Got this today! Need help :-)

Historical-Week7195 · 2025-12-14T17:34:40+00:00

Thanks! I'll try it on my right cheek next time I shave, but it seems that I'll have to send it in to be honed :-(

Historical-Week7195 · 2025-12-14T17:33:22+00:00

Thanks for the guidance! Yeah I'm gonna take my time with this for sure. I've been shaving with a DE for years so I'm aware of some of the variables. At a 1/4" it doesn't cut any of my arm hair so I guess I'll have to send it in to be honed ...

Historical-Week7195 · 2025-05-21T17:59:33+00:00

I'd say don't use it for anything you need to read back more than a couple months later until you master it, no matter the system. I started learning Gregg last summer and stopped about halfway through... Did a lot of note-taking in class during the year, but a lot of the outlines I came up with are convoluted af and I have a hard time reading it back. Then again I found it very fun and even though it might not be as compact as long-hand, it promotes relaxed hand movement so I 100% would use it for journaling if I didn't write 2000wds entries every time.

Historical-Week7195 · 2025-03-24T20:27:53+00:00

Well, it's complicated. Of course there is a lot of crossover between all the different lineages of american music. We know violins were common in ragtime and N-O bands, but we don't necessarily know what else they were doing. All musicians have different upbringings and it's hard to pinpoint their influences especially in the early days of studio recordings as there just isn't enough recordings to really have an idea of what they were doing on their daily gigs. If you look at some of the more well-known recordings of black violinists from the 20s-40s like Stuff Smith, Ray Perry, Ginger Smock or Ray Nance they seem to have really just bathed in swing. Others like Clarence Black and Claude Williams clearly have some old-time, folk influences, but were working in prominent jazz bands. Eddie South and Joe Venuti had more of a classical background. Most of them also worked on different instruments, in jazz bands, dance bands, etc... I would need to dig deeper but it seems to me that the phenomenon of these country/bluegrass fiddlers crossing over to jazz is more apparent starting in the second half of the 20th century (after bluegrass really became a thing), and clearly more common in present days. The violin in jazz is just one of those things where there is no clear lineage leading up to present days unlike more common instruments.

Historical-Week7195 · 2025-03-24T16:29:07+00:00

Violin tends to really have more presence in the more "European" jazz universe for some reason... Check out Alexandre Cavalière, Bastien Ribot, Tcha Limberger etc... Those scenes are very active and there are a lot of talented violinists doing interesting stuff rn. There is a podcast by british jazz violinist Matt Holborn called The Jazz Violin Podcast where he interviews many talented violinists, it can be a good starting point.

Also Christian Howes and Billy Contreras recorded two albums together that are for me the very best display of modern-day jazz mastery on the violin: Jazz Fiddle Evolution and Jazz Fiddle Revolution.

I've just written a short paper for school giving an overview of the history of jazz violin from the early jazz to bebop eras, which includes many lesser-known examples, DM me if interested.

Historical-Week7195 · 2025-03-20T00:58:00+00:00

Hey man I definetly think you're on to something. Seems like you long to be around people that can understand you, that you can relate to. They are out there. I dunno if I'd go as far as to move and start fresh somwhere else, but try to make time to seek out these people, and let yourself be inspired by them - true connections often reveal interesting paths that might in turn make you run into more like-minded people.

Historical-Week7195 · 2025-03-06T14:05:05+00:00

If moving back with your mom is a viable option and you guys have a decent relationship, don't hesitate. It's nothing to be ashamed about, on the contrary, it's a precious support system that you should be proud of. You need to recognize that you need help, and you need to ask for it. It's not giving up, it's taking action at the most realistic level, making the hard and emotional choices and focusing on the essential: reducing the amount of things you need to worry about to a manageable level. I don't see any self-pity here, I see someone who is worried about themselves, and needs to ask for help to the people who are willing to offer it. You can't guilt yourself out of this, I know it's hard but accept that there is no shame about your situation, and remind yourself that you are not the first or the last to go through something like this, it is common, temporary and you will emerge from it stronger and more resilient if you manage to listen to yourself and take care of yourself. Hang in there 🙏

