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Death metal is basically to rock music what 20th century music is to classical - the application of extended technique, timbre manipulation and heavy dissonance to capture a new part of the psychological spectrum
May 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Death metal is basically to rock music what 20th century music is to classical - the application of extended technique, timbre manipulation and heavy dissonance to capture a new part of the psychological spectrum
Might also be time to return to my roots and write some prog/fusion tunes on Guitar Pro 6. I can't play guitar anymore but I'm sure I can still write some completely un-idiomatic 17/16 riffs
April 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Might also be time to return to my roots and write some prog/fusion tunes on Guitar Pro 6. I can't play guitar anymore but I'm sure I can still write some completely un-idiomatic 17/16 riffs
I've been cooking too hard with my classical studies and now have the overwhelming urge to sit making hip-hop beats on Ableton for a few weeks
April 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I've been cooking too hard with my classical studies and now have the overwhelming urge to sit making hip-hop beats on Ableton for a few weeks
Went to a pipe organ workshop. I bottled it using the pedals but was a really cool experience, now a world-class cathedral organist follows me on Instagram lmao
April 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Went to a pipe organ workshop. I bottled it using the pedals but was a really cool experience, now a world-class cathedral organist follows me on Instagram lmao
My favourite podcast described Longlegs as a formally accomplished but thematically empty film and yeah, I think that's pretty accurate. I didn't need it to be any more than that but it's hard not to see it as insubstantial through an ideas lens
April 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My favourite podcast described Longlegs as a formally accomplished but thematically empty film and yeah, I think that's pretty accurate. I didn't need it to be any more than that but it's hard not to see it as insubstantial through an ideas lens
Today I nearly cried at how cool Duke Ellington was
April 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Today I nearly cried at how cool Duke Ellington was
Is it time to become a trad guy and only call Muskrat Ramble at the jam
April 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Is it time to become a trad guy and only call Muskrat Ramble at the jam
The Hot Fives are pretty good but the Hot Sevens recordings are really something else. The addition of a proper bass instrument and the Potato Head Blues solo bring the set to another level. Feels like a precursor to the Miles quintets or something
April 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Hot Fives are pretty good but the Hot Sevens recordings are really something else. The addition of a proper bass instrument and the Potato Head Blues solo bring the set to another level. Feels like a precursor to the Miles quintets or something
Ella Fitzgerald is good
April 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Ella Fitzgerald is good
Having constant breakthroughs with my piano playing recently, my last couple phases of woodshedding classical repertoire and jazz basslines have left me able to both read and hear music better which has a bit of a compounding effect
April 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Having constant breakthroughs with my piano playing recently, my last couple phases of woodshedding classical repertoire and jazz basslines have left me able to both read and hear music better which has a bit of a compounding effect
Consuming pitch set and neo-Riemannian theory like a junkie whose old dosage of Renaissance counterpoint and hard bop chord substitution just isn't cutting it anymore
April 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Consuming pitch set and neo-Riemannian theory like a junkie whose old dosage of Renaissance counterpoint and hard bop chord substitution just isn't cutting it anymore
Adding 'rhythm game arcade machines' to 'modular synthesizers' as an example of inherently utopian technology
March 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Adding 'rhythm game arcade machines' to 'modular synthesizers' as an example of inherently utopian technology
I've delved the whole canon of piano literature and I think Hammerklavier might still be the hardest piece I'm aware of just because of the sheer breadth of its demands
March 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I've delved the whole canon of piano literature and I think Hammerklavier might still be the hardest piece I'm aware of just because of the sheer breadth of its demands
Current gameplan for learning the jazz canon is to just pick up all the melodies by ear (the easy part) and become a reharm king do I don't have to bother figuring out the changes (the hard part)
March 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Current gameplan for learning the jazz canon is to just pick up all the melodies by ear (the easy part) and become a reharm king do I don't have to bother figuring out the changes (the hard part)
