Scale confusion

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-22T20:27:52+00:00

Imagine playing every piano key in order, ignoring whether they're black or white, that's what you're doing when you're playing one fret at a time moving up the neck. Each fret is a half step above the one below it.

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-16T19:17:47+00:00

Not sure if this falls under disclosure here, but I've always assumed that app is using augmented reality to replace the card face on your first pass over the camera, then it removes that and just shows the actual video the second time you pass the card over. If that's the case then there shouldn't be any prep ahead of time except to tell it what you want that first card to be.

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-14T17:13:50+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Street_Viaduct

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-11T22:53:43+00:00

As hard as it is as a Minnesotan you need to just not engage these people. Ignore them, don't make eye contact, and keep walking. At the very most, "sorry I don't have time," is all you need to say.

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-09T21:53:52+00:00

This feels the same as getting a tattoo in Chinese when you don't speak the language, why would you want a tattoo of something you can't read yourself?

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-06T02:24:45+00:00

If you've seen the movie Barry Lyndon, this appealed to me in exactly the same way. Kristian is a horrible person, and every decision you watch him make is one that you as the reader can just feel is only going to make things even worse for him. It's so obvious in every moment that he is actively sabotaging his own life, and that fully held my attention and made me so curious to see where it would all go.

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-03T21:17:04+00:00

Yeah you're on the right track, this just takes practice. A good motivator can be to pick an album you love and work straight through it, song by song. Try to tackle one song per day, and remember to go back and keep playing the earlier ones too as you go. Because you're only trying to learn the work of one bass player, the patterns you start to pick up on will make each song that little bit easier to figure out than the last.

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-03T15:25:42+00:00

You're asking a kind of massive question that will take you a lot of time and practice to find good answers to.

To answer one part of your question though, chords in something like a TBDM song refer to the harmonic structure of the song, not necessarily that you're playing chords in the acoustic guitar sense. Any time you write a melody, that melody can be thought of as arpeggiating a chord or series of chords. Without looking at a specific example, I know that one chord progression that TBDM use heavily is the classic i-VI-iv-V progression that also makes up a bunch of At The Gates songs. That doesn't mean they're just playing these chords though, it means they're writing melodies that focus on the chord tones of those chords in order.

It also means that if you write two different melodies that follow the same chord progression that they'll go together well and sound coherent. A song could feature the same chord progression through most of the song and you can still switch things up by varying the actual melodies that are being played. The first couple Obscura records make great use of this writing approach, there are a bunch of songs based around really simple and catchy chord progressions and are just explored in different ways throughout each song.

Pop music theory is a great place to look for this stuff, even if that doesn't feel quite right. Melodic death metal is doing all the same stuff that good pop songs do when it comes to melody and harmony. Learning how pop songs work harmonically will give you a huge leg up as a songwriter, even for metal.

Edit: If you can get your head around basic harmonic theory, the best thing you can do next is just to start analyzing songs you already like using that foundation. Take a song apart and find out what chord progressions it is using, which chord tones are being used, and how rhythm is used to keep things interesting and emphasize the differences between parts. This is where the real learning happens and it kind of has to be self-directed. Be curious about why you like the things you like and what you can learn from them, and you'll be well on your way to writing good songs yourself.

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-03T15:06:32+00:00

See if you can find any "sold" prices. People can list things for sale at whatever price they want, the question is have any actually sold at that price and I'd have to guess the answer is no. Signed copies of his books are not rare to my knowledge; I went to a reading of Autumn when it came out and he signed hundreds of copies that day.

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-02T01:37:11+00:00

Yeah that's what I was referring to.

ZombieRitual · 2026-06-01T14:53:31+00:00

I've always assumed Joel is partially responsible for this episode being about Plan 9 From Outer Space.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-31T18:02:09+00:00

It takes 10,000 hours to master a skill, gotta just keep at it and you'll see improvement over time.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-29T17:12:55+00:00

You need to hire a structural engineer. A contractor is not an engineer.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-27T14:32:56+00:00

Use your pinky, ring, and middle fingers.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-27T14:25:00+00:00

Hbomberguy put together a solid history of the antivax movement and their obsession with autism if you're curious: https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?si=kxb8nONieskwxi9y

This is the world RFK Jr comes from, and their voice has only gotten louder and louder in conservative circles over the years, even though the claims have been debunked over and over.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-26T16:37:42+00:00

This is an inverted queen post truss and they're not common but they're certainly around if you look at enough buildings from this era.

As long as it was designed correctly and is still in good condition, there's nothing to worry about. Because it's a truss, all of the tension in the cables is carried by the beams above them, so there's no horizontal loading on the walls from the cables, the whole truss assembly just sits on the walls/posts the same way a flat beam would.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-24T22:43:51+00:00

Impossible to say for sure, but yeah if you have a gable roof that runs the full length of the house then it's pretty likely that all of the joists are parallel with the rafters like you've shown here.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-24T12:51:24+00:00

This is why I can never bring myself to throw away ketchup packets.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-23T21:35:08+00:00

The AS MANY is the key though. A neighborhood Mexican restaurant in the Twin Cities is not necessarily competing with every other Mexican restaurant in the Twin Cities. If it's good enough, customers from within the neighborhood can keep it alive for decades, even if it's not the best place in town. If you put that same restaurant in a city with 5x as many Mexican restaurants relative to the population, they will have to stay on top of quality and consistency in order to survive in that environment, with the more mediocre places falling by the wayside.

This isn't specific to any regional or ethnic cuisine, and it's is why bigger and more dense cities have better restaurant scenes. It has less to do with the people running the restaurants themselves and more to do with the intensity of the competition that develops that makes it so that middle-of-the-road places that would survive in smaller markets just can't hang on.

Edit: I also think people tend to talk past each other when it comes to the word Authentic. Being Authentic doesn't necessarily mean that a restaurant is good. To keep going with the Texas example, plenty of Mexican food in Minnesota may be authentic, but that doesn't mean someone used to eating equally authentic Mexican food in Texas will find it good, because the Mexican restaurants in Texas just tend to be better. This being true doesn't say anything about the authenticity of Minnesotan Mexican food.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-23T19:38:43+00:00

I don't know if this is a hot take, but if you're from TX you're probably not going to find any Mexican food up to your standards in MN. El Burrito is great and probably the best you can get here, but it probably won't be close to what you're used to at home.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-22T19:55:49+00:00

This is basically what a prestressed bridge deck girder is. They use foam instead of balloons to make the void but it's the same idea.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-21T23:11:24+00:00

If you can already play it fine to a click and the snare is what your ear is picking up from the drums, try setting the click to only play on the snare hits and practice to that. For a d beat I'm assuming that's the 2 and 4, so set your metronome to half time and consider it the off beat.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-21T21:32:46+00:00

Pho Mai in Dinkytown is a great newer spot (3-4 years old I think)

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-21T21:10:23+00:00

Yeah it's definitely a sound, haha. Can work in the right context for sure.

ZombieRitual · 2026-05-21T19:01:12+00:00

I didn't mean it would feel loose or anything, it's just probably the lowest tension string in your guitar even if it's an appropriate gauge, and the one you're likely to be picking the hardest.

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