I’ve been playing the instrument for 35 years, but never with so many baboons and fart noises.
One of the games strangest elements is not the dad-level humor, or the references to hot dogs or baboons, but the decision to include collectable “cards” featuring real trombone players and composers. After a successful rendition of “William Tell” one can trade in points for a card featuring Gustav Mahler, Tommy Dorsey, or Bill Watrous. Even my heroes Roswell Rudd, J.J. Johnson, and Jack Teagarden make an appearance, with little biographies that are half real and half nonsense.
Nevertheless, if you put aside the elementary school-level jokes, the “choose your fighter” fidgeting of the avatar, and the constant fart noises, there are simple pleasures to be found in. While trying to center the pitch of a note in a flatulent “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” your trained musician lizard brain takes over, the hard-earned connection of ear to muscle. Suddenly you are transported to a Saturday afternoon in 1992, at a rehearsal with the San Francisco Youth Orchestra.
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