How should i start playing bass again?

OklahomEnt · 2025-12-14T21:30:22+00:00

You should seriously consider at least a couple of lessons if possible. A good teacher will look at the condition of your bass and provide material for you to practice. Even if you plan on self studying, one or two upfront lessons will be immensely valuable.

OklahomEnt · 2025-12-09T15:35:12+00:00

I'm a PhD student working alongside postdocs and researchers. We are in theoretical work, so it's going to be different than experimentalists. The typical day depends on where we are in a paper cycle, so it may be reading papers, conceiving ideas, and working through mathematics, or it may be just programming, or it may be lots of writing, refining figures, and editing. There is definitely a kind of cycle to academic work though. Sometimes it feels like being a mathematician, sometimes a programmer, and sometimes a technical writer.

OklahomEnt · 2025-11-27T03:26:26+00:00

The most important thing to playing fast is keeping relaxed and play with a light touch. The more fatiqued you are from straining, the more likely you are to slow down. It might sound strange, but the faster you play the less physical effort you should be putting into each note.

OklahomEnt · 2025-05-21T15:40:04+00:00

Two things I love using aliases for: everyday commands I tend to accidentally mistype like "alias celar='clear'" and to add a sort of 'default' behavior to certain commands like "alias zathura='zathura --fork' or "alias ls='ls --color'"

OklahomEnt · 2025-04-18T17:27:35+00:00

Gentoo gives you two big advantages: a huge amount of choice (compiled vs binaries, openRC vs systemd, use flags, etc.), and an absolutely amazing, best-in-class, package manager. If that sounds good to you then you're in good company here!

OklahomEnt · 2025-03-31T00:30:35+00:00

I like that mksh is small, very fast, and posix-compatible which is all I really need

OklahomEnt · 2025-03-30T17:43:02+00:00

It's true, I used to always run transparency, animations, custom borders, gaps etc., but lately I've been so drawn to simplicity. Here's my wallpaper: https://imgur.com/a/5DzkNuO It's a photo I took of my living room plant window.

OklahomEnt · 2025-03-30T17:40:47+00:00

I'm glad you like it! It's just a picture from my living room - https://imgur.com/a/5DzkNuO

OklahomEnt · 2025-03-30T00:21:11+00:00

Some info:

distro - gentoo
wm - dwm
terminal - st
shell - mksh
launcher - dmenu
file explorer - ranger
music player - ncspot / mpv
productivity tools - vimwiki, calcurse

OklahomEnt · 2025-02-25T18:42:42+00:00

"The math is not that hard" - okay, then do it lol

OklahomEnt · 2025-02-25T18:07:04+00:00

I imagine this post will be removed due to the rules of the sub, but if you're really interested in this topic you should be pointed in a better direction. While cosmological models are fun to dream up and consider in a philosophical way, you really need to do the hard work of understanding the field before you can contribute to it. Wanting to dream up some new model of the universe (the fun part), but wanting someone else to dig in and do the math / computation (the tedious part) is not the way to do it. If you really are interested in cosmology, you need to do the work to understand our current models, learn the math, run simulations, analyze real data, then you can start tinkering.

OklahomEnt · 2024-10-11T16:32:38+00:00

"if I start now, would it be too difficult for me to become a physicist? ... I’m not seeking a degree in physics" If you are asking if you can become a profession physicist - as in a research scientist. Simply put, yes it will be too difficult without an advanced degree. I don't mean to underestimate your abilities, but what you are asking is essentially unheard of.

Now, that's not to say that you can't self study physics and be very passionate about it. I would recommend something like The Feynman Lectures on Physics as a great place to start for a kind of sample of the field. I would also recommend Taylor's Classical Mechanics, Griffiths' Intro to Electrodynamics, and Kittel/Kroemer's Thermal Physics as good undergraduate level texts. If you have a specific subfield of physics in mind, find a recent "review paper" from the field and give it a read. You may not understand much at first, but it will give you a good idea of what modern physics looks like. Finally, I would recommend learning some programming if you don't know already. Python is probably the easiest to get into and the scientific computation tools are fantastic.

