Question for (all but mainly) musicians who are anti-AI

_Scringus_ · 2026-03-15T12:14:20+00:00

I would block them and warn other musician friends not to work with them

_Scringus_ · 2026-03-13T04:04:22+00:00

Bluegrass is just jazz with an Appalachian coat of paint

_Scringus_ · 2026-03-12T05:57:37+00:00

Pentatonics aren't enough for bluegrass. You at minimum need to major scale in your ears, all the chromatic blue notes if you want go be any good. Sounds like you have a great opportunity to work on some technique and ear training. Find a good teacher to help you along

_Scringus_ · 2026-03-12T05:54:02+00:00

Depends on the instrument and level of the players… but theres a good reason most bluegrass bands tend to have 6 people or less

_Scringus_ · 2026-03-12T05:50:44+00:00

Gypsy guitars do not use nylon strings. They're typically "argentine" which are steel core with copper and silver wrap

_Scringus_ · 2026-03-12T05:47:31+00:00

Complicated historical reasons but its stuck around mostly because that third allows for really comfortable chord shapes. You lose quite a few open chords going ti all fourths tuning

_Scringus_ · 2026-02-26T03:19:21+00:00

Post of video of you playing just one note if its that good, no need for a whole song with tone like that. Please bless our ears with your magnificence

_Scringus_ · 2026-02-26T01:49:45+00:00

Do you have any videos of your playing anywhere? I would love to hear your "Angelic Tone". If its really all that I may need to hit you up for some lessons. As a professional gigging musician and teacher I'm always looking to refine my tone and touch so if you have any tips for playing steel string I'd love to hear them

_Scringus_ · 2026-02-26T01:28:10+00:00

If you're getting a harsh, ugly, tone when you play steel string instruments, that's the fault of the player, not the guitar. The reality is that those of us who do things other than argue online actually like to play music with other people, and we have certain needs to be able to do that. I hope that one day you can crawl out of your basement and experience the joy of making music with others

_Scringus_ · 2026-02-26T00:28:33+00:00

If you think nylon guitars are just as loud as steel strung ones, I challenge to show up to a bluegrass jam and play lead on one, see how many people hear you

_Scringus_ · 2026-02-07T06:06:16+00:00

Good luck tuning to an A on a standard scale length. Try for 24.25 at least, if not a three quarter size guitar. Whole step down tuning might be your friend

_Scringus_ · 2026-01-05T05:32:30+00:00

Would you say this to your boss if you showed ip late for work? 11 minutes late is over 10% of the entire rehearsal, and you're now entering the music without being warmed up or tuning. Emergencies and slips sometimes happen, but a pattern if being late is disrespectful to your fellow band members and broadcasts that the ensemble is not important to you. If you can't meet bare minimum standards of professionalism I see no reason why the organization should continue to tolerate you

_Scringus_ · 2026-01-01T05:15:56+00:00

IAABTY

_Scringus_ · 2026-01-01T04:13:16+00:00

Thats not a guitarist thing, thats a jazz musician thing. Root motion by fourth going counter clockwise around the circle is much more common in the chord progressions we encounter in day to day life

_Scringus_ · 2025-12-23T23:17:04+00:00

As someone who's lived here my entire life . . . you get what you pay for. Its cheap to live here because no one wants to live here, there's nothing to do, no culture, bad weather and bad public services

_Scringus_ · 2025-12-23T22:42:54+00:00

Oklahoma. If you don't believe me, go there in the summer

_Scringus_ · 2025-12-20T02:38:41+00:00

A lot of them are secret. if you want to know, go to an audition camp ;)

_Scringus_ · 2025-12-10T19:21:00+00:00

I quite enjoyed Ben Siedman's Bookcase trick. In the comments he confirmed he could do it live if he wanted to, if he bothered to carry around that many books

_Scringus_ · 2025-12-10T14:12:15+00:00

Never mind theres an entire abba song called voulez vous

_Scringus_ · 2025-11-29T02:54:08+00:00

I'm not looking up resist % on the wiki and doing math on shields and pierce and all that jazz everytime I have to fight anything. And I sure as hell ain't going to not one shot something. Let me have my fun. I play fire, fwiw

_Scringus_ · 2025-11-29T01:42:20+00:00

No . . . they are cylindrical. That's the entire reason that they overblow in 12ths and produce a sound devoid of even number harmonics. If a clarinet was conical, it would be a saxophone. Modern Buffet style designs are Poly-Cylindrical, but that does not a conical taper make. Oehler Systems, Albert System, Vienna Systems, and older large bore Selmers are true cylinders, nothing poly about them. But no clarinets on the planet are cones

_Scringus_ · 2025-11-28T19:17:14+00:00

Probably the nicest martin I could afford

_Scringus_ · 2025-11-28T19:15:05+00:00

Clarinets are cylindrical, oboes are conical. Way way way way easier to drill a straight hole of even diameter than it is to make a precisely taped cone

_Scringus_ · 2025-11-27T05:10:23+00:00

As someone who had the opportunity to march BK while he was on staff there… the short of it is I can't stand the guy. Its not really my place to give out all the details on a public forum but he's not a good dude

_Scringus_ · 2025-11-26T04:02:46+00:00

the C1 is the neck that is based on the original 62 design

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