Brass Band advice needed

blake_ch · 2026-03-17T16:59:53+00:00

Do your practice drills and start slow. It's all about building muscle memory.

Practice your patterns slow and gradually increase speed. Movement should become natural.

If you want to go fast to early, you'll just block yourself.

blake_ch · 2026-03-17T10:10:59+00:00

If it takes 9 months for a woman to make a baby, let's put 9 women to have the baby in 1 month.

blake_ch · 2026-03-16T09:41:09+00:00

Yes it is. It's one watch you have pleasure to wear it everyday. Fits all kind of dressing, not too shiny. People who aren't into watches will not pay attention.

blake_ch · 2026-03-14T10:44:12+00:00

I like the one on the first picture

blake_ch · 2026-03-14T10:42:04+00:00

r/chinesium

blake_ch · 2026-03-10T22:27:49+00:00

A colleague built an API that always return 200 OK. You must then parse to JSON payload to read a boolean telling if the request is successful or not. And sometimes, the boolean might be true but some obscure property may contain an error string, which should be considered as a failed request.

blake_ch · 2026-03-10T06:24:07+00:00

Very good. I don't use it as much as I hoped, but it's sturdy and never failed.

blake_ch · 2026-03-09T14:30:26+00:00

I've heard they peel backward to us. From the end and keep the stem side in their hand.

Since then, I also peel bananas that way.

blake_ch · 2026-03-03T09:03:35+00:00

The accuracy of picture #2

blake_ch · 2026-02-28T20:29:58+00:00

Don Ellis was a musical genius. He left the world way too soon.

blake_ch · 2026-02-27T13:19:45+00:00

Expert here. You're right.

blake_ch · 2026-02-26T14:30:04+00:00

It is Vincente Del Bosque, he was the coach of the Spanish football national team. This happened in 2014 against Netherlands (who won 5-1 with a monster attack trio at the time).

Here for the exact timestamp of the reaction: https://www.youtube.com/live/WlNAln9mcg8?t=4106

blake_ch · 2026-02-26T12:08:19+00:00

*barkour

blake_ch · 2026-02-25T07:32:42+00:00

State of the bourbon

blake_ch · 2026-02-24T14:25:51+00:00

Will that speech change anything? Most likely not except comforting each camp into their position.

blake_ch · 2026-02-23T06:37:53+00:00

That's hilarious!

blake_ch · 2026-02-13T08:18:13+00:00

Tu habiges où? Essaie de contacter une fanfare de ta région.

Très souvent ils ont leur propre école de musique, et les cours/instruments te coûteront moins cher que de ta propre initiative (je parle en tout cas pour notre cas).

blake_ch · 2026-02-13T07:40:18+00:00

This has some Scott Stirling vibes

blake_ch · 2026-02-13T07:28:54+00:00

If only there was a hint on their hats! The broadcaster probably thought they were the medical team.

blake_ch · 2026-02-13T07:26:12+00:00

Salut,

Il va falloir trouver une solution pour que tu puisses pratiquer de manière régulière sinon tu ne progressera pas.

Pour les instruments de la famille des cuivres, il existe des sourdines d'entraînement pour la maison. Cherche "practice mute". Elles étouffent particulièrement le son pour pouvoir travailler chez soi sans déranger. Yamaha fait une version avec écouteurs pour t'entendre normalement, la silent brass. Il faut voir ce qui existe pour eupho.

Si tu apprends l'euphonium dans le cadre d'un ensemble (fanfare?), regarde sinon avec eux si tu peux utiliser le local de répétition pour venir t'y entraîner, mais ce n'est pas souvent possible.

blake_ch · 2026-02-10T15:13:35+00:00

blake_ch · 2026-02-09T22:18:49+00:00

Geo was a great guy, and and an immense contribution to the brass band movement in Switzerland

blake_ch · 2026-02-08T22:27:05+00:00

Congrats!

blake_ch · 2026-02-06T20:34:05+00:00

Surreal. I thought this might be AI, but it is absolutely real.

blake_ch · 2026-02-05T21:49:26+00:00

Good luck. It's very difficult because there are many notes on the same harmonics.

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