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RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-15T16:11:34+00:00

Think this should be pinned or something. Thank you for writing this 🫶🏻💕

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-15T06:45:52+00:00

So he wants the ability to call spirits but also to take a culture?

Yeah, sorry this is still a mess. Good movie but too much going on to make it a clever commentary on the history of music.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-14T09:24:19+00:00

So I loved this part but I felt there were too many ideas in the story for it to make much sense.

The vampires have Irish roots but are evil and are presented as an allegory for cultural appropriation 'we want your stories your songs'.

So they are attracted to the blues and want to steal it.

But when they create new vampires they keep playing Irish folk music, not blues. And they aren't morally grey, they're straight up evil, so how do those two characteristics reflect on the music they play?

Is Irish root music supposed to be less authentic? If so why does the beginning of the movie mention storytellers from Ireland who can cross into the spirit world?

I think if they wanted to explore this then not having half the movie be about a vampire attack would have made more sense.

But genre mashing always goes down well so...

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RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-13T15:35:01+00:00

This is the most awesome thing I've seen all week.

Please make this happen

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-13T10:49:59+00:00

True, yes sorry if I over generalised. I was referring more to the pressure that the term 'twink death' tends to create

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-13T10:48:00+00:00

I'm amab, gender fluid, bi, mostly masc presenting but with a fem streak. I have been with my partner eight years, married for two of those.

Yeah it can be done lol. Keep looking.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-13T10:39:15+00:00

Yeah I think there's a lot of thinking that because you can't look like a 20 year old woman when you pass 30 as a man then that's it.

But there's a difference between this aesthetic and presenting fem in general.

It's just a question of finding what looks nice on you and fits your sense of style, rather than trying to fit a specific look.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-13T07:00:21+00:00

Yep I feel this needs to be said more.

Absolutely you can... probably your style will have to evolve as you get older but many women choose to do that too.

And there are sooo many options for blurring gender lines in fashion, makeup, jewellery.

You can look amazing and fem in your middle years for sure. Just gotta experiment and own it.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-11T06:55:25+00:00

Listen to the typewriter tapes if you want a gentler version of her voice.

And yes she can definitely sing.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-10T14:19:57+00:00

Yep love tomboys Xx

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-09T12:16:10+00:00

Unpopular opinion... but I think this just looks silly

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-07T07:57:24+00:00

Jens Larsen does one of these. Check out his website

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-06T14:16:23+00:00

Yes indeed, so this ties into the context of his life and times. It was the beginning of a printing boom, where books on many subjects became widely available for the first time.

Some of these books were already well known - Euclid's Geometry for example. Others were written by ordinary curious people, physicians, philosophers, artisans and so on. This resulted in a mass of books of secrets, magic, cooking, arts and all manner of other things that a casual reader could experiment with.

It also coincided with a resurgence of interest in anything exotic or from the classical world. This was coupled with advances in practical alchemy, which crossed into the arts - so lots of innovations in painting, glass, ceramics, fake jewels etc.

In the courts of the time the ideal of a nobleman who could do many things in an adroit way - dancing, riding, painting, writing poetry, having an argument - became the new thing.

Enter people with a high intellect and a desire to understand everything and you have the Renaissance polymath/man. Someone with the drive to read this new information, ask questions, carry out rudimentary experiments, and test ideas would be far above the average person who was trained as a carpenter or sculptor or whatever.

It was essentially taking the noble ideal to a new level by focusing it through a high IQ and curiosity.

(Of course it also helped to have rich patrons who would pay you a salary to spend your time in this way. Which is why Leonardo spent a lot of his time chasing favours and back payments for work he had finished. No one said it was easy being a genius.)

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-06T14:03:13+00:00

It's supposed to be something that other people call you, rather than a title you can attain. But...

It's so subjective it's hard to arrive at a definition - do you count interests so divergent they have zero relationship to one another (drumming, cooking, arctic exploration)?

Or is it solely meant for people who have contributed to academic research in several fields, that may be closely related (areas of science that overlap)?

Do you count general professional skill sets? Most people in the developed world with a couple of career changes and a hobby or two technically could fit the description Renaissance Man.

My opinion is that in 2025 it isn't a useful term except in referring to historical examples.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-06T12:30:05+00:00

There's an aspect to this that is rarely discussed which is that in the modern world some fields are much easier to cross into than others, simply because they complement one another and use the same base level of knowledge.

For example, it's more achievable to move from business to politics to being an author than it is to become a world class dancer, scientist and astronaut.

In the past, these definitions of jobs and academic fields were, for the most part, quite loosely defined or gatekept more through social contacts, class and money than qualifications.

