StickyDango

@StickyDango@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who’s played instruments since an early age, I can say that I’m one of those people who are really shit at chords, so guitar is really hard for me.

  I started on clarinet (had lessons), saxophone, flute, and bits of piano and trombone. Once I had the lessons, it made picking up other instruments so much easier. I currently have an Irish flute and whistle and the flute is such a challenge without all of the traditional concert flute buttons.

  So like FinjaminPoach, I would also recommend some lessons to start to get the basics (perhaps online videos might suffice, but I’ve never explored those).

  Another bit of advice is to practice, practice, practice. And pick up some music you want to work towards playing, not just Mary had a Little Lamb. That’s boring as batshit. There’s all sorts of versions for same songs. There’s easy versions for beginners, and then there’s the harder versions with all of the little pick ups, syncopation, fast parts, etc. that make it sound like the artist’s studio version.

  Fumble with the easy one, but it gets easier when you commit the notes/fingering/chords to memory first so you don’t keep having to look at the fingering chart. Once you memorise those, it feels like you’ve broken a barrier when you can get through a song with all its mistakes and your effort sounds even somewhat like a real tune you can recognise. From there, it’s practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. All winter, we have been whinging about single and teen digits and wanting summer to come around. Then we get blasted with 44C. We weren’t careful what we wished for… But on the positive side, the rest of the summer will be a breeze. 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victoria, SA, NSW brace for 'worst' heatwave since Black Summer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victoria, SA, NSW brace for 'worst' heatwave since Black Summer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We called them “freezies” in Canada!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re just looking for presence/absence of live microbes, just use ATP swabs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work on a local mountain in Vancouver and I once had someone ask about taking a day trip to Niagara Falls. What.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For English, press 1.

  Pour le Français, appuyez sur 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eat the rich and go to libraries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. I wrote to an author asking what I the best way I can support her because I have so limited space in the place I currently in. She said buying physical books is the best, but I was surprised to learn that borrowing books from libraries is also a big help. Authors don’t make much from ebook sales.