when they have to play again. German opera houses sometimes have a literal tunnel that goes directly from the pit to the bar lmao.
Which symphony
@@MingJianYap not sure honestly, it’s been a good 6 years since she told me that story 😅
@@Finetales I've found myself wondering if maybe it would be a good idea to have an orchestra of multi-instrumentalists. That way, when an instrument isn't needed, they can play a different one.
@@ZipplyZane Most likely no.
Basoon is the side character who's super interesting and complex and well written but only gets like 47 seconds of screen time because the writers don't want to add him to the main circle
That side story that gets you but you never hear from it again
SO TRUE
this is coming from a bassoon player isnt it
@@soulfairre It's not the bassoon that gets confused with the clarinet and oboe.
Bassoon is so underrated , I mess with composing classical music and as a violinist I tend to give us melody (duh) but I use the bassoon SO MUCH in my pieces because it has such a comforting or dark tone depending on how it’s used. I love its versatility!
percussionists in the back cooking a 5 course meal for the whole orchestra in their 50132 bars of rest
when the orchestra percussionists is also having a side - job as a chef
Oh, how I can relate to this one! Managed to come up with and collect some great recipes from my fellow percussionists. 🎶🥁 👍
@@Foothill1070 roto-tom chicken is good man
My life. I would change nothing.
Ok maybe some things.. can we have 50131 bars instead or is that asking too much? ...
That explains why they sometimes miss the time to come in their two bars
One time in orchestra, my fellow trombonists and I watched Lord of the Rings on mute during the course of a full-day rehearsal. The nostalgia...
Honestly bro, during pep band I just binge watched The Pacific cuz all the songs we were playing literally had 5 measures of actual notes
fun fact. the more rests you have, the MORE important your part is, because there's more buildup to your part!
at least, that's what they want you to think.
I guess that’s a nice way to think of it❤
As a chorister in high school, it’s pretty vital
Getting it right is the worst.
i realized this when i had a timpani part where i only had a 2 measure crescendo roll in like a 5-6 minute piece, and the conductor told me to go all out on that crescendo.
Try telling that to that poor percussionist who got stuck on triangle (he only has three notes in a loud, high-action part)
The worst is that it's possibly the most important, but you have to play it cold! That's rough! I say this as a string player! I would never want to have to play a crucial solo without being warmed up... I don't know how long a pre-concert tuning is going to last you if you're woodwind or brass. Maybe it's not as bad as I think it is, lol?
As a classical saxophone player, composers tell me I'm not important by not writing any pieces with saxophone. They say it doesn't blend well with an orchestra, but there is a clear difference in classical saxophone sound and jazz saxophone sound. Classical saxophone sound is literally designed to mimic other instruments and blends insanely well with the French horn. I'll stick with my 3 classical concertos for now though.
Saxophone is amazing in orchestra - symphonic dances for one
I play a French horn part in my school orchestra- I am a tenor saxophonist. My best friend who is also a tenor saxophonist is 1st trombone. In fact half of the trombone and French horn sections are saxophones.
@@mick9504 that's a school orchestra. A real orchestra will only hire a saxophone player part time for a small gig. There's no permanent saxophone player in the orchestra. I really wish there was though.
@@Cashimat Yeah I know it's why they put us in brass sections. I really wish there are saxophone sections in orchestras because it's something that I would love to do as a profession.
Lmao this is literally me. In all the orchestras that I attend, they don't want me playing piano (my primary instrument) so the only other alternative is sax. Except everyone's like 'FOR F*CK'S SAKE CAN YOU BE QUIET' 24/7 and saying how it doesn't blend in well. I can actually imitate quite a few woodwind and brass instruments (oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, and the likes) but tbh I'd rather do solo rep lmao. The amount of rests I used to get in one orchestra is similar to that of a percussionist :(
As a harpist that looks like you have lots to play! I spend a lot of time counting 70, 90, even 200 bars of rest
Ahah entire movements of symphony often
I literally was waiting for the harpist to come in and say something!
As a clarinetist, I wish I had just one piece with even half that many rests.
Though I usually play in bands and not in orchestras so its a different world.
As a horn player, I wish the clarinets rested more too. Just kidding; I couldn't resist.
