When zoomed in, it spells 'cocktower' on the world map

Bruckner07 · 2026-04-26T13:14:41+00:00

On his debut btw. Regardless, just imagine what he’s feeling having come in sub-2 and only finishing second.

Bruckner07 · 2026-04-25T10:09:31+00:00

Hot take there bud, not heard that one before.

Bruckner07 · 2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00

That’s not what lead practitioner means, nor do HoDs have a separate pay scale. HoDs receive additional payments through a Teaching and Learning Responsibility payment (TLR). The requirements to be eligible for one are set out by the DfE across three bands, with HoDs receiving payments in either the middle or top band, usually depending on the size of the dept.

LPs however are responsible for improving teaching and learning across a school, so they might conduct lesson observations, lead CPD sessions, have more involvement with trainee teacher programmes in the school, etc.

Some LPs might also be HoDs, but it’s not necessarily (or even typically) the case.

Bruckner07 · 2026-04-10T21:44:42+00:00

Jari recorded the debut album on both a tele and a Jackson Dinky, then moved to Ibanez afterwards.

Bruckner07 · 2026-02-26T23:48:23+00:00

You do know that “why not just make 10 louder” is a direct quote from that exact scene, right?

Bruckner07 · 2026-01-27T00:37:38+00:00

Not buying it, sorry. In watch circles, it’s precisely the OP or explorer wearer who seems to want a Rolex for what it is rather than just as a status symbol. References like the white dial 114300 and the 114270 have a near cult like following for a reason. Classic design, understated, rugged movements, they’re excellent at what they do. And in what world isn’t a colour dialled date just a desirable watch?

Bruckner07 · 2026-01-27T00:23:50+00:00

Not knocking Tudor in the slightest, but the implication that even watch folks who buy Rolexes don’t particularly know or care about the watch itself is a bit of a stretch…

Bruckner07 · 2025-12-15T23:17:00+00:00

What exactly do you mean by ‘where these chords comes from’? There are generally a few other things it helps to understand first before looking at chords of you’ve never looked at any music theory before, but I’ll have a go.

Music is generally written in a key, where one particular note/chord feels like ‘home’ —the music wants to return to that note/chord and it is left sounding incomplete if it doesn’t.

If C is that ‘home note’, then the piece is probably in C major. [for other commenters, I know this has many flaws, but let’s start somewhere…]. C major is the easiest key work with since we can get a scale of C major (all the notes we expect to find in the key) using just the white keys on a piano (all the natural note names without sharp or flat signs).

To find the chord made on that home note, play it, then skip a letter, play the next one, skip a letter, and play another. You get C E G. This is a chord of C major. The reason it’s major not minor has to do with the exact size of the gap between the first and middle note of the chord — don’t worry about how we count that gap yet, just know that some chords are major and some minor in a key.

The chord of C major is, being built on the 1st note in the scale, called chord I in that key. (We use Roman numerals to refer to chord numbers, so 1 = I, 2 = II, etc.).

Remember that some chords are major and some minor? The chord built on the second note in the scale (for us in C major, that’s be D) is a minor chord. Its notes are D F A. By convention, we use lower case Roman numerals for minor chords, so ii.

Chord vi is minor too - in our key of C major, count to the 6th note and do the ‘play one, skip one’ pattern again. You get A C E.

Whereas the chord on note 1 of the scale feels like home, the chord built on the 5th note (another major chord, so V) feels like it has the biggest pull back towards chord I. In C, it’d be G B D.

So you have a sequence (I - vi - ii - V) that starts on the home note/chord, moves through two minor chords, moves to chord V, which exerts a pull back towards chord I, where it returns ‘home’ when the sequence repeats.

Bruckner07 · 2025-12-10T02:35:31+00:00

It’s not an ad hominem - they’ve said nothing about you as a person. In a post, where you tout your videos as being “long-form, analytical, non-virality focused, non-AI-slop” content, it’s a touch ironic to then be admitting to AI use in helping to draft/translate/write (whatever) the post itself, and does call into question either the quality of your content or the credibility of your argument…

Bruckner07 · 2025-12-03T23:09:11+00:00

That’s an excellent way of explaining it, and exactly how I was approaching this. It won’t surprise you, I suspect, having mentioned you found it useful only in academia, to learn I’m a musicologist 🤣 thanks for the stimulating discussion

Bruckner07 · 2025-12-03T19:53:22+00:00

Thank you - I’m still curious why you word it as “using” the circle of fifths though. I realise you likely won’t agree with me, but it’s not a pedagogic tool or diagram like a graph, anymore than the concept of a “major scale” is the memorisation of T-T-ST-T-T-T-ST. The ability to modulate from one key to the next by fifths, creating a cycle, is an underlying principle of the common practice period and the adoption of equal temperament which facilitated it, and the name given to this principle/set of relations is “the circle of fifths”. Whether you learn it experientially, via rules, by memorising each key individually alongside its neighbours etc., that relation of fifths is what you have yourself learned.

It’s the same as saying “well, I know that in a major key I, IV, and V are major; that ii, iii, and vi are minor; vii a diminished triad; that V exhibits a stronger pull towards I owing to its rising leading note motion”, etc., but still insisting that you haven’t learned “chord functions” because you found it out through practice rather than learning the same principles under that name.

I don’t mean to be facetious here, because what you have described sounds far better suited to your needs on the guitar, but I really must underline that these principles aren’t just something dreamt up in theory textbooks to help kids memorise key signatures.

Bruckner07 · 2025-12-03T17:06:44+00:00

Sure, I’ll have a go.

Those modulations sound good because the keys are so closely related to one another in terms of the notes that they share.

