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OK, in the spirit of good fun, here's a TRUE life story from the trenches in LA. For the OP - if you don't "get it" (the joke I mean) time to go back to school.
Rock artist "composer" gets hired to do a film score. (You all know this score, and most are probably familiar with the composers "record" work.) Brilliant at what he does, but has no technical or orchestral music training at all. He's on the stand, "conducting". Cue goes down and there's a trainwreck. Appears to be a bad note for the F. Hns. So, the principal horn player raises his hand and asks what their note should be. Composer analyses score and answers - "G". Pretty sure that "G" is the wrong answer, the horn player asks again "Is that a CONCERT G?". Composer : "I don't understand the question". Horn player : "Is that a CONCERT G". Composer answers back : (This is for real, no joke) "No, this isn't for a concert, it's a recording session". Orchestra tries to not fall completely on the floor in laughter. Composer looses all face with the orchestra..... Joke circulates around LA film music circles faster than a wildfire in LA during fire season.
Like the previous poster said, if you don't know what a viola is, it's time to study some more before approaching a pencil or keyboard - or God forbid - a real orchestra.....
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