The Story of Creation

[EuphTubaBassBone]

The Story of Creation


In The Beginning... the Gods created the Sun, the Moon, the Heavens - and the high brass and woodwinds. The brass and the woodwinds made their music, but the Gods found it to be lacking strength, lacking a low voice - so They created the low brass consisting of trombones and euphoniums and saw that it was good.

So again, the instruments made their music with their new additions. But the Gods found the instruments to be lacking rhythm. So They created a new section - a section to lead the instruments with a definite tempo. Thus, They created percussion. But the Gods made the drums of this percussion section too powerful. They were so powerful that they frightened all of the other instruments and caused them to flee in terror. So the drums continued to play their great revelry, until one day the thunderous rhythms stopped. When the Gods asked the drums why they had stopped playing, they replied in a saddened beat: "I am alone."

Realizing more was needed to be done, the Gods set to work creating a new companion for the drums, and in this creation They corrected the flaws that were so obvious in the previous instruments. They forged the heart of Their new creation with loud, thunderous bass and made it large with brass. They listened to its powerful, thundering bass and saw its imposing form, and saw that it was good. They proclaimed that Their greatest creation be known as the TUBA.

So as the tuba approached the drums, the drums began to pound out its rhythms more ferociously than ever before, expecting the tuba to turn and flee in terror, much like the other instruments had before. But instead, the tuba began to roar with such barbaric ferocity that the drums stopped playing while listening in awe and cowering with fear. As the tuba played away, the drums began playing again with a rhythm of greatness the likes of which have never been heard before, but with a profound respect for its new companion. Together, the tuba and the drums played rhythms and melodies full of terror and destroyed the Gods which had created them. From that day forward the tuba and drums ruled on high as the new Gods of the instrumental universe, just as They do today.

[tubatooter1940]

I believe Bloke made the point in another post that once you bring a drummer into your ensemble, forget pianissimo - maybe even mezzo-forte. His volume dictates the minimum dynamic the group will ever play.
My grandson has a full, traditional drum kit. I bought him a single djembe drum for now and will purchase an electronic drum kit with unlimited volume control if and when he learns all the drum rudiments.
The Slingerland drum set will never leave my music room.

[bearphonium]

My household, consisting of sousaphone and snare drum for the OMT marching band, likes this fable.

[fenne1ca]

The fatal flaw in this fable.

High-five for alliteration!