Best Bass Trombone Talk and Squirrel Semantics.

A Trombone Shorty

Ooh, thats right there was at true trombone joke. That picture did deserve a true trombone joke though, because squirrels need rights too. You know in the era that we live in I'm appalled by the fact that squirrels don't have rights like we do.
They don't have free speech, if they had free speech things like squirrel dictatorships wouldn't form.

Squirrels, don't have the right to bear arms, you know squirrels are already in such a disadvantage when it comes to bear attacks, they need that equalization that a bazooka brings to a bear brawl. Just imagine this squirrel above this paragraph with a bazooka and you will understand how powerful and humorous that is at the same time.

Now I believe that squirrels don't need the right to refuse soldier housing. In the society that squirrels live in currently there has been a development of tree sharing intolerance which is truly dismaying.

Unreasonable seizures and seizures for squirrels is just not cool. Squirrels spend all of their late fall free time organizing their nuts because they don't have Netflix. Those nuts are everything to them, don't be rummaging through those and taking them, how do you think most dogs feel.

Squirrel right to property is paramount. Even though tree-sharing helps squirrels have good squarma (think about it) the other squirrels in the oak trees need to know that that tree is the Squirrelson's tree, not the Squirreliam's or even the Squirrelenberry's tree.

Squirrel trials must be speedy. Have you ever seen a lethargic squirrel? Point made.

Excessive bails are just prejudice. It singles out the lower class squirrels and that's just not fun for everyone. Since squirrel society is making a noticeable shift to communism, it important get rid of socio-economic boundaries.

Give squirrels all the rights. All vices would be made illegal in squirrel society, because in society there is a certain prejudice that effects the squirrels children. We can't teach the little squirrels to be bigots!

Wow, I didn't know I had that in my to talk about squirrel rights for that long. That was just kind of weird.

Now let's actually talk about bass trombones.
The bass trombone is the exact length of a tenor trombone, but has a larger bore size and bell diameter.
So, the Bore size is at .562" and at .580" through the valve tubing. The bell diameter spans from 9.5"-10.5".

The fact is that the bass trombone is pretty awesome, you have low parts that sometimes even consist of pedal tones. You just sound like a musical terminator that can do the jitterbug. You have some of the lowest parts in the band and you feel like you have the power to overpower the band completely.

Also, bass trombone players are the coolest of the cool. Think about all the bass trombones that you personally know, including yourself Mr. N.W. They are just cool guys, and I get to join the club.

That's all I got for this post, thank you for reading, have a nice something.

State Jazz With Funny Haircut Fads

No caption could describe this

Ok. So this blogpost is weird.

As you can tell I have been "exposed" to, um, this. I honestly can't hold it in. It looks like a young man thought it was a good idea to scribble brown expo marker in a circle around his face to connect his tween side-burns and then photoshop his face onto Vin Diesel's head. I wonder what he was thinking right when a person snapped this picture. Maybe its"I didn't really have any friends until last tuesday at midnight, that's where I met a man in my local Waffle House named Steve. Steve he had a really cool Yu-gi-oh card collection, but that was only a ruse that I caught up on later. It was really an elaborate plan to get me to join his cult, The Kings of Kosher Cutlery. It all went downhill from there. he was He's probably just a victim of some college prank.

I really don't know why this is relevant to my blog, lets get into some relevant things. State Jazz competition is coming up. Its on a saturday and I have to be at the high school and ready at 7:13 to get on the bus to go to murray high school. We are going first, and I forget when the varsity plays but the we either leave or will be back in the afternoon. I'm a little worried, because there are parts that aren't all there somehow. There's also random mistakes that happened on the concert that I don't have any control over. I'm not sure If I've said this before on my blog, forgive me if I have, but, I can't do anything to prevent someone from misplacing the beat to the point where the band can't find the beat for a few measures. I can't prevent freak events and I guess that's whats making me nervous right now. Oh and also hitting the chair in front of me when I'm doing my fifth position.

Beware of those dubious trombone slides

Well, there's always a spongebob quote to lighten the mood "The best time to wear a striped sweater, is all the time."

So, we all know that spongebob is lyrically gifted. Lyrical enough to touch the hearts and minds of kids everywhere. But, he shouldn't join an acapella group. Since spongebob is the best cartoon from my early childhood and still is the best cartoon. I personally don't care too much for the newer spongebob episodes, the ones where the cartoon style got changed from this...

to this...

Even spongebob agrees.

The sad thing is that I can't link to these pages to you beautiful people because they are all blocked for some reason. It honestly limits creativity and deters students from doing creative things in their projects/blogs.

That's it for now, next post is about the best of the benevolent bass trombone. Thanks for reading and have a nice something.

Copious Amounts of Competitions With Talk of The Penniless Squirrel's Malnutrition

Sometimes it sounds like this is the case

Sorry guys I'm kind of on a squirrel kick right now, but you can't scold the squirrels! This picture was just too perfect to resist. It's both metaphorical and hilarious(squirrel double entendre).

Anyway, since squirrel talk is officially over, it's time for state solo/ensemble talk.  So, I did solo/ensemble(I did a solo) at my high school for the region competition. I was scored a 1 which is pretty durn good. I'm the only person in my school's symphonic band that made qualifies for state. To be fair there weren't that many in symphonic band doing it. Maybe six people even did the competition from symphonic band. Despite that I'm still proud I did well.

The piece that I played was called Achilles by R.M. Endresen. It was a grade IV piece with a piano accompaniment. I played it well and it was a great piece.

So I know that you want to know about that squirrel malnutrition right? Well squirrel malnutrition is just a thing I said to rhyme with state competition, kind of like Wiffletree Wind Ensemble, except five times better.
Sure a diet based solely on tree nuts can't be that great for you, too much carbs. I know that squirrels are herbivores and I'm sure that they have copious amounts of berries as well. Maybe there are squirrel kings in residential areas that govern the surplus of such nuts and berries and they are the only ones with the fat stacks. No stone unturned on this blog, we get right down to squirrel socio-economics.

Honestly I believe that the last paragraph was pure gold. Maybe you think it was nickel or maybe you think it was Californium 252 which is worth 27 million per gram.

Ok, now that we've gotten solo ensemble and squirrel socio-economic levels out of the way. I should talk about the Jazz concert. In the JV Jazz we did a set of three songs: Satin Doll, Misty and Oclupaca. A moderate swing, a ballad and a latin/swing piece. The first one and the last one went well but, the second song went very poorly, to put it candidly. It was out of tune and half-way a member of the rhythm got two beats ahead of the band, we lost track of one so the trombone missed their entrance. As long as that doesn't happen at state then we should get a 1 or a 1-.

Thank you guys for reading. I hope you will comment on the post and follow this blog if you haven't already. Have a nice day, night nice night or nice anything.

Oh,  here's the music we played at the jazz concert. The Satin Doll video isn't the same arrangement but you'll get the idea. Links above in blue.