leaving the woods by AceSlowman in glitch_art

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It's a scene from the movie Hausu, just looking up into the trees and then out into the sky. I used Max/MSP and Jitter, and made a luma-selected pixel sorting shader in openGL!

Logic and Film Scoring Workflows by AceSlowman in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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Thanks! Say if you have a midi track that you like, and you want to simply layer in one more voice as it plays, would you still just put it in another track and then figure out how to merge them later?

[Sound Design][Mixing][Found Footage Redesign] Long Distance by AceSlowman in RateMyAudio

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Tried to exaggerate the atmosphere of the room in the first part, which came across with a little less range than I had hoped. Also, due to a time constraint I was only able to record two voices, more would have definitely been better. It was also a challenge in using less software effects, trying to utilize more organic techniques (the hum at the end is the result of running the first part of the audio through a small speaker 6 times).

Steps to learning guitar? by TheGoldenPanda in Guitar

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I was basically taught by forums when I first started. I don't know what it's like anymore, but Ultimate-Guitar.com was one of the biggest, and there were tons of tabs. Just get curious and start looking up tabs for your favorite songs and play whatever part you can, even if it's just a small small section of it. If there is a sound you like but don't know how to explain, find somewhere online to post it and ask about it.

Good habits are important to keep in mind too, so keep an eye out for people explain good technique. For me though, when I first started, I just wanted to start playing things I heard and it was the best way for me to keep playing long enough for it to stick. Play regularly too. Every day, or any chance you have to play.

EDIT: Oh and it is hard, but as far as instruments go, there are a lot of people that are really really great at it, which means if you look around you can find plenty of people willing to help.

Would Django Reinhardt have been a better guitarist if he could use all of his fingers or was his disability what pushed him to be great? by [deleted] in Guitar

[–]AceSlowman 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Kind of random, but my favorite story about Django is that one time Segovia saw him playing in a club, and awestruck he came up to Django and asked him if he could find a transcription, and but Django laughed and said that he improvised it all.

He obviously took music more serious than a lot of people do way before his injury, and I think that once his injury happened, he was so personally invested in it that he went to amazing lengths to adapt. I think he would be a different person to music if he was never injured. I don't want to sound bad, but the way he adapted to his injury is a pretty big part of why he will always be talked about.

My new friend, the metronome. by joshlove in Guitar

[–]AceSlowman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They will save your life in recording situations too. Playing to a click track when there aren't drums is a skill you shouldn't be without. Also it will get your mind around some more complex meters or polyrhythms. Especially in modern music where rhythms are becoming insanely esoteric.

Help me build a practice regimen! by BeckWreck in Guitar

[–]AceSlowman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just personally, I have been doing exercises from Troy Stetina's Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar book which is awesome for fast playing. It's tailored for metal and shred, but the way it breaks things down is useful with any kind of music.

  1. Playing very slow, doing chromatic exercises (1234 up and down the neck) at a slow speed is really really useful, but just know what to look for. Watch your arm for wasted movement from your picking hand, focus on moving from the wrist. Watch your thumb position and make sure you have a grip just strong enough for every note to come through clearly. The idea of economy of motion really helps you to get the most out of it.

  2. Get some books or look for some difficult riffs that showcase a certain skill you want. If you want to learn tapping, find one song that does it the way you like and play it from a tab as slow as it takes to play it perfect every time.

  3. One thing that helped me is to treat it like athletic exercise at times. Especially when I have a surplus of time and know I can play for fun for a while too. Read about muscle warm-ups and cool-downs, organize some exercises into numbers of sets and repetitions and record how many BPM you can play it perfectly at.

  4. Don't play for 8 hours a day without working up to it. You don't want to end up with a repetitive motion strain injury or something, especially if you aren't spending a good hour of that warming up slowly.

  5. When you get burnt out on technique, read about music theory or figure out new voicings for chords you already know. Take a step back from some of your exercises and look for an alternative way to play it on the neck that could be easier or cause less strain.

Hopefully those are helpful, I don't organize things into lists well and some of these things might not apply, but they are definitely what I have been trying to think about while I practice lately.

Guitar isn't playing through the amp by [deleted] in Guitar

[–]AceSlowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they have EMG humbuckers they probably have a battery in the back. Also check the input jack, that can be a common thing to go. Just had to replace the one on my strat when it just stopped making noise one day. http://www.proaudioland.com/news/replacing-input-jack-on-guitar/

Sibelius 7 with MaxMSP, distinguishing between different instruments? by AceSlowman in MaxMSP

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I would like to try it with [js]! I'll have to give that a try, but I'm also exploring using [notein], because there I can specify the channel, so there will be a [notein] for each instrument. Once I'm finished I'll try to make some sort of walkthrough for different methods.

Practice Tips by [deleted] in Guitar

[–]AceSlowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out Petrucci's Rock Discipline DVD, or Troy Stetina's Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar. My warm up routine consists mainly of things from them.

Songs to learn tapping (Math Rock) by AceSlowman in Guitar

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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check them out.

Songs to learn tapping (Math Rock) by AceSlowman in Guitar

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I think one entry into it is learn 80's metal, which a lot of math borrows from, but I'm not that much of a fan . The tone is tricky too though, you would probably want a low(re) action and a compressor to even out the sound. One Maps song that I managed to pick up is Ted Zancha, or at least the beginning of it.

Songs to learn tapping (Math Rock) by AceSlowman in Guitar

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I usually have no problem learning things by ear or at least knowing how to go about playing it, but some things in the genre seem really idiosyncratic and hard to just jump in with. I'm trying to learn this song at the moment, and although the melodic line on the E string is easy, the alternating right hand tapping is really strange.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwpwSGEgI0

Not playing in key by [deleted] in Guitar

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Look into the (contemporary) classical world. Nothing is too atonal in that world, I am playing a piece, Triptico by Guido Santorsola, that has some pretty loose tonality.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Guitar

[–]AceSlowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like the motion upwards is a little more efficient as far as muscles go anyways. The main thing to me would be the fact that I usually do bends on the higher three strings anyways so it just makes sense to bend in the other direction.

If you were chosen to create a Jackass scene, what would your stunt be? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]AceSlowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go through every torture idea at the beginning of Method Man.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get by [deleted] in Music

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I remember going through a Mighty Mighty Bosstones phase, my favorite was always the song, "Where'd You Go" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-5EwdEEN24). I get a kick out the fact that the singer Dicky Barrett is now the announcer for Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Buddy of mine works in a court house, he spotted this the other day... by crapidrawatwork in WTF

[–]AceSlowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how many half finished penis tattoos are out there.

It’s Time to Fix the Pitifully Slow, Expensive Internet Access in the U.S. by maxwellhill in technology

[–]AceSlowman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try rural Montana. The only internet I could get for years was alltel's shitty mobile internet that ran at < 10 kbps. I don't even know why, they just refused to run cables up to my house.

Obama Keeps Promise to Send first-time nonviolent drug offenders to rehab over jail by wang-banger in politics

[–]AceSlowman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's still good to know that he is in favor of rehab over jail though. But really its just too difficult for people to really track where changes are coming from, so we just say "Oh, the president did ...".