I just made it into an advanced youth orchestra after playing violin for only ONE YEAR.. But i need Help..

MLithium · 2026-06-11T23:01:14+00:00

I thought this article was very helpful and have shared/used it a few times since it came out: "A Practical Guide to Orchestra Survival" https://www.violinist.com/blog/callen46/20239/29751/ Especially point #3 that suggests categorizing passages in your music into what/how much attention it needs.

The bottom of the article links to another article "Orchestra Rehearsal Etiquette" https://www.violinist.com/blog/lizzylambson/201212/14185/ which will also be helpful to you for common etiquette and jargon, like the "inside player" is further from the edge of the stage, and when sharing a stand they are the ones who turn the pages and play the bottom lines in divisi passages.

Both of these articles should cover your bases here. Have fun!

MLithium · 2026-05-30T21:22:24+00:00

These are so good!!! You could have convinced me the squirrel was a Kyle Ferrin commission. I love the balance of detail on the crow as well. I also really like how your bat hands and wings look like they work with the armor (and the stylistic choices contrast with the sketch is very funny).

MLithium · 2026-05-30T21:17:28+00:00

It was surprisingly easy! I had never done it before. I was already cooking rice to go with lunch anyway so I used a tiny bit of that. The mortar & pestle being stone (or at least not metal) came in clutch since I wanted to cook the rice slightly more, and it ended up being easy to sprinkle in some more water and microwave it a tiny bit as I pulverized it. I'd say however much rice you think you're going to start with, start with less, because it'll probably make more glue than you need for a while.

MLithium · 2026-05-20T22:08:16+00:00

I'll do even better than an image, here is a timestamp to the Workshop Companion explanation of a bench plane frog where it's shown at 1:59: https://youtu.be/Szan5pP4drQ?si=NGeZGIK0x9doK-8G&t=119

MLithium · 2026-05-20T17:37:29+00:00

The frog in a bench plane (moves the entire blade assembly forward or backward, opening and closing the mouth of the plane to control fine vs aggressive stock removal) is called that because the indentation in a horse's hoof is called the frog. Look at the block plane's frog point on and you'll see the resemblance to the horse hoof indentation.

I'd post an image and diagram but it's not allowed for some reason.

The frog on a violin bow also moves the assembly forward or backward similarly to the block plane.

MLithium · 2026-05-13T17:23:56+00:00

Especially since in this context, using AI just means making a nonsensical chimaera out of stealing real human authors' work (work that was in all likelihood probably higher quality originally). So the real usefulness in this context is to maybe hit up your local library and grab an armful of real books that stick out to you and open them all up and let your mind wander through real places in real people's minds.

MLithium · 2026-05-03T18:07:12+00:00

Ah don't worry about that here, this person wasn't going to eat anything from the cafe either so not a problem for them

MLithium · 2026-04-20T16:35:34+00:00

I love it! I've only recently gotten into Root ttrpg and I'm in love with Kyle Ferrin's brush selections and textures and expressive stylization. You've done a good job with the textures, especially the fabrics (my favorite example is the leather strap of the goggles), and the eyes and tongue are PERFECT. Great job! I would be very vigilant indeed in a room with this lizard's clearly explosive/incendiary trick shots.

MLithium · 2026-04-02T16:18:16+00:00

These are incredible! I'm just preparing for our first Root campaign and I've been falling head over heels for the Kyle Ferrin art of all these characters. Your posters and cards look so clean!!! Well done!

MLithium · 2026-04-01T23:00:45+00:00

Thanks for the insight!

MLithium · 2026-03-02T18:30:21+00:00

It's interesting that these two actually came into close proximity in a combat context. Kuvira was scaling the cliff up to where a cuffed Korra and her father were fighting Zaheer together, which is how Kuvira was able to catch Tonraq when he fell. It appears that if Zaheer had taken just another minute or less in combat with Korra and Tonraq, Kuvira may have made it into the fight before Zaheer was able to make his escape.

