My younger brother, Matthew, forwarded this YouTube link to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
It's really entertaining for those who consider themselves musically-minded. This guy's commentary is dead on. And his thoughts about the cello are my thoughts about playing trombone and about singing bass, for that matter.
In Pachelbel's Canon in D, the cellos have the same eight quarter notes over and over again. Same story for us trombones in the ever-popular graduation song Pomp and Circumstance. We have the same repeated quarter notes throughout the whole piece, and if you've ever played at a graduation, it's about 20 minutes of continuous Pomp ("pomp, pomp, pomp, pomp"). It's a shame that the woodwinds and strings get to play all the pretty Circumstance. Someday, we'll have our moment!
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