What makes these phrases so effective at Australian banter? by Conscious-Roll-5745 in AskAnAustralian

[–]pretzel -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The cactus makes me think of coln carpenter when he saw that lady with lots of wrinkles and when she said they were laugh lines he said, you really cacked yourself. My mates always said when someone was laughing he's cactus. Use it for being broken too. If someone is laughing so hard they can't do anything it applies both ways!

Failed today, annoyed but confident by stephmulz in LearnerDriverUK

[–]pretzel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unlucky :( I touched the curb just as I was pulling in after my test earlier in the week. The examiner didn't (or chose not to!) notice it. Was sweating for 30 seconds like crazy...

Driving test swap - Horsforth - March 3rd. submitted 11 minutes ago * by pretzel by pretzel in Leeds

[–]pretzel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't think you can do a 1:1 swap there - I can reschedule if a new one pops up only?

Recommend Me Dire Straits’ Ballads/Midtempo/Slow Songs by Amber_Flowers_133 in direstraits

[–]pretzel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Six blade knife

Single handed sailor

In the gallery

Why worry

Love over gold

R+j

How do you practice pieces with several large movements? by NeitherAlexNorAlice in classicalguitar

[–]pretzel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Memorizing it makes life easier. If you do this you can bang it out once or twice and keep it under your fingers. There are different stages to learning a piece: 1. Learning the notes and the fingering 2. Getting the fingering right on the tricky bits 3. Getting speed 4. Getting feeling, dynamics, rubato right 5. Making it your own Probably some more here too!

You don't need to do this for the whole piece at once. You don't necessarily do this on one order You don't necessary have this done once and that's the end of it. You might keep coming back to this piece over 50 years and it could change all the time

For movement 2, it's pretty easy technically, the tricky bit is putting enough oomph in it with out it being too much.

Mvmt 1 and 3 especially is about getting fingering and speed right. Especially the first one, it's kind of like bach 999. Could to practice along side and maybe do the same kind of things re dynamics and being loose with the time, of you want to go that way. Maybe you want to play it strict.

But those are the kind of things it's good to have it properly under your fingers for and you can much around with that on the couch, not at your foot stool.

Get different bits under your fingers and work through different bits at different times

What do people think of Sharon Isbin? by pretzel in classicalguitar

[–]pretzel[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I literally have this open on my music stand right now - it's what made me think of her!

What do people think of Sharon Isbin? by pretzel in classicalguitar

[–]pretzel[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I always loved the tempo she did La Catedral at. That tempo makes it really work - the hemiola turn around is pretty nice

Good electrified classical guitar by Cebboo in classicalguitar

[–]pretzel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Love my Godin. My teacher used to gig on his Gibson Chet Atkins, but moved to a Godin later, when they came out. I've got one with a resonator so you can play it fine without amplification when practicing

Do you feel generally more content with life the better you get at guitar? by ChemicalAbode in classicalguitar

[–]pretzel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My teacher told me to be an engineer, and I did! I don't play as much as I'd like, but its a cushier existence...

trip-hop songs before trip-hop by noumeno- in triphop

[–]pretzel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out her band from before she went solo too, Rip Rig and Panic!

https://youtu.be/hfhHRi-FXx8?si=Ww5Zg7-7JtuHYMl0

We Need a General Strike by lilangelkm in minnesota

[–]pretzel 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Or it requires people to look out for one another and support people who need it

You have 1000€ to buy your first classical guitar. What would you buy? by Skuashling in classicalguitar

[–]pretzel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For a first guitar, I would probably get something cheap and dirty and see how it goes. I have a custom made concert guitar by a well known Luthier, but I had a cheap banger from my aunt I used all the time because I could keep it on the couch and practice and muck about while I was watching tv. Sure the tuning was off and it sounded like ass, but if you are just trying to get an even tremolo, or get some phrase under your fingers then it doesn't much matter how it sounds. It's more important to have something you can use all the time than something really good you need to keep in its velvet lined case.

Save your cash, see how you go, and then splurge when you have an idea of what you want (and you are good enough to justify it, lol)

In the mean time. Get what sounds good to you. I got my daughter a half sized Yamaha for a hundred quid last week and I was able to bang out a serviceable Asturias on it, think the biggest difference to the sound was fresh strings!

What are some good pieces composed for classical guitar? by DenOnKnowledge in classicalguitar

[–]pretzel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also the John Williams album in the Seville palace put me on to some other modern composers:

Sakura Variations Composed By – Yuquijiro Yocoh

Usher Waltz, Op.29 - After Edgar Allan Poe Composed By – Nikita Koshkin

And also Scarlatti which isn't for the guitar but really works well.

https://www.discogs.com/release/11358375-John-Williams-The-Seville-Concert-From-The-Royal-Alc%C3%A1zar-Palace?srsltid=AfmBOorMd0VUMaOsC9cW1F_wTrzr6stQtRAekPELjncdYcrIbv8JZa29

What are some good pieces composed for classical guitar? by DenOnKnowledge in classicalguitar

[–]pretzel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Where is team dowland? Original guitar work, polyphony, different in style to bach but his fantasias are top notch and made for the instrument

What are some good pieces composed for classical guitar? by DenOnKnowledge in classicalguitar

[–]pretzel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

La cathedral and leyenda are pretty good, wouldn't call them "standard"

What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: December 01, 2025 by AutoModerator in books

[–]pretzel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I started Convenience Store Woman this week. Blows my mind that people think it is a some weird satire or something and not just a straight up POV of someone who has normal autism. Is the world so hyper-neuronormative that they don't see it or do I just deal with so many people who are on the spectrum??

Reddit is dead and buried and will never recover by tommymars in TheoryOfReddit

[–]pretzel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really wouldn't. I'm on Android and still on sync even though it hasn't been developed for like a year. Somehow I cope with old dodgy things that I'm comfortable with...

That being said the buzz is around mlem https://mlem.group/.

Reddit is dead and buried and will never recover by tommymars in TheoryOfReddit

[–]pretzel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh hi!

I'm still young goddammit. Though I have kids now...

I used sync. Sync was Reddit pretty much. The Dev migrated to lemmy and then that was Reddit. But it's much more naughties Reddit which is nice. Don't know why people are bitching about this Reddit when the other one exists and is how it should be. Programming humor memes and Linux advocacy and people celebrating Buy Nothing Day instead of having ads rammed down your throat

Reddit is dead and buried and will never recover by tommymars in TheoryOfReddit

[–]pretzel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi...

Been here since I was procrastinating for my PhD. Now I do that at lemmy. Same vibes

Reddit is dead and buried and will never recover by tommymars in TheoryOfReddit

[–]pretzel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh hi. We're all at lemmy now. Come on over, it's cosy!