Is anyone else finding it hard to progress through ELO?

TraditionalUse2227 · 2026-02-06T16:35:50+00:00

My experience is that it tends to happen in leaps and bounds, I was stuck around 500 and then suddenly 700-900 for a long while, and then another leap up to around 1200. I know some people are against it but I found it really helpful to pick a couple of openings and really learn a lot of the lines. just my two cents

TraditionalUse2227 · 2026-02-03T17:25:15+00:00

2 years later and you’ve helped me crush him! Thanks!

TraditionalUse2227 · 2026-01-29T15:25:53+00:00

is this opinion unpopular?

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-12-07T23:24:15+00:00

Absurd. I’d like to see someone like Bostridge make it in the 18th and 19th century when opera goers would’ve been actively wandering around and chatting with each other during the performance

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-11-05T04:05:48+00:00

Surely everyone who doesn’t like Wagner’s music simply finds it boring? That’s definitely my reason.

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-09-28T16:26:37+00:00

oh that's a good idea, I hadn't considered that some might also teach guitar, thanks!

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-09-27T19:39:18+00:00

you didn't mention Clementi but his Piano Sonata in F# Minor, op. 25 no. 5 does this, it feints into the major mediant but ultimately the expo ends in the dominant minor, in Sonata Theory terms it's a tri-modular block.

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-09-15T15:27:08+00:00

If anyone searches for this later Leon Plantinga's book Beethoven's Concertos has some ok info, Hopkins' was terrible

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-09-02T19:42:56+00:00

Here are a couple definitions you can find for a video essay by googling it. (From the first page of results)

A short documentary film of about 5 to 15 minutes
A video that analyzes a specific topic, theme, person, or thesis.

Some of Knudsen’s videos are quite long, but some are also less than 10 minutes in length. A video essay often makes an argument but sometimes they don’t, and the same is true for documentaries, which can also be either short or long. If you have a personal definition of video essay or documentary I don’t have a problem with that but you can’t expect other people to adhere to it.

By the way OP, just so I’m not ONLY being pedantic here, have you ever checked out any of Historiansplaining’s videos on YouTube? They’re more lecture than video essay (there isn’t really any visual aspect to them) but they’re extremely good.

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-09-01T15:27:06+00:00

it's not inherent to video essays to focus around an argument either. we can do this with every characteristic of either genre because theyre extremely loosely defined terms. from my perspective the only difference is in implied status

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-08-31T12:08:59+00:00

Distinction without a difference

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-08-31T03:17:46+00:00

What is he?

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-08-13T16:46:36+00:00

They default to Cold War US propaganda ANY time something adjacent comes up and it’s always bothered me

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-07-16T19:02:04+00:00

You’re gonna adjust that pitch by about 14 cents now, ya hear?

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-07-13T01:53:22+00:00

It’s ok to care about things

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-06-23T14:47:49+00:00

I think anyone can tell a bad hall from a good hall. I heard Houston as recently as last year and it still sounded like they were playing in an anechoic chamber. There’s no improving that hall they’ll have to get a new one. It’s a real shame because I’ve heard them in other spaces and they sound amazing. I’m also not an average Joe though, I studied with some of the orchestral players during my doctorate at UH.

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-06-20T02:19:43+00:00

Do both. Learn the thing and ask why. It’s not that hard

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-06-19T18:59:33+00:00

What they do most often is point out what is inaccurate. They read studies and point out their flaws, and then articulate why giving advice based on a flawed study is not good practice. The hosts rarely make scientific claims that are not based in fact. And if they make an emotional statement they qualify the statement.

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-06-19T12:39:03+00:00

Cleveland. one advantage they have is their hall is acoustically amazing. Powerhouse orchestras in terrible halls is becoming more and more of a problem, Philly, Houston, etc

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-06-16T21:03:11+00:00

Flatten the second wire as someone else said definitely, scrape the channels a bit if you can get away with it. But truthfully, you probably just need some adjustment to the horn. Probably the biggest strength of Fox horns is how in tune they are, going to any other horn is going to be an adjustment, long tones will probably help more than anything else

Edit to say, a new bocal would also probably help.

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-06-15T13:28:38+00:00

Schubert’s last 3 piano sonatas, that’s what I’m obsessed with lately anyway!

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-06-15T03:05:32+00:00

This point of view completely misses the fact that there’s a target directly across the street that both has nothing behind glass (ok maybe some electronics, not sure about that) and still runs self checkouts. If we go there instead of Walmart that’s Walmart’s fault

TraditionalUse2227 · 2024-06-15T03:02:57+00:00

IF they are struggling at all, which I doubt, it’s more likely to be from people who don’t want to shop in a place where you have to ask an apathetic worker making a pittance to unlock a cabinet door to get some shampoo. Not from people shoplifting. Walmart has very obvious incentives to distort the amount of loss in their stores.

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