damn dude thats as evil as it gets, dog was harmless and excited to see a new person

turns out theyre schizoaffective and treatment doesn’t seem to be going well. wishing the best for them

Welcome! I hope you enjoy Lemmy :)

thats when you surrender to the folk gods and just start playing cajón

virality can ABSOLUTELY be planned for, especially when this is one of the biggest scientific events to happen in the lifetime of younger generations (in their eyes). ive heard an unbelievable amount of fangirling from my friends (rightfully so, this is cool) and they DID plan for it. they knew they would be seen by a significant portion of the U.S., and I’m sure they modified their behavior somewhat on camera to accommodate that

fuck youre beautiful 🥺

agreed, when people are FIRST learning to read sheet music it can be helpful to keep your eyes on the page and learn to associate certain notes on the page with certain finger/hand positions. yes, I regret my reliance on sheet music earlier because now my ear is waaayy behind. i kind of see it like understanding a piece of writing. if someone asks you what the article is about and you have to reference the article directly to answer it then I wouldn’t consider that to be truly understanding the article. same with music, if you get asked to play something and you have to read straight off the page then I don’t think you “know” the music. you just know how to play it. for some, thats all they need.

if someone is really just looking to be given music and made to play it according to the page then learning to read and play will be all they need. if they want to reach that next level though, like writing music, improvising, playing in a band, playing without your music, being a more dynamic performer, etc. they should learn to know the music.

i appreciate you pointing out the thing about mastery. i dont know that its that I’m “more experienced” though. i think we just have different goals and different instructors. my instructors were always people who were in their 20s who had experience in rock and jazz. i suppose I’m just highlighting the limitations between classical training and being trained with rock and jazz in mind. my goal (and I’d assume the goals of most of your students, if I’m right to assume theyre on the younger end) has always been to be an independent jack of all trades who is capable of writing, performing with other people in an informal environment, and improvising. i think the style of learning ive been describing can be more conducive to that. i would ALSO ALSO argue that it is more difficult and “risky” to teach in that way. you need a deep, practiced understanding of music theory, of your instrument, of the students life and willingness to learn, etc. its far more resource intensive.

ive been writing about this far too long lol I’m gonna cut it off here. i appreciate your perspective, ive admittedly never had a career of teaching people about music, but I have definitely explained things casually to friends and other musicians. i think it would help me to pick up that experience by tutoring on the side at some point.

ive found this actually just exhausts me to the point that I don’t end up learning anything and just become a tad upset. i respond far better to brute repetition with minimal other busy work, like pre-made flash cards or studying with someone else. I also like rereading articles/study materials until I can imperfectly recite them comfortably :)

i know this wasn’t necessarily an invitation to anecdotes but i just wanted to make it known that this is NOT universal

i dont know if this is what they intended to say, but ive found that when I exclusively practice with sheet music then look away, I’ll completely blank. my brain relies on the constant reminder of what comes next. this might be okay if you plan on playing in an orchestra where you’ll always have your sheet music or chart available (which even then… what happens if theres an issue with a page turn? or the ipad doesn’t work?). it DOES NOT work whatsoever if you plan on playing music in any other setting where you won’t be able to stare at your music. its as if recalling the music and thinking deeply about it and its structure is an entirely unique sense you develop, and ive found that its mutually exclusive with keeping your eyes on the page.

also, keeping your eyes on the page makes it much harder to improvise, if thats your goal. when youre playing something and it deviates from what’s on the page it can be very very disorienting. i might add to this comment as I dwell on it, this is something i care a lot about

i play keys, vocals, upright bass, bass guitar, viola, and guitar for context. played in the context of organized orchestras to bedroom bands to solo performances

at first I was disappointed he didn’t do the bass solo near the start… and then he played the same thing perfectly immediately after

ive always been frustrated by the core of nationalism. you think that me bring born here gives me some specific spiritual connection to it besides the cultural ideals? it feels no different from saying that, because you were born near someone who was good at guitar, you must also be musically talented. it totally makes sense to me how this sort of pseudospiritual idea of “you were born here so you are _____” could escalate into “you were born here/of a certain skin color so you are not worthy of life”

my goals are just to look good and feel good, but I find that my soreness lasts much longer and can be worse if I don’t supplement protein. given, I don’t eat a pristine vegan diet, just vegetarian. I drink protein shakes when I can and its helped quite a bit

I think the idea of curing some sorts of mental disorders can get pretty ethically shaky. People with mental disorders can provide unique things to society. Imagine the world if autism never existed. I guarantee you it would not be some healthy socially adept society, it would be behind ours in a lot of ways, technologically, culturally, all sorts of shit.

There is a level of diversity of experience that is required to keep a society going IMO. If everyone was mostly homogenous, nothing would get done, no ideas would be had. I feel that my autism helps me “fill niches” that neurotypical people do not fulfill. How would society look if there were less people like me? I would think it would suck lol but thats just me.

The truth is that most struggles by us neurodivergent people are not actually rooted in our neurodivergence alone, but in our neurodivergence CLASHING WITH neurotypical society. We would fit in if only there was a world created with our differences in mind. We are not cursed to a universally dreadful existence, just cursed to be in a world designed for someone else. Luckily this is fixable through politics. School is possible for neurodivergent people, it just wasn’t designed for neurodivergent people, so we might have to bend ourselves a little for it. I don’t think your hate should lie in you having autism. Your hate should be reserved for the people and systems that prevented the creation of support systems for people like us.

yup, it for sure is, plus all of the articles on her website are just paid advertisements (some of which are for sketch companies like masterworks)

this is so ai-generated lol

this isnt Wikipedia and the site also whines about me using an ad blocker :(

Mine is imagining Mike Ehrmantraut quietly threatening me. It gets me out of bed.

I’d absolutely encourage you to continue reading the Bobiverse series. It’s when I first realized my love for sci-fi in book form. The next few books, IMO, REALLY improve upon the stories introduced in the first book and then add a whole bunch of new ones. No major spoilers, but it manages to interrogate some age-old SciFi tropes like the prime directive, agency for clones, governance in space, blah blah blah. It does all of this in an extraordinarily personal way where you see these problems get engineered around (like how Project Hail Mary by Weir is largely just a book about a dude solving problems) by a ton of really interesting computer dudes with endless time on their hands.

Texas at 7.25/hr :((((

actually gorgeous