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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I faked trombone all the way through middle school. Adam, the kid next to me, knew how to play trombone and could read the music as well. What I did was create my own system of trombonal slide positions, numbered 1 through 6. Then I would watch where Adam moved his slide with each note played, and I would write the corresponding number from my system above each note on my paper.

I leached you like a vampire, Adam.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago

That's almost as much work as learning it!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

you created your own system for actively refusing to learn to play normally. lol

i mean good job too I guess but I think just practicing would have been less effort.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This is especially funny because I think there's only 7 positions on a typical trombone anyway, and unless you have godlike lips can only hit 3 or 4 octaves across those. i played trombone through high school and it's like the easiest instrument, haha.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I did the same for the piano tbh. I was better at rhythm games than parsing sheet music so I'd practice and memorise pieces on something like Synthesia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's harder when playing plinky plonk though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's why I'm stuck playing with one hand, never properly learned notation