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  1. Goldens who were actually friendly to me are outnumbered by those who never wanted to have anything to do with me. But I've never met a lab who didn't want to be my new best friend. In fact I generally get along with dogs, even Chihuahuas, who are notoriously bag with strangers. Just not Golden Retrievers.
  2. I had a teacher tell us that this was, in fact, lazy behavior, and that we should all try to be this kind of lazy. He was great.
  3. was thinking about submitting "America" for this for sure
  4. Team Anyone But Looch
  5. You only gotta listen to the intros. 🤣 But uh yeah... Ted Templeman's bio was... eye opening.
  6. Including Hagar.
  7. I'm avoiding Van Halen songs because (1) I'm trying to cancel out my massive VH fanboyness and (2) you could pretty much just point to their entire discography.
  8. "Let's Go Crazy" and "Enter Sandman" are top notch choices. Let's bring in some favorites from 90s/00s EDM... it's a shame the Orbital song doesn't go nearly as hard as its intro
  9. Not a pic, but... OMG. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/filing/10509027302965
  10. ☝️ That's the actual best, but it's not my favorite. THIS is my favorite intro.
  11. OK, "you aren't going to be persuaded otherwise" is just being rude. Which given my asshole response earlier is warranted, OK, but I'm trying to have an actual honest conversation here. Secondly, "Quieter things get relatively louder when you have tons of dynamic compression" -- clean-channel vs high-gain -- is literally the definition of what dynamic compression does. You're basically saying here that dynamic compression doesn't do ... the thing that dynamic compression does. I guess if you have a lifetime to learn an instrument AND no intention of being professional, "just let it happen" is fine. But I don't have enough hours available in the day or years in my life to wait for a skill to subconsciously appear; I'm going to steal and develop every skill-building exercise I can get my hands on, find the ones that are most efficient, and dedicate the beginning of my practice sessions to doing those things, so that I can make the path from being shitty to being adequate as short as humanly possible.
  12. I see what you're saying here. Thing is, that's not a new skill for me. I have plenty of control over volume and expression with my right hand. I've gained that from decades of bass fingering and plucking, cello bowing/plucking/col legno, etc. Including palm muting on the bass. What I lack on the right hand is: 1. A really good feel for the gap between strings, since they're so much closer; hitting more strings than I intended is exaggerated at gain. Like, if you barely brush the wrong string with the pick without gain, it's not really going to be audible if you're hitting the strings you intend more forcefully. At high gain, every little tiny mistake like that is going to be as loud as the things you meant to do -- the result of dynamic compression at those levels. 2. Palm muting techniques at high gain are really a whole different technique from what I do on the bass or with a clean guitar. Also, more to the point, palm muting's not a habit I want to gravitate to instinctually. It's a capability I want to deliberately train. That's what exercises are for; training your hands into flexibility and skills that you can use, or not use, at will.
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