stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 11/17/2016 at 8:17 PM, Braintree said:

He swiped right and took out half the screen.

lol !

  On 11/17/2016 at 3:29 PM, messiaen said:

 

  On 11/17/2016 at 4:12 AM, LimpyLoo said:

Yeah it's not a *massive* deal

But what I've heard from performance psychologists like Bulletproof Musician is that any recent progress starts to unravel if you don't practice regularly and reinforce it

 

So it's like when coders complain about losing 20 hours of work due to a crash or some dumb mistake or whatever

 

So, it starts to become a hell spiral, where I don't bother practice two hours today because fuck it I'm probably not gonna practice tomorrow and so today's two hours is gonna just get rolled back and so the whole system falls apart

 

(And just to be clear, I love playing guitar and I don't see it as a job or burden like it prolly sounds, but there are things I wanna be able to do and so I make goals...so for instance I wanna be able to comfortably improvise counterpoint and polyrhythms and stuff like that so I do treat *that* aspect a bit like some obsessive gym-monkey or a lawyer who hasn't seen his wife and kids in 5 years...)

i can not play the piano for a week sometimes and you lose nothing. once the correct technique is ingrained into your subconscious, it doesnt go anywhere. for me, its the intensity of practice you do, and not the time spent, that increases the speed with which you improve, for example daisy chain practicing a piece is without a shadow of a doubt the quickest way to commit it to memory, but its fucking dull. 

 

you play/concentrate on 2 bar segments of something for 5 minutes each, until they are either perfect, or the 5 mins runs out. assuming the piece is 120 bars or so, you can get through the piece in about 4-5 hours. if you repeat the process every day for a week, its possible to perfect some pretty fucking hard shit in that time, however, you want to kill yourself and never play again. 

 

i used this technique to learn this

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCkM2a4daZU

 

in 8 days for an exam, and although i havent played it once in a year, i can still sit down and hit it just fine. 

 

I like that idea, gonna try it out. Too bad my sight-reading sucks, but this technique may get around that. That is a beautiful and tricky sounding piece; those glissandoesque bits, damn.

The name this random band name generator came up with for me is too awesome for me to actually use in any of my projects.  But it's almost worth inventing a new one for it: Petite Blue And The Digital Shutup.

I'm guessing the genre would be Post-Vaporwave.

  On 11/18/2016 at 7:38 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

The name this random band name generator came up with for me is too awesome for me to actually use in any of my projects.  But it's almost worth inventing a new one for it: Petite Blue And The Digital Shutup.

 

I'm guessing the genre would be Post-Vaporwave.

I did that once and got the name 'Picasso Sex-Phantom'... May still use that as an alias one day.

fucking numpty

Got my electric bill this morning, which ended up being about twelve times what I normally pay each month. No more using the space heater at night I guess.

^^^ space heaters are energy suckers. that sucks. 

it looks like i'm not going to have to work for the holidays so i'll have to come up with some valid reason for not going all the way cross country to see family for christmas. because you know.. feelings. 

The first Mars Volta full length is so unbelievably good... and then they just turn into a massive wankfest?  I don't know, I'm only just finishing album #3 of my MV revisit.  I recall The Bedlam in Goliath impressing me when I first heard it, which is next in the discog.  But I didn't keep listening to it much after that initial good impression, so we'll see.  I'm not sure If I ever heard the last two albums.  But man, Deloused is so fucking good.  So crazy technical, yet so memorable.  Maybe Rick Rubin has magic powers afterall?

Why did I just spend 17 dollar on takeaway food I know would taste like crap. just kill me right now. 

  On 11/18/2016 at 7:39 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

 

  On 11/18/2016 at 7:38 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

The name this random band name generator came up with for me is too awesome for me to actually use in any of my projects.  But it's almost worth inventing a new one for it: Petite Blue And The Digital Shutup.

 

I'm guessing the genre would be Post-Vaporwave.

I did that once and got the name 'Picasso Sex-Phantom'... May still use that as an alias one day.

 

"Rectal Pulp", well I found mine.

My band had the most morale crushing trainwreck at our gig last night.  We were the 2nd of 3 acts in the lineup, everything fine through the first two songs, then we get to the 3rd (a waaay-altered Cure cover that we've probably practiced 300+ times and have been gigging out for the last 2 years) and someone's IN THE WRONG FUCKING KEY.  Our female vocalist and myself (drummer) just look at each other in horror and after 8 or 10 bars I/we call uncle and just stop.  Doesn't help that the neither of our front ppl have the kind of stage presence to laugh it off, joke with the audience, etc. so the awkward silence is palpable.