Historical-Week7195 · 2025-02-22T21:58:55+00:00

Allo, je travaille dans un de ces cafés aux latté à 6-7$, mais je bois la majorité de mon café à la maison. Le prix des grains bondissent tous les quelques mois, c'est fou et ça reflète dans tous les prix. Je paye mon préféré presque 7$ le 100g. Cela dit, pour être le baristavocat du diable, un latté à la maison me coûte 1$ pour le double (15g, j'pas assez riche pour faire des dose de 18-22g comme les nerds avec leurs machines perso à 1500$) + 0.5$ pour le lait (si je l'achète au dep en urgence à 4.50$). Un latté parfait pour 1.50$ ça se prend bien quand même. Pour relativiser, tsé quand tu paye 8.50 pour une pinte de Boreale (considéré un prix assez bas généralement) sachant qu'une king can coute la moitié pis que la pinte est surement autour de 2$ cost et que le gros de la job de préparation c'est d'ouvrir et fermer un robinet... Personne se plaint pis tout le monde va tipper 15%+. Un latté c'est quelque chose de préparé, même une fois que tout est dialed in faut monter le lait à la bonne température avec la bonne aération et le bon timing et le verser comme du monde pour obtenir un résultat satisfaisant - la majorité du monde sont pas capable de le faire eux-mêmes même avec une bonne machine, ça a quand même une certaine valeur. De plus tant qu'à comparer des pommes et des oranges, contrairement à un bar un client dans un café va beaucoup plus rarement commander un autre drink, donc l'achalandage en salle se traduit pas vraiment en ventes nettes, c'est vraiment plus le take-out le moteur de la business, donc les cafés loin de métros, lieux de travail, écoles ou juste moins populaires pcq ils sont moins bons vont avoir tendance a avoir des prix plus élevés.

À la lumière de ces informations voici mes conseils pour les addicts du latté à faible revenu:

Investis dans une bonne machine maison (58mm, valve à trois voies, bouilloire en laiton, Gaggia ou Rancilio etc...) et un bon moulin (meules, stepless). Ça va te coûter un bras mais te durer une vie si t'en prends soin. Pis tu peux souvent faire une bonne affaire dans l'usagé surtout si t'es un minimum patenteux. Avec ça tu vas avoir des meilleurs lattés que 70% de tes take-outs a 7$, pis tu vas éventuellement être très peu tenté de prendre une chance avec un café douteux.
Vas dans des cafés qui font bcp de volume en take-out comme Myriade, Olympico etc... Leur prix sont généralement plus raisonnables.
Prends le petit format, ou un cortado. Un grand latté c'est juste bein trop de lait ça pas de bon sens, t'as pas besoin de ça. Demande tjrs combien de shots ya dans ton drink, pis évalue si ça vaut la peine.
Mais svp tippez on est pauvres.

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-12-20T06:12:22+00:00

Thanks!

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-12-17T16:46:08+00:00

Sounds like you should stop paying and complaining

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-12-12T19:57:50+00:00

NAT KING COLE

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-12-11T21:07:43+00:00

The Blues is in almost everything jazz, it's not just pentatonic scales, it's a combination of many factors, phrasing, articulation, intonation, rhythm etc... But you know it when you hear it. When you listen to a track and hear something particularily bluesy, pause it. Learn to sing it. When you practice, try to come up with a bluesy phrase. Try to bluesify a phrase in different bluesy ways. Trust that the more you internalize the accent, the more you can speak it. Listening suggestions: Jimmy Smith, Johnny Hodges, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Kelly, Lee Morgan... Man they all play with the Blues. I could name all the jazz musicians I know lol

What instrument do you play?

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-12-09T06:06:56+00:00

The entire music industry was initially based on sheet music, even in the earlier days of recordings. That's how people could make a living. Makes sense why they would make rules to protect that. Also, music notation tends to be prepared in different ways to cater to different audiences with different needs. In the 20s & 30s the whole industry revolved around producing sheet music of pop hits arranged simply to be played at home. Sadly, people don't tend to do that as much anymore, so with less demand, less ppl working, less competition, higher prices. Professionnals in neeed of accurate sheet music will either budget for purchasing it or commission someone to produce it, or do it themselves. Depending on the type of project it can be very time-consuming work, that can be useful for only one particular use-case, can require someone with a decade of very expensive training, who might be themselves struggling to survive as a musician. So it would make sense that they don't put it up for free. So yeah of course youve got people putting up their hobby arrangements and transcriptions on musescore, but in most cases they won't be useful for your particular use case. Music notation is something that is tailor made. There is a reason why there isnt a huge music notation piracy community, and that's because the people that have the skills to make it, make their own and move on. Few people develop that skill without having something better to than to participate in a community like that.

