You Know You're A String Player When...
1. You're disgusted at the way band people spit, blow, and heave into their instruments, and then share them.
2. You laugh at how easily you can chew gum while playing.
3. You find yourself humming Vivaldi's Four Seasons in class and getting weird looks.
4. The phrase "USE MORE BOW!!!" is one you will NEVER stop hearing.
5. You have conversations about G-Strings in front of random people and laugh at their confused looks.
6. You buy light colored shirts to avoid rosin stains.
7. You get together with your friends and in the midst of deciding what to do, you find yourselves playing chamber music.
8. You don't go out on weekends because you have an audition or rehearsal the next day.
9. You buy things like cookie cutters and pasta in the shape of musical notes and instruments.
10. You know every viola joke by heart .
11.When you think about it, you really don’t think the viola jokes are that funny because you know that they are all so TRUE.
12. You've named your instrument.
13. You follow along in the score when you listen to classical music.
14. It’s your own score.
15. You ask for bows/rosin/mutes for Christmas...and then cry when you don't get them.
16. You have a conniption when people clap between movements.
17. You know what a hemidemisemiquaver is.
18. You're walking down a sidewalk, you try to take "triplet" steps within the "duplet" cement squares, just to practice rhythm.
19. When cleaning, you find cello strings in odd places and wonder how they got there...
20. You have christmas music stuck in your head before thanksgiving cause you're already rehearsing it.
21. You do the fingerings to a song during class and get sent to the nurse.
22. You do vibrato and get asked why your hand is twitching.
23. You know the correct way to pronounce Jargar, Wagner,Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, and Dvorak
24. You think harps are easy to play...untill you actually try to play one.
25. You know it IS possible for you to be in orchestra and jazz band, though not recommended.
26. Everyone around you is talking about the latest movie, game, etc. but all you can talk about it how you have 5+ auditions/rehearsals this week, and the songs played in each.
27. During movies that have string-players in them, you totally point out how their bowing/fingering/position is off.
28. You have debates with your friends about what strings are better.
29. It's possible to lose friends over these debates.
30. Your teacher is more like your friend.
31. If you hear the Bartok Viola Concerto or Bach's Cello Suite you immediately start humming along.
32. When you hear you're going to the local music store, you are more excited than when you go the the mall.
33. You've had to correct someone when they pronounce viola (vee-OH-la) as vie-oh-LA. Or cello (chello) as sello or cellist as celloist. Or bass (base) as bass, like the fish.
34. You've had to explain to someone what the difference between a viola and a violin is.
35. You've had to assure someone that there is something called a viola, and that's it's not a typo.
36. Explaining what a shoulder bar/chin rest/bridge/peg/finetuner is takes a good 45 minutes.
37. You have multiple holes in your floor.
38. When someone tells you they have Red Label strings, you walk away without another word.
39. If someone has a Stradivarius violin, their status increases to superstar.
40. You just HAVE to laugh at band people.
41. You play Guitar Hero/Rock Band and automatically vibrate your left hand.
42. You literally have a metronome inside your head.
43. It's pretty much a sin not to have perfect pitch.
44. People see your violin/viola case and ask if there's a trombone or trumpet in there.
45. You've opened your case on the bus multiple times.
46. You've played your instrument on the bus multiple times.
47. You've gotten caught by the bus driver.
48. You put off 3-octave scales as long as you can.
49. You have muscular fingers.
50. You agree with this: CRACK THE ROSIN AND YOU ARE DEAD.
51. You shudder and freak out when someone breaks their instrument because you imagine it happening to your own.
52. 7 people break a string and you have enough extras in your case for all of them.
53. You consider 4 extra strings "low in stock".
54. You realize how fun gigging is.
55. You know you're a string player when your brother---a cellist---plays one of the pieces in the Suite, you hum it when he's NOT practicing, and he has a fit because you are humming HIS music!
56.A complete stranger in one of your classes asks what you're favorite song is, and just to show off you say "It's a tie between Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite for Orchestra, No. 1, Movement Three, Danza de Anitra, and Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu In C Sharp Minor. How about you?"
57. You become uneasy when someone you like asks you what you're favorite song is, and you don't know what to say, because you don't want to look like a complete freak.
58. You join you're school's forensic team and choose Demostration, and are demonstrating the difference between the violin, viola and cello, and show how to play them all, then end up playing you're main instrument just to show off.
59. You go to the bathroom to whistle Dovorak's New World Symphony because the acoustics are amazing in there
60. You finger your parts to orchestra songs on your desk in math, biology, history, english, and any other class
61. You listen for the orchestra in the background of pop songs
62. You are a freak about anyone touching your cello
63. You pretty much cry when you find a chip in your instrument
64. You've been completely bored because you had a crappy part to a song in orchestra so you sleep on your cello
65. You cringe at the thought of playing Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, but then when you are done performing it, you miss it to death
66. You sing the cancan part of Orpheus in the Underworld with one of your best friends in the hallway before, durring, and after school and look like a complete idiot
67. You spend your weekends attending symphony orchestra concerts and actually enjoy it
68. You want to slap the next shmuck who ask's why your 'guitar' case is abnormally large.
69. You say things like, "What tie goes with this rosin stain?"
70. You get seriously annoyed at the shoprite commercials during their cancan sales and feel bad for the composer of Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) who must be rolling over in his grave.
