(A quick note - cork grease is an absolute must for all woodwind instruments EXCEPT the flute. Please for the love of all that is holy do not put cork grease on your flute. It will tarnish the joints and can cause them to get stuck together.)
Flute
How to Clean a Flute: DO NOT PUT CORK GREASE ON YOUR BABY.
Basic Flute Warmups
Oboe
How to Clean an Oboe
Basic Oboe Warmups
How Your Reeds Are Made: See why they’re so expensive now?
Clarinet
How to Clean a Bb Clarinet
How to Clean a Bass Clarinet
Basic and Advanced Clarinet Warmups
Bassoon
How to Clean a Bassoon
Bassoon Warmups
Saxophone
How to Clean a Saxophone
Alto Sax Warmups
Tenor Sax Warmups
Bari Sax Warmups
(Clear your spit valve regularly. Extra spit sloshing around in there will degrade your instrument over time. Besides, we can hear you gurgling and it’s not pleasant. Here’s how to clean an icky-sounding brass instrument.)
(French) Horn
Basic Horn Care: Horns need special attention because of their rotary valves. It’s important that they’re properly maintained.
A List of Horn Warmups
Trumpet
How to Clean a Trumpet
Trumpet Warmups
Trombone
How to Care for Bass and Tenor (regular) Trombones
How to Oil/Grease Your Slide
Low Brass Warmups & Maintenance
Baritone/Euphonium
Baritone & Euphonium Daily & Monthly Cleaning
Low Brass Warmups & Maintenance
Tuba
Cleaning a Tuba: If you have a rotary valve tuba, stop right there. Cleaning a rotary valve tuba the wrong way can damage it. Please see Basic Horn Care for how to maintain rotary valves. If you have a regular ol’ piston-valve tuba, see How to Clean a Trumpet.
Not sure what kind of tuba you have? Check here.
Low Brass Warmups & Maintenance
(If you’re having problems with your violin/viola/cello/bass, talk to your teacher or a luthier. Stringed instruments are delicate and can be damaged easily.)
For All Stringed Instruments:
Here’s all about rosin.
Instrument storage
Warming up
Got bridge problems?
Violin/Viola
No violin tips list would be complete without a link to TwoSet. Violas proceed at your own risk.
Violin & Viola Basic Maintenance
Violin Tuning: If you are a beginner, it’s usually not a good idea to tune using the pegs.
Viola Tuning: Again, beginners should not use pegs to tune.
A comparison of clefs
Cello
Cello Maintenance
How to Sit
Double Bass
How to take care of your monster of an instrument
Tips for Double Bass
For All Percussion
Percussion Tips
Timpani
Weird Timpani Facts
Tuning Tips
Choral Singing Tips
Learning to Sight Read
Basic Music Theory
How to Sing in a Group
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3 ships:
Joe x Nicky from the old guard. I watched this movie and then made all of my friends watch it too. I just loved how woven into the story their relationship was. TLDR: I just really like good representation (and also historical fanfic (crusades!!! Literally any other period after 1100 and it isn’t an AU!!!))
Amy Pond x Rory Williams (do they have a ship name? I should probs find out). I just.... love the Ponds. So much. 11 was my first doctor and to this day they are my favourite companions and I love them both and i love their relationship
Tessa x Will or Tessa x Jem from The Infernal Devices. Both god tier ships. The Victorian setting.... the angst,,,,, the absolute unconditional love!!! Especially when they are older and all the kids just look at them and go yes,,, I want that.
Last movie I watched:
The corpse bride! It was really good actually I am a big fan
Last song I listened to:
Either Breathe from In the Heights or Mad Woman from Folklore. I am a big musicals person and also a Taylor Swift fan in amongst the rock and alternative stuff.
Currently watching: The mandalorian! I love the angsty mandalorian and his cute little baby. I’m about to start season two tonight!
Currently reading: Ysabel by GGK. Oo boo I am invested it has history and drama and suspense and throwback slang and also magic so yeah it contains a great many things I like!
Currently craving: either chocolate or human contact. It’s fine schools on Monday so I’ll get hugs off my friends then!