Switch to trumpet, it's all rests lol
@@NigelRamses clarinet player here 😂😂 i love music jokes even if they target my own instrumen...
but clarinet gives nice effect
@@notLucaZ-b5n professional clarinet is one of the most beautiful instruments
I played flute and bassoon and omg the 18 measure breaks were just ⭐️marvelous⭐️ But the bass would never let us complain and...sensibly so.
Flute... _and_ bassoon?
@@jackaguirre8576 literally polar opposites
As a percussionist, it looked like you have quite a lot of material to play! Not sure how you call that tons of rest! 189 measures of rest is seen on the daily!
I'm sure I heard about a percussionist in a performance of Dvořák's 9th Symphony whose only responsibility was a single crash of the cymbals in the last movement... and then he wasn't concentrating and missed it. 😂
@@kelvinp.coleman563 that's why percussionists play so many instruments
@@kelvinp.coleman563 I played that symphony last week, I was lucky enough to get the timpani. My buddy on the other hand got the second percussion part, including, and very limited to: scraping a coin over a cymbal once in a very specific place and rattling the triangle a couple times. You could see the depression on his face from the back of the concert hall…
@@gomask2189 Oh yeah, I forgot about the triangle in the Scherzo!
ruclips.net/video/jOofzffyDSA/видео.html This seems to be the moment with the cymbals that we're both talking about. I mis-characterised it as a "crash", and I can see how the same effect would've been accomplished with a coin and a single cymbal, per your description.
Also, I didn't quite tell the whole story above. The anecdote continues that the conductor never forgave the percussionist for missing that moment, and in a conversation with the conductor twenty years later, when somebody happened to mention the percussionist just in passing, and in a different context, the conductor suddenly looked very dark and serious, and asked, "Isn't he dead yet?" 😬😅 I wish I could remember the names of who was involved; I think the conductor was somebody pretty big and well-respected who worked with a lot of different orchestras over a long and illustrious career, so to remember one specific percussionist from one particular ensemble, by name, is a pretty strong grudge. 😂🤣
@@kelvinp.coleman563 “isn’t he dead yet?” …Ouch
Ugh, when you're a percussionist!
Honestly a huge reason a ton of percussionists end up leaving 🤷♂️ it's annoying to rest/count for 64 measures, play 10, then rest for another 20
@@spencjon4822 i had to rest for 200 measures,play a downbeat and the rest for another 60
Bruckner 7th. Only one cymbal crash in the 2nd mvt. climax.
As a percussionist: I could walk out during rehearsal to eat sushi across the road, come back and still have 100 measures of rests to wait out lolll
@@rat7963 yeah 😂 playing some games and stuff while everyone else is working 😂
Should've had an alarm clock wake him up for his part where he only plays two tied whole notes at pp dynamic.
professional trumpet player in my area was famous for his copy of Car and Driver magazine on the stand.
Myself, when I played the trumpet my first year in college, I once -- this is not a joke -- FELL ASLEEP ON STAGE during the second movement of the Beethoven violin concerto. Thank God the horns come in at the end and woke me up. And I don't snore.
I play the french horn and me and my fellow horn players actually used to play Yahtzee during the rehearsels to pass the time.
Fellow Bassoonist named Dan here. I once had a 64-measure straight rest on Bassoon.
Rehearsal for a month consisted of sitting there while the band teacher slowly descended into madness working the trumpet section’s part within that rest.
I had flashbacks to playing the oboe and counting rests. lmfao one, two , three , four, one hundred, two , three , four.
Percussionist sitting there in the back counting the measures before they get to hit the bass drum five time and be done with their part.
In college I used to bring books, homework, and a switch to rehearsal because the brass spent most of the time shoved in the back corner doing 31 flavors of nothing.
This is what playing trombone in orchestra is like. Then you miss your only 2 bars of the piece because the other trombone player you were watching to see when to come in was watching you to see when to come in
Wow! The snoring is such an innovative part of the composition! Very unique!
In my compositions sometimes the bassoon gets more main melodies out of all instruments, I just really love the sound character of the instrument!
The sounds of the vacuum sound exactly the same as the wind machine in some recordings of Daphnis - not sure if that was intended but very good joke if it was, made me laugh
True for MANY instruments especially for bassoon and French horn. I don't know how many times I ask my conductor/French horn teacher to give me the notes of others because I'm bored and they are way to quiet
You should see what us low brass players endure
For real!
