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I'm a gigging jazz drummer and just cause you mentioned "with the back seats down", I gotta say: I always wish there was a car that was optimized / defaulted to having the back sea…

I think the key here is that you only deliberately practice things that you really, really want. Things that you want so bad that you obsess over them and you wake up realizing you…

Hey thanks, it is very hands on and focused more on performance than composition. It covers comping, soloing, playing in different substyles, pretty much everything if you take bot…

Jeremy Siskind's jazz piano courses taught out of Fullerton College. https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzclass/ This is a bit of a cheat because these courses are not free ($50USD for Ca…

The title of this article is a really good Garden Path Sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

Just want to share a couple great works by Sakamoto. I'm a big fan. One of my favorite bossa nova albums is A Day In New York by Morelenbaum/Sakamoto. Here's Desafinado from that a…

Here is a the letter from Russel to Jean van Heijenoort in response to the latter's request to print the correspondence between Russell/Frege in "From Frege to Godel" ( https://pla…

"mostly just okay, and certainly not great" The guy cowrote Principia Mathematica AND won the Nobel prize in literature. He pretty much destroyed Frege's life's work in a witty lit…

Good lord, I play every day and didn't know this was even a thing. I usually quit as soon as I hit Genius. I clearly need to level up!

Thanks! I love it so much. The one thing that annoys me is that it rejects anything that it considers to be domain knowledge or some such criteria. For example, today you'd think y…

For anyone that plays Wordle on NYT Games site, there is another anagramming game called Spelling Bee in which the notion of a pangram is featured prominently. Basically, you get a…

One bit of complexity that lots of tools like this seem to always punt on is the fact that most chords (at least in jazz) are typically played rootless and inverted and with lots o…

This reminded me of my favorite Mary Oliver poem: Entering the Kingdom by Mary Oliver The crows see me. They stretch their glossy necks In the tallest branches Of green trees. I am…

I like the action on the Privias (and the similar CDP360s, which I played recently). My only complaint about the action is that if you're playing at low/practice volumes, you tend …

Though not a move into a completely different product area, it's been interesting to see them step up their digital piano game. For a long time it seemed like Casio had a reputatio…

Regarding Yamaha and synthesizers I just wanted to mention that I consistently hear rave reviews of the Reface CS. I am more into vintage electric piano sounds than synths and curr…

This reminded me of a very hip recording of Anthony Braxton playing Donna Lee on contrabass clarinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qL_hkYEf1M

I would add HP Grice to the list of startlingly clear ordinary language philosophers. His 1957 essay "Meaning" has this definition: "A means something by x" is equivalent to "A int…

As a fan of Alice Coltrane, it's kind of frustrating that NYT would bother to put this together and interview all these people and then put these tiny 30 second, completely-out-of-…

Probably worth noting that Wittgenstein and Weil both came from relative affluence. Wittgenstein's father was one of the wealthiest men in Europe. Famous composers such as Brahms w…

I realize it is not the same as finding a friend, but I recently found five crisp $20 bills in a used logic text book at an Amvets thrift store. I opened the book because it was wr…

I have been in love with this song for decades. There is definitely a feeling of circularity going on. Here are a couple of my favorite versions, if anyone wants to go down the rab…

It's unfortunate that the entire article is focused on toxic productivity as a feature of individuals, as though their personal/psychological shortcomings are to blame. I think it …

I was really hoping this would be about Medical Logic Modules / Arden Syntax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_logic_module