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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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ensemble_coeur 0
what happened to my other comment? I can't see it anymore!
020266t 5
*Coughs* Comment Moderated *Coughs again"
Tankgirl14 0
You're the drummer aren't you?
PATastrophy102 0
Are you a drummer? Cause if you are it's fine, the drummer in my band can't even read music lol
MF12 0
he probably means concert band not like a band with a bass electric guitar singer drums whatever
Airch 9
definately means concert band if theyre talking in cadences and consecutive fifths :P meh, you must've done something to warrant them using terminology like that with you. YDI, but it still sucks.
ginger467 2
It could be concert band, but in my band we have all taken music theory classes together. So we tend to communicate using those kind of terms.
teacher411 0
huh?
Dyz 0
Don't feel bad man. They're probably just teasing. I'm the pit section leader in my band and have to teach like 5 kids how to play xylophone and bells and whatnot. I can't even read music or play those instruments, so they pretty much teach me.
buddymask1 0
how are you a section leader of an instrument you can't play or read music for?
46plus0 0
It happens, if you're good at what you do, don't let that little detail bother you. We all have our strengths and weaknesses.
Chunchunchun 3
I'm a drummer, I don't play any other instrument properly but I understand all those terms, for those bashing drummers :) And I'm one of the better sheet music readers as well. Drummers aren't idiots at music!
itsbecca 11
This is an insult to baboons!
1010011010 0
YDI for being a tic box. Now stop screwing up and march/play correctly, you tic...