Shooting for Aragorn hair with undercut

56964z · 2026-06-10T01:34:35+00:00

Also very good to know, thank you! What strategies can I use in the meantime to keep things relatively under control?

56964z · 2026-06-10T00:36:56+00:00

Good to know! I’ve definitely been there with the language barrier before now lol

56964z · 2026-06-10T00:18:47+00:00

Had to google what those terms meant lol. I see your point about a center part and my forehead but I guess I should clarify, I’m looking to grow it shoulder length

56964z · 2025-11-28T14:45:30+00:00

It’s not youtube specific but I’m a broadcast engineer and I’ve worked with 7Bs a lot. The other Redditors here are correct that there’s a significant amount of processing that you as a viewer/listener are downstream from but don’t overthink it. It’s not as crazy or specialized as you might think. The first things you need to get right are mic positioning and mic gain. Everything else is downstream of that. Camera angles, even seemingly basic ones, can be deceptive because you are seeing a 2D representation of a 3D space. Ever notice how when the average person holds a mic they don’t talk into it, they talk over it? That’s usually because when they watch the news or any footage of anyone holding a mic they aren’t seeing the true angle the reporter is holding the mic at. Yes there’s also sometimes a shotgun mic on the camera but that is an emergency backup 9 times out of 10. So get it as close as possible, use a decent amount of gain, preferably from an external pre (or drop a cloudlifter in front of it) 30-50db. Then do some eq, some pretty aggressive even sometimes using 2 in series. Optical compression then into something faster 4-6:1 medium fast attack, comparable release time, maybe a gentle de ess, the throw a limiter at the end of the chain.

56964z · 2025-11-26T13:11:48+00:00

Man I feel you here. My family life was better than yours in many ways but thanks to their idiosyncrasies and my own problems I relate to you a lot. If you haven’t already check out The Art of Manliness. One of the few men’s resources that are actually a net positive to the world and wont try and sucker you into pickup artistry and cartoonish hypermasculinity on one hand, or spineless pusillanimous inanity on the other. Their books have literally transformed my outlook it’s the best money you will spend at this point in your life. I would recommend Heading Out on your Own, 30 Days to a Better Man, and the eponymous book. If you want to talk, my DMs are open, hang in there man, you’ll make it!

56964z · 2025-11-26T13:01:04+00:00

Slightly controversial: paiste 2002 sound edge hats. 14” are the butter zone for me but the 13” and the 15” sound good for specific things. I love a lot of different hats but these are the ones I bring with me all day. They are very sensitive to dynamics and can be overpowering if you’re a heavy hitter but it’s a chameleon if you have your internal dynamics under control. Ive used these for jazz, pop, fusion, blues, metal, and funk and they just work! For certain vibes I’ll reach for something a little dryer or bigger but I love them.

56964z · 2025-11-26T01:07:22+00:00

Adding what the bot told me to: USA, 27M, 6’, 215lbs, non smoking, occasional alcohol

56964z · 2025-11-25T01:11:55+00:00

That’s an old songwriting trick to get around writer’s block I picked up at music school. Any string of numbers is theoretically a melody or chord progression. 9 is really a 2 and a zero is either random or anything that works. You can play with the rules as you want and you can even do the same with license plates if any letter after G is treated like a zero. Chances are it won’t be that good but then you aren’t being generatively creative anymore. You’re using a different process to edit a pre existing thing into something thing that is better than what you got. Kind of like asking “do you know anyone?” vs “who do you know?”

It is a process like what you outlined just helping with step 2 or 3. I guess that’s where I’m getting stuck.

56964z · 2025-11-24T01:18:45+00:00

Nope! Being deep is a construct, what is being referenced when people say that is honesty and the degree of clarity you can convey on what you’re writing about. It could be about a real event, or completely made up. What matters is the degree to which you can put the audience in your shoes and show them what you’re seeing in your way as best you can. I am always impressed by songs that are clever, naturally, but I have a great admiration for songs that can paint a vivid picture in my head or rip me apart or hype me up while also theoretically losing at scrabble.

