Is it common for Americans to not take their shoes off when entering a house?

rowdyonthevex · 2012-05-24T15:18:00.118059+00:00

American here. Yes, I wear my shoes in the house. My shoes are comfortable, and I don't walk through pig shit on my way home, so I see no reason to take them off.

Rosco7 · 7 days

Album. I was afraid she was growing her hair out, but she appears to have gone shorter again.

BlairCan · 12 days

Yes, you belong here. It's annoying hearing the same sophomoric viewpoints echoed over and over -- the more different voices the better.

That said, you'll enjoy reddit more if you steer clear of most of the default reddits. Have a look at this list of suggestions.

Don't bother with going to /r/politics and trying to explain your worldview and engage them in debate. Think of that subreddit (and several others) as a honeypot where we trap and quarantine the crazy so they don't trample all over the other subreddits.

pilotoatomico · 13 days

What I usually is just play the thing over and over again until it seems done.

What I should do, or what I do if I'm really being serious, is to play through it several times and make note of the difficult spots. I'll get a sense of how I want the dynamics and phrasing to go while I'm doing this, even though I might change my mind in spots as I continue working on the piece.

Then with a metronome, I'll work either the difficult parts, or if nothing jumps out as needing the most work, I'll start and the end of the piece and work progressively longer passages (explained by ramses0). If it's something I think I need to memorize, I'll definitely do this. I'll make sure all my finger transitions are smooth and not move the metronome faster or start playing more of the piece until I can reliably play the section I'm working on. Unless I'm stopping to work on a particular phrase, I'll play the piece from the section I'm now working all the way through the end, so I'm progressively playing more and more of the piece and the ending gets more and more comfortable.

I have limited time these days, and if I have just 20 minutes to play it's hard to make myself practice just the difficult sections, instead of just playing the whole thing through and saying, "Eh, I'll fix that part later." Or worse, repeating the fun section over and over because it sounds cool (and usually needs the least amount of work).

Dantesjoe · 13 days

I can lift way more on a decline bench than a flat bench. What I'm getting from this article is that I should let the weight hit lower on my torso and arch my back until I've turned the flat bench press into a decline press.

Rosco7 · 16 days

Nice sight reading! I chuckled when you got the hard spot in the Bach Bouree because you started out so confidently and I was waiting for the tricky part to mess you up. Around 1:15 I can picture you thinking, "Wait, what the hell?" But on the repeat you're already playing it more smoothly! Good job.

Yerbal · 20 days

Bravo!

jlrobins_ssc · 21 days

Good job, and congratulations on getting up there and playing in public!

Do you practice with a metronome? There are several spots where the tempo speeds up or slows down. That could just be performance nerves, but I'd try playing this with a metronome just to make sure your beat is steady.

There's a Double that usually goes along with this Sarabande. You might enjoy working on that as well. It uses the same chord structure but has a faster moving triplet line. Here's a transcription, but I'm not sure I like the look of it. It looks like he's added too many harmony notes. The original violin score is much more sparse. (The Double is on page 7 of this pdf, the Sarabande on page 6.)

Here's a more reasonable transcription of the Double, but you might have to be a delcamp member to download it. It would also be perfectly fine to just play the violin version without trying to flesh the chords out further.

If you try the double, resist the urge to play it too fast. If you listen to a violinist play the whole BWV 1002, this Sarabande and Double are one of the slower pairs of the piece.

Have fun with the new guitar!

pilotoatomico · 25 days

I started on trumpet. Well, I had taken piano lessons a little bit but music never clicked for me until I started on trumpet in band. I wanted to learn how all the notes worked together, how chords and harmonies worked. I tried figuring this out on the piano, but it was in the same room as the tv and I was always getting kicked out so my parents could watch the news or something.

One day I'd gotten ejected from the tv/piano room and I noticed my father's guitar in the other room. I thought, "That has six strings. It can play chords. I'll figure out music on that." The next week my father found me trying to figure out chords on my own and started teaching me to play. He taught me bluegrass (which is what he played), which led me to Chet Aktins, which led me to fingerpicking and eventually classical.

Meanwhile I also got into electric and was a huge fan of Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. For a while bluesy electric guitar was my main instrument, but over time I've gravitated back to classical. I still play trumpet also, in a community band, an orchestra, and a German oom-pah band. You know, now that I think about it, I think the only type of gig that I've never done is playing in a Mariachi band. I might have to do something about that.

BeBenNova · 27 days

Alyson Hannigan

ClassicAnxiety · 27 days

Wow, those are some great books! The Ivor Mairants looks really useful, and the Mario Abril and Howard Morgen books look promising as well. I've played a lot of the Rick Foster arrangements, and they have some tough spots but are really good.

majafo1 · 27 days

Really nice arrangement! Great job!

Starbuck8757 · 1 month

The same argument could be applied to laugh tracks.

koncertkoala · 1 month

Bravo! How long had you been playing when you did the Boccherini? That's awesome that you started playing with other people right away! One of the biggest problems I've seen with classical guitarists is an inability to keep a steady beat and play with other musicians. I think guitar orchestras are great for fixing this, and playing duets with other instruments is even better.

How long have you been playing, and what are you working on now?

Rheves · 1 month

What I hate about the new look is that it makes the priority inbox look like crap. Your theme used to just wrap around the message area on the left and top, and the Important and Unread, Starred, and Everything Else sections flowed cleanly into each other. Now all the theme protrude into the area between the different inboxes. It makes the inboxes look like three separate clunky white boxes.

*Edit: This Stylish theme looks much better to me than any of gmail's themes. The separate inboxes don't contrast so sharply with the background color. It needs the Stylish extension.

igottabasement · 1 month

The new look makes the Priority Inbox look like shit. I'm looking into the Stylish extension to see if that helps, but right now gmail pretty much looks like crap with any of the standard themes. Someone at Google deserves a good kick in the crotch for this new look.

*Edit: This Stylish theme looks much better to me than any of gmail's themes. It reminds me of the old Shiny theme.

Rosco7 · 1 month

It was $100. Unfortunately, the guy who built mine is no longer making them except for people buying his guitars. You might get lucky if you asked really nicely, but I think he's concentrating on his new guitar supports (also using magnets).

There are some other things I looked at: Plenosom Armrest. Uses suction cups. Looks to be about $50 here.

John Pearse armrests. Permanently attaches to the guitar. I was a little squeamish about that, but it lots like there are tons of wood options to match the look of your guitar.

Kantare armrest. Looks like more suction cups. $65 here.

Ok, here's an article about aftermarket armrests. I could have found that first and saved myself some writing.

scherzox · 1 month

Those Guitar Moment pdfs come from http://www.classicalguitarschool.net. That site also has some nice studies and solo pieces.

Back to the original question, on the Catalogues page, this pdf gives a suggested order of of pieces by grade number.

majafo1 · 1 month

Cool. I use a Zoom H2. It gets a nice clean sound, but it feels like my recordings need a little extra processing when I'm done. I haven't hit on anything that doesn't sound artificial. I might try adding some reverb to see how that sounds.

majafo1 · 1 month

Very nice! I also listened to your other recordings and I'm impressed. Can I ask what your recording setup is? Are you recording in a hall or recording dry and adding reverb afterwards?

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