Hindemith is pretty cool actually. He's not inducing apocalyptic visions of death and God like a Ligeti type composer but his modernist play with older classical forms is fun
March 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Hindemith is pretty cool actually. He's not inducing apocalyptic visions of death and God like a Ligeti type composer but his modernist play with older classical forms is fun
When I was younger my retirement plan was to go on an iboga-fuelled vision quest, now it's to follow in my grandmother's footsteps and become the organist for a small parish in rural Bavaria
March 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
When I was younger my retirement plan was to go on an iboga-fuelled vision quest, now it's to follow in my grandmother's footsteps and become the organist for a small parish in rural Bavaria
I observed to a bassist friend when he was starting out with jazz that lead sheets for standards are only good if you're an absolute beginner or a complete master. The former needs the simplicity of just some chords and a melody to comprehend the music, the latter to give them room to interpret it
March 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I observed to a bassist friend when he was starting out with jazz that lead sheets for standards are only good if you're an absolute beginner or a complete master. The former needs the simplicity of just some chords and a melody to comprehend the music, the latter to give them room to interpret it
The better I get at reading music the more I worry I'm slacking on my ear training, it's just so enticing to figure music out in all its details with the speed of reading a printed score vs replaying the same Oscar Peterson lick at 0.5x speed trying to hear where he's chucked in a blues dyad
March 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The better I get at reading music the more I worry I'm slacking on my ear training, it's just so enticing to figure music out in all its details with the speed of reading a printed score vs replaying the same Oscar Peterson lick at 0.5x speed trying to hear where he's chucked in a blues dyad
Messiaen is it, man. He's like the James Joyce of composers. Quartet For The End Of Time? Birdsong? Modes of limited transposition? Sixty years of service as a church organist? NO ONE was doing it like this
March 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Messiaen is it, man. He's like the James Joyce of composers. Quartet For The End Of Time? Birdsong? Modes of limited transposition? Sixty years of service as a church organist? NO ONE was doing it like this
The more classical stuff I learn the more I understand how classical training was often a 'secret sauce' (one of a few factors - let's not get too Eurocentric with it) for the great geniuses of jazz like James P, Mingus etc
March 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The more classical stuff I learn the more I understand how classical training was often a 'secret sauce' (one of a few factors - let's not get too Eurocentric with it) for the great geniuses of jazz like James P, Mingus etc
On the subject of UK jazz, I wish everyone knew how hard this album goes
March 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
On the subject of UK jazz, I wish everyone knew how hard this album goes
When am I gonna get my copy of Gradus Ad Parnassum. The only counterpoint manual I own is a chapter in that dogshit Ray Santisi book
March 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
When am I gonna get my copy of Gradus Ad Parnassum. The only counterpoint manual I own is a chapter in that dogshit Ray Santisi book
Have been making gains lately on my jazz solo piano arranging though, shedding basslines and learning some nice block chord stuff has really opened up options on this front, I think I need to do a lot of transcribing and hardcore counterpoint studies before I feel truly fluent in this area though
March 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Have been making gains lately on my jazz solo piano arranging though, shedding basslines and learning some nice block chord stuff has really opened up options on this front, I think I need to do a lot of transcribing and hardcore counterpoint studies before I feel truly fluent in this area though
I do want to get back to working on classical and jazz rep, especially the classical stuff where I have a defined backlog of target pieces instead of the neverending open-ended quest to 'learn every jazz standard'
March 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I do want to get back to working on classical and jazz rep, especially the classical stuff where I have a defined backlog of target pieces instead of the neverending open-ended quest to 'learn every jazz standard'
My scatterbrained approach to mastering the keyboard may mean I can't play much Beethoven or reharmonize a Tin Pan Alley ballad super well but I have developed pretty much the right skillset for playing prog rock or fusion so my teen/early 20s self has achieved his goal
March 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
My scatterbrained approach to mastering the keyboard may mean I can't play much Beethoven or reharmonize a Tin Pan Alley ballad super well but I have developed pretty much the right skillset for playing prog rock or fusion so my teen/early 20s self has achieved his goal