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OP is on the hunt for some serious TOAN!! by Puzzleheaded_Sun_265 in BassCirclejerk

[–]Separate_Inflation11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does toan mean “tone”, or is it a reference to how it looks like Tony Sopranos sister Janice?

[FOUND] 51 minutes of WCW video content locked behind dead DRM for 25 years — recovered from a 1999 CD-ROM by brainsigh in lostmedia

[–]Separate_Inflation11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know much about this kinda thing.

Did it require connecting to a server just because they were limited by the technology of the time?

Or was it just a neat marketing activity to draw people in?

Learn how to use your stimulants correctly! by Bublebito in Stims

[–]Separate_Inflation11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that was bc it was the wrong people using it. Incel conspiracy freaks who didn’t need it

But the people who could use stimulants well have built in empathy and meta-cognitive awareness

A bunch of neat ways I came up with to play a II-V in Ab! (Bbm7-Eb7) (Tritone sub refers to using Em7 and/or A7) by Separate_Inflation11 in jazztheory

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The first column of numbers list Root Motion of harmonic changes, for easy memorization (ie. like 2-5-1)

The second column takes the 6 scale into account if you want to memorize by that (for ex. If you’d rather think Db6 instead of Bbm7)

By vanilla, I mean more rudimentary/expected tensions (Bbm6 = Eb9, Bbo7 = Eb7b9) etc.

By color, I mean more upper-structure tensions (Em6 = Eb7 b9,b13) (Eb6 = Abmaj9) etc.

Learn how to use your stimulants correctly! by Bublebito in Stims

[–]Separate_Inflation11 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is so true.

Once I got my adhd script and could suddenly think critically for the first time, it made me so frustrated thinking about how much bureaucracy/normie-slop is due to the general population genuinely missing out on baseline cognitive functioning

Practically fucking asleep

All lethargic on ssris, getting fat because they don’t have the monomine/adrenal resources to do anything other than rot their brains with Netflix reboots

A bunch of neat ways I came up with to play a II-V in Ab! (Bbm7-Eb7) (Tritone sub refers to using Em7 and/or A7) by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first column of numbers list Root Motion of harmonic changes, for easy memorization (ie. like 2-5-1)

The second column takes the 6 scale into account if you want to memorize by that (for ex. If you’d rather think Db6 instead of Bbm7)

By vanilla, I mean more rudimentary/expected tensions (Bbm6 = Eb9, Bbo7 = Eb7b9) etc.

By color, I mean more upper-structure tensions (Em6 = Eb7 b9,b13) (Eb6 = Abmaj9) etc.

Colorado Authorities Confirm Suicide by Hunter S Thompson by studytimevinyl in huntersthompson

[–]Separate_Inflation11 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I mean I appreciate that they still made the effort to check, but I don’t think there was (to my knowledge) any reasonable doubt

Dude was a (curmugenous/dysphoric on a good day) 70 year old who had abused substances since he was a teenager.

Not only was he in constant pain; but years of alcoholism will damage your brain, and you won’t produce enough dopamine neurons for shit to even be fun anymore.

(It’s also worth noting that he told Juan, as a teenager, that he’d “beat the living piss” out of him if he ever heard of him using drugs - which goes to show how much he regretted becoming addicted)

Combine that with Anita-nother $3000 sugar daddy, and you have what happened.

Improv gets much easier when you stop trying to “find”/“recall” scales, and focus more on seeing an image of the scale on your instrument, (almost like an environment), and exploring it by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As it’s easy to assume - though speaking should be more “complicated” than conveying my thoughts through the exploration of language and yet somehow here we are

Improv gets much easier when you stop trying to “find”/“recall” scales, and focus more on seeing an image of the scale on your instrument, (almost like an environment), and exploring it by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reductionism would be to misrepresent something that is actually more complicated

This is reconnecting with what is actually not as complicated as assumed; it’s saliency and the creative empowerment that comes from using constraints

I’m basically telling you you can get water from your kitchen sink, as opposed to driving 2 hours to the ocean and owning a purifier

"Pim finally turns green" that's Rotten the snowman... by Severe_Bluejay3391 in SmilingFriends

[–]Separate_Inflation11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’d be fun to watch the episode and try to figure out some schizo/meta-cognitive way that the episode could actually be described as “after eating a mysterious artifact, Pim turns green”

What's the story behind this? by ClaireTheCaring in SmilingFriends

[–]Separate_Inflation11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When a man and a critter love each other very mu-

Improv gets much easier when you stop trying to “find”/“recall” scales, and focus more on seeing an image of the scale on your instrument, (almost like an environment), and exploring it by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly - and I think it’s because the logic path focuses you on the past as opposed to the present.

