Anime Addiction asked:


I’m in middle school,7th grade, and I go to the chorus room to practice sight reading for All-State(choral audition thing). One day, I walked in whn I usually do(alittle late) and I sit down after grabing a book.
I ask a friend of mine,” what page are we on?” she tells me. then after everyone is finished with the line, I ask: “didn’t we do this one yesterday?”
a girl in eighth grade snaps: “maybe we did, maybe we didn’t! whatever! practice makes perfect, right?”
I reply, “I’m sorry. I was just asking a question.” Everyone one laughs, except her. she rolls her eyes in an exagerated way like she thinks I’m a little girl who wandered in out of nowhere or something.
a few days later, I go in again. this time the eighth grade girl is sitting at the teacher’s piano. I sit down after grabbing the music book again. everyone is saying, that key is too low! move it up one key! she plays the scale for the next key up, going from c to d. I noticed that she left out the c sharp and f sharp.
more later!
I tell her”um. when you play a d scale, you need a c# and f#.” She says, ” why don’t YOU play it then?” So I do. She just rolls her eyes again while the other people sing the scale.
The next day, I come in and everyone is totally out of sync and reading the wrong notes. I ask,” are we counting in eighth notes or quarternotes?” She says, “see that note,*points to half note(which gets 2 beats)* that gets 2 beats” She says it in this realy retarded way like duh! I say so we’re counting in quarter notes(referring to my question). She rolls her eyes again. I ask, ” ok. This is about the fifth time that you’ve snapped at me. Is there something you have against me?” She says,”This is just the third time that you ANNOYED he HELL out of me.”

SOMEONE HELP ME!!!! WHAT DID I DO WRONG????

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MusicbyTomingas asked:

It’s been cold for a week or two but no snow as yet, so I made the short mile and half hike up the base of the Tetons and Tagert Lake to do a little skating. It was a gorgeous day, a very warm, sunny 45 degrees which in this dry air feels wonderful, no coat required. While the day was perfect, the ice was not, it had two inches of snow on it (the mountains make their own weather including exclusive mini snow storms) plus the ice had snow on it when it froze the last little bit which made for a lot of “corn ice”, air bubbles that crushed as you skated across them. All this made for tough skating but it was also hilarious. For me, it was like being in a time machine, growing up in Jackson, the roads would be hard packed with snow and ice, I used to skate down the road at night to the outdoor Ice Rink which was often covered in snow and rough, the road surface was better than the lake today but fun is still fun. I always have an instrument with me, even when I used to study computer programming, I had an instrument in my hand, many times people came in and thought I was sight reading music and were appalled that it was some technical piece of garbage instead. The Ukulele has worked out particularly well for me, I tuned it like a Viola and have a heavy bass string instead of the thin traditional Uke thing. The instrument has been a fountain of inspiration and I can put it in a back pack. The tuning makes it weird for a guitar player like me, as everything seems upside down …

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gstark1000 asked:

A fun game that develops music notation reading skills. Runs on PC only. Piano keyboard not required. Sound included.

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Bella asked:


My chorus teacher is REALLY bugging me. I love singing, and not to brag, but I’m actually quite good at it. Well, here’s the thing. My teacher plays favorites. He also insults people just to be funny…
Anyway, there is a bundle of students in my class that are apparently “better than everyone else”. I mean, they don’t really sing that good, but the teacher just likes them anyway. The teacher’s daughter is also in the class, and he always lets her to solos and whatnot. It’s nepitism. And the other girls are superior compared to the rest of us. They aren’t really the best singers in the class…
He gave his favorites a million wacks at solos, and he wasted like half of the class period. It’s not fair!
I have been playing piano for like 9 years; 9 years of music experience. This is advanced chorus, by the way, and his favorites aren’t even good at sight reading. Suddenly, a F becomes a B, in their minds. A handful of us, the other kids, think that the teacher is being really irrational, and I’m just fed up with him, even though school started only around 2 weeks ago. And isn’t playing favorites, like… against the rules???

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