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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I don’t listen to those bands much so I can’t give you specific answers, but I’ll try to give some general advice -

    The slow but steady way is to learn as much music in that genre as possible. Eventually you’ll start to naturally sound like what you’re learning/playing. If you’re goal oriented, do your best to learn an entire album inside and out. Be able to play the entire thing by heart. The real goal here though is the journey, not the destination. When it’s not fun anymore, quit and move on to a different one. Maybe come back to it later.

    If you want to accelerate the learning process, transcription and analysis will take you a long way. For example, what are the chords? How are they voicing them? How do they change and move from one another? What is the key? Are all the chords actually in the key? How is the melody structured? Is it busy or sparse? Outlining chord tones? What is the tone/timbre of the guitar? Of the other instruments? Of the song as a whole? How does that affect the song? Would the feeling of the song change with they changed? What is the rhythm of the guitar/melody/drums/bass. What is the instrumentation? The tempo? The arrangement? What emotion does this song make you feel like and why? What is the songs identity? For most of these questions, if not all of then, there are no wrong answers. Right answers only require a good faith argument and evidence to back it up.

    When you’ve found answers to some of those questions for a handful of songs, what are the similarities and differences? How significant are they and how do they affect the song?

    With all that being said, remember -

    • This is not a quick process at all
    • No matter how hard you try your songs will sound different. That’s not only completely fine and expected, but its encouraged! Take ideas from your fav songs and mash them up. Do random shit on top of it. Experiment! Be different!
    • Again, not a quick process at all
    • These things should be fun, and don’t do them if it feels like a chore. Music is fun! That’s why we play! Don’t lose sight of that with some arbitrary goal like this in mind.

    I know that’s a bunch of word vomit so if you’d like me to expand on any of this I’d be happy to.

    TLDR; learn more songs and try to articulate why you like them :)




  • Like others have said, it’s influenced heavily by both Battlefield and Squad and I think it’s the best of both worlds.

    I love that, in Squad, you need to be so tactical and team oriented and communicative; but it can get overwhelming if you just want to relax and/or have no military experience. Battlefield is fun if you want to shut your brain off; but nobody really works together, sometimes for the worse. I think Battlebit scratches both of those itches really well.

    Plus the art style makes it so even with 254 players all in one server it still runs smoothly on my midrange-for-2018 rig lol




  • Perhaps. To paraphrase, I hear your position as “I don’t like what they’re saying. Exile them.” Is that accurate?

    That is my solution, but I think the communication issue may lie in the intent. I want forum sites such as Lemmy or Kbin to encourage dialogue from a diverse user base, and I think that allowing fascist and bigoted rhetoric inhibits that goal. Those kinds of people have proven that they almost never discuss in good faith, and I think they will push away individuals who are looking for a space to have good faith discussions. You may have heard of the paradox of tolerance. If you haven’t, I’d encourage you to read about it. I’d like to hear what you think.

    Also, I know that you were paraphrasing, but I want to be completely clear that this is not because “I don’t like what they’re saying.” Obviously, I think it is healthy to encounter differing opinions. But I believe the rhetoric I’m talking about is more than mere “differing opinions” … it is hurtful, dangerous, and attempts to both justify and normalize discrimination. All while providing no value whatsoever.

    Extremism of all stripes is dangerous. If you don’t like what someone is saying, be a grown up and ignore them.

    You and I might be able to parse through the dogshit on the internet, but there are people who can’t. I think there is an obligation to keep alt-right propaganda out of the same space that an impressionable teenager would use to talk about Minecraft. Especially now, there have been far too many kids radicalized in that way. It’s far too easy to weaponize someone’s hatred and insecurities.

    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall

    If you broaden the scope, I wholeheartedly agree. But websites are not countries, moderators are not governments, and content policies are not laws. To be banned from a website does not deprive one of their rights. I really don’t think you need to compromise your morals to have a space, or participate in a space, that has no toleratence bigotry and discrimination. Plus, there are already established limits to free speech that attempt to keep peace and order, like the “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater” clause. I don’t see my desires here as much different than that.


  • Since you clearly don’t, and seemingly don’t want to, understand the fediverse or free speech, why not just go back to Reddit where you can be happier?

    Okay let’s deescalate a bit… One can enjoy something and still criticize it. I did not think expressing a worry about the spread of fascist ideology and hate-speech would invite backlash. Can you seriously not relate to that? There has got to be some kind of miscommunication going on here.

    Censorship has never and will never prevent ideas from existing, being discussed, and spreading. It doesn’t even slow them down. It just drives them into spaces where you can’t see.

    Yes, I want to drive Nazis and bigots into spaces where they are hard to find. They degenerate whatever space they’re allowed in. I’m not naive enough to think this will extinguish them, and I wasn’t trying to even imply that, but the alternative is to do what - just give them a platform to spew hatred? Do you have a solution? Or are you just going to spit out baseless accusations and tell people to leave if they’re not complacent with hate-speech in a space they enjoy?

    I’m down to have a discussion but show some kindness.






  • I’ve actually been practicing paradiddles with the accent for a bit, so I should def focus on not doing the accent lol. And even for other rudiments, I’ve noticed that whenever I try to incorporate the kick drum it’s hard for me to not bring my right arm down a little harder than my left. Something I am working on.

    I’ve been trying to play to a metronome as much as I can, and I’ve figured out that my time is definitely not as good as I thought it was either haha. Even after playing and recording guitar to a click for a while, there is a lot less leeway for drummers it seems…

    Thanks for the tips! And I’ll be sure to check those vids out as well.