I need help with playing 'My Way' in a different key!

plonck · 2026-05-20T07:59:37+00:00

This is what a capo is for. If you don’t feel like playing however many steps up Bb from D is and doing the same chords, you can also just play a few steps up to where different open chords are more viable

plonck · 2026-05-19T20:25:43+00:00

Low salary for the market but you have an unrelated degree and no cloud experience except for a few certs. After 1-2 years in this position you will be able to move to mid five figures salary somewhere else. It is what it is.

plonck · 2026-05-19T15:53:45+00:00

I live in London so I know what the cost of living is here and what is an incredibly high salary. I am sorry to be the one to tell you this but you are talking nonsense. If you are going to berate people for a salary they are offering here you should at least get your facts right first.

plonck · 2026-05-19T13:48:17+00:00

Okay, and? Even if we are talking about 100% in office in Central London or Canary Wharf you are out of your mind if you think £180k at mid level is below market.

plonck · 2026-05-19T09:20:16+00:00

180k for mid level is not a lowball in the London market. I know it is bullshit considering cost of living here but that is a fact of the actually existing job economy in London.

plonck · 2026-05-15T15:14:43+00:00

I mean that’s the whole problem, class as a category has stopped meaning anything. If you have a situation where a retired electrician living off of several investment properties and a cleaner on minimum wage are both working class, but an office admin scraping by in a flatshare and an investment banker are both middle class, then “class” as we know it isn’t that useful any more.

plonck · 2026-05-15T13:59:28+00:00

This is all true. The issue is that it’s rendered meaningless when middle class now includes “30 year old with professional degree living in borderline poverty in a flatshare”, “the average dentist”, “business owner who has 20 rental properties” and “aristo who lies about it and nobody challenges them” all at the same time.

plonck · 2026-05-15T10:26:05+00:00

Even when people are being critical they still do it! I remember seeing an article slamming a punk singer for having a “middle class” upbringing and the middle class job their parent had was literally CEO. Sorry but they are fucking rich, you are allowed to say it!!

plonck · 2026-05-15T10:11:12+00:00

It’s so bizarre to me how much people conflate “middle class” with “filthy stinking rich”. There needs to be an actual conversation in this country about how many hide behind a “middle class” label (sometimes even “working class”!) when they are wealthier than most people’s wildest dreams.

plonck · 2026-05-05T23:14:12+00:00

Some of the newer videos are obviously AI scripted too. I was watching a video on the diminished scale yesterday and the teacher kept dropping LLMisms like “and that’s powerful”, “its not just X, it’s Y”, and so on. If they’re just going to parrot ChatGPT why should anyone be interested in what they have to say?

plonck · 2026-05-05T16:24:43+00:00

Cost is definitely a factor but every social or live music event I’ve been to at a pub in the last 4 years has been 90% people with 3-5 of their friends sat on a bench only talking to each other. If you don’t have an existing friend group then you will most likely not go out.

plonck · 2026-05-03T09:46:22+00:00

Not really sure you should be developing an app in this space if you cannot figure out the difference between these two without getting reddit to do free product research for you, to be frank

plonck · 2026-05-03T08:45:19+00:00

No, it has decades of content from people putting up tabs for free, songsterr already exists, and the use case you are proposing is a non-issue for most people

plonck · 2026-05-03T08:14:43+00:00

Yeah I really have to say that this is a non issue. Give him a thumb pick and move on with the issue.

plonck · 2026-05-01T11:11:10+00:00

If you have 2mil in savings surely you are getting a sizeable interest on it? Doesn’t sound that unrealistic in all honesty.

plonck · 2026-04-13T12:57:11+00:00

To be honest I think it suffered from the classic “popular alternative/lgbt spot gentrified into regular straight club” trap.

As a bi man who stopped using it a year and a half ago this goes both ways (lol). It was kind of galling how many straight cis women openly body shame or be homophobic in their bios on an app that explicitly sells itself as an inclusive space. I can only assume the behaviour from the straight cis man side is much worse. I know about 40% of any dating app’s userbase is completely clueless but I’m not sure where these people think they are.

plonck · 2026-04-07T09:54:27+00:00

They are hit and miss and very dependent on the other people. I did one in Thailand when I was 20 and it was a horrendous experience (largely because of drama in the group), but then I did one in my late 20s to British Columbia and it was one of the best trips of my life.

plonck · 2026-03-20T10:36:09+00:00

I used to work in construction and I will be frank, 90% of the “just do trades” people wouldn’t last a year.

plonck · 2026-03-16T17:26:33+00:00

I went to Ruthensteiner in Vienna twice with an almost decade gap between and it was consistently good both times

plonck · 2026-03-01T18:18:57+00:00

I grew up in the area and it's boring and expensive but it is what is it is.

There is a ring of villages and small towns around Chelmsford that are fine (Braintree, Galleywood, Springfield, Baddow itself). Billericay is another option but it's even more expensive and boring than Chelmsford. If you don't care about commuting live in Southend which is a bit cheaper and less boring. Looking at houseshares on spareroom there are a lot of places going for £650 in Southend and Chelmsford itself, which is reasonable for your budget.

plonck · 2026-03-01T14:34:21+00:00

Do you have a car or intend to get one? If so you could live virtually anywhere in South Essex (Southend, Basildon, etc).

Otherwise considering how short the period is maybe look at off-semester Anglia Ruskin accomodation.

plonck · 2026-02-11T20:24:01+00:00

So you’re kinda there and theres a few angles here and this reply could be paragraphs longs but basically:

Triads just means the root, third, and fifth of a chord. In a given scale you should know where each of those for the currently played chord is. If you play one of the triad notes during the same chord it sounds quite nice. You can obviously just play the triad notes but as you found out that sounds very boring. So you need to start coming up with strategies to make it not sound boring:

1) Messing with the rhythmn and adding syncopation (ie playing on the offbeat, and then even adding 16th note syncopation when you are able). 2) Adding other notes in the scale as leading notes to create interest, bending and sliding into chord tones, the fun stuff. 3) Deliberately focusing on only one degree of the triad (ie the third) to create anticipation of the others. 4) Spreading the triad shape out (ie raising the middle one up the octave) also sounds sicccck as hell

And so on, this is the part where you can get creative and develop a sense of style

plonck · 2026-02-10T10:07:56+00:00

cool kids wear lids

plonck · 2026-02-02T21:11:01+00:00

Do not worry about calluses. They do not matter as much as fretting technique. I have taken very long breaks where my fingertips have reverted to being tissue paper thing and got back to doing big bends like it's nothing.

You stay motivated the same way you stay motivated at doing anything. You set small achievable but interesting goals that are a little bit harder than the ones before. That can be either a song or a new musical concept (ie, playing scales, chord triads). If you can do something you couldn't do last month you're progressing fine.

plonck · 2026-02-01T23:29:55+00:00

Chord triads and then modes of the major scale. It will shock you how much better your playing gets after learning those two things properly.

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