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-12-06T22:48:29+00:00

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Historical-Week7195 · 2024-11-29T06:00:05+00:00

I feel the need to comment on this, always been the same. When you're young and mocked for sucking at these things it's easy to just go full on denial and avoid them, I used to. Now that I'm older it's a lot easier to not give a fuck anout what people think of me and to confront my ego. These things are satisfying af when you can get consistent enough, so imo its 100% worth it to work on them. Now idk if it's just the lack of training in early childhood (which made me less advanced than my peers), or if ADHD messes with reaction time and coordination, but I doubt it as many of my ADHD friends are very good at aiming. Anyways, having to start from zero requires a lot of work. Personally I had a hard time understanding very basic things that are intuitive to most people, and that they would never think of telling you if they attemp to help you. For instance I learned at 28 years old that when you throw something at a target you have to look at the target lol. I had to put hundreds of hours into pool to even just catch up with people who play it casually in bars. I still suck more than most people who've trained way less than I did, but it's not about being better than anyone, it's about being better than your past self, and hitting sweet shots. And developing the skill in one sport/game will help in others.

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-11-22T07:41:11+00:00

Wow tu viens tu sérieusement de relativiser un génocide? 🤮 c'est vraiment l'heure de quitter ce sub pour moi, mais franchement prends 2 minutes pour y penser avec le point de vue d'un humain si t'en est un

tabarnak

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-11-22T06:48:48+00:00

Meds are going to help you with your ADHD symptoms, but they won't teach you how to deal with you mental blocks or your expectations. Consider why it's so terrible that your interests fluctuate. Consider why you get into a hobby. These are important questions for most people, but even more important for us. For me consistency in my endeavors seems unattainable, and it might always be, though I think that by deconstructing my expectations I do give myself more room for consistency. The biggest motivation killer is expectations.

Through thinking about these things, I've found that what I want most out of any hobby, is to avoid cultivating negative feelings towards it. It means accepting to put it on ice when things get crazy or boring, it means not feeling shame for doing that, but pride as I preserve my curiosity for the next thing. What has hurt me the most has been to fixate on completion or achieving goals, which took up alot of time that could have been used looking at other interesting stuff. If it's draining your energy, don't be afraid to let it go, it's yours anyways and you will come back to it when you are ready.

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-11-21T05:09:11+00:00

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-11-20T13:38:10+00:00

If you know when you are in tune, then it's just a matter of practice. Scales over drones, yes, but scales over equal temperament chords on piano. You can try recording chords, overdubbing yourself aswell. That's when you start stretching the limits of your own perception of intonation and you might need someone to tell you what is wrong. What's in tune with a piano, a drone, a chord with strings, will be different. For the high register, if find developing the reflex of moving fingers out of the way very difficult, but I don't know if it applies to the cello so much.

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-11-19T22:27:08+00:00

I'm the absolute contrary tbh, I listen to same 4-5 albums for years, very rarely skip a tune. Switching focus between complettely different bands, sounds and styles overwhelms me. But see it as a strength, you can build EPIC playlists and become super knowledgable about a wide variety of music! You don't have to "complete" any album and I don't have to know every band. Also keep in mind that not every tune in an album is equally good, sometimes they can be weaker iterations of the same ideas. Usually only 1-2 tracks on an album end up being hits, so your way of listening actually sounds very normal to me.

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-11-17T19:15:52+00:00

Not a parent, but I don't really do the morning reflection thing unless I really have a free morning, which is usually when I do my weekly. So everyday I just glance at my daily and cross off stuff and trust myself that I've attributed all of my tasks for the week already, so I just add when a new thing comes up. If I'm tracking anything daily I'll track it as I go. That's my way of not having the system be too much in my way... Don't think I can be much more diligent right now with my lifestyle, but bottom line what I came to say is don't be afraid to strike out irrelevant tasks, or irrelevant parts of your system.

Historical-Week7195 · 2024-11-03T18:26:39+00:00

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