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social/hackernews
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789541]
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social/hackernews
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37339290]
It’s weird that I almost immediately had the thought for essentially exactly the same approach while reading the article. Not that this reflects on OP; flashes of solutions like that I think are often mostly random.
But I wonder if this is a sign of things to come - rather than needing to find explicit deterministic solutions to many problems that might actually have one, because ML is getting much more powerful and accessible instead we’ll just use ML models and get 99.9% accurate solutions, but say, well that’s good enough.
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social/hackernews
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37214363]
I wonder if you could elaborate on how you use ChatGPT to generate web designs? I’m about to teach a course on web technologies and I want to integrate ChatGPT into the curriculum.
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social/reddit
[https://reddit.com/r/jazzguitar/comments/151uh8y/rest_stroke_gypsy_switching_to_alternate/jsc7b4b/]
Oh cool, something I’m qualified to respond to, having gone through exactly this process a few years ago. Let me answer each question individually.
- Alternate picking doesn’t mess up rest stroke necessarily, but as I transitioned I became less “primed” at the pure-rest-stroke, and so some phrases that are more pure-rest-stroke oriented don’t come out as often or as easily in my improvisation. If I need to, I can always execute them with focus, but they’re not “on the tip of my tongue” so to speak.
- As long as you’re playing a lot, you definitely don’t have to relearn everything. However, as you keep playing the lines that you know, you’ll find that some parts will seem to make more sense with one or the other picking style. It happened pretty naturally for me (didn’t require much thought). Also, I found that intentionally re-figuring some lines that I know, but using alternate picking instead, helped me commit more to the transition.
- For me, I was playing semi-professionally (gigging 4+ times per month), and it took maybe a year or two to get to a point where I felt mostly okay about it. To be honest I still feel like it trips me up sometimes, but I’ve settled on feeling like it’s worth it.
- I don’t have any input into this because I don’t do economy picking - I only ever do downward rest strokes, never up.
- Remember that for gypsy jazz specifically, especially if you’re playing acoustically at volume, the “rest stroke” part is a necessary but not sufficient technique. You could be rest-stroking but still without the sufficient force to get the “gypsy sound”. It’s important that you are using the forearm-rotation motion to pluck, as opposed to the wrist/ulnar-deviation motion often associated with alternate picking. If you want to alternate pick on a gypsy jazz guitar, and maintain the volume, tone, and attack, then you should still be using forearm-rotation for the upstrokes and downstrokes. If you don’t maintain this style of motion, you risk the alternate picking sounding weak and plinky (particularly the upstrokes).
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social/hackernews
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740085]
It can be exported from any major sheet music software (Musescore, Finale, Sibelius).
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social/hackernews
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35730497]
I built a tool that auto-generates guitar chord-melody arrangements with tabs and chord diagrams, given a jazz leadsheet (melody + chord symbols) in MusicXML form:
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social/reddit
[https://reddit.com/r/jazzguitar/comments/11ue360/is_django_still_worth_learning_now/jcp0p92/]
This is something I’ve struggled with, having spent most of my short jazz career focused on gypsy jazz.
Later when I started to be drawn to more modern jazz, and started playing with a straight ahead group, I felt very frustrated that the gypsy style and vocabulary was holding me back. It’s better than nothing (I can still play the changes) but what I play to me ends up often sounding cheesy, simple, or old-timey. It’s hard to describe but it just doesn’t seem to fit the vibe.
As I’ve tried to focus on making the transition I’ve come to the conclusion that while much of the issue is the note choices themselves (the vocabulary and phrases, often focused on simple arpeggios and chromaticism), there’s also a big part that’s coming from the right hand picking. It took a lot to retrain myself to do gypsy picking passably well, but trying to go modern with an electric guitar I find the same style sounds too heavy-handed. There’s also something going on where I think gypsy jazz soloists are often emphasizing the on-beats (with downstrokes), and the more modern phrasing is one that emphasizes the off-beats and should feel more bouncey and loose, with more dynamic range, rather than strong, stiff, and attack-y.
Having said all that, there’s a big part of this that’s probably a result of my own lack of experience in both styles. I play professionally, but my skill level is probably not what you imagine when you think “professional jazz guitarist”, gypsy jazz or otherwise. There are plenty of examples of gypsy jazz guitarists who do perfectly well playing in more modern contexts (Biréli Lagrène, Adrien Moignard, come to mind…) so it’s definitely possible for those vocabularies to co-exist. But for me there is a switch that I’m not really able to flip yet.
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social/reddit
[https://reddit.com/r/gypsyjazz/comments/116qndu/electro_swing_live_looped/j9bhuhs/]
Ah gotcha. I saw it plugged in and thought, damn that’s a great sounding pickup! But yes, the big tones by themselves are pretty nasty.
In case you’ve never heard of it you might take a look at the Tonedexter (https://audiosprockets.com/) - it’s my main method of live amplification for gypsy jazz guitar, and it does a phenomenal job of making a piezo pickup like the big tone sound like a microphone. It’s not cheap, but there are similar and cheaper options I haven’t explored (LR Baggs Voiceprint, or NU-X Optima Air).
Edit: Correction, the LR Baggs is definitely not cheaper than a Tonedexter. The NU-X is, though.
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social/hackernews
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34558081]
Shouldn’t that be:~/me $_ x = files('Music') ~/me $_ for item in x: > if 'Rick Astley' not in x['name']: > delete(x['path'])
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social/hackernews
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33699277]
Do you know of any online community gathering places for this scene? Subreddit? Discord server?