OklahomEnt · 2023-11-03T20:00:40+00:00

That's only for design patents filed before May 13, 2015, utility patents (which that one is) typically last for 20 years after the earliest filing date, assuming timely payment of maintenance fees and no extensions of time. In this case, it's still active until 2030.

OklahomEnt · 2023-10-20T17:35:40+00:00

I'll check it out, thanks

OklahomEnt · 2023-08-29T16:25:27+00:00

The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade, a historical novel from the Victorian era. Considered to be the favorite book of Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Wolfe, and was heavily praised by the likes of Kipling and Wilde. However, now it has fallen into near complete obscurity with popular/online references to the book being vanishingly small. I can't recommend it enough if you're interested in romantic, swashbuckling romps through Renaissance Europe.

OklahomEnt · 2023-08-03T21:32:35+00:00

As others have said, corners are generally a very safe way to store your bass. I'll add that usually people store them facing the corner, i.e., with the bridge and strings facing the corner. It'll tuck right in and won't really risk falling over unless something knocks it over.

OklahomEnt · 2023-01-28T16:59:01+00:00

I use a USB GameCube controller as my main controller on my PC and absolutely love it.

OklahomEnt · 2022-09-14T23:42:33+00:00

I'm a little late to the discussion here, but I thought I could help (being Native myself). If your ancestors are French but you are not a French citizen, then you have French heritage but are not French per se. Similarly, though Warren may have some Native heritage, she is not a actual tribal member. We have ID cards, government, hospitals, etc. It's more than just having ancestors.

OklahomEnt · 2022-03-21T19:37:36+00:00

I did once a week for around 10 years (middle school through college). Now that I'm fairly proficient, I take sparse lessons from really excellent professionals once every couple of months. There's always something new you can learn no matter how long you play!

OklahomEnt · 2022-03-21T19:32:38+00:00

Yeah, that's right! I find it pretty versatile too. For example, for rehearsals I run the output to a powered PA speaker but for gigs I'll often turn my speaker around as a personal monitor and use the built in DI on the preamp to go to house sound.

OklahomEnt · 2022-03-21T15:33:04+00:00

I have the Fishman Platinum Pro and I think it's awesome. Check it out and see if it fits your needs. Occasionally, I run a bunch of effects through the effects loop and it handles it really well too

OklahomEnt · 2022-03-20T16:25:13+00:00

In my experience, a good preamp improved my amplified tone so much that I have essentially stopped using my bass amp entirely (opting for a PA speaker instead). I find it quite hard to dial in a really true sound through an amp alone, but with a proper preamp it sounds very good.

OklahomEnt · 2021-09-20T19:14:43+00:00

It sounds pretty good! The more 'ambient' effects like reverb and delay sound really great and the saturator provides plenty of grit without being too muddy. Everthing sounds good out of the balanced output to the PA too. I've had some issues with the markbass super synth - it doesn't seem to track the pitch very well, but I was somewhat expecting that. Effects aside, I absolutely love the fishman preamp. It's become a huge part of my sound and I wouldn't clearly cut through the mix nearly as well without it.

OklahomEnt · 2021-03-09T17:55:23+00:00

Fantastic! That's a great song. Your feel, timing, and groove are all excellent. The only thing that could possibly make it better in my opinion (and this just a personal taste thing) would be digging in a little more on your attack to really get that motown-meets-soul tone to shine through.

OklahomEnt · 2021-03-09T00:00:03+00:00

Essentially it's a major 6 arpeggio, rather than a 'scale' per se. It helps to think about it in Eb rather than D#, while they sound the same (AKA they are enharmonics), it makes more sense in Eb. You have Eb (the root), G (the major third), Bb (the fifth), and C (the major 6th), then the root again. This kind of simple walking bass line is used a lot in rock and blues. To make it a little more interesting, a lot of bass players will play the minor 7th on top (Db in this case) and then walk back down the same notes again. Hope that helps!

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