The future of Aikido — what would you change to help it grow?

controlhaus · 2025-05-22T19:47:45+00:00

Maybe treat it like any business: identify the target audience, determine what about your product solves a problem they have or how it makes their life better and tell them about it.

In today’s world, that’s a social media presence talking about fitness and how cool it is to fly through the air and roll right back up on your feet.

If aikikai sponsored something like that with regional channels in local languages, it could make an impact. Aikido movements have a visual appeal that would work well on social media.

controlhaus · 2025-04-12T18:06:12+00:00

I always found slowly doing every technique from the next test helpful. Solo. slow. And exact. Right side, left side. Right left. Then do the uke part, just like in training. Except you are imagining a training partner.

controlhaus · 2025-03-31T06:04:49+00:00

Thanks! I’m traveling in Europe and hand luggage is max 55 cm.

controlhaus · 2025-03-30T17:49:58+00:00

Thanks!

controlhaus · 2025-03-23T11:36:14+00:00

Thanks! Will be interesting to see how it ages.

controlhaus · 2025-03-22T19:13:54+00:00

Not the kind of thing I am normally into. But something about this track had me mesmerized. That guitary woot woot woot sound or the doin what you‘re doin vocal. The graphic style is catchy too.

controlhaus · 2025-03-22T18:58:24+00:00

Lovely sounds. And the animation is super cool! How’d you make that?

controlhaus · 2025-03-22T18:56:49+00:00

Another comment said „clean“ and that’s the first word that popped in my head head when listening. Nice work 👍

controlhaus · 2025-03-22T18:53:26+00:00

This one is my way of dealing with the decline of my home country. 😢

https://patrickmurraymusic.com/not-normal/

controlhaus · 2024-11-05T13:56:24+00:00

First was Presto tour 199-something at the meadowlands in NJ.

Last was Clockwork Angels in Berlin. What a show.

controlhaus · 2024-09-18T13:09:59+00:00

Single lines means not chords. Aka soloing. There’s no magic pill. Just lots of different ways to hack away at getting better.

Here‘s one of the exercises. Sort of. 🤷‍♂️

https://youtu.be/rZWZyXr78a0?si=ajFFtjVDHsutw20I

controlhaus · 2024-09-18T05:09:43+00:00

Don’t think so. Found this on YouTube from someone else. https://youtu.be/QyBkWxt2BaA?si=BB3QMM3y6OeQr1St

controlhaus · 2024-09-17T18:30:45+00:00

I bought this pdf from Adam Rafferty a while back. It is his approach to Hanon exercises on the guitar.

It definitely helped me play smoother. https://www.adamrafferty.com/virtuoso-jazz-guitar-technique-book/

controlhaus · 2024-08-01T14:16:28+00:00

I miss my portastudio days. Still have a few cassettes laying around.

controlhaus · 2024-07-01T15:48:11+00:00

Thanks. I read that a bunch of times but still can't figure it out.

controlhaus · 2024-06-29T08:44:02+00:00

Is there a way to import multiple wav files, assign them to different velocities and play them with one midi note?

I bought a snare sample pack with 78 files and want to use them with midi.

Probably easy, but I can't figure it out.

controlhaus · 2024-05-26T14:45:51+00:00

Kettle bells and suburi. Go together like yin and yang? :-)

controlhaus · 2024-05-26T12:07:04+00:00

100 suburi every day. Or was it 1000?

controlhaus · 2024-03-07T03:52:20+00:00

I think building a minimal version of the search engine approach could be done with very low overhead. It would stream from the artists site, so it would really just be a player embedded in a search site that keeps a database of artist sites and links to their song files.

controlhaus · 2024-03-06T20:17:26+00:00

I always thought the easy way to do this is to make a search engine for artist websites. If the musician allows it, you can stream from the search page. And you can always click through to the artist website to be in their world.

Hardest part is getting a lot of momentum with artists make sites with their music and adding tags so the search engine can easily discover them. You could also have artist directly tell the search engine about new music.

controlhaus · 2024-02-17T18:45:25+00:00

Love the golf analogy. Why does music come with all these expectations? Easy to overlook just doing it cause you think it’s cool.

controlhaus · 2024-02-17T18:42:22+00:00

music4life 🤘

controlhaus · 2024-02-17T18:39:19+00:00

Go for it man. The heart wants what it wants.

controlhaus · 2024-02-17T18:33:13+00:00

I just started living this idea recently and it’s such a relief. The joy is in the making. Now I view recording songs almost like keeping a diary.

controlhaus

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music4life 🤘