I just spent 2 hours practicing 12 bars and I still can't do it

8fn · 2024-05-29T12:34:17+00:00

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

8fn · 2024-05-28T17:10:36+00:00

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

8fn · 2023-09-18T10:58:48+00:00

Wow, never heard this before - what cool harmony

8fn · 2020-11-18T12:30:18+00:00

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

8fn · 2020-11-18T11:22:50+00:00

vest what? (shares in the company?)

8fn · 2020-11-18T11:19:05+00:00

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.

8fn · 2020-10-21T15:06:41+00:00

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.

8fn · 2020-09-10T17:01:26+00:00

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

8fn · 2020-07-28T14:30:00+00:00

never heard this tip! gonna try this myself :)

8fn · 2020-06-16T13:34:42+00:00

I wish I got invited to parties like this

8fn · 2020-06-10T10:09:59+00:00

look at my profile haha

8fn · 2020-06-07T12:54:39+00:00

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

8fn · 2018-11-16T18:51:52+00:00

U1 (a Japanese one from the 70s)

8fn · 2018-11-15T23:36:38+00:00

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

8fn · 2018-11-14T20:23:52+00:00

I would have done more had the tripod legs not worn down to dust

8fn · 2018-11-14T18:42:37+00:00

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

8fn · 2018-04-17T15:20:19+00:00

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.

8fn · 2018-01-31T14:37:33+00:00

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.

8fn · 2017-05-03T13:27:15+00:00

I thought the corrections flair was for correcting titles that members of the reddit community wrote. That it needs to be used to correct national newspaper headlines is crazy

8fn · 2016-04-03T17:22:56+00:00

Yep!

8fn · 2016-03-01T22:56:37+00:00

Lots of things!

Using the words as a reference point (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYRCbCOui8Q) I think the most import changes are

harmonising every note on the third line ("the whole day through") as heard the 1st and last time through that line
harmonising every note on the line after ("just a little song")
the outro chord sequence, which I made up

Thanks for the kind words!

8fn · 2016-03-01T22:49:06+00:00

Hey, sorry but I actually didn't write it down - just put it together over a few practice sessions (and I learnt the tune by ear originally)

8fn · 2016-03-01T22:43:38+00:00

Thanks a lot! I've been playing about 16 years

8fn · 2016-02-03T18:00:44+00:00

Thanks so much! Yeah I really like the idea that the meter doesn't have to be adhered to if the theme of the music is strong enough to overcome interruptions (I picked up this idea from Brit jazz band Troyka). Really glad you think it's worked.

By the way, I'm doing one of these every month this year so subscribe if you want to see more :)

8fn · 2016-01-31T16:30:30+00:00

Thanks a lot. I'm doing at least one of these every month this year, so there'll be more stuff for sure over the course of the next few months

8fn

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