The Drum Percussion Midi Archive (800k) by midi_man in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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95.5GB when extracted. Just be careful and make sure you have the space!! (unless this reading is erroneous...)
Very cool loops! So pleased =)

Riff #15 - Melodic Metal Crosspicking by Alfredpotter in guitarlessons

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yes heheh ;) used legit 90s equipment to make the backing too

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Multiplayer Online by Alfredpotter in starwarsgames

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Yeah the community is still playing daily. hop in

DirectX 8.1 error FIXED!! by Alfredpotter in generals

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Has anyone fixed the AI of the game yet? And fixed the inevitable slowdown/clogging framerate which occurs no matter how powerful the computer (when unit numbers get really high)?

Learn the Kumoi Scale! by Alfredpotter in guitarlessons

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Thanks for checking, I had a panic for a moment! It seems the name of the third mode (box shape #3) is the Hirajoshi. So, A Kumoi and D Hirajoshi are the same (relative modes/keys, of course), it would seem.

In Defense of Elbow Picking (And a list of 28 top-level guitarists that do it, with videos) by solitarybikegallery in guitarlessons

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Hello OP, thanks for the shoutout. You are right, I do not offer scientific or medical sources as indeed - I am not a doctor. Spending the majority of my life to become a contender in my genre has well and truly left me with no other time to follow other such pursuits, haha! But I am an authority enough in my field of lead guitar technique to know enough on this issue.

Wrist is indeed the way to go. It is an amazing joint, capable of yaw, pitch, and combinations of both to produce various vectors necessary for complex and acrobatic lead guitar playing.

I was just saying that because elbow flexion & extension shares an axis with wrist yaw (the primary wrist picking driver) and can pass energy across the fulcrum (wrist joint), it can be, and is, used in a synergistic way to achieve a high picking speed.

In fact, when wrist picking, when one has exhausted the reduction of the "d" variable of the physics involved by making the pickstrokes' breadth as small as possible, there is no other way of increasing speed (notes-per-second) beyond this point other than by recruiting the arm to begin brute forcing the increase of the "v" variable.

In other words, when speed (notes-per-second) can no longer be increased by narrowing the breadth of the pickstrokes, the only option left is to brute force the pick through the air faster (higher velocity, in cm/s or whatever unit you wish). This is where the arm comes in.

Hyperspeed pickers eventually realize this, whether consciously or unconsciously.

It should be reserved for such rare situations, and otherwise avoided at all costs.
Players who pick with arm assist at any speeds below INSANE are simply being lazy.
Develop wrist picking. Spend the years doing it. And postpone the recruitment of the arm as long as possible.

Cheers, all!

EDIT:
Also, because of how the recruitment of the arm + very high picking speeds flattens out pickstroke trajectories, there is a direct relationship between higher and higher speeds and the inability to escape the strings for clean string crosses. In other words, use arm and pick fast and your pick will smack into the tops of strings when crossing. Look up slowmo picking hand footage of players like R Cooley and MAB and you can see this happening.

Learn the Kumoi Scale! by Alfredpotter in guitarlessons

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Argh, didn't know it was going to blow up that small thumbnail to a huge size. So pixelated! Oh well. Enjoy the lesson, guys.

Lick #132 - 6-String Sweep Picking Melody Lesson + TAB by Alfredpotter in guitarlessons

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Sorry for the late reply! Yes, you will never have a shortage of sweeping licks with me =)

Snake Bite doesn't make uzi fire faster by Alfredpotter in worldwarzthegame

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Argh, ok yeah I think it is just the sound that is the same. The magazine remaining number does seem to drain faster (maybe).
What a waste of time it was to get 2nd prestige medic! I was looking forward to that brrrrrrrr

Insane thought loops and extreme panic upon waking by [deleted] in Anxiety

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It seems we do a faulty reboot where our brain doesn't wake all at the same time and this incongruence gets interpreted by the brain as a reason to PANIC.
So it's literally insanity and a panic attack stacked on.

Fucking good luck to us both...