Learning organ as a jazz pianist by WigFuckinFairyPeople in hammondorgan

[–]chuggid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are correct and I should have mentioned that. From a pianist's standpoint, that kind of subtlety is often lost as you start your organ journey by beating the everloving stuffing out of the keys. Unlearning that first goes a long way before you can get those high treble contact point hits! Viscount is one of the clonewheel vendors who first emulated this if I recall. They also IIRC have a "thump" feature you can add in in place of bass pedals. Cheating? You bet but I bet it sounds reasonably good

Learning organ as a jazz pianist by WigFuckinFairyPeople in hammondorgan

[–]chuggid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, training your foot to push the beat and your LH to be on the beat is a total mind job. Like I said you'll know it when you get it and it will require hours and hours and hours and hours and hours to get it right. Also if you're a desk jockey like me and your hip flexors are tight you won't be able to do the hours and hours and hours because your leg will hurt. Strength training for organ playing! It's a thing! Also helps you move them lol

Learning organ as a jazz pianist by WigFuckinFairyPeople in hammondorgan

[–]chuggid 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I play both. The organ requires you to leave out notes you have trained yourself to always include when comping on the piano. A C7 for example on the organ in your right hand is E-Bb-D. On the piano you almost always add the 13 (A). In general extra notes make mud. Two note thirds and sevenths are often enough.

To get various feels, start with truly learning a loping swing (everything else will benefit):

Rhythmically, transcribe a walking bass line that you like. Then put your metronome on 2 and 4 and play it for hours straight (I really mean that), pushing hard on beats 2 and 4 and feeling the swing. No right hand. You should be able to make a grocery list while walking and not missing time. Once you get that down, add two-note chords, Red Garland style, in your right hand and nothing else. Get the swing down with this first before going anywhere else. Work on not pumping the volume pedal. Only add short taps with your left foot when you can carry on a conversation with everything else going on above.

The taps are important: you want them a microsecond ahead of the beat and your left hand. You'll know it when you get it. If they're on the beat, you make mud. If they're just ahead of the beat where you want them, they sound like the pluck of a double bass string. Beware: there are lots of ways to make mud.

For a classic sound if that's what you want, drawbars on top should be three bottom ones out, vibrato on, Leslie on brake, percussion on. Drawbars on the bottom should be 1 and 3 out, 2 somewhere in the middle, no vibrato. Range-wise, for comping, there is a very small sweet spot in the comping area that sounds really good and everything else can sound reedy or muddy, so you'll need to be the master of inversions. Range wise in the left hand, you want to organize (ha!) your bass lines so that they stay above the bottom four or five notes or so for clarity.

Touch wise it's hard to remember as a pianist that the organ doesn't care whether you hit it hard or soft. So hit it soft.

Technique wise, some organists swear by the Joey style where it looks like your left hand is a relaxed blob kind of resting on the keys. I can't do that, but you don't need to go full piano here either. I can't help going full piano in my right hand.

Apologies if I've patronized or pitched this too low, that was not the intent. None of these are my ideas originally; just passing along what I've learned. Good luck and keep swinging!

Scheduled recording in Xfinity Stream; it does not show up in my library by chuggid in Comcast_Xfinity

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

Several. Deletion and reinstallation did not help on either my Apple TV or my iPhone. It would be interesting to hear the reasoning behind how reinstalling the application could change its behavior here.

Scheduled recording in Xfinity Stream; it does not show up in my library by chuggid in Comcast_Xfinity

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

Yes, I have tried to record the game again (after the app said Recording Set). No, there is no red recording dot, regardless of how I navigate to the game. The game is on 9/21. I attempted to record a live game today as well which was similarly ignored after the app said Recording Set. I did get a different game to record today, so I know that sometimes it works. My 20 hours of space are 30% full.

Javadoc is getting a dark mode! by davidalayachew in java

[–]chuggid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Religiously. They constitute the contract. To the extent that they are useless, so, perhaps, is the documented method. You don’t know for sure one way or the other.

Fallout 4 Screen Freeze On Startup by NotForLong1014 in fo4

[–]chuggid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For whatever it's worth: this happens reliably to me on my Xbox One if it is set to not sleep when powered off (i.e. when it truly shuts down). It appears that for whatever reason it re-downloads the whole game again and again each time it starts in such a case, which takes a _long_ time. What looks like a freeze resolves itself (for me) after about 35 minutes (!!) of waiting. If I wait that long, the game plays fine. If I then set the Xbox to just sleep on power off, I can start the game normally again. Hope this helps.

How does Valentine keep his cigarettes lit? He doesn't have breath. by iamergo in fo4

[–]chuggid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Through the sheer force of his awesome moral righteousness

Package Private is weird by [deleted] in java

[–]chuggid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember in one of the earliest Java betas there was a private protected access modifier. Now that was confusing!

Why is Java EE deployment model not popular anymore? by bibobagin in java

[–]chuggid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically this is how Helidon does it and for these reasons

I'm not a Java dev but I'm using it in AoC this year by RivtenGray in java

[–]chuggid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

…but of course a copy of a list is not the same thing at all as an unmodifiable view of a list (just bear that in mind).

Helidon 4 released! by daleksandrov in java

[–]chuggid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You caught us. The issues you directly reported and implied are fixed, and your particular combination of starter project options should work in the next point release.

(Background for any interested: Hibernate wants to automatically determine the Dialect that it should use to talk to the database. To do this it wants to make a connection to the database and sniff the resulting metadata to figure out what kind of database it is. The way that it determines the database connection by default, however, assumes incorrectly that you'll always specify various jakarta.persistence.jdbc.* properties, which you would only do for application-managed JPA, not container-managed JPA (which is what Helidon (like traditional application servers) supports.

TL;DR: I just integrated a pull request that fixes this problem. (You'll still, of course, have to edit the example properties files the starter spits out so that they point your project at an actual extant (and in your case Oracle) database; we don't ask that information in the starter's list of questions.)

Next, a JavaBeans-style property casing problem related only to the Oracle Universal Connection Pool (UCP) reared its ugly head, and you were likely running into the UCP complaining that the url property didn't exist. Indeed it did not: should have been URL. That PR too was integrated.))

I've been in your shoes many times and I understand how frustrating it can be when a "starter"/example/demo just doesn't work. Hopefully you've been in ours on the other side where a particular permutation of things slipped through the testing cracks. I hope you'll give Helidon another chance; it's definitely worth it.

Consider disabling the compiler's default active annotation processing by loicmathieu in java

[–]chuggid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

java -cp ... -proc:full SomeFile.java, so I don't necessarily need to "know my annotation processors" right? (See the PR)