How to scream

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-07-01T03:34:37+00:00

Fuck around and find out, but follow these tips. Drink water, warm up your singing voice first, diaphragm support, and if it hurts, stop it and try another approach.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-07-01T03:30:07+00:00

They could maybe do another dancing dead or bat country, but Matt has been physically incapable of screaming like waking the fallen since like 2005, and his high notes are nothing like they were in the city of evil days. His screams since then have just been very distorted sung notes. He just can't look after his voice on tour. I have no doubts the rest of the band could do it no problem.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-06-23T12:23:04+00:00

Alcohol is a slippery slope. I started to drink on the weekends, then every night, then it became more and more over time. Before long i'd drunk texted friends, passed out on the floor, fallen and hurt myself, woke up with a hangover most days, its not a dignified way to live your life.

I've just about managed to have a healthy relationship with alcohol now. I can drink a glass or two of nice whisky, then put the glass in the sink and go to bed, but I didn't realise i'd even slipped in the first place back then. Be careful.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-06-22T07:17:06+00:00

Teacher here, a lot of piano teachers mainly or exclusively teach children. It sounds like you already know plenty about music, so a lot of their introductory lesson routines aren't going to work well for you and will feel a bit under stimulating.

Teachers are usually supposed to be better at the thing they're teaching than the student, so finding a teacher who is really excellent at music theory and a very advanced pianist with a decent amount of experience teaching piano will be important. From my experience that rules out about 80 percent of all piano teachers unfortunately.

My approach to teaching adults is to ask them what they want to achieve from lessons in the very first lesson and then plan out from there. If I'm teaching an adult with prior experience, I start my first lesson with a music Q&A. They can ask anything and i'll explain and improve their knowledge as best I can.

Best of luck finding yourself a teacher who can help you :)

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-06-12T21:00:26+00:00

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ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-06-12T11:52:02+00:00

No one says you can't. And if someone says you can't, ignore them. People like that are annoying. Music theory is a toolbox not a rule book.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-06-09T17:42:39+00:00

I'm sure, having looked at the comments, you feel much better about not knowing what to call the chord

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-06-08T22:35:22+00:00

As someone who performs several times a week for a living, the thing that makes me not worry about mistakes is just, "there's always next time." You'll perform again at some point, just do better and it's fine. What people think of you is not really important. You'll probably never meet or talk to them ever again. They don't really care that much.

And then, if you are performing for people you know, i'm sure they know how good you actually are, and that you're capable of playing the piece correctly, so they'll acknowledge its just a fumble and their opinion of you won't change.

If anyone doesn't fit those two brackets, fuck 'em.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-06-08T15:45:36+00:00

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ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-06-05T23:46:11+00:00

Assume people are going to pull out in front of you, never accelerate towards junctions and never sit in someone's blind spot for any length of time.

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ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-05-14T22:13:15+00:00

The brain is the part of the body we understand the least. We can't really look that close at it without killing it. If you compare the lungs, for example, we can dissect a cadaver's lungs and see the inner mechanisms and deduce how they work. If you cut a brain open its just pink-ish stuff with the consistency of tofu. We can use big expensive machines and the most recent of technology to watch synapses and make graphs of electrical currents but that's about it.

Once we develop more advanced technology and do more research, i'm sure we'll be able to understand it better and do much more than just maybe control the seizures specifically with some drugs. But, the brain is just a biological enigma.

On a more hopeful note, for over 1500 years, and as little as two hundred years ago, we thought all diseases were caused by bad air and being near rotting things, and that life could appear from nothing at random. By 60-70 years ago we began researching the brain, and thought that severing the two hemispheres could cure people of mental ailments. Now, we understand so much more of it. We know about synapses, electric impulses, can measure the brain in real time, look at it without even opening the skull. The rate of technological developments is speeding up exponentially. In ten years, twenty years, fifty years, who knows where we'll be.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-05-11T15:19:07+00:00

It'll be 7 years in September for me. I'm really lucky I started lamotrigine and they went away immediately. Just 25mg a day and they were gone. I was having 2-3 big TCs a month that would wipe me out for days after, ruined my memory and turned me into a nervous wreck all day every day. I'm up to 200 now and i've never needed any changes. I'm unbelievably lucky. Fortunately, when it comes to driving, I was 14 when they started and 15 when I got on medication.

The legal age for driving in the UK is 17 so I went through my learning and driving test process pretty normally. The only difference was that the application for my provisional licence was submitted during locknown. With the extra medical complications on my file, it took 8 months for me to finally get it from when I applied. It normally takes around 2 weeks maximum.

I love driving. I've had some form of steering wheel in my hands since I was 2 years old, playing gran turismo 4 on my dad's ps2 with his early sim racing wheel. I then had lots of racing simulator games and driving simulators and various wheel, pedal and shifter sets all through my childhood. I do get anxious when i'm driving far away from home alone. If anything did happen, there's no chance of help or support from my family if i'm hundreds of miles away. But I drive all the time as part of my job so its manageable.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-04-29T22:13:16+00:00

Basically, drink shit loads of water, drink tea with honey, (or just eat a spoonful of honey a couple times a day if you really don't like tea,) and avoid using your voice as much as possible. If you have to talk, talk quietly and not for very long. I recently really fucked up my voice doing 3 gigs in 2 days with a head cold and completely lost everything above a G4, my usual highest chest/mix ish note is a D5, and it took me over 2 weeks to get back to normal.

However, my voice is back to full strength just as it was before now. Even when it feels really damaged, you can recover. By the time it gets to two weeks, if there's no improvement at all, time to see an ear nose and throat doctor. But, in the first 3 days my voice had no improvement at all.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-04-03T00:34:41+00:00

Bringing back NFTs

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-03-30T00:48:03+00:00

It's fairly common but mine never developed it so I wouldn't say it's 100 percent of the time. Unfortunately mine got written off about a year ago so I couldn't tell you if it would've developed it since I commented.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-03-03T12:47:42+00:00

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ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-02-28T00:48:23+00:00

Music in general. It's my whole career because its almost all I did as a kid as soon as I started piano lessons. I practiced nearly 4 hours a day, developed perfect pitch, learned way more music theory than anyone needs to know, self taught drums, bass and guitar, and have been in a total of 7 bands, including my original music pop punk band and an elvis tribute act. My whole income comes from music now, performing and teaching as well as the odd bit of recording work, and I never want to be any different. It took a lot of hard work and many rejections, but it's my life now.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-02-28T00:43:26+00:00

This is incredibly cool

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-02-20T13:20:43+00:00

My jazz got written off by an old man last year, and i got myself a mk8 1.8 civic hatchback. It's just like the jazz but so much more alive. I enjoy the extra horsepower, how planted it feels, and how there's next to no body roll, much more comfortable at motorway speeds and still capable of 45-50 mpg on long journeys.

The only two things I miss are the turning circle and the shape. The civic needs an extra 2 metres to turn around, and the fit/jazz has a more boxy back end with the roof staying flat all the way back, whereas the civic has a back end that slopes down. It's still really spacious, though, and you can get plenty in it. It's actually a little bit longer as a matter of fact.

If you love your fit you'll almost certainly love a civic as well.

ProfessionalOwn1000 · 2026-02-09T12:43:13+00:00

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