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Another Rush E wipeout. There’s progress, though. 24.08.2024 0:26 ↓

Another Rush E wipeout. There’s progress, though.

The sound of the sea! 22.08.2024 0:25 ↓

The sound of the sea!

Porting Tetris to all platforms 19.08.2024 0:17 ↓

Porting Tetris to all platforms

Starting on the Tetris 18.08.2024 0:15 ↓

Starting on the Tetris

Middle school strings at this camp are tight. Maybe more impressive is that they… 16.08.2024 2:39 ↓

Middle school strings at this camp are tight. Maybe more impressive is that they’re actually imparting feeling and style into their playing. A lot of middle school kids never get past the mechanics of playing the right pitch at the right time.

Elementary/middle school guys already sounding better than last May. 16.08.2024 0:52 ↓

Elementary/middle school guys already sounding better than last May.

We Will Rock You, Despite Having Started Band Two Weeks Ago 16.08.2024 0:35 ↓

We Will Rock You, Despite Having Started Band Two Weeks Ago

Electric toothbrushes sound extreme. 14.08.2024 0:19 ↓

Electric toothbrushes sound extreme.

Taking a shot at Rush E. 12.08.2024 2:13 ↓

Taking a shot at Rush E.

Solid boat horn sounds happening here. 26.07.2024 0:05 ↓

Solid boat horn sounds happening here.

Parkour near-encounter 17.07.2024 2:49 ↓

Parkour near-encounter

What if the Super Mario theme got slower with every beat? 16.07.2024 0:47 ↓

What if the Super Mario theme got slower with every beat?

For long video meetings in which there’s pressure to have your camera on, I’ve s… 11.07.2024 0:43 ↓

For long video meetings in which there’s pressure to have your camera on, I’ve started desk drumming. I messed up a bunch here, but at some point in the meeting, things were 🔥 With more practice, I should get more consistent.

I brought this back from my parents’ basement: The Boss HM-3, dubbed “Hyper Meta… 23.06.2024 2:00 ↓

I brought this back from my parents’ basement: The Boss HM-3, dubbed “Hyper Metal.” It disappointed me in the ‘90s, and it disappointed everyone else, who thought it fell far short of its predecessor, the legendary HM-2, called the Metal Zone. It was what made bands sound like Entombed, Entombed included There’s a use for everything, though, so I thought why not. It’s not as bad as I remember. It...

The left hand part of the Super Mario World Bonus Room theme is starting to happ… 17.06.2024 0:43 ↓

The left hand part of the Super Mario World Bonus Room theme is starting to happen!

The Entertaining begins. 07.06.2024 0:12 ↓

The Entertaining begins.

USA 28.05.2024 0:25 ↓

USA

The guy continues to enjoy transposing things to be extra low. 26.05.2024 0:28 ↓

The guy continues to enjoy transposing things to be extra low.

Having a tough time deciding if these riffs go together. 15.05.2024 0:33 ↓

Having a tough time deciding if these riffs go together.

I noticed I had some songs, Kart and Hamburger, that I started in January (!). I… 09.05.2024 0:58 ↓

I noticed I had some songs, Kart and Hamburger, that I started in January (!). In case they never get finished, I’m posting what I have so readers here can freestyle over them if they want.

Bonus Cat enjoys life. 05.05.2024 0:12 ↓

Bonus Cat enjoys life.

The riff in <a href="https://laurieanderson.bandcamp.com/album/big-science">From… 04.05.2024 0:11 ↓

The riff in From the Air sounded like it had groups of three and two eight notes packed into a four-beat measure (much like the break riff in Seek and Destroy), but when I tried to count it out, I started to feel like it was actually in 7/8. So I reassembled it in NanoStudio (with a cheesy synth that you can at least hear well), and confirmed that it’s in 4/4, with 3-2-3 groupings of eight notes....

Some casual dungeon triads. 02.05.2024 0:29 ↓

Some casual dungeon triads.

Kids were hyped up about the high school band playing some stuff from Barbie! Un… 02.05.2024 2:53 ↓

Kids were hyped up about the high school band playing some stuff from Barbie! Unfortunately, they could not express that enthusiasm by clapping in time. (And the high school band was actually pretty tight.)

Elementary school horns all end up sounding like kazoo. (I do think this is res… 02.05.2024 1:25 ↓

Elementary school horns all end up sounding like kazoo. (I do think this is respectable for a first performance for kids that rehearse once a week! Even though I find it really funny.)