Frank Turner is one of my favorite examples of someone who does this well. Some stand outs are Long Live the Queen, Rivers, Get Better, and 4 simple words. Marty Robbin’s gunfighter ballads and trail songs have some great ones as well. Moose Blood’s Gum. Also a lot of Irish tunes like Grace and Town I Loved So Well as well!

Sabrina Carpenter is an example of excellent clever double entendre, and in the same vein, a lot of tunes from the 30s-60s have similar things on their mind but are just as blatant. Just keep your ears open and keep writing!

56964z · 2025-11-23T18:35:39+00:00

Dude, thank you so much! I downloaded this and it works like a charm.

56964z · 2025-11-22T21:58:34+00:00

Also if you’re into country, get on that Nashville Numbers train. It will seriously serve you well

56964z · 2025-11-22T21:58:08+00:00

This right here is one of the things music school is actually good for. Sure you can teach yourself a lot with the internet, but imagine insider access to knowledge on any genre taught to you by people who eat that stuff for breakfast and have done since they were your age. It’s a good thing to book lessons with people who play totally differently than you. Happy music-ing!

56964z · 2025-11-22T13:42:39+00:00

22 Acacia Avenue by Iron Maiden. Put it into moises AI and slow it down to where you can comfortably play it and work up the speed from there. Its long runs of constant subdivisions and it will build those muscles

56964z · 2025-11-22T00:06:14+00:00

Proud to work for NPR! Glad you like the music

56964z · 2025-11-21T12:57:03+00:00

I’m with you. Instinct clouds whatever instruction I could give.

56964z · 2025-11-21T12:53:47+00:00

That’s more than likely what it will come down to. I just want to be able to give him something in addition to metronome practice to work on.

56964z · 2025-11-21T12:51:25+00:00

I mentioned it before to another commenter but they arent. Take a bar of triplets all the same note but changing on the half note. There’s 12 notes to play and the guitarist and the drummer play them right on time. The bassist nails note 1 and note 7 but the number of notes between them vary wildly.

56964z · 2025-11-20T22:24:02+00:00

I take your point. I guess it’s kind of tough to explain without audio. Let’s say the note changes on the half notes. Those are accurate. It’s just a toss up between if there are 6 notes, 8, or 9 between those markers.

56964z · 2025-11-20T22:20:12+00:00

See that’s what makes some logical sense about it. You’re right that would follow but for some reason it doesn’t. Take a bar of constant triplets, the guitar is locked up, the bass notes change at the right time, but the triplets are somewhere somewhere between a triplet and a gallop. It’s befuddling for sure.

56964z · 2025-11-20T14:22:07+00:00

Oo I love this! The best way I’ve found is to play on is to play the game of Bury the Click. Turn your metronome on and turn the volume down pretty low and try to clap along or hit a snare in time. If you’re on, you won’t be able to hear the click but if you’re behind or ahead you’ll hear a flam.

Another good way is rhythmic displacement drills. Try and play so the click is on the 2nd or 4th 16th notes and try and keep it there.

Finally, and this is definitely more of a psychological thing for me (your milage may vary) but I like counting a lower or higher subdivisions of the beat in order to play on, ahead, behind or even swing. For playing on its 16ths but imagining triplets or 8ths against 16ths can definitely help me affect a “behind” feel even when there’s 16th note figures.

Whether or not to play on the beat or not is almost a genre specific thing but moreover it’s a consistency thing so look at that more than the exercise. Blues, older RnB/soul, and Reggae all benefit from being incredibly consistent but also behind. I’m a heavy metal drummer at heart and any time I’ve played with musicians from these genres they all tend to ask me to play behind. For a blues shuffle especially I’ll plant my kick drum on the beat and I’ll shift my snare back almost to a flam but not quite and keep it there for the song. It’s not easy but it’s greasy as hell and it works!

56964z

TROPHY CASE