way better than dave matthews
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Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it”
Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.
To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.
On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.
Try singing pppp. Yeah.
There’s a pedal on most pianos called the soft pedal. Every student I’ve had, when learning what the pedal does, has tried to use it to get soft notes instead of just touching the keys more softly. I eventually had to start telling them, “You only use the soft pedal if you see ppp on your music.”
I guess I’ll have to amend that lol. (although I’ve never seen pppp before either, and the music up there looks to be for drum?)
Percussionist here and pppp basically means you ghost the instrument with your mallet (that is what theyre using here it seems)
in a good acoustic space the effect can be ~*~magical~*~ but in a bad acoustic space its basically like not playing
with string instruments you really just dont play like wow p is already playing as soft as you can.
