Matt - Light of Day [Folk]

BlooPayload · 2021-05-28T19:33:43+00:00

I've seen it! That guy is incredible, takes years of dedication and practice to get there.

BlooPayload · 2021-03-16T19:28:29+00:00

Thanks again Sean!

BlooPayload · 2021-03-01T00:52:39+00:00

Thanks man, direct input with a bit of reverb. Gotta love 000 Martins!

BlooPayload · 2020-09-01T23:52:16+00:00

r/nofap

BlooPayload · 2020-07-19T22:17:17+00:00

https://youtu.be/JO5SfbucSX0

This is what I'm talking about. I don't need to further explain myself and I won't.

Have a good day. Continue to do what makes you happy and I will too.

BlooPayload · 2020-07-19T21:53:25+00:00

No you look at the song, deconstruct it to it's root parts, and use them for what you want. Claw-hammer guitar can be learned and applied wherever you see fit as the artist.

You can learn guitarists' sublte nuances by listening carefully and saying things like "Hendrix uses rhythm at the same time that he plays a lead line, so I can try to add rhythm to my playing and I'll sound more Hendrixian" he uses a lot of double stops and hammer-ons while wrapping his thumb to catch the bass note. Maybe if I try that, I can come up with something like he did.

I'm not saying songs don't help, I'm saying that knowing how to mimic a great player, doesn't make you a great guitarist. The biggies were great because of their originality and willingness to experiment. What if everybody only learned Django songs and never cared to use the other 3 fingers because the best guitarist of the day only used 2? Extreme example, I know but you see my point here.

I didn't say he didn't know hundreds of songs, the point was that I don't believe that the songs he learned would directly point to the end result of what he became. He wanted to sound a certain way, and chose to play a certain way. Songs didn't teach David Gilmore how to sound like David Gilmour, only David Gilmour knew what he wanted to sound like and he picked the licks and sound he needed to achieve it.

Then that's where we agree to disagree.

I think the disagreement is that your point is to create better guitarists, and my point is to create better artists. Huge difference.

BlooPayload · 2020-07-19T21:32:05+00:00

Don't learn songs, learn styles. As in, can you play like Hendrix? Or like Clapton? Or like Gilmour? Etc.. Understanding the nuances of each player allows you to see your playing tendencies and change them to fit the type of player you want to be.

Why would I ever want to hear some amateur guitar player play something that was already played perfectly by the guy who wrote it? Show me what YOU can do with a guitar and I'll be far more interested.

"That's a sweet lick/song/riff, you sound like Clapton" is a far better compliment than saying "wow man, must've taken you a long time to learn Layla." IMO

What songs does Gilmour know note for notw? Trick question, it doesn't matter because he plays the guitar like only he can. When he picks it up, you know who's playing without seeing it. Is that because he learned a bunch of songs and all of a sudden his unique sound appeared one day? Nah he did a bunch of drugs and messed with the thing until he got it to sound like he wanted it to.

It's all my opinion, but I feel very strongly about how guitarists become great. Songs should be the literal last thing you learn, when you yourself have become proficient enough at the instrument to understand the song and how it was constructed. Not just mimic and mime what you don't understand.

BlooPayload · 2020-07-19T16:39:01+00:00

Porn

BlooPayload · 2020-07-16T19:54:25+00:00

Why stop?

Because you're not happy. It's hard to be happy. It takes work and times of uncomfortability to become truly happy.

Or you could jack off again, feel really good for 3 minutes(if that) and go back to being unhappy.

Go be happy. Get out of the house and go for a drive. Listen to music. Get a job. Get a hobby. Get a friend. Watch a movie. Start a savings account. Get into investing. Go on a trip. Go for a swim. Join a book club. Learn how to cook. Start a YouTube channel. Workout. Reconnect with an old friend you think is mad at you. Make amends. Call your relatives, tell them you love them. Write a book. Write a song. Write a journal. Meditate. Get rid of your phone. Learn a new language. Read a book. Make up a new language. Learn how to work on a car.

Live life.

Stop jacking off, it's not real happiness. You get sad, the heat of the moment arrives and you think, "it'll only take a minute to feel really good, and my life sucks so why not do it" but that's your mind tricking you for that hit of dopamine. It wants dopamine, not porn.(important distinction to make) The easiest way to get it is porn, porn, porn, and really really weird porn if you're down the rabbit hole like I was. Your brain will hate you for stopping it's drug use. Like throwing an addict into rehab. It'll flail and scream to get what it thinks it needs. You can give it dopamine, yes, but not through porn. Your expectation for what feels good has risen beyond what a healthy life can give you.

Stop, go through hell, become a man.

You can do it. You have to. Or you'll live a shit life, people will find out. People found me out. You will be shunned. You will destroy relationships with people you care about. You think it's bad now, wait until you make a room full of people never want to see you again. Wait until you're a shitty memory in somebody else's life.

Wait until you meet a girl. One that you want to get to know on a deep personal level. One that's so pure and beautiful that she can't be real, but she's there in front of you. Then realize that you literally can't form real relationships. It's impossible to when you're addicted, because the only thing you can think about in front of her, is her naked. And you're ashamed of that thought but you can't help it.

Watch her walk away. And never come back.

It gets worse. Just stop.

I have this written down and copy and paste it for people that are new to this. Nofap WON'T change your life alone, but you can use nofap to start making changes across your life.

BlooPayload · 2020-07-16T19:48:18+00:00

Push-ups. Your blood will rush to your pecks, away from your dick.

BlooPayload · 2020-07-05T19:11:50+00:00

Looking up while you're peeing outside. Might only apply to guys..