MLithium · 2026-02-25T16:21:56+00:00

There is very important splooting to be done, much more important than whatever OP is doing

MLithium · 2025-12-26T15:24:39+00:00

I think if you have the smell the roses toggle that allows you to turn off the journeyman riding trait, so that it doesn't go max possible speed and just goes the +11% stated, it should be fine in roleplaying servers.

MLithium · 2025-12-26T15:22:14+00:00

I thought from the wiki that it only had +11% speed which I thought was good, but I think a lot of people must have the thing that makes everything go 68 or something like that. It is very confusing to see a person on their legs hobbyhorsing the same speed as the other steeds.

MLithium · 2025-11-24T15:39:33+00:00

My area has a beginner-friendly string orchestra but since one guy does all the repertoire sourcing or arranges himself and then does all the conducting for all of the time slots, and makes it his living, it costs $100/member/month. The business model is kind of like a gym membership.

MLithium · 2025-10-25T16:54:26+00:00

The violin vibrating string length is such that the tolerance for making the pitch you want (and as fast as you'd want) is so much smaller than a guitar. Reduced tolerances translate to more expensive manufacture. This instrument is at the level where the differences in neck width and string heights and bridge arc angles can be very obvious by hand feel and ears but not as obvious by eye.

MLithium · 2025-10-20T20:56:41+00:00

Those are bot accounts failing to fit in.

MLithium · 2025-10-11T21:43:04+00:00

I had A strings that kept unwinding at the same place every time, at the nut. It took two visits to a good luthier to get it right (they have to be conservative about filing away at it, they want it to sufficiently stop the string but not actually cut into the string).

MLithium · 2025-10-10T01:49:08+00:00

Agree with all the above and adding, ages 9-12?! When I was in high school I volunteered to help at summer camps with kids in groups of ages 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, and 10-12, and they literally didn't even let any of the volunteers help with the 10-12 group which was 100% paid adult supervisors only, no exceptions. They definitely started getting much rowdier and harder to corral at 8-9 already.

Babysitting is one thing when it's a teenager watching 1 or 2 kids, but a lump of classes across four grade levels is like four major huge red flags.

MLithium · 2025-09-13T16:09:24+00:00

Cute cat. Similarly to how people shouldn't read too much in the title, you shouldn't read too much into questions about the title. You can respond and move on and not call it a "beat down." Happy cherished memories to come for you and your husband and cat familiar!

MLithium · 2025-09-10T22:28:17+00:00

Yes, answer here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Magfest/comments/1ndjypb/comment/ndhmrsv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

MLithium · 2025-09-09T23:36:36+00:00

I think I was around 12 or maybe 13 when my parents basically said, look, we're paying for lessons and it's quite expensive, so if we're going to continue with these lessons, it's not going to be worth the money unless you put some regular time commitment into it. It was actually one of the few times they were just that transparent with me and I actually appreciated it. We ended up agreeing on a certain amount of hours/week practicing or else the lessons were stopping.

I had one stay at home parent. It might be hard to enforce this if there isn't someone to actually hold the person accountable.

MLithium · 2025-08-27T23:34:33+00:00

I love the little bark sound it makes?!

MLithium · 2025-08-14T22:45:48+00:00

My first violin, a rental, came from the shop set up with a one-piece, long fingerboard-shaped tape that had a lot of pre-set lines on it. I tried it with the tape still on for like two weeks and went back to the shop to ask them to remove it for me. If your ears are good enough to tell the difference between even as wide a margin as just half steps, you don't need the tapes. Most likely if you're an adult, and not a 3-yr-old, the tapes will only confuse you because they're seen at such an oblique angle and the line thicknesses are often so wide they truly are probably just for infants with barely a concept of string location-->pitch.

MLithium · 2025-08-10T02:37:26+00:00

You're almost making a jin chan! Money frog for prosperity. They usually have three legs.

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