The band, the music, the dance.

puts on sound 📣🎶🎵

Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.

1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.

2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.

3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT.  To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.

4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!

5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.

All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.

@mcbitchtits I feel like you’d have some interest/insight here

yeah the one thing if you’re doing marching arts is you’re gonna get abs.

Hey spiderverse fan and drummer nerd here to inform you that the attention to detail given to Gwen’s drumming is amazing. I noticed that she distinctly does not use matched grip on her sticks (where you hold both sticks the same way) but rather uses traditional grip (where one stick is held in an almost upside down looking way). This could mean several things, from my knowledge matched grip is the most commonly used grip by self taught artists, so chances are someone taught her how to drum. So my guess is she has classical training, or the person who taught her has classical training. What I’m really trying to say is the likely hood that Gwen was in her school’s band is very high, even better considering the use of traditional grip specifically there’s a good chance she was in the marching band, which as a former drummer in a marching band, is really cool.

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In music when we hear dissonance we don't consider it bad, we consider it interesting and part of the bigger piece.  Outside of music we tend to like our own major melodies.

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thank you i love it

lmao ain’t that the guy from star wars?

There’s so much going on here I don’t know what I’m supposed to focus on