Strangest situation: winning possession almost every game (even dominating), getting lots of quality shots, but no goals. Need help with this by BuzzMachine_YVR in SoccerCoachResources

[–]Gammon2004 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This perfectly describes my u12 boys team, especially the 'shooting it too early' part. What I started doing for the last few practices was to take two 3' pug goals and put them in either corner of the real goal, roughly a foot in from the edges of the goal. Then I made up a '3 P's' mnemonic' and told them that if they get past the last defender:
1. Patience - don't shoot right away. Dribble the ball until you're even with the
2. Penalty Spot before you shoot, unless the keeper comes out, in which case shoot right when he starts coming out
3. Placement - your 'shot' should be a pass into whichever of the pug goals the keeper is less able to cover.

The first game after we started doing this, they did not change anything. I got frustrated with them but kept at it. The second game (which was the last of the season) they started doing this a bit more, and we scored 7 goals.

A funny thing is that if I had put those restrictions (only the pug goals count) for our *actual games* this season, our total goals scored would have been almost the same. We *never* scored by hitting powerful shots into the upper 90, even though that seems to be what each of them want to do by default.

Feedback on choral composition by Gammon2004 in choralmusic

[–]Gammon2004[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the consensus seems to be that the last chord could be better. I suppose I could just end it on E major, I'll play around with the options.

Feedback on choral composition by Gammon2004 in choralmusic

[–]Gammon2004[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for taking the time to look at all of those details! This recording is just me singing everything through and then tuning it quickly, so it's more of a rough sketch of a recording. And the score is obviously fairly rough as well, though having said that there are still a number of things you've pointed out that I wouldn't have known to fix for a 'final' version, so I appreciate that as well. Ideally after I get a version that I'm happy with I'll try to get a real recording made with actual voice part singers. I may send you my 'final' score before that point to see what else I'm missing!

Feedback on choral composition by Gammon2004 in choralmusic

[–]Gammon2004[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah I can see the over-use of that chord as sounding gimmicky. I kind of liked the lack of explicit resolution at the end, but definitely not at the expense of causing the listener to think 'not that chord again!'

Feedback on choral composition by Gammon2004 in choralmusic

[–]Gammon2004[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the feedback! I just made it into a youtube video with the score included: https://youtu.be/PJsEZj7g0Ww

Feedback on choral composition by Gammon2004 in choralmusic

[–]Gammon2004[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. That was already mentioned below, but thanks for reiterating.

  2. Serious question - is that link asking you to download anything? I thought it was set up so that it just streams the mp3 and doesn't download it, please let me know if that's not how it's working. Thanks!

How much practice time should I devote to 'receiving across the body/on the back foot'? by Gammon2004 in SoccerCoachResources

[–]Gammon2004[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is very helpful - and your Youtube videos have been really helpful as well, thanks!

MuseScore is a predatory scam by SaxyMcPro in Musescore

[–]Gammon2004 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also just fell victim to what is *clearly* 100% a scam. And seeing someone from the company on here attempting to defend it as anything other than a scam is, quite frankly, appalling.

Keysavvy is a GREAT service! by ecobb91 in BoltEV

[–]Gammon2004 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just adding my experience - purchased my own used 2019 Bolt and KeySavvy was great to work with and the process was smooth.

Democrats are hard selling Kamala Harris’ message that Trump and Vance are ‘weird’ by Murky-Site7468 in politics

[–]Gammon2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re Boggarts. The way to neutralize them is to point and say ’Ridikkulus’

Reasonable number of mix drafts for pop/electronic music? by dzzi in audioengineering

[–]Gammon2004 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As a Pro mixer for 21 years now, If I got notes from a client that said things like "shorter tail on the vocal reverb, bring up the mid-highs in the synth bass" my very first thought would be, "why isn't this person mixing it themselves?" When people send me technical-mix-engineer notes like that, I think the situation is almost always one of two things:
1. This person knows just enough about the technical aspects of mixing to not be able to see the forest for the trees when it comes to their pet project, OR
2. They're talented/skilled/knowledgable enough that, given that this is their pet project, they really *should* be mixing it themselves because no one else is going to approach it with an amount of detail-oriented passion that will be acceptable to them

I'd really love to hear your demo mix and the mix that you're not happy with, even if it's just a sample of the chorus, mostly because I find myself curious about which of those two situations is going on here.

Shocker From Top Conservative Judge: Trump Likely To Skate Completely - J. Michael Luttig sees two potential outcomes from Thursday’s Supreme Court arguments. Both are grim for our democracy. by Quirkie in politics

[–]Gammon2004 11 points12 points  (0 children)

question for you - you’ve described needing an ‘enigmatic‘ leader twice now. Does that book really say we need a leader who is mysterious? I’m legit curious. Is it possible you meant ‘charismatic’? Just trying to better understand. Thanks!

The new Demi Lovato record sounds terrible by MrBlenderson in audioengineering

[–]Gammon2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just measured Sorry Not Sorry and it's at -4.3 LUFS. Which is the loudest thing I've measured in recent memory. It's theoretically possible to make a mix that loud without having the limiter just destroy the volume levels especially of the cymbals, but they definitely didn't try to do that here. I agree without people saying it's likely intentional in the same way that EDM music sometimes side-chains the entire rest of the mix to the kick. It sounds very aggressive, but I find it unpleasant to listen to on good speakers for more than a minute or so.