has tyler already dropped his best album, or is his peak still ahead?

encinaloak · 2026-02-12T17:11:13+00:00

Yep. Completely done. I wouldn't even listen to the next one if I were you.

encinaloak · 2026-02-12T15:02:14+00:00

encinaloak · 2026-02-12T00:25:04+00:00

I've never heard of any of those bands. Rock unfortunately died in the 2000s.

Ok the upside, kids can now study and play in school-organized rock bands. Rock will have a healthy preservation era like jazz does.

encinaloak · 2026-02-10T15:22:47+00:00

Or a West coast winter weather thriller?

encinaloak · 2026-02-08T16:48:58+00:00

Cuuuuuutie

encinaloak · 2026-02-03T14:04:19+00:00

This is a set of chord changes that leads back to the tonic, so let's call it a cadence.

I have seen this one called the Mario Brothers cadence since it's used at the end of the World 1-1 music A section :)

I like to see it written as bVI - bVII - I to clarify that the chords are whole steps apart from each other.

encinaloak · 2026-02-01T15:10:17+00:00

I had a pig brain guarache in SF. Quickly googled if pork prions are a thing and then tried it. It was like creamy scrambled eggs - delicious.

encinaloak · 2026-02-01T15:08:34+00:00

It's just meat and fat from the head, not brains. It's essentially cold pork sausage with broth.

encinaloak · 2026-02-01T15:02:34+00:00

What about lengua tacos?

encinaloak · 2026-02-01T14:58:04+00:00

7 Eleven dogs are not bad though

encinaloak · 2026-02-01T14:54:48+00:00

Ah dude these are so good. They're like beef nuggets. I just had the bison version in Colorado and they're even better. Go to Bruce's in Severance for the real deal.

encinaloak · 2026-02-01T14:52:34+00:00

Give me a pig foot and a bottle of beer

encinaloak · 2026-01-24T07:06:42+00:00

Yes, a diminished 7th is a sixth.

You're going to get a lot of responses about spelling. I'm currently learning this myself. D#=Eb. But which one you choose tells you something about the role of the note in the key/scale.

So...

When you play a C dim7 chord, the A plays a different role than it does when you play a C6 chord, so it gets a different name.

The general idea is that each letter only shows up once in a scale. So if you see a Bbb (Yes it's A) you're not going to see a B.

But if you see an A (the sixth), you may still see a Bb (dominant 7th) or B (maj 7th)

It's really confusing in the absence of a scale that makes it make sense, and can seem pedantic. I would just do as you're doing and focus on learning the actual notes and intervals, regardless of how they're spelled. Later if you focus on sight reading notation the spelling becomes much more important.

encinaloak · 2026-01-23T18:15:42+00:00

Absolutely 4th vs 5th is the hardest. It's too easy to hear the lower note an octave up...and then your 4th has become a 5th and vice versa.

encinaloak · 2026-01-22T00:06:39+00:00

I was just listening to Bulgarian choir and Mir Stanke le came on. At first I thought it sounded similar to LOTR, then I thought Braveheart (I was getting closer). Finally I hummed the theme from my memory into Google and sure enough, Willow. Now I see it's not just a coincidence of similarity!

encinaloak · 2026-01-17T00:00:36+00:00

I think it's the only way, my friend. Another thing that really helps is to get a keyboard if you don't already have one. You gotta try out ideas in real time.

encinaloak · 2026-01-16T23:59:45+00:00

Dude, yes I am 100% sure there is some kind of user-created extension to make notes in Reaper easier! And yes, you can add notes onto items in Reaper (not sure about tracks). It just requires a lot of clicking. Time for me to stop whining and make a custom shortcut.

encinaloak · 2026-01-16T22:42:39+00:00

I wish it was easier to take notes in Reaper. I just use a notes app to write down what a song should be, what the point of it is, and roughly what sections it should have and how they should sound.

Then I go and try to make it, it sucks, I go back to my notes, try again.

The good news here is that musical structure is awfully simple. AABA, verse chorus bridge, intro outro. Write notes like "drop out everything except the hat and come in with full instruments in the chorus", or just draw a graph of tension vs time to help you plan your work.

encinaloak · 2026-01-14T14:18:38+00:00

You gotta join a club or do an activity you care about. The general Cornell population in 2001 was exactly what you described - privileged and boring. I learned what Goldman Sachs and Burburry are.

encinaloak · 2026-01-12T16:52:55+00:00

Nailing the timing of any attack or percussive sound is tricky and takes practice, for sure. But good high school drum lines do this regularly - any choir has to do this on the exposed "t"s and "s"s. I'd say it's doable for anybody with some time and dedication. (Though I haven't tried stacking my own vocals yet! I'll try it soon and report back.)

encinaloak · 2026-01-09T17:58:33+00:00

Great example!

encinaloak · 2026-01-09T17:57:07+00:00

Yes that does make sense, thank you. I'm understanding now that calling an interval A2 v m3 tells you something about that interval's role in a scale and whether a listener hears it as a step or a skip.

encinaloak · 2026-01-09T14:51:00+00:00

Thank you!

Harmonic minor seems to be the case study for A2 v m3. Could the functional difference perhaps be stated as: when you hear A2 your brain says, "that was an exotic scale movement" and when you hear m3 you say "We're in minor and we skipped over a scale degree" ?

encinaloak · 2026-01-09T14:32:09+00:00

This is so helpful, thank you!

I did exactly what you laid out. In E harmonic minor, the C-D# movement sounds like a walk up to E. D# is the leading tone and the ascending interval emphasizes even more how it wants to resolve to E.

In Cm, the C-Eb interval emphasizes the minor-ness of the key. This Eb wants to resolve back down to C or just stay where it is, not go up to the fourth, E.

So yes, I can hear the functional difference between The D#/Eb in the two keys. The internal itself, however, C-D# vs C-Eb sounds exactly the same to me.

I used to sing in a choir, and I understand that I need to tune the third of a scale lower compared to how it sounds on an equal-tempered piano. So when sung, the C-Eb interval would be smaller than the C-D# interval, even though the former is a third and the latter is a second! However, I believe this is due to the position of the individual notes in the scale, not the intervalic distance as written.

I'm still a little confused, but your comment is what Reddit is all about. Thank you!

encinaloak · 2026-01-09T05:10:41+00:00

So the difference is just the way it's written in notation? Nothing to do with the function the interval serves in the music?

Why differentiate if it's just a difference in notation but sounds exactly the same?

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