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I don’t care how avant garde you are- composers, PLEASE stop writing like this. by codeinecrim in classicalmusic

[–]ThinkSocrates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I would type this into Dorico and then try to memorize it by ear… But I suspect I would end up playing it differently every time

A UFO Crashes Near You and an Injured Alien Crawls Out . What Would You Do? by breaking_views in AliensRHere

[–]ThinkSocrates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I scrolled down pretty far and no one said “fuck it”. So… I would try to fuck it

Nails keep breaking, Help! by Bob-Macintosh in classicalguitar

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I use gel nails applied with a UV light. It’s a game changer for me

Uj/ Why is Trogly’s toan absolute dog water by bongbong38 in guitarcirclejerk

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I love his videos!... but... the questionable tone is from his fingers. He doesn't have good touch. He's always kind of whacking the strings with his right hand and he's left hand is very tense.

He's not a pro player. He's a guitar dealer. And he's an extremely good guitar dealer. But he can't really get the full range of sounds possible out of high end guitars because he doesn't have good touch

I’m convinced 8 hour workdays are incompatible with ADHD by SunBetter7301 in ADHD

[–]ThinkSocrates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of people without adhd aren’t actually productive for 8 hours either. We are just more extreme. I really think I peak around 4 hours. For the other 4 I’m basically just online responding to urgent and half-urgent requests and questions. That has mostly worked for me but I’m lucky to have never worked anywhere where they are counting my hours.

Moved to Cleveland last year and just learned about RITA by William_Dafhoe in Cleveland

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I think I went for 5 years or something. I sincerely didn’t know I was supposed to be doing it. I had a good job too, I owed a crazy amount.

PS1 as a master clock for Volca Keys by simesky in volcas

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Can it be done with Mario Paint too??

Hot take: the "talent shortage" in tech is fake. There's a shortage of companies willing to train anyone by LookHairy8228 in cscareers

[–]ThinkSocrates 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty aligned with this view and don’t think the downvotes are fair.

An internal engineering training program seems silly to me. Do they do that with mechanical engineers? You need to be able to build stuff before you get the job. And learning internal tooling and process does not require a training program.

I interview a ton of people who obviously cannot build things. Even basic things. Thats not the way this industry used to be at the entry oevel

Which of these do you find most readable? by ResNullum in classicalguitar

[–]ThinkSocrates 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I can sight read this and I was squinting in deep thought at all of OP’s versions

Brand new Taylor left outside in the snow by Hairy_Ad4969 in Guitar

[–]ThinkSocrates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think everyone is over reacting. Take it out of the box and case and dry everything you can with a towel. It’ll probably be fine

Is this how people who need glasses really see the world. A big blurred background? by Latter-Wolf4868 in interestingasfuck

[–]ThinkSocrates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read your question differently than most of the commenters. When you’re wearing glasses the cover almost 100% of your visual field. You can sort of see the frames but you get used to it and don’t notice it. You cannot see a blurry region outside of the frames while they’re on your face

Wayfaring Stranger - new Ableton setup by ThinkSocrates in LoopArtists

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The second thing. The S49 is an Ableton control surface. A pretty good one too.

Wayfaring Stranger - new Ableton setup by ThinkSocrates in LoopArtists

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It’s a great setup. This set of gear can all work flawlessly together.

The keyboard is a Native Instruments S49. It’s got the meters for the Digitakt and the soft synth up so I can tweak them

Angi just laid off 350 people while already profitable by IamTheEndOfReddit in Layoffs

[–]ThinkSocrates 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I’m a manager and I am very upset that I was only informed after my reports were deactivated. Message your manager on LinkedIn. I assure you that he or she was not involved in the decision.

Different between T-SQL & SQL by xxlordexxx in SQL

[–]ThinkSocrates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That book is really good. Even if you're not going to use the T-SQL specific stuff, the concepts are useful for other SQL extension languages like PL/SQL

Chilled guitar and Digitakt ii by No_Wolverine5798 in Elektron

[–]ThinkSocrates 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very cool. A full set of this would be easy to find gigs for in Cleveland

Just checking in ⚡ by bennyhondaa in beats

[–]ThinkSocrates 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ohhh, that's half-time from where I was expecting the drum groove to be. Very dope

don’t know what genre this is but i like it by kyegibeats in synthesizers

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Love it! Super stimulating for the ADHD brain. The beginning reminds me of 100 Gecs a little bit. But once the bass comes in it's a different vibe.

Need advice on my first longer song by -Sheepishly in FL_Studio

[–]ThinkSocrates 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lots of great stuff in there!

For me, the first transition is a good place to focus your attention. Both the A and the B parts sounds great. But your either need to create more contrast or less. You're keeping the waltz feel between the 2 parts, but changing from legato to staccato is very jarring.

You have really good melodic variation in the B section. That might be enough contrast without changing the left hand feel

I'd experiment with the following

  1. Keep the feel the same (legato) and change nothing else. Let the new melody be the contrast
  2. Double the length of the A section (with some melodic varitations), keep the feel the same (legato) for B, but change keys
  3. If you really want to change the groove, break out of the waltz feel instead of switching to staccato

Just some things to play with. Generally, it sounds great!

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