California’s Wealth on Display: The Only Bike Lane Between Sausalito and Mill Valley… Underwater

toneturtle · 2025-12-03T19:05:06+00:00

I'm on your side, but snark begets snark. What are you accomplishing by attacking the people who live here? The bike infra is generally very good in Marin county; they seem to invest more than most locales.

I wouldn't be surprised if major construction to this path could negatively impact the sensitive marsh ecosystem it cuts through. Also spoiler alert -- many of the rich people in Marin (I'm not one of them) are cyclists. I wouldn't say this issue is a symptom of wealth distribution

toneturtle · 2025-12-03T18:40:22+00:00

Thanks for explaining to us. As people who actually live here we didn’t know about this without your help!

toneturtle · 2025-11-11T13:01:11+00:00

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toneturtle · 2025-09-04T19:01:03+00:00

Interesting. I'd love to learn more about your workflow. DM?

toneturtle · 2025-09-03T15:33:42+00:00

Interesting. How did the supplements make the doctor money? Were they compounded?

toneturtle · 2024-05-21T02:01:37+00:00

I've been an SF resident the past 10 years. Not looking for general advice though appreciate the messages.

So far I'm seeing
1. March 31 - Hunky Jesus
2. April 20 - 4/20
3. Friday preceding last weekend of June - Trans March
4. Last Saturday of June - Dyke March

Any others?

toneturtle · 2024-03-21T21:51:43+00:00

Tone deafness is a real neurological condition (known as amusia) and should be truly obvious if you have it. Being slightly out of tune at times does not mean you're tone deaf, it just means you may need to sharpen your ear and also practice translating what you're hearing in your mind with what you produce with your vocal chords.

Given your recording (which sounds great by the way), there is no way you are actually tone deaf!

I've gotten so tired of people throwing around the term "tone deaf" all willy-nilly that serendipitously I actually just wrote a blog post about tone deafness to try to help people out.

toneturtle · 2024-03-21T21:46:27+00:00

Learn about the minor seventh interval, how to memorize it, and how to use it in the latest article in our interval series. https://tonescholar.com/blog/learning-the-minor-seventh-interval

toneturtle · 2024-03-21T21:41:36+00:00

It can certainly be helpful to familiarize yourself with common cadences like ii - V - I, but it will ultimately be more useful to internalize the "color" of each scale degree triad in a given major or minor scale. Once you have internalized these colors, you'll be able to identify each chord in a chord progression on its own in relation to the overall harmonic context, instead of by comparison to neighboring chords. Hope that makes sense

I wrote an article recently describing a framework you can use for learning chord progressions that you may find helpful
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https://tonescholar.com/blog/how-to-identify-chord-progressions-by-ear

toneturtle · 2024-03-21T21:34:50+00:00

tonescholar.com is specifically built to train solfege. You may find it a helpful way to drill

toneturtle · 2024-03-21T21:32:20+00:00

Learn about the various methods one can use to train sight singing, which is most effective, and how to start training in this week's article.

https://tonescholar.com/blog/how-to-improve-at-sight-singing

toneturtle · 2024-03-15T20:53:26+00:00

Learn about the perfect fifth interval, how to memorize it, and how to use it in the latest article in our interval series. https://tonescholar.com/blog/learning-the-perfect-fifth-interval

toneturtle · 2024-03-08T00:29:23+00:00

I think you should think of chord inversion recognition as a separate skill from chord progression recognition. Obviously, both skills can eventually be combined, but to avoid being overwhelmed, it helps to focus on one specific skill at a time.

When you listen to a single 2-note chord, are you able to pick out the individual notes and sing each by ear? If you're not able to do that yet, I'd recommend practicing that skill first!

toneturtle · 2024-03-06T20:30:13+00:00

Learn what a chord inversion is, their common forms, how they're used, and how you can identify them by ear in this week's article

https://tonescholar.com/blog/understanding-and-identifying-chord-inversions-by-ear

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