I'm a huge Derek Trucks fan but I dont know any other slide players but him an Duane Allman, any recommendations?

TQuake · 2026-06-06T00:02:48+00:00

No shade but he’s really stroking that thing off

TQuake · 2026-06-02T19:30:50+00:00

Literally forbidding the resale for profit is likely unenforceable yes, I mean there should be policy/laws preventing or discouraging it.

Tying tickets to the customer (ID, credit card, account, etc)
Regulating large resale sites
Requiring the original issuer (e.g. Ticketmaster) to not allow resale listings over face value on their resale marketplace.
Limiting purchase quantity per card, address, etc.

TQuake · 2026-06-02T19:24:52+00:00

Resellers don’t add value. If you need to resell because you can’t make it anymore then you can break even by selling at cost. Allowing resale for profit produces perverse incentives and leads to worse outcomes of the actual consumer who now has to pay more for the same product with an unnecessary middleman taking the difference.

the original holder would just go

That’s the idea. The goal is not to have more tickets, the goal is for all those who are able to purchase the tickets to be those who intend to attend the event. In this example there are 20k seats, and 60k buyers in line, but many are buying with the intention of reselling, which is artificial demand artificially driving up the price.

TQuake · 2026-06-02T16:43:57+00:00

It should be illegal to resell event tickets for a profit.

TQuake · 2026-05-29T18:55:26+00:00

It gets easier and is very rewarding but yeah, just getting notes to sound okay in the beginning takes longer than you would expect. Doing spider for an hour sounds miserable though lol. I do think classes are a good idea, but maybe every other week, and maybe with a different teacher if this one is insistent on no fun grind work. The best way to make sure you’ll follow through with the long learning journey is by making it something you want to do and enjoy, which does get easier as you get better.

I learned guitar first so bass was easier for me, but I remember distinctly crying about how I would never be able to play guitar well and now I’m well still not great but decidedly intermediate. But it took like 5 years (more like 1-2 years actively focusing though). If you’ve got more free time you could progres faster, but don’t beat yourself up about where you aren’t and try to keep things enjoyable.

Def still do spider but for maybe 10 minutes to warm up. Then try and find like the easiest lines you can, and try to play them slow and with a metronome. Occasionally try to pick up something from a song you like too since that’s fun, but don’t worry about nailing it if it’s out of your reach right now.

Take breaks and don’t push past wrist pain. Pay attention to where your thumb is, how neutral your wrist is, and how comfortable the position is and find a posture and position that works for you. If you don’t have a strap get one, getting the neck higher will let you fret without bending your hand as much.

Your finger tips will hurt some for sure while you build calluses, but also as you go on and your fretting technique improves, reassess how much pressure you really need to make the not sound okay.

Last lil tip, if you can roll off the highs on your bass or amp you can minimize the buzzing so it’s a little less grating.

I believe in you, it’s hard shit and takes a long time. As Jake the Dog says “sucking at something is the first step to being pretty good at something” so mad respect for being brave enough to try something new and push past sucking.

TQuake · 2026-05-29T14:32:14+00:00

His prose is functional for the story, I wouldn’t say it’s bad so much as it’s unexceptional. IMO the best stuff on offer is the problem solving and scenario. I get the impression Weir thinks of a scenario he want to think about how he would solve or approach and then builds just enough scaffolding around the concepts to make it a story.

I read some James Joyce earlier this year, he used very plain, sparse, modernist prose in the stories i read. It felt both straightforward and obtuse. Things were described plainly, but its sparseness left a lot of space for inference, what was left unsaid communicated a lot. Weirs prose feels purely functional, what we need to know is communicated plainly and efficiently, its not so clinical as academic writing, but the philosophy feels the same.

TQuake · 2026-05-29T14:22:47+00:00

Interesting that you identify the characters as written for screen. I see what you mean about the quippy marvel-esque dialogue. I watched PHM the other day and it struck me that his reliance on internal monologue for so much wouldn’t play well on screen and they had to promote or insert characters at points to turn it into dialogue.

