Reacting to Threatening Music Notation

My favorite thing I've seen in music is on measure 69, "with force"

My freshmen year of highschool the choir director gave us a piece of music with the notation "pp very soft." The next day he took that piece away

I've had some golden instructions in my music as well, being a tuba player. "ASSES" is a classic part name Once on a really loud and low note it just said "Baltic sea ferry". "Put instrument on shoulder and fire like a rocket launcher" On music I arranged myself I made sure to put "with murderous intent" in the cello part.

5:54 I've actually seen this musical. It's called "seussical" which is a musical with different dr Seuss characters that'll make you wonder afterward whether or not taking those gummies was a good idea. Gertrude is a bird in this play with a "one feathered tail" and the pills are for making her tail grow. And the bird girls are other characters in the play from another dr Seuss book. Some useless info for ya. If you wanna take an acid trip without being on drugs, I'd recommend watching seussical. Thank me later :))

1:45 Its a dotted natural, it means that you play that the sound of the natural is 1.5 times longer which means more sound but less sound and longer but sound travel but goes out of the music into the ear via the instrument when you press the note on the trombone.

1:22 that looks more like electrical engineering than music

You’re an adult. You can laugh at what ever you want. Life’s too hard not to laugh at things.

As a progressive rock musician, I see these notations on drum notation all the time and it’s a completely normal experience for me as a drummer.

Thank you for the viewer discretion advisement! Rather than be offended, annoyed or disgusted by your video (likely resulting in a dislike), I can just not watch it. Brilliant!

1:27 has me giggling because we’re playing that piece and I laughed at that with my section for the entire rehearsal. I had to edit the time stamp because i included the wrong one!!

The funniest ones to me are the ones where it has the most over-descriptive and complicated description for playing up the top like "Slowly, yet sporadic, akin to (but not entirely like) a small creature carefully observing their predator, considering whether to flee or not, along with some undertones of anxiety and fear, with perhaps a mere hint of calm." but then it's just a bunch of rest for like half the song.

3:25 that's a note, in the arrangement editor. you can't do that. it's like having piano sheet music with one giant note in the middle of the page.

i saw the "horse whinny (valves half-way)" and immediately knew it was "sleigh ride" LMAO, I had that part for my last christmas concert

04:20 - Black MIDI's much-hated stepkid, the sheet music equivalent.

The “Gertrude popping pills” thing is from Seussical. I was in that show last year and let me tell you, it is a wild trip of a musical. The reason she’s taking pills in the first place is to grow a tail.

"Lesbianly. I don't know if I should laugh at this" I don't know if this counts but as a bi woman, I personally found it hilarious so I feel like you're in the clear.

3:12 is when composing software users try to get the piece to slow down and speed up perfectly

I saw the Black Angels score and I was just like “oh yeah lol”. Prep for music theory grad school has rotted my brain’s ability to be threatened.

"Why do you always act like you're 6 years old?!" "Because I am 6 years old."

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