Rules: Tag 9 people who you want to know better/catch up with and then answer these questions. I was tagged by @hlmoorewrites (BTW, I can't wait to read your books)
3 Ships: Rory and Jess from Gilmore Girls. Look, I get the love for Dean but he was never smart enough for her and broke her heart three times; once because she didn't say "I love you" after 3 months and needed some time to sort through everything (kind of like she always does), once because of her feelings for Jess (and okay, I cant fault him for that) but the last time was because of his inferiority issues and I can't stand that. And teice it was in front of a ton of people! He wasn't a good boyfriend. And I hate that Lorelai thought he was because he helped her out so much. I hate that Rpry never saw him for what he was. I mean, even the whole fight between him and Jess was started by Dean. And his whole "I don't have to be nice anymore because I'm not with her but you can't do shit because you are" speech to Jess just made me want to watch Jess hit him. And Logan sucks in ways I don't have to explain. But Jess......he loved her. And yes, he hurt her while he was growing up, but he got better and he apologized and he stood there, beside her, as her friend every time. He helped her get her life back on track after Mitchum destroyed her. Hes got the same love of books, the same taste in music, the same quiet resolve, and he's just perfect for her.
Harry Dresden and Karrin Murphy and I will never forgive Jim Butcher for what he did. Ever.
Eliot Spencer and Damien Moreau from Leverage. Not for any good reasons. Only for the fact that they would be a great destructive force. And I really enjoy the idea of those two tearing apart the world together. I also get a small thrill from the thought of Eliot clawing his way out of hell. Its fun.
Last Song I listened To: Valerie by Ghost of the Robot. James Marsters can sing
Last Movie I watched: wow, you picked the best moment because I haven't wanted to watch anything but movies post gilmore girls. The last one was Riddick, as I ended that trilogy and following on the heels of the Fast and Furious Franchise (except parts 2-4, I couldn't care less for them, and if you're noticing a running theme here, its Vin Deisel. One of my favorite actors because realism be damned is what he does best)
Currently Watching: um......nothing. I just finished Riddick and hadn't gotten around to watching something else. I think I'm gonna re-watch Newsroom by Aaron Sorvino. I'm in the mood for feel good and quick witted.
Currently Reading: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfield, The Last Guardian by Eion Colfer, Harleen the comic book, Minion by L.A Banks and Revan. Im just......bouncing back and forth a lot.
Currently Craving: mental stimulation of a sort. I'm bored but on a mental plane. I wanna do something. Don't know what it is yet.
Tagging: @cattorneyatlaw @ace-feminist @breelandwalker @thevagaries @missmetal910 @catgirl9696 @elizabethpickett @sticksandstonesmaybreakmeblog @random-blog-i-cant-delete @gotmehookedonthekpop and anyone else who feels like it.
I speak English (fluently) and Spanish (well enough I'm living in Spain and all my classes are in Spanish and it's fine)!
The weird thing with studying abroad though is by the standards of other Erasmus students I'm weird. One of my friends here speaks four languages extremely well (Italian, English, German, and Spanish) and that's not even unusual it's wild.
I'm desperate to learn more though, at school I took one year where I had Spanish, french, Latin, and classical Greek and it was wonderful
(i’m counting languages where you took one class for a semester if you retained any of it congrats you are a little multilingual)
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current least favorite thing about my latest chronic illness flare up is how boring it is like I'm stuck lying down in bed and my brain won't let me do anything
like I was going okay I can't go into uni but I guess I can write my papers but nope not an option so then I was like well I can write fic but no also can't do that so then I was like okay let's watch the eras tour movie and I only got half way through that!!!
the point here is I'm bored and have most of the next chapter of my Tess lives story written but it's all disconnected scenes that I need to join up and I want it done and it's not :(
WHO LET TOMMY COOK 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Shadow and Bone season 1 but it’s just memes
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How to always get the best deals on everything.
an accurate representation of my tumblr dashboard
2020 was a shit show
dude the drizzle is gorgeous! I'm also so impressed with the piping!
Inspired by the latest chapter of Parallel Lines by @hypnotisedfireflies, and also @elpickett's cake, I made a honey cake today. It's delicious, and next time I make it I will find a way to cram even more honey into it. Also, I'm really proud of how it looks! My cake decorating can usually be described as 'functional' at best 😂
el, she / her welcome to my brain dumping ground, expect varying and frequent dumps of a large variety of fandoms, including some fics I'm working on and most likely plenty of cat photos
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