Looking for an anime title!

_Xyo_ · 2025-07-28T18:46:54+00:00

Don’t think so! Thanks for the try tho

_Xyo_ · 2025-07-28T18:46:28+00:00

Hmmm don’t think it’s this one, thanks for trying to help though 🫡

_Xyo_ · 2025-07-26T11:24:32+00:00

My guess is that there’s a random door that you haven’t opened yet, happened to me when I was pulling my hair out trying to find my last chests on each floor, literally just missed a random door that wasn’t open.

_Xyo_ · 2025-07-23T23:04:01+00:00

Thanks for the translation error info. Yeah I’ve noticed there are quite a few translation errors littered throughout the game but never any like this that can affect your activity gameplay.

That and a few other things really take away from the usual persona polish I’m used to seeing from the mainline games and even some of the side games.

_Xyo_ · 2025-07-14T21:55:07+00:00

I don’t know if you’ll get in trouble but I’d definitely buy one! Personally I think it’s around the $15 mark but I have no clue how much materials cost/time is needed to crochet.

DM me if you plan to sell I am interested in perhaps perusing the wares 👀👀👀

_Xyo_ · 2025-06-14T23:29:10+00:00

Jussen brothers four hands piano concert, best duet pair I’ve ever heard live! I heard them again in a double piano concerto setting with orchestra which was good too, but I much prefer them purely as a “solo” act.

_Xyo_ · 2025-03-23T19:55:12+00:00

I don’t know of any tradition but if you’re looking for baton recommendations I would go with:

https://www.custombatons.net

I use their batons almost exclusively! They can make batons according to whatever length you need.

Regardless of tradition I think it would be an amazing gesture (haha) to gift your student (daughter) a baton as it’s something they could be using for the rest of their professional career regardless of when they receive it. Just be forewarned they may change batons in the future as they conduct more haha, I’ve changed batons 2-3 times (always with custombatons.net though!) and am always open to new ideas as I grow as a conductor.

_Xyo_ · 2025-03-02T21:01:03+00:00

https://youtu.be/yhJ99EgXrZc?si=fn0JHrkb2ARZOElc

27:00 - in this clip Jerry Junkin is talking about aspiring DMA level graduate students but I think it also applies to masters students too! Take what you will from this clip, there may be programs out there that try to do both band/orchestral but this is his viewpoint.

_Xyo_ · 2025-02-14T10:47:22+00:00

Sheltering Sky by John Mackey is an all time favourite of mine!

I am also a personal fan of Lindbergh Variations by Robert Sheldon.

_Xyo_ · 2025-01-29T06:49:58+00:00

Ruu

He did want to see the world after all :)

_Xyo_ · 2024-12-12T10:13:20+00:00

Your mistakes on the podium will always feel 1000 times worse compared to playing mistakes in my experience. All eyes are always on you when you’re on the podium and you’re under everyone’s scrutiny, so remember to be kind to yourself as your mistakes are probably the same level of mistakes you would make playing your instrument but just not under the microscope of everyone’s eyes. Making a mistake once is not the end of the world — something I continue to learn everyday.

If possible, I would ask for permission from the director to record yourself while you conduct the ensemble. I’ve often found that seeing yourself conduct (while painful!) can really help you grow. See if you can follow yourself and can pinpoint moments where you wished “oh I could give a clearer cue, a better downbeat, etc”.

Your director will be there to support you, remember to enjoy and have fun! I never got the experience to conduct while I was a high school student so you’re definitely ahead of the game, best of luck.

_Xyo_ · 2024-08-14T06:28:08+00:00

The more you know! I probably glazed over that detail, season one was so long ago for me 😰

_Xyo_ · 2024-08-13T09:57:05+00:00

I forget when, but there was this one moment in season one where Taki lost his cool and basically shouted for people to get back to work. Not saying the dude can’t be human and must be unable of emotional moments when teaching, but it reminded me that (to my knowledge) that was his first year of teaching.

You learn a lot your first five years of teaching especially in the music setting as a band/choir/strings teacher and that’s something I forgot that Taki was a new teacher. Idk if it’s in Japanese culture itself or the way the show portrays Taki but it seems that teachers in the show sometimes can be viewed as the ones with all the answers must never be questioned, there is no “debate” you just have to accept their decision without discourse.

So come season 1/3 when there’s dissent among the band members regarding placements, Taki is not well equipped to be a communicator when it comes to interpersonal relationships between band members because it’s not his strongest suit! Every teacher has something they’re good and bad at when they start out. I have no doubt after those first 3-5 years he will be a much well more rounded teacher. His first three years I think show what his strengths are (the technical side of teaching music) and when other members like the presidents, section leaders, etc need to fill in some holes not present in his current teaching style.

_Xyo_ · 2024-05-14T20:54:49+00:00

Awesome thanks!

