keymasta
Joined 6 years ago
Joined 6 years ago
Special shout-out to HN-member, luka! After finding me online, he diligently helped me regain access to my account! As of just now I have logged into my gmail account!
So all's well that ends well. It sure helps to know where to find smart and considerate people that can actually help, like on HN. I don't know what I would've done had I not had that option.
Now I just need to verify myself with my brand new phone which is used and there's no info about the previous owner. So now I'm into chapter 2 of my phone adventure. That's a lot better than it was when I made this post!
This site is a lot like how I remember ultimate guitar, being that you can look up tabs and access them. I hope people keep uploading more tabs because ultimate still has a larger volume
I'm also wondering if you've considered some music theory functions like for example highlighting the midi grid along to some scale, which would allow "snap to" (next in key note). If you're curious, I have familiarity with this end of things so feel free to pick my brain.
Prose is mostly focused on describing meaning using any words that serve to do so.
Verse is more concerned with structural factors like rhythm, tonality, and structure within syllables, or within types of sound, or parts of speech. Other linguistic devices which look at details beyond the strict meaning of the words, like rhyme or many other factors (you could even use visual spacing for example) can be considered in verse.
Within verse there's the concept of iambs. I think of it as a tuple of two syllables which are said, weak-strong. Pentameter means ten syllables, and iambic means in groups of weak and strong. Most of Shakespeare is written like this. Also English naturally sounds iambic a lot of the time.
Iambic pentameter sounds like this:
I watched a bird attempt its beak upon
The end of fake too-moist baguette in vain
For it was sick of stale McDicks tossed on
It endlessly maintained its rationed pain
While others in its bobbing flock for scraps
Of birds fought for the thrill squawked on and on
Till cannibals among their kind rejoiced
To find cousins in mayonnaise so long
Normally you'd also look at rhyme structure if writing a legit Shakespearean sonnet [2] but I fired this one out as in the style of fast food. So this is technically iambic pentameter but not technically a sonnet.Or like a particular Shakespearean sonnet [0]. Or like any of them, [1]
[0] https://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/sonnet.I.html
[1] https://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/sonnets.html
[2] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/shakespe...
This might better be described as arpeggiating C#m second inversion or even C#m/G# in the right over C# in the left...
This is getting possibly-weird but you could call it an arpeggiation of G#sus4(#5)/C#
This may be a pedantic clarification, but that is the definition
Unfortunately I'm type 1 diabetic which is either a death sentence there, or you are rich. But then I also accidentally broke my collarbone this summer. And I had this weird throat infection.
As a type 1 diabetic I have had to go to the ER numerous times in my life, and as traumatising as that experience can be, I can't imagine the feeling of also being financially ruined for the pleasure of not dying.
It's weird, I know plenty of people who avoid going to the doctor because it's annoying to wait for over an hour.. but I could see that for an American you might just NEVER go. I guess it's like, ok someone in the family is sick, and we're not rich, so we will sacrifice them to the sun gods. Or I guess you go into indentured servitude? There are people for whom $100k is made very very slowly.
I just do not get it! I guess these things add up properly if you are very wealthy, but people here think that it's the function of the society to make sure you can have basic things like medical treatment. Of course it's not perfect here... try going to the dentist for example. Then you're almost in the USA. Somehow it's not considered medical. A long session could run you over $500 or more.
I have compassion for all the USAians out there! If I was USAian and planning to have a child.. I guess I would consider just going to a civilized country for a while, like... I don't know, Rwanda or Ghana or somewhere that can afford people to be alive(?). In seriousness though (as those countries are very far) you could just go North or South. It's closer. If you go to Canada, a lot of times you wouldn't even need to present ID.. you could just.. get treated right there by walking into a hospital, being triaged, and then waiting (admittedly for maybe almost a day).
Always bring fun things to the hospital if you aren't literally bleeding out all over the place, because you'll be in the waiting room for 12 hours if you're in a big city.
But when it's over you're alive and about as rich as you were before. Seems like a good societal deal to me. I'm scared of being trapped somewhere like the US honestly. It's a nightmare scenario. Although I'm sure it's pretty great if you're a billionaire with slaves and so on... but someone has to incur that cost (the slaves from the lower castes).
Personally I don't get it as for me, there is a clear difference not only between mp3 vs. CD, but even between different bitrates beyond that. Maybe I'm not typical as I've been usually listening to stuff through studio monitors and also usually through a recording interface which handles 192kHz and >24-bit.
Definitely I noticed on certain systems you aren't going to notice a difference as the system itself is the bottleneck (i.e, bluetooth). In my experience though if you use the right driver, so ASIO or WASAPI in Windows (or anything in Mac and Linux nowadays), I can tell the difference instantly on recordings I know well.
Most music did not get released in ultra HD but some things are available in 96kHz and beyond. I recommend checking out Radiohead, Bob Marley, or Pink Floyd in ultra-HD ( >= 48kHz, >= 24-bit) as there have been releases. I have found Bob Marley - Legend in 192kHz 24-bit and it sounds incredible. You can hear each individual member of the percussion section.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist-Shannon_sampling_theor...