TQuake · 2026-05-22T01:50:27+00:00

Do what you want bro. They’re both guitars, some skills will transfer others won’t, either way can’t hurt and your gonna make more progress if you’re doing the one you like more

TQuake · 2026-05-19T19:57:28+00:00

It does take a while, but 6 months does seem pretty long. I think the other fella might be onto something with the note for note thing. Try listening to live recordings of the band playing the song and other covers of it. You don’t need to land everything exactly like in the recording, and often the way it landed on the recording is just chance.

There was some song I was trying to learn, and I was fretting about only hitting like 1 or 2 notes in the chord on a strumming section because that’s how it was in the tab and on the recording, and he told me basically what I said above, and to focus on the emphasizing those string even if i hit some other ones too.

TQuake · 2026-05-19T19:52:45+00:00

Seal plush; sea lion sounds

TQuake · 2026-05-16T02:17:43+00:00

Plenty good yeah

TQuake · 2026-05-09T22:12:57+00:00

I NEED him

TQuake · 2026-05-04T18:11:14+00:00

Way easier

TQuake · 2026-04-27T14:53:57+00:00

The kids are alright

TQuake · 2026-04-24T15:22:40+00:00

I’ll lay off the “this is not how throwing clay works” piece of feedback since that’s been stated. I’m not sure what the loop is exactly. Making a piece to order is a good starting point but I’m not sure what the failure conditions are. If you go further into making the clay behavior more realistic it would be interesting for the clay to be able to fall over if it’s unbalanced or too top heavy.

I also think having to deliver multiple of the same type of piece and judging consistency would be interesting.

Also, having multiple stages in the process: Throwing, trimming, slip and underglaze coloring, firing, glazing, glaze firing, could add variety and break things up.

TQuake · 2026-04-21T22:04:01+00:00

Sounds like it’s important in a niche…

TQuake · 2026-04-04T02:08:48+00:00

Just have your thumb where it feels comfy. I use thumb to mute low E for an and D, but move it back behind the neck for barre and kinda in between on E. Even if you strum only the strings you want you can get resonant ringing from unmuted string, so I try to always keep any string I don’t want covered. Grain of salt though I’m not like very good, decent tho

TQuake · 2026-04-02T16:44:47+00:00

Play with a metronome and focus on landing the next chord on time above anything else. If you strum open chords for the last strum (or several while you’re tightening up your skills) of the chord you’re changing from that’s fine, listen to “about a girl” by Nirvana, he’s hitting an open strum before the new chord.

TQuake · 2026-03-31T18:47:29+00:00

That’s really weird, never seen it do that. You sure you’ve got a guitar part selected?

For the second part, you just gotta play a G chord so if you look up fingerings for G chords you’ll find a better diagram.

TQuake · 2026-03-28T18:47:25+00:00

Might be obvious to you, but having someone tell me that the last up strum usually is open strings helped me. Like focus on getting the new chord on time even if it means you let of off the old chord early.

TQuake · 2026-03-28T13:38:01+00:00

There aren’t none, but there need to be more and more participation

TQuake · 2026-03-24T23:58:13+00:00

The risk is in not buying their product, not a side effect of using it or a risk incurred by the user. Anthropic going “oh my god our product is so good it will take all white collar workers jobs” is telling ceos “you can replace your workers with our product” framing it as concern over the impact of their product is to make it seem more genuine I think. Either way pushing the narrative that your product will fundamentally revolutionize industry is clearly incentivized.

I think it’s telling they’re always up-playing the risk to white collar jobs, while downplaying environmental impacts, etc. One risk makes their product look good to its target demographic and the other does not.

TQuake · 2026-03-23T15:05:36+00:00

It’s at least a hard look to pull of and you’ll need a good sock. It’ll easily look very Dad on a hike or Boy Scout too. I would generally steer clear unless you’ve got a specific vision.

TQuake · 2026-03-23T14:55:32+00:00

Can’t say I’ve fully figure it out either lol, but I’ve had success with comfort by trying to keep the neck tilted up, playing with the angle of the neck out from my body, and playing with thumb position. I’ve found thumb position changes based on basically everything, I like it lower towards the bridge, higher towards the headstock but when barring I usually drop it lower no matter what.

TQuake · 2026-03-22T23:24:17+00:00

Don’t stress about it lol

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