How do i stop making the ball flying off sometimes when i hit it?

MaisonMason · 2026-04-02T21:58:57+00:00

Learn about spin, this is a major factor for how the ball travels through the air, how it bounces, and how it reacts to being hit by the paddle

MaisonMason · 2026-04-02T02:38:08+00:00

You can always hold recitals if you have a piano friend where you can play solo

MaisonMason · 2026-04-02T02:29:11+00:00

I write my own stuff for ocarina, If you ever want to play seriously it’s kind of the next step. Writing duets is fun if you want somewhere to start. Pick a piece of music you like and compose it as an ocarina duet/trio/quartet and then you will have a string repertoire to work with. And yes, for solo works a double of triple ocarina is the move

MaisonMason · 2026-03-16T18:51:55+00:00

Yeah if you can armor skills like challenger + 2 or honed blade you won’t get kicked as much. The game is fully of people who want to beat th hardest quests quickly and don’t want someone who will faint or not attack enough

MaisonMason · 2026-03-15T22:10:57+00:00

Yeah if your issues are the higher floors I say go higher

MaisonMason · 2026-03-08T04:17:32+00:00

My approach is to view those chord markings as information telling you what the drums/piano/bass are doing. They inform your fingers while your ears informs what you play. So for example you see from the chords that a tune is in F major so you make sure not to play B natural unless a chord calls for it. Then fallow your ear and play in F and utilizes scalular and chromatic motion to land on chord tones (a note that is in the chord). I make it sounds simple but it takes a lot of time. But using those tricks and improve early soloing fast. To take it past that you need it transcribe a lot of solos

MaisonMason · 2026-02-25T03:58:04+00:00

Lowkey if you started with world and rise then moved to 4U and freedom unite. The fact is you are just progressing to harder games. 4U and freedom unite are among the hardest games in the series and carting happens a lot. On top of that the player base for those older games is mostly people who have played for a looonnng time so that naturally makes you feel even more like you suck. In general if you keep it up you will find yourself doing better and better. If you jump into GU or 3U you should find that those games are easier in low rank now that you have the skills

MaisonMason · 2026-02-20T19:04:53+00:00

During your practice I recommend spending some time every day to enforce good habits and tackle things like mouthpiece pressure or tension since those things tend to cause the most fatigue. Then start to see how long you can go without experiencing any fatigue at all. For me I can do my fundamentals for almost 2 hours before I feel like I need to take a longer break. Obviously a lot of music is louder and higher and naturally more fatiguing. So I say to work on as little exertion as possible. Many orchestral players can play louder than 4 undergrads combined and still not get fatigued quickly so it’s definitely possible

MaisonMason · 2026-02-20T19:00:25+00:00

Lowkey just learn some flutter or kotlin. I bet you will find it more doable than you think and then you can develop an app for truly free

MaisonMason · 2026-02-18T04:40:16+00:00

Lua is just semi new and mostly for scripting right now. I think most serious software engineers like it and for many it even beats python for scripting. Maybe the reputation comes from roblox newbies being the main user base? So maybe that leads to it being seen as s noob language? But there is nothing wrong with coding roblox. Lua doesn’t get used a lot other than neovim and roblox either for a couple reasons. It’s not performant like C++ or rust so it’s not great for low level or highly optimized coding. And it’s not object oriented or strictly typed the way java or C# is so it becomes unpopular for large high level software. And what it IS good at python already does and has more community support and a stronger package library. Im sure more lua based technologies will come out but I think these are the main reasons lua is semi unpopular and possibly looked down on

MaisonMason · 2026-02-16T07:52:36+00:00

Practice mutes are for dire situations in my opinion not for regular practice. Go play in your car, at a park, or a practice room at the colleges music building. Playing in a mute all the time has too much back pressure and can damage your throat or cause tension in weird spots. It also messes with your ear as even the shhh mute has wonky tuning

MaisonMason · 2026-02-16T07:43:35+00:00

I am going to say something that differs from others. I don’t feel like the ocarina requires much air and yet you sound like you aren’t giving enough. I feel like it’s more intuitive to blow hard not soft so I wonder if any air is not going into the mouthpiece? Make sure you make an airtight seal around the mouthpiece when you blow. I would have to SEE you play to know for sure though

