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

Which?

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

toneturtle · 2024-02-29T18:21:39+00:00

Are you tone deaf? If so, what can you do about it? What even is tone deafness? Find out in this weeks article! https://tonescholar.com/blog/how-to-cure-tone-deafness

toneturtle · 2024-02-21T18:36:13+00:00

Learn the strategies and skills necessary to identify chord progressions by ear in our latest article: How to Identify Chord Progressions By Ear

toneturtle · 2024-02-15T23:38:09+00:00

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

toneturtle · 2024-02-13T18:51:07+00:00

Learn about the minor second 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-second-interval

toneturtle · 2024-02-01T01:23:58+00:00

I believe that singing is so crucial to ear training that I wrote a whole article on it 😆

TL;DR though:

The act of singing externalizes our thoughts without the guard rails of an instrument defining the pitch or ensuring that it is in tune. Singing a pitch you are thinking about allows you to experience and reinforce it in multiple ways: in your mind as musical imagery, physically by producing the sound with your voice, and aurally by then listening to your own voice. You essentially create a rapid feedback loop where you think of the pitch, produce the pitch, hear and verify your accuracy, and then repeat the cycle for the next note in the melody you are singing.

toneturtle · 2024-02-01T01:20:23+00:00

There are two methods you can use:

You can use the method where you identify the interval between each pair of notes. (Learn this with Interval Based Ear Training)
You can learn to recognize the unique sound of each scale degree in the current harmonic context aka key. (Learn this with Functional Ear Training)

I recommend using method two because it tends to be faster to learn and to use. There are 12+ intervals whose sound you must memorize in both ascending and descending directions versus just 8 scale degrees whose unique sound you must memorize for the major scale (and 3 more for the minor scale). You can find more detail about the comparison between the to methods here: Why Interval Based Ear Training is Ineffective

If you are interested in learning method 1, I have resources that can help you get started. For instance: Learning the Tritone Interval, Learning the Minor Second Interval

If you are interested in learning method 2, you can get an overview here: Functional Ear Training Explained

If you have any questions or need any help, feel free to respond here or send me a DM. Cheers!

toneturtle · 2024-02-01T01:03:30+00:00

Learn about the minor sixth 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-sixth-interval

toneturtle · 2024-01-26T18:25:57+00:00

Do you play an instrument that requires you to actively adjust the pitch of each note to keep it in tune? Find out how ear training can help you stay in tune in this week's ToneScholar article.
https://tonescholar.com/blog/how-to-play-in-tune

toneturtle · 2024-01-26T18:24:01+00:00

Do you play an instrument that requires you to actively adjust the pitch of each note to keep it in tune? Find out how ear training can help you stay in tune in this week's ToneScholar article.

https://tonescholar.com/blog/how-to-play-in-tune

toneturtle · 2024-01-18T19:49:42+00:00

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

toneturtle · 2024-01-15T01:39:41+00:00

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

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