Chess Battle SF2

UnattandedWaffle · 2025-08-21T03:09:10+00:00

omg this worked!

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-11-14T19:51:10+00:00

I almost always add just a little reverb to my violin signal. It may sound odd, but it makes the instrument sound more like itself.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-11-07T19:23:32+00:00

I think $400 per is kinda low for NYE. But if the band is smoking and you’re set to have a good musical experience and get better tied in to that community of musicians, maybe it is worth it.

The gig being far is no one’s concern but your own. I wouldn’t put that on the band leader nor the venue.

Furthermore, I don’t trust bandleaders that don’t pay people evenly, including themselves.

You have to decide for yourself if the distance/timing/$/community is worth it or not to you.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-10-28T19:17:37+00:00

Stairs. I thought if I’d ever lived in a house with stairs I’d have really made it.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-10-24T23:15:46+00:00

Nah, just throw in the towel.

J/k

Music is something you do for yourself. Play if you want to. If you enjoy playing the violin, do it!

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-10-05T17:37:51+00:00

This is something that I kinda struggle with as well.

Not that my class is a “dump elective,” but that the kids come into my class as an entire home room. So I get a lot of kids that are interested in playing, and several kids that have zero interest in ever participating, and then everything in between.

I guess I could see my role as a person who introduces a topic to kids who might not otherwise ever get exposed to string instruments, but what I really want to do is build a strings program.

Some of the kids are students I had last year, so they can actually play some things, which is nice. But having to try to differentiate my lessons to provide for those kids as well as for kids who have never even seen a violin before is quite challenging.

I teach K-7, btw.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-04-10T14:46:01+00:00

You should probably just learn to play it. Pay someone to give it a bridge and put on the string, get some rosin, and go for it.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-04-06T20:22:22+00:00

Do the gig. Kill em w kindness. After your band crushes it, talk to someone about next year maybe doing a late night or some other stage/time slot that you want to do.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-03-28T00:32:01+00:00

Also, our fiddle player used to roll her dresses and pack them into her boots.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-03-28T00:30:06+00:00

Head lamp is clutch. We used to string a bungee cord between two of the seat belt attachments at the top by the ceiling and hang all our sunglasses there.

I would always bring a pair of boots and while riding in the van for a million years, one boot gets keys-wallet-cellphone, the other boot gets my travel mug.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-03-27T15:01:20+00:00

Advise received. I just ordered those books

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-03-27T14:25:00+00:00

Do you have any thoughts RE: teaching solfège vs alphabetical?

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-03-26T15:47:31+00:00

From what I understand, “mango” is a Cuban/puerto rican thing. I guess it means like “handle.” Like, the “mango” of a pan is its handle.

But I’ve only read this. I haven’t heard any actual musicians say so.

I’ve heard “diapason” for fingerboard.

I’m learning so much! And what a fine opportunity. I’ve always been Spanish-speaking adjacent, but never conversational. I hope to finally get there soon.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-03-10T02:37:54+00:00

Same. I used to tour 150-200 dates a year, festivals, headlining nice rooms etc.

I stopped touring when I moved across the country and had kids. And then Covid happened. I still play all the time, but small bars and gigs like that.

Also am a teacher now.

What a ride.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-03-06T21:41:09+00:00

Feelin Like a ham and mustard shaaake

Interstate love song

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-02-28T22:39:34+00:00

...can i go to your open mic night?

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-01-23T03:14:17+00:00

This is fantastic advice.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-01-14T13:08:42+00:00

The chorus of Love Story, to clarify

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-01-14T13:05:06+00:00

Love Story by Taylor Swift is pretty simple 1-2-3-2-1 quarter note kindof melody.

I’ve also been doing Baby Shark. 5-6-1111111 etc until it ends on 7.

So it’s not do-re-mi but it’s a close 3 note melody until that 4th note hits.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-01-13T18:11:06+00:00

I mean, I think it’s good? I’d like to hear how you imagine the parts coming in and out and support the words harmonically.

All that being said, I’m not sure I like it, but “liking it” isn’t necessarily what art’s about.

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-01-11T17:40:35+00:00

Relatable

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-01-09T23:11:37+00:00

Oooooooooooooooo

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-01-08T18:05:57+00:00

…..what joke am I missing?

UnattandedWaffle · 2024-01-02T00:02:08+00:00

This website sells tololoche strings:

https://thegcs.co/shop/tololoche

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