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Today I promised myself I would wake up at 6 AM but woke up at 8:35 instead. Have done little since.

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Proud to be free from the tyranny of pants. Hurrah!

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Spent 3 hours today googling to find some sort of code that could give me an idea of where to begin for my game. We have to create a game in JavaScript and our teachers have taught us about arrays, functions and tables. I'm making a simple odd one out game where you have to click on the odd picture to advance but it seems like a huge task. Kill me!

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Did a presentation today. Not done a proper presentation in ten years, when I was 14 and pretty much had a breakdown on stage. It's been a huge fear ever since. I remember when we got given the assignment earlier this year, I could feel my heart beating through my chest.

 

But we nailed it. My bit of the presentation was actually quite complex, but I think I explained it really clearly. The key is definitely preparedness. I went in knowing exactly what I wanted to say, not word for word, just how to structure my ideas together, which I often struggle to manage on the spot.

 

Quite enjoyed it by the end, it was exhilarating in a way. Definitely a huge confidence boost; if you can manage that skill alright you can do a lot of other things if you prepare yourself properly.

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"I figure I should never prepare. If I say what I want and it sounds good, I feel like a genius, but if I blow it...hey; I was simply unprepared" -unknown

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I set a new fun goal for myself today. I want to be able to play my favorite Dream Theater piece on the keyboard, since I think I can actually learn it on a keyboard rather than on the guitar. This is what I'm shooting for (skip to 0:59 for the challenging part):

 

 

 

I played clarinet for 7 years but that piece has too much range for the clarinet so that's not an option. I used to be really good at Guitar Hero when it was popular. In college when Guitar Hero 4 came out, you could write your own songs and then play them. So I composed that Dream Theater song and played it on Guitar Hero, which suggests that my fingers are dexterous enough to play it. I just want to be able to play it on a real instrument, and the keyboard doesn't require as much precise technique/skill as the guitar would.

 

Now the catch is, I've never played the keyboard before. :D I'm basically just hoping that my background in music combined with my Guitar Hero skills will be able to carry me hahaha. Wish me luck! :P

 

 

Edit: Here's what some of the sheet music for it looks like. There's not very many accidentals (black keys) in it so that should make things easier. If any of you guys are experienced with the piano/keyboard and can give me an idea of how difficult it is, that'd be appreciated :P

 

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I briefly taught myself (with a little help from my musically inclined friends) to play keyboard and read sheet music. Keyboard is by far the easiest instrument to get down, the hard part only being forcing your fingers to land precisely where they should. It shouldn't take you long at all to get that piece down if you practice enough. I suggest looking up chords and such on the keyboard so you get a feel of where everything lies on the instrument before diving right in though. With your background in Clarinet you should have a good idea of pitch and everything, so you'll see it coming together rather easily. I wouldn't be shocked at all if you had that piece down within a month flat with enough time put into it. 

 

I should get back into playing keyboard haha

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so I just got back from the music store with my cheap little keyboard :D

 

a part that's kind of stumping me right now are the arpeggios halfway through measure #17 (referring to my pic above). mostly because regardless of which fingers I use, I still have to slide my hand across the keyboard while still hitting the notes accurately lol

 

To those of you guys who have experience w/ the keyboard/piano,

1. How would you recommend playing those arpeggios? More specifically, which fingers do you use?

2. How do you determine which fingers to use for which notes when you play?

3. Any advice on hitting those arpeggios? I'm guessing it's just practice, practice, practice until I've got the muscle memory down for that.

 

Right now I'm just taking the song one set of notes at a time basically, and then trying to figure out where my fingers need to be in preparation for the next set of notes.

 

And yeah RPG, that's definitely the hardest part for me right now lol. I never had to adjust my hands/wrist for playing clarinet because it was basically like playing a piano with only 13 keys and I could use both hands lol. and of course guitar hero was like playing a keyboard with only 5 keys :P

 

 

I guess a more generalized question would be, if you were to play every white note on the keyboard, from the leftmost key to the rightmost key (I think that's a C major scale-- I don't remember as much music stuff as I used to lol), how do you finger it? Do you play C with your index finger, D with your middle finger, E with your ring finger, and then F with your pinky? And then do you just slide your hand and play G with your index finger, A with your middle finger, etc?

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Them Russians started staging meetings and demonstrations. Scheduled for 12th and 20th of April.

