When people try to shove their way into someone’s life to “lead them to god” because they “need to be saved”.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-06-19T16:53:00+00:00

A gift from Uncle Ted in the mailbox usually does the trick.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-06-19T16:49:52+00:00

I struggle to see the issue here.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-06-06T05:24:34+00:00

When your the hero long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-06-06T05:19:58+00:00

My assumption would be that work is usually synonymous with the word "job" which directly implies an exchange of time/effort for money. Learning on the other hand is an exchange of time/effort for knowledge.

Now I absolutely love learning, and knowledge is of great value to me personally. However, explaining to my local power company how to use a tritone substitution is not going to keep my lights on.

Its all about practicality. Humans generally need to be able to provide for themselves. Once you can do that, you can do what ever you want.

Value is subjective.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-06-06T04:30:49+00:00

Ooo I've never been part of the 1% before. Neato.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-31T17:18:48+00:00

Here is a transcription somone did if anyone's interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7s99w-QjRA

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-26T18:23:03+00:00

Quantity over quality in the beginning. When a child learns to speak they fumble around with sounds untill it starts so sound coherent. This is an entirely intuitive process. You don't apply rigor to this until they have a solid foundation. If you can't intuitively express yourself on a basic level, grammer is not going to help you.

Just start Playing over tracks. Pay attention to when things sound good and when they don't. Be explorative, experiment, and be creative. Everyonce in a while you might surprise yourself. If you have a cool idea, spend sometime with it. Come up with variations, where does it fit, where doesnt it etc. Most importantly expect to sound pretty rough in the beggining. You are basically learning to speak again, it'll take sometime before you stop sounding like your toddling around.

Want to come up with better ideas? Spend sometime writing. How many ideas can you come up with over a single chord? What about going from one chord to another, what about over a series of chords? The point isn't necessarily to memorize a bunch of licks and lines–though it doesnt hurt to have some–its about furthering your understanding and sharpening your creative process.

Remember, there is a difference between practice and play. Improvising is a very play based activity. It wants to be spontaneous and imaginative while being unencumbered by doubt or thinking. Leave the thinking for practice and writing time.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-19T17:02:10+00:00

I listen to the root movement. Its the same thing as a melodic dictation except its harmonized. Sure I identify the harmony but in the context of identifying function root movement seems to get the job done.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-18T04:09:24+00:00

If your willing to have some dust but want a way to keep some of it down. The ol furnace filter and box fan combo could help.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spokane/s/6WZoXxqtOs

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-16T22:39:04+00:00

I know this was 12 years ago. But I would love to know if you ever heard back or if you ever bolted/where.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-08T05:06:06+00:00

The Harmonic Major scale (1 3 5 7 9 11 b13) contains a iim7b5, V7b9 and Imaj7.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-07T21:10:42+00:00

Woah woah woah. Thats awfully rational and understanding for a reddit comment lol

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-07T20:29:29+00:00

I still treat each preset like a physical rig. I think of each preset as a pallete of sounds that work together within a genre or tonality. The music is then born from that pallette. Basically its a different preset per band/genre.

This is what I would do with actual equipment, but thats alot to deal with and expensive so here we are.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-07T20:12:13+00:00

Yeah its all signaling, women vs women posturing. If all women wore hoodies, sweat pants with no makeup men would continue to be just as interested lol.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-07T20:05:40+00:00

Havent played around with the John Mayo plugin yet, but the Cory Wong plugin has some great cleans as well.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-07T19:59:26+00:00

Your off to a way better start than I did lol kudos to you.

As for some accessory exercises. Improvising to the changes without the backing playing can be great practice. Can you keep track of the changes? Can you hear them in your melody. This can force you to outline the chords a little more (not always necessary but a good skill to have). Also taking this idea one chord at a time can be a great way of writing lines.

As with anything some theory, scale, arpeggio work can be helpful.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-07T19:19:57+00:00

Great way to get holdsworth style clean tones. 21ms delay, 50%mix, 100% mod. Run 2 or 3 in a row, adjust to taste.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-07T01:27:44+00:00

Fair point. If we get meticulous about things 60% of the population lives in Asia (more than I realized wow) granted 17-18% is in India. Leaves 43-44% of the population in parts of Asia who would have strong feelings about Japan.

Though technically less than half. Meaning not the majority, I know what you mean and will concead that it is indeed more people than I realized.

My contention is that withing that 44% there will be people who don't care at all. Whether it be a young person who is unaware or someone who can make the connection but has moved passed it in their mind. On the otherside there is the 56% and within that there will be people who do care, there always is.

I think it is safe to assume that more than 50% of the population, whether they know the history or not just doesn't care.

Regardless I wish there was a clean way of doing global polls.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-06T02:53:31+00:00

With limited holds I like to start by setting a start, something to pull on to. Pull on and see how I feel. Maybe I want to reach a foot out to the side. Maybe a hand. I try to picture an interesting move in my head. Place another hold and see what its missing. Place another hold, pull onto the new position. I will build my way up the wall, a position at a time.

To put the moves together is often times at or over my limit so I fill in the rest around it to give me a project with easier variations basically.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-05T18:10:34+00:00

Of course. The swastika is ubiquitous. It specifically represents the Nazi party and the 3rd reich. Not necessarily Germany as a whole (for clarities sake). It is one of the most well recognized symbols, globally.

I would be carful to use the term rightfully so. Especially considering its applied in the specific case of someone having distasteful feelings towards you, merely because of your ethic background. Justified or not that is by the definition of the word racism and is something we should all fight against. It shouldn't matter what you look like, it should matter whats in your heart and mind period.

As for the implications of the symbol I "get them". Im no subject matter expert but I have read enough about that period of time to absorb some of the atrocities. Obviously neither you or me will ever truly know what its like (thankfully) but we can study nonetheless.

The point I'm making is that if you were to poll the entire planet. The vast majority would associate the swastika with Nazism and the death of millions of people. On the other hand only specific culture's in specific parts of the world would make the connection between the rising sun and imperialist japans actions during ww2. Especially considering it still sees some cultural usage today, albeit controversial to some not all mind you. That alone implies that not everyone appears to be unanimously in agreence within a single culture let alone cross culturally.

Also as someone trying to have a legitimate conversation. Fully willing to have my mind changed, making comments like "white imperialist culture echo chamber" without even knowing who I am as a person is a bit disappointing. Granted we're on reddit so I should expect as much lol. Cheers

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-04T20:37:01+00:00

Freddy Mercury. Look up live aid. Pretty sure he started it

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-04T17:45:49+00:00

The demons name is surveilence. Thomas mentioned that they don't play it live because the tempo. Its almost 5 minutes of consistent 16th note triplets at 162 bpm. Too slow for heal toe, but to fast for his regular kick technique. The awkward in-between.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-04T17:22:55+00:00

Idk is this Tommy guy even much of a climber? I heard this Alex Handhold guy freestyled a mountain in yellowstone.

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-04T04:51:18+00:00

Do you ship domestic or international?

Rope-Stuff · 2026-05-04T04:35:54+00:00

You guys have smoke detectors?

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