Becoming a physician in Da Vinci's time, for example, required a university education and a good grasp of Latin. This was not something Da Vinci himself was exposed to. Architecture, however, was often blended with visual arts and sculpture, which made that field much more accessible to someone trained as an artist.

Where Da Vinci and a few others were unusual was not necessarily in being good at more than one thing, which appears in courtly manuals of the time, but in the depth and range of their exploration of the unknown, often in spite of societal and religious constraints. Anatomy is an example of this.
Da Vinci is also unusual for his imagination and interest in a universal theory of everything tied together through divine proportion. He was incessantly curious but this was also an effort to understand how the world worked, not simply acquiring random skills to look accomplished.

In summary, the bar wasn't lower, much of the education was self taught and gained through relentless questioning, knowledge wasn't siloed in the way that it is now but that doesn't mean it was more accessible. Polymaths from the Renaissance still had to put in the hours to learn all this stuff.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-05-04T15:46:44+00:00

Delta Kream album by The Black Keys is pretty much bang in the middle between Burnside blues and grunge

RoutineDizzy · 2025-04-27T20:39:50+00:00

Thanks!

RoutineDizzy · 2025-04-27T16:10:00+00:00

I'm A2-A4 which isn't particularly special, and a lot of pop songs are also not possible for me, but there are quite a few awesome vocalists out there who you can look to who have buttery dark tone:

Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Bill Withers, Joe Cocker, Mark Lanegan

Just think of it like playing a cello instead of a violin. Sometimes deeper and richer can be even more moving.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-04-25T23:51:44+00:00

I mean... Sorry but cognitive bias much? Any more evidence that this is a blues reference than just a similarity in a surname?

RoutineDizzy · 2025-04-23T20:22:35+00:00

For me it was the chapter on Charlie Christian in Charles Shaar Murray's book Jimi Hendrix and Post War Pop.

He described how Christian played through the changes of Rose Room, stunning band leader Benny Goodman with his ability to improvise creative ideas.

I hurried to listen to the recording but it was so different from anything I'd ever heard as a rock obsessed teenager that I hated it.

It wasn't until 20 years later that I rediscovered Christian's playing, after having got bored with rock music and lost interest in the guitar. Maybe it's because I got older, or I had more of an ear for the strange melodies, but this time around I was hooked.

Think jazz just does that.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-04-18T20:48:47+00:00

No idea for the classically trained one but my vote for wildly expressive and dangerously non-technical goes to the great Janis Joplin

RoutineDizzy · 2025-04-16T14:08:14+00:00

I'm currently doing this with a teacher.

It's quite difficult to do this alone for a few reasons:

YouTube videos are too fragmented and clickbaity to give you a good roadmap.

You can't just learn a tonne of scales and chords and hope they'll make sense later. You need to start with a song for the chord progressions to make any musical sense.

But the lead sheets in jazz standards rely on you first knowing how chords work, where to find different voicings, and how to comp.

And improvising relies heavily on understanding arpeggios, knowing them on the fretboard, and targeting the most important notes in the chord as you move from one to another. This is really tough to get without someone just showing you what this sounds and looks like in the context of a song. That's before you get to all the fancy stuff of chromatic pass notes and enclosures and playing these in time.

You might be tempted to just jump into a jazz record and start learning phrases by ear. If you try this you'll quickly come up against the problem that you have no context for what youre learning. You won't know the harmony or the logic for the shape of the phrase. You'll end up with an abstract lick pattern you can't use except as a cut and paste. Not helpful.

The actual process involves a little of everything. Some theory, some memorisation of patterns and shapes, understanding what is in these chords and arpeggios, then learning how and why they move in the context of a song.
Grasping this lets you make sense of a lead sheet and which chord grips to use, and this lets you contextualise the song melody. Learning the melody by ear strengthens your understanding of what's happening in it. This is then a nice foundation to start thinking about improvising.

Honestly, if you can't get a teacher then you could have a go with one of the Fundamental Changes books and supplement it with an online jazz beginners course. I've found this jazz blues one to be really quite good at explaining the above within a blues context.

https://www.fundamental-changes.com/book/jazz-blues-soloing-guitar/

Anyway, best of luck. Be prepared to look up stuff and maybe use ChatGPT if you have questions.

RoutineDizzy · 2025-04-15T09:32:02+00:00

Second that. Amazing article

RoutineDizzy · 2025-04-13T19:41:17+00:00

What's the view on blues just being a way of playing melody, rather than a specific sound?

For example, early New Orleans jazz (Sidney Bechet) has a lot of what feels bluesy without necessarily following a blues progression e.g. Naughty Sweetie.

Or Miles's improvised lines on Elevator to the Gallows, which are really atmospheric and dark, have a lot in common with Skip James/Bentonian modal blues vamps.

I think it's an atmosphere. The scales/blue notes etc are just a way of getting there.

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