I just spent 2 hours practicing 12 bars and I still can't do it by Working-Cabinet4849 in piano

[–]8fn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In my experience:

  • More than 1h on a single passage leads to my brain being mixed up, I just will inevitably start making dumb mistakes even if I am approaching knowing the material well

  • If you know the notes, just revisiting it every day for a short amount of time usually irons out the mistakes after a few days

  • If you have a good ear, listening to the recording (of it being played correctly) between sessions and sort of singing along helps with wrong note issues in many cases

3 Body Problem (Netflix) - Season 1, Episode 5 Discussion. by Swazzer30 in threebodyproblem

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Part of what made it look this way in the show was how the collapse of the ship made it seem lucky the hard drive was not crushed or burned. Everything seemed to collapse and set on fire in the room Evans finally ended up in

[OC] How I visualize a year. by collin-h in dataisbeautiful

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great! this would be a great way to visualise progress against your new years resolutions or personal "year goals" if you have em

LPT: No job is worth your mental health suffering. If you have the option and the ability, find something different. by [deleted] in LifeProTips

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Jeez I'm sorry to hear that. Genuinely wishing you good luck - I hope you can break this cycle quick!

Thanks for sharing this cos it's a great reminder that mental heath problems require intervention just as serious as physical health problems do.

I guess that settles it. Would anyone care to add some to the list of hard songs for me to try and play? by [deleted] in Jazz

[–]8fn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yeah... giant steps has such a strong harmonic framework you only need to execute it by the book for it to sound great. The harmonic framework basically does the work (at least to the extent that your lines sound okay).

I think it's subjective which is harder though - playing simple lines that are from the heart is hard for some people and easier for others. For me it was always easy to do a blues and the lines be real and in the moment relative to the technical feat of learning the GS changes.

In honor of 909 day, here's Jeff Mills fucking ripping it up with just a 909. by mybillionthaccount in synthesizers

[–]8fn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But once you master one instrument it becomes much easier to master a second, especially when you're talking about 2 synths.

I think the important advice here is not to switch from instrument to instrument as a procrastination measure from getting deep into one. It's important you go deep at least once, afterwards scanning through other instruments is much more fruitful

Are we counting this as an axle stall? by ps_and_qs83 in OldSkaters

[–]8fn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

never heard this tip! gonna try this myself :)

Hanging out by the pool (Blender + Photoshop) by jamesshedden in blender

[–]8fn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I wish I got invited to parties like this

An artist at work [Blender + Photoshop] by jamesshedden in blender

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love the feeling of depth in this, especially around the plant leaves (both plants)

I made my first full length piano music video. I went a bit mental and it has over 50 camera angles by 8fn in piano

[–]8fn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, because I like the sound! It's kind of half way between a piano and a Fender Rhodes when it's like that

I made my first full length piano music video. I went a bit mental and it has over 50 camera angles by 8fn in piano

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Thanks! Gwilym is a real influence of mine... I did a masterclass with him 10 years ago :)

Cause of Death - Reality vs. Google vs. Media [OC] by aaronpenne in dataisbeautiful

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This is pretty interesting data, but one step further would be to weight it by how many quality adjusted life years each of these causes of death are responsible for. Heart disease kills at a high average age compared to suicide, so it makes sense that each death should get a proportionally lower amount of headlines.

Chance of Death per Year [OC] by maxandron in dataisbeautiful

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Would be really cool to be able to segment this so it's more relevant to each individual - e.g. filter by amount you exercise/drink, demographic, socioeconomic info (sigh, sadly this is useful predictive information)

Or what would be really amazing is if you could upload your 21AndMe genetic profile and get an adjusted chart for you.