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"Why do horn player suck?"

You can't blow if you don't suck

How dare you whip out a nicer guitar than mine, insult it, and put it away. Give me your guitar, Adam, or I will cry.

I’m offensive and I find this horn player.

Came for the horn roasts.  Upset about the guitar roasts. 10/10

Why do horn players suck?
"Probably a lot of reasons" xD

One of the reasons horn players tend to play behind is because the notes literally take longer to sound than on a lot of other instruments, due to the mechanics and the actual time it takes the air to flow through and make a sound.

This is why conversely, guitarists tend to play AHEAD of the beat. It takes a very short amount of time for the pick to make the string sound. For these reasons you will find that each instrument has a tendency toward where it is placed on the beat. Having control over this small difference takes a lot of practice - or even to hear these small differences.

Other examples may be upright bass tending to be behind, where snare drum is vice-versa. Have fun with your metronomes!

objection!

The black desk gives illusion of your hands going outside of the frame, giving sort of depth perspective.

"How can anybody hear that and say "this is what I wanna do with my life""
I started guitar just to impress a girl and stayed for the dadrock, you're just not dumb enough, Adam.

Crying at my desk at the part where you talked about differently abled musicians. A bout of shingles ruined what could've been a long career of playing piano (I have ulnar nerve damage from how severe it was) and now pneumonia is almost robbing me of my once very enviable singing voice but you're right! There's so much available to me with digital audio engineering and I'm still very good at harmony. I don't want to give up, almost did, I've been watching you for a very long time and it gave me a lot of hope to keep going. Thank you

"Why do horn players have TERRIBLE rhythm"
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This thumbnail gave me copyist anxiety

Q: Why do horn players suck? A: They don't suck, they blow!

(I AM KIDDING)

Horn players—Brian has betrayed us. He fell prey to Adam's ignorant favoritism of bass over objectively more desirable instruments. Please forgive us. #hornplayers4ever

As a guitarist and horn player I would like to say, I’m very sorry.

"Sweet Gsus" would be an amazing name for an album.

Another reason: it takes noticeably longer to get a 4.5 or 12 foot long air column moving with your breath than it does to pluck a string or press a key or hit something with stick.

Horn players are never late, we play precisely when we want too. Everyone else is just ahead.

Also slightly confused: by horn did you mean instruments where you have to blow through it? Or did you mean the actual Horn as in French Horn?

"Smells like cotton candy, but tastes like pure sugar..." Cotton Candy is pure sugar.