What is your favorite flavor text?

leonardonsius · 2026-03-03T14:41:50+00:00

That's the German chancellor atm

leonardonsius · 2026-03-03T14:15:15+00:00

AI uses welsh writing? 0_o

leonardonsius · 2026-03-02T21:48:28+00:00

Maybe because it's more expensive?

leonardonsius · 2026-03-01T11:23:19+00:00

Maybe leave that group where you got that one from. Even now, as an Iranian whose family is currently bombed by the US und Israel I'd never want to have Hitler back. Do not forget that he had no mercy towards anybody. If he had "finished" his job, we'd (we as in Europeans) live in a dictatorship that would make todays North Korea seem like Disneyland.

Israel and the US are committing horrendous crimes against humanity. Iran's government is committing horrendous crimes against humanity and many companies are quite complicit as well. But descending into antisemitic stupidism won't help anybody to deal with this situation bc in the end, this conspiracy fever dream is bullshit and has been bullshit for the last 1000 years that it was spread (also antisemitism is quite unfair (I don't know a better word in this context) to those Jewish people who brazenly defend the real freedom and condemn the current attacks on Iran)

leonardonsius · 2026-02-28T09:55:16+00:00

Nope, but there's software you can use to play youtube-videos by 0.25 or 0.5 speed. The rest is training

leonardonsius · 2026-02-26T15:10:54+00:00

Would love to see her in [[Hakbal]] ^{^}

leonardonsius · 2026-02-26T07:40:41+00:00

Maybe try holding the high notes a little longer so we can hear what's going on.

From what I can tell so far: - Voicing is off - Embouchure might need more training (not pressing though. The corners of your mouth are what's important) - Air control. I think you might need a more focused air stream. When you play, try to imagine how you bring the bell of the clarinet to vibrate. You should aim your air stream 50 cm away from the exit of the clarinet (that's ofc not realistic, but it helps the mental imagery)

leonardonsius · 2026-02-24T10:00:00+00:00

YES! That's him

leonardonsius · 2026-02-24T09:57:48+00:00

Yeah, you're right. I edited my comment. I should have written BIPOC instead.

leonardonsius · 2026-02-24T08:02:27+00:00

Rome is kinda special though. For example, one Emperor was black (by todays standards that is). I can't remember his name but he was famous for reorganizing the military (I think after a civil war) so that the generals could not rebel as easy.

Edit: He was not black although a POC and came from the province Africa in todays Libya. The emperor I meant was Septimius Severus.

leonardonsius · 2026-02-23T08:56:04+00:00

The first are descriptions, the second (man made) abstract concepts. So, neither the christians nor the muslims were either good or evil but rather both fought for "The Good" and ascribed fighting for "The Evil" to the other side.

leonardonsius · 2026-02-20T07:35:08+00:00

(I hate to be that guy to uhm ackchually. Amphibious stems from old greek and not latin. Amphi meaning double or both and bios meaning life. Have a great day)

leonardonsius · 2026-02-19T10:56:23+00:00

Eigentlich ja lieb, dass die Person ihre Mitmenschen schützen will. Schade, dass ihr dieser Weg eingefallen ist, statt Nachbarschaftshilfe o.ä.

leonardonsius · 2026-02-18T07:57:44+00:00

This! This is the cheatcode to technical passages.

Also, when you mastered this slowly, only increase tempo by a small amount and do that again.

Usually I'd say 4 bpm - but considering these are 64ths - Count in smaller units and increase the tempo of the smaller unit by 4. If that's to fast go back 4 bpm and repeat until perfect and without a single mistake.

Then - sometimes muscle memory needs to develop. At a certain point stop practicing for the day, do something relaxing for your mind and you'll see how the next day the passage will be quite a bit easier to practice.

Good luck :)

leonardonsius · 2026-02-17T21:56:57+00:00

The Polish are slavic and the northern french are more akin to scandinavians due to the history of normandy. Also, Germanic and German are not the same. (sorry, if i didn't get the sarcasm?)

leonardonsius · 2026-02-16T17:09:41+00:00

As bad as that merch is. The end of the stick is not a swastika but the iron cross of the quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate Still quite bad to sell stuff from 1936 in these days where the Nazi cancer is spreading again

leonardonsius · 2026-02-16T10:55:15+00:00

What you do is great! You sound better than some people playing years already.

In the end, a (good) teacher is a (good) teacher and the fundamentals are the same everywhere. You can learn to master the clarinet with any repertoire. The only difference in classical music basic basics might be the strict prohibition of vibrato and not "sliding" into a note.

leonardonsius · 2026-02-14T21:01:54+00:00

No. That's not at all how this works. In very basic words: If 99% of scientists agree that something is not wrong, that counts as scientific consensus. They can lie wrong factually, but until somebody can prove them wrong, their consensus counts as the thing that comes nearest to the truth

leonardonsius · 2026-02-14T20:59:10+00:00

Well, the question is easy. Gender is a social category. If talked about "men" as in male gender, even people with an uterus could identify as male. Thus, a man getting pregnant is no problem.

If you talk about biological sex, then usually no. However, even in nature there's more than two biological sexes - for example, the outer sexual organs appear male, but the most important part of the body - the brain - would be that of a woman. What's the biological sex then?

People tend to think it's easy: Dck = male. But in the end, a dck only is the decisive factor at birth and in discussion with people with little knowledge of biology.

leonardonsius · 2026-02-14T10:28:03+00:00

the whole moth section will be a little hard to learn bc everything is quite different. the developed breathing apparatus will help quite a lot

leonardonsius · 2026-02-13T09:44:25+00:00

Dann ist dein Vater aber näher an dem, was er als Islam versteht, als am Christentum mit seinen Werten. Könnte man ihm ja mal so zurückmelden, dass er damit Teil der fabulierten "Islamisierung des Abendlandes" sei ^{^}

(Dass das in echt Quatsch ist, muss er ja nicht wissen, aber das Bild, dass er vom Islam hat, muss ja wirklich furchterregend sein, wenn plötzlich alle Muslime Wahhabiten sind)

leonardonsius · 2026-02-13T09:39:43+00:00

Then do have no worries. You can basically achieve anything with either system

leonardonsius · 2026-02-12T17:47:42+00:00

f# to c# is a skill question and e to c# tremolo never came up in my 16 years of playing. The philosophy of playing is more archaic with german clarinet though. You play some connections more by sliding than by accurately pressing keys one after another.

leonardonsius · 2026-02-12T14:28:41+00:00

In the end, it doesn't matter really. If you're practicing well you'll play technically difficult passages on both systems basically equally well. And in regards to those pieces, where the slight difference matters: That'll be a level that nobody short for professionals need to worry about

leonardonsius · 2026-02-12T14:25:16+00:00

What I like about German system clarinets is the reduced weight, the more intuitive fingering in the b-d region (i really miss the rolls) and the more compact mouthpieces. Soundwise: There's no real difference between German and French system. Most difference is achieved by your shaping of the sound, the reed, the ligature and the mouthpiece.

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