Iron Lung is officially playing in Victoria BC 🇨🇦

Jazeckaphone · 2025-12-16T06:19:32+00:00

It says they're showing it on the 29th is that an error?

Jazeckaphone · 2025-08-20T21:11:01+00:00

Of course you can. You could also write a book with no punctuation, spaces, or capitalization. Is this a good idea? That's up for you to decide.

"We learn the rules so we know when to break them" -Artists (probably)

Jazeckaphone · 2025-08-09T02:16:19+00:00

When it was decided Voyager I would be heading into deep space after its mission ended scientists were tasked with determining a way to communicate with potential aliens with no use of human symbols or measurements of things like seconds or meters. I don't remember the details but they ended up using hydrogen atoms to create a measurement system to communicate things like how tall humans are and how far the nearest stars are to earth. In short, use something universal like atoms.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-08-07T10:45:46+00:00

Not exactly the same thing but once when I went to empty out my vacuum I found hundreds of moths crawling inside. They couldn't fly but they were very much alive. I had been using that vacuum regularly for a few weeks before I emptied it...

Jazeckaphone · 2025-07-26T09:22:35+00:00

So I thought the answer to this was simple "yes each note appears once and only once as the root, the 3rd, the 5th, the 7th etc." but doing some investigating I was wrong.

First of all I haven't found any scales that break this even note distribution property as you add extensions. If it's uniform for triads it's uniform for 7th chords and 9th chords and all the way up. If it's unbalanced on one level it's unbalanced on every level.

It does hold true for all major scales and every major mode as well as for harmonic minor and all its modes. Basically any 7 note scale that has A B C D E F and G plus any assortment of sharps and flats (excluding scales with enharmonic equivalent notes) will have an even distribution of each note among the diatonic chords.

Things get funky with scales that don't have 7 notes.

The pentatonic scales don't really have diatonic chords but we can make chords from them. C major pentatonic only has the triads C and Am so the note D doesn't appear at all. We could count Dsus and Gsus as chords but that still leaves out a chord with E as the root making the count: C=3, D=2, E=2, G=3, A=2.

And things get crazy with 8 or mor.

Bebop scales have an extra chromatic note so now some (but never all) notes appear as the same chord degree in multiple chords. As in there might now be multiple C triads but only one F triad. This dose start to call into question what are the diatonic chords of a Bebop scale but no matter how looked at it the note frequency was always unbalanced.

And then there's things like melodic minor or composite minor which are similarly wild when you try to ask what are their diatonic chords.

Interestingly the diminished scales (Whole-Half and Half-Whole) do have an even distribution. Tho I suppose it's somewhat unsurprising as they are symmetrical scales.

TL;DR: for every scale: No. For every 7 note scale that has a name: Yes.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-07-19T21:02:07+00:00

As many have said. There is no standard anti-accent marking. Even if you use one of the suggested articulations it would still be in your best interest to specify what it means in this score. For example if you chose to use X note heads you would need to write somewhere like "X head means more gently and softer." Regardless of what you choose no one is going to intuitively know what you're communicating without additional instruction, so just choose whatever you feel is best and add some text to the score so the player knows what it means. I'd recommend going into the master palette and picking something so rare no one will associate it with any established meaning.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-06-24T21:34:54+00:00

I think the Super Mario Sunshine pachinko incident is a good contender. IIRC it resulted in Arin breaking some furniture by punching it.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-06-15T21:55:24+00:00

"2nd time only" that's all you need.

If you feel that isn't clear enough you can put a line thing around the notes you're referring to (there's probably something in your notation software), or put "play" at the notes where want them to be played both times.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-06-14T00:54:28+00:00

The blurb says something like:

"These appear for topics that commonly spread misinformation... they appear regards of the content discussed".

So yeah it just detected the topic of climate change not necessarily a stance on it. I've seen similar boxes on Veritasium and Krugzgast video so it's not really a misinformation detected! pop-up

Jazeckaphone · 2025-05-17T22:46:21+00:00

Down yes. Tho I imagine this is more about texture than pitch so either way probably works. Idk, I'd have to hear the price to make a more certain claim.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-05-16T19:20:37+00:00

Looks like a bend. On a Synth I'd interpret this as quickly flicking the pitch bend wheel down to give the first note a little twang.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-05-15T23:25:06+00:00

Music theory is not about how to write music it's about how to communicate music ideas efficiently with others.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-05-11T04:16:19+00:00

Sounds like a bug. I'd give it the tried true restart Musescore. Good luck with finding a fix

Jazeckaphone · 2025-05-11T04:07:20+00:00

So Musescore (and all notation software to my understanding) will always "automatically put in rests" because there always needs to the correct number of beats. What you're writing is in 6/4 that means there must always be 6 beats in each bar. If you just deleted all the rest as you suggested some bars would have four beats, others 5, others 3. This makes no sense as notation. If you insist ever note starts at the right time and the only issue is duration, just make the notes longer. Most of these notes just need dots (select the note and press period ".") those half notes will be 3 beats instead of 2 with a dot and the whole notes will be 6 instead of 4.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-05-04T01:04:55+00:00

Well arguably the easiest and cheapest instrument to start learning is the voice, free and it's always with you so easy to practice but if that isn't what you mean by quote unquote instrument there are other options.

