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So, in the last month or two of rehearsals with the youth orchestra, some of the other members of the orchestra may or may not have noticed certain members of the stage-left brass making odd drinking motions in semi-unison. I don't remember ever getting odd looks from the other sections, so we seem to have gone unnoticed. But, I have permission from the creator of this idea (in the trombones) to release a slightly edited and anonymized version (that's a word now because I said so). All the criteria were her idea, all I did was take out player-specific drinks, and distinguish between sips and shots (it was all the same in the original version).
This is... the Orchestra Rehearsal Drinking Game!
This game is tailored for the stage left brass (trumpets, bones, tuba), so edits must be made for the other sections if you want to play along. My comments are in italics.
+ Take a shot every time you count through a long rest, inhale to play a line, and are cut off by the conductor.
+ If you play beyond a cutoff, one sip per bar.
If it's been a slow rehearsal, you can do one sip per bar of the last person in the orchestra to stop
+ Take a shot if the conductor asks to hear winds and brass, but the only ones playing at that section are winds and horns.
+ Take a sip if offbeats end up slipping to the onbeat behind them
+ Take a shot if offbeats push to the onbeat in front of them
+ If your conductor has a favourite word for rehearsal marks, take a sip for each time you hear it.
Let's take it at M for Mozart. Wait... no, N for Nielsen.
+ Of course, take a sip every time you're told brass is too loud
+ Got someone famous for being super loud? Like, a lead trumpet or bone with an enormous ego and volume? Finish your drink if they're told to play louder.
Inspired by our principal tuba, who can... well... PLAY the TUBA.
+ One sip per late string/woodwind player to the rehearsal. A shot for a late brasser/percussionist... HOW DARE THEY.
+ Take a shot for a violin line that goes so high, it becomes less of a pitch and more of a creak.
+ Take a shot if someone is audibly eating during rehearsal.
+ Anyone who has technical issues, like sticking valves, has to take a sip
Inspired by a trombonist who was missing their water key... like actually, the hole is there, but the key is not, so he has a cloth perpetually tied around it.
+ Take a sip every time three or more horns look at the rest of the brass section funny.
+ Finish your drink if the room goes silent.
HAH. Good luck.
+ If you've got a potty-mouth in the group, sip per swear word.
Looking at you, lead trombone.
+ Take a sip per string player doodling while instructions are being given.
I wonder if they think they're too quiet to be noticed?
+ And finally, one sip per second before anyone can answer the world-famous question: who has the melody right now?
N for Nielsen :)
ReplyDeleteThis is marvelous, but what about doing a waterfall every time the viola section has the melody?
Maybe a better one is "put your finger up to your nose if you actually hear a melody line from the viola section. Last person to do so takes two shots."
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