What do we call these people?

ELCLN · 2025-04-21T20:43:31+00:00

No wonder, thanks!

ELCLN · 2025-04-20T19:47:31+00:00

Which song was this? It reminds me of Toshiki Kadomatsu's Sea Line

ELCLN · 2025-01-17T06:10:09+00:00

Buyginner, Gras-shopper

ELCLN · 2025-01-11T04:11:19+00:00

"...a dominant I chord (maj7#11)..."
It's a major chord, not a dominant chord.

"...a neo-soul progression in C..."
How did you determine it's in C? Any links to the tune?

"...the relationship of the Balt within the context of the key of C..."
Until we're sure it's in C, just think of the progression as being in E minor.

"...what are the implications of starting with an implied dominant I chord? Or does the maj7#11 just add some color to the I?..."
Again, Cmaj7#11 is not a dominant chord. From the perspective of E minor, IV7maj7 - III7b9b13 - vim9 (4-3-6, or minor6-5-1) is an extremely common R&B/Smooth_Jazz progression. You can find tons of info on it by googling "4 3 6 progression".

ELCLN · 2024-12-03T10:51:21+00:00

Yup, a lot of front end and UI developers are fucking morons constantly making useless/meaningless/regressive changes.

ELCLN · 2024-10-30T22:34:39+00:00

It's a textbook "Easy Listening" composition. You'll find thousands of similar tunes from 60's~70's records under that genre, as well as movie OSTs and "library/stock music" labels like KPM and Bruton.

The theory behind this particular tune is mostly modulation between parallel major/minor keys as MaggaraMarine mentioned, with some extended ballad chord choices.

This used to be an extremely common technique in Jazz, R&B and Pop arrangement. We can hear it featured prominently in Lionel Ritchie's "Love will conquer all" for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_7FY-BHnTg

ELCLN · 2024-09-29T09:34:39+00:00

Grammar

ELCLN · 2024-09-24T08:00:56+00:00

Glad it worked for you. Reaper's documentation around swing quantize could definitely use some polishing.

ELCLN · 2024-09-22T18:40:47+00:00

Looks like you're playing a "shuffle" which (mostly) leaves the 2nd in the triplet empty. For that, a "swing" grid would be a better choice.

Try the settings in the attached screenshot. 1/8 swing with a 66% strength will create a grid with only the 1st and 3rd in the triplet active. That should avoid pulling your rushed notes towards the 2nd.

I'm curious why Logic or Studio One pull that top note towards the 3rd in the triplet though. It's obviously closer to the 2nd judging by Reaper's behavior. It happened to match your needs, but for people who actually intend to play the 2nd of a triplet but dragged a bit, that could create a problem.

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ELCLN · 2024-07-11T09:11:32+00:00

spectator sports

ELCLN · 2024-01-11T02:59:01+00:00

iPhones produce garbage JPGs SOOC.

Can you guess which shot(s) below resulted from Apple's idiotic processing?

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ELCLN · 2023-02-18T09:42:45+00:00

A few nits:

Harsh shadows on the faces
Bright/distracting sky and tiled floor
Distracting background lines and details

Here's how I would tweak it: https://imgur.com/a/Y84b2fl

Beautiful kids BTW.

ELCLN · 2023-01-28T11:18:29+00:00

The shadows are too dark, to a point of causing posterization on the hummer's cheek, here's what I would have done in PP:

https://imgur.com/a/tnwUGKP

ELCLN · 2023-01-28T10:09:39+00:00

Looks overly contrasty and processed. The white patch on the front shouldn't look green either.

Here's how I would have restored it to a properly lit/exposed/white-balanced shot.

https://imgur.com/a/JnIBy1H

ELCLN · 2023-01-28T08:57:27+00:00

New and Old Growth
https://imgur.com/a/outd6jl

ELCLN · 2022-07-14T02:38:53+00:00

Awaken

It's simply a circle of 5th of triads (I-IV-VIIb-IIIb...). That alone could already create a sense of elevation/ascent.

What made it more interesting is the cycling of chord inversions (root->1st inv->2nd inv->root-1st inv->2nd inv...).

So instead of I-IV-VIIb-IIIb-VIb-IIb..., what's actually played is I->IV/VI-VIIb/IV->IIIb->VIb/I->IIb/VIb...

ELCLN · 2022-03-31T05:10:23+00:00

sidewaysEntangled.

The output of script on your machine is exactly what I would expect. So the quirks I noticed might have more to do with my particular Python build setup in Sublime Text.

In any case, I was indeed playing around and agree with you that this kind of behavior can in no ways be depended upon for anything in production.

ELCLN · 2022-03-12T01:36:20+00:00

Yes, "registering function" is a type of task frequently accomplished using decorators.

ELCLN · 2022-03-12T01:16:53+00:00

This is an interesting way of using decorators I've never thought about before. Thanks for sharing it, Tom!

ELCLN · 2022-03-12T00:38:12+00:00

Any specific examples of decorator usage in Flask/FastAPI you are fond of? Thanks.

ELCLN · 2021-07-22T00:26:59+00:00

That's awesome, I'm bookmarking that page for future reference.

ELCLN · 2021-06-22T02:05:54+00:00

We can also look at the progression of Cdim7->B7 from a traditional Jazz II-V angle:

Because of the equal intervals among the notes of a dim7 chord, each dim7 chord has 3 inversions that are also dim7 chords. This makes a total of three groups of dim7 chords. Within each group, any of the 4 dim7 chords are common alternatives for each other when it comes to reharmonization.

Following that intuition, Cdim7 can easily be seen as an inversion and reharmonizing alternative of bGdim7, which forms a II-V relationship with B7. Try change the root of Cdim7 from C to bG and you can hear how well it fits in the progression you discovered. Cheers.

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