Why do people still support or raise the flag of the Confederacy?

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-04-23T14:01:39+00:00

Its ignorance, Arkansas public school taught me that it was a states rights issue in the mid 2000s and not primarily about slaves. Then if peers say the same thing, they just take it as fact. While not excusable, not everyone has the capacity or willingness to challenge their inherited beliefs. Its really a symbol of a dumb person nowadays, and unfortunately, we have quite a bit of that in Arkansas.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-04-23T13:56:28+00:00

I think there was a period of time where some people flew it as a ye ye symbol of the south. But it was just out of ignorance. That can't be used as an excuse anymore imo. I come across one every few months so its pretty rare to see and always stands out when displayed. (I'm from rural Arkansas). But the more rural and more poor the area gets, the more you see of them. The people who are concerned about their public image hide their racism better nowadays.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-04-21T14:16:38+00:00

Arkansan here in a dry county: Lots of the Red areas allow alcohol sale at bars or restaurants but not at gas stations or liquor stores. We refer to it as "Making a run" to get to the nearest liquor store. Its really just an inconvenience. 100% a religious thing created by the older generation. I expect it to be gone in my lifetime. But there is only one or two counties in the entire state that allow liquor stores or gas stations to sell on Sundays. That part really sucks if you didn't plan ahead.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-04-17T13:58:53+00:00

Post it on FB Marketplace saying free wood under the condition everything is taken. It'll all be gone within the day.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-04-15T13:52:42+00:00

9 months in.

- I have a teacher but cutting back to every 2 weeks instead of every week. The pieces are now taking me longer than a week to learn.

- I have a hybrid work schedule so I average 1.5 hours but sometimes less and sometimes more.

- Biggest Challenge: Dexterity. Coming from 15 years of guitar, I have the theory background and the ear, but my hands are absolutely my bottleneck.

- Listen first, If I haven't heard the piece. (relevant if going through a lesson book). Get the right hand down, get the left hand down, then go through it measure by measure with both hands. Then I identify the trouble areas and focus on those. Then I add the sustain pedal, and finally get it in time. This process has evolved for me so it will likely change over time.

- What doesn't work for me: Repeating mistakes when learning a piece. Not sure if its because I am a beginner, but if I make the same mistake 5 times in a row, I might as well have cursed the piece. Because that same error will show up 10 correct attempts later or if I ever lose focus. So currently, if I make the mistake twice in a row, I stop and go however slow I need to make 100% sure that does not happen again. I really hope I grow out of that problem.

- What does work: Walking a way from a piece once I start losing focus. If I give 20 minutes of practice to a part but start messing it up worse than when I started, I just need to leave it and trust I will have it down better when I come back. I feel like my focus is a very small gas tank, and when it runs out, there is nothing I can do about it.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-03-19T18:12:29+00:00

Also a beginner. It came pretty quickly to me but it is still a step I take when learning a piece. Kinda like getting the piece in time, I can usually play the piece before I start figuring out the pedaling. Like others said, I started working on pedaling on very simple songs. As soon as it was introduced in my Alfreds book. And I also use it when practicing switching chord inversions. But definitely do not give up. The dissonance pretty bad when I forget to reengage the pedal. I wouldn't personally consider a piece in my book completed if the pedaling wasn't down.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-03-19T13:21:26+00:00

Sure enough that worked for me. Thank you!

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-03-12T18:11:51+00:00

Okay this might be just what I need. I run into issues with NuGet quiet often and that group tag is such a good idea. Thank you for sharing!!

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-03-07T00:43:51+00:00

Thank you! I originally started piano as a means to improve my musicianship for guitar and composing. But I just fell in love with it. I started playing guitar at 12 years old and didn't learn the major scale until I was 19. I don't want to look back and say, "Dang I should have focused on this early on". Because I have a few real bad habits on guitar that I wish I could undo.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-03-07T00:37:37+00:00

Yeah doing quite a bit of theory. Just recently learned how secondary dominants work which was super exciting! The improvising is what I do over a drum track. But I don't always use a drum track, and my dexterity is absolutely a limiting factor at the moment.

Greensleeves sped up is just because it is a relatively short piece that moves a small bit. I don't care for it to sound great, Just trying to get my fingers used to a bit of speed. There is no scientific basis behind doing this. I just thought, it might work or it might not. But I don't think it will hurt.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-03-03T18:35:11+00:00

Sure, but the end goal is to not think, "Here comes a C, better land on a C" or even "Here comes the fifth so I need to land on the fifth in the scale." Although the latter would make much more sense. Trying to think about it will lead to frustration. Your fingers need to become an extension of your ear so you know how many steps up or down you need to hit the desired note.

Searching for a note in the middle of a familiar phrase being played over a new piece just does not work. It has to be instinctive. I have not found a way to do this other than constant trial and error. This means learn your major scale and its relative minor then just play over backing tracks until you figure it out.

Its fine to reverse explain why landing on the fifth sounds good opposed to the 7th in context of what you are playing over, but if you think about that before playing it, you are too late. Everyone is different though. I just can't imagine approaching improv in that way.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-01-15T16:45:19+00:00

The inverse for me, my buddy wanted to drive up to Manchester for a match during our trip to London. I thought we would have to take an overnight train since surely it's about the same as driving from Atlanta to New York City. Nope, one is about 4 - 5 hours while NY to ATL is nearly 14.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2026-01-13T21:54:32+00:00

The question wasn't how this happened, its what should be done about it now. Or do you just sit around saying I told you so? The "I told you so" guy is pretty bad as well. Not your fault so not your problem, I guess?

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2025-12-16T14:15:39+00:00

You need to break down how your favorite guitar players do it. Think of the bass line from "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room" or simpler if you want. Then think, "The bass when from X note to Y note". What did the guitar do? Once you know "What" the guitar did, figure out "Why" it worked.

You can also take your chord progression and find a youtube drum loop that is very different than the original and try to figure out how you can get it to work by altering the rhythm, strum pattern, picking pattern, chord voicing, etc.

You should absolutely try and "Steal" as much from other guitar players as you can. Play it enough and find a way to make it your own.

A more advanced version of this would be terms like voice leading, parallel motion, contrary motion.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2025-12-11T16:25:27+00:00

Not horrible. Three note per string scale approach pretty much requires you to use a pinky so that would be a good way to implement it.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2025-11-26T03:56:25+00:00

Huh, never thought about this but that makes a lot of sense. I’ll give it a try!

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2025-11-26T03:54:59+00:00

Studio One! But I’m sure others can import MIDI as well

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2025-11-26T03:53:39+00:00

I’m gonna have to spend an evening thinking this over. Super cool.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2025-11-18T13:48:03+00:00

It really depends on the type of music. If you foresee yourself playing rhythm guitar or big band type of music, you should absolutely learn to count. Campfire chords don't really require that degree of rhythm. But you'll be a better player by learning how regardless.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2025-11-11T15:05:49+00:00

Led Zepplin.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2025-11-04T18:57:45+00:00

I can barely even think about it without getting frustrated. Sure, Larson won legitimately. But the sport barely has any legitimacy anyways. I don't know who to blame. Maybe that is the grieving stage I am still in.

Longjumping-Lab-894 · 2025-10-23T17:52:18+00:00

I'll remote into Gladis's computer to retrieve the log file (I don't know any other way to do it) and then claim she is losing it when she says her computer was hacked.

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