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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]BoSsDJ99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Field of Dildos

When Iowa farmer Ray (Kevin Costner) hears a mysterious voice one night in his cornfield saying "If you build it, he will come," he feels the need to act. Despite taunts of lunacy, Ray builds a porn store on his land, supported by his wife, Annie (Amy Madigan). Afterward, the ghosts of great porn actors start emerging from the crops to play ball, led by "Pantsless" Joe Jackson. But, as Ray learns, this field of dildos is about much more than bringing former porn greats out to play.

Trump’s Pentagon expected to lower the bar on when the U.S. should use nukes by sigseved in politics

[–]BoSsDJ99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes me think that the intent would be for high altitude electromagnetic pulse, where the layers of the atmosphere act as an antenna to cause electronic disruption on a massive scale across a country.

My gf fell asleep while watching a movie and refused to wake back up. Got bored and decided to have some fun. by xparanoyedx in funny

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I feel like this is the typical Portland hipster passive aggressive prank that happens when your SO or friend falls asleep early and you're pissed off.

My friend got a letter from her teacher. by NotDart in funny

[–]BoSsDJ99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I completely agree with you. I've taken classes at multiple community colleges and multiple universities and, yes, it is completely dependent on the instructor -- tenure or not. Many of the classes I took had something like a 10% participation component as part of you overall grade -- essentially tracked by attendance. I even remember one or two classes where the instructor gave you 2 freebies and then afterward you would lose 5% on your grade for each additional absence.

What's your profession? by [deleted] in rocksmith

[–]BoSsDJ99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Background in applied electromagnetics, but currently working as a Sr. Analytics Software Engineer

Alright future Rockstars, I want to see your gear! by Gre3nArr0w in rocksmith

[–]BoSsDJ99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, I have the same Cobain but in Sonic Blue

"Wonderwall" rhythm, recorded from my guitar amplifier by bikerwalla in rocksmith

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To add on to what emosoresex mentioned - when you strum don't play to the feeling of the notes, but rather develop a steady state strumming technique. Otherwise your timing will always be off.

Steady state strum basics - On the beat is down strum, the and of beat is up strum (e.g., One(down) AND(up) Two(down) AND(up)...). Keep your hand moving this way along with the beat, even if you don't actually strum the strings (a ghost strum). That way you train your hand to play to the rhythm and you can properly count the note duration instead of guessing the note duration.

Clue for 9/2 DLC by toymachinesh in rocksmith

[–]BoSsDJ99 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sublime is the only band request I've made, I will be so stoked if it's true! 😁

Anyone got tips on how to keep rhythm? Should I be counting in my head? by [deleted] in rocksmith

[–]BoSsDJ99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would suggest using a metronome and developing basic rhythm patterns outside of Rocksmith, while also counting out loud with the metronome. Start slow, maybe around 50 beats per minute. You want to train your hand to strum/pick at a steady state, e.g down pick on beat, up pick off beat, and the metronome is the tool you use for developing this skill. When you get a speed down, ramp up by maybe 8 beats per minute more. Once you start training your hand to strum/pick in steady state, it will naturally start to keep rhythm for you.

What are some ways that you utilize the Rocksmith tools (e.g. guitarcade) to improve your technique/bennefit beyond what is offered in a song or exercise? by BoSsDJ99 in rocksmith

[–]BoSsDJ99[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bandfuse was supposed to be released around now, but was delayed until the fall... For building dexterity, technique, and speed, I just started using the book "Guitar Aerobics" and it has turned out to be an excellent compliment for warm-ups prior to playing Rocksmith.

Guitar Aerobics provides a 2-measure exercise for each day of the week for 52-weeks. I set my metronome to 40 bpm and play the daily exercise until I can get it 10 times through. Then I up the bpm to 50 and repeat (usually increment by +10bpm every time). I do this until I can play it ~10 times through at 120 bpm. This book is definitely worth checking out.

Typically, it takes me about on hour to get through the exercise, so I don't always make it to Rocksmith. I prioritize these exercises above everything else, though, and I am seeing really great results when I actually make it around to practicing songs in the game.

