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

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

upon looking again, it does concern me that these people all stopped posting around similar times, which in my eyes seem to be between trump’s election results and him actually coming into power. could totally be paranoia though this is all just speculation

it will always amaze me how several users just have the time to post news articles CONSTANTLY. it’s to the point that ive started blocking users just because 5 different people will post the same articles about an event, all to their own selection of 5 communities (with some overlap) all of which get shown on the all feed. it also doesn’t help that I don’t generally come to Lemmy to get depressed from recent news when I already get plenty of that from coworkers and family.

this is not to say that I think its necessarily unhealthy to have such power users, its just very… very… very… not my cup of tea

dude… what is up with the same few AI “musicians” being posted all of the time

look closely at the details on the flowers, not to mention the overall style just being very clearly… plasticky

edit: damn it I wrote a whole drafted edit and then lost it, I’ll be brief about further details her left hand upon examination looks almost like its supposed to be the paper for the bouquet, but that’s not damning cause maybe its more like a wreath?? there’s also the single strand of hair that is wildly out of place, hanging down almost like its meant to be a necklace (ai probably “thought” that since there’s a pendant there must be a clear necklace holding it up, and it morphed to be part of the hair). also the flowers in her hair are just generally fucked up

ai images in my lemmy :(

dont associate autism with intellectual differences, actual 1980s age idea of autism