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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
great musicians always enjoy practicing- it is like making something new when done properly. If they arent enjoying it, they know they must get creative about it— otherwise it’s mindless.
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
Maurizio Pollini still practices like crazy- lots of hours. More than I do! (he is way better than I)
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
Glen Gould also practiced by playing slowly and very slowly and so on. He practiced by singing and not playing, and yes by playing at speed and as has been mentioned as something bad... he practiced pieces sll the way through for hours on e
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
I find it helpful to play the big phrase choreography—the shape of a phrase, making it a physical gesture with big muscles, actual exact notes be damned. Then add in notes, making it gradually more precise. But for anyone to say that slow p
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
and... why not a black flag anyway?
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
Thank you for this- was trying to think of that book. The positivity culture, in my view anyway, was the far-reaching soft-spoken herald of a growing fascism in our work cluture. It is not hard to see why it would need hardcore deployment i
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by brooklyn_ashey 8y ago
I agree! Why not a woman?
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by brooklyn_ashey 8y ago
I will never understand why remote work isn’t more widely embraced. It’s bizzarre when an industry that prides itself on solving the big problems, and one that literally invented the web— a place where one can get stuff done without being i
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by brooklyn_ashey 8y ago
Well said. The question isn’t really “should” we decouple income from labor. We need to begin to concieve of a transitional process. Perhaps these kinds of schools are the first step, or perhaps there are even better approaches, but we need
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Taibbi says, "The terrifying part of this controversy, to me, is the possibility that Facebook will ultimately engage in a kind of policing/censorship activity that all of these Senators may actually favor – perhaps driving down o
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Musician here. I completely agree. But I think anyone can do this. We musicians transcribe solos of jazz players- not because we want to play like them, but because we want the feel in our vocaulary-- because we want to hear and understand
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Watch the same movie in English with the subtitles on. Pick some characters' speeches to memorize. Do this until you truly can do this in the voice of whichever actor interests you right now. I mean until you can do it on your own with
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
And wouldn't it be wonderful if those he sought employment with made that very simple, obvious calculation you just made? The article doesn't go into his years at the hotel and how he may have tried other things first before accep
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
This is basically what happens to so many of us. And when we leave music, after studying so many things in great depth, we are treated as uneducated and illiterate; and so much precious time has been lost. And yet they always write these nu
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Hey, I know! Blockchain, right?
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
only if they outline chord tones in their solo. (ha) They should get points off for taking too many choruses or for doing Parker transcriptions. wink
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I don't understand. The Pro Publica study of around 1000 ex IBM employees versus your personal experience? Ok. Are you saying that there isn't an ageism problem? Ok. The fact is, technology companies have serious diversity problem
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
"At the end of the day, as a person in technology, your major resources are your technical skills." The article from Pro Publica argues otherwise-- with data to back it up. The point is: "culture fit" and "optics&qu
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I'm glad the good people at Pro Publica thought this was such an important issue and made that enormous effort to pull together actual data. That is an example of reporters doing their jobs. Over the past couple years on HN, it has bee
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
It was so boring. North and South Indian music is wonderful-I love it. But hearing Vijay break that down was mind-numbing. I like some of his music. Wadada can be great too! But I really wish we could stop justifying jazz by the labor it ta
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Does anyone know an excellent attorney in NYC who could examine a non-compete an engineer signed so they could actually accept another job offer?
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
One-upping is definitely a solo strategy that has a long history, and the tradition continues today. I just don't see Monk's key choice as some kind of proof of his skill. He wrote tunes that often sat awkwardly and offered a lot
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
exactly. well said.
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Most jazz musicians today under the age of 45, went to music school. Brad Mehldau went to the New School. (someone mentioned Brad) The jazz faculty at the New School, when he went there at least, was ramming theory down every student (most
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Totally agree with you. Excellent answer. Vijay most of all with the theory/math. I sat through a lecture he gave on ragas in jazz once, and it was essentially a math class about ragas.
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
You also rightly said, "For decades the musical music was captivated with math in the 20th century. This wasn't some spiritual journey in music it was a mathematical puzzle they were trying to work out." Yeah, you are right,
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
Well, it's difficult to discuss this math/music issue in a just a comment-length mini-essay and manage to get at what I'm trying to convey. I didn't write the "nonsense" comment myself, but i do hear the legit
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
I agree with you on this as a lifelong musician and improvisor. It isn't the math of grammar we think about when conversing to convey meaning and style. We think about what we want to say and how we want to say it. We listen and build
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
by the way, a landlord must notify the tenant of an opportunity to renew (or not) within 90 days of the sign date on the new lease. This isn't the issue at all. And I agree, the relationship should be mutually beneficial. It should def
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by brooklyn_ashey 9y ago
>they silently declare war on existing tenants by demolishing their homes while they live in them you said, "That's nonsense”. Sadly, I’m afraid it isn’t. Here are some articles that might show you as much: https://

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