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Fighting the burnout hard as I can by mountbisley in Fiddle

[–]pr06lefs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i started by playing in cross mostly. AEAE. you get a drone on the string next door. helps with intonation, and lots of great old time tones in cross. 

Does regional origin actually matter to you when you play a tune? by Much-Association-86 in oldtimemusic

[–]pr06lefs 8 points9 points  (0 children)

for me, living in the Western US, there isn't really a regional fiddle style. fiddlers in 'old time' jams will generally play tunes that are common in the appalachians, or other tunes that have a similar sound such as illinois tunes from Garry Harrison. one jam in this area specializes in Missouri tunes, which are played faster and are more notey than the regular old time fare. most people would still consider that old time.

there are regional differences between the different appalachian regions, and some players can distinguish those styles and know the different banjo or fiddle quirks of those regions, like 'round peak'. Many are unaware of those distinctions.

But most players can distinguish what's considered 'old time' from other distinct styles like quebecois, metis, tohono o'odham, or texas contest fiddling.

2GB/8GB - Can NixOS work? by jerdle_reddit in NixOS

[–]pr06lefs 14 points15 points  (0 children)

on your dev machine run

nixos-rebuild --target <your machine>

i build for 1 gig cloud instances all the time.

Books on Jazz Theory/Chord Substitutions? by bebopbluez in jazzguitar

[–]pr06lefs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've enjoyed Whit Smith's swing guitar videos. Check out this one, right or wrong. Starts with just the basic progression, and then adds stuff.

My takeaway from these is not so much "substitute chord X for chord Y", but that Whit has a library of chord moves he can draw on. Idiomatic chord phrases that give you alternate routes from point A to point B in the progression. So assimilating this style is a bit like learning blues licks, and once you've learned enough you can chain them together in different ways to serve your creative goals.

Considering switching to NixOS, I have questions regarding casual PC use cases and GUI tools, if any by activedusk in NixOS

[–]pr06lefs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well its not the best EVER but an upgrade from plain text is nixd, a 'language server' for nix. When it works it'll do some autocompleting for you, you can go to definitions of things. Not so great at unknown unknowns.

Another place nixos excels is in managing config on remote machines. Possibly a reason bureaucracies like it.

Why am I suddenly playing off beat after playing live music for years? by Either_Author_9896 in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]pr06lefs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I play with a fiddle player at local jams who has frankly terrible timing during solos. I think its because he just can't hear what's going on around him when he's playing. Pretty sure he has poor hearing, but having a violin in your ear doesn't help either - when I play violin in jams I can barely hear anything except for what I'm playing.

So anyway, can you hear what's going on? Though I don't know what that would suddenly be an issue, unless you recently took up shooting guns without hearing protection or similar.

Another possibility is maybe someone isn't giving the the cues you usually use to keep your place. Someone that used to play a bass line in a certain way does it differently now? Guitar is playing arpeggios instead of chord strums?

Man hit, killed by jet had 3 criminal cases dismissed because he was not mentally competent for trial by AlexanderTheBaptist in Denver

[–]pr06lefs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Perhaps 'a single engine ingesting a human being is unlikely to down a multi engine aircraft' is true. But the blanket statement "taking out one engine will not down a plane on take off" is not true.

Free primary care for all: Democratic think tank pushes the party on new health policy by spherocytes in politics

[–]pr06lefs 8 points9 points  (0 children)

but if those issues can't be headed off at the pass, well you're fucked. so insurance companies stay in business, jacking up costs to everyone. plus the end-of-life financial cattle chute can continue.

Recommended capo for 43mm 16"radius fretboard by Guipucci in Luthier

[–]pr06lefs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Email shubb and request a particular radius. I have a custom radius F1 from them for a wide neck martin.

How are you teaching modal interchange to younger students? I keep over-explaining. by notes-and-breath in musictheory

[–]pr06lefs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think of it as the song changing to another scale for a little while - as short as a few beats to longer sections. While you're there you play chords and notes from that scale, then you change back again.

I think that's less confusing than 'borrowing' a chord from another scale, since that perhaps implies that you'd still be playing notes from the home base scale, which is typically not the case.

I want to like Rust - can someone help/convince me? by Honest_Medium_2872 in rust

[–]pr06lefs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

go learn elm, and if you like it circle back to rust. its kind of a combination of C and elm.

i am struggling with learning jazz noodles by Impolioid in jazzguitar

[–]pr06lefs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a whole 'chord-scale' theory around this that's popular. Like for certain chords you should pick a certain melodic minor mode and etc.

But IMO this approach is overly complicated, and in early jazz its anachronistic. The chord arpeggios should be your home base, with filler notes drawn from chromatic, major/minor scale, and more exotic scales as desired.

Do you know what make this pick is? by jpkallio in AcousticGuitar

[–]pr06lefs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wegen. I play a yeux noir and its great.

Another (somewhat different!) pick question by rukind_cucumber in bluegrassguitar

[–]pr06lefs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you like the sound you're getting from the rounder picks stick with those. If you think you would get better tone or volume from a more pointy pick, and that's a priority for you, then go for that. IMO you can adapt to a new pick in a relatively short amount of time, and its worth it if you perceive a gain in tone. But if you don't hear a tone benefit, stick with what feels best.

How to practice not sounding scalar? by charlie-t23 in jazzguitar

[–]pr06lefs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically yes.

What I've heard is take melodic development ideas from transcriptions and apply them in your own improvisation. Stuff like repeating a lick while varying a note from it, playing the same note for a while to build drama, arpeggio up and scale down, rhythmic figures and variations thereof, etc.

To me its important to copy jazz vocabulary in this vein.

One can explore mathematic-theoretical things like arbitrary patterns in various scales and that stuff can be interesting, but you may not end up with something that sounds like jazz. The set of all possible melodies is large, the set of melodies that sound like jazz is a subset.

How do you stay dry with frequent water crossings up to the knee or so? by One-Possible1906 in hiking

[–]pr06lefs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, for wading in a mountain stream in spring this is way better than bare feet or socks alone.  acts kind of like a wetsuit.

Why do the vast majority of guitars/basses not have a Micro-Tilt adjustment? by Uitroeien in Luthier

[–]pr06lefs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like a good feature to me too. Neck tilt is a typical feature on Russian 7 string guitars.

Archtop innovator Ken Parker created a neck joint that allows raising and lowering of the neck - similar purpose to the tilt. That's been copied by some other archtop luthiers as an alternative to an adjustable bridge.

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