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When you get your music and you have literally 26 four-counts of rest in the 130- measure piece. And the rest of the music, you're just like every three beats, and you play the stupidest notes. Like C, wait two or three counts, Bb, wait two or three counts, C, C, wait another six counts, etc.
Ever happen to you??? That's me when our idiot band plays Normandy Beach.

Stories? Pix of you slow, one-note music?

I'm much better at playing the drawling whole notes...

We're doing The Sound of Music and for our entire part three we play like four measures, not counting our solo.

This is kinda like a piece I have to play on bass drum. for about 15 measures I go "hit, rest, hit, rest, hit, rest, hit, rest, hit, rest, hit, rest, hit, rest..." and don't play for the rest of the song. The hardest thing I play is a dotted quarter note two measures in a row. "Hit-and-two-hit, rest, rest, hit-and-two-hit, rest, rest..." and I only do that three times... =.=

NEVER! Sometimes i wish!! Our band director has to be a douche bag and gives us music with friggin sixteenth notes. For the past three years that i've been in highschool band he has to have a show that shows off the low brass a little bit. I play the trombone and sixteenth notes are hard!! Especially if its going up a scale! Then it sounds like slurred jumbled mess! Plus playing it at like 144 beats! Super hard, but fun at times. We like it when he yells at us for being stupid. We just talk right back!! Not complaining or anything but sometimes i wish we could just have an easy show...its not impossible but im just not that good of a player. im good but not that good.

We're doing this piece for our school's Christmas Concert [we being my school's beginning/intermediate band] and the song I'm talking about is supposed to "be featuring" my instrument section, right? Well, we have 19 full-measure rests and we're the only ones with 1 page of music. And the worst part is, we're just playing the same tune over and over and over... well, you get it [for the most part we do, anyways].

that happens when i play a new song but then i master it so yea...

sounds like a personal problem. i play clarinet(not bass clarinet, just the typical Bb clarinet). i played in the small orchestra that accompanied our community choir. i played a total of about 8 measures, in the middle of a fairly long requiem. i didn't miss my entrance, and i had only practiced with the choir once before the performance. low wind instruments complain too much neutral . a professional musician doesn't care about how "exciting" or "interesting" their part is. they care about the entire song as a whole, and obviously those few measures or notes you play are important, otherwise the composer wouldn't have even put them there.

well then, i would say it's a challenge to enjoy music, isn't it? if you're so bored with the parts you play on your low instruments, just switch to an instrument which typically has "more fun" parts. you complain too much.