I already suck at sight reading, I'd probably die

@user-ds4fq7yv1c

5 ай бұрын

Same

@user-ds4fq7yv1c

5 ай бұрын

I only play by ear

@bobcat24

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@user-ds4fq7yv1cWhich really means you have no real skill and just make it up as you go. Got it.

@squilliam.919

5 ай бұрын

@@bobcat24Is playing by ear a problem to you?

@Alguem11111

5 ай бұрын

​@@bobcat24perfect pitch persons: 👁️👄👁️

So real. I’m like this when my band decides to sight read the whole piece before even working on it

@ISitInMyRoomAndDraw

5 ай бұрын

my band does this every freaking time we get a new piece without even hearing it first.

@CannedClorox

5 ай бұрын

It becomes easy, embrace it. Some of the most fun times in my life were sight reading a piece in band and it sounding absolutely great. It makes you a better player

@MichaelEavesMusic

5 ай бұрын

You have to sight read before you can work on it

@cameronmoots2756

5 ай бұрын

Without sight reading you don't know where to put the most work into it

@jaimieweisbergthehippo4

4 ай бұрын

They unalived themselves, i unfortunately had to witness it this morning after spending over a year trying to save them from crack addition.

id forget how to play my instrument in the middle of it

@mooshroommoon

5 ай бұрын

So true.... I can't do scales that fast at all

@TheCakeCat

5 ай бұрын

The thing is, I play flute so forgetting makes a wretched noise

@am_Nein

5 ай бұрын

​@@TheCakeCatno kidding 😭

@GlideoTheGreat

5 ай бұрын

As a trombonist, I find this the most relatable 💀

@mooshroommoon

5 ай бұрын

@@GlideoTheGreat I'm French Horn but I'm terrible at scales.

as a saxophonist, "it's just scales" unlocked a memory i did not want to remember

@Some-randomidiot

4 ай бұрын

OMG SAME

@PotatoKat624

4 ай бұрын

Same but as a flutist

@supertigerlife8285

4 ай бұрын

I play tenor sax, and my band director also plays tenor sax, so you could imagine how much he says this to me specifically.

@thatonerightthere9635

4 ай бұрын

I just got a piece like this 😢. Just a lot of constant 136 bpm sixteenth notes with random accidentals that I dont even think are normal scales

@Hypnopompic_Fox

3 ай бұрын

real. (alto)

This is way too accurate 💀 I cannot tell you how many times a lesson teacher or band director look me dead in the eye and said “it’s just scales”

@MichaelChamlee-fx1su

5 ай бұрын

I’m convinced we all have the same teachers

@Hi-hx7ph

5 ай бұрын

Fr they all comin out of a starter pack or something

@AdrianSaenzj293

4 ай бұрын

@@Hi-hx7phfr😂

@jojo_da_poe

9 күн бұрын

Literally bro it's like PTSD 💀

As a Percussionist, I can say looking at that while playing any mallet instrument is my worst nightmare

@user-hr8es7gx8c

5 ай бұрын

i honestly just force myself to remember the piece cuz there's no way im gonna allow my eyes to go ⬆️↘️⬆️↙️↘️⬆️↙️ any longer 😭

@jacksonfagan4212

4 ай бұрын

As a percussionist myself, I can agree with you in so many ways, looking at that on mallets is a terrible nightmare

@cacky_moon

4 ай бұрын

@@user-hr8es7gx8c FR BUT THEN THE TEACHERS ARE LIKE 'you need to look at the conductor' I NEED TO LOOK AT THE INSTRUMENT SO I KNOW WHERE MY HANDS ARE

@Mia_47

4 ай бұрын

FACTS OML

@Karl_supremacy

4 ай бұрын

i just memorize pieces whenever i play any mallet instrument 😭

the eternal director/teacher line when you can’t figure out the piece. “it’s just scales.”

I'm a violinist and i always hate when they say "It's just a b flat. Do it right" Like what??? IT'S SIGHT READING

@EEEEEEEE

3 ай бұрын

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the its just scales unlocked core memories help

AND ITS ALWAYS THE TRUMPETS😭😭

@DragonsAreGreat950

4 ай бұрын

trumpet is HARD!

@asdfghjkl0583

4 ай бұрын

ALWAYS.

