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These posts do not lead to any discussion about music theory, and theres at least 1, often times more than that EVERY SINGLE DAY on this sub. I think we would all enjoy the sub more if it was restricted to actual discussions about theory/analysis, and wasn't just a place for people to post apps that already have hundreds of equivalents. I don't know much about Reddit moderation tools, but it shouldn't be hard to disallow posts that contain the keywords that all of these posts have in their titles.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I see just as many "I made an app/tool" posts from this sub on my front page as I do legitimate questions and discussions. I can't be the only one who is tired of it, right?

I would also contend that they break at least two already existing rules: "spam" which specifically mentions advertising/self promotion, as well as "lazy/low effort posts". And they're definitely toeing the line on "AI generated posts", which specifies AI generated post bodies as being against the rules... but I'm not sure whether its totally proveable that these app-related posts have AI post bodies or that the apps themselves were made using AI... but regardless they're absolutely detracting from the overall quality of the sub.

I've got a friend who plays guitar for a church group and they're looking for a new organist. I've always loved gospel Hammond, I've listened to a decent amount, but I know nothing about the voicings they use. I've played plenty of other genres in my life, and I've tried to cop some of the gospel feel at times, but its never actually sounded authentic. Are there any guidelines on what types of voicings to practice and familiarize myself? What about good resources (youtube videos/instructors) that break it down at different skill levels?

I've got a decent feel for playing the drawbars, swell pedal dynamics, Leslie speed etc... its just the actual notes on the keyboard that I don't have internalized. Also, is it something I'd be able to do with just chord charts, or am I going to be reading full scores? I am a very poor reader but a good memorizer... how big of a reperoire is there, how often would I be the one carrying the main melody?

Absolutely gorgeous, great arrangement of a classic Phish ballad with incredible folk musicians.

Live From Here produced some absolitely incredible music, I wish it had stuck around for the long haul... but Covid hit, and so many of those musicians already had incredible bands or solo careers to keep going with. It wasn't meant to last, but what we got from it was so great.

It is both easier to learn/memorize and to apply 3+ note patterns than 2 note intervals. In my experience, learning snippets of melodies leads to faster recognition of patterns rather than individual note intervals. I've found it easier to recognize longer patterns first, and then to recognize individual intervals within them.

For example, the combo of 5 7b 1 in a row is used very frequently in melodies and solos (especially in guitar based music and jazz) and is a VERY recognizeable pattern that doesn't take long to learn. 4 5 7b is another one that shows up all the time and is very easy to recognize over a I or i chord.

If your goal in ear training is to get better at audiation or improv, I think its a lot more useful to learn patterns/licks as opposed to just intervals. Thats my 2 cents... perhaps other people disagree, but I personally have found that you get faster progress from recognizing longer patterns than you do from just recognizing the interval between 2 notes.

Why can't Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids make it on the usual schedule? Michigan is a pretty densely populated state, GR is a pretty jam friendly town, they did 2 nights and the room was well filled (possibly sold out?)... why wouldn't they go back?

And yeah I know its not a true "one time", they played there in 98, they played Grand Rapids multiple times before that... they've done multiple Michigan shows in 3.0, all have been well attended... I don't get why they wouldn't do a Michigan show every year.

What about those discussions is against the rules? Someone is looking out for the good of our community by bringing light to the fact that a particular organization is likely trying to take advantage of our community. What is your reason for closing the threads? They don't break any of the subreddit rules. They're just people trying to look out for the community.

PS: Went Gin sounds great on a Spring morning.

Say goodbye to cold and coolwater trout streams.

From what I understand Tonebender fuzzes are a style that 'prefers' to be first in the chain in order to retain sensitivity. Are there any pedals that wouldn't mess with that effect running before it in the chain, or a pedal that can return your signal back to the impedance that you get right out of the pickups? Also, fwiw I've got a Wurlitzer EP that I'm interested in running into a Keeley Fuzz Bender, so I'm not sure how that would affect things, theres absolutely 0 info I can find about running a Wurlitzer through a bender style fuzz... but I'd like to be able to run Wurli>EQ>Wah>Fuzz, as opposed to putting the EQ and wah after the fuzz. My EQ settings are somewhat aggressive to get the sound I want out of the instrument and I think it would make make for a very harsh sound runningnafter the fuzz, and I also just prefer the sound of wah before clipping.

If there were stars out there made of anti-matter rather than matter, would we be able to tell?

Its wild listening to live albums from the 60s and 70s and encountering numerous 10+ tracks, smooth segues between songs, different arrangements and feels compared to the studio recordings... all of which are staples of the modern 'jamband' genre... But nowadays if a band isn't fully intending to be a part of the jamband scene and accidentally strays too far in that direction they're likely to get demonized by folks who aren't hardcore fans of the band. Like, no one thinks Elton John is a 'jammy' artist, but he's got an 18 MINUTE version of Burn Down The Mission on his 1970 live album that includes a jam on Get Back by The Beatles, and its freaking incredible.

