Nice one! :D

😂😂😂😂

Lolol

😆

Haha! My husband has one and plays decent on it, but yes it’s a running joke with us

T_T how’d it go

howd it go

I um once wrote 2500 words in 6 or 7 hours

Christine Niu Try 3582 lines of code, bud.

Lol ouch I'm not a fast programmer so that would be pretty bad for me

LOL.. It has that feel :-)

alleygh0st i thought it was TED within the first minute, the first time i saw this xd

alleygh0st It was not, but it certainly seems like it could have been lol.

I wonder when Ted is actually going to show up to one of his talks

That is the most sorrowful KZfaq comment I have ever seen.

Nah, he's failing.

Charlie Stark 😂😂😂😂

RSFArocks That's not even close to accurate.

RSFArocks Really? I have studied psychology, and Psychopath is synonymous with Antisocial Personality Disorder.

RSFArocks God, dude. Leave it alone.

Holy fucking shit I never thought I’d see the day someone fought over a fUCKING WORD

Hide Kide I know right.

😂😂😂😂😂

WaterFlame957 that was great!

BlakesPuppets 777th

BlakesPuppets then no one would know if he played the right notes or he just made it up as he couldnt keep up.

I was the "1,000th" like. I'm happy, you're happy.. we're all happy.

well on one hand that could mean he memorized it on the other hand that could mean he just made everything up so it really didnt matter what he played or said which might also be just as impressive

trolololol

All non classical musicians memorise the pieces they play lol

Also classical musicians memorise.

If they memorise, why the sheet music?

LOL

congratulations, you copied an older comment!

Hollis Pierman Double negative= Postive

***** Well there's a triple negative in there, so...

BUUUURN haha

wow..

brooke ! I literal don't blink when I play... It's weird... HALP!

Nadia Brown I've been playing for three four years and my teachers haven't cared to look at my talent... :(

I wanted a blue violin... Not to brag but I am pretty good! The fastest song I've played is "death by glamour" from Undertale!

Nadia Brown oh my god good for you! I'm one of the best in my class. My friend and I are competing for first... My teacher only sees my friend as the best though... My teacher made me cry when she said I kept getting my bowings wrong... She failed me cuz I couldn't get that ONE MEASURE!! Btw a fail is a 95 in her brain plz don't ask why...

We need two musicians playing and speaking in unison. Add a third bassist. Then give sheet music to everyone in the room except the performers. Mwwahaha! I'm The Devil! :)) In 1972, there was a concert raising money to establish a department of African American music at Yale. Someone called in a bomb threat. Diz, Max Roach, Mary Lou Williams, Eubie Blake, Willie the Lion Smith, and other greats waited outside. Mingus refused to be evacuated. He denounced police and firefighters from the stage while playing double and triple fugues in cut time and offering his own one of a kind social commentary. "If I’m going to die, I’m ready. But I’m going out playing ‘Sophisticated Lady!’ ” No warning. No rehearsal. That's just Mingus pissed off. Kidding aside, THIS was an amazing performance. Bravo, sir!

and he was not playing a piece.. but playing random notes)

Piece*

...no. It's a piece written specifically to cause failure to some degree.

its actually not

+twothousandcookies I read "falling."

Well, he is flailing some. OuO

How could you be disappointed at this! This is more technical than any set of fast notes you’ll every find.

"violintly"

ajtheown No. It is violently... Oh wait it's a joke, duh... should've caught onto that.

dude i'd like your comment but you have exactly 500 likes (i guess 100 likes every year for the last 5 years now, that's dedication!) and I don't wanna ruin it so instead I'll just say 👍

CGreyL3 it's called a joke. Chill.

It’s just a meme it’s time to calm down

Brian C niggah what

+RyanORourkelol Yes it does.

RyanORourkelol If your finger twitches and you finger the wrong note you have failed. Same with your words. Seems an arbitrary disctinction whether the twitch was in your vocal abilities or your manual ones.

good thing it wasn't a competition...

Stephen O'Donnell I love it, I play it!

Christopher Rumbaoa same

Stephen O'Donnell it rlly doesn't

It gets all the love in jazz. In big bands and bebop jazz the string bass is essential

Marcus Dominguez yea but even then electric basses are used more in then

turns out it's just one massive win

that's a double bass

AmirAli Tehranchi Sarcasm.

It's actually a rather large viola

Or an 8/4 cello

you bich

+Noah Faulkner yeah, "mumbling" or "someone tied up in other room" may be good subtitles.

I can do it in double speed on the saxophone. Just a shame I don't own a microphone so I can prove it.

+Noah Faulkner the point is to talk while performing, it is only transferable to percussion because wind players have to use their breath & mouths to play. It would become music with intermittent speaking rather than equal parts music and text.

😁😁😁

Darren Schmidt I know.... I was joking...

By speaking

maybe a click track or something but idk of the piece allows it

PrActice and repetition

Probably used the words as cues for when to play certain notes, and for longer stretches of music he just practised before so knew it well enough to naturally keep in time. I struggle to count while playing my violin, so I figure out the tune and play from there

The sheet music doesn't have time signatures, just bars that have notes, rests, followed by text underneath. I don't think there's a consistent tempo, but a consistent sequence of notes, rests, and text

Because life is silly

Silly is subjective

you are right, life doesnt matter

I ate the poop then went to the zoo then ate 10 hotdogs while taking elephant poop

Because they often fail to be serious

Deadfish it's Juilliard

*christ's

Haha, of _course_ it's Juilliard

That's not how PhD's work

He said Bachelor of Music. That's very different from a Bachelor of Arts.