2. You laugh at how easily you can chew gum while playing.
3. You find yourself humming Vivaldi's Four Seasons in class and getting weird looks.
4. The phrase "USE MORE BOW!!!" is one you will NEVER stop hearing.
5. You have conversations about G-Strings in front of random people and laugh at their confused looks.
6. You buy light colored shirts to avoid rosin stains.
7. You get together with your friends and in the midst of deciding what to do, you find yourselves playing chamber music.
8. You don't go out on weekends because you have an audition or rehearsal the next day.
9. You buy things like cookie cutters and pasta in the shape of musical notes and instruments.
10. You know every viola joke by heart .
11.When you think about it, you really don’t think the viola jokes are that funny because you know that they are all so TRUE.
12. You've named your instrument.
13. You follow along in the score when you listen to classical music.
14. It’s your own score.
15. You ask for bows/rosin/mutes for Christmas...and then cry when you don't get them.
16. You have a conniption when people clap between movements.
17. You know what a hemidemisemiquaver is.
18. You're walking down a sidewalk, you try to take "triplet" steps within the "duplet" cement squares, just to practice rhythm.
19. When cleaning, you find cello strings in odd places and wonder how they got there...
20. You have christmas music stuck in your head before thanksgiving cause you're already rehearsing it.
21. You do the fingerings to a song during class and get sent to the nurse.
22. You do vibrato and get asked why your hand is twitching.
23. You know the correct way to pronounce Jargar, Wagner,Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, and Dvorak
24. You think harps are easy to play...untill you actually try to play one.
25. You know it IS possible for you to be in orchestra and jazz band, though not recommended.
26. Everyone around you is talking about the latest movie, game, etc. but all you can talk about it how you have 5+ auditions/rehearsals this week, and the songs played in each.
27. During movies that have string-players in them, you totally point out how their bowing/fingering/position is off.
28. You have debates with your friends about what strings are better.
29. It's possible to lose friends over these debates.
30. Your teacher is more like your friend.
31. If you hear the Bartok Viola Concerto or Bach's Cello Suite you immediately start humming along.
32. When you hear you're going to the local music store, you are more excited than when you go the the mall.
33. You've had to correct someone when they pronounce viola (vee-OH-la) as vie-oh-LA. Or cello (chello) as sello or cellist as celloist. Or bass (base) as bass, like the fish.
34. You've had to explain to someone what the difference between a viola and a violin is.
35. You've had to assure someone that there is something called a viola, and that's it's not a typo.
36. Explaining what a shoulder bar/chin rest/bridge/peg/finetuner is takes a good 45 minutes.
37. You have multiple holes in your floor.
38. When someone tells you they have Red Label strings, you walk away without another word.
39. If someone has a Stradivarius violin, their status increases to superstar.
40. You just HAVE to laugh at band people.
41. You play Guitar Hero/Rock Band and automatically vibrate your left hand.
42. You literally have a metronome inside your head.
43. It's pretty much a sin not to have perfect pitch.
44. People see your violin/viola case and ask if there's a trombone or trumpet in there.
45. You've opened your case on the bus multiple times.
46. You've played your instrument on the bus multiple times.
47. You've gotten caught by the bus driver.
48. You put off 3-octave scales as long as you can.
49. You have muscular fingers.
50. You agree with this: CRACK THE ROSIN AND YOU ARE DEAD.
51. You shudder and freak out when someone breaks their instrument because you imagine it happening to your own.
52. 7 people break a string and you have enough extras in your case for all of them.
53. You consider 4 extra strings "low in stock".
54. You realize how fun gigging is.
55. You know you're a string player when your brother---a cellist---plays one of the pieces in the Suite, you hum it when he's NOT practicing, and he has a fit because you are humming HIS music!
56.A complete stranger in one of your classes asks what you're favorite song is, and just to show off you say "It's a tie between Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite for Orchestra, No. 1, Movement Three, Danza de Anitra, and Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu In C Sharp Minor. How about you?"
57. You become uneasy when someone you like asks you what you're favorite song is, and you don't know what to say, because you don't want to look like a complete freak.
58. You join you're school's forensic team and choose Demostration, and are demonstrating the difference between the violin, viola and cello, and show how to play them all, then end up playing you're main instrument just to show off.
59. You go to the bathroom to whistle Dovorak's New World Symphony because the acoustics are amazing in there
60. You finger your parts to orchestra songs on your desk in math, biology, history, english, and any other class
61. You listen for the orchestra in the background of pop songs
62. You are a freak about anyone touching your cello
63. You pretty much cry when you find a chip in your instrument
64. You've been completely bored because you had a crappy part to a song in orchestra so you sleep on your cello
65. You cringe at the thought of playing Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, but then when you are done performing it, you miss it to death
66. You sing the cancan part of Orpheus in the Underworld with one of your best friends in the hallway before, durring, and after school and look like a complete idiot
67. You spend your weekends attending symphony orchestra concerts and actually enjoy it
68. You want to slap the next shmuck who ask's why your 'guitar' case is abnormally large.
69. You say things like, "What tie goes with this rosin stain?"
70. You get seriously annoyed at the shoprite commercials during their cancan sales and feel bad for the composer of Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) who must be rolling over in his grave.