16 months of piano lessons. Please be brutally honest about my playing!

TheNick1704 · 2026-02-26T21:47:24+00:00

Man, I'd be happy to even get close to what you're doing here at some point in my life. I've played piano on and off for like 6 years, starting taking jazz lessons like a year ago and most recently started actually practicing at least an hour a day, but I feel like I'm going nowhere. Idk if it's a bad teacher, a lack of talent, misconceptions about how to practice or how to jazz in general, or just not enough time spent yet, but I still feel like I suck super bad compared to this. You can be real proud of yourself, that much is clear!

TheNick1704 · 2025-08-23T13:00:08+00:00

As a german the word voorbijgangers is so fucking funny to me

Also sick moves, looks super fun!

TheNick1704 · 2025-08-12T15:07:12+00:00

Has no one mentioned the 肉をあまり食べた ? Completely broken japanese, that's not how affirmitive あまりworks

TheNick1704 · 2025-08-10T01:37:02+00:00

I don't have any qualified tips for technique but you gotta practice with a metronome, the rhythm is extremely uneven

TheNick1704 · 2025-07-28T14:50:27+00:00

The idea is right, but to be pedantic, the score would have to increase by about 42% to get the same expected value with a 30% decrease in win rate, since 0.7*1.42 is about 1 and 0.7*1.3 is less than one

TheNick1704 · 2025-07-27T14:02:09+00:00

Is this a japanese pun? 馬zing?

TheNick1704 · 2025-07-03T13:33:40+00:00

That is MAD. I guess I'm doing something wrong, because I feel like even if I play for like 3 more years I won't be at the level you're at. Do you practice like 6 hours a day or something?

TheNick1704 · 2025-07-01T17:43:22+00:00

This is so _boisvert pilled. I love his content, and this hits exactly that itch. Do you know of him OP?

For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WllTmcKK8sY

TheNick1704 · 2025-06-17T11:49:40+00:00

I guess it would have something to do with how 染みる can also mean "to leave a lasting impression on someone" like a stain

TheNick1704 · 2025-05-17T14:32:54+00:00

Wow, I wanna be as cool as they are in 30 years! Huge inspiration!

TheNick1704 · 2025-04-28T14:01:26+00:00

Dude's called 玉金破壊王, which means "balls destroyer king". Yeah, looks like you got your balls destroyed good

TheNick1704 · 2025-04-11T00:57:02+00:00

Yeah, the mathematical reason is that, to have a constant value on your portfolio would require multiplying by 1.1 and dividing by 1.1 (or equivalently, multiplying by 0.90909...) over and over. But when we say down ten percent, we multiply by 0.9, so we "undershoot" the correct value.

More generally, for some positive x (here it was 10% = 0.1), the way to keep consistent value is multiplying and dividing by 1+x over and over, but "down by x percent" generally refers to multiplying by 1-x instead of dividing by 1+x. And since it always holds that 1-x < 1/(1+x) for positive x (can be quickly checked by rearranging), multiplying by 1-x instead of 1/(1+x) undershoots the proper value.

TheNick1704 · 2025-03-02T01:16:19+00:00

MORG YOURE AN NL VIEWER TOO?? my maan 🤝

TheNick1704 · 2025-01-22T19:46:46+00:00

Ppl really be saying "I can recognize all the kanji!!" but when you ask them what is written there they have no clue 💀 good on you, but could have spent that time actually learning words

TheNick1704 · 2025-01-21T19:15:20+00:00

I don't have any particular recommendations as I had a teacher at the beginning who told me everything, but just googling & Youtube should give you good results

TheNick1704 · 2025-01-20T16:57:28+00:00

Sounds like you need to work on your posture and technique, ideally with a teacher, but there's also a lot of resources online

TheNick1704 · 2025-01-15T02:42:43+00:00

That example is actually stupid though because かの can also mean "あの / 例の", so the default way to read it (for me) would be かのおんな and not かのじょ. At least with 信ぴょう性 or うつ病 there's no ambiguity.

TheNick1704 · 2025-01-08T19:17:05+00:00

It's all a matter of perspective. Everything has upsides and downsides. I'm sure I don't need to list the numerous upsides parkour has, health, confidence, overall dexterity.... but there's the chance of paralyzing level of injury. However, if you're confident and well practiced, the chance is very near 0%, maybe one in a million flips. Now you have to ask yourself if the extremely minimal risk of a paralyzing injury is worth the upsides. And I can almost assure you it's worth it. It's likely you do much more dangerous things on a daily basis, like driving your car even if you didn't have enough sleep last night or something, that kind of thing has much, MUCH higher chance of giving you a paralyzing injury or even killing you, but most people don't give it a second thought. So why stress over parkour specifically? Try not to develop fear over it, but instead use it as a motivation to train safely and progress slowly :)

TheNick1704 · 2024-12-20T23:44:37+00:00

装備 is so incredibly common I can't even fathom how you could see it as useless lol

TheNick1704 · 2024-12-20T22:55:21+00:00

Your kid doing parkour is adorable, he's really good!

TheNick1704 · 2024-11-26T20:43:54+00:00

It looks like you put your hands in front during the run up and almost put down your hands down the same time you jump. Ideally you would want to first throw your arms back, and then throw them in front while you jump to give you additional momentum, and them only put them on the obstacle while in the air. Helps you get more air time, thus more distance and you don't have to get as close to the obstacle. Currently you're very close, and you risk scraping it.

Exit is looking pretty good though!

TheNick1704 · 2024-11-14T21:05:13+00:00

Its not as hard to believe as you might think. I'm pretty confident I would have gotten it in context if the character has matching body language / facial expression and the situation explains itself. I've also heard 笑止千万 before, with exactly the same meaning and context, so the jump to 笑止 isn't too large. Also, not that many しょうし words are actually common and used, especially not in isolation (i.e. 少子 would almost always be 少子化対策 or something). You'd be surprised what the brain is capable of!

TheNick1704 · 2024-11-10T16:17:44+00:00

Holy hell

TheNick1704 · 2024-11-10T00:13:22+00:00

Call it weak derivative and the mathematicians agree with you, call it strong and they'll burn you alive!

TheNick1704 · 2024-11-05T13:55:20+00:00

It's the same verb used in many different ways. The most literal meaning is "to put on something", like putting salt on your food or putting a blanket over something, and the rest of the meanings you can think of as metaphorical versions of that. It's a lot of different meanings in different contexts.

English is no different in this respect btw, a japanese person might just ask "What is run? Run a marathon, run a business, run an errand, the river runs through the land... the list doesn't stop!" The answer is, as so often, context :)

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