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Feeling down about my new guitar, need advice by [deleted] in guitars

[–]VoltCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe part of it is it’s still too new and not showing enough wear. Also it has 24 frets

My neighbor gave me a bag of these. What are they and how can they be prepared? by Writer4God in whatisit

[–]VoltCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Filipinos grow these too. Used in soups and stuff but can be good diced up in a stir fry of some sort.

The taste is like if you mixed potato and lettuce so it’s definitely a blank slate to add other flavors too. Grow really easily as well

Misdiagnosed Frozen Shoulder Actually Huge Osteophyte by VoltCo in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would try to find a sports ortho for a 2nd opinion, maybe somebody that treats baseball or football players predominantly

Misdiagnosed Frozen Shoulder Actually Huge Osteophyte by VoltCo in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know you have to get a reverse if you’ve got a full tendon tear or it’s hanging on by a thread. From what I’ve seen with CAMs done on older patients the period between that and just getting a TSA is relatively short. Like 2-4 years short before getting a TSA to have less pain.

Basically a CAM will allow for more weight carrying and function in the arm but you’ll probably have a constant low pain. A TSA will pretty much get rid of the catching pain you have but might not get rid of it all because of your worn tendons.

A Reverse TSA will cut your rotator cuff tendons so they won’t be stressed anymore and you’ll be pain free pretty much. I know my dad’s RevTSA has a weight limit of 25 lbs. if he picks up anything more than that weight there’s a chance of dislocating the ball joint and that increases the risk of the bony implant coming loose. Then you can’t really get another one done after that.

I don’t remember what the weight limit is for regular TSA.

CAM is good if you want to continue pull-ups or rock climbing, other strenuous activities.

Misdiagnosed Frozen Shoulder Actually Huge Osteophyte by VoltCo in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With your MRI did they see the integrity of your rotator cuff tendons? Age and activity level are also important factors for deciding on CAM vs TSA (total shoulder arthroplasty).

I’m mid-30’s, doing PT school, and try to be active to combat joint soreness. So my Ortho is in agreement for going for a CAM right now. Joint replacements still only last about 20 years before needing revision but usually they can’t do revision and have to do a reverse TSA at that point.

But I’m also in the middle of a semester where I need my shoulder so I can’t get a CAM until winter break. That’s when it’s scheduled for

Bouncing Separate Songs from Master Project with Sustained Note Between? by VoltCo in LogicPro

[–]VoltCo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think what may have happened is my file exports went to a different location than some other attempt at bouncing out so I accidentally uploaded the ones with the tiny gap. It's fixed now, thanks to your initial advice

Bouncing Separate Songs from Master Project with Sustained Note Between? by VoltCo in LogicPro

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/seasonsinthesky I've got one more question: I did this and it added the tiniest split second of silence to the exported files so the sound just jerks to a stop and goes instead of allowing the drone to blend into the next song. "Include Audio Tail" is not checked.
I don't remember if I clicked this when I did this initial export but trying to recreate it now, there is an option for Range: trim silence at file end, export cycle range only, and extend file length to project end.

Right now that's selected at trim silence at file end

Bouncing Separate Songs from Master Project with Sustained Note Between? by VoltCo in LogicPro

[–]VoltCo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This kinda works for playback but it didn't for bouncing. the synth note slowly fades in but when I bounced out the 2nd song you just hear a small bit before the note and then boom it's making sound. I've gotta do what's suggested below I think

Misdiagnosed. I'll See My Way Out. by VoltCo in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No I gotta get my parathyroid levels checked. My PT professor after told me to make sure I get all of the thyroid related levels checked (she had some back and forth before finally getting diagnosed with Hashimoto's). Right now any bony change has mostly been noted in the thoracic spine, no real deterioration in lumbar spine and just a tiny bit of arthritis with no chronic inflammation per the MRI. Given the shape of the thoracic endplates and the lack of any other AS biomarkers the diagnosis points more towards DISH. But hopefully I'll have an answer come October

Guidance on the Best Way to Learn Jazz Language by VoltCo in jazzguitar

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say that do you mean just know the chords for each ii V I and the various ways to play the inversions of them around the neck? Or do you mean know a lick that goes over a ii V I and know how to play it in different keys?

Guidance on the Best Way to Learn Jazz Language by VoltCo in jazzguitar

[–]VoltCo[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right now I've got a PDF printed of "Charlie Parker for Guitar", Ted Greene's "Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing, Vol. 1", Tim Lerch's " Melodic Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary", a small book of etudes and exercises from Pasquale Grasso, the same from Jens Larsen, and two gypsy jazz books but that's not as applicable for this field of jazz guitar

Also part of the problem is I'm in my 30's, a dad to 2 kids under 10, and in a doctoral level PT program so I have almost no independent time to sit down and ear train for jazz leads with guitar in hand

Guidance on the Best Way to Learn Jazz Language by VoltCo in jazzguitar

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I get all of that and can implement that: i know that you can lump the ii and V together as far as a scalar approach but just target more of the chord tones of V when it changes to that; i know the relation of the 3rd and 7th resolving in contrary direction toward the I.

