Today, I was at a band practice. The band was talking to each other with language like "cadence", "resolution" and "consecutive fifths". When they spoke to me, they used terms like "tick", "bong", "ticky bong"; and "bongy tick". Musically, I feel like a baboon. FML
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Today, I attended a musical. A new song was played, and I thought I'd heard it before because it sounded strangely familiar. I sang along quietly as the song progressed, positive I knew it. Anticipating the next chorus, I belted out the lyrics with all my heart. It was instrumental. FML
Today, I was told by my neighbors that my guitar playing sounded a dying cat. FML
Today, I was tutoring a band member. Whenever I ask him to play a D or any D scale, he stops just to snicker and say, "Ha ha. D." He still sucks. I hate his guts. FML
Today, I had a music duet in front of a crowd and 3 judges. I play tuba and my partner plays the saxophone. He burst out laughing in the middle of it because one note that I played sounded like a fart. FML
Today, I forgot my headphones at home. When I got to work I found out that today was also the day the band next door had decided to practice their only song for 8 hours. FML
Today, I was trying to study for a test when my brother and his friends decided to play the chant game, meaning one person yells something weird and everyone else has to say it back without laughing. All I heard for about two hours was them yelling things like, "DICK NIPPLES." FML
Today, while waiting for my violin student to unpack his violin, he farted loudly and rhythmically on the sofa, and then went on about how it sounded like the "Shave and a Haircut" rhythm. FML
Today, my band got booed off stage. FML
Today, I was playing some CoD online, when I realised I'd started humming an annoyingly catchy Bieber tune. Before I could come to my senses and pull out my mic, a bunch of my teammates started sarcastically singing along. FML
Today, I found myself humming a Skrillex ditty all day. I'm beginning to wonder if I've had some sort of stroke. FML
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Besitzen 0
Sounds like you're a drummer. To be honest, it's probably because your bandmates don't know percussive technical terms. And even if they did, onomatopoeia is still the best way to describe what you mean when it comes to drums. FYL if you're not a drummer.
SHAAAAAARK 1
when i read this i thought it said sticky dongs.
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sparkleprincess 0
THATS GREAT! NO 1 EVER DID THAT FOR ME. BUT I NEVER JOINED BAND!
menschmaschine5 0
Really? I'm a pianist/organist as well, and I've only had to read tenor clef for sight singing/score reading exercises.
menschmaschine5 0
That's not what a cadence is. At all. And yes, a resolution is when a dissonant chord resolves to a consonant chord. A B7 chord is dissonant, so therefore it usually resolves to a consonant E major or minor chord.
Trooth 13
wow...nerdy band talk. ydi (and that's a good thing cuz it means you're not a band nerd like them)
wordgirl 0
Oh this is so funny. :)
Bloonbloon 0
See, when you do this it goes tick, and when you do this, it goes bong. Got it? And when you do this, it goes tickty bong. :D
jonny2x4 0
This is almost as bad if you were trying to teach a trombone player. It would be like "wah wah bwahhhh".
Darkhumor 0
s'ok, if they're using consecutive fifths the songs can't be all that crash hot anyways. You wouldn't be missing much.
mothefo 0
Take them aside and explain to them that if they don't start treating you as an equal, you'll come round their houses and molest them in their own beds. Do this in a very calm and reasonable tone.
escape_my_fate 0
lawlz. that is how us band kids talk to the freshies. then we explain to them what everything means.