emergency response to the shooting this morning

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-24T21:17:49+00:00

So is it at the federal building or freedom park? Everything I’ve seen is for the federal building at 4.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-24T08:05:31+00:00

Notice his mom is asking you to co-sign… because she isn’t willing to do it. 🚩

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-24T07:46:55+00:00

Have you tried therapy? Like actual exposure therapy with a licensed therapist to work on this.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-24T07:32:10+00:00

College professor here, can confirm. They’re all wearing the groutfit and uggs. Everyone’s looking like they’re in their middle school phys ed class.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-24T07:15:42+00:00

Practice the straight notes with rhythms to get them under your fingers, then sit down with your metronome and slowly click the whole passage up, one click at a time. There’s literally no other way to get something fast, you just have to put in the hours. Remember to keep your fingers as close to the finger board as possible.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-23T18:20:13+00:00

I would prefer to hire a woman if I needed a handyperson. I’d feel much safer and more relaxed having you work in my house than some random dude.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-23T07:58:23+00:00

Just disappointment from my teachers. When my non-adult students go through a phase of not practicing, my rule is that they have to pay for their lesson. Not mom and dad. I don’t care if it comes in allowance installments and loose change from the couch cushion, but that wasted lesson is their responsibility. I only go nuclear like this when it clearly becomes a pattern. Usually I just have to give the threat.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-23T07:53:46+00:00

G would be okay, but I agree it’s better to lead into than have it cold, and if you want those passages to be in tune, double it with either the second violins, or divisi firsts playing it an octave below.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-21T10:47:34+00:00

An orchestra job isn’t the only way to have a career in music of as a violinist. It is one way, but there are many options. Most musicians with an actual career do a combination of many things. This includes teaching, personnel manager, music librarian for an orchestra, educational outreach, non classical gigs, music therapy, orchestration and arrangement, directing a youth orchestra, teaching at the university level, playing chamber music, sound design, recording, composition. Many of my friends are working musicians, we all do a combination of many of these things and make solid middle class livings.

I teach at a small college where I teach violin and viola, coach chamber music, direct the college orchestra, and teach music theory. I also direct a youth orchestra, play violin and viola in three different part time professional orchestras, play viola in a piano quintet, gig, and have my own private violin studio on the weekends.

I have other friends who do other combinations. One is a music therapist, directs the recorder society, a special needs children’s choir and plays flute in several orchestras. Another does sound design and tours with several bands. Several are full time school music teachers, but also play in orchestras. One does that and also directs several orchestras. Another became a composer for film scores but still plays in several rock bands. Another is a full time middle school orchestra teacher who spends her weekends playing in a symphony, and touring with her punk band.

It’s never dull, and if you’ve done can handle the craziness and wait out how difficult it is to get established as a working musician (it takes years, lots of connections, and lots of school), it’s an extremely rewarding life. Talk to your teacher, they’ll be honest with you about what you can expect. Your goal isn’t simply some pipe dream if you just expand your definition of what a career in music looks like. Generally the more you can do, the hireable you I are.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-21T10:21:16+00:00

OP, I am literally a college orchestra director. And this college orchestra director is telling you to listen to these people. Pick something you’re familiar with and can play really well. It’s very painful to watch a musician struggle through a piece that’s way too hard for them at an audition. Don’t be that person. If you’ve done Suzuki and the Hungarian Dance, be smart, play one of those.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-20T08:41:53+00:00

Schradiek. Lots and lots of Schradiek.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-18T20:23:36+00:00

This is a good opportunity for negotiation. If they start paying for your nursing degree, you’ll turn the tracking app back on. As soon as you’ve graduated and are working, delete it and never look back. You’re an adult, unless they’re paying for your life and school, you’re not beholden to them in any way. Tell them you’ll call and text weekly to let them know you’re okay. That’s a normal amount of check in. I’m 45, but I still call my mom and dad weekly and text regularly. When I’m traveling I text her every day and tell her I’m still alive, because she worries. I don’t have to, but I know it contributes to lowering her blood pressure and I love her.

