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Rimbo

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  1. You do know what site we're on, don't you? Besides. You and sidis started it. I only did that AFTER y'all did your thing. Then we really are in different worlds, because if I don't have the gain up, then the mistakes I need to hear are completely inaudible, or buried so deeply underneath everything that they can't be heard.
  2. One of these things is not like the others. 0 Stars. Zero. Zero recruiters. Walked on. 90.7 PFF grade, 8 points higher than a certain would-be HEISMAN FINALIST and a buncha blue chips. Amazing.
  3. And that's all I'm really advocating for. I don't know where you're getting the rest of the shit you went off on. What I've found, personally, is that I'm susceptible to sloppy movements in my fingers. At high gain, every little movement becomes loud; since the hardest thing for me at this stage is to play clearly and cleanly, trying to play a simple melody at high gain means I have to have nearly every movement perfect to make it sound the way I want it to. As for chords... perhaps my hearing is just that different from yours. Or my signal chain -- a direct line into VSTs, into my studio monitors or headphones -- is just different enough.
  4. get used to it
  5. Credit the original source on this: Bonus
  6. I don't understand why this is so difficult for y'all to grasp. This is basic elementary school shit: When you're warming up, when you're doing technique builders, when you practice, you do things to make yourself better at it; you don't just "play the notes," unless you're content with sounding like ass the whole time. Technique builders (such as: play "I'd like to teach the world to sing" legato, no notes, with the gain cranked) are shortcuts to getting better at everything faster. Though it's not really a "short cut" to do so; it is more accurate to say you're doing focused effort. @sidis ridiculous ideas of practicing paradiddles with yarn won't work because there's no parallel to the technique of hitting a drum with yarn. There IS a parallel to playing a soft piece loudly. It's normal basic shit I'm describing here, nothing wild or weird. I'm not telling y'all some weird or novel thing that I invented -- I didn't invent it, it's not novel, it's not even weird. This is something ALL the good musicians that you look up to (and the ones you don't know about but probably SHOULD look up to) already know about and do daily.
  7. Are you working hard to be this stupid, or does it just come naturally and effortlessly? Yes, that's what I'm doing, because then, when I DO turn the gain down, my technique is better; I've gained greater conscious control of my fingers on both hands and what they're doing. I'm doing this for fun, but it's more fun if I'm better at it, so I don't mind putting a little effort in, here and there.
  8. Question: What drugs were you on when you wrote this, and are the drugs still in your system? Of course it sounds like you're "rocking out." What it does NOT sound like is clean, legato, proper phrasing if you're working on something like that, etc. But particularly when you're warming up, doing technique builders, if you're playing to make sure you don't hear ANY extraneous noise, that each note cleanly ends just as the next one begins, especially when switching strings. We're talking about the things you do to improve your technique, not "rocking out." Try to play something melodic, legato, and with phrasing while you've got the gain to thrash metal levels. Like the melody for "I'd like to teach the world to sing." Or even just a scale. Only notes, no finger shifting noises, no random strings going off, and with interpretation.
  9. Not yet. Soon. But not yet.
  10. Well, I COULD name a Longhorn fan who also struggles with basic concepts like this.
  11. He wasn't wrong to say that, tbh
  12. oh yeah, MrCooper currently has one of our mortgages... it was originally financed (refinanced?) by USAA FSB, who had it underwritten by Chase, who nearly immediately sold it to Dovenmuhle (sp?), who then sold it to Nationstar, which is now named MrCooper. BUT, this was actually AFTER we refinanced. We originally financed though Washington Mutual, who then died and it became Chase. We didn't like Chase and rates went through the floor, thus the refinance... which, as I said, immediately went right back to Chase. Hahaha! None of this matters to you except for when you read your free annual credit report and see the chain there. Our current place was financed through Loan Depot, where we refinanced again through themselves at some stupidly low rate. People call us with offers: "You wanna lower interest rate?" "Can you beat 2.5% fixed on a 30 year loan?" "Uhm. No. Ok you're good, never mind." I get the feeling Loan Depot is stuck with us at that rate; nobody else wants it. 🤣
  13. I was going to self-disqualify this as not being from my childhood, but the title says from my youth, so I'm going to use this. From the brilliant (but weird) Jeremy Soule, whom you are probably more familiar from his work with the Elder Scrolls games (Oblivion, Skyrim) -- "March Unto Death" from the amazing Total Annihilation.
  14. I mean, we've all done it, right? You get the stud finder to figure out where the studs are in the wall, BUT FIRST, before you do that... you run it across your sternum. BEEEEEP "Hehe yeah, THERE HE IS!"
  15. This is nothing new. Well, maybe not ND levels, but Alabama has always been given the benefit of the doubt, just like we often do, or USC, or Michigan.
  16. jimbo couldn't beat lots of teams/coaches
  17. Oh, she has in fact graduated from college... ugh high school, despite looking 15 in that photo. https://www.instagram.com/p/C8i0B5Btuv1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== so, 3, 1, 2. edit: Would appear to be Stanford Online High School, and not Stanford U, ergo... she is still a bit young NEVERMIND i mean I'm still gonna creep on her anyway
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