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MathOfInsects

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  1. I know it's an obvious question, but have you looked at the inside top of the case, the part that would rest on those keys, to see if there is anything there? I don't mean something that is rubbing the keys, I mean the crusty remnants of plastic melting or decaying. Knowing that it lives in your car full time makes me wonder if it's heat- or weather-related in some way.
  2. Have you confirmed that the TrackTribe track is the one you heard in the documentary? Meaning, have you ruled out that Shazam just got it wrong, which is not uncommon--particularly since the MO of TrackTribe as you describe it is to make tracks that sound like "real" recordings? I think the most likely explanation is that it's not actually the TrackTribe track, but a song that sounds enough like it to trigger that as the Shazam result. Shazam is often confounded by instrumental music, for what it's worth. What is the name of the documentary?
  3. Did you have something set up on the keyboard to read charts from, or an effects box of some kind--anything that might have slid down one day and you didn't notice until long enough after not to connect the event to this gouge? This is a very specific bit of damage that had to happen from something either closed against it in the case, or being dropped/sliding down with some exposed edge scraping against that key. The only other option I could think of, if you bought this used, was that a previous owner did that and filled it with something that recently dislodged and left the original damage exposed.
  4. It just depends on the song and gig. If it's just a few chords and I only have to remember how long to play each one, that's usually just me typing or writing a quick chord chart, almost always Nashville these days. If it's more than a few chords and I need notes on form and the like, I always start with ireal and see if anyone's charted it already. Then I do a google image search. Then I try the tab sites. If all those come up empty or unusable then I make my own chart, either in a form I've made up and gotten used to over the years, or on ireal. I really only care about exact form if it's going to be played that way. Otherwise I just want really clear A, B, C sections, etc, and a good sense of how it's LIKELY to go, even if it goes some other way. Most of my cover gigs are in a context that involves extending some section with solos and the like, so you really just need to know what you have to play when someone signals that we're going back to the bridge, etc. If it's originals for a session, I chart that by hand, on special pads I order exactly for that purpose, with some weird little customs I'm used to using to make them intuitive (for me). If there's a line I need to know, I notate that, or screen shot it from sheet music, or even write it out note-name-by-note-name above the relevant places in the count.
  5. I have absolutely no problem with laptop-based production, looping, Ableton Live or anything else. Those are all just instruments, and I'm exactly as happy watching people play that way as any other way. But I hate tracks...UNLESS they are tempo-locked to the live drummer, and not vice versa. Then I can just think of it as any other sequence. FWIW, DJ's make SO much more than live musicians, in orders that would kill your soul if you knew. Some of the higher-profile guys are making high-multiple-tens of thousands a night. It's sobering...
  6. Agreed, I hate tracks. I'd 100% rather see AI write something in real time, than live musicians playing along to something recorded in advance.
  7. This feels exactly like the GMO conversation. If you ask people in health food stores, they say it's an abomination against the natural order of things. If you ask geneticists, they explain that, on the exact contrary, it is the natural order of things. It is no different from how life on earth has always proceeded. AI does what we've all done: taken the existing state of something and fashioned something from it. It is how art has always proceeded and culture has always progressed. If you don't think that what AI is making is new, then you also don't think that what you are making is new. If you're worried about AI replacing you and your work, you are either selling yourself short or not doing good enough work. In a few years, these alarmist hysterias will sound as quaint to us as those who thought the first records were the devil stealing people's souls. We're gonna be ok...
  8. That guy drops pearls of wisdom like some people clear their throats. Thanks for posting.
  9. I've told this before, but here's an object lesson in how "out" is only "out" if there's an "in": When I first started playing my original songs in NY, I was using a lot of jazz guys in the band. One day I was teaching them a new song, and I could tell I'd potentially dropped them off my chart, so I played an off-the-rack C triad in root position--C, C-E-G--just to make really clear where we were. I swear to Flying Spaghetti Monster, the bass player, who had been reading his chart, whipped his head up and leaned over to look at my hands, and said, "Ooh, that's a beautiful voicing. What was that?"
  10. As long as you don't dead-key the original song.
  11. "Deadnaming" isn't referring to someone as a name they went by at a particular time--e.g., "Caitlyn Jenner first came into the public eye as the Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner." It's intentionally continuing to call them that in contexts that occur after they have transitioned and told you their preferred name, as some sort of refusal or power move. "Bruce Jenner can call himself whatever he wants, he's still just a dude in a dress as far as I'm concerned." A couple of my closest musical friends (a couple) took in her nephew after that nephew's family refused to call him by his transitioned name. He tried to kill himself, and knew that the only option was to move out of his home and in with anyone who would accept him. It might be a newer concept for some of us, but that's neither here nor there, right? It's pretty easy just to call someone by the name they introduce themselves as.
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