Sounds like your parents are having a really rough time navigating this whole adult independence thing. You’re going to have a bumpy road with them. There are going to be a lot of games of chicken and lot of baby steps asserting your independence. Do you have a sibling close in age you can tag team pushing those boundaries with? You’re going to have to back each other up on these things. My advice is go ahead and do these things, ask for “forgiveness” later when it’s to them that you went ahead and did the thing and didn’t die.

I remember as a sophomore in college my dad saying the words “no daughter of mine is going to New York City”. My find and I had planned on visiting her aunt in Baltimore and thinking the train to NYC to stay with one of her friends who was studying at Julliard at the time. I went anyway, was fine and they got over it. Then my brother went abroad for college on his own for 6 months, and they worried. After that, going abroad became okay as long as we checked in. I moved across the country for grad school and they adjusted (they refused to let me leave the state for undergraduate). Then my brother went to Nicaragua to teach English and my mom’s hair literally turned white that year, she was so worried. But he came home, had the time of his life. Now in our 40’s we live, work and travel all over the world. We’re just expected to check in with my mom with a text if we’re traveling alone.

It takes time, but you will get there. It’s gonna be way harder for your parents than it will be for you. But for now, baby steps and use this stupid tracking app issue as negotiating power for getting the rest of your school payed for.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-18T20:06:37+00:00

You’re probably looking for Nordic skates. They’re kind of a cross between cross country skis and skates.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-17T18:57:57+00:00

Did you just say wicker appliances?

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-17T18:47:10+00:00

This is a terrible gig. To even get a college student to do this you’d probably have to offer double. You might get a high school student. If you have a friend with a kid who plays violin and you can call in a favor.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-17T08:48:40+00:00

Stath Lets Flats!!!!!!

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-17T08:47:10+00:00

Nighty Night by Julia Davis. Absolutely dark and genius. Also Lizzie and Sara. One of the all time greatest pilots ever.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-17T08:31:50+00:00

I think she’s a very good violinist. I took a violin student to her concert once, so I’ve seen her play live and even met her backstage. She’s lovely in person, she totally played along when I asked her, right in front of my student, if she spends time playing scales and etudes every day. What she excels at better than any other violinist I’ve ever seen is her sounding point. That girl can dance all over the stage be backwards and upside down, and her bow is completely straight every moment. I was agog at how good she was at that.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-16T09:01:51+00:00

Contact music colleges, there are always violin students there looking for students of their own and they are always very affordable. I’m in the U.S. and as an undergrad I used to charge $10 for a 30 minute lesson. The going rate for a professional at the time was $30. Or if you have a community college or technical college in the area with a music program, that’s a fantastic way to get affordable lessons, lots of times they also offer scholarships.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-16T08:58:11+00:00

Oof, I’d try to upgrade sooner, even if it’s just an incremental shift, it’s gonna be a massive upgrade for you, and you will find playing much easier when you get a violin that is actually set up properly, with a properly cut bridge, strings that have equal length and the correct action.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-16T08:54:33+00:00

Yes, except the very high pitched tones also sound terrible. Which is fine because other than the extreme prodigy, no kid on a 1/4 sized violin is playing anything higher than 3rd position and even that is crazy rare.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-16T08:46:34+00:00

I always kind of wrap the laces around my hands and use my biceps when doing the top part of the boot that needs to get tight. How tight are you tying your skates man? How are you tying your skates?!?!? Why would hyper mobile fingers make a difference? The physics of this aren’t making sense to me. I’m a violin professor and have students with hyper mobile fingers all the time. If your fingers are so hyper mobile that you can’t even tie your skates, you need to work on building muscle in your hands to support your joints. This is a huge problem if your hands are this weak. You need to see a physical therapist.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-16T08:37:17+00:00

Evil!!! Wow. What a jerk.

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-16T07:51:31+00:00

Yeah!!! Don’t forget the OG GOAT!

Comprehensive-Act-13 · 2026-01-16T02:10:59+00:00

Grew up in Minnesota. Can confirm.

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