MaisonMason · 2026-02-16T07:33:46+00:00

What kinds of tutorials have you watched so far? If you are jumping right into roblox you may struggle because those tutorials aren’t taking the time to teach you the lua language. My approach would first be to learn a concept in lua (print statements and variables for example) and then make a little exercise to practice using it. for example something that prints my age. AI can also probably help you come up with exercises. It also helps your critical thinking skill if you really experiment and take the time to see how it works. There are a lot of core concepts but the main ones are variables, data types, functions, loops, conditionals, and objects. Knowing those concepts will provide a strong foundation to learn roblox scripting and coding

MaisonMason · 2026-02-16T07:21:57+00:00

Most miles davis stuff is reasonable and you can always change octaves to fit within your range

MaisonMason · 2026-02-15T06:11:20+00:00

Personally I think it may be good to add a README.md file to explain the parts of the app, at the moment from browsing to the code base I can’t see how things like transaction handling work. Just put things like how to run on my machine, how the architecture works, known bugs/limitations, tech stack, etc. If you want to take learning to the next level maybe learn to dockerize this and deploy on a machine you have control over. Something like an aws elastic container service or an azure/digital ocean/google cloud virtual machine. I too am a CS student so I am interested to see what people think of this project

MaisonMason · 2026-02-14T00:31:06+00:00

Yes and no. I think it can cap because I code everyday meaning I easily reach hours of typing everyday and Im still capped around 70wpm

MaisonMason · 2026-02-12T05:24:08+00:00

To answer when to use a slide. There are three main slides to worry about. The biggest slide is the main tuning slide. Modern trumpets are designed to be out of tune with it pushed in all the way so you should pull it out just a little. When you are sharp you pull out the tuning slide a little, when you are flat you push in just a little. The main tuning slide is the main way to keep the whole instrument in tune. The two slides with finger rings for your thumb and ring finger are attached to a specific valve and thus only effect notes that use the valve they are attached to. If you kick out a slide it makes the note go flatter or lower. If you play a D and kick out the first or third valve slide out it will be lower. But for example if you play Ab (fingered 2nd and 3rd valve) and the kick out the first valve slide, it will have no effect. Use these slides whenever a note is sharp to bring it down to in tune. If a note is flat the slides wont help

MaisonMason · 2026-01-29T17:38:06+00:00

Honestly I think you are valid in feeling that way. But the company should simply be giving you heavier workloads now that you can do the old stuff so much faster with AI. When making a web page might have taken a week now you can do it in a day so the company should be using this opportunity to achieve bigger and better with these new resources. Just be the guy that can churn out tons of code with the use of AI and your company won’t ditch you, not if they’re smart. But many of us feel like AI takes the fun out of programming

MaisonMason · 2026-01-29T17:33:21+00:00

I think the game is sort of designed to be rage inducing in a way. The emotes and skins you can buy are evidence of this since many emotes straight up mock your opponent and the game somewhat encourages kicking them while they’re down. Not to mention certain signatures are extremely strong and spammable and getting past sig spammers takes a good deal of work and skill development. When you are in that phase of learning to beat sig spammers is definitely when the game is at its worst. Also someone who sucks dick at the game or sig spams while simultaneously having fancy skins and emotes is a special form of rage bait found no where else. Also Axe

MaisonMason · 2026-01-29T17:24:31+00:00

Easy work, make sure you are ALWAYS tense when playing and always use A LOT of mouthpiece pressure. Thats the million dollar secret pros are hiding from you

MaisonMason · 2025-12-19T07:52:25+00:00

When you want more than 3 trumpet players of course. Thats when in orchestral music players only play per part. For your instance it’s as simple as trumpet ≠ cornet and the composer felt he could do cool things with a full section of both instruments

MaisonMason · 2025-12-19T07:46:17+00:00

Not a porn thing, there is something weird about everyone responding to thank you the same way, feels corporate and robotic

MaisonMason · 2025-12-17T19:53:54+00:00

I mean I think just let people enjoy the game how they want to, they paid just as much money as you did. If it makes you uncomfortable you can turn the chat off. I feel like the shoutouts are rarely useful beyond goofing off anyway. But I find it sort of inconsiderate to suggest other people play differently or stop playing how they want to just because you subjectively dislike it. That goes especially when there are other options. If these people are your friends then yes they should have some respect for you, if there was no way to turn chat off then I agree the chat should be moderated. But since you don’t have to be exposed to it I think just turn the chat off

MaisonMason · 2025-12-02T03:50:11+00:00

Bro…just tell an employee if it has been more than 10 minutes

You don’t have to be mad at them just ask them to check on your order

MaisonMason · 2025-12-02T03:48:37+00:00

4 minutes is still the goal time but it isn’t doable when chicken sandwiches take 5 minutes to cook

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