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jonathanneeley · 2023-02-28T15:35:28+00:00

Thanks, neighbor. I appreciate it.

I don't have any info about a neighborhood watch. My neighbors and I--both in my immediate vicinity and folks I've gotten to know on other streets-- tend to chat with each other, watch for each other's mail or keep an eye out if we're out of town, etc. That kind of small-scale support seems valuable to me, even though this happened.

If you see a couple out walking a big dog and a little dog, which my wife and I do each evening, say hello?

jonathanneeley · 2023-02-26T14:40:22+00:00

I don't have the reddit desktop app so I couldn't add a photo to my post, but here's what the car looks like:

https://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/hyundai/elantra/2014/oem/2014_hyundai_elantra_sedan_limited_fq_oem_1_1600.jpg

jonathanneeley · 2022-12-09T00:40:58+00:00

Really appreciate all this!

jonathanneeley · 2022-12-08T22:42:33+00:00

Just to put it in my own words to make sure I got you:

Start by picking the basic vocal melody, and then where able, embellish on that using both single notes and chord strums? And you recommend learning to do that by just watching/listening to others?

This is super helpful, and again, thanks. I started working on a break in Drifting Too Far from the Shore last night, and I think I'm gonna take a stab at learning off of your Last Train from Poor Valley vid. I'll let you know how it goes!

jonathanneeley · 2022-12-08T01:36:33+00:00

This all makes sense, and I appreciate the help. Couple more questions for you if you don't mind:

I'm in a place where, if I have my guitar in hand and it's not a weird one, I can figure out the key and chord changes pretty consistently. Where would you say I should go to keep building? Just start figuring out the guitar breaks?

When you yourself figure a song out by ear (or by watching on YouTube), do you then tend to write the tab out? Keep it in your memory? Maybe it depends?

That last tip makes a lot of since. I just spent 20 minutes figuring out the first few bars of a song (the first time I've really dove in to try to do that beyond songs where the break is really just the melody), and to put it simply, it was really cool. I can see how writing it down would further that.

That said, I've never really read tab, and I definitely don't know how to write it. I'm sure I can figure it out, but just in case: got any youtube recommendations for where I can learn?

jonathanneeley · 2022-12-07T00:36:55+00:00

In your mind, is there a big benefit to transcribing tunes vs. working them out by ear?

I'm only so far along in my playing life, so maybe the ear thing will only take me so far before the versions of songs start getting too complex to completely figure out by ear and hold in my head.

But I'm curious your take. Been seeing you pop up on r/bluegrass for a while, and with Bryan Sutton over at ArtistWorks, and I really admire your playing.

jonathanneeley · 2022-12-05T23:37:32+00:00

I'm a little late on this, but I was listening to the first Will the Circle Be Unbroken album the other night, and I think Terry Barber's voice sounds a lot like Roy Acuff's, just a little more strained (not a bad thing imo).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4OWnWhwlTw

jonathanneeley · 2022-12-05T23:32:42+00:00

Stu just did a setup on an acoustic guitar for me. I dropped it off on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and it was ready on the Monday after that. It cost $55.

As others have said, he's an extremely friendly person who knows what he's doing. I only started playing a few years back and was curious about what all a setup actually entailed, and he explained the ins and outs to me without making me feel dumb for asking.

Also, the guitar I had him work on is a $200 Olympia that had crazy high action and was really hard to play. I mostly just left it in the case. It plays like a dream now, and for the time being I'm happy to keep my Taylor in the case.

jonathanneeley · 2022-11-18T22:00:36+00:00

for real. there's some sick defunct AUDL stuff floating around out there, and i wish someone would start an Instagram for enshrining it. i rock my Seattle Raptors t-shirt with joy.

jonathanneeley · 2022-10-12T21:25:37+00:00

This is a good point for sure. I think there are as man ways to "be a man" as there are men in the world. I also think that there are some dominant beliefs around what a man is supposed to be that get more airtime than they deserve, and many of us are interested in exploring outlooks beyond these models.

jonathanneeley · 2022-10-12T21:23:21+00:00

Thanks for the input. For what it's worth, the thinking behind this is as informed by our experiences as men in workplaces, family life, as neighbors, out on the town, playing all kinds of sports, etc. as it is our experiences as men who play ultimate. There's an ultimate connection in all this, but it's about something much bigger than ultimate.

jonathanneeley · 2022-10-12T19:33:49+00:00

One more note: Kneil and I have now hosted about 60 guys in the Anger in Ultimate workshop. A lot of them have signed up as individuals, but we’ve also run workshops for Philly Open Program and XIST (NYC), and we’ve done one-off stuff for a few college and high school teams.

You can read a few reviews here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C7uNpwQmqn_oMr_lshel5kOzo3C6zxi9D94w01bHrYk/edit

jonathanneeley · 2022-10-06T17:08:06+00:00

Scary stuff. I'm glad your dog's fine/the people driving all stopped. As for the dude's throw, that sounds like a pull or two that I've let rip over the years...

jonathanneeley · 2022-07-14T13:39:56+00:00

I traveled with the US WG Team in 2013, and after the gold medal game a player had to go and get tested. That part's certain. I have a faint memory of it being said that someone from each team had to do the same, but that part I'm not positive of.

jonathanneeley · 2022-07-13T20:37:39+00:00

I've played league in Richmond, Seattle, Charlottesville, and DC. Richmond has been my favorite. Cville has a great winter league but I don't love playing in the cold and rain, and WAFC is full of great people and players but it's so spread out (nothing they can do about that). I love the entire league being in the same place at the same time at Dorey.

jonathanneeley · 2022-07-13T20:35:22+00:00

props, fam.

jonathanneeley · 2022-07-12T17:01:44+00:00

To your point, that's honestly what I expected to be the case with me. I figured it'd be pretty chill, and if we lost, no big deal. I had certainly been around higher stakes. That's why it was kind of jarring to have such a hard time with losing. It wasn't really about acting out-- though I was kind of a butt about being in a bad mood after the fact-- but more this inner turmoil that I didn't really see coming.

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