đź–Ž The officious song of the day comment thread!
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naw. they still deny the existance of bots officially
it's MY slogan!
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Who doesn't love Lindsey Stirling?
*raises hand*[2]
I don't hate her or anything but her stage antics[1] don't do anything for me. That doesn't stop me from listening to her, mind, I'm just not thrilled. For that kind of thing I actually prefer Taylor Davis.
[1] There's a nicer way of saying that that I would use if I could remember it. I'm not intending to bash her dancing/performance, it just doesn't speak to me.
[2] Hopefully that won't make @accalia upset.
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I don't hate her or anything but her stage antics[1] don't do anything for me.
i'll actually agree with you there. It's fun to look at but it does bad things to her music when on stage live so all those videos are made by .... bodysynching? she's ntoa ctually playing in the music videos.
i usually listen to her without video:
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One does not have to appreciate every little detail to love her work for what it is.
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One does not have to appreciate every little detail to love her work for what it is.
I know. I was joking after reading @Accalia say "only those that havent heard her work before [don't love her]."
I actually like almost everything of hers I've heard. Except that cover of Radioactive, but that's actually more because of the vocalist, who pronounces his vowels weirdly, and I don't like the scatting that's going on there--it doesn't feel right for that song. I might have even mentioned that upthread.
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Except that cover of Radioactive
it helps that i'm not a huge fan of that song to begin with. when it comes on i just reach up to my ear and hit "next track"
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it helps that i'm not a huge fan of that song to begin with.
LOL. I like the instrumentals so I put up with the lyrics, which work much better in the original.
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Why am I tagged in this?
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Oh lovely, using Home to get to the top of the topic, so I can navigate to the discussion topic kills the video that's playing. @discoursebot!
That was a lot of fun, although I have some mixed feelings about it. Ragtime is ok, but it has never been one of my favorite genres. I love the way the pianist plays with it in different styles, and the way it turned into the Radetzky March was ... interesting. (I would have expected more blending of the two, rather than just leaving Joplin in the dust.)
OTOH, I used to have a friend who was an amazing ragtime pianist, but he molestedÂą my son, and now I have a hard time disassociating my feelings about ragtime music from my feelings about him.
ÂąTechnically, he allegedly molested my son; the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
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@HardwareGeek - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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that this song was my itnroduction to dubstep and Lindsey Sterling.
Violin: +1
Backing: 0 I don't dislike it, but it doesn't really do anything for me.I've never seen any other performances of hers (that I can recall), specifically any live or recorded-live, but I find it hard to believe she can play that well and dance like that at the same time. My money would be on the audio for that being recorded in a studio, and the video edited to match.
Edit: Then I read the next couple of posts, and find out I was right.
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i'll actually agree with you there. It's fun to look at but it does bad things to her music when on stage live so all those videos are made by .... bodysynching? she's ntoa ctually playing in the music videos.
i usually listen to her without video:
Until now, I've always heard her in the car. No video thar. Having actually watched the video, it's... Just slightly off. Off enough to annoy the hell out of me. I did A/V engineering in my younger days, and that shit never would have passed muster - and we didn't have NEARLY the tech that's available now.I get the same thing from most lipsynchs. The audio is always just slightly ahead of the video. It's only ever a few frames, but you can see it. Unless the timing is just off, and then it wobbles everyfuckingwhichway.
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The audio is always just slightly ahead of the video. It's only ever a few frames, but you can see it. Unless the timing is just off, and then it wobbles everyfuckingwhichway.
Isn't that an issue with Youtube sometimes anyway? As in, it might be YT's fault, not what you say.
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... So what you're telling me is that the world's most popular intertubes video player thingy is fundamentally broken?
That's WORSE than a shitty lipsynch. That's just civilization accepting useless garbage.
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So what you're telling me is that the world's most popular intertubes video player thingy is fundamentally broken?
I don't actually know that--I know I've seen videos that have audio out of sync with the video, and have since the earliest days I was aware of Youtube, and that I've heard that the Youtube transcoder or re-encoder or whatever you call it is responsible. I don't know that it actually is, though.
But would it surprise you? Sturgeon's revelation, and all that.
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The other Fiery Furnaces song I like, re: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/song-of-the-day/3786/259?u=cartman82
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This was a reply to you. The "filed under" is showing what your avatar looked like in the preview, as per the bug already mentioned before in this thread.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRbKhbvees
I was going to post Fearless until my morning sucked.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jmF900DHKk
That song was terrible.
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I liked chubertdev's post above because I liked the song, not realizing I was liking the wrong thing.
And now I can't unlike it? Sounds like a JDGI bug to me.
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Weng posted a good example of dubstep that gets... well, too dubsteppy... for my taste.
