Everything posted by Goredho
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The Surly Beginner Guitar Thread
Yeah, with the exercise I outlined, accuracy is more important than speed. Start at 50bpm if necessary to be accurate. Then as that becomes comfortable, bump it up to 55 and so on. Eventually you are capable of keeping time fast. Its just a matter of reps. I actually find it harder to play slow than fast. Like, you can play a blurry line over a 130bpm and the brain can't really process that oh you are off time by 10%. 10% off at a tempo of 65 is fucking noticeable. Make sure to crank the gain so you can hear how shitty your timing is *ducks and runs for cover*
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The Surly Beginner Guitar Thread
Yeah, I mean, you can go the opposite way and be so perfectly aligned to a grid that it sounds inhuman, like it's all quantized. And some recordings really benefit from not having a click track to keep people locked on a grid. The looseness can be part of what makes the song. That said, I think most beginners would benefit from more practice on timing. Better to be tight and capable of looseness vs just being sloppy and incapable of tightness. I still practice alternate picking against a metronome (or just my foot tapping) playing 8th notes, triplets and 16th notes at various tempos. Finger style, too. One and, two and, three and... Trip-L-It, Trip-L-It, Trip-L-It... Wa-ter-mel-on, wa-ter-mel-on, wa-ter-mel-on... And practice placing emphasis at different syllables. "WAT er mel on", then "wat ER mel on", then "wat er MEL on" and "wat er mel ON". Muting the un-emphasized notes. It get's your playing tight.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
You think an intardnet meme with quotes from "Anonymous in Georgia" is legitimate and reflective of reality? I mean, it might be. It also might be bullshit propaganda meant to tweak your brain and keep you involved as a participant in the strife. The left isn't above that, as evidenced by the dark Biden memes when he was really just a drooling octogenarian who should have been put in memory care a long time ago. Or all the Kamala hopium being pumped into the infosphere that obfuscated the real feelings of voters before the election. And there are other actors who don't care about the ideological battle in the US or who wins. They just want the battle, and they want it to be BIG. Everyone needs a higher bar for the 3rd hand+ information they allow to carry weight in their brains.
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The Surly Beginner Guitar Thread
Are you trying to make the naughty list?
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The Surly Beginner Guitar Thread
- 2024 CFP Selection Show Thread - 11am on ESPN
If our team takes their anger out on who deserves it, they will beat themselves again this week, lol. I think we win the first two pretty convincingly. Shit gets real in the semi-finals.- Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
I think you are right, 3rd round or lower. If he hasn’t ever survived a college season, he won’t survive an NFL season and this year has been a showcase for his numerous flaws. I personally would only take him as a late round lottery ticket. I think his ceiling is career backup where he’s just being asked to occasionally come in for a starter and play well for short stretches while relatively unscathed/healthy.- 2024 SEC Championship Game: Texas vs. Georgia - 3pm on ABC
I’ve let the emotions ebb, slept off the alcohol and am able to think more rationally about last nights performance. Annnnd it just makes me want to drink it all away again. The most maddening thing to me is the lack of execution, focus, discipline and poise in a championship game. Up and down the roster and the staff. Dropped balls, watching tipped balls be intercepted, being beat for loose balls, false starts to kill drives, lining up in the neutral zone or jumping offsides, the red zone play calling and execution, the passes that should have never been thrown, the missed free throw field goals, celebrating an int vs taking it to the house to seal the game. And it’s made worse by the fact that we are so fucking talented that we can do all that and still almost win. What a sad waste of opportunity. Here’s to it being a wake-up call for the staff and players to fix that shit, but fuck, I wouldn’t bet on any sort of playoff run from this team.- 2024 SEC Championship Game: Texas vs. Georgia - 3pm on ABC
I admire your ridiculously misplaced optimism.- 2024 SEC Championship Game: Texas vs. Georgia - 3pm on ABC
Yeah, Ewers played better than he has in some time, and had others played better it would have been good enough. Turnovers, missed field goals and drive killing/extending penalties is what beat us today. We are talented enough to beat a lot of teams being a bunch of undisciplined and unfocused dipshits. We aren’t talented enough to beat Jawja like that. And we won’t finish a bnn playoff run like that. Time to start tazing anyone who jumps offsides in practice.- The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
- Game Week 14, 2024- Texas v Georgia SEC Championship Game
I have no idea what an AI generated waif in a tie fighter has to do with anything, but...- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
16 pages in and I can’t believe I’m going to be the first person to say it: Brian Thompson didn’t kill himself.- "Love Letter" by George Saunders
Holy fuck, Grandpa. Time is all we have, and yet…- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
CEO gets assassinated in NYC by Jake Gyllenhaal who escapes on a bike? Tell me again we aren't living in a simulation.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Username checks the fuck out.- The Surly Beginner Guitar Thread
This thread makes me want to learn to play the kazoo.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
And here we thought Elon was being paranoid moving all his wives and kids into a compound.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Probably not for this thread, but if you could graph “societal decay” and “sociopaths in leadership positions” over time, I am pretty sure you would have two mirrored parallel curves up and to the right. C-suite execs, politicians, mega-church pastors. In far-too-many orgs, the Patrick Bateman’s are celebrated and elevated. They get shit done without concern for ethics or morality and rise to the top.- Trump’s America
On the bright side, "Swindler's List" will win 12 awards including best picture at the 2074 Academy Awards.- The Texpatriates Thread
The wildfire stuff is a legit concern. We are not there, but we got dropped by Geico for homeowners insurance earlier this year where we are at in central Colorado due to wildfire risk (we've never made a claim).- The Texpatriates Thread
Yep, in which case you probably want to factor that into your cost of living delta. For us, it was a not insignificant expense at 11,000 feet elevation near Breckenridge. Close to $3K a year.- The Texpatriates Thread
All of that should not be discounted. The only thing I’ll say is that we moved from Texas to Colorado when kids were 7, 5 and 3 and they handled that fine We moved to a lower elevation about an hour and a half away within Colorado when kids were 12, 10 and 8. This move was much harder on the older two than the move from Texas to CO. So if your kids are 10-18, I would definitely think hard about sticking it out for their remaining childhood years before uprooting them.- The Texpatriates Thread
Get an Airbnb for a week or two in the dead of winter and tell the owner you want to do all the snow removal during your stay. That will help you decide if you want to live that for 3 or more months a year.- The Texpatriates Thread
Billings is Midland with grizzly bears. - 2024 CFP Selection Show Thread - 11am on ESPN
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