At some point the formula for concert expectations shifted from hoping to see a band work a crowd, show off some chops, and deliver a dynamic and high energy performance that felt special and unique... where nowadays people just seem to want to hear the songs just like on the album but louder and surrounded by other fans.

I grew up in Michigan but have lived my entire adult life in CO, and at the end of May I'm moving back to soend more time with my parents. I've spent a little bit of time fishing Michigan rivers and they are TOUGH. Out here I can easily put 20+ fish in the net on a decent day, and when fishing in MI a 5 fish day was really exceptional. I'm sure there are some population differences, but for me the toughest adjustment was the structure type. Out here you get really obvious breaks in flow to target, there are so many spots where that perfect speed of water exists from the surface to the bottom... but in Michigan there's always a smooth 3 feet of fast moving water up above the obvious pools, and no big rocks in the pools to target as obvious holding water... there are just less good seams of slow water to get good drifts in. Its a lot tougher to get a nymph down near the bottom, and the surface water moves so much quicker that finding risers seemed much less frequent.

I'd love any tips for rigs to use and structures to keep an eye out for to know I'm getting my fly in front of a fish with a good drift. The sandy bottomed streams are just so different from what I've gotten used to fishing. It seemed like most of my luck came from fishing very deep water, whereas out here I catch most of my fish in 2-3 feet of water around the edges of pools and runs, and a lot of the biggest ones actually come from even shallower pockets around a foot deep.

I'd also be interested in any tips on flies to tie up while I'm waiting to move. When I was fishing MI streams I had most of my luck trying to dead drift olive streamers, egg flies, and squirmy worms, all heavily weighted. It'd be fun to be able to fish some lighter dry dropper rigs though and not just be chucking and ducking a super heavy rig under an indicator.

I wouldn't say I'm the typical piano player for this sub, but I'm still interested to hear people's thoughts on the situation. Playing piano has been a core part of my existence ever since I started... I'm 34 now, I started teaching myself around 7th grade, did just a few months of jazz lessons a couple years later, and since then its been all self teaching and a combo of slow steady development, or at least maintenance of my ability when I'm not actively working on improving.

I have always loved playing, I have never had an interest in reaching virtuoso levels, I've just always wanted to be good enough to play with bands in a support role, and play well enough to work with my own songwriting. I've always been able to sit down at my keyboard (I've never owned an actual acoustic, but have always had an 88-key weighted, as well as a Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer EP at points), and run through my songs, the songs from the band I was playing with, or just improvise and enjoy myself. Its always been very satisfying to just jam out to simple chord progressions, take little solos over the breaks in my songs, or write simple compositions that fit my ability level.

A few years ago I was diagnosed with epilepsy, and the side effects from the medication have made it more difficult to find joy in my playing (as well as my other hobbies), and have also made the actual act of playing more difficult. I'm simply not able to maintain the ability that I've spent years developing. Its harder to reach the 'flow state' where I'm not consciously thinking about what to do with my hands and anticipating what comes next as opposed to just experiencing the joy of what I'm playing in the moment. Its hard to enjoy it when I'm missing notes all the time. Its hard to enjoy it when I struggle to play songs I've been playing since middle school. Its not as though I'm totally incapable of playing at all, but I'm reduced to the bare bones basics of whole note block chords in the left hand and really simple 8th notes or triplet single note lines being the most I can handle with my right hand.

Up until a few weeks ago I was still practicing 30-60 minutes every night and keeping up what I could... but I just kinda got tired of it. It felt like I was putting in a lot of work for no payoff... and now I've gone the longest I ever have since starting to play without touching a keyboard. I still think about it all the time, I'm still 'playing' in my head as I drift off to sleep every night, I can still visualize the piano and hear the notes in my head, I have all of the aural and cognitive abilities still existing, but not being able to have my hands keep up with my thoughts had made playing piano feel like a chore rather than something fun... and I hate that.

Its just so sad to me that the thing in my life that has brought me the most joy, and to a certain extent shaped my existence (I dropped out of college after 1 year, joined a band, and started pursuing life as a 'professional' musician in an original band) is now something that is more frustrating than fun. I've been in a few bands over the years that had varying degrees of ambition, and I had fun whether we were trying to make money or just book a few local shows. I've played open mics with my own material as recently as a year ago. I haven't been in a band since my last one split up, and I'm not sure at this point if I'd be able to keep up and remember all of the songs if I were in one. I'm going to be moving back to my home town at the end of May just so I can spend more time with my parents since they're getting older and I don't want to have spent my entire life only seeing them a couple of times a year. I've got friends there who are musicians and I'm going to try to jam with them and see if I can still keep up in a band setting... but its still painful to me that I can no longer just sit down at the end of the evening and play for fun, just for me.

Have any of you been through a similar falling out with playing? Were you able to find that joy again? Does taking some time off lead to rediscovering the spark, or am I just digging myself into a deeper hole?