irvmuller
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So, asking for a friend, where could I start looking?
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Figuring out which kid may be easier, but I said "worst case". I wasn't actually suggesting you do that. We are all here to enable each other's GAS, not fight it.
Looking for what? Amp? Others would know better than I, but Weber or Mojotone come to mind. I haven't partaken of either yet, so I don't know. But one day, I think a modded Blackface Bassman will occur for me. Gotta get me some Mike Ness tones.
mybud
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Surely you mean trombonists? (Ducks for cover...)
ICTRock
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They have jobs?
mybud
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Ow.
Mmmmm, pizza.
Bricksnbeatles
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Sure. Every shitty local ska band needs at least two or three. Of course, 14 year olds don’t pay very well, but it’s the best work they’ll find
mybud
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Double-ow.
Bricksnbeatles
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Sorry; I’m still salty about getting bamboozled into trombone and out of trumpet when I was picking an instrument to play in elementary school band.
mybud
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Hey, no need to apologise. I’m assuming ska wasn’t in the repertoire
peccary
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I trace my lack of musical knowledge to grade school. I wanted to play the trumpet and instead they made me play the clarinet. Apparently I was a pretty obstinate kid because I refused to participate in music class any more after that. Bummer for me.
Bricksnbeatles
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For me, it was because I was one of three people who was able to make the trombone mouthpiece buzz.
My picks were percussion, bass, and trumpet.
Percussion was a no-go because they only gave it to students who already were taking private drum lessons since it was in high demand. Bass was a no-go because they said I wasn’t tall enough (though I know now that’s BS).
I was good to go for trumpet— they met with me and had me try buzzing a trumpet mouthpiece, which was fine (plus literally anyone can learn that anyway), and I told them how I wanted to play trumpet because Chet baker and miles Davis are cool (I was already into music because I stayed playing guitar a year and a half earlier), and then at the very end the teacher was like “wait! You might actually be able to make this bigger mouthpiece buzz too— try it” and I did, and they were like “great! You’ll play trombone!”
I was like “what’s that?” And they told me “it’s just like a trumpet but a little bigger”
That was a friggin lie. Trumpet is badass, but nobody has ever been like “woah! A trombone!”
mybud
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Being somewhat vertically challenged never deterred me from bass-playing. So I agree it's complete BS. Tall people though tend to look better with a Fender bass than short ones, if you get my drift.
peccary
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Bricksnbeatles
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That was pretty much the deal with me. I was really excited about starting an instrument in school, and then they dumped the trombone on me. On top of that, I was one of just three trombone players in the grade, so we all had our lesson at the same time, and there was one kid who had already been playing for a year because of his older brother, so every lesson was me and another kid being told to practice scales, while the music teacher spent the whole time giving the third kid challenges to play, like the Simpson theme and snake charmer. What better way to make a kid’s enthusiasm for music flourish like completely ignoring your obligation to teach him, and constantly pointing out how incredible his classmate is
I wound up not going to the winter concert because I was super anxious that I didn’t know anything other than the first song and still hadn’t been taught to read sheet music. Wound up quitting by February, and wasn’t able to pursue music in school again until I joined the highschool advanced jazz band in 11th grade, but even that only lasted for like 3 months before I quit because I was the only musician in the band who didn’t have the past 7 years of experience in sight reading. Even though I had a much stronger foundation in music theory from my own self-education than any of my classmates, I never learned to sight read, so I’d be fine comping chords from the charts; I’d be fine taking a solo and following the changes; etc. but we’d be getting 4-7 new pieces each class, and whenever we’d play the head, I’d have to spend like 5 minutes mentally working out the melody, and by then, we’d moved on to the next piece.
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