@micahepworth3321

4 ай бұрын

​@@DragonsAreGreat950 not as hard as people make it seem

@user-vt5dt1hs9z

3 ай бұрын

Don’t blame us

@alicegacha

3 ай бұрын

Trumpet is hard especially when I randomly forget how to play when marching 🥲

This is 100% my band in the OMEA sight reading portion

@jellyd708

5 ай бұрын

I HSTE sight reading!!!! And being a percussionist where you don’t sight read like ever and have to look down to play makes it so much HARDER GRRRR

@astridcallisto

5 ай бұрын

@@jellyd708as a fellow percussionist, i could not agree more. sight reading is hell when you have to look down 😭

@darthvader757

5 ай бұрын

My orchestra does OMEA state orchestra too and the sight reading is normally easy for me because they use easier pieces but it is pain for some of the orchestra

@K1ller_Whale610

5 ай бұрын

LITERALLY

the “it’s just scales” is relatable in so many ways 😅

"it's just scales" Is relatable

The absolute pain as your teacher just says “do better” as you have to redo it knowing you don’t have a chance to even mark it subconsciously when you’re moving that fast

@noahjones9833

3 ай бұрын

So many modern teachers suck, id know well my fiance is one too and she confirms the industry is absolutely saturated with deeply flawed systems and assholes

"its just scales" is way too relatable

When i get lost, my go-to is to get really close to the music and squint as if that makes it better. We were sightreading a rather difficult piece a few weeks ago (it's rather easy now. it's just repeating stuff but really fast) but both me and the other clarinet got so lost that we just stopped playing, looked at each other, and then the sheet music in pure and utter confusion

"its just scales" *stares at 4 mallet music at 169bpm*

why are top youtube comments switched to newest against our will

@orangeduckduck2996

2 ай бұрын

I dont know why

@minemaster3157

2 ай бұрын

Oh you are right it is wtf

@aplanenerdandagamenerd9087

2 ай бұрын

Thank god I’m not just going insane

@TurtTheGenocideTurtle

2 ай бұрын

yeah when i try to switch it it just stays as newest comments

"Measure 105" 💀

@miserabiliiaa

3 ай бұрын

one time i had to play a peice with 120 measures. it was hell. 😭

@LordVestik

3 ай бұрын

@@miserabiliiaa i have not done that but i believe you 😭

@audiblemagician6751

2 ай бұрын

I remember in high we had a piece with 236 measures ☠️ it's like a 10 minute song

@LordVestik

2 ай бұрын

@@audiblemagician6751 I can imagine the cramps and sweating probably an hour tho with all the retakes

@NicholasVetter-sy8io

7 күн бұрын

I think I actually played a piece that went to 200 measures.

My band teacher always says it just scales arpeggios and stuff like that

i play flute and I get the "it's just scales" all the time

I love seeing your smile, it brightens my day every time.

Whenever they say it's just a scale I flip 😭

I’m in orchestra, and I was doing a sight reading piece and the guy that was judging the sight reading made us each as individual instrument groups (violin, viola, chello, bass) say words like te and ta for each note (we did this in beginning orchestra and we are in orchestra 3) and he made us basically sing te ta and to. It may not sound weird, but if you were there you would understand

I dont play anything near an trumpet but i still get this feeling

Is this other lives? Weird to hear brass band test pieces on KZread and on a trumpet?!

@maxparrish4718

5 ай бұрын

It is! We’re playing it this year, so I thought I’d use it 😅

@ianaigner-varoz7327

5 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing! See you at NABBA??

@drslymi

4 ай бұрын

You're sight reading other lives? 😮 I'm playing it with my band and i've been working on it for weeks and weeks

@trashlag

2 ай бұрын

I coulda sworn it was Bartok but on a relisten yeah nah

@simonolthenorwegian

2 ай бұрын

@@maxparrish4718 Woah! Which band are you with?

“It’s just scales” is so real 😭

I DO THIS ALL THE TIME AND THE DIRECTOR IS LITERALLY MINE STOPPING THE SONG JUST TO CALL OUT TRUMPETS 😂😂

I play clarinet and my band got a 1st division in sight reading this year 😆

as a fellow trumpet player. I feel this

The “It’s just scales” is so relatable my band director literally said that today💀

me not knowing how to read music at all: i like your funny words, magic man

I'm a percussionist. The only problem I had was today when all of our 7 pages got mixed up during sight reading, and oh boy was it a mess-

ITS.JUST.SCALES! - a sentence every band/orchestra/chorus students have heard

Accurate, I literally play trumpet and the amount of times we have been embarrassed like this is uncountable. Also, love the high note❤️

I miss being able to sight read during band ;-;

"its just scales" why is that so accurate

As a amateur bassoonist at my place in life (played for 2 years) this is a nightmare

Every single time I hear “It’s just scales”, a little part of me dies

As a pianist in College ensemble, this hit so hard. My latest piece had a run that the teacher, who is also a theory professor, would tell me “it’s just a scale made up of only like three different chords in a mixed order” and expect me to get it from sight reading. Then on day two he’d be like “that was all wrong. Sounded horrible… you have a CONCERT in two months! Don’t embarrass yourself” 😭

My band teachers were actually reasonable with that 😭 We went to contest and we had to sight read and we messed up some but overall our 4 directors were happy 😁

@NicholasVetter-sy8io

7 күн бұрын

I remember something similar to that in my band. My first marching season in 2019 was in the Brandon Bulldog Marching Band in Brandon MS, you can actually watch our show called Ignite as it was uploaded by a creator named MKelly601 (Although that was evaluation), when we got to finals, we actually scored dead last, but our director was 100% proud of us 😁

I couldn’t sight read for my life

Other lives is just such a great piece, we played it with my band last year for the Norwegian nationals

This shit made my eye twitch, got me thinking about my time in concert and marching band

I don’t know why but I like hearing the original sound before our place so I know how it goes. I feel more confident.