Then we restart and whoever was in the wrong fucking key is still in the wrong fucking key, only this time there's no stopping, only 3-1/2 minutes of pain and embarrassment. As this point I wanted to kick over the kit, destroy every guitar and bass onstage and walk out into the ocean.  And we still had like 9 songs left.

  On 11/20/2016 at 5:31 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

My band had the most morale crushing trainwreck at our gig last night.  We were the 2nd of 3 acts in the lineup, everything fine through the first two songs, then we get to the 3rd (a waaay-altered Cure cover that we've probably practiced 300+ times and have been gigging out for the last 2 years) and someone's IN THE WRONG FUCKING KEY.  Our female vocalist and myself (drummer) just look at each other in horror and after 8 or 10 bars I/we call uncle and just stop.  Doesn't help that the neither of our front ppl have the kind of stage presence to laugh it off, joke with the audience, etc. so the awkward silence is palpable.

 

Then we restart and whoever was in the wrong fucking key is still in the wrong fucking key, only this time there's no stopping, only 3-1/2 minutes of pain and embarrassment. As this point I wanted to kick over the kit, destroy every guitar and bass onstage and walk out into the ocean.  And we still had like 9 songs left.

Oh no :(

Did you figure out who it was? Did they get a stern 'talking to' afterward?

yikes.

  On 11/21/2016 at 11:24 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

 

  On 11/20/2016 at 5:31 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

My band had the most morale crushing trainwreck at our gig last night.  We were the 2nd of 3 acts in the lineup, everything fine through the first two songs, then we get to the 3rd (a waaay-altered Cure cover that we've probably practiced 300+ times and have been gigging out for the last 2 years) and someone's IN THE WRONG FUCKING KEY.  Our female vocalist and myself (drummer) just look at each other in horror and after 8 or 10 bars I/we call uncle and just stop.  Doesn't help that the neither of our front ppl have the kind of stage presence to laugh it off, joke with the audience, etc. so the awkward silence is palpable.

 

Then we restart and whoever was in the wrong fucking key is still in the wrong fucking key, only this time there's no stopping, only 3-1/2 minutes of pain and embarrassment. As this point I wanted to kick over the kit, destroy every guitar and bass onstage and walk out into the ocean.  And we still had like 9 songs left.

Oh no :(

Did you figure out who it was? Did they get a stern 'talking to' afterward?

Just yell the following at your band mates, verbatim:

lol, those are awesome

Wow, you'd think a forced day away from watmm would've allowed the jets to cool, but no!  It was definitely 1 of 2 people (lead guitar or bass) but it really doesn't matter, the former's Aspie's AF, alcoholic and gets enough of the blowdryer from the missus (our female vocalist *), and the latter is a Jeb Bush-level mess, been laid off for over a year and is ubering like 50 hrs a week to make ends meet.

We've been together for 3 years now, gig locally about once a month, and I really like the entire crew, but man we are flawed individually and collectively.  Essentially the dudes are all talented but undisciplined fucks

*They're also in a destructive relationship that's not going to end well, but hey now!

  On 11/22/2016 at 2:08 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 11/21/2016 at 11:24 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

 

  On 11/20/2016 at 5:31 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

My band had the most morale crushing trainwreck at our gig last night.  We were the 2nd of 3 acts in the lineup, everything fine through the first two songs, then we get to the 3rd (a waaay-altered Cure cover that we've probably practiced 300+ times and have been gigging out for the last 2 years) and someone's IN THE WRONG FUCKING KEY.  Our female vocalist and myself (drummer) just look at each other in horror and after 8 or 10 bars I/we call uncle and just stop.  Doesn't help that the neither of our front ppl have the kind of stage presence to laugh it off, joke with the audience, etc. so the awkward silence is palpable.

 

Then we restart and whoever was in the wrong fucking key is still in the wrong fucking key, only this time there's no stopping, only 3-1/2 minutes of pain and embarrassment. As this point I wanted to kick over the kit, destroy every guitar and bass onstage and walk out into the ocean.  And we still had like 9 songs left.

Oh no :(

Did you figure out who it was? Did they get a stern 'talking to' afterward?

