"I feel like I do something embarassing every time I perform. I have played something incorrectly, gotten lost while playing and missed an important entrance, dropped a mute when it was really quiet, been out of tune, broke a guitar string on my bass, played a really ugly improv solo on a jazz concert. The first mistake felt awful, but not many people really notice when you make a mistake, and its always an accident so I try to forgive myself and I strive to do better next time! You drop a mute once, and you are not likely to let it happen again." -Brooklynne Audette "I once played a solo during a big band concert where I wasn't supposed to. No one said anything." -David McCarthy "Absolutely yes I frequently have embarrasing moments while performing (although I am sure often I am the only one who notices). One time I wasplaying timpani (big loud orchestra drums) and other percussion for a church gig on Christmas eve. I needed to play the triangle (a metal "ding" instrument) immediately after a loud timpani roll, so I had my triangle and proper mallet tucked under my arm, while my timpani mallets were in my hands. Before the music began, there was dead silence, and the triangle and mallet fell out from under my arm, landed LOUDLY on the timpani, before crashing LOUDLY on the tile church floor. The echoes of my blunder in the big boomy space, as hundreds of Christmas eve church goers still fills me with embarassment when I think about it. " -Zack Baltich
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