D. Nephi This, Stephen Lynch, and Bo Burnham.

Pyro no

D. Nephi no

@@galaxyy073 Yes, much yes, very yes

No, comedy for musicians is normal comedy. We're normal people too you know

welwitschia but the composer IS a musician.

+Sacada Zero Hell ya!

+Sacada Zero There are solo pieces for every instrument.

Well I don't know much about this kind of music.

No.

Slendeaway you cant

Whooooooosh...

people these days don't know a joke when they see one hehe like duh ofc you couldn't do that on a flute thats why its funny its silly and impossible xD

Play it on any instrument that requires a mouthpiece

...Flute?

drew b. Trumpet?

The8BitPhoenix that's a clarinet

thedoctor_19 no it's a soprano saxophone

Billy Mays actuallly its a contrabass clarinet. Theyre easily confused

onepiecenaruto123 it's not like the violin, viola, and the cello have almost the same design as it.

It just looks like a big violin to me

I believe Onepeicenaruto123 was talking about the wood grain exemplified by the stain. It's a rather pretty bass.

Finally, someone who actually understood what I was talking about.

All these band scrubs am I right

It's used in Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals.

Primus over the falls

how old are you?

Not You late 50s. I quit way too soon.

PLAY AGAIN! MAKE A KZfaq! ILL SUBSCRIBE! TELL YOUR STORY

Ivan Betancourt nah

can we not

bigbangman99 mmh, he's failing to fail

Just masochism

rather, he failed to succeed at failing, for the most part. i'm sure this was sufficient for his BA.

5:54

yes

Ryan Taber It's called comedy

And not a laugh could be found.

Postmodernism.

Ryan Taber 2:48 a laugh was found

This is not funny. Let's not be delusional.

not me

Yea, this train of thought conversation was eerily familiar to the ones i have in my head everyday.

Interesting

so i am not the only one, that's refreshing to hear

HEY! Who are you calling a composer? >:C I'm too neurotic and OCD to write or publish my pieces ._.

+DexterousDiggs whats the album thats your icon?

+lukas berg Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Interesting music....very hipster...still oddly good.

+lukas berg "in an aeroplane over the sea" by neutral milk hotel

yes

Cool song

check out Crin by Jorge Sanchez Chiong

There’s Road to Hamlin by Paul ramsier, it’s a bass concerto, about 20 minutes long, where the performer plays bass while also narrating it

word

then don't read it

B Will "heard" ... "don't read it then" what

Oh, if only.

French bow is better then German

Gabriel Stone Lies!

+Gabriel Stone That is heresy, my friend.

+Gabriel Stone get out

Nah I can't stand a German bow. It's not for me...

True

Alex G "burbger"

Wow he does!

alex g wins the award for "Best KZfaq Comment 2017!" Happy 2018, alex g, from all of us here at captop12.

captop12 i'm honored

asa

good example of young kids trying to look/act professional

+StudioAmber "Young kids" are perfectly capable of acting professional. Spelling and grammar have nothing to do with being professional. Sure, in an online setting it may look a little informal, but what they are saying is very professional and mature. All they are doing is complimenting this extraordinary man playing a challenging piece. Don't discriminate or target kids for complimenting people. Think about the example you're setting for other kids reading this.

Bryan Ewing Failed it*

+Tulsatom Bob Speaking about bass, do you know what sucks? PRIMUS SUCKS.

Nicholas D'alterio I agree :-)

+Nicholas D'alterio PRIMUS SUcks!

honk badong H0W D4R3 Y0U PRIMMUS IS A BOOTYFUL BEND U JUST A JERK IF U DONT LIKE IT JUST SCHUT OOP!!!!1 Fake fans be like^

+Nicholas D'alterio what is Primus?

There aren't really tabs for Double Bass. But, I guess it could work.

+TheNerdyGeek since I've posted that, I actually have seen "tabs" per se for double bass, but I originally posted it for that reason exactly. Our school jazz band has an upright player, and since I'm a multi-instrumentalist, I picked it up during break and saw that there were tabs for it, which were effectively just where the notes would be if you played on a fretted electric bass. Although, I did have to compensate for the scale length of the upright, and I doubt that they would be used in a professional setting (same as guitar tab).

David Goode Yeah. I'm a learning Bassist, so I use tabs for Bass Guitar, and Notes for Upright.

TheNerdyGeek Why not use bass clef for both? Ironically, I think tabs are more confusing than the bass clef, partially because I learned it before I picked up the bass for the first time.

Wow. Two years later and upright bass is my secondary applied instrument in college.

what does this even mean?

Peter Gabrielides Life

Peter Gabrielides i think it means playing the piano with the feet while farting the national anthem with the butt

It could also mean using one's feet make a fart-like noise and then playing the national anthem with this in a similar fashion to a piano.

let's cook, grandma. let's cook grandma. kids, if you love your grandma, use comas. wtf is feet farting? LOL!