Mokey

first of all thank you for putting up with me hexbear

Im so glad i have an out of this fucking country

They do know that hexbear is just a small site and socialist ideology didnt spawn from no where right?

Professional music criticism like in Pitchfork is stupid.

/r/pics probably has a good number of them.

I was verbally abused at work on Thursday, I'm so angry about it. He threatened and screamed at me and I'm mad because I had to just take it. I didn't do anything wrong and I'm pretty sure nothing will happen to the guy. I'm also worried the staff will gang up on me because they want to look out for him. I hope this guy fucking dies before he retires fucking peice of shit.

I fucking hate my job. What's the point of any of this shit.

I dunno? I mean it doesnt have to be jazz, just some sort of improvised music as the foundation for learning.

Press Rolls:

[ ] 3 Stroke 150 2x5 mins

[ ] 4 Stroke 70 2x5 mins. Use 3 for reference.

Traditional Grip:

[ ] RLRRLL starting on upbeat, triplets. 70bpm 10 mins

[ ] Left Hand index bounce 70bpm

[ ] Left hand thumb with index finger bounce. 80bpm

Left Foot technique:

[ ] Bounce knee on pedal 65 bpm

[ ] ankle tech 70bpm

[ ] Heel toe 70 bpm

[ ] Sit high, heel down, see knees move. Knee is at wide angle 130ish degrees. 70bom

Groove Studies:

[ ] Rhythm Scale Benny Greb App 10 min x2 40BPM.

[ ] Gap Click 16th Note Grid, creative 70

[ ] Gap Click KKRRKK swing @160 bpm

[ ] Gap click KKRRKK starting on +1 120

[ ] Gap Click 32nd note funk @70

Listening/Ride Cymbal: Paul Chambers: "No Blues", "Unit 7" "Four on Six" from Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly "Smokin' at the Halfnote"

[ ] Listen to Recordings, play with recordings, take notes.

Songs to Learn:

[ ] Skylark

[ ] Fee Fi Fo Fum

[ ] East of the Sun, West of the Moon

[ ] Darn that Dream

[ ] Moonlight in Vermont

[ ] Polkadots and Moonbeams

You wouldnt be the same person you are now if you grew up in later stage socialism

I think if youre doing music in a vacuum of a class or private tutoring youre doing it wrong, if you still dont like it after that you should be able to opt out.

I think in a socialist world your taste would be different, not that you wouldnt like punk but i think wed all just have very different tastes.

My ideal music world described by what I don't like already.

I believe what music would look like and how we perceive it is drastically different from what we have now. If you look at Black Church, rich white kid grade school and Venezuela El Sistema and the kind of musicians they produce, in a late stage socialist world, we could have the entire world operated like that. Understanding what those three things are paramount to understanding what I'm talking about below.

Musical Literacy: In my opinion, music is a language and the fact that most of us don't speak or read it is because our society wastes our time serving our bourgeoisie rulers. I don't think music is actually that hard- but stripped of community and common-sense education it becomes hard. In my ideal world, children learn music young and start in musical groups early as to understand why theyre playing music, what theyre doing when playing music and give feedback as to provide understanding. Everyone is provided an hour lesson a week or some sort of group lesson is provided.

Money in Music: Mankind has superceded the need for money, no one is chasing money anymore and the power imbalances that money causes in music is severed. There are no longer a legion of rich white kids who play black music, everyone plays it. Jazz becomes a fundamental building block to learning and understanding music. The lack of money in the industry doesnt chase off people who would otherwise stick around forever. Having excess money no longer means you crowd out other people since the facilities, time and resources you have at your disposal is now shared by everyone else.

Gigging: No one makes money from music because the world is later stages of socialism. No one cares if you're exceptionally good anymore since there would be so many people who are good at music. There will always be people who are at the top of the field, but the cultural inportance would shift to everyone participating opposed to who has the most chops and has the best gigs.

Practicing: I love practicing, what I don't like is that I feel like my practice is catch up for something I should already have. In my ideal world, we are all proficient musicians around early teenage years from sheer immersion and utilizing the sponginess of our young brains. This would free up our time in our later years to be diversified in other instruments, other styles of music, composing and also just real life. Maybe I just play guitar, compose and my sidejob is assisting the clean up of the excesses of capitalism. Maybe I spend more time socializing and communing with music. Maybe I spend more time with my family.

Hero Worship: While again there will always be outliers regarding skill, I think gulf between them and the rest of us becomes dramatically smaller. We as a society understand that people are products of their material circumstances and don't place as much value on the vainglorious and narcisisstic musician we enshrine today. The value is instead placed on community and making sure everyone is involved. No one would really care if you could play amazingly because most people would be at a high level anyway.

Taste: Since we are all playing music, taste would dramatically shift. I never hated an orchestral peice that I participated and played in. However, I've been massively bored listening to a symphony for the first time with no personal context. I think if we're all playing this kind of music and literacy is more promoted, what people generally like would change drastically and things that arent as appreciated would be more appreciated. Especially cross culturally.

There's more but this is off the top of my head. Too bad I live in hell.