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Practice hard. Be kind. Think happy. ☀️🍍 She/Her || Professional Musician and Tummy Ache Survivor based in Pittsburgh, PA || FFXIV: @astjrafyth

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

SO I arranged Answers from #ffxiv for brass band.
A dream of mine!
Here’s a snippet of us working on it last night!
Endwalker friends will recognize the quicker theme.

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

Imagine telling a professional musician that they don’t know what instrument they are playing and actually it’s something different

☝️🤡 “that’s not a euphonium” no shit sherlock, did I say it was?

I play both baritone and euphonium professionally I think I know the difference

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

Also I get married in less than 2 weeks!! HOLY MOLY!!

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

I've made some HUGE strides this year with mental and physical health and it has SHOWN.

I am very proud of myself, and excited for the future.

Yippee!

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

I’m heading to FanFest this weekend and while packing all my FFXIV merch I go “Wow….I’m really into this game huh?”
Brother I forgot I literally have Midgarsormr tattooed on me.

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

Dudebros on facebook mansplaining what a baritone is to me.

Sir, that’s me in the video. I’m playing the horn you’re arguing with me about. I’m being gaslit about baritone horns actually being tenor horns???

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

holding in a fart for leg press makes it also a core workout

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

@NickSotS My undergrad was like that too. I got my bachelors in music ed! And I appreciated it greatly! But yeah....don't get me started on music degrees I have MANY thoughts

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

If you want to be successful, music has to be an obsession. It really does.
"What's the point of being a musician if you dread picking up the horn, if you feel nothing when you perform?"
If you are OBSESSED with music those things simply WILL NOT happen.

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

@NickSotS Oh you are so right! So many people just want to be band directors and don't understand HOW MUCH ELSE goes into the gig!
I love teaching, but I can't have that be my entire career!!

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

If you find yourself feeling those negative feelings (and they're not caused by outside stressors like major health issues) I would genuinely suggest looking into another CAREER. Keep playing. Find something else to make money with. Or you will grow to resent it and yourself.

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

I have never once dreaded playing. I have never once not wanted to practice (once I figured out HOW to practice)
I have never once hated playing the horn. I have never once felt nothing while performing or playing at all for that matter.
I am OBSESSED. I LOVE music. MAKING music.

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

Hiya! I am going to MAGFest!!

If anyone needs a trombone player for anything at all lemme know!! I'll have my horn and I am dying to play with any and all of you. <3

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

Creativity comes in many forms. All of it lets you express yourself as an artist. Get to creating!

#music #creativity #positivity

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

i pulled a muscle playing trombone too hard.
i didnt know this was possible.

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

Im going to Fanfest!!! Aahh!!!!!

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

Musicians with evening gigs

[Pokemonshell @Pokemonshell]

Heckin windy here🤣

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

turns out i’m a pokemon cosplayer

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

your cities and culture will suffer if the artists and people who create the culture aren’t living there and aren’t being paid enough to even survive

[Goof @GoofyEuph]

People demand culture in their cities; breweries, live music, art, vendors, small festivals. They deserve the culture. But the people supplying that culture (musicians, artists, service workers) need to be paid enough to live comfortably

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No one wants to drive 2 hours one way to make $100 for one gig