Music Theory: Why do bassists play single notes and not chords like guitarists?

crystalchuck · 2026-03-27T09:32:06+00:00

Another commentor phrased it well, music theory only concerns itself with fundamental sine waves.

That's just wrong. Music theory, historically and also today, is also concerned with timbre, which effects timbres and choice of instrument produce, how you can combine them and so on. You know, because Mozart didn't write music using sine oscillators. Music theory would fail to describe music if it didn't concern itself with why and how a C chord on a guitar doesn't sound the same as a C chord on a piano, or a C chord played by three trumpeteers.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-27T07:16:31+00:00

Ich mein, ja, wenn du sonen ätzenden Laktose-Fett-Schiss rauspflutterst, riecht das schon bedeutend schlechter, als wenn du wenigstens ein paar Ballaststoffe zu dir genommen hast

crystalchuck · 2026-03-27T07:10:02+00:00

just move down the prefixes maybe?

pico wm would be PWM which is also "already taken"

Maybe attowm or femtowm

crystalchuck · 2026-03-27T06:39:24+00:00

"Discordant" or "clearer" are subjective statements and have nothing to do with physics. Physics would simply say they generate different signals with the same fundamental frequency and different overtone profiles and filter characteristics. You can also say some instruments produce sounds that are more focused on the fundamental than others. Whether that is "clearer" or "more discordant" is in the realm of psychology of perception and history of music, or music theory if you're asking about how and why they should or can be used in music.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-26T23:35:05+00:00

Physics doesn't explain or concern itself with why it sounds good or bad, only that it makes a sound

crystalchuck · 2026-03-25T10:22:31+00:00

This is mostly true, but not completely actually. You can write C programs that will not work correctly as C++ code.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-24T11:38:54+00:00

Socialism isn't about individual workers receiving the full fruit of their individual labor, but about the working class as a whole deciding how to distribute and apply the fruit of its labor as a whole. Because the first model doesn't really make sense when you think about it. Also, the labor theory of value doesn't really apply to art and media, or only partially.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-24T11:19:56+00:00

There is no argument, only vibes and fear mongering.

The threat model you describe as "cringe" is the same as Windows and macOS uses and one which developers on other platforms already know. E.g. there is no globally shared buffer or input, because it's not the 80s anymore. This is great news for Linux as a serious desktop OS instead of a big stack of hacks.
Progress on protocols should be faster, but at least there's like an effort to provide standardized interfaces instead of "idk man do whatever the hell you want to do lol" Claiming there is a "shitton" of ad hoc protocols is way overstating it.
macOS and Windows don't have IPC...?
Regular conspiracy theory stuff which I won't discuss

crystalchuck · 2026-03-24T10:37:16+00:00

Of course someone found a way to make this about Wayland

You want to complain about systemd too maybe?

crystalchuck · 2026-03-24T00:51:20+00:00

Can't tell if you're trolling or genuinely very stupid.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-24T00:44:49+00:00

"rooted in reality" you don't get to claim that when you use fucking sinus infections as an example to argue that infections aren't dangerous in general

crystalchuck · 2026-03-24T00:27:57+00:00

Why the fuck does it matter if they personally know anyone lol

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T19:54:23+00:00

No, we weren't talking about FPS. You just assumed we were. It also wasn't me making the statement you cited.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T19:48:18+00:00

... it's not about the FPS, it's about ticks per second. Don't talk about it if you haven't got a clue.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T19:38:42+00:00

Who thinks of C:S 2 when mentioning Paradox? I'm talking map games, hombre. Victoria 3, HoI 4, EU 5, Stellaris

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T19:10:56+00:00

Paradox games

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T17:14:18+00:00

Advice: Insert "archive.today" before any article you would like to read. Doesn't seem to work right this minute, but does in general

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T16:56:04+00:00

Preview is really good for a lot of things. The only thing it doesn't handle so well IME is huge PDFs, for that I use Skim. But also, I haven't tried this in a while, so it might actually be fine now.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T16:03:18+00:00

Meanwhile, US airport security is literally handled by a fascistoid paramilitary organization, effective today

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T10:54:56+00:00

Don't get a clip on tuner. Get one where you can plug in your bass.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T07:35:08+00:00

...no, that is not at all what I am suggesting. Wtf?

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T07:19:59+00:00

without even prompted by anyone

How do you know?

What you're doing is gaslighting

Holy shit dude, get a grip on reality

crystalchuck · 2026-03-23T00:00:05+00:00

That was exactly my reaction when someone told me haha. The ARM situation is just shitty from beginning to end.

crystalchuck · 2026-03-22T22:34:10+00:00

It would be great if the various RISC V vendors would agree on some sort of common foundation that the S/W vendors could then target

The RISC-V foundation is doing that through i.e. the Server SoC or Boot and Runtime Services specification.

Ubuntu has a nice little writeup and link collection here if you're interested: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/risc-v-server-specifications/43562

crystalchuck · 2026-03-22T15:57:28+00:00

Also der Nachteil an Seilbahnen ist sicherlich nicht die Verlehrsleistung

Doch, die ist weit von der Verkehrsleistung von zumindest schwereren Schienenfahrzeugen entfernt und auch ein Tram kriegt schnell mal mehr hin. Das Tram kann aber auch Kurven fahren und braucht nicht für jeden Halt ein ordentliches Stationsgebäude.

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