15 memes you’ll only understand if you’re in the hell of practising your instrument

28 June 2018, 17:10 | Updated: 28 June 2018, 17:23

Sure, practising your instrument makes you a better musician – but it's also an extremely hellish experience.

1. The worst thing that could happen to a budding musician

finally playing and this happens meme

 

2. Nope, absolutely not

Sheet music key signature

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3. When you'll literally find any excuse to avoid practising…

don't want to play the notes

 

4. When half your life is spent sellotaping downloaded bits of sheet music together

page turner meme

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5. Trying desperately to achieve a balanced lifestyle 

social life practice meme

 

6. When E strings are your ultimate enemy

e string meme

 

7. Or is that key signatures?

this is how I die meme

 

8. Or maybe even needlessly awful time signatures

difficult times meme

 

9. When it's the night before your recital, you still can't play the cadenza and everything feels sad

Practise without crying meme

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10. And your Grammy seems to have got lost in the post

practice memes

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11. When you can legitimately get away with sleeping for half the rehearsal

practice memes

 

12. Those are the best kinds of rehearsals

practice memes

 

13. Alien hands > normal human hands

Finger six meme

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14. STOP TOUCHING IT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND

practice memes

 

15. 28 times, and counting. 

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