[Written chord changes are an expedient way to quickly coordinate playing together, but they lack precision to specify things like voice-leading even from more popular songs like Blackbird.]
[I like to add a note to so-called ‘stock voicings’ for crunch.]
[The intellectual aspect of improvising happens as you make sense of music. WhT happens in real-time while playing is an natural reflexive response based on everything you’ve learned.]
[Can you tell the same story with just two notes?]
fluid switches between discussion and piano playing
I offer this work on a sliding scale based on income; I ask 1/1,000th of your annual income per hour. So if you make $45,000 per year, I ask for $45/hr. If you make $150,000/yr, I ask for $150/hr.
One of the coolest things I’ve been told about jazz is that the better you are as a player, the better experts sound. I’ve been called a talented musician but I am absolutely, unabashedly ecstatic to hear music that I can barely understand what’s happening. The piano and that sax solo mostly sound like random chaos and it excites me to know there’s structure and intent and beauty in there, waiting to be understood by the skill I have yet to achieve.
simple gospel influenced groove turns into a party; got me out of my seat pretty quick, couldn’t sit still; lots of subtle polyrhythmic goodness in the background.
catchy tune without words; complex drumming and rhythms but flows easy; video and imagery kind of absurd and hilarious with some famous figures doing a cameo.
[Skip the self-signup and require participation when releasing a new product. Feedback cycles are more important that ‘how many free users left today?’. Building automation is hard anyway and steals resources from what people actually want.]
[If you call yourself an ally to certain people and aren’t getting hit by the stones thrown at them, you’re not standing close enough.]
[Healing without allyship is spiritual bypassing and privilege. Protesting and organizing without healing will undermine the efforts you support. Protest without litigation becomes self-serving, and litigation without protest lacks teeth. Critique without counter-growth creates burnout. Building systems without addressing the ugliness of the current one is detached.
3.5% of the population can shift the entire political reality of a nation.
[Protests spark a sense of possibility and can easily bring newcomers to want more.]
Imprisoned in every UI is a concatenative REPL operating on a stack. Buttons do “type function + Enter,” GUI renders return stack.
Are there examples of the opposite of this where “imprisoned in every command-line program is a GUI that lets you discover its features” or “type command with arguments becomes a button”?
Whisper or ‘Whisper-Faster’ can run as a standalone terminal program on macOS 10.14 with whisper-standalone-win by simply downloading the binary from ‘releases’ and running a single command from the resulting folder:
./whisper-faster "~/alfa/bravo.mp3" --pp --model base.en --language=en --output_format all --output_dir .
This will fetch the model if there isn’t a local copy, and transcribe into about half a dozen formats, including plaintext, JSON, and subtitle files.
The .en models for English-only applications tend to perform better, especially for the tiny.en and base.en models. We observed that the difference becomes less significant for the small.en and medium.en models.
To run it without printing text into the console, use -pp or send to NUL