Fax, f**k the woodwinds, that’s why pep bands are better
Me when I played piccolo in my old school's advanced band😂 thank God my main was flute and I only doubled on piccolo bc damn that's a lot of waiting
Literally our low brass section in middle school, we either don't get a single break or play the entire time, no in between
Yeah I always feel bad for you guys in my band. In one piece I’m doing, low brass has off-beat 8th notes with on-beat sax 8th notes, for literally like 15 measures
Welcome to all percussion music ever composed.
I died when you showed like 20 bars of rest
I'm a trombonists.
same, when i saw the music I said out loud "that's cute"
One of my friends actually fell asleep during a performance and woke up before his entrance.
I play trombone... I don't even want to talk about the amount of rests I've seen.
What a lovely piece though. Daphnis et Chloé by Ravel, second suite.
Me as a percussionist when I have 65 measures of rest 🙄
Mahler 6, 1st movement. The 3rd trombone has an entire page of rests and cues.
That moment when you spend enough money on an instrument to buy a new car, but you don't even get to play it 😂
This made my day 😀
When the bassoonist takes the rest notes literally.
Another way composers tell you that you aren't important:
Up-beats for the entire piece (I'm looking at you Sousa)
As a percussionist having 20-30 bar rests happen and that’s normal
the way composers tell violists that they're not important is by giving them rests and random spiccato eighth notes and weird harmonies and calling it a day and it's absolutely ✨ w o n d e r f u l ✨
I’m a trumpet(you’d expect this not to happen to a trumpet) and I have like a 22 measure rest and then I’ll play for like five and have a 20 measure rest. This Christmas music gettin crazy
No, that’s pretty common! Trumpet players need to rest their faces more than anyone else in the orchestra.
Oh damn, it’s getting that bad? In one of my pieces I have 18 measures of rest followed by another 15 or so of playing before the song ends
@@andrewfortmusic I see. I didn’t read your reply before I replied- 😅
Ahahahah!!! I imagined you picking your gameboy and start playing games until it's time to play ahah
I knew a bass clarinet player that would just play the melody with the people that played it instead of counting his rests, he was my idol and now I do the same with my bari saxophone until i get yelled at,,
As a tubular who is use to seeing 40 measure or longer rest, this is so valid lol
Edit* tuba player*
I feel this. I‘m playing the harp, no more words needed I guess 😂
Yo another channel to binge watch since I'm dangerously close to finishing all of twoset violin!
Lol I thought the conductor was leaving to go whip him with his baton.
In these songs, sometimes you do fall asleep because you’re already tired, and the conductor is focusing on other sections. It’s so easy to nod off in these pieces I swear I will happen again and I’m sorry😭
As a chainsawyer, I can relate.
So...contrabassoonist?
I like how it also shows the really cool part that you are not playing
I play baritone sax and marching cymbals. Pieces constantly have to be written for me in bands (orchestra and marching) and I played 26 beats during a song that had 68 bars lmao
ah yes when you have 24 bars of rest in one time signature followed by 30ish in the next or 4 bars of rest while everything is played really really slowly
This just happens to the most important instruments. If they appears all the time, the magic and fascination will broke.
If you think you have alot of Rests, you haven't been in percussion 😂😂😂
You know you're not important as soon as you see the alto clef.
Meanwhile percussion: entire feast happening
Too true, when I was in pit orchestra there was something like 125 measures of rest and I actually fell asleep during the song lol
I didn’t miss my cue which was surprising
I’m a harpist… I’m lucky if I get to play in the piece. And then when I do you can’t even hear me over everyone else
Yeah waiting the whole piece juste to play a fucking glissendo at the end
@@caze3190 frr 😭
Thank god love to be a violinist
Bassoons and oboes are the quiet kids when not playing
No it's more insulting when you just double as a trombone!
This is factual
I actually did double as a bassoon and trombone! XD
As a violist, I relate to this on a spiritual level
Man actually rests, well played
dude this is every percussion part
There’s a song we were playing that I had 16 measures of rest in a row and then right after another 8 (alto sax)
as a double bassist, this music looks fun
Relatable
hey but at least he gets to hear Daphnis live
Man what wouldn’t I give to hear that?? I adore Daphnis-I keep the scorebook in my backpack at all times and basically have it memorized.
as a producer, it’s nice that my “musicians” don’t have sentience
At least you get a part. I played piccolo in highschool, and some scores didn't even include piccolo, not even a (piccolo) on the flute sheet. I've also had a sheet where I simply did not play anything in the first half of the song (which incidentally was longer than the second half); I think it was about 180-200 measures of rest, but it's been over 20 years ago so I don't remember exactly how long it was.