As a percussionist hearing “it’s just scales” unlocks a deep empathy within me for those caught in its crosshairs

Your makeup skills are out of this world.

No director I’ve ever had has gotten mad during a sign reading session. Usually it’s really fun!

"Its just scales" me in an orchestra reading summer

As a trombone I can tell you we are just guessing when we sight read. Just random slide movements that kinda are the notes sometimes

As someone still learning french horn, I just experienced catharsis again.

I felt that "it's just scales" in my soul

This is absolutely stunning!

This is so accurate 😂

This is part of the reason I quit band, it wasn’t fun with teachers like that 😂

As a trumpet player sight reading any note above the staff is pure anxiety at times because at least for me my embouchure needs to be exact otherwise a double f flat very quickly goes sharp

I'll be in the middle of playing and my trumpet will forget to trumpet 💀

Love these videos

The “it’s not that hard it’s just scales” is the death of sight reading

Why does it sound so funky

“it’s just scales” pisses me off to NO END OMGGGG

As a trumpet player whom has played for 5 years now am happy I'm not alone

Keep doing what you're doing, it's working!

As my conductor told the orchestra, music is just scales and not scales. 😂

As someone who used to play piano, i feel this on a personal level... Playing by muacle memory was all i could do, to hell with aight reading.

This is so real. Like everything was just scales, according to the director 😭

Omg were literally sight reading and I can't even.

I remember getting introduced to sight reading and my first task was a chorale piece right before a competition. God that entire period of my life was a struggle since initially we didn't even have the paper and had to do it by ear and try to separate the individual harmonies of the original piece.

The relatability when bro said “it’s just scales” is crazy

I've seen my friends from band and orchestra be amazing at sight reading. Im in choir, and i can't sight read for my life

This is like a high school stress dream my heart was racing why would you do this to me 😭

As a pianist my hands naturally explode into a 1000 pieces when attempting to sight read.

I felt that😭😭. It was soooo hard

This is so real tho, bro I am terrified of the band director saying “it’s just scales.” 😭

How I feel in choir when my teacher whips out the sight reading generator at random:

I have no idea how you did it but this is absolutely amazing. How you capture the utter chaos and confusion. This is such a great animation. Absolutely AMAZING. Criminally underrated

The “it’s just scales” is too real, I hear that way too often

im loving being a band kid and reading these comments, its great and me being a trumpet player too

As a trumpet player, can confirm this happens more frequently with time

I did sight reading 2 times. The first time it was pretty easy, but the second time was a nightmare lol. 😂

Dear lord, now you’ve got me anxious for OMEA Large Group again 😭 (We made it to state!!!)

“It’s just scales” *simple words that have made my life hell* -a flute who sincerely wishes her band teacher would stop making her switch octaves in “just scale”’passages 😊😊😊

"its just scales" REALLLLLL

I'm a trumpet player and I can confirm that this happens

There’s always that one kid that sight reads at the concert but still plays better than all the freshmen combined

“It’s just scales” is something all trumpet players have heard

The it's just scales hits hard 💀😭

Dude, fr, I can’t sight read to save my life

I used to know how to read notes but I genuinely can’t remember now😭✋

I can watch this all day.

Other violins: Sight Read Me: Writes down each individual notes finger position

Sight reading other lives is basically a nightmare irl.

“It’s just scales” is a little too accurate 😭

bro when I’m playing xylophone and I’m trying to look up and down, it’s litterly all or nothing 😂

literally happened last week. "it's just scales" IT DOESNT HELP 😭😭

I fr feel this, I'm second chair trumpet and I seriously can't sight read. 😭

You can do that at the same time you look at it?! Bro, i have to play the thing over and over until i traumatize my brain with the song XDDD

Man this is so accurate but one of the few things my band teacher taught us were taco notes or The Accidental Carries Over aka TACO

“ it’s just scales 🙄” Yeah with like 15 accidentals what’s the point of the key signature if the notes don’t even match it most of the piece 😭

@2000s_Lizard

2 ай бұрын

Or when you get a piece that you have key of G but all the Bb are naturals except like one random one. Like what’s the point 😭😭

@2000s_Lizard

2 ай бұрын

Mb. I meant F

@garfieldreal66

2 ай бұрын

@@2000s_Lizard and that one accidental doesn’t even sound good with the rest of the piece

@2000s_Lizard

2 ай бұрын

@garfieldreal66 I know right? It’s just so random and there’s no other accidentals to help with it either. It’s just there out of nowhere

My band director fr