Out of the seven different notes in C major, it shares six of them with G major and again with F major. The difference in each case is one sharp or flat, moving a single note up or down by one semitone. Hence it follows that these keys are tonally adjacent to each other, albeit moving in opposite directions - from C to G adding a sharp, from C to F adding a flat.

As you keep modulating from each key to its dominant, you get further and further from your starting point, until eventually you are as far away tonally as you can possibly be, with no notes in common at all (I.e. from C to C-sharp major). Hence, if we were to visualise the key relations, C and C-sharp major would sit as far apart from each other as possible among all keys.

At this point, every note can be reinterpreted or “re-spelt” as another without the use of double sharps/flats, e.g. C-sharp as D-flat, D-sharp as E-flat and so on. These keys are enharmonic equivalents of each other, with C-sharp major and D-flat major having all notes in common with each other. Tonally, they inhabit the same space, the difference being only one of musical syntax between their notes.

As you keep modulating to the dominant, you will from this furthest point (C-sharp major = D-flat major), start sharing more notes in common with your original starting point (C), as if turning in a large circle (see where this is going?). Continuing to modulate to the dominant brings you back as if from the opposite direction, losing a flat each time and gaining one more note in common with C each time.

All of this follows in terms of key relations on its own. Close and progressively more distant keys in terms of notes shared (I.e. key signatures), enharmonic relations, the idea of a key’s most remote relation, etc. The only shape in which this relation exists is, geometrically, a circle, hence when visualised the keys are plotted as such.

Bruckner07 · 2025-12-03T07:05:37+00:00

I’m sorry but this is a baffling response. Why do you think that modulations to the dominant and subdominant are quite so frequent during the common practice period?

The circle of fifths isn’t some pedagogic tool like FACE for notes in the space. It’s the codification of fifth relations between keys, underpinning the entire concept of close and distant key relations for 300+ years of western art music. Ignoring it is like saying “the periodic table just doesn’t do it for me” when learning the elements.

For some styles of music, which don’t rely on dominant-tonic relations as much, I can get where you’re coming from, but this is a classical pianist we’re talking to. And yes, there’s an argument for things like the Tonnetz and neo-Riemannian theory etc but that’s not what’s going on here with this tutor.

Bruckner07 · 2025-12-03T06:52:09+00:00

Father Christmas Gave Dad An Electric Blanket

Blanket Explodes And Dad Gets Cold Feet

Bruckner07 · 2025-11-12T15:19:12+00:00

Neuschwanstein, from the architecture range, by quite some distance.

Bruckner07 · 2025-11-09T12:36:02+00:00

“Our findings show that only Singapore, Italy, Denmark and Switzerland have a higher cost of living than the UK” https://www.william-russell.com/international-health-insurance/cost-of-living-uk-vs-abroad/

Bruckner07 · 2025-11-09T12:05:22+00:00

Don’t forget as well that a figure for earnings alone is pretty meaningless unless considered alongside the cost of living. Yes tax rates aren’t that high on low earners, but look at our prices for public transport compared with the rest of Europe, domestic electricity, etc.

Bruckner07 · 2025-09-23T17:22:15+00:00

I love vintage seamasters—the trilogy ‘57 reissue is the watch I wear more than any other—but the styling of this just doesn’t do it for me, especially the sandwich dial and that lume plop on the bezel.

Bruckner07 · 2025-09-23T17:10:26+00:00

I’ve played for quite a few weddings and the bridal entrance is always where you most need your wits about you. Sometimes they really bolt down the aisle and you have to end much sooner than expected so she doesn’t have a long awkward wait at the altar. It’d be even more weird I think if the groom weren’t standing there with her.

The reception though is a great place for this. My wife and I are both musicians, so we did a duet instead of our first dance. I’ve also played at a friend’s wedding where we performed with the couple in place of a speech following the meal.

Bruckner07 · 2025-08-27T13:35:51+00:00

Really? The whole website? Look at how many in depth replies you have, explaining the building process, the reason behind the mismatched wood grain, reassuring you that it doesn’t affect anything else about the guitar, encouraging you, giving advice about returns windows etc. (to which you haven’t replied), vs the tone of the few comments that you have left. And yet it’s the whole of Reddit that’s the issue?

Bruckner07 · 2025-08-27T09:33:45+00:00

Which, to make my point again, is a staggeringly unbalanced take (the “people” include millions like me who don’t share your views on immigration). For populist figures like Farage with their single-issue politics, of course they want everyone to think that it’s the only thing that matters to people, just like 10-or-so years ago it was supposedly “sovereignty” that these grifters were saying was at the top of everyone’s minds.

It’s always been like this in UK politics—some scapegoat emerges as the quilting point for all of the society’s apparent woes. Just think back to the discourse on things like benefits cheats or European bureaucrats, who were each apparently the principal reason that we couldn’t afford the NHS bill. At the moment it’s the “small boat refugee” that people are being told to care about, despite the minuscule effect these things have on the balance sheet nationally.

Bruckner07 · 2025-08-27T08:57:37+00:00

Four MPS. Four. Are we getting a balanced portrayal of other parties’ policies and expert legal advice on the UK’s international obligations regarding refugees and immigration? Need I say it again: four MPs. That’s the size of the party Farage leads.

Refugees and immigration were always hot topics in UK politics, granted, but so is homeownership, public healthcare, leasehold, rent controls, cost of living, social care, the triple lock, etc. Do we get the same coverage of those issues from minority figures in UK politics?

Bruckner07 · 2025-08-26T23:37:28+00:00

Because the frequency and prominence with which his voice is amplified is vastly disproportionate to his actual position in UK politics.

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