 

If anyone that I know goes to any of those meeting, I am gonna bust their ass. As a matter of fact, I am about to hand in my application to the local civil defence organisation. Legal, real, civil voluntary defence organisation, unlike the "organisations" that worked in Crimea with unmarked uniforms and Russian vehicles and weapons.

 

Unless our government makes a colossal [bleep] ass move I am willing to die for this country.

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So I've noticed this thread's regulars all follow similar trends.

 

RPG is constantly dealing with psycho exes.

Muggi reminds us of the joys of polygamy.

Saq is totally oblivious to how much chicks dig him.

I strike out every other week.

Kalphite wages a war against the friend zone.

Randox pretty much stays rational.

Etc, etc

 

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I guess a more generalized question would be, if you were to play every white note on the keyboard, from the leftmost key to the rightmost key (I think that's a C major scale-- I don't remember as much music stuff as I used to lol), how do you finger it? Do you play C with your index finger, D with your middle finger, E with your ring finger, and then F with your pinky? And then do you just slide your hand and play G with your index finger, A with your middle finger, etc?

 

Depends on your keyboard, if it's C major or not. Most acoustic pianos start with A as the lowest possible white key, and then it would be A minor. But, after you find a C, yes, when you play all whites, it's C major.

 

You actually use your thumbs for playing, too, so you start the C major scale (right hand) with your thumb, and after middle finger (E), you move your thumb under it to the next key (F), and then just play the rest of the scale (five notes, five fingers) ending up on the next C with your pinky. If you want to keep going upwards, instead of using pinky for the second C, you again move your thumb under the other fingers to the C, and do it like you did in the first octave. With left hand, you start with you pinky, and after thumb, move your middle finger over the thumb to A, and the rest of the scale (two notes left) index finger (H) and thumb, ending up on C.

 

Someone else could probably explain this better, but perhaps this at least gives you some idea how it's done.

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I don't know what it is with this girl of mine... trouble seems to follow her around. Tonight we went to a club. We got free tickets to some DJ's show (Ferry Corsten or something). We were there for about 30 minutes when this drunk guy walks buy. So drunk he can barely walk straight. He bumps right into her and she pushes him away. She yells "What the [bleep] that guy just tried touching my vagina". I told her that he's probably just so drunk he didn't mean it. But as i turn around and watch him walk buy i seem him pass another couple and he grabs this girl's ass. I could see it was no accident. So without really thinking i just run up to him and grab him by the back of his collar. I start dragging him towards the door of the club but before i could reach it my sister's friends pulled me off the guy. We explained to the bouncers what happened and they kicked the guy out. It was funny because the guy was 3 times my size and a few random people bought me drinks after that. 

Few hours later me and my girlfriend decide to leave, cause it's late and we actually have to be up early for a boat cruise tomorrow. So we're on our way to the car and this guy starts walking next to us. He's mumbling something in Arabic so we couldn't really understand what he was saying. We just say "No thanks" out of instinct and try to ignore him. He's walking on my girlfriend's side. He comes closer and closer to her and then... i don't know it looked like he was trying to grab her. I'm not really sure what exactly happened next but i started chasing after him. Little did he know that i was a star athlete in school. He ran in to a little ally way kind of thing and i caught up to him, grabbed him by the neck and he kept saying "Khalas" which basically means finished. So i decided to turn around and walk away and then he mumbled at me "I [bleep] your mother" which is basically he worst kind of insult for Arabs. And then he ran off again. I chased after him, caught him and just decided to punch him. I have to say, that although i hate fighting (i don't mind confrontation if i know i'm defending the right people, but actual fists fights i dislike) it felt glorious. Watching him clench his face and moan in pain brought me so much joy at that moment. It kind of made me sorry that i didn't get two or three more in.

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This is the road to Noxx being the lightweight champion boxer of Qatar

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It actually was originally, but failing to come up with the prefix "Penta" I simply editted the last one /karmaconspiracy

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They appeared out of order? That's super weird. I hate when my router blips like that. Completely ruins trying to play Battlefield.

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That sounds less like trouble following your girlfriend, and more like you deciding to fight people in questionable circumstances.

If you're drunk, go home. You're bothering everyone around you. No one likes a drunk guy falling over his feet, bumping in to people, making them spill their drinks, etc. They like it even less when he's going around touching girls. Problem is that people have become too scared to "make a scene", or "cause drama".

If you're willing to touch someone that does not want to be touched, you have to be willing to take whatever comes with that. 

There's really nothing "questionable" about it. Act like a barbaric [bleep], and so will i. Hah.

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