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Post by eyeswithpride on Dec 3, 2007 18:09:30 GMT -5
Yeah, I totally know the feeling. Sometimes when I'm in band, and we're playing just the right piece, I forget that I'm playing, and I just hear the music all around... everything just feels right.
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Post by carlysnareperson on Dec 4, 2007 21:45:37 GMT -5
OH, you have no idea how relieving it is to play/beat/whack/bang my drum when I'm angry or annoyed or sad. You pour all of your emotion into every stroke and it comes out fierce and intense and just LOUD and it makes you feel ten thousand times better. It's like you take your feelings and drain them from yourself, instead transferring it into your instrument. And if you're lucky or whatever, it sounds good.
Once I was doing just that while we were warming up before a competition, and my SL told me to watch my stick heights (which he never has had to before) because I was just that... expressive. Little did he know it was because of him.
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sakura11irving
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Post by sakura11irving on Dec 4, 2007 23:30:51 GMT -5
I do it ALL THE TIME. Since I'm in the International Baccalaureate progroam, I get stressed ALL THE TIME. Whenever it just gets to me, I pick up my clarinet and play Adagio from Mozart. It makes me feel better.
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Post by bluescalesdragon on Jan 8, 2008 21:33:49 GMT -5
Sitting down with a folder full of new music and playing for an hour and a half on my sax has always helped me feel happy again.
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Post by Horn man on Jan 8, 2008 21:43:17 GMT -5
Whenever I'm sad or depressed or stressed out (all 3 right now for me), I pick up my french horn and play Shanandoah by Frank Ticheli. It makes me feel a whole lot more relaxed.
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Post by carlysnareperson on Jan 8, 2008 22:20:43 GMT -5
^ ah, that's such a beautiful song. it definitely is relaxing. we're doing that piece right now, and i don't play, so we just sit and listen and i sing along and it's great.
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Post by Euphoniums PWN on Jan 10, 2008 0:59:31 GMT -5
Sometimes when there's a song that's just amazing I get lost in it.
There's this one march we're playing for festival, and it is pretty much a euphonium feature. It's not hard at all, but it sounds incredible. Every time we play it, it's like swimming in a pool filled the the cleanest, purest, most blue water you've ever seen, while at the same time flying.
Others call the same feeling getting high. I call it band.
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Post by Horn man on Jan 10, 2008 19:13:17 GMT -5
^ ah, that's such a beautiful song. it definitely is relaxing. we're doing that piece right now, and i don't play, so we just sit and listen and i sing along and it's great. Ya. theres like no percussion in the song. lol I play horn, and it has the most amazing horn part ever. Although some people cant play the first note, and only like 5 people play that not so it need to be perfect...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2008 21:58:28 GMT -5
Wow, I miss my instrument right now. I'm not used to being home alone, so I'm bored as hell and lonely.
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Clariиәrd ♫
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Post by Clariиәrd ♫ on Jan 13, 2008 21:12:29 GMT -5
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhh...........*sigh* wow, i do this a lot. i particularly did over the summer after band camp a TON. when i'm sad, I pull out Concerto No. 3 by Stamitz (it has a lot of meaning to me for varying reasons). I cried while playing that this past summer after band camp ended. It was beautiful. When I'm angry, I pull out something with weird rhythms or something new, but usually something in a minor key, like Vesuvius by Frank Ticheli, or Weber's First Concerto or his Concertino. It's actually a good habit if you think about it. Most other people when they get angry, mad, frusterated, annoyed, or w/e, will go and take it out in a negative way, sometimes severely, which is really unfortunate....... Everyone should play an instrument.
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claribeth
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Post by claribeth on Feb 21, 2008 21:03:16 GMT -5
YES! i was really sad and i just started playing random stuff on my clarinet and i felt so much better...if im mad and im out of tune that only makes me more mad and frustrated...if i dont have my instrument(like if im out of town) i listen to my mp3 or the radio but i get more of an effect when i play
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Post by moe on Feb 21, 2008 22:49:32 GMT -5
so i consider guard equipment to be my instruments =) when i get really pissed off or frustrated at practice, i just start doing toss pyramids on rifle. it usually calms me down...or i hurt myself. either way, i calm to a dull simmer. haha. (toss pyramids are when you start on a small toss, and work your way up, then back down....basically toss scales if you think about it =D)
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Post by kahlen on Feb 22, 2008 19:53:33 GMT -5
It's easy to get an emotional attachment to something you've been lugging around back and forth for 3 years. Playing my sax does make me feel better because I've been through so much with it. Ah, memories..
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bandman001
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Post by bandman001 on Feb 22, 2008 23:06:56 GMT -5
any time i have a bad day i come home and just play my trombone. anything i can play i play then, if that isn't enough, i improvise anything that sounds good until i forget why it was such a bad day.
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Post by brassgirl1023 on Feb 23, 2008 16:18:28 GMT -5
When it was marching season i'd go to the cafeteria after school a lot and play the tuba. It was usually rehearsal a couple hours later, and i absolutely hated sitting at home having to talk to my mother, so i just hung out with friends and played the tuba- the show, stands tunes, scales..almost everything. Yeah, it made me feel better.
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