Starting at around the 1:00 mark and for about a minute or so it becomes far too syncopated and hard to follow. Same again around the 2:45.
It pisses me off because I think the rest of the song is okay.
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In all reality I'm with you. It takes a very specific mindset for proper dubstep to be tolerable, and that mindset ain't common
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You didn't link this version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWEM4gZhg4
BTW at 3:40 apparently Ripley from Metroid attacks the Star Trek crew. Huh.
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I thought about it. Also the one with legos. But I found the one I posted first.
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I remember 1973. I am NOT clicking that video.
You missed out on a Henry Kissinger anecdote. "Whenever I think of [Muskrat Love] I think of Henry Kissinger." You'll have to click on the video to get the rest of the context.
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You missed out on a Henry Kissinger anecdote.
I have missed nothing of value in this regard.
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http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/song-of-the-day/3786/303?u=cartman82
William Shatner - Common People
I was planning to post that too. The definitive version of that song.
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Also from the Flatout OST:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo3KBq6UbH4
Edit: the "also" refers to this post. Somehow this post didn't link to the post it was written as a reply to, unlike how it has worked before.
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Never have understood why racing games tend towards that flavor of music. Having spent more than my share of time at the racetrack, I can tell you that I have never once heard anything from the pop rock background noise sector.
Of course, I race in the same series as this thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XesGBpRhHaM
So we might just be brain damaged.
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Watch full-screen
It sounds like every other Dragonforce song ever! Except with different lyrics!
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Filed under: still better than Metallica
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXAwEAyqizo
@accalia likes. where can she find more of this?
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duh. google play:
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He specializes in Celtic music, but if you're interested in epic/orchestral/soundtracky stuff, there's somewhat of a scene for music like this on Youtube. I recommend ThePrimeCronus' excellent hour mixes - there are a few other youtubers who are also active compiling this stuff as well.
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I also have Google Play All Access so i'm set. his albums are there.
or 6 of them are at least. that's a good start.
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Watch full-screen
Almost liked, but the drum abuse put me off.
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I'm going to start a band named Drum Abuse
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Continuing the discussion from Song of the day:
@accalia, didn't someone post that one already?
probably me.
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http://jsfiddle.net/md6nygcj/show/
I am positively surprised.
But it's missing the best part of the theme.
EDIT: Y U NO REPLY THINGIE, DISCFORCE?
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Being able to do it in JS is surprising.
But the audio produced sounds like shit.
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I can't read sheet music so it's quite hard to do that. Also, for some reason the bass part only plays on my desktop computer. Laptops can't handle two octaves below A440 or something. I dunno.
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You could do it with sound files instead of just sine waves. I assume that's what you're referring to.
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It could be? There's like tons of popping?
It's like if you cut a waveform roughly so it doesn't "end" at zero, and when you hit play you get that nasty "pop". In fact I wager that's exactly what's happening, you need some kind of attack and decay implemented. Like the good ol' C64 SID chip.
But I ain't no musician either, especially not an electronic musician.
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I can't read sheet music so it's quite hard to do that.
Sheet music is actually not very hard to read if you know what the information being presented is: you really[1] just need to know which clef, what each note shape means, and which key you're in so you know which notes to denature.
[1] Well, them's're the basics.
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s/music/\1 quickly/
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They're all easy. The common clef is the treble, the one that looks like an ampersand. The lines are Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, and the spaces are F A C E. The lower E is the E above Middle C. # (sharp) means play the half-note above the regular note, the other symbol that looks like a b, called flat, means play the half-note below. On a piano, this is the black key adjacent to the white key for the natural note. If you see sharps or flats next to the clef, it means every note of that letter is played sharp, and that isn't otherwise notated. You will sometimes see a third symbol, that looks like a sharp with a couple of the points missing, called "natural", which means "this note was to be played sharp or flat because of the symbol next to the clef, but don't do that." A note that's a hollow circle is a full note, a filled circle is a half note, a half note with a line above or below it is a quarter, and then you might see one, two, or sometimes three flags on the end of the bar; these are eighth, sixteenth, and so on. Adjacent quarter and shorter notes will tend to run the flags as a horizontal line into the next note. A dot after a note means play the note half again longer.
The first bar of music, next to the clef, will have a fraction, called a tempo. The bottom note indicates the base-tempo note, typically a 4 or less commonly a 2. The top number represents how many of those notes fit in a measure or bar. Those are the vertical lines running the height of the notation every few notes. Common tempos are 4/4, 3/4, and 3/2, and probably others.
Now you know most of what you need to know to read probably 95% of the music out there. Oh--music for piano will use two sets of bars, one for each hand. The lower bar is the bass clef, played with the left hand, and on it, the topmost bar represents the A below middle C.
Nitpicker's corner: I haven't played a musical instrument in close to 30 years, so this is all more or less form memory.