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Originally Posted by wiseone2 How often have we heard that? How do you deal with the distance factor in performance?
Or.......... another title could be" Where"s the beat" 
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I couldn't hold a match to you or some of the other participants on this forum, but nonetheless I've been downright p!ssed off by directors overusing this comment. My high school director, during a rehearsal in which we were practicing Pomp & Circumc.... [mind my off-color humor, I have plenty of it], blurted out, "TRUMPETS, NO CLUE!!!" during the A section, despite the fact that I couldn't have had a better clue how to play it. That was my sophmore year.
My senior year, I was lead trumpet on a chop brutality show, and one time I was unsure of whether to play or not, and I merely played the part to myself at an incredibly soft dynamic. The director heard it, and yelled from the stands, "MIKE! I'm not sure if you did that on purpose, but that's how soft I want the part!"
That said, I loved my director, but sometimes I had to question his sanity.
