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Maybe!

Or it’s possible they didn’t like me saying that you can play with a band in just a few weeks of practice. Even though I think you definitely can if you focus on rhythm and moving roots or power chords around.

No more tears. Europe, now its not the time for weakness.

For guitar and bass:

• The mostly ortholinear grid relationship between frets and strings mean that you can think a lot about “shapes”, or positions of notes relative to other notes. Unless open strings are involved, sliding any shape up and down the next gives you the same quality of chord or scale just shifted up and down in pitch/key. (Not all instruments have such an intuitive layout!)
• You don’t need to memorize the note names (C, C#, D, Eb, etc.) of every fret on the fretboard! It’s essential to learn the names of the open strings first, so that you can tune your guitar using a tuner. But did you know that the notes at the 12th fret (often marked with double dot inlays) are the exact same notes 1 octave higher? This means that everything above the 12th fret is an exact copy of everything on the lower half of the fretboard (cutting the task of memorization in HALF)! Similarly, because the lowest and highest string are both tuned to “E” in standard tuning, they have the same notes all the way up and down the neck (that’s another 7.5% of the task eliminated). Finally, I recommend starting to memorize the note names strategically, starting with only the inlay/dot frets (3, 5, 7, and 9) on the 2 fattest/lowest strings (E and A string). Once you’ve memorized these key “landmarks” on the lowest/fattest strings, you can use logic to deduce the other notes pretty quickly! (What’s the note between A and B? Bb! Between C and D? C#)
• Finally, learning 2 note intervals will eventually be your best friend. Not only can you use octaves to make deducing note names easier while memorizing the fretboard, but you can also play octaves to enhance all kinds of music from punk to jazz. A perfect 5 interval is the heart of the “power chord”. And knowing intervals will help you do everything from reading sheet music to writing interesting guitar parts in all genres.
• The huge number of popular rock music that you hear can be played with 2 or 3 note “power chords” alone. This is important because it means that you can become proficient enough to play rhythm guitar parts with a band in a matter of weeks of solid practice! All you have to do is memorize the note landmarks on the lower strings, be able to build a power chord on the appropriate note, and strum it in time with the music! Whether it’s guitar or bass, you don’t need to be an expert to start playing or writing songs.
• When you eventually learn your first scale, try to learn it in 2 positions on the neck. For example, if you learn E-minor pentatonic, learn it starting from the 6th string at the 0 fret (which is the same as the 12th fret, remember!) AND learn it starting from the 5th string at the 7th fret. This may seem harder at first, but over time you will learn how to connect these scale shapes with intermediate shapes, and you’ll unlock the entire fretboard for soloing!
• On a right-handed guitar, your right hand can be mostly thought of as a rhythm instrument, just whacking away at strings like a drummer whacks at their drums. Whether you hit all the strings, some of them, or just 1 string at a time, the rhythmic aspect is what matters most. It takes practice to become fluent here, but looseness and fluidity is key. Eventually you can incorporate other techniques to change the timbre of the rhythms being played, but remember to keep the rhythm going in constant movement. (On a left-handed guitar or bass, this would apply to your left hand.)

Not really, no. In fact, I feel that free and open source tech is the only means we have of fighting back against big tech corporations and technofeudalism.

I think about the fact that I can use tailscale (or headscale, or even a DIY wireguard mesh network) to create a WAN that allows me to log into my home server and access an entire collection of music, shows, games, utilities and projects that I care about from anywhere in the world and I realize that I actually don’t have much use for the “world wide web” anymore outside of work, shopping and social media.

Corporate social media, I should add, is becoming increasingly useless as it fills up with more bots, slop, and unhinged people, making the importance of the fediverse and self-hostable FOSS alternatives that much more important. While it’s not always easy to get people to move away from corporate social media, the first step towards a more healthy future for society is, at least, the existence of an alternative.

The web itself is poisoned.

Why do you need “the web” at all? What websites and services are you using on a daily basis?

For me it’s mostly the fediverse, a little bit of browsing reddit (i no longer comment or participate), github/gitlab, youtube, youtube music, twitch, amazon and the occasional other online store.