If composers ever think you aren't important, hit them with the one-two of "Oh yeah? I wonder who chose to lead their life waving a stick at qualified musicians...", always works.
Composers don’t always conduct :) and if you think you’re so important why aren’t you playing solo concerti? If you’re willfully playing in an ensemble of 40-60 musicians, you clearly aren’t that important by yourself. :)))
@@andrewfortmusic yep! i actually agree, that a band is strong when its together. just posted this comment to make a joke, actually gave this to my conducter, framed style for his birthday "waving a stick in front of children. i love my job." and felt it applied here loool
@@peepandstitch I’m glad we can all joke about music and musicians! I mean it’s at least a little strange that I choose on a daily basis to put dots and lines on paper to tell people how to make the air wiggly haha!
@@andrewfortmusic omg "How to make the air wiggly" LMAO!
Conductors usually start as musicians in any one of the major instrument types (brass, woodwind, string) and work their way to the top of the orchestra. Conductors are basically all qualified musicians.
I know you ain't complaining about those tiny rests
I was a clarinet they placed me behind the tuba…
Marvelous!
When my composition teacher was an undergrad, he didn't like a particular sax player in the jazz band. So he wrote a piece where the sax part had a note in the first bar, and the last, with only rests in between.
Lmao wow
If he's snoring in time, guess he's functionally a percussionist too.
YES DAPHNIS ET CHLOE
As a bari sax player who had to play some if the bassoon parts because my Hugh school did not have one , I quite like the basson and try yo give it decent parts on pieces/arrangements I do
Triangles waiting 57 bars of rest just to play two notes
When rehearsal is spent focusing entirely on passages you don't play in and you're just sitting there like "genuinely why'd you ask me to show up today, can I go work on audition music/solos/fuckin scales or some shit in a practice room"
As a flute player, I either rest for half or more of the piece, or I’m playing runs at 150 bpm for five minutes
There’s no in between
im the second oboist in an orchestra and there's this one piece where i thought i had a lot to play but for some reason they just wrote out a lot of cues by the first oboist, English horn and violins so in the end i did about as much as the bassoons lol
and then there's english horn which doesn't play until some extremely important solo and never plays again afterwards
source: new world symphony
"Your section quiet down we need to hear the not your section part"
As a harpist: I have 300 bars of rest before I play a series of basic d major apegios for 12 bars
Dang… I hope you at least find the harp part in Daphnis et Chloe interesting! If I recall correctly, at the beginning, you have harmonics to strengthen the notes of the strings as they enter in stacked fifths. There’s also a harp solo in Ravel’s piano concerto in G!
@@andrewfortmusic some rep is really great for sure!! night on a bald mountain just wasnt it though.
I had been part of my school's orchestra for 2 years at some point. If I got to play that much, I probably wouldn't have quit
(that and if I hadn't been the only harp)
Stop i literally just played this piece the flute solo lasted for minutes and so did the rests (horn😭)
I played saxophone in a harmonic orchestra and I once had 32 bars of rest!
As a bass player, I relate a little too much
I wish I could remember the piece but In university we played a song where all us trumpets had like 150 or 200 measures of rest and then only played the last note of the song with everyone else.
I once had a music sheet in which i only played durind around the 30% of the piece
This makes me think of Mr Bean in the Chariots of Fire theme at London 2012 XD
I'm in a jazz group and we have an entire piece where we play 2 measures. I'm a bassist though, so can't complain.
As a Violist, this is very relatable
When you have a 23 measure rest - violin 2
Bro I play flute in an elementary band and I had 36 measures off
Reccently played a song with like a 40 meassure pause before playing again, not mentioning the other pauses
Laughs in strings
As a clarinet player, I cannot relate. One time my music had like 10 measures of rest so I complained that I felt like I was turning into a percussionist.
Percussionists be like
Only 6 measures? I have 76!
Lol in one of my pieces I have 36 measures of rest in a row
And this is pretty normal too
being a tuba can be kinda boring sometimes
Welcome in trombone part HAHAHAHA...........