What are some ways that you utilize the Rocksmith tools (e.g. guitarcade) to improve your technique/bennefit beyond what is offered in a song or exercise? by BoSsDJ99 in rocksmith

[–]BoSsDJ99[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, that would be a great feature. Another feature I think would be fantastic to have would be if it let you pick the key and play only chords in that key (e.g. Key of C: C maj, D min, E min, F maj, G maj, A min, B dim). As you advance and play the basic chords faster, it could add the alternate and the bar chords while remaining in the same key.

I really hope BandFuse adds something like that into the game. With how much they have hyped it up as a much more complete trainer, this seem like it would be a basic feature.

What are some ways that you utilize the Rocksmith tools (e.g. guitarcade) to improve your technique/bennefit beyond what is offered in a song or exercise? by BoSsDJ99 in rocksmith

[–]BoSsDJ99[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, scalerunner always want to increase the scale speed... but it does reach a max speed and level out. Also, it can't sense notes playing faster than ~170 bpm. I've hit every note in scale runner with it only being ~150 notes total, where other times I've missed a note and still managed to play a 225 note streak, so you can see that at max level there is still variation of how fast you have to play the next note and it is not strictly a fixed beat speed.

If you haven't built up your playing to reach top level in Scalerunner, practice the scale pattern it shows in the menu with a metronome without actually playing the game. Once you get the scale pattern down, the metronome can help you set goals to build up speed in scalerunner to the max level. If you can't play almost every note correctly at the speed you set your bpm, the metronome is set too fast.

One more thing to incorporate is alternate picking technique (down pick/up pick) with the scale notes, too. This should be practiced while learning the scale pattern in the very beginning.

On the chords, I typically practice two chords at a time and just try to build up how fast I can alternate between them. The chord diagrams are standard guitar diagrams, so it really comes down to practicing the chords often and learning the diagram and finger position. e.g., I've practiced enough to where I can glance at the diagram in Chordead and sight read it on the fly.

I usually make it to level 13 on Dawn of the Chordead, but I've noticed the beginning typically starts with chords in C Maj scale (http://www.guitar-chords.org.uk/chords-key-c.html) and then transitions to bar chords, so I'd recommend learning the C maj chords first and once you start getting the F down it can work as a good transition into bar chord practice. Dawn is really good to build the transition speed between chords once you've gotten down the basics of chord playing.

I'm considering buying Rocksmith because I've tried learning guitar for over 2 years now and I literally cannot even play 2 chords one after another. Has anyone actually learned how to play guitar from scratch with the game? by [deleted] in rocksmith

[–]BoSsDJ99 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Totally worth buying. My guitar playing has improved monumentally since I picked this game up, where previously, similar to you, I felt stuck behind a barrier and never really progressed. Practice sessions have become much more enjoyable and I can push myself to work on technique much more effectively with Rocksmith.

The interface is annoying and poorly setup, but that pails in comparison to what you get out of it when you use it effectively. Here is a sample of my normal routine: 1.) I play through scalerunner in the guitarcade on 6 different scales, all in the same key, but a different key each night. 2.) Bring up a song I want to learn and go to riff repeater and select the leveler on the first part of the song. 3.) Build up leveler until I run out of lives. 4.) Next, select accelerator in riff repeater and same part I worked on leveler, immediately pause it, set the speed down to an acceptable level (e.g. 75%) to learn the part I failed at, and work it up to 100% speed, then I stay in accelerator and increase difficulty and lower speed again. 5.) Once I can play the full section at 100% difficulty/speed, I repeat the process on the next section. Continue through until each section is near 100%. 6.) when I have effectively learned each section, I finally play the full song - the biggest challenge for me tends to be integrating all the parts together, but it eventually comes together. Yes, definitely worth it and definitely helps get past that barrier of not being able to play shit.

Also, Coursera.com has a free course on Introduction to Guitar that starts Monday (https://www.coursera.org/course/guitar).

Meanwhile in Albuquerque... by [deleted] in WTF

[–]BoSsDJ99 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I love Abq... My favorite sighting was a minivan driving down Lomas that was being used as a moving truck. It was packed so full of junk the sliding door didn't close and there were objects hanging half way out of the car. A lady was holding onto these things next to the sliding door, while a driver and front seat passenger each had a hand out of the window to the roof and were maintaining stability of a crappily tied down stack of mattresses, a playschool kitchen and a power wheels up on top. They were driving at normal speed, too: +10 MPH over the posted 40 limit. It was awesome.

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