snob music thread

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Re: snob music thread

Post by Doug » Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:21 pm

I think the best way to learn a new song is not to worry about tempo whatsoever for a good while
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Post by pterrus » Thu Jan 27, 2022 8:16 pm

Mostly true, but it's possible to learn bad habits while playing slow that don't scale. I've run into this a few times. For example, you want to make sure whatever fingering you're using works at speed or you can get some bad muscle memory.

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Post by Doug » Thu Jan 27, 2022 8:33 pm

Oh interesting

That didn't occur to me, because I'm not really a piano person, I've only messed with it a little
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Re: snob music thread

Post by Crunchums » Wed Feb 02, 2022 3:53 am

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Post by Doug » Wed Feb 02, 2022 1:29 pm

It means make that note the natural instead of the sharp that the key signature otherwise calls for
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Post by pterrus » Wed Feb 02, 2022 3:49 pm

Yeah, that. It's G major so you would play F# by default there, the natural symbol forces it to be natural.

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Post by pterrus » Wed Feb 02, 2022 3:52 pm

Ah also, the natural symbol affects all Fs until the end of the measure, then it switches back to the default F#.

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Post by Crunchums » Wed Feb 02, 2022 4:32 pm

thanks
(i was wondering if maybe it had something to do with the tempo, but if it's the pitch then i can ignore it because the tab (not pictured in the screenshot) already tells me exactly what i need to play)
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Post by pterrus » Fri Feb 04, 2022 10:26 pm

Okay if you're of a certain age you probably remember the Sesame Street pinball song. What you probably didn't realize is how ridiculously complex it is rhythmically. Mind blown.

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Post by Crunchums » Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:46 am

played a lot of banjo yesterday and was having a lot of trouble, especially with the index/middle finger picks
played today and it was a lot easier
i think it's because yesterday it was cold and today it was less cold and also i played after coming out of the shower
it's obvious that it might be difficult to play well when my hands are cold. less obvious is that it's also easier to play after i've come out of the shower because my fingers are literally bigger (and so the finger picks fit much more snugly)
i wonder if there is a way to replicate the effect without showering first. maybe if i hold my hands in front a space heater for 2-3 minutes?
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Re: snob music thread

Post by Luna » Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:48 am

uh, gloves?

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Post by Crunchums » Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:55 am

definitely not while playing
maybe before, though. i'll have to experiment
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Post by Luna » Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:59 am

Crunchums wrote:definitely not while playing
maybe before, though. i'll have to experiment
i think it actually gets p cold where you are, so if like literally making your hands larger with fabric doesnt work, maybe you need to feel the thing, i guess you could go buy some hand warmers and just toss that back and forth between your hands before you play, but i dunno that hot hands is like a thing. if it works, tohugh

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Post by Luna » Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:59 am

you generally want to avoid wet skin making your skin wet and you absolute one thousand percent do not want to touch a guitar with wet hands

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Post by Crunchums » Wed Feb 09, 2022 2:58 am

Luna wrote:you generally want to avoid wet skin making your skin wet and you absolute one thousand percent do not want to touch a guitar with wet hands
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Post by Luna » Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:00 am

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Re: snob music thread

Post by Doug » Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:57 pm

I've been listening to the Cars a lot lately. Not a very deep band, but still underrated. Hit after hit after hit

I made a playlist of their first five albums

The Cars -- Nostalgia for me
Candy-O -- Same
Panorama -- Now this is an unusual album. This album is the most where it feels like they're channeling Devo. There's a lot of avant-garde stuff going on
Shake It Up -- Kind of, veteran hitmakers at this point. Dream Away is pretty amazing
Heartbeat City -- Just monster single after monster single here
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Post by Crunchums » Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:44 pm

I think Just What I Needed is the only song of theirs that I recognize
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Post by Doug » Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:47 pm

Their biggest hits were Magic and You Might Think

Drive was probably next or maybe Shake it Up
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Post by Crunchums » Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:52 pm

Doug wrote:Magic
You Might Think
Drive
Shake it Up
i had never heard any of these songs before
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Post by Doug » Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:53 pm

Crunchums wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:52 pm
Doug wrote:Magic
You Might Think
Drive
Shake it Up
i had never heard any of these songs before
It's funny that you would know Just What I Needed, because it's even older than any of those
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Post by Crunchums » Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:56 pm

when i first started consistently listening to music as a teenager i mostly listened to a classic rock radio station, so maybe that makes sense? though they did say it was classic rock from the 60s 70s and 80s, so shrug. but probably there was still a bias away from the edges of that range
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Post by Doug » Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:58 pm

Magic, Drive, and You Might Think were all big in the MTV era, having videos to go with them
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Post by Dantes » Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:59 pm

Crunchums wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:56 pm when i first started consistently listening to music as a teenager i mostly listened to a classic rock radio station, so maybe that makes sense? though they did say it was classic rock from the 60s 70s and 80s, so shrug. but probably there was still a bias away from the edges of that range
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Post by Crunchums » Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:00 pm

Dantes wrote:But, and this is important, do you know Baba O'Reilly?
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Post by Luna » Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:01 pm

have you heard of the deaf dumb blind kid? he's pretty good at pinball

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Post by Dantes » Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:01 pm

Doug wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:57 pm I've been listening to the Cars a lot lately. Not a very deep band, but still underrated. Hit after hit after hit

I made a playlist of their first five albums

The Cars -- Nostalgia for me
Candy-O -- Same
Panorama -- Now this is an unusual album. This album is the most where it feels like they're channeling Devo. There's a lot of avant-garde stuff going on
Shake It Up -- Kind of, veteran hitmakers at this point. Dream Away is pretty amazing
Heartbeat City -- Just monster single after monster single here
I went through a small Cars phase about a decade ago. I have all of their albums.
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Post by Dantes » Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:03 pm

Crunchums wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:00 pm
Dantes wrote:But, and this is important, do you know Baba O'Reilly?
most definitely
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That opening synthesizer sequence is still one of the coolest song intros ever.
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Re: snob music thread

Post by Dantes » Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:03 pm

Luna wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:01 pm have you heard of the deaf dumb blind kid? he's pretty good at pinball
How do you think he does it?
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