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- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 16 hours ago:
at this point, i might go vor claves. no harmonics needed.
- Comment on Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good? 20 hours ago:
don’t give them nazis more ideas plz. they already have [gereric rationalization for their shit].
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 1 day ago:
i was just thinking about simple melodies, that people know, and remember. probably popcorn (yt link) isn’t in the canon of music schools?
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 1 day ago:
ty for your insights in all of this. i really is that i started playing around with DAWs but i didn’t know ‘what to say’ through those. i hope to speak a little music myself to fix that. ;) i will have a look at tgat specific ukulele :))
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 1 day ago:
yeah i played around with reason years ago, that’s around the time i started keys. you are right, that’s exactly my cup of tea. but i always felt i was lacking an intuition. as if i had only learned to write latin but never actually spoken conversationally. i guess that’s why i feel i need to actually do music with my body.
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 4 days ago:
ty! imight as well have a look and decide by what classes are available in my area.
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 4 days ago:
i could grab my flatmates guitar. i am somehow intimidated by that thing. but yeah maybe …
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 4 days ago:
just do it? true. you forgot to say popcorn tho. ;)
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 4 days ago:
i’ll see what i can do. :)
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 4 days ago:
thx a lot, for pointingout these ressources!
as for the why: i just realised that i really do view music as a kind of language, something that can be written down, realised acoustically and (with practice) be understood. that might be a big misconception. but my primary driver is to get a better understanding of what’s happening in music in general. just like speaking helps in learning a language, i thought, imitating music should help to learn music. that’s maybe why i don’t really care for the specific instrument … it’s rather instrumental.
i wouldn’t play with others, or for others. there’s not even a style i’d prefer, its just the basic understanding outside of a vague emotional reaction. i can’t tell the difference between a chord and a single note. in many cases not even what note is higher. and i feel like that’s failure? or at least a shame.
maybe i need some elementary school level lessons.
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- Comment on How come in movies tv shows books etc at court they make it seem like swearing on the bible prevents you from lieing? If my family or I was in danger I would lie my ass off to get out of it.. 1 week ago:
it is a real threat.
there are different tiers of punishment for lies. if you swore to tell the truth, but demonstrably lied, this will f up your life further.
- Comment on If you had native-level fluency in a language, and don't talk in that language for a while, can you develop an accent later-on when trying to talk in that language again? 2 weeks ago:
i wanted to point you to a potato kerfuffle. unforch this article only exists in german wikipedia:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overather_Kartoffelkrieg
:(
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 2 weeks ago:
i’d like to add: the gross glibberishness eggs give to mayo is in fact gross.
- Comment on If you had native-level fluency in a language, and don't talk in that language for a while, can you develop an accent later-on when trying to talk in that language again? 3 weeks ago:
yup. got a friend who visited recently after 7(?) years abroad. her phonetics and prosody are now anglicised.
also, my grandma once made fun of my german accent. (thats a more complicated story but yeah potato kartoffel.)
- Comment on BlishHUD for Linux on any window manager 3 weeks ago:
thank you, wayfinder! 😭
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 3 weeks ago:
really just guessing but heating it with a hair dryer or smth, and curling it back a bit while letting it cool down might help, i’d imagine.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 month ago:
the identity thing. as far as i see it’s usually white people who do this. to gain ethnic distinction?
sure its cool to find out more abt what your granparents did (unless you are german).
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 month ago:
if i had the power to do so, i’d give you a french passport right away.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 month ago:
maybe clearing this up: germany has a hereditary citizenship. i. e. children of germans can get a german passport.
being “german” means owning german citizenship (or citizenship of the one of the former constructs the federal republic sees as its precursors), not owning a set of genes. you can have no ‘distinct european genes’ (e.g. be ainu?) at all and get citizenship for your kids, as long as you have it. you can be “genetically german” and still don’t have a passport.
jus sanguinis usually isn’t genetically defined
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 month ago:
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“germans”, “french”, “danes” weren’t a thing. up until recently. they are genetically diverse groups.
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euros aren’t all nobles. i don’t know my grandmas maiden names.
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there was a lot of movement (read: fucking around) in europe. what do these tests even mean by “dutch”?
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- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 month ago:
did anyone ever get a passport because some lab result said they were 10% “genetically slovakian”?
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 month ago:
by all means do.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 month ago:
their obsession with genome analysis / where one of their great-great-grandfathers came from.
“i am italian, german, polish, chinese and cree!” “no, you are us-citizen and don’t speak any language but english.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
dark matter is a stand in, not a known type of particle. astronomers realized, that in galaxies there had to be way more mass than is visible due to the movement of stars within. but since it couldn’t be detected in any other way than through its gravitational influence, it was called dark matter.
this person has given the best answer so far. there is no thing we could identify as dark matter. the concept of it is more like a roadmap, a question to be answered.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
it doesn’t. light hitting e.g. a helium atom is an electromagnetical interaction. if dark matter does only interact gravitationally, it wont get hit by light.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
it surely is not trivial. but if your boss isn’t super whack he should know that. (he knows, you haven’t played it? the others are also noobs?)
but from my expierience, passing a few easy balls is easy enough to learn in a short while. not as a competetive game but as an activity. — i played with friends sometimes, as a kid. they were playing in a team, i started everytime almost from scratch.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 5 months ago:
100% if ever i buy another display thingy it’d be a beamer though
- Comment on erotic scenes actors and actresses, how do you not get aroused while acting in those scenes? 5 months ago:
being on a set is one of the least erotic situation to be in. it is work. in contrary, i’d ask how in the world people can perform in pr0n.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
sorry missread that.
but yeah … one of the most embarassing thought i ever had was, “i wanna be a goth”. at a point at which i was already pretty much integrated in my local community of sorrows. i wanted to match my cool new friends. for the wrong reason.
i am embarassed of this bc at the time i thought it would be important to belong to group and be good at that. i was a little in love with the clichees.
do what you genuinly like and find people who you can share with. that’s all there is about subcultures. the rest follows. people who hang out a lot tend to converge in style and habit.