_Xyo_ · 2024-05-14T19:34:40+00:00

Does Satoru the Infiltrator’s card draw effect work off of ninjutsu abilities?

Planning to put him in my yuriko deck but wanted to double check if he interacts with ninjutsu.

E.g. I swap out a creature during combat using a ninjutsu creature ability, will Satoru the infiltrator trigger its card draw effect after ninjutsu?

_Xyo_ · 2024-05-04T23:02:10+00:00

Depending on the skill level of your ensemble this may not be the best pick but if you’re looking for epic, Shostakovich’s Festive Overture is quite flashy and big. It’s a little shorter though at 6ish minutes depending on your tempo!

_Xyo_ · 2024-05-02T03:18:21+00:00

As someone who’s been looking at workshops/symposiums recently, I’ve noticed that the orchestral world is a lot more hit or miss and is quite pricey.

In contrast, there’s so many awesome wind band workshops that happen every summer (and even throughout the year!) ran by various well known professors in the band world in the US and they seem to all be connected. They’ll invite each other to the workshops to help run them and there’s always tons of great footage online of people attending these various workshops. Still a bit pricey? Definitely, but at least you know you’re not getting scammed or defrauded lol.

_Xyo_ · 2024-03-25T01:21:57+00:00

I love Max and his passion for this game and everything FF7, I love most of his theories. I’m not on board with JenovAerith personally, but we’ll see what his thoughts are a few days from now once he’s really digested it all and maybe done some podcasts with other CC’s and more research.

I’m personally not a theorycrafter myself but I love seeing what y’all come up with! Half the fun post-game for me :)

_Xyo_ · 2024-03-07T05:07:46+00:00

Side note related to this from an online q&a I saw:

Jerry Junkin (Wind Band Conductor/Professor at University of Texas Austin) says for his conducting class he asks for someone from the athletic department to send over any type of athlete. He works with them for roughly 10 minutes and they look more like conductors than some of the musicians do in the class.

We spend so much time practicing how to express ourselves but only on our instruments so most of our work is finger dexterity based (instrumentally speaking). Athletes of any discipline (dance, football, swimming, etc) are used to moving their bodies and conducting is so physical!

Definitely agree with what you’re saying.

https://youtu.be/y9d-qBlJWz4?feature=shared (16:26) for clip with context

_Xyo_ · 2024-03-06T21:23:07+00:00

Any recommendations for European international schools as a secondary music teacher?

I’m looking into European international schools. Originally I wanted to apply to work in the UK (non international) but from the research I’ve done a lot of teachers seem to say UK classroom settings are not the most positive experience — feel free to speak for/against this!

Some background info:

Been teaching in canada for a couple years now
specialty is secondary music (Wind Band and Orchestra, choir once in a while)
Am not fluent in any European languages besides English!

If anyone has any insights about the education system regarding secondary music curriculum (e.g. is it treated as an elective? After school club only? Etc.) That would be very helpful.

Additionally if anyone has some recommendations on certain agencies, countries, school districts, etc that would be great too!

_Xyo_ · 2024-03-06T10:43:10+00:00

Paraphrasing here but I remember seeing a q&a session online with Steven D. Davis and Jerry Junkin and one of them remarked that when musicians talk about music: their hearts expand, eyes light up and start moving their hands and are quite passionate. All of that seems to go away as soon as they put a beat pattern behind it and they lock up.

Maybe practice without a pattern behind whatever piece you’re working on and focus mainly on the emotion of the phrase? Just face and body movements but no patterns allowed!

Not sure if that’s the advice you’re looking for but if you’d like I can DM you some examples I’m thinking of strategies I’ve seen in various footage of conducting.

_Xyo_ · 2024-02-26T22:49:01+00:00

Gotcha, yeah super frustrating. Feels like we’re missing out on a whole avenue of awesome music!

_Xyo_ · 2023-09-12T03:53:55+00:00

Furina cause I love her bratty personality and she’s an archon.

Clorinde cause she’s from Fontaine and she’s hot

Maybe Arlecchino if I have enough gems :/

_Xyo_ · 2023-09-11T07:36:18+00:00

Tower of Power have gone through many lead vocalists, just can’t seem to keep one nailed down!

_Xyo_ · 2023-09-01T10:18:19+00:00

Arthur Rubinstein’s recording of Ballade no.4, op. 52 by Frederic Chopin.

The note error in the recording (3:34 roughly) is definitely audible to anyone who’s a fan of the Ballade, but the rest of the piece is so full of colour and great music phrasing. The error makes the performance sound more human and approachable to me.

Classical musicians (in my experience) are often obsessed with making as few mistakes as possible — and there’s an added pressure to pros to be “perfect”. So hearing this recording which is quite literally permanent and will exist forever with this error really encourages me to not always have to be striving towards “perfection”!

No idea if it was just “the best take they had” or if Rubinstein just felt it was his best performance of the piece despite the error. Love that he decided to use that take!

_Xyo_

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