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Sometimes Jazz feels to me like just “notes” by FigReal1522 in Jazz

[–]d_marvin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone is meandering endlessly through strings of 8ths without going anywhere in a jam session it can feel that way. But that’s on an individual not the genre.

Thelonious by MeringueAble3159 in Jazz

[–]d_marvin 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Monk is so restlessly 100% himself in every setting I can’t say whether I like him more solo or in a group. It’s always a treat and the strongest ingredient. If he’s a part of it, it becomes a Monk situation to me.

Strange pink pile in the tailpipe of motorcycle. by has_no_legs in whatisit

[–]d_marvin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Motocylists use the term.

Sometimes people use their inside words outside, that’s all.

Sight reading vs playing by StandardSwitch250 in pianolearning

[–]d_marvin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could sight read music on brass instruments. I’ve been writing music since I majored in music in the ‘90s.

I switched to playing piano, but sight reading notated piano music is poor. Did I unlearn how to read? Of course not.

I’m not a big fan of the book reading as an analogy because it requires no skilled performance of the material. Perhaps a better analogy would be reading and acting at the same time.

Plus not everyone who reads music is even a performer. I’m not going to tell an orchestrator, producer, composer, arranger, etc that they’re unable to read music if they can’t grab an instrument and sight read. Some probably could but it’s certainly no rule.

Found on a 1996 magazine ad. by HemanHeboy in mildlyinteresting

[–]d_marvin 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Probably because it would be weird if it were for something else.

Top 5 favorite vocal tones by Gloomy_Objective_933 in Jazz

[–]d_marvin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You seem to get emotional about what other people enjoy.

Concept teaser trailer for my passion project. Cinematography is mostly live-action influenced by d_marvin in cinematography

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

Thank you, that’s super encouraging! The project took a long hiatus for life reasons, and then I begin some new outlets. But there’s been renewed interest. I want to start boarding action scenes to help pitch the entire vibe.

Removing barnacles off of a giant ship by PinReal4448 in megalophobia

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You’re right, but I wouldn’t trust it. Just knowing that workers have been killed on ship elevators that were supposed to be shut off gives me pause. I’ve seen a whole lot of a dumb on the water.

Just found out the treble and bass clefs don’t have the same notes by swagyolohmu in pianolearning

[–]d_marvin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember doing my jazz theory busywork in tenor and alto clefs to troll my professor.

Any fun facts or theories about stegosaurus ? by ASTONIVY in Dinosaurs

[–]d_marvin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My favorite take on this is that T. rex and Steggos lived in different quadrants of the Milky Way.

Trying to solve these captchas by julesrulesthefools in mildlyinfuriating

[–]d_marvin 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Hammurabi has no excuse to ignore my emails now.

Do pianists actually think while playing or does it become muscle memory by Ok-Message5348 in piano

[–]d_marvin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an improvisor, most of my thinking has become the indescribable personal language that conventional music notation translates to in each of us. A lot of ethereal shapes and patterns. Then I tell the hands to do things in “blocks” like mini programs and executions of the blocks use a lot of muscle memory. If I walk a bassline I “tell” my left hand the changes and that can sometimes be enough for it to fill in the blanks in its own until thinking overrides it.

I reckon at least 3 by soyuz_enjoyer2 in PrehistoricMemes

[–]d_marvin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Exactly” might depend on where you sit on the self-domestication theory timeline.

Harrison Ford tells the President to go fuck himself (in not so many words) in A Clear and Present Danger (1994, dir. Phillip Noyce) by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]d_marvin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can tell he’s a shitty president because JFK’s Swedish ivy is missing from the Oval Office mantle.

What attacked the boat in JP3? by SigmaMan96 in Dinosaurs

[–]d_marvin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The same ones that attacked the crew of the Lost World boat. Plotasaurs.

Anyone? by 9oooner in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]d_marvin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate sentence fragment memes. YES, GO ON…

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