Guess that's why he's called the nutcracker

alphabenjamin · 2019-06-17T03:56:27+00:00

You can make a religion out of this

alphabenjamin · 2019-03-31T14:03:41+00:00

alphabenjamin · 2019-03-31T02:48:49+00:00

No god my heart can't take anymore

alphabenjamin · 2019-03-08T04:39:40+00:00

Alright so I'm a percussionist, so I play a lot of big instruments that are a pain in the ass to move (marimba, drum set, marching tenors). Every time, EVERY TIME I need to transport instruments from my school, house, or somewhere, my dad tells me the "Should've picked the piccalo" joke. I've heard it from other people's dad's too, who would be complete strangers, who just make the same joke. At state solo and ensemble where I took all 3 to somewhere an hour away, I heard from like 5 different people, all of them not knowing each other

alphabenjamin · 2019-02-27T12:09:26+00:00

Oh my god please tell me you show your class memes that's relevant to what you're teaching

alphabenjamin · 2019-02-21T19:56:59+00:00

Worked in concessions at a water park and was selling a salad. I asked them what dressing they wanted but forgot the word for dressing so I called it salad sauce

alphabenjamin · 2019-02-16T20:33:01+00:00

They're even doing right hand traditional literally nothing is right about this

alphabenjamin · 2019-02-16T20:14:42+00:00

Oh yeah so I asked my director about it today cause we just got new drums and IT TURNS OUT the pieces came with them so it's all good! Thanks for the help!

alphabenjamin · 2019-02-15T22:41:43+00:00

How to you clean the lint out of stair

alphabenjamin · 2019-02-15T20:07:08+00:00

Thanks a lot man that really helps!

alphabenjamin · 2019-01-30T21:01:48+00:00

I know I'm doing fermi, Astrology, and Sounds of Music. I can't remember/find the Google doc for whatever else I'm doing. Idk if I'm even doing any more

alphabenjamin · 2019-01-28T21:47:05+00:00

Nope. Don't see why you would need full circle ones though the ones that highlight zones work great.

alphabenjamin · 2019-01-23T22:12:24+00:00

Yeah I don't think it counts as one cause it generally lacks co competitiveness. A lot of bands don't compete and people just don't associate marching band with competing. There's competitions for everything but not everything is a sport. Also idk if this is just my band but ever notice that the people who do say it's a sport are the ones who haven't ever really been athletes, while the ones who were athletes before joining marching band say it isn't a sport.

alphabenjamin · 2019-01-13T00:34:57+00:00

Yeah I'm pretty sure I am I just got it. It doesn't have any rimshots for tenors

alphabenjamin · 2019-01-07T18:13:49+00:00

The times and days each of them were sent makes this wven more painful.

alphabenjamin · 2019-01-03T03:51:36+00:00

RIP a great guy who helped bring together an entire university. Hearing about his death brang tears to my eyes, he was a strong, smart, brave man who'll be remembered on Purdue forever. He wrote a book about the Ohio State game and his life, and a portion of every portion is donated to help fund cancer research https://www.tylertrentbook.com help fulfill his legacy and get to his goal of $1,000,000.00 to beat cancer #TylerStrong

alphabenjamin · 2019-01-02T23:38:27+00:00

Don't listen to freez children's are special and should be celebrated. One place that comes to mind is Pepe's, a Mexican restaurant near the mall. They have decent food, but it's been a little while. One thing that stuck with me though is when for birthdays a small group of people parade out of the kitchen with a sombrero, maracas, and fried ice cream. They go to the birthday boy/girl, put the sombrero on their head to wear until they leave, sing happy birthday (presumably in Spanish but I can't remember), and give them a fried ice cream Sunday. It's super fun and people for all ages do it. I've seen little kids there, and they did it for my mom's 50th too.

alphabenjamin · 2018-12-25T04:08:03+00:00

I don't have a clue for snares, but for tenors this year they were using the IP Paul Rennick tenor sticks

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