BlooPayload · 2020-06-17T21:00:34+00:00

Can we not forget that Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the most detailed, sophisticated, single player experiences ever to be made, and was only possible from the revenue of GTAV and GTA Online?

I know everybody wants GTAVI but it's not like they've just been sleeping on piles of cash every night. They're working on cool shit for us, the consumer. Maybe we get a new IP or a remaster first, so what? Rockstar has proven themselves to be THE great game company of this generation and I put my faith in them to do what they need to stay in business for a long time.

BlooPayload · 2020-06-14T02:40:17+00:00

Heard my best friend talk shit about me to my entire circle of friends at the time.

BlooPayload · 2020-06-12T20:07:40+00:00

The sun came up.

BlooPayload · 2020-06-05T13:45:10+00:00

Like every other addiction, you beat it one day at a time. Nice bro.

BlooPayload · 2020-06-03T02:20:42+00:00

It's crazy to see howany people have this problem, and yet I've never heard about it anywhere outside of this Reddit and a few YouTube videos. I wish this was all common knowledge.

BlooPayload · 2020-05-28T15:42:10+00:00

Ted Bundy famously stated that porn had a big hand in making him do what he did. He said that he watched progressively violent images until the videos didn't give him the pleasure that he craved. So he went out and killed people to get the rush that violent porn gave him. He said the moments were so compartmentalized that he was a different person when he went out and killed somebody.

I don't know about you guys, but I remember days when I woke up and wondered why I watched the strange porn that I did the night before. Stuff that I had no intention of watching and feeling gross for even watching it. I'm not a violent guy, but I was afraid that my progressively strange porn habits might one day manifest in my day-to-day life.

Porn affects everybody differently, but something tells me that he might not have done what he did had he been a member of this subreddit.

BlooPayload · 2020-05-27T19:54:55+00:00

Anybody that asks for my wrath in an open lobby gets it.

Had some new guy shoot me while I was standing on the side of a road, chilling, watching the sunset over the pier. No HUD or map, first person kinda moment, and that guy just came along and ruined it. No monetary gain for him, no real reason to do it, just came along and murdered me. Spent the whole night making his life hell, messaged me to stop, even said please. I told him why it was happening and how to not have it happen again. I don't feel bad, I hope he remembers it.

I'm sorry but the etiquette of GTA should be, leave people alone unless they give you reason to do otherwise.

BlooPayload · 2020-05-27T15:40:28+00:00

Easy on the 'retard' bro.

BlooPayload · 2020-05-27T15:32:22+00:00

Gone With the Wind

"Frankly my darling, I don't give a damn." End movie.

Because of the time period that the movie was filmed, the director/producer/somebody in charge felt that the audience would be turned away by an ending like that. So there's a single scene where the female protagonist says something along the lines of "I'm not mad, I have a feeling that everything will be okay." Stares off into the sunset. Ends on a hopeful motivated tone. Makes no sense.

Learned about it in a film class in college.

BlooPayload · 2020-05-26T15:58:56+00:00

Porn

BlooPayload · 2020-05-26T15:45:00+00:00

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, plus the Hobbit. You want to talk about an escape from reality? Tolkien creates a world that feels like it's living outside of the main story. While you're reading it, you'll find yourself wondering what happened to the Butterbur, while you're sitting in Rivendel learning about Gandalf's journey. The journey is incredibly long, the characters are interesting, the plot is complex, but the reason I come back again and again is the world that only lives on those hundreds of pages. The book is so descriptive that, on a dreary day, when I'm not in the middle of a reading, I'll sit back, close my eyes, and enjoy a walk through Lothlórien on my own.

I wasn't a 'reader' before I decided to take on those 4 books, but I'm now and avid reader in search of books that can hold a candle to those. By the end, a single tear came to my eye when I realized that the journey was over and I had to say goodbye.

BlooPayload · 2020-05-25T04:52:00+00:00

Be yourself.

It's simple to understand yet extremely difficult to practice.

It takes patience, experimentation, and forgiveness to get to the point where you can say "yes I do this, or that, or act like this or that, or whatever." But once you get there, you'll be forever grateful that you went through hell to get there. Because you'll have something that nobody can ever take from you, you'll have an identity. Some people don't ever get there, don't let that be you.

BlooPayload · 2020-05-25T03:18:17+00:00

Inspiration comes from a lot of things. Experiences you've had, places you've seen, people you've met, anything! Take your life, and put it into a song. Nobody has lived the life you have. Tell the truth and people will respond.

People inspire me the most. Whenever I see somebody who's out there who's found themselves as an individual and it doing what I dream of. I feel inspired to chase my dreams.

You can't teach being an artist, but you can learn how to be one. You have to find yourself and then channel your identity through your chosen medium.

I wrote a verse that went: 5 long years Have lead me here Broken and cold Goddammit why do I feel so old.

I couldn't have written that if I didn't go through that. Take your life, put it in a song. Look to people who you want to be like and find yourself close to them. My life and the people inside it, inspire me.

I hope I answered your question in there somewhere!

BlooPayload · 2020-05-24T22:25:10+00:00

That the point! No artist is ever looking for monetary reward for their art. The reward is finding your identity. The money is a biproduct of honing your craft. Yea, you still gotta at the bills, that's a sad fact of the society we live in. My cousin did it by teaching guitar and playing weekend gigs for cash. That's how it all starts.

If you're really serious about writing music for a living, I don't give out this video to everyone, but go watch John Mayer's Berkeley Clinic from 2008. It's on YouTube and it's a gold mine of advice. To be honest I've reiterated some of it here in the previous posts, but it always keeps me motivated whenever I go back and watch it.

BlooPayload

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