 

Just yell the following at your band mates, verbatim:

 

Love seeing the grimey underbelly of Jazz, a genre that's perceived as being very sophisticated. Mile Davis' autobiography is full of stuff like this.

Stepped in dog shit on my way home from work, didn't notice, tracked it all over my (carpeted) apartment, got frustrated and went to get a beer, bought the wrong one (more expensive, gross, lower abv). Still haven't showered or had dinner and I need to be sleeping in an hour so I can get up for an extra early shift. The smell of shit on my boot is currently overpowering the cigarette I'm smoking. All in all a lovely evening.

  On 11/22/2016 at 2:08 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 11/21/2016 at 11:24 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

 

  On 11/20/2016 at 5:31 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

My band had the most morale crushing trainwreck at our gig last night.  We were the 2nd of 3 acts in the lineup, everything fine through the first two songs, then we get to the 3rd (a waaay-altered Cure cover that we've probably practiced 300+ times and have been gigging out for the last 2 years) and someone's IN THE WRONG FUCKING KEY.  Our female vocalist and myself (drummer) just look at each other in horror and after 8 or 10 bars I/we call uncle and just stop.  Doesn't help that the neither of our front ppl have the kind of stage presence to laugh it off, joke with the audience, etc. so the awkward silence is palpable.

 

Then we restart and whoever was in the wrong fucking key is still in the wrong fucking key, only this time there's no stopping, only 3-1/2 minutes of pain and embarrassment. As this point I wanted to kick over the kit, destroy every guitar and bass onstage and walk out into the ocean.  And we still had like 9 songs left.

Oh no :(

Did you figure out who it was? Did they get a stern 'talking to' afterward?

 

Just yell the following at your band mates, verbatim:

 

Heh excellent. Rich must've inspired this character:

lol for the first 2 minutes I thought I was watching a really wacky comedy, then suddenly it got really dark, really fast.  Such a bizarre scene.  Love the random count in that has absolutely no bearing on the actual tempo of the song, over and over again.  Hilarious.

  On 11/20/2016 at 3:02 AM, ignatius said:

^^^ space heaters are energy suckers. that sucks.

 

it looks like i'm not going to have to work for the holidays so i'll have to come up with some valid reason for not going all the way cross country to see family for christmas. because you know.. feelings.

Last minute flight costs are a bitch at the holidays.

You're welcome.

  On 11/22/2016 at 6:39 AM, luke viia said:

Stepped in dog shit on my way home from work, didn't notice, tracked it all over my (carpeted) apartment, got frustrated and went to get a beer, bought the wrong one (more expensive, gross, lower abv). Still haven't showered or had dinner and I need to be sleeping in an hour so I can get up for an extra early shift. The smell of shit on my boot is currently overpowering the cigarette I'm smoking. All in all a lovely evening.

Why u no take off shoes upon entering homestead?

Got this lovely song pretty much finished in Ableton, but these random little audio hiccups occur on almost every audio track for one measure... the measure that's basically the climax of the whole song.  It's not a glitch I've encountered before, and I don't know how the hell I'm going to get around it.  It's 3:30am and I just want to go to bed, but I won't until I resolve this.  Fucking hell, Ableton.  Fuck u.

  On 11/22/2016 at 6:39 AM, luke viia said:

Stepped in dog shit on my way home from work, didn't notice, tracked it all over my (carpeted) apartment, got frustrated and went to get a beer, bought the wrong one (more expensive, gross, lower abv). Still haven't showered or had dinner and I need to be sleeping in an hour so I can get up for an extra early shift. The smell of shit on my boot is currently overpowering the cigarette I'm smoking. All in all a lovely evening.

I did this when I was at school and have checked my shoes religiously upon entering my home ever since. Consider it a valuable lesson learnt.

The national newspaper is calling Underworld and Aphex Twin "beer belly techno" because they're supposedly mostly listened to by middle-aged beer bellied men who have enough disposable income to throw into 180g vinyl records and CD boxes. 

Also My Bloody Valentine and PJ Harvey are "beer belly indie".

lol

  On 11/23/2016 at 6:02 PM, mokz said:

The national newspaper is calling Underworld and Aphex Twin "beer belly techno" because they're supposedly mostly listened to by middle-aged beer bellied men who have enough disposable income to throw into 180g vinyl records and CD boxes. 

 

Also My Bloody Valentine and PJ Harvey are "beer belly indie".

 

lol

but its true though innit'?  

We have a thread full of evidence, mokz...