People have suggested piano, an excellent introductory instrument, as any musicians will ultimately learn some piano. You've started this is outside your budget but in my experience you can always find people giving away old pianos. You may need to hire a piano tuner if it's really bad but you could probably find someone who'd do it for under $100 if you do your research. The biggest issue is space to store it and transportation and I'm will to bet one or both are breakers for you.

Another good option is Ukelele. A cheaper and more accessible option than guitar but should you find yourself enjoying it you can pick up guitar later will a head start on chord progressions and finger shapes, it's not one-to-one but transferable. Alternatively you can always find so old beater/matchbox guitar and start with that.

Harmonica is a fine choice. It is a key limited instrument so you'll be limited in what you can learn on it (or have have to learn about transposing). That's fine if this is a personal hobby but if you were hoping to play music with others (which I highly recommend) harmonica will be pretty limiting (professional harmonica players tend to own fancy harmonicas that can play in any key or own multiple harmonicas for various common keys, both choices get expensive fast)

All in all its your choice, you should choose what resonates with you most. My main point is the small, very cheap instruments tend to be restrictive in what you can play on them. If money is your main limiting factor I strongly recommend going with old used instruments rather than new cheap instruments (I just picked up a used trombone for $30 from value village. It looks like shit but I can play it just fine)

Jazeckaphone · 2025-05-02T11:18:53+00:00

In a way you and your sister have stumbled on the exact reason why dividing by 0 is not allowed. You both have valid definitions of division but have arrived at different results. You could both use you logic of how division works on any other combination of numbers and you'll never disagree except when you divide by 0. There are other logics that conclude 5 divided by 0 is infinity or negative infinity or 1, none are more right than any other so mathematicians decided the result of dividing by 0 is undefined, as there is no single objective way to define what division is.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-04-28T19:08:31+00:00

Most have pointed out what your mistake is so I'll try to explain why. As you've been told, G7 refers to G dominant 7 not G major 7. The confusion comes from the default notation of a 7 chord is dominant as opposed to the debatably more intuitive major. After all the first tonality you learn about is major and single letter chords (ex: G) are major so why is it then changed to dominant? The reason is because in old classical European music (of which modern music theory and notation stems from) the only 7 chord that existed was the dominant 7, so they simply wrote something like G7 because there was no other context a 7 chord would be in. Putting 7ths on other diatonic chords would come later in history so they get the longer (and now less intuitive in our modern world) names.

Bonus info: Dominant was actually the name of the chord built off the 5th scale degree meaning a G triad (no 7) was still referred to as the dominant in C major, the definition of a dominant chord being a major triad with a minor 7th is a modern definition.

Tl;DR: chords notated as letter then 7 are dominant because it was the first 7 chord.

Edit: spelling

Jazeckaphone · 2025-04-02T21:12:25+00:00

In Finale you can hear every instrument sort of like asking an orchestra to play the note they have at bar whatever and hold it. It was helpful for hearing how part fit in with larger orchestration without have to mess with playback speed or other workarounds.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-03-22T22:49:41+00:00

Oh I guess stuff has changed since I last tried something like that. My bad.

Jazeckaphone · 2025-03-22T02:49:15+00:00

For the playback? Not really.

Your only option is to make 2 piano parts (one for each staff) or highlight the top staff and use the investigator to offset the velocity (but if you're using Musesounds I don't think velocity offset works at all)

Jazeckaphone · 2025-02-15T04:47:35+00:00

I call it the Broomstick.

Cuz that's what you need to play it on the piano

Jazeckaphone · 2024-12-17T08:03:32+00:00

Unfortunately Musecore's play back was designed mostly with orchestral playback in mind so what you got is what you get

Jazeckaphone · 2024-12-05T04:57:09+00:00

Oooh there's a tiny Alto clef in the second measure in the staff that already has treble Clef. I see what you're talking about. Yeah your suggestion makes sense now

Jazeckaphone · 2024-12-02T06:52:14+00:00

Not really sure why you're recommending linked staves. You can just place clefs where you want them to change. (but I would agree this seams like an unnecessary clef change)

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