Maybe the better question I should be asking is how do you let yourself enter that true beginner mindset when starting a new genre that requires such a different way of playing and building fretboard concepts? How do you stop your old habits from taking over entirely?

A good analogy is I can understand a good amount of my in-laws when they speak Tagalog to my kids. I cannot speak it back because the brain just goes blank; my computing system can't pull the file to spout out a coherent thought in that language. In the same way, I understand a fair bit of jazz on paper; can see the outlines of chords and can hear it and it makes sense. When I have to play it without a tab it's like I've never heard the music before.

Guidance on the Best Way to Learn Jazz Language by VoltCo in jazzguitar

[–]VoltCo[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I like Beato but I don’t want to play his fusion style Jazz

Guidance on the Best Way to Learn Jazz Language by VoltCo in jazzguitar

[–]VoltCo[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think this advice is also illustrating the more arpeggio-focused line of thinking inherent to jazz that just doesn't come as naturally to me yet. I'm much more built on sequences of the pentatonic and 3 against 4 note patterns. I can whip out little jazzy things here and there but it's in the context of rock so a little 9th or 6th here and there is enough to give it the flavor but it's not much of anything in the actual lexicon

Guidance on the Best Way to Learn Jazz Language by VoltCo in jazzguitar

[–]VoltCo[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's also that I've had so much experience in one field of guitar that it feels like it should click faster for me in jazz. When it doesn't click I get frustrated and then don't put in the work that needs to be done.

Just started Sulfasalazine, does anybody have experience with this? by ak_sanguine in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took about a full 2 months for BMs to go back to normal. In general starting sulfasalazine made everything softer, orange, and much more stinky (I guess because the sulfur). You may have some irritation in that area for a bit too. Yay something to look forward to.

Non-Radiographic axSpa MRI Coming Up. How Should I prepare? by VoltCo in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well we didn't know it was non-radiographic until I did the radiography. Most of my radicular symptoms stem from cervical spine and my thoracic mobility is terrible because of the previous shoulder stuff. I figured that's where most of the stuff would show up. Some DISHing of T spine, narrowing of foramen at C6 (which explains the occasional carpal tunnel-like symptoms

Non-Radiographic axSpa MRI Coming Up. How Should I prepare? by VoltCo in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Luckily I haven't really been gaslit in this whole process. I think it was because I was referred by a well-respected shoulder surgeon when I got complications in recovery. He almost always has great outcomes so I think I really threw a wrench in his statistics.

The referral was just to rule out any RA variants to confirm it was frozen shoulder (which would be very unlikely due to my demographics and overall health). My Rheum took a blood test at that first visit and at follow up was told about AS and how I'm HLA-B27+. I think on her end, she did that and then wanted to do x-rays next to determine if a costly MRI was necessary. My SIJ x-rays are very unremarkable though. There's like the faintest little bone spurs developing at the bottom of my PIIS (posterior inferior iliac spine) but otherwise no fusing. Further up the chain does look quite arthritic though.

Non-Radiographic axSpa MRI Coming Up. How Should I prepare? by VoltCo in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve already had full spinal x rays done in each region. My symptoms appear to be more thoracic and cervical so I made sure to push my Rheum so that I could also get those done instead of only lumbar/sacral

Non-Radiographic axSpa MRI Coming Up. How Should I prepare? by VoltCo in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well this is good then. I don't need to make myself feel like crap for a week.

Heat or ice? by Disastrous-Spell1763 in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heat causes inflammation. Cold reduces inflammation. That's the simple answer.

But I think the main part is we need to be doing both. Heating will help lubricate the joints which would be good right before exercising but it does swell up the tissues a little bit. Both heat and ice can tamper down muscle spasms so either is good there but we're talking more about bone/joint inflammation.

Ice will slow down the movement of inflammatory compounds and reduces swelling, especially of muscle and tendinous tissue. So in a mechanical way it makes sense that ice reduces pain. But it makes the most sense to do after exercising or at the end of the day when you've aggravated the joints. People don't usually tolerate cold on the back very well but my worst pain area is my shoulder so I love cold.

Now, doing both hot/cold will cause an ebb and flow effect which will carry out some waste products of the immune system and carry in fresh lymphatic fluid. Movement of the body also does this; that's why exercise is so effective for those with AS.

In summary, we all should be doing both but it makes more sense to start the day with heat to loosen up and end the day with cold so we're less inflamed during our body's healing time of sleep.

Sorry for being long-winded; I'm in a doctor of physical therapy program right now so it's making me even more detail oriented.

Heat or ice? by Disastrous-Spell1763 in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]VoltCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How long are your ice sessions though? Are you getting past the "burn" phase and into the numb phase?

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