The 'spicy fifth' strikes again

Explaining the tritone on piano today, a student lit up and said, ‘So it’s like a spicy fifth?’ - and now the whole brass section won’t stop asking for extra spice in rehearsal. What’s your funniest instrument-or-theory mix‑up that stuck?

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Had a percussionist who called the tritone the ‘nacho note’ — any time I wrote a b5 in the chart, he’d mime sprinkling cheese. I keep a tiny spice jar on the piano now and we ‘season’ the riff before the brass come in for extra spice in rehearsal.

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