I have a script running on my PC which “backs up” all of my favorite youtube videos and music. I clone interesting repos to my home gitlab. I’m weaning myself off of reddit more and more all the time. I use the *arrs to through a VPN to get access to shows that I want to watch. I play some online games, but mainly ones that work peer-to-peer or have self-hostable servers. Unlike most people, I have basically zero subscriptions.

Reddit is already garbage and gets full of more and more AI slop every day (i really only continue to check it out of addiction/habit, and only to read from a bigger pool of comments when some fucked up shit happens). The minute youtube becomes useless to me for discovering or acquiring new media, I’ll be done with it. I only check twitch for the network effect of the few small streamers that I like there, and usually only once a day.

I don’t find that I need a lot from the corporate internet anymore.

Browsers are turning into tracking engines.

The great thing about FOSS is that there will always be someone who rips out the AI slop and tracking shit, even if that person ends up being you.

Sites rely on manipulation and dark patterns. Social media is full of misinformation and ragebait.

Stop going to those sites.

It feels exhausting to route around a web that’s already been captured.

The part I don’t understand is why you feel that the problems of the WWW are at all relevant to your WAN?

So Facebook, Reddit and Youtube are a disaster… but what implication does that have on your private technology stack?

Why not trade the illusion of digital control for actual peace, get a dumb phone, a CD player, and check out books, movies, music, and games from the library as my entertainment?

Sure why not? Nothing wrong with that…

But why not also take those things from the library, rip them into a digital format, and store them on your server?

The “internet” is certainly in a death spiral. But I’ll be fine because I understand that technology isn’t the enemy, large corporations are. FOSS technology belongs to the people and we can wield it for our own benefit without any corporate or government gatekeepers other than our ISP (and maybe not even them…).

Just because you can download something does not mean you have the IP rights to do whatever you want with it.

Gotta love how CNN just parrots whatever DHS says happens because they’re too lazy, stupid and afraid to do any real reporting.

This has all the markings of more VC AI garbage. Hopefully it does pull some users away from Reddit just to break up the centralization a little bit more, but overall I don’t see what the appeal is supposed to be.

I’ll stick with the fediverse.

Where they are… even more dead?

Good.

And sure… People will obviously try to break this rule, and I’m sure some will succeed. But that’s true of any rule. Rules don’t prevent bad behavior, only deter it.

And the dumb fucks are gonna keep using facebook, huh?

I can only hope to be proven wrong…

Oh, fuck off…

How awful. Poor girl must have gone through so much. I hope she gets therapy and support from someone.

If this guy was so traumatized by the idea of being run over he wouldn’t be standing directly in front of a car.

He was clearly standing next to the car when he shot Mrs. Good in the face, murdering her. He followed up calling her a “fucking bitch” which can only be considered an aggravating circumstance indicative of a potential hate crime.

The government is protecting a murderer, and calling an innocent woman with no criminal history whatsoever a “terrorist”.

The term “hate” can be misleading. When used in a hate crime law, the word “hate” does not mean rage, anger, or general dislike. In this context “hate” means bias against people or groups with specific characteristics that are defined by the law.

At the federal level, hate crime laws include crimes committed on the basis of the victim’s perceived or actual race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability.

Most state hate crime laws include crimes committed on the basis of race, color, and religion; many also include crimes committed on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and disability.

https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/learn-about-hate-crimes

Say it with me: ICE officer Jonathan Ross and his accomplices are guilty of at least murder and hate crimes, and possibly more.

For me, it was the simple recognition that concentrating power and control over online communication behind a small handful of corporations and their billionaire overlords is extremely unhealthy for society.

X is a website for actual psychopaths.

For the same reason that all criminals are given due process; justice.

ICEs victims would deserve due process too, if they were actually accused of anything.

Nope. Wrong. They all need to arrest, prosecuted, given due process and imprisoned.

I hope Vance’s life ends up being just as “tragic”. That little orange dick slurping piece of shit subhuman politician scumbag.

This is pure madness and these fucking guys need to be stopped. Like, are the systems truly so fucking broken that we have to take up arms to stop this shit? Can we not just have fucking justice and due process? Is that too much to ask?