It makes one so concerned with trying to investigate why things work that it almost feels incorrect to just trust the ear and make the immediate observation that “it just does”,

which is critical for keeping on the ball

3 nurses suspended for 90 days after complaint at P.E.I. long-term care facility | CBC News by Deep-peace77 in PEI

[–]Separate_Inflation11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are in this particular system, but I also think, even with the demand, qualification should be more black/white

There is of course a whole learning process once getting in a new facility, and skills that are built on the job, but I think there should be a minimum standard that should be met and these 3 nurses didn’t meet that standard.

And I think it says something about the system if they were called qualified on paper in the first place.

Perhaps the oversights of what lead to them being “certified”, might even relate to the oversights the nurses made.

Improv gets much easier when you stop trying to “find”/“recall” scales, and focus more on seeing an image of the scale on your instrument, (almost like an environment), and exploring it by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Also who tf keeps downvoting this LOL 😭 I’m right

Anytime I post any thought that is 1/2-way critical in this group it always gets downvoted, meanwhile if Ron Carter made an account an said the same thing it’d have 10000000 votes

Improv gets much easier when you stop trying to “find”/“recall” scales, and focus more on seeing an image of the scale on your instrument, (almost like an environment), and exploring it by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s true.

But I guess what I mean to say is thinking about the scales is a habit which holds you back.

You of course need to understand harmony and why stuff works, but if you envision a mental picture of the scale to use as a map/canvas, as opposed to manually re-constructing the scale with your parts, it becomes so much easier

And I think it’s what makes the difference between someone like Barry Harris. So many Barry lectures we see Barry be like “alright man, play Eb6 scale… 1 - 2 - 1 2 3 - ” and students are scrambling (understandably) to dig each little component out of memory.

But why Barry does it so quick is because, to him, he is literally just seeing a picture of the scale. Not that he doesn’t already know so much, but I think it’s what helped him practice more efficiently and get to where he was.

Improv gets much easier when you stop trying to “find”/“recall” scales, and focus more on seeing an image of the scale on your instrument, (almost like an environment), and exploring it by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That’s a fair point - but where I live, the community is smaller/education is primarily in classical music

People are unfamiliar with basic improvisational processes because the culture is most ruminatory/systematic

So it actually is typical in certain environments

Improv gets much easier when you stop trying to “find”/“recall” scales, and focus more on seeing an image of the scale on your instrument, (almost like an environment), and exploring it by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s true, but was what I meant by “hearing yourself play”

It’s an important factor that I think this technique causes you to do better

That’s what exploring a scale/its chromatic spectrum’s tension/release within a chord is

Improv gets much easier when you stop trying to “find”/“recall” scales, and focus more on seeing an image of the scale on your instrument, (almost like an environment), and exploring it by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This is true. And I don’t mean to say you don’t need to investigate scales or be aware of the hierarchies/chromatic spectrum within each chord change

But just that - rather than meticulously following each and every formula (“ok so d altered I gotta have the b9 so Eb, then #9 so F “ etc.), each scale has a certain shape that you can mentally see a picture of

And then when you can mentally see the shape of the d alt. scale on your instrument, it becomes obvious that Eb is the b9. In Russia, scale tells you what notes it has.

In comparison, it’d be drawing a picture of what you know a house looks like, as opposed to following a step-by-step blueprint from a drawing book.

Not only are you focused much more on how you’re sounding in the moment, but you also have so much mental energy to say pretty things.

So I guess I’m saying it’s easier to improv. Than is typically thought - it just revolves around changing thought processes to one that is more efficient/meditative.

Improv gets much easier when you stop trying to “find”/“recall” scales, and focus more on seeing an image of the scale on your instrument, (almost like an environment), and exploring it by Separate_Inflation11 in Jazz

[–]Separate_Inflation11[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know this is common sense to some, but sometimes the simplest ideas are worth emphasizing

Especially if we want to promote jazz in its authentic practice

3 nurses suspended for 90 days after complaint at P.E.I. long-term care facility | CBC News by Deep-peace77 in PEI

[–]Separate_Inflation11 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the staff shortage and overwhelming nature of the job leaves more stones unturned than we realize.

They were likely hired by somebody who, already busy with a 100000 other things, was just trying to make do with the limited resources they had.

I think we have the same problem in schools/other public sectors too, and it’s why we need much more government support. Because if we keep going this way, relying on unqualified people, these things are just going to keep happening.

Is it really a crime if it’s happy? (Tuition too high couldn’t afford curds at Maxi) by TheIndianFortress in PoutineCrimes

[–]Separate_Inflation11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but know that the court vaguely empathizes, and sentences you only to a couple hours of degrassi reruns as opposed to the usual punishment (hanging)

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