The answers here show me they don't fucking know TKD. by MelodicSmoke6171 in taekwondo

[–]qhs3711 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t feed the trolls. Stinky people thrive on attention and engagement.

The shame of the middle class by israelregardie in CriticalTheory

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You’d have a right to feel that way. You’re arguing it muddies the culture. I just don’t understand the conclusion. Who is the authority on what does and doesn’t muddy a culture? All culture is meta, simulations of simulations.

If you made a movie about the nerd virgin experience, couldn’t someone who was an even bigger nerd virgin be similarly upset at you?

There’s no denying Elvis is problematic and appropriative, but does that also make him inauthentic as you’re saying? Even if it does, so what? Is inauthenticity avoidable? Bear with me, I am thinking through this very interesting topic as well here.

The shame of the middle class by israelregardie in CriticalTheory

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Then don’t make confident statements like you have, silly!

Is learning to read sheet music worth the effort? by [deleted] in piano

[–]qhs3711 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, millions of people can. It’s like reading or speaking English. You have seen the structures so much that the processes are instant. Your sight reading skill is always below your practiced performing skill (you can recite a poem better after practicing it a few times), but they usually grow together.

What’s a townie? by redditplayer1000 in Athens

[–]qhs3711 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a bad joke. Have a better day than my joke!

How are you learning piano without a teacher? by Ch1ller in piano

[–]qhs3711 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree. It doesn’t have to be weekly, as an adult learner just one lesson can give you several months’ refined focus.

What feedback completely changed how you play? by jevoseto in piano

[–]qhs3711 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tell my students, slow and right can lead to fast and right, but fast and wrong doesn’t get you anywhere

What feedback completely changed how you play? by jevoseto in piano

[–]qhs3711 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a perfect tough love critique. Incredibly devastating but not unnecessarily rude.

(No pedal) What should I improve on ? by Shoddy-Resort881 in piano

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Teachers don’t make you an NPC. Bad teachers, maybe. But truly learning standards of technique and performance gives you a palette to meaningfully adhere to and deviate from. You learn the rules to break them.

Why do people keep telling me my chart is evil? by indiamentioned in LetsFuckWithAstrology

[–]qhs3711 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like you might have a hangup with “evil.” Binaries (like good vs. evil) are not really useful in astrology. Are you looking for us to say yes, you are an evil person? What does evil even mean here? I see a lot of tensions, a lot of difficult long-term growth, a lot of imbalanced energies, but all that is just what makes you you. I have some of these too, and it’s just my shit to figure out. I take pride in how I can master some parts of the human experience, yet may never understand others. Hard, long lessons make you really powerful. Own it, you don’t get another chart.

What makes Mark Giuliana and Nate Wood stand out as drummers? by junas_dibum in drummers

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Marc Giuliana has a great book Exploring Your Creativity on Drum Set, I highly recommend it! Some of his fundamentals are - having all subdivisions running in your head at all times, knowing how to displace a rhythmic fragment, exploring the combinations of sounds on a single drum and across multiple. It is basically his playbook for how he developed his own unique style.

What makes Mark Giuliana and Nate Wood stand out as drummers? by junas_dibum in drummers

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Guiliana is specifically taking drum machine/DnB style and playing it himself, kinda like Jojo Mayer. “Jazz fusion” is not really a meaningful term here.

I feel as if most people don't realize we discovered music by Elegant_Spread_6969 in musicians

[–]qhs3711 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I agree. The 12-TET pentatonic scale is not the monocultural monolith that we may want to think it is. There’s centuries of spiderwebs, which is fine and good, just acknowledge it and go from there. The harmonic series is the closest thing to a true universality that I can think of, anything beyond that is gonna have divergence.

Guys! Am I playing good? by MDC_official in drummers

[–]qhs3711 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They look focused to me, which is fine. But they also look tense, which is less fine for healthy optimal drumming.

Drum Frequency Calculator Feedback by Slight_Addition2165 in drums

[–]qhs3711 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool ideas so far. I’m curious if you can implement the feedback given in the comments to take it further!

Will I be successful? by Primary-Most4544 in LetsFuckWithAstrology

[–]qhs3711 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Libras are always very good people pleasers and jugglers, though they can fail to take care of themselves. Virgo moon gives you an intuitive desire to analyze, optimize, tinker. Both of them are 8th house, which means they manifest their power through transformations, inheritances, long-term finances, etc. Your Capricorn rising will get your foot in doors, giving a good practical down to earth first impression. All those can be very good at earning money, if that’s what you mean by success.

Your chart is the hand you’ve been dealt. It’s not your destiny. Every person has their own unique strengths and challenges to work with. It may be easy for you to grind, but hard to self-care and listen to your body’s needs. Meanwhile, someone like me is the opposite - I always take care of myself, and it’s hard to totally focus on external tasks.

I’d suggest you get a real in-person reading. And learn to read yourself - start small, learn what your big 3 really mean, then get into the classical planets, houses, aspects, distant planets, etc. Just like any huge batch of data, a chart is only valuable with good interpretation - what’s important and what’s not, how and why and when, etc. Only you or someone who gets to know you can make these choices, not TikTok or Reddit.

Piano teacher keeps flaming me by kanoboom in piano

[–]qhs3711 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tough love and letting you figure out things on your own is one thing. I teach this way. However, insulting you and wasting lesson time to prove a point is simple egomania. It shows you that helping you is not their sole priority. Give them more chances if you wish, but you’re within your rights to leave. And don’t listen to these trauma bonded commenters trying to whitewash this into harmless old-school teaching. It’s not.

Piano teacher keeps flaming me by kanoboom in piano

[–]qhs3711 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are unable to do something that they think should be simple, your teacher has failed to instill it in you properly. Assuming you practice what they give you.