Just had an Uncle Rico moment.
Mar. 6th, 2026 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alicevangelineYou know how in Napoleon Dynamite and elsewhere there's a trope that "if coach would have just put me in..."?
I was thinking about this crazy trumpet solo I had senior year. It was awesome in my head, but does NOT sound great on the recording (which someone uploaded a while ago). Probably a blend of tuning and bad mikes.
Anyway, I finally remembered it was called Boy Meets Horn - looked it up - and realized we played it like, DOUBLE SPEED compared to Duke.
I found myself mumbling "if we'd have played it at THAT tempo, I wouldn't have missed notes!"
(Actually that may not be true, and also, now I have the double time stuck in my head so that's my standard for it and I kind of like it better).
I was thinking about this crazy trumpet solo I had senior year. It was awesome in my head, but does NOT sound great on the recording (which someone uploaded a while ago). Probably a blend of tuning and bad mikes.
Anyway, I finally remembered it was called Boy Meets Horn - looked it up - and realized we played it like, DOUBLE SPEED compared to Duke.
I found myself mumbling "if we'd have played it at THAT tempo, I wouldn't have missed notes!"
(Actually that may not be true, and also, now I have the double time stuck in my head so that's my standard for it and I kind of like it better).