It wasn't an easy lesson to take onboard, but I finally learned, as a person who plays music, to keep that shit to myself. If you can channel all of those things you noticed into things you can practice more of or better, that's great, but also take the win. You made music and people liked it.
You know that thing people who play music do sometimes where they've just performed and they get off stage and you say, "That sounded great!" and tell you about all the mistakes they made?
Maybe I just haven't found it, but Musescore doesn't seem to automatically want to keep the notation and the tab in sync with each other, which is kind of annoying.
I did add tab, because on guitar especially, I feel like knowing what notes to play is only about half of it--you also need a strategy for playing them across the 6 strings. The downside, of course, is now I look mostly at the tab so I'm not really getting the sight-reading practice with notation.
I'm currently trying to learn how to play it. It's mostly easier parts, but there's one hard part that is giving me fits. (Measure 14)
I've been feeling inspired to try to engage with notation a little bit more--there are things you can do when you can write things down that you can't do if you have to rely solely on memory.
I haven't really engaged much with musical notation since 9th grade, after which I switched from classical violin to rock guitar which involved virtually no notation.
Later, he joined Antifa and after the plane he was in got shot of the sky, he spent a good chunk of time in a POW camp in Austria. He's buried in Arlington. These fascists won't have such an honored resting place.
My grandfather was an immigrant at the age of eight. Learned English the hard way. Says he was in fights daily with other kids that liked to pick on immigrants.
People won't use the metric prefixes like they're intended and will continue to express really large distances in kilometers. For example, the Artemis II astronauts were 407 megameters from earth (rounded to the nearest megameter). That's less than half of a gigameter.
If you're ever in any danger of gaining any faith in humanity, just go to the intersection of fernway and Duke before school and watch 95% of drivers fail to yield at a school crosswalk.
I guess wearing two shoes must be seen as obsequious submission to the adult power structure.
Shame to the soulless predators who felt they needed to out Banksy.
I love how we can literally just start murdering people for no reason and the biggest question on everyone's mind is what it's going to do to the price of gas.
Just, for the record, I'm against all of this shit.
Where do I get that crayon in the brain procedure Home Simpson had? Awareness of the broader world isn't doing me any good.
Do you have a ribbon microphone?
Two minutes and eleven seconds of escape from a dangerous, stressful world to a place of comfort and abstraction.
Every now and then my computer decides to check and see if I've finally become the kind of guy that wants to see my files as icons instead of a list.
Fuck character limits. This is bullshit.
Although, I don't have hard evidence, I think it's a pretty safe assumption that number is even higher in the district where we live and that you represent.
Shut. Everything. Down.
The cover photo is from the actual recording session. It was quite a production. Clocks in under 17 minutes if you care to give it a spin.
In a few months, this EP James Hepler and I did together will be old enough to drink. I listened to it again today for the first time in a long time and was surprised at how much I still like it.
chambercorps.bandcamp.com/album/chambe...
Proud of Minnesota today. ✊
Illegibly written calendar entry.
No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
The problem is that if you use that money to fund a social safety net, it will be harder for them coerce their workers into working for starvation wages. It's not the money, it's the power.
