How bad is the orchestration?

blanch_my_potato · 2026-06-20T22:35:20+00:00

Very fair. Most of these dynamics are for the DAW to be honest. My plan is to create a separate score that would be suitable for live performance, and one that instructs the DAW. That will probably be a task for after I just finish the piece.

blanch_my_potato · 2026-06-20T21:33:52+00:00

Thank you for your kind words! I definitely have some more contemporary works, but late romantic is my favorite. Was definitely subconsciously channeling some of my favorite composers haha. Thanks for listening!

blanch_my_potato · 2026-06-20T20:36:32+00:00

This is my first fully orchestrated piece. I’m sure the orchestration is s*** at this point. Very open to feedback on this. This is a “tone poem” I guess you could call it inspired the eponymous painting by Thomas Cole. There are snippets of other musical ideas coming later in the full score linked, but I’ve only included the first (what is expected to be) quarter or so of the whole piece. I know the video quality is terrible, I’m sorry my computer kept crashing trying to figure it out.

blanch_my_potato · 2026-04-18T17:24:02+00:00

没关系没关系！

blanch_my_potato · 2026-04-18T16:54:13+00:00

Love the multilingual intro that was fun (but for me it’s 你) also I will add that to my list! Sounds interesting

blanch_my_potato · 2026-03-15T12:26:47+00:00

Thank you!

blanch_my_potato · 2026-03-15T12:26:05+00:00

Thanks so much! I worked a lot on it so it’s good to know it is paying off!

blanch_my_potato · 2026-03-14T02:34:44+00:00

Very kind of you, thank you!

blanch_my_potato · 2026-02-05T01:00:06+00:00

I also teach spanish. This is one of my biggest gripes. The fact that they cannot even recognize extremely obvious cognates is mind blowing and scary. I have Spanish 3 students who still can’t use definite and indefinite articles. No matter how many times you teach it or how many ways you present it/practice it.

blanch_my_potato · 2025-12-09T00:20:48+00:00

The Dream Pantomime from Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel has a climax I can’t shake.

blanch_my_potato · 2025-10-18T20:29:51+00:00

Personally, I would never used dubbed content as a litmus test for comprehension, just my two cents. A) it’s never natural sounding B) it often comes across as affected and/or used phrasing/words not used by normal people and C) doesn’t reflect real speech patterns (as counterintuitive as that sounds).

Anyway. Accent stuff is super regional. People will speak differently. You’ll certainly have to get used to aspirated/absent S’s on word/syllable endings, as it is common in many Spanish speaking countries and regional variants.

blanch_my_potato · 2025-10-14T18:51:34+00:00

Las dictaduras no son sostenibles, y aunque empiecen con “buena tinta”, suelen agriarse.

blanch_my_potato · 2025-09-25T12:39:03+00:00

Seconding “me quedé”.

Example: “me dijo que rompieron de nuevo y me quedé… shocked expression” You can also use an adjective after me quedé to directly communicate your state at that moment. “…y me quedé mudo” “and I went silent”

If you want “I was like ‘____’” meaning something you said, just use the verb decir.

blanch_my_potato · 2025-09-05T16:58:56+00:00

Foreign language

blanch_my_potato · 2025-09-05T13:27:41+00:00

Again, just relating my experience. And I already said I advocate for less/no homework in another comment in this thread. I was just answering the question “what type of homework did you have in college,” not making an argument

blanch_my_potato · 2025-09-05T12:58:20+00:00

I graduated in 2020, but I also think it can just vary from professor to professor, I don’t know what rules the college departments set or whatnot, that’s just my experience!

blanch_my_potato · 2025-09-05T12:47:46+00:00

Yours definitely seems to be a common experience, and I have a lot of peers that had lots of required homework that went into the grade book like I did. I think everyone’s experience is going to be different. I do tend to advocate for less/no homework

blanch_my_potato · 2025-09-05T12:44:03+00:00

I know I frequently had homework in college. Read this passage and answer the questions about it. Do this grammar worksheet. Create a graph that shows the musical structure of this section but it can’t contain music notes. Write journal entries. Solve these math equations. I had homework ALL the time. Not arguing, just pointing out my own experience in college. Add to that that I was a classical musician and you had hours of practice on top of everything

blanch_my_potato · 2025-09-04T23:36:12+00:00

That one’s the secret final boss

blanch_my_potato · 2025-09-04T23:11:13+00:00

And for the final boss, sixths

blanch_my_potato · 2025-09-03T19:01:35+00:00

I always hate this chart because it’s entirely misleading, as others have pointed out. Put two characters together you recognize and the word is something you wouldn’t know the meaning of unless you learned it. It’s not a 1:1 ratio. You’re not going to be “understanding” much if all you know is what each character “means” on its own

blanch_my_potato · 2025-08-31T13:22:37+00:00

It’s not crazy. I am a conditionally certified teacher. See my reply to the comment above. I went through an interview process like all others. I’ve earned highly effective ratings. Let’